Book launch: “The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America” by Francesca Lessa
This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Registration is not required for in person attendance.
Through the voices of survivors, human rights activists, judicial actors, and experts, The Condor Trials unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, the regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay closely monitored hundreds of exiles and kidnapped, tortured, murdered, or forcibly returned them to their countries of origin. This cross-border network designed to silence opposition in exile transformed South America into a borderless zone of terror and impunity. Francesca Lessa shows how, gradually, transnational networks of activists materialized and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over 100 interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America’s past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.
Date: 11 October 2022, 17:00
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Speakers: Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Nuffield College), Dr Francesca Lessa (Oxford Department of International Development and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford), Dr Par Engstrom (Associate Professor of Human Rights, Institute of the Americas, University College London)
Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development
Organiser contact email address: jo.boyce@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NOuKerPcSCu0SKgluDxtXg
Audience: Public
Editor: Jo Boyce