Saturday, March 2nd, 202410:00 AM - 12:00 PM Capital Community College
What is the texture of democracy in our times? How do we combat oppression, despair, and disillusionment to imagine just futures where human flourishing can be realized? As American democracy undergoes its latest stress test, how can we reinvigorate dialogue, rebuild trust in democratic institutions and inspire civic participation? How can we narrate an America’s origin story built on expanding freedom and civil rights and the pursuit of happiness beyond the narrow confines of one group?
Join us for a discussion of how these issues refract in Black communities and consider the possibilities for BIPOC solidarity and organizing as an antidote to resignation and pessimism in our polarized society. Our discussion will derive from ‘Democracy in Black’ by Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., this year’s Pennington Lecture speaker. (Participants do not need to prepare ahead of time.)
Wednesday, March 6th, 202406:00 PM Student Union Theatre
Join us for an evening with Valarie Kaur, civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, and author of the #1 LA Times Bestseller SEE NO STRANGER. Valarie has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories and change policy on issues ranging from hate crimes to digital freedom. She is the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, where she leads a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice, and to inspire and equip people across America to build the beloved community.
Book sale and signing immediately following.
Co-sponsored with the Asian American Cultural Center, African American Cultural Center, Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center, Rainbow Center, Native American Cultural Programs, Middle Eastern Cultural Programs, and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion.
Launch of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Digital Archive
Thursday, March 7th, 202410:00 AM - 11:00 AM
In post-atrocity societies, the pursuit of justice, truth, and memory is an essential part of dealing with a difficult past. In the case of the former Yugoslavia, those pursuits were institutionalized in the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since its establishment as an ad hoc court in 1993, the ICTY has changed the landscape of international law and given voice to the horrors so many witnessed and experienced.
Currently, the three collections contained in our ICTY Digital Archive contain over 52,000 pages of material related to the tribunal as well as more than four hours of audiovisual material (with two additional collections pending construction).
Our ICTY Digital Archive seeks to make the important work of the tribunal accessible to researchers, educators, students, and others. The launch will include remarks from Professor James Waller (Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice and Director of Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs at UConn), Professor Richard Wilson (Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law and Anthropology at UConn), and Mr. Predrag Dojčinović (Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn, senior consultant and research advisor in the field of international criminal justice).
In addition, Aida Gradaščević and Nadan Hadžić will present work featuring materials from the ICTY Digital Archive related to the siege of Goražde.
Register to join us virtually via the ‘Register by Zoom’ button above.
Unconquered: Goražde - Documenting Resistance in the Bosnian War
Thursday, March 7th, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Unconquered: Goražde, City of Heroesis the story of the unquenchable power of the human spirit, offering crucial lessons and hope. It tells the story of how ordinary townspeople withstood a three-and-a-half-year siege during the Bosnian War, threatening to destabilize the international world order.
This exclusive work-in-progress screening is followed by a conversation with author/filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies and producer Nick Stuart about the significance of the siege of Goražde.
Please register to join us below.
Reception
Following the event, we welcome you to join us for a catered reception in the lobby of The Dodd Center for Human Rights.
Award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been making films about human rights issues in areas of conflict since 1992, including in Bosnia, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lloyd-Davies’ work combines journalism with a strong visual style that she learned as a graduate of the Royal College of Art. She films much of her own work, drawing out intensely personal and difficult stories from people often at their most vulnerable and bringing the viewer into the subject’s life to render a deeply drawn portrait, while preserving the dignity and integrity of their story.
Nick Stuart is a producer of “Unconquered: Gorazde, City of Heroes” and has spent over 30 years presenting, directing, and producing programming in the UK and in the U.S,, winning The Human Rights Award at the Venice International Film Festival and a Peabody Award among others. Dedicated to human rights and social justice programming he also specializes in impact campaigns to help documentaries be more effective in bringing positive change to our world.
This event is a collaboration between the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs, the Department of Digital Media & Design, Studio 9 Films and Nick Stuart Films.
