Event: The 35th Anniversary of the 1980 Spanish Embassy Attack in Guatemala City: Roots, Historical Memory, and Justice (February 2, 2015)

The 35th Anniversary of the 1980 Spanish Embassy Attack in Guatemala City:
Roots, Historical Memory, and Justice

Monday, February 2, 2015, 9 am – 5 pm

The North Academic Center (NAC) Rotunda, opposite the Cohen library entrance

Program

9 am – 2pm
Digital Exhibit

Photographer: Jonathan “Jonas” Moller
Quiche, Guatemala, 2000

2 – 2:30 pm
Introduction of Event & Digital Exhibit
Professor Marcia Esparza
Founder and Director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP)

2:30 – 3:30 pm
Recorded Interviews with International Experts
Juan Leon, Juan Jose Hurtado Paz y Paz, Angelica Macario, & Raul Molina

3:30 – 4:10pm
Live Conversation with Guest Experts
Professors Jeffrey Blustein, Gerardo Renique, & Irina Carlotta Silber
Professor Marcia Esparza, HMP & John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City College of New York

4:10 – 4:40pm
Q & A with Audience

4:40 – 5pm
Musical Presentation
Larga Espera (2013), in honor of the mothers of the Guatemalan disappeared
Sergio R. Reyes, violin
Emilio Teubal, piano

Co-Sponsors: Historical Memory Project (HMP), Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Division of Arts & the Humanities, CCNY Philosophy Department