Day: First four Tuesdays
Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. first session, 6:00-9:00 p.m. sessions 2, 3, & 4
Location: Girvetz 2120
Enrollment Code: 68965
Description:
The aim of this seminar is to spark students' interest in problems concerning terrorism, political violence, and human rights, by
taking two Latin American case studies: Peru and Colombia. During
the second half of the twentieth century these two Andean countries
were torn by bloody civil wars fomented initially by extreme leftist
guerrillas. Although revolutions and civil wars also sparked in other
parts of Latin America between 1958 and the 1980s, notably, in Cuba
and Central America, Peru and Colombia are peculiar in that
guerrillas emerged here to fight democratic governments, not military
juntas. The topics of the class will be illustrated with 4 films
(two dramas and two documentaries) produced and directed (except for
one) by Andean filmmakers. The films will be complemented with the
reading of testimonials, short articles, and chapters to be discussed
in class.
Professor Cecilia Mendez, History, teaches Latin America in the national period: the nineteenth century; the Andean region; Peru; peasant history; nationalism, ethnicity, state information. For courses she has taught, please check her webpage. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=42
Email: mendez@history.ucsb.edu
