[Hamp-law] Drabinski Lecture on Peru Thurs Apr 3

[Flavio Risech]

Please pass the word!

INTERESTED IN HUMAN RIGHTS, TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND RECONCILIATION?

THIS THURS. April 3rd, 5:30 West Lecture Hall, 
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College

"Reflections on 'State of Fear': Representing 
Truth, Representing Reconciliation" 

Lecture and Discussion by Dr. John Drabinski (Philosophy, Hampshire)




John Drabinski, visiting assistant professor of 
philosophy at Hampshire, holds a B.A. from 
Seattle University (1991) and a Ph.D. from 
University of Memphis (1996. He is the author of 
numerous articles on phenomenology and political 
philosophy, with special attention to the work of 
Levinas. He is the author of Sensibility and 
Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in 
Levinas (SUNY 2001) and Ailleurs: Godard Between 
Identity and Difference (Continuum 2008). His 
current research interests concern the 
intersection of European philosophy and the 
Americas. In particular, he is interested in how 
questions about memory, history, language, and 
representation, in relation to traumatic 
experience(s), are transformed by contact with 
the peculiar and particular experience of the 
Americas. To this end, he is working on both a 
book-length study of Édouard Glissant's poetics 
and various other, shorter projects on mourning 
and reconciliation in Argentina, Chile, Perú, and 
the United States.


John Drabinski's lecture is organized within the series:

Reckoning with Memories of the Past, Articulating Rights of the Present

This spring semester the Latin American Studies / 
Latin@ Studies and Legal Studies at Hampshire 
College mark the on-going trial of Alberto 
Fujimori (ex-President of Peru) with activities 
that examine how different Latin American 
contexts are coming to terms with pasts, both 
long term colonial pasts as well as more recent 
scars of dictatorships and disappearances. While 
we hear about how nominal "democracy" has 
returned to many countries in Latin America,  and 
about how several contexts are providing 
alternative responses to neoliberal 
globalization, memories of Latin America's dirty 
wars and other violent pasts still mark these 
contexts through which new articulations of 
rights are emerging.  Our activities will be 
focus on the intersection of these areas of 
memory, rights, and justice.

We draw your attention to a website that follows the current trial of Fujimori:
http://fujimoriontrial.org/

Sponsors: Hampshire College Latin@ Latin American Studies and Legal Studies
Questions: Michelle Bigenho mbigenho "at" hampshire.edu
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