National Endowment for the Humanities and CUNY Queensborough Present "Legacies of Mass Atrocities: The Quest for Justice for the Disappeared in Argentina"

Start Date: December 05 2012 - 06:00 PM

End Date: December 05 2012 - 09:00 PM

Category: Community

Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - 524 West 59th Street, New York, New Building, Conference Room 9.64

Description:

As a part of the Seminar Series "Genocide, Justice, and Human Rights", funded by

the National Endowment for the Humanities and CUNY-Queensborough

Legacies of Mass Atrocities: The Quest for Justice

for the Disappeared in Argentina

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012, 6-9pm EST John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street, New Building, Conference Room 9.64

Our honorable guests include:

Dr. SARAH K. DANIELSSON

Associate Professor, Department of History, CUNY-Queensborough

JUDGE CARLOS ROZANSKI

Argentinean judge presiding over genocide trials of the disappeared

NORA MORALES DE CORTIÑAS

Member of the Association of the Mothers of La Plaza de Mayo, Founding Line

Argentine women leading the search for their disappeared relatives

JOCK YOUNG

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Moderated by:

NINA SCHNEIDER

Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR),

Columbia University

Co-sponsored by the Historical Memory Project at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

This Series has been made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.