The International Students & Scholars Office (ISSO), in celebration of International Education Week, is hosting a Scholar Panel Discussion on Human Rights and Community Memories in Chile, South Sudan and Sri Lanka. Three international scholars at Columbia will share their research with our academic community.
- Dorcas Francis Loly Werson is a lawyer and Human Rights activist and will discuss her research on community memorialization and reconciliation in South Sudan. She will focus on the women victims of the Civil War living in the UNMISS Camp.
- Beatriz Aguila Mussa is a sociologist and researcher in the field of Memory, Human Rights Education and Civic Education. She will discuss how these topics merge in post-dictatorship and post-transitional societies in Chile.
- Evelyn Dissanayake is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and will discuss her current research which focuses on enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka, violent past memories of disappeared families relating to conflict, and post conflict human rights violations.
Food and beverages will follow the discussion.
