Here’s your weekly summary of humanities events in Wyoming! If you’re in or near Laramie, don’t miss tonight’s lecture at the UW Art Museum — funded by the Wyoming Humanities Council! – on their current exhibit, The Disappeared. The scholar delivering the lecture is Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives, and the title of her lecture is Exhumations: Appearing the Disappeared – Uncovering Repressive Archives in the Recovery of Historical Memory in Latin America. Here’s how the Art Museum website describes the exhibition:
“To disappear” was newly defined during the twentieth century military dictatorships in Latin America. “Disappear” evolved into a transitive verb describing those considered threats to the State who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by their own military, especially in the 1970s in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.
The Disappeared brings together the work of 26 living artists from Latin America who, over the course of the last thirty years, have made art about los desaparecidos or the disappeared. These artists have lived through the horrors of the military dictatorships that rocked their countries in the mid-decades of the twentieth century. Some worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others live in countries maimed by endless civil war. Disappearance was inevitably linked to torture.
I’ve seen the exhibition; it is troubling, moving, and thought-provoking. Tonight’s lecture promises to provide even deeper insight into this dark history.
April 13, 7 p.m.
Laramie, UW Art Museum
Grant Program: public lecture on The Disappeared exhibition, by Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst, National Security Archives
April 13, 6 p.m.
Sheridan, Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
American Journeys film series
April 14, 7 p.m.
Buffalo, Johnson County Library
Humanities Forum: My Horse, My Gun, My Libraries by Lynne Swanson
April 29, 2 p.m.
Meeteetse, Meeteetse Branch Library
Reading Wyoming
April 15, 6:30 p.m.
Laramie, Albany County Library
Reading Wyoming
April 15, 7 p.m.
Torrington, Eastern Wyoming College
Reading Wyoming
April 17, 7 p.m.
Sundance, Crook County Library
Humanities Forum: Buying, Selling and Trading in Indian Country
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I missed the lecture, but I visited the exhibition! It’s really moving! Do you think anyone recorded the lecture?
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