A week of events co-sponsored by the Center for Global Study and Engagement; the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program; the Office of Diversity Initiatives; the Community Studies Center; and the departments of Anthropology and History<\/p>\n
Monday, October 1, 7 p.m., East College 405 Tuesday, October 2, 7 p.m., East College 405 Wednesday, October 3, 7 p.m., East College 405 Thursday, October 4, 7:30 p.m., Althouse 106 Valeria Mapelman <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n After ten years working in photography and film in Chile, Valeria Mapelman returned to her native Buenos Aires in 2010 to co-direct her first feature-length documentary, Mbya, Tierra en Rojo<\/em> [Mbya, Red Land or We Are the Indians<\/em>], with Philip Cox. Filmed with the Mbya Guarani communities of the Ku\u00f1a Pir\u00fa Valley, in Northeastern Argentina, this documentary presents an intimate view of the challenges faced by the Mbya Guarani to keep sustainable communities in a hostile sociocultural and political environment. Praised by critics for its complex portrayal of the Myba reality that avoids condescension, this film received the Human Rights Prize at the 2006 Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema. In 2005, she began working with testimonies of survivors of the 1947 massacre in La Bomba, among the Pilag\u00e1 communities of northeastern Argentina. These testimonies formed the bases of her 2010 film Octubre Pilag\u00e1, Relatos sobre el Silencio<\/em> [Pilag\u00e1 October: Tales about Silence<\/em>] and of her collaboration with the Research Network about Genocide and Indigenous Policies in Argentina which resulted in the multi-authored book History of Argentine Cruelty: Julio A. Roca and the Genocide of First Peoples<\/em>, coordinated by Osvaldo Bayer. She also produced Debates about Genocide of Argentina\u2019s First Peoples and the Limits of Justice, an interactive DVD in collaboration with the Course on Human Rights of the University of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n Hern\u00e1n \u00c1vila Monta\u00f1o<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Bolivian sociologist and social activist who has been working with indigenous communities of the Bolivian Amazon since 2001. From 2001-2004, as part of the NGO Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Promoci\u00f3n del Campesinado (CIPCA), Hern\u00e1n worked with the communities surrounding the town of San Ignacio de Moxos in the process of defining and legalizing their indigenous lands. In 2005, he began working with the NGO Centro de Estudios Jur\u00eddicos e Investigaci\u00f3n Social (CEJIS) as an assistant to Miguel Pe\u00f1a, one of five presidents of the Constitutional Congress, in the writing the new Constitution after the election of Evo Morales which defined Bolivia as a plurinational state. He has also worked with the movement of the Indigenous Territory of the Isiboro-Secur\u00e9 (TIPNIS) to protest, and ultimately to stop, the construction of a paved road through this protected region. He is currently the director of CEJIS in Trinidad, where he advises indigenous groups in the Department of Beni on their defense of their territorial and cultural rights. 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\nMbya, tierra en rojo <\/em>[Mbya, Red Earth or We Are the Indians<\/em>], 2008. Film presentation followed by Q&A by filmmaker Valeria Mapelman<\/p>\n
\nTerritorio en Resistencia<\/em>: Indigenous Mobilization in Contemporary Bolivia. Lecture by Bolivian sociologist and social activist Hern\u00e1n \u00c1vila Monta\u00f1o<\/p>\n
\nOctubre Pilag\u00e1: Relatos sobre el silencio<\/em> [Pilag\u00e1 October: Tales about Silence<\/em>], 2010. Film presentation followed by Q&A by filmmaker Valeria Mapelman<\/p>\n
\nIndigenous Latin America: Reclaiming the Past and Building the Future. Roundtable with Valeria Mapelman and Hern\u00e1n \u00c1vila Monta\u00f1o. Co-moderated by Professor Maria Bruno and Amanda Wildey (\u201913)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n