[Cas-allemps] CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talk: Wednesday, October 14

[CAS Dean]

Dear colleagues,



Welcome to the new academic year. I’m writing to announce the 2020-21 CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talk series and invite you to the first talk in October. The CAS IR talks are 35-40 minutes in length, followed by a Q&A, and are meant to encourage conversation, interest, and understanding across the divisional lines in the college since much of our teaching and research in the liberal arts is multidisciplinary and collaborative.



Erin Beck, Associate Professor of Political Science, will present the first talk (see link to join below) on Wednesday, October 14, from 3:30 – 5:00.



Insiders’ Accounts of Guatemala’s Specialized Violence Against Women Courts



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Wednesday, October 14, 3:30–5:00

Zoom meeting: click here<https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95481513366?from=msft> to join



Erin Beck is Associate Professor of Political Science, with expertise in the areas of Latin American politics, international development, gender and development, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), microfinance, violence against women, and access to justice for indigenous women, with country expertise in Guatemala. Her current research explores gendered violence and access to justice among indigenous Guatemalan women and draws on interviews, focus groups, analysis of legal case files and courtroom observations in Guatemala's specialized Femicide and Violence against Women Courts.



Talk abstract: A decade into their country’s “post-conflict” period, Guatemalans continued to face overlapping forms of violence and insecurity. Guatemalan women in particular faced gender-based violence. In a country with a population smaller than that of New York State, between six and seven hundred women were being killed annually, producing the third highest femicide rate globally. Yet officials remained uninterested in combating such blatant violations of women’s human rights, only investigating thirty percent of women’s murders and making arrests in just three percent of cases. Abusive men learned they could violate women’s rights without consequence, and women learned they could not turn to the state for help. The passage of the 2008 Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women (2008 Law) represented a potential break with the past. It criminalized various forms of VAW and mandated the creation of specialized courts, which combined victim-centered approaches with adversarial criminal trials. Dr. Beck will provide an overview of the structure and functioning of these courts, reviews data on their effects, and explores how specialized judges see the courts, the problem of violence against women, and their own roles in addressing that violence.



Please join us for what promises to be an interesting talk and discussion on October 14, and I hope you’ll mark your calendars for the whole series, listed below.



Best regards,



Bruce



Bruce Blonigen

Tykeson Dean

College of Arts and Sciences





CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talks 2020-21

All talks are from 3:30 – 5:00





Fall



October 14      Erin Beck, Associate Professor of Political Science

                        Insiders’ Accounts of Guatemala’s Specialized Violence Against Women Courts

                        Location: Zoom meeting (link above)



November 6    Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English and Environmental Studies

                        Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss

                        Location: Zoom meeting



Winter



Date TBD        Maria Escallón, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

                        Heritage and the Trap of Visibility

                        Location: TBD



Date TBD        Brendan Bohannan, Professor of Anthropology

                        Title: TBD

                        Location: TBD



Spring



Date TBD        Michael Allan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

                        Title: TBD

                        Location: TBD



Date TBD        Thanh Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science

                        Title: TBD

                        Location: TBD


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