On April 5, 2024, the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program with the Gender & Women's Studies Department hosted a panel “Memory & Reparations” as a part of the Conference on "Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s).
The conference was organized by graduate students from WGGP and GWS: Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez (Sociology), Nehal Elmeligy (Sociology), Marina Moscoso-Arabía (Geography), and Mahbubeh Moqadam (Sociology).
The panel was moderated by Marina Moscoso-Arabía, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science
Panelists:
Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Binghamton University. “Chicanas, Latinas, Latin American Women Prisoners’ Agency and Resistance”
Mayki Gorosito, ESMA Museum and Site of Memory. “MEMORIA Y MUJERES. 40 años de luchas y conquistas. Preguntas y experiencias sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro desde el Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA”
Daniela Morales, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Mar Brava: women's struggles against climate injustice”
Magdalena Novoa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “What land & planning has to do with memory and reparations in post-authoritarian contexts?”
The conference was co-sponsored by:
Center for African Studies
Center for Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Humanities Research Institute
Illinois Global Institute
Illinois International Programs
School of Social Work
Women’s Resources Center
This event was supported in part by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI grant program. The content of this event does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.