Events at Stanford
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16:59 Nov 10, 2021
Date: Friday, November 19, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Join us for the Latin American Perspectives Distinguished Lecture Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Professor and Senior Researcher, CIESAS. Abstract: In this lecture, Prof. Hernández Castillo will offer an ethnographic account of family collectives searching for their disappeared relatives throughout Mexico. She will seek to synthethize her last five years of experience as a political anthropologist conducting feminist activist research in Mexican territories under the context of the “war on drugs” and its idiosyncratic necropolitics, which are marked by a certain constellation of racist, classist and patriarchal practices. Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo earned her doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1996. She is currently a Professor and Senior Researcher at CIESAS, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mex...