Amanda J. Guzmán is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in archaeology and minors in Latin American history and the Spanish language. Her dissertation project focuses on a range of major museums to analyze the history of North American museum collecting in, and representations of, Puerto Rico. In the context of Puerto Rico’s current environmental and economic uncertainty, her dissertation critically traces understudied museum acquisition narratives documenting the island’s material relations with the U.S. mainland. Guzmán’s research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, a Smithsonian Institution graduate student fellowship, a Smithsonian Institution predoctoral student fellowship, and the Mellon Mays graduate initiatives program. She is the author of the recently published Museum Anthropology article, “Collecting the Puerto Rican Colony: Spanish-American War Material Encounters Between Officer-Wives and Puerto Ricans.”

Informal graduate and faculty gathering to share research and experiences across disciplines.

Two years since the signing of the peace accord in Colombia, scholars have come together to
evaluate progress, challenges and setbacks of its implementation. The keynotes, panel presentations
and discussions will center on post-accord human rights, efforts from academia and civil society
organizations to promote the accord, political aspirations and economies of/during/for “peace,”
reproductive politics and the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants.

Two years since the signing of the peace accord in Colombia, scholars have come together to
evaluate progress, challenges and setbacks of its implementation. The keynotes, panel presentations
and discussions will center on post-accord human rights, efforts from academia and civil society
organizations to promote the accord, political aspirations and economies of/during/for “peace,”
reproductive politics and the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants.

Join El Foco in Latinx Education for the 4th annual plática on a topic of education. Light lunch will be provided.

Dr. Gilda Ochoa, Professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o
studies at Pomona College in California, will be leading
this discussion. With over 25 years of teaching in
Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, sociology, and women’s
studies, Dr. Ochoa has worked with K-university
teachers and has also taught in high school and college
programs dedicated to increasing the number of
underrepresented students in higher education.