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January 31, 2011
Time:3:30-5:30 p.m.
Description:Visiting LLILAS professor Claudia Briones presents "Bringing Anthropology to Court: The Promotion of Trialogues for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights." Bryant Smith, chair in law, will serve as respondent to her talk. Briones is director of Graduate and Postgraduate Teaching in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Rio Negro. She is a LLILAS visiting resource professor from Jan. 27 to Feb. 4. She is also coordinator of the Anthropological Sciences degree program, and is a senior researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research.

Previously, Briones was a professor of anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas, where she was a Fulbright Commission Argentina Doctoral Fellow. She is a leading scholar in anthropology and indigenous studies in Argentina, and has researched and written widely on the Mapuche Indians in Chile and Argentina, especially in the context of cultural politics and communal identity.

Contact scline@law.utexas.edu.
Location:Connally Center for Justice at UT School of Law 2.310 (Eidman Jury Room)
URL:More about this event...
Contact:Sarah M Cline
Sponsor:Rapoport Center for Human Rights
Admission:Free
Categories:Everyone, Lecture/talk, Politics & International
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