The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies is holding the event "International Symposium Erasures: Gender, Violence, and Human Rights." It will take place on Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25 from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the Maroon and Gold Room in the McNamara Alumni Center. Susana Trimarco will present "The Story of a Fight Against Human Trafficking in Argentina."
The symposium will address violence against women as a human rights violation, the erasure of gender violence in cultural debates about human rights, and the epistemic revolts of the rethinking of violence from a gender perspective.
Speakers presenting include, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Karina Ansolabehere, Héctor Dominguez Revalcaba, Susan Berk-Seligson, Maria Sonderéguer, Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Raul Marrero Fente, Ana Amado, Ileana Rodriguez, Shannon Drysdale Walsh and Kimberley Theidon.
Click here for the event fyler: Trimarco flyer 2013.pdf
Click here for event program: programERASURES1.pdf
