The Conflict, Memory and Transitions program brings together speakers from Latin America, Europe, and the United States on the subjects of violence, memory, fear, truth commissions, and postwar reconciliation.

Elizabeth Lira
"Reflections on Pain and Memories"
Psychologist, Centro de Etica, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.
Friday, September 22, 2-3 PM
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

Elizabeth Lira (left) & Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies, Beatriz Manz (right)

Professor Elizabeth Lira is a psychologist and researcher in the Center of Ethics at Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. Her current research is on Chilean reconciliation and resistance of memory.

Professor Lira's main activity from 1977 has been in the field of mental health and human rights in clinical services, psychosocial research and national and international advocacy. She is currently the supervisor of clinical teams working in domestic violence and abuse and victims of human rights violations for the PRAIS Program (Public Health and Mental Health Program for victims of human rights violations during the dictatorship).

Professor Lira has co-authored two books on political reconciliation with San Diego State University Professor Brian Loveman, and written other books related to therapy and memory of victims of human rights violations.

Professor Charles Hale, Professor Beatriz Manz and Professor Elizabeth Jelin

Elizabeth Jelin is a professor and senior researcher at the Institute of Social Research, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and at the National Council of Scientific Research, Argentina (CONICET). Her teaching and research interests encompass human rights and historical memory of repression, the family, citizenship and social movements. Her most recent publication was Pan y Afecto: La Transformaciãn de las Familias (1998) (Bread and Affection: Family Transitions).

Charles Hale is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology department of the University of Texas. Prof. Hale, a Stanford PhD, is also Associate Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at UT. His current research is on ethnic and racial politics, mestizo/ladino identities and ideologies of mestizaje with particular focus on Central America, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. His book Resistance and contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 was widely acclaimed.

Tani Adams works with CIRMA, the Center for Regional Research on Mesoamerica.

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