CANCELLED-Prospects for Accountability in Latin America

This will include speakers Kate Doyle, Jo Marie Burt and Diane Nelson. Free lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to emily.stewart@duke.edu by Wednesday, January 21st at 12 p.m.Kate Doyle is a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. She directs several major research projects, including the Guatemala Project, which collects declassified U.S. and Guatemalan government documents on the countries' shared history from 1954, and the Evidence Project, connecting the right to truth and access to information with human rights and justice struggles in Latin America. Jo-Marie Burt teaches political science at George Mason University, where she is also director of Latin American Studies and Co-director of the Center for Global Studies. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), where she conducts research and writes commentaries on human rights and transitional justice issues in the region. Diane M Nelson is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her research is concerned with subjectivity and power and draws on close to 25 years of work in Guatemala. She aims to understand how complex social formations like nationalism, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality intersect with violence and the state to produce people's senses of identity.