[Peace-discuss] chicken wire, anyone?

[wkellehe at uiuc.edu]

This might be of interest to many.

Bill Kelleher

Special Film Screening
>"Scars of Memory"
>(Cicatriz de la Memoria)
>
>A film by
>Carlos Henriquez Consalvi (Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen,
>San Salvador)
>Jeffrey L. Gould (Indiana University)
>
>A Special Engagement and Roundtable Screening with the
>Filmmakers
>
>October 14, 2004
>Thursday  3:30 pm
>English Building 160
>608 South Wright
>
>In January 1932, an unprecedented uprising erupted in El
>Salvador, as a group of ladino and indigenous peasants took
>control of several towns.  Retribution by the military
>government was swift.  In some villages, all males over the
>age of twelve were slaughtered.  Elsewhere, soldiers
>summarily executed anyone suspected of being Communist.  
Over
>the next few weeks, at least ten thousand people were
>massacred, many of them indigenous.  The brutal way in which
>the uprising was crushed left many too frightened to
>participate in politics ever again.  The muted trauma
>resonated through six decades of military rule until the 
1992
>peace accords ended a twelve-year civil war.  In "Scars of
>Memory," hundreds of survivors and descendents of victims
>share their memories—many for the first time.
>
>*****
>
>RESCUING TTHE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF CIVIL WAR: The Work of 
the
>Museum of the Word and Memory in San Salvador, El Salvador
>
>A talk by museum director and curator
>Carlos Henriquez Consalvi
>Georgina Hernandez
>
>October 15, 2004
>Friday at 2 p.m.
>International Studies Building, Room 101
>910 South Fifth Street
>
>Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, founder and voice of the
>Salvadoran insurgency's clandestine Radio Venceremos (known
>by his nom de guerre "Santiago"), will give a talk with
>museum curator and anthropologist Georgina Hernandez.  Soon
>after peace accords ended El Salvador’s 12-year civil war 
in
>1992, Santiago founded The Museum of the Word and Image, an
>innovative, citizen-run center that collects, analyzes and
>displays artifacts of historical memory.  The center's first
>aim was to document and preserve memory of the revolutionary
>struggle.  But in a nation in which history is rarely
>studied—a place in which war, earthquakes and other naturral
>and unnatural disasters have destroyed public and private
>archives—the museum's main goal has broaddened to
>"investigate, rescue, preserve and show to the public the
>culture and history of El Salvador."  Today the museum 
boasts
>an extensive collection of films and more than 40,000
>historical photographs of El Salvador.  The speakers will
>discuss their ongoing efforts to stimulate public
>conversations about the nation's history and public memory 
in
>the context of global, neoliberal trends toward silencing
>struggles for justice and forgetting past traumas.
>
>Sponsored by:
>Center for Latin American and
>     Caribbean Studies
>Center for Advanced Study
>Department of Anthropology
>Center on Democracy in a Multiracial
>     Society
>Unit for Cinema Studies
>Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
>Department of Journalism
>Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
>Department of History
>Department of Sociology
>Latina and Latino Studies Program
>Native American House
>Program in Arms Control, Disarmament
>     and International Security
>
>For more information, contact the Center for Latin American
>and Caribbean Studies at clacs at uiuc.edu or 333-3182
>