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Bad Apples or Bad Leaders:
Explaining State Repression and Sexual Violence in El Salvador
Michele Leiby, Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 7 February, 12:30-1:45p, IBS 155 (Institute of Behavioral Science, 1440 15th Street)
Why do militaries engage in sexual violence? Through her examination of patterns of state-perpetrated sexual violence and other political violence during the civil war in El Salvador (1978-1992), Prof. Lieby concludes that sexual violence is not perpetrated randomly, but rather targeted against particular subgroups within the population who present a real or imagined threat to the regime.
A comparison of data collected in the UCB Archives from two Salvadoran human rights organizations reveal the timing and locations of various forms of state violence and a demographic profile of the victims. This research, one of only two quantitatively-oriented analyses of first-hand accounts of sexual violence during the civil war, demonstrates many of the limitations of data on wartime sexual violence and makes an important contribution to the academic literature on wartime sexual violence as well as to the historical record of violence in El Salvador.
Unearthing the El Salvador Human Rights Archive
Why is the archive here? How has it been used for research and class projects?
What is required to ensure, enhance, and promote access?
Learn how you can access and utilize this material in your research!
Friday, 8 February, 12-1:30p, Gates Woodruff Cottage Library. Light lunch provided.
- Michele Leiby, College of Wooster: Digging in the El Salvador Human Rights Archive
- Asuncion Horno-Delgado, UCB Spanish and Portuguese: class projects using the Archive
- Bruce Montgomery and Yolanda Maloney, UCB Archives and Special Materials at: How the World’s Largest El Salvador Human Rights Archive was Built: Travels of two archivists to a war-ravaged land to gain access to the secret archives of the Archdiocese of San Salvador
Sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder Latin American Studies Center, University Libraries, Department of Political Science, and Women and Gender Studies Program
Contact Lbdv@colorado.edu: Lorraine Bayard de Volo, UCB Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies and Director, Latin American Studies Center
NOW in the Norlin Lobbies!
Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration
Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee
December 5, 2012 – March 8, 2013
Joining Forces Exhibit (pdf 8.30MB) | Joining Forces Event (pdf 11.12MB)
Norlin East Lobby “Kitty Maryatt: Limited Editions from the Scripps College Press”
Kitty Maryatt: Limited Editions from the Scripps College Press:
The Scripps College Press publishes and sells books created collaboratively by undergraduate students who take the Typography and the Book Arts class with Kitty Maryatt at Scripps College in Claremont, California. The students write the texts, make imagery, set metal type by hand, print by letterpress, and bind the limited edition of about 100 copies in the one-semester class.
Norlin West Lobby: "Artist’s Books by Sammy Seung-min Lee of Studio SML | k"
Artist’s Books by Sammy Seung-min Lee of Studio SML | k:
Sammy Seung-min Lee is a book artist and proprietor of Studio SML | k in Denver, Colorado. Sammy incorporates her diverse studies in fine art, design and architecture to push the boundaries of her books by investigating and experimenting with spatial, narrative, and sequential qualities. She studied bookbinding under master bookbinder and book artist, Daniel Kelm in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
AND – a special PRESENTATION: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7 pm, CBIS, “Joining Forces ~ Book Arts in Collaboration” with Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee.
ALSO - Special fee-based workshop: “Let Me Count the Ways” [to sew signatures together] with Kitty Maryatt, March 1-3, 2013, 10a-5p, Ewing Farm, Lafayette, CO. For details: http://www.facebook.com/Denver.RMC.GBW or sammy@studiosmlk.com.
Sponsored by University Libraries ScriptaLab, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, Book Arts League, Friends of the Libraries, and Archives and Special Collections.
Joining Forces Event (pdf 11.12MB)
Joining Forces Exhibit (pdf 8.30MB)
Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century
on the second floor of Norlin Library until June 2014
Hazel Barnes, who taught at CU from 1953 to 1986, was the nation’s preeminent Sartre scholar, and is credited with bringing French existentialism to the U.S. via her translations of Being and Nothingness, Existential Psychoanalysis, and The Problem of Method. A philosopher in her own right, she authored numerous books and other works, and even hosted a ten-part television series in the 1960s called Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism.
Now a new exhibit on the second floor of Norlin Library, recognizable by its striking black and white panels and featuring many of the most familiar names in existentialism, pulls together samples from the late CU Professor Emeritus’s life work and puts them into a larger context.
