University Libraries will host an opening reception for “Yuyanapaq: Para Recordar” (to remember) on May 7, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Herzstein Gallery and 2nd floor lobby of Zimmerman Library. The exhibit will run through June 12, 2009.
Yuyanapaq includes 40 well-traveled and sobering photographs chosen from over 1700 taken throughout the 20-year civil conflict between the Peruvian military, the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission estimates that 70,000 people were murdered or disappeared in Peru during this conflict.
There is no denying the international attention “Yuyanapaq” has garnered since 2003, when the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its report on the atrocities suffered in Peru. Germany recently gifted the Peruvian government $2 million to design and build a permanent monument honoring Peruvians who have suffered terrorism, repression and unimaginable loss. Some of them are depicted in these travelling photographs.
University Libraries will also host several intersession brown bags with information on “Yuyanapaq”. Dr. Jo-Marie Burt will open this series in the Herzstein Reading Room at 12 p.m. on May 18, 2009. Dr. Burt, who has worked closely with the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and with the ex-Peruvian President -- Alberto Fujimori’s --trial, will discuss her work in Peru.
She is the author of Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru and various comments in popular news media, including BBC World, The Washington Post, Democracy Now, and Pacifica Radio.
Inter-American Studies within the University Libraries is proud to host this important and emotionally moving exhibit, as well as Dr. Burt’s visit, with sponsorship from University Libraries’ Division of Iberian & Latin American Resources & Services (DILARES), the Latin American & Iberian Institute, SOLAS and the Southwest Institute for Religion and Civil Society.
For additional information visit: Yuyanapaq or the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
For questions regarding the exhibit, please contact Suzanne Schadl at schadl@unm.edu or visit DILARES.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at April 29, 2009 04:35 PM