CANCELED: Encounters: The Changing Landscape Of Policing
Saturday, March 16th, 202410:00 AM - 12:00 PM NXTHVN
21st-century America is increasingly polarized over policing. From yard signs to public protests, from political rhetoric to legislative acts, tension over the role and status of police grips us daily. Are we any closer to an answer? Join us for a dialogue on this most critically important subject in which we will explore the historical development of policing in our democracy and discuss the present-day landscape of law enforcement, community relations, and individual rights. Facilitated, small-group conversations will be followed by a Q&A with guest scholars and activists. You are warmly and respectfully encouraged to come speak from your heart about this subject that lies at the shared heart of the “Land of the Free.”
The Role of Latin American Indigenous Images & Narrations in Healing Colonial Wounds
Tuesday, March 19th, 202411:00 AM - 12:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
ES: “El Papel de las Imágenes y Narrativas Indígenas Latinoamericanas en la Sanación de las Heridas Coloniales”
Language:Please note that this discussion will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation provided to English. Those who would like to listen along in English are encouraged to bring a smartphone and headphones.
Please Register Below
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez is an artist from the Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile whose work explores the social landscape, history, culture, and worldview of his people. His films use a variety of approaches to engage with, activate, and preserve Indigenous traditions and foster understanding. Kuifi ül (Ancient Sound) enacts the healing and awakening power of the trutruka, a traditional wind instrument. Trankal Küra presents a dance of resistance on stolen land, while reveries are re-created in Super 8 film and video in Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman. Künü documents the commissioning and construction of a Mapuche ceremonial center, memorial, and place for parliament in Loncoche. It demonstrates the diplomatic prowess of the Mapuche leaders, who won consensus amongst disparate Indigenous communities, a forestry company, and the Chilean architects who helped them design the place.
_____________________
This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Exhibition - Anarchist Struggles in La Paz: Militant Repression of the Local Workers Federation and Women’s Workers Federation
Friday, March 22nd, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
_____________________
This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Monday, March 25th, 202403:30 PM - 05:00 PM Homer Babbidge Library
About the Film
Sama in the Forestis a hybrid documentary set in contemporary Mithila, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical past into a globalized present in which pressures on tradition are accelerating. Maithil identity is passed on in part through its renowned painting tradition, as well as through its lesser known wealth of orally transmitted folktales. Women play a central role in both of these expressions. In a creative collaboration with local community members, we highlight the tale of Sama, a young princess who wanders into the forest and befriends a young man, only to be slandered by a muckraking confidante of the king, and subsequently cursed and banished by her father.
The film combines footage of women telling different versions of the tale, the making of elaborate narrative paintings, a dramatization of the story, a yearly festival that celebrates Sama, and in-depth conversations about the morals and meanings of this and other traditional tales. The girls and women at the heart of our film are students and teachers at the Mithila Art Institute, a small school for young aspiring artists. Additional participants — community members of different genders, castes, and generations — help paint a complex picture of the social tensions evident in Mithila today.
About the Producer
Coralynn V. Davis is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology at Bucknell University. An award-winner teacher, Dr. Davis holds a PhD (1999) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (1994).
She has held Research Associateships at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (2005-2006) and at the Harvard Divinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program (2008-2009). Her ethnographic research with communities in Nepal and India has been supported by three Fulbright Grants (1994-1995; 2003-2004; 2016-2017).
In addition to having published peer-reviewed articles in journals centered in several disciplines, her book Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border was published by University of Illinois Press in 2014. She is the producer of the hybrid documentary film, Sama in the Forest (Dir. Carlos Gómez), which is based on her research. She has also created a public digital archive of Maithil women’s oral tales.
Collective Struggles in Defense of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Populations Attacked by the Bolivian State, 2011-2023
Tuesday, March 26th, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Reception: We welcome you to join us for a catered reception following the event in the Dodd Lounge.
_____________________
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
_____________________
This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed - Film Screening and discussion
Wednesday, March 27th, 202406:00 PM Women’s Center
Shunned by the political establishment and the media, this longtime champion of marginalized Americans asked for support from people of color, women, gays, and young people newly empowered to vote at the age of 18. Chisholm’s bid for an equal place on the presidential dais generated strong, even racist opposition. Yet her challenge to the status quo and her message about exercising the right to vote struck many as progressive and positive.
