The Transitional Justice Network and the Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America at the Liu Institute for Global Issues invite you to:
Three special events with anthropologist Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University
The Milk of Sorrow
Film Screening and Opening Reception
Thursday, April 28, 2011 — 17:00 -21:00
Caseroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) is a film by Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, inspired by Kimberly Theidon’s book, Entre Prójimos. The film’s title refers to a specific condition, described by Andean women to Dr. Theidon, wherein trauma experienced by raped women during Peru’s recent civil war was passed on to children when nursing. The film narrates the story of Fausta, a young woman whose mother was raped and father murdered during Peru’s conflict, and who has to negotiate the fear and suffering passed down by her mother through the milk of sorrow. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards and won the 2009 Golden Bear the FIPRECI prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the award for best movie in the 24 Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara in Mexico.
Light reception following the film screening in the Lobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues.
“Militarized Masculinities, Gender and Transitional Justice”
A Public Lecture
Friday, April 29, 2011 — 11:30-13:00
Multipurpose room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
“After the Truth: Reparations and the Legacies of Sexual Violence in Peru”
The Knute and Paz Buttedhal 2011 Memorial Lecture
Friday, April 29, 2011 — 6:00pm – 8:30pm. Reception to follow.
Multipurpose room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
The event is free but please register with Jeannie Young: jeannie.young@ubc.ca; ph: 604-822-5881
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Educational Studies.
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.