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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">INTERESTED IN HUMAN
RIGHTS, TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND RECONCILIATION?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">THIS THURS. April
3rd, 5:30 West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"Reflections on
'State of Fear': Representing Truth, Representing
Reconciliation" </font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lecture and
Discussion by Dr. John Drabinski (Philosophy, Hampshire)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">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.</font></div>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">John Drabinski's
lecture is organized within the series:<br>
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<b>Reckoning with Memories of the Past, Articulating Rights of the
Present<br>
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</b>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.<br>
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We draw your attention to a website that follows the current trial of
Fujimori:</font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><u>http://fujimoriontrial.org/<br>
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</u></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sponsors:
Hampshire College Latin@ Latin American Studies and Legal Studies<br>
Questions: Michelle Bigenho mbigenho "at"
hampshire.edu</font></div>
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