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Event Highlights

• Legal Perspectives: We are honored to welcome Delia Caicedo from Fundación Guagua (Cali, Colombia), who will lead a workshop on documenting cases of disappearance and human rights abuses in southwestern Colombia. Further, members from Colombia’s Unidad de búsqueda de personas dadas por desaparecidas will join eminent scholars and practitioners of international law to discuss the search for the missing and the shifting relationship between (enforced) disappearance and non-State actors.

• Artivist Perspectives and Pop-Up Exhibits: In collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies and Adan Griego of èצӰÏñ Libraries, the event includes a pop-up exhibit featuring artivism by women searching for disappeared persons who have worked with Fundación Guagua. This will be complemented by a pop-up exhibit at èצӰÏñ’s Green Library, showcasing materials held in the university’s Special Collections from Ester Hernandez (Libertad, Tejido de desaparecidos, and Sun Mad Raisin) and Derli Romero (Rostros Migrantes and Mujeres en ³Ù°ùá²Ô²õ¾±³Ù´Ç). In fact, Romero will join the event virtually to discuss his artivist practice.

• Film and Disappearance: Rodrigo Reyes, director of the docudrama 499, will join Martha González, a Mexican woman who recounts the search for her disappeared son in Reyes’ film, in a conversation curated by èצӰÏñ professor Ximena Briceño. 

• Interdisciplinary Presentations: Scholars will examine disappearance in philosophy, literature, law, anthropology, sociology, and history. This includes a talk by philosopher Ege Selin Islekel who connects Latin American and Turkish approaches to combating disappearance, philosopher Hershini Young, literary scholar Peter Leman, and anthropologist Promise Ejiofor.

• NB: Hybrid Format: Most activities will be accessible in person and online, ensuring broad participation and collaboration.