2015 Colombian Conference at MIT – Harvard – BU (04.23.15 – 04.25.15)
III Colombian Conference: Building Peace
Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 5:30 PM – Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 9:00 AM (EDT)
Please join us to launch the Harvard-MIT-BU-Tufts 2015 Colombian conference “Colombia: Building Peace” this Thursday here at BU with the screening of Juan Manuel Echavarría’s documentary Requiem N.N. followed by a round table discussion about the role of contemporary arts in symbolic reparations.
The conference promises to be an exciting event that will include the participation of Noam Chomsky, James A. Robinson (author of Why Nations Fail), Luis Carlos Villegas (the Colombian ambassador to the U.S.), Sergio Fajardo (former mayor of Medellín and vice-presidential candidate, famous for dealing with Medellin during its worse crisis in urban violence, and also running mate for Antanas Mockus), and Jesús Abad Colorado, (the most renown photojournalist of the Colombian armed conflict), among others.
For more conference information schedule, locations, etc: http://colombianconference.co/
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For conference tickets please visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/iii-colombian-conference-building-peace-tickets-16413625596?aff=es2
This opening event is sponsored by BU’s Latin American Studies Program, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and the Pardee School of Global Studies.