Fri, April 29, 2011 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES

Free event.Join us for this lecture by anthropologist Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University.

Dr.Kimberly Theidon is an associate professor of anthropology at Harvard University and the executive director of Praxis: Institute for Social Justice.She received her Masters in Public Health and Ph.D.in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr.Theidon has conducted activist research in Latin America for over a decade on the politics of violence and reconciliation, and has a longstanding interest for: disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants; the politics of post-war reparations; comparative peace processes; human rights and international humanitarian law; as well as truth commissions, transitional justice and reconciliation.

Please register at http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/register-theidon-lecture/.

Hosted by the Transitional Justice Network and the Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and the Department of Anthropology.