Co-presented with Research Center for the Americas, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and earned her PhD in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice. This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Social Transformation and is free and open to the public; advance registration is required to access the Zoom link.

Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. Her first book Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice was just published in Spanish Derechos Feministas y Humanos en el Perú: Decolonizando la Justicia Transicional by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. She has various articles and book chapters on gender-based violence, sexuality, race, human rights, transitional justice, and social movements. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes examines the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

This event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory.

The RCA is collaborating with campus partners, specifically The Humanities Institute and the Institute for Social Transformation, to offer webinar programming on the theme of “Memory Studies in the Americas” to inspire sustained cross-border dialogues that tie the region.