Eugenic Legacies across Latin America

UC Santa Barbara - part of From Small Beginnings

This conference invites scholars, activists and artists, to look at what we can do to address the legacies of eugenics across Latin America

Across these two days, we will be looking at surfacing how eugenics and its ramifications has played out in different national and regional contexts across Latin America to such painful (and often deadly) effect. But as important, we will look to highlight the brave work that survivors, activists, scholars and artists have carried out and tirelessly continue to carry out to expose acts carried out in the name of or in the shadows of eugenics, and fight for justice for those that have been most targeted by such ideas and practices. As this pandemic moment exposes the stark inequalities and inequities in our society, we encounter a resurgence of eugenic thinking and practice across Latin America and globally and the urgency of these discussions are unprecedented. But likewise across Latin America, whether in the battle for justice for the 300,000+ women sterilized in Peru, around the mass mobilization and subsequent rewriting of the constitution in Chile, in disability activism fighting back against an increasingly ableist and supremacist governance of Brazil, in the collective imagining and building of a post-genocide Guatemala, or in the fight for reproductive justice in Puerto Rico, there is a new momentum for confronting such legacies across Latin America, unseen anywhere else. The conference invites participants and audiences alike to consider, in understanding of this history and its prevalence today, what as a collective across Latin America can be done to confront such legacies of eugenics moving forward, and what can built in its place.Event details...Event hosted by UC Santa Barbara, as part of <a href="https://www.fromsmallbeginnings.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">From Small Beginnings...</a>Sponsored by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, CUNY, the Anti-Eugenics Project and Oxford Brookes UniversityConference organisers - Benedict Ipgrave and Miroslava Chavez-GarciaConference director - Isidro GonzalesConference with English, Spanish and Portuguese interpretingProgramme for Eugenic Legacies across Latin America -Day One (12th October), 9am-4.30pm…09:00-09.10 - Welcome09.20-12:00 - Legacies of Eugenics in Peru and the fight for justice12.15-14.30 - Eugenics, transitional justice, resistance and transformation in Guatemala14.45-16:30 - Eugenic Legacies and the Rewriting of the Chilean ConstitutionDay Two (13th October), 8am-5.30pm…08:00-08:10 - Welcome08.15-09.15 - Preview of upcoming publications09:30-13:00 - Brazilian Legacies of Eugenics reflection ...and disability activisim13:15-15:00 - Legacies of eugenics in Argentina: from the second half of the 19th century to the present15:20-17:20 - Puerto Rico, Greater Mexico and Latina Reproductive Justice in the US17:20-17:30 - What happens next?For the full programme, bios and abstracts...<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vl8szAiFl0GIVHJ-p60uYSwdGOX0Haj9/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">F﻿or the programme in English click here</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13_ju8QuSpHCwCYx52kaIqY4-Lblsx8yC/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">F﻿or the programme in Spanish click here</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sv7UthdpTPD1M8-kXH4CtQZHtxk0Ux1O/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">F﻿or the programme in Portuguese click here</a>

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