Saturday, March 2nd, 202410:00 AM - 12:00 PM Capital Community College
What is the texture of democracy in our times? How do we combat oppression, despair, and disillusionment to imagine just futures where human flourishing can be realized? As American democracy undergoes its latest stress test, how can we reinvigorate dialogue, rebuild trust in democratic institutions and inspire civic participation? How can we narrate an America’s origin story built on expanding freedom and civil rights and the pursuit of happiness beyond the narrow confines of one group?
Join us for a discussion of how these issues refract in Black communities and consider the possibilities for BIPOC solidarity and organizing as an antidote to resignation and pessimism in our polarized society. Our discussion will derive from ‘Democracy in Black’ by Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., this year’s Pennington Lecture speaker. (Participants do not need to prepare ahead of time.)
Wednesday, March 6th, 202406:00 PM Student Union Theatre
Join us for an evening with Valarie Kaur, civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, and author of the #1 LA Times Bestseller SEE NO STRANGER. Valarie has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories and change policy on issues ranging from hate crimes to digital freedom. She is the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, where she leads a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice, and to inspire and equip people across America to build the beloved community.
Book sale and signing immediately following.
Co-sponsored with the Asian American Cultural Center, African American Cultural Center, Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center, Rainbow Center, Native American Cultural Programs, Middle Eastern Cultural Programs, and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion.
Launch of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Digital Archive
Thursday, March 7th, 202410:00 AM - 11:00 AM
In post-atrocity societies, the pursuit of justice, truth, and memory is an essential part of dealing with a difficult past. In the case of the former Yugoslavia, those pursuits were institutionalized in the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since its establishment as an ad hoc court in 1993, the ICTY has changed the landscape of international law and given voice to the horrors so many witnessed and experienced.
Currently, the three collections contained in our ICTY Digital Archive contain over 52,000 pages of material related to the tribunal as well as more than four hours of audiovisual material (with two additional collections pending construction).
Our ICTY Digital Archive seeks to make the important work of the tribunal accessible to researchers, educators, students, and others. The launch will include remarks from Professor James Waller (Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice and Director of Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs at UConn), Professor Richard Wilson (Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law and Anthropology at UConn), and Mr. Predrag Dojčinović (Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn, senior consultant and research advisor in the field of international criminal justice).
In addition, Aida Gradaščević and Nadan Hadžić will present work featuring materials from the ICTY Digital Archive related to the siege of Goražde.
Register to join us virtually via the ‘Register by Zoom’ button above.
Unconquered: Goražde - Documenting Resistance in the Bosnian War
Thursday, March 7th, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Unconquered: Goražde, City of Heroesis the story of the unquenchable power of the human spirit, offering crucial lessons and hope. It tells the story of how ordinary townspeople withstood a three-and-a-half-year siege during the Bosnian War, threatening to destabilize the international world order.
This exclusive work-in-progress screening is followed by a conversation with author/filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies and producer Nick Stuart about the significance of the siege of Goražde.
Please register to join us below.
Reception
Following the event, we welcome you to join us for a catered reception in the lobby of The Dodd Center for Human Rights.
Award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been making films about human rights issues in areas of conflict since 1992, including in Bosnia, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lloyd-Davies’ work combines journalism with a strong visual style that she learned as a graduate of the Royal College of Art. She films much of her own work, drawing out intensely personal and difficult stories from people often at their most vulnerable and bringing the viewer into the subject’s life to render a deeply drawn portrait, while preserving the dignity and integrity of their story.
Nick Stuart is a producer of “Unconquered: Gorazde, City of Heroes” and has spent over 30 years presenting, directing, and producing programming in the UK and in the U.S,, winning The Human Rights Award at the Venice International Film Festival and a Peabody Award among others. Dedicated to human rights and social justice programming he also specializes in impact campaigns to help documentaries be more effective in bringing positive change to our world.
This event is a collaboration between the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs, the Department of Digital Media & Design, Studio 9 Films and Nick Stuart Films.
