Honoring the Victims of the Pinochet Years

October 19, 2018 7:00 pm

118 Elliot

118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301

802-254-8169

WINDHAM WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL PRESENTS
Patricia Perez Valdes, KSC-AIPR Global Fellow
“Honoring the Victims of the Pinochet Years at Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights”
Free and Open to the Public
Coffee/Tea/Conversation at 7:00 pm,
Talk begins promptly at 7:30

Patricia Perez Valdes will address this topic drawing from her years of experience in the Education and Audience Department of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, located in Santiago, Chile. Her talk will focus on the legacy of Chile’s military dictatorship from 1973-1990, the importance of memorialization in the construction of memory as a society, and the challenges faced by the museum since it was inaugurated in January of 2010.

In a joint initiative by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Academic Program at Keene State College (KSC) and the Auschwitz Institute For Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR), Patricia Perez Valdes has been invited for an entire semester of sharing with the college community.

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