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Inaugural Journal of Latin American Studies Seminar hosted by the UCL Institute of the Americas
19 September 2024, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
We are delighted to welcome Kate Doyle to give the inaugural JLAS seminar at UCL. 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of one of the most notorious atrocities in the recent history of North America- the forced disappearance of 43 trainee teachers from the Ayotzinapa college in Guerrero, Mexico. This talk will discuss the significance of this case to broader trends of impunity within Mexico and the United States, drawing on Kate's decades-long work connecting the right to truth and access to information with human rights and justice struggles in Latin America. Dr Maria de Vecchi Gerli (Article 19) will chair the event.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Thomas Rath
Location
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Common GroundInstitute of Advanced StudiesGower Street, South WIngLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
This seminar is the first of an occasional series sponsored by the Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS), a leading area-studies journal published by Cambridge University Press and hosted by UCL Institute of the Americas. This seminar will be hybrid, and is scheduled as part of the 2-day workshop "Atrocities and Memory in North America: Ayotzinapa 10 Years On."
About the Speakers
Kate Doyle
Kate Doyle is a senior analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. She directs several major research projects, including the Mexico Project, which collects U.S. and Mexican government documents on the countries’ shared histories. Since 1992, Doyle has worked with Latin American human rights groups, truth commissions, prosecutors and judges to obtain government files from secret archives that shed light on state violence.
Doyle edited and published two of the National Security Archive's major document collections: Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999 and El Salvador: War, Peace and Human Rights 1980-1994. She has written dozens of reports, book chapters, articles, and blogs in Spanish-language and U.S. media. In 2012, Doyle was awarded the ALBA/Puffin Foundation prize for Human Rights Activism, which she shared with Fredy Peccerelli of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala. In 2022, she co-produced the podcast "After Ayotzinapa," which received the IRE Award for “Longform Journalism in Audio.”
Maria de Vecchi Gerli
Maria de Vecchi Gerli is Truth and Memory Officer at Article 19: Mexico and Central America office. She has worked in human rights and particularly around disappearances in Mexico and Argentina for nearly two decades, and received her PhD from the UCL Institute of the Americas.