Reproduction, Sexuality, and War: Reflections from Latin America

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Panel description: Join us for an exciting panel discussion in which reproduction and sexuality will be at the center to understand how they have animated recent political debates and transitions (Briggs, 2017) in Latin America. Looking at the pre-post conflict state (Theidon 2007) in Colombia and Peru, the participants in this round table will reflect on the conflicting implications of reproduction and sexuality in transitional justice, the functioning of the law, and violence.

About the panelists: Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. The Spanish edition of the first book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (2015), was published in 2020 by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Transitional Justice Otherwise examines the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. For more information, see: paschabuenohansen.com

Vanesa Giraldo Gärtner is a medical anthropologist with a primary area specialization in Colombia, and research focuses on reproductive politics—particularly about armed conflict, peace transitions, rural reforms, and intercultural health. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Anthropology, an MPH from the National University of Colombia, and a member of Red Salud-Paz.

Tatiana Sanchez Parra is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies Pensar at Javeriana University in Colombia. Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology, Tatiana’s research explores gender-based, sexual, and reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transitions. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Essex, where she also obtained a Masters in Human Rights. Before this, Tatiana completed a Master's in Social Anthropology at the University of Los Andes, Colombia.