Conference Day 1: Wednesday, May 14
9:00 – 10:30 AM | Virtual Panel: Legal Framings of Disappearance
Grazyna Baranowska, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Bernard Duhaime, Université du Québec à Montréal/Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Anna Rahel Fischer, UC Berkeley
Pietro Sferrazza Taibi, Human Rights Center at the Universidad de Chile
Moderator: Guilherme Vasconcelos, ITAM (Mexico)
Modality: virtual. Location: Zoom
12:00 - 1:00 PM | Virtual Panel: Artivism and Migration in Latin America
Derli Romero, Artist
Kim López, University of New Mexico
Moderator:
Modality: virtual. Location: Zoom.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Pop-up at the Center for Latin American Studies and Interactive Presentation on Artivism and the Search with Delia Caicedo of Fundación Guagua
Modality: in-person only. Location: Center for Latin American Studies/Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305)
Conference Day 2: Thursday, May 15
9:00 – 10:30 AM | Virtual Panel: (Legal) Complementarity and Embodied Knowledges of the Search (in Spanish)
Matilda González Gil, Unit for the Search of Persons Assumed to Be Disappeared (Colombia)
Lisa Ott, swisspeace
Constanza Ramírez Molano, Otras Voces
Carolina Robledo Silvestre, CIESAS-Ciudad de México
Moderator: Amanda Smith, UC Santa Cruz
Modality: Virtual. Location: Zoom
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Panel: Phenomenological Accounts of Displacement and Disappearance
Promise Ejiofor, University of Cambridge
Ayten Gündoğdu, Barnard College
Julia Neusner, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Moderator: Anna Rahel Fischer, UC Berkeley
Modality: Virtual. Location: Zoom.
2:30 – 4:00 PM | Virtual Panel: Social Narratives in the Aftermath of Disappearance
Cath Collins, Observatorio Justicia Transicional, Universidad Diego Portales / Ulster University
Juliana Martínez, American University
Luz Marina Monzón, Creator and First Director of the Unit for the Search of Persons Assumed to Be Disappeared (Colombia)
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
Moderator:
Modality: Virtual. Location: Zoom
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Workshop: Methods in Documenting Disappearance (a hands-on session focused on strategies used to document human-rights abuses such as enforced disappearance)
Delia Caicedo, Human-Rights Advocate (Fundación Guagua, Colombia)
Omar Gómez Trejo, Human-Rights Lawyer and Former Lead Prosecutor for the “caso Ayotznipa”
Moderator: Penelope Van Tuyl, Stanford University
Modality: in-person. Location: Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305); light refreshments provided
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Pop-up at the Center for Latin American Studies and Interactive Presentation on Artivism and the Search with Delia Caicedo of Fundación Guagua
Modality: In-person. Location: Center for Latin American Studies/Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305)
Conference Day 3: Friday, May 16
10:00 – 11:00 AM | Disappearance on Screen
Martha González, Buscadora
Rodrigo Reyes, Filmmaker
Moderator: Ximena Briceño, Stanford University
Modality: in-person and virtual. Location: Zoom (sign up here for link)/in person at Pigott Hall, Room 216 (450 Jane Stanford Way Pigott Hall, Stanford, CA 94305); light refreshments provided
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Languages and Cartographies of Absence
Adedayo Agarau, Stanford University and author of The Days of Blood
Chantal Flores, journalist and author of Huecos
Aracelis Girmay, Stanford University and author of the black maria
Priscilla Wathington, poet, human-rights advocate, and author of Paper and Stick
Moderator: Hershini Young, UT Austin
Modality: in-person. Location: Pigott Hall, Room 216 (450 Jane Stanford Way Pigott Hall, Stanford, CA 94305); light refreshments provided
Lunch in person
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM | In-Person Panel: Global Cultural Responses beyond the Enforced-Disappearance Paradigm
Gabriel Gatti, Universidad del País Vasco / Former Tinker Visiting Fellow at Stanford
Peter Leman, BYU
Olga Salazar Pozos, DePaul University
Debarati Sanyal, UC Berkeley
Hershini Young, UT Austin
Rhiannon Welch, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Joseph Wager, Stanford University
Modality: in-person. Location: Pigott Hall, Room 216 (450 Jane Stanford Way Pigott Hall, Stanford, CA 94305); light refreshments provided
5:30 – 6:30 PM | Pop-up at the Center for Latin American Studies and Interactive Presentation on Artivism and the Search with Delia Caicedo of Fundación Guagua
Modality: in-person only. Location: Center for Latin American Studies/Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305)
Conference Day 4: Saturday, May 17
12:00 – 2:00 PM | Workshop: Writing against Erasure as Organizing Practice
Luis Ávila, Writer and Community Organizer
Delia Caicedo, Human-Rights Advocate
Chantal Flores, journalist and author of Huecos
Gabriel Gatti, University of the Basque Country/Former Tinker Visiting Fellow at Stanford
Olga Salazar Pozos, DePaul University
Modality: in-person. Location: Center for Latin American Studies/Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305); lunch provided
Conference Day 5: Monday, May 19
10:00 – 11:00 AM | Book Talk: Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance (2024)
Ege Selin Islekel, Texas A&M
Respondent: Kabir Tambar, Stanford University
Moderator: Müge Gedik, Stanford University
Modality: virtual. Location: Zoom (sign up here for link)/in person at Pigott Hall, Room 216 (450 Jane Stanford Way Pigott Hall, Stanford, CA 94305); light refreshments provided
12:00 – 2:00 PM | Workshop: Counting Absence, Writing Absence
Gabriel Gatti, former Tinker Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country, will discuss his innovative approach to “contar” (counting) and lead a workshop on narrative strategies in the face of catastrophe
Modality: in-person only. Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room (424 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305); lunch provided
1:00 - 4:00 PM | Pop-up exhibit and discussion with Adan Griego (Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections at Stanford University Libraries) on art related to disappearance and human-rights abuses held at Stanford, including work by Derli Romero and Ester Hernández
Modality: in-person. Location: Green Library, Hohbach/SVA #123 (557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)