{"id":6554,"date":"2013-10-01T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anistiapolitica.org.br\/abap3\/2013\/10\/01\/brazil-amnesty-transitional-justice-and-the-legacies-of-the-brazilian-dictatorship\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:40:56","slug":"brazil-amnesty-transitional-justice-and-the-legacies-of-the-brazilian-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anistiapolitica.org.br\/abap3\/2013\/10\/01\/brazil-amnesty-transitional-justice-and-the-legacies-of-the-brazilian-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Amnesty, Transitional Justice, and the Legacies of the Brazilian Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil: Amnesty, Transitional Justice, and the Legacies of the Brazilian\u00a0Dictatorship Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Wednesday – Thursday, October 9 – 10<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Joukowsky Forum Reception to follow Opening Ceremony This conference <\/span>features a visit by the Brazilian Amnesty Commission (Comiss\u00e3o de Anistia ), <\/span>which was formed in 2001 under the jurisdiction of the Brazilian Ministry of <\/span>Justice. Its mission is to analyze the requests for indemnification of those <\/span>persons who were unable to work or carry out other economic activities for <\/span>political reasons during the period from 1946 until 1988. The conference <\/span>will explore the Commission\u2019s activities and provide a forum for discussion <\/span>with researchers and students who are studying questions related to human <\/span>rights, transitional justice, and efforts to document and preserve evidence <\/span>of human rights abuses. The conference will also recognize the contribution <\/span>of several people\u2014both Americans and Brazilians\u2014who, while living in the <\/span>United States in the 1970s, were instrumental in denouncing torture and <\/span>promoting human rights in Brazil. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Wednesday, October 9, 2013<\/p>\n

6 – 7 p.m. Opening Ceremony<\/p>\n

Chair: James N. Green, History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies \u2022<\/p>\n

Richard Locke, Director, Watson Institute for International Affairs \u2022<\/p>\n

Ambassador C\u00e9zar Amaral, Brazilian Consultae, Hartford CT \u2022 President<\/p>\n

Ricardo Lagos, Professor at Large, Brown University, and former president of<\/p>\n

Chile \u2022 Nelson Vieira, Chair, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies<\/p>\n

7 – 8 p.m. Keynote Lecture: \u201cThe Human Rights Movement in Brazil\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Cardozo, Brazilian Minister of Justice (TBC) \u2022 Paulo Abr\u00e3o,<\/p>\n

President of the Amnesty Commission<\/p>\n

8 – 9 p.m. Reception<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 10, 2013<\/p>\n

9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Amnesty, Memory, and Human Rights<\/p>\n

Chair: Nelson Vieira<\/p>\n

\u2022 Carla Simone Rodghero, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul \u2022 Rebecca<\/p>\n

Atencio, Tulane University \u2022 Marcelo Torrely, Bras\u00edlia University (visiting<\/p>\n

researcher at Harvard Law School) \u2022 James N. Green and Adam Waters, Brown<\/p>\n

University<\/p>\n

12 – 2 p.m. Lunch<\/p>\n

2 – 4 p.m. The Campaign against the Brazilian Dictatorship in the United<\/p>\n

States<\/p>\n

Chair: Richard Snyder, Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean<\/p>\n

Studies \u2022 Anivaldo Padilha, former editor, Brazilian Information Bulletin,<\/p>\n

Berkeley, CA \u2022 Marcos Arruda, founder, Committee against Repression in<\/p>\n

Brazil, Washington, DC \u2022 William Wipfler, former director, Latin American<\/p>\n

Department, National Council of Churches \u2022 Paul Silberstein, former<\/p>\n

collaborator, Brazilian Information Bulletin, Berkeley, CA \u2022 Jovelino Ramos,<\/p>\n

retired Presbyterian minister, human rights activist<\/p>\n

4 – 5 p.m. Honoring Human Rights Activists<\/p>\n

Chair: Paulo Abr\u00e3o<\/p>\n

\u2022 Five-minute presentations about honorees by Brown students Megan Hauptman,<\/p>\n

Lanna Leite, Joaquim Moreira Salles, and Emma Wohl.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Awarding of certificates from the Brazilian Amnesty Commission to<\/p>\n

recognize the participation in human rights campaigns in the United States<\/p>\n

during the dictatorship to Marcos Arruda, Anivaldo Padilha, Jovelino Ramos,<\/p>\n

Paul Silberstein, Harry Strharsky, Lorreta Sthrharsky, and William Wipfler.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Comiss\u00e3o de Anistia, Ministry of Justice, Brazil Center for<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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