The Judge and the General: Exhuming Bodies, Producing Justice March 26, 2010

You are invited to the fifth and final Colloquium leading up to the international conference on April 23-24, entitled "Exhuming Bodies, Producing Knowledge: Collective Memory, Justice and Restitution in Contemporary Spain."

For this last colloquium, there will be a discussion of the 2008 documentary film on the prosecution of Pinochet and other human rights violators in Chile. The film, directed by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, is entitled "The Judge and the General." It is on reserve for viewing at the Walter Smart Learning Commons in Walter Library on the East Bank.

Sponsored by: Institute for Advanced Study, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the European Studies Consortium. Additional support for the Colloquium Series and the conference is provided by the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities.

Official Website: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/research/spain.html