Legal Subjectivity, Popular / Community Justice and Human Rights in Latin America
Friday, 22 January 2010 to Saturday, 23 January 2010Location: St Edmund's College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge
| Friday, 22 January |
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| 08:30 -09:00 | Registration and Coffee |
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Welcome | |
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Session I | |
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09:15 - 09:45 |
Graham Denyer Willis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 9:45-10.15 | Daniel Reichman (University of Rochester, USA) Truth and Traceability: Transparent Commodities and New Legal Subjectivities in Honduras |
| 10:15-10.30 |
Discussion |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Lieselotte Viaene (Ghent University, Belgium) Localizing Reparation After Gross Human Rights Violations: Maya Q’eqchi’ Voices on the National Reparations Programme of Guatemala |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion and discussant's comments Discussant: David Lehmann (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
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Session II | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
Keynote address Mark Goodale (George Mason University, USA) Human Rights and the Moral Imagination in Contemporary Latin |
| 13:45 - 14:00 |
Discussion |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Ella McPherson (University of Cambridge, UK) The Public Framing of the 2006 Atenco Conflict in Mexico and Implications for Justice |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Joanna Cichecka (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland) The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo – Demands for Memory, Justice and Truth: Dealing with Human Rights Violations |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Discussion |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Karen Faulk (University of Michigan / Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ‘Justice, Justice, you will seek’: Security and Rights in Buenos Aires |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Noa Vaisman (University of Chicago, USA) Legal Subjects, Ontologies and DNA: Human Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Discussion and discussant's comments |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Break |
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17:15-18:00 |
Keynote address |
| 18:00-18:15 |
Discussion |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner: Parker Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Speakers only |
| Saturday, 23 January |
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Session III | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote address Rachel Sieder (Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico) Indigenous Law, Violence and the "Multiculturalization" of Justice in Guatemala |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Manuela Picq (Amherst College, USA) Between the dock and a hard place: exploring the pitfalls of judicial pluralism for indigenous women in Ecuador |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Alonso Barros van Hövell tot Westerflier (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile) The Practical Declaration: Lus et Praxis Amongst Atacama Desert Communities |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Discussion |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Juan Pablo Vera Lugo (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) Legal Subjectivities: The Production of Legal Meaning in the Context of Multiculturalism and Transitional Justice in Colombia |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Discussion and discussant's comments |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
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Session IV | |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers University, USA) Community Justice and Problems of Insecurity in Evo's Bolivia |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Discussion |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Narmala Halstead (University of East London, UK) Grounding the Extra-territorial Local: Violence, Agency and New Boundaries |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Regina Bateson (Yale University) The political lynching |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Discussion |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Gavin Weston (University of Sussex) The Fiesta de Todos Santos: The Awkward Role of Gossip in Vigilante Justice |
| 16:30 |
Discussion and discussant's comments |