The exhibit, which is split into two sections on the second floor, offers a provocative foray into existential thought. The section near the research desk contains posters focusing on the existentialists Barnes studied and taught -- Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus. Patrons need not be experts on existentialism to gain from the exhibit; the posters, which feature quotes on topics such as Existential Consciousness, Freedom, and Sex, are highly accessible inroads to the often misunderstood philosophical movement.
The section on the east stairwell landing features Barnes’ own life and work. A display case includes original manuscripts, first editions of her books, and artifacts selected from a recent donation to the University Libraries Archives in Norlin. Additional artifacts from her time in Greece are on loan from the CU Art Museum.
Although Barnes passed away in 2008, her profound contributions to the CU opera omnia remain. The designers hope that the exhibit will spark both an interest in existentialism in its historical context as well as a contemporary discussion on issues of philosophy and ethics in the university community. The existential display is the second installment in the Libraries CU Legend Series.
Three expert panelists will discuss Hazel Barnes and the Impact of Existentialism on American Culture, on Thursday evening, October 18, 2012, in the Center for British and Irish Studies on Norlin’s fifth floor.
For information regarding the Hazel Barnes archive contact Stephanie.Yuhas@colorado.edu. For information about the panel discussion in October contact Deborah.Fink@colorado.edu. Special thanks to Andrew Violet for designing the exhibit!
Sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, University Libraries Archives, Friends of the Libraries, and the CU Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Exhibits and Art Shows in Norlin Fall 2012
East Lobby
Kitty Maryatt: Limited Editions from the Scripps College Press
The Scripps College Press publishes and sells books created collaboratively by undergraduate students who take the Typography and the Book Arts class with Kitty Maryatt at Scripps College in Claremont, California. The students write the texts, make imagery, set metal type by hand, print by letterpress, and bind the limited edition of about 100 copies in the one-semester class.
East lobby, first floor SW Stoa Gallery
(also second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery, flanking 2nd floor bay window)
Ray Tomasso—Master papermaker and paper artist: works in cast paper and artist book. Also, “Erosion and Tradition,” a mixed media work displaying traditional book crafts in a single over-sized volume (second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery).
Norlin Commons
“Celestial Light: Reflections on the Journey Home:” an exploration of light and being in the paintings of former library staff member William Wallace Carson (June 19th 1948 - August 4th 1990).
Laughing Goat CoffeeShop
Meow Wolf Santa Fe Art Collective’s Darkness/Formless/Fabulous: an allegorical algorithm mashing together text, visuals, art, and interactivity.
Louis DeAngelis: Bright colors, riveting patterns, and musical allusion: artistic skills and cultural commentary (and additional DeAngelis pieces in the W Ventana Gallery).
East Underground Gallery
“Bikes Around the World:” An international collaboration of photographers showcasing the diversity of cycling around the world. Presented by the CU Sustainable Transportation Program to offer a taste of the world of wheels and spokes. New photos are rotated in and out over time.
West Lobby
Artist’s Books by Sammy Seung-min Lee of Studio SML | k
Sammy Seung-min Lee is a book artist and proprietor of Studio SML | k in Denver, Colorado. Sammy incorporates her diverse studies in fine art, design and architecture to push the boundaries of her books by investigating and experimenting with spatial, narrative, and sequential qualities.
SW Science Alcove Gallery
Ray Tomasso—Master papermaker and paper artist: works in cast paper and artist book. “Erosion and Tradition,” a mixed media work displaying traditional book crafts in a single over-sized volume, and metal books in west lobby vitrine
ScriptaLab Artist Books on Display: rotating series
East side 2nd floor landing and Research Services:
Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century: posters about the existentialists Barnes studied and taught—Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus, including quotes on topics such as existential consciousness, freedom, and gender. Display cases include newspaper clippings from the 1960s, an array of books on existentialism, and items selected from the Hazel Barnes Collection, recent donated to the University Libraries Archives. Artifacts from her time in Greece are on loan from the CU Art Museum.
W Art and Architecture Collection
“Animal clusters:” captivating series of animal forms emerging from patterns by former textile print designer, Bhagvati Khalsa.
Southeast stairwell 3rd floor landing and beyond
12 vibrant textures: Rebecca Jewell’s painting as game making, with “rules” of patterning and color, and color palettes from childhood video games.
W Ventana Gallery
Louis DeAngelis: bright colors, riveting patterns, and musical allusion: artistic skills and cultural commentary (and additional DeAngelis pieces in the Laughing Goat).
Norlin Library Galleries & Spaces
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