Lurgo Gavilán, in conversation in Spanish with Goya Wilson and Jelke Boesten, about remembering violent pasts in public.About this Event
Lurgo Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist and former child soldier in both the Peruvian army and the Shining Path. He is in the UK as part of a British Academy project on ideas about sex and violence, intimacy and friendship, amongst military veterans. In this event he will be talking about his two published memoirs, Memorias de un Soldado Desconocido (2013) and Carta al Teniente Shogún (2019). The conversation with experts in the field will discuss what it means to recall violent pasts in public, and how those memories can be used to transform society. It will be of interest to anyone working on the challenges faced by Latin American societies in the twenty-first century.
Jelke Boesten is Professor in Gender and Development at King’s College London.
Goya Wilson Vasquez is Senior Research Associate in the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol.
The conversation IN SPANISH will be followed by further discussion involving the audience.
Event Venue
University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, United Kingdom
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