Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

“Todo el Amor: Disability Internationalism in the FMLN”

 Prof. Heather Vrana: http://www.heathervrana.com/

A historian of modern Central America, she is author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala (U of California Press, 2017); Anti-colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983 (Edinburgh, 2017), and co-editor of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala (U of Texas Press, 2020). Vrana’s current project, Disability and the Making of Modern Central America, follows disability in relation to groups of people and bodies across 20th century Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

With discussants: 

Richard Kernaghan, Anthropology

An ethnographer of law and aesthetics with a keen interest in rivers, roads and political time. His Coca’s, Gone (Stanford, 2009) describes the aftermath of central Peru’s cocaine boom through stories shared of turbulent pasts. His forthcoming books Semblance in Terrain charts transformations of territory following the military defeat of a Maoist insurgency in Peru’s Upper Huallaga Valley. Through rural transit, legal topographies, and atmospheric expression, he shows how image, matter and sensation intersect. A new project in the Amazonian triple border region will carry forward his concern with legal relations and the reliefs and materialities of landscapes. Kernaghan is a faculty member in UF’s Department of Anthropology.

Daniel J. Fernández-Guevara, PhD candidate, Latin American history

A 7th year PhD candidate in Latin American history whose research focuses on memory and national identity. His dissertation, “Weaponizing Solidarity: Spanish Republican Exiles, Identity, and the Cuban Revolution, 1929-1976,” examines the impact of Spanish Republican exiles on Cuba in the twentieth century. He recently published an article in History and Memory and has also published two book reviews in Cuban Studies.

Contact Prof. Nancy Hunt (nrhunt@ufl.edu) for the Zoom link and draft paper to be discussed.