Audio & Video from Previous Semesters

Faculty Book Series: "Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt, 1982–1983"

Monday, November 22, 2010
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Associate Professor

Disscussant: Raul Madrid, Associate Professor

Drawing on newly-available primary sources such as guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified US government records, Dr. Virginia Garrard Burnett is able to provide a fine-grained picture of what happened during General Efrain Rio Montt's rule in Guatemala.

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Discussion: "Identidades Mayas Contemporaneas: Una Conversacion con Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj y Manuel Felipe Perez Lopez"

October 22, 2010

Irma Alicia Velaszuez Nimatuj, Executive Director, Mecanismo de Apoyo a los Pueblos Indigenas
Manuel Felipe Perez Lopez, Programmer and Producer, Contacto Ancestral, KPFK Radio

Moderated by Dr. Luis Carcamo-Huechante, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and graduate student Giovanni Batts

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