CANCELED: Encounters: The Changing Landscape Of Policing
Saturday, March 16th, 202410:00 AM - 12:00 PM NXTHVN
21st-century America is increasingly polarized over policing. From yard signs to public protests, from political rhetoric to legislative acts, tension over the role and status of police grips us daily. Are we any closer to an answer? Join us for a dialogue on this most critically important subject in which we will explore the historical development of policing in our democracy and discuss the present-day landscape of law enforcement, community relations, and individual rights. Facilitated, small-group conversations will be followed by a Q&A with guest scholars and activists. You are warmly and respectfully encouraged to come speak from your heart about this subject that lies at the shared heart of the “Land of the Free.”
The Role of Latin American Indigenous Images & Narrations in Healing Colonial Wounds
Tuesday, March 19th, 202411:00 AM - 12:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
ES: “El Papel de las Imágenes y Narrativas Indígenas Latinoamericanas en la Sanación de las Heridas Coloniales”
Language:Please note that this discussion will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation provided to English. Those who would like to listen along in English are encouraged to bring a smartphone and headphones.
Please Register Below
_____________________
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez is an artist from the Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile whose work explores the social landscape, history, culture, and worldview of his people. His films use a variety of approaches to engage with, activate, and preserve Indigenous traditions and foster understanding. Kuifi ül (Ancient Sound) enacts the healing and awakening power of the trutruka, a traditional wind instrument. Trankal Küra presents a dance of resistance on stolen land, while reveries are re-created in Super 8 film and video in Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman. Künü documents the commissioning and construction of a Mapuche ceremonial center, memorial, and place for parliament in Loncoche. It demonstrates the diplomatic prowess of the Mapuche leaders, who won consensus amongst disparate Indigenous communities, a forestry company, and the Chilean architects who helped them design the place.
_____________________
This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Exhibition - Anarchist Struggles in La Paz: Militant Repression of the Local Workers Federation and Women’s Workers Federation
Friday, March 22nd, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
_____________________
This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Monday, March 25th, 202403:30 PM - 05:00 PM Homer Babbidge Library
About the Film
Sama in the Forestis a hybrid documentary set in contemporary Mithila, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical past into a globalized present in which pressures on tradition are accelerating. Maithil identity is passed on in part through its renowned painting tradition, as well as through its lesser known wealth of orally transmitted folktales. Women play a central role in both of these expressions. In a creative collaboration with local community members, we highlight the tale of Sama, a young princess who wanders into the forest and befriends a young man, only to be slandered by a muckraking confidante of the king, and subsequently cursed and banished by her father.
The film combines footage of women telling different versions of the tale, the making of elaborate narrative paintings, a dramatization of the story, a yearly festival that celebrates Sama, and in-depth conversations about the morals and meanings of this and other traditional tales. The girls and women at the heart of our film are students and teachers at the Mithila Art Institute, a small school for young aspiring artists. Additional participants — community members of different genders, castes, and generations — help paint a complex picture of the social tensions evident in Mithila today.
About the Producer
Coralynn V. Davis is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology at Bucknell University. An award-winner teacher, Dr. Davis holds a PhD (1999) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (1994).
She has held Research Associateships at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (2005-2006) and at the Harvard Divinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program (2008-2009). Her ethnographic research with communities in Nepal and India has been supported by three Fulbright Grants (1994-1995; 2003-2004; 2016-2017).
In addition to having published peer-reviewed articles in journals centered in several disciplines, her book Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border was published by University of Illinois Press in 2014. She is the producer of the hybrid documentary film, Sama in the Forest (Dir. Carlos Gómez), which is based on her research. She has also created a public digital archive of Maithil women’s oral tales.
Collective Struggles in Defense of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Populations Attacked by the Bolivian State, 2011-2023
Tuesday, March 26th, 202404:00 PM - 05:30 PM The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Reception: We welcome you to join us for a catered reception following the event in the Dodd Lounge.
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
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This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed - Film Screening and discussion
Wednesday, March 27th, 202406:00 PM Women’s Center
Shunned by the political establishment and the media, this longtime champion of marginalized Americans asked for support from people of color, women, gays, and young people newly empowered to vote at the age of 18. Chisholm’s bid for an equal place on the presidential dais generated strong, even racist opposition. Yet her challenge to the status quo and her message about exercising the right to vote struck many as progressive and positive.