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Co-hosted by ReD and Merton College, University of Oxford
Convened by Gwen Burnyeat
The Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminars (EDAS), held monthly via zoom over three terms in 2020-21, was a series of eight seminars with academics working on different aspects of peace and conflict in Colombia, from different disciplines, countries and career levels, and sought to build bridges between academic research and policy. In each seminar, an invited speaker presented a recent piece of finished academic research (a book, a journal article, a PhD thesis), a discussant then talked about the implications of this research for contemporary challenges for peacebuilding in Colombia, all followed by a Q&A with the audience. The collaboration between ReD and Merton College attracted high-level speakers and audiences, and discussions were rich and wide-ranging. All seminars were recorded, and the resulting playlist is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Colombia.
Seminar Speakers and Themes
EDAS 1: Dr Andrés García Trujillo, PhD from Waterloo University, lecturer in Economics at the Externado University of Colombia and advisor to the Institute for Integrated Transitions, launched his book “Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions” (Routledge 2020), with comments by Prof Nazih Richani, Professor of Latin American Studies, Kean University.
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EDAS 2: Dr. María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Anthropology, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, presented a forthcoming article on forensic knowledge and transitional justice, with comments from Prof. Leigh A Payne, Professor of Sociology and Latin America, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
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EDAS 3: Dr. Anthony Dest, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, presented a paper published in World Development, ‘The coca enclosure: Autonomy against accumulation in Colombia’ (2020), with comments by Dr. María Clemencia Ramírez, Research Associate and former Director of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History.
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EDAS 4: Prof. Joanne Rappaport, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, presented her book “Cowards Don’t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research” (Duke University Press, 2020), with comments by Prof. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor at the Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia.
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EDAS 5: Dr Pete Watson, Visiting Associate Fellow, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds, presented his forthcoming book “The Only Thing that Unites Us: Football and Nation-building During the Presidency of Juan Manuel Santos” (Liverpool University Press), with comments from Prof Matthew Brown, Professor in Latin American History, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol.
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EDAS 6: Dr. Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; & Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford, presented her published paper ‘The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict’ (World Politics, 2020), with comments from Dr. Michael Weintraub, Associate Professor, School of Government, Universidad de Los Andes.
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EDAS 7: Prof. Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Professor at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI), National University of Colombia, presented his latest book, “A New Cycle of War in Colombia?” (Bogotá: Debate), with comments from Prof. Jenny Pearce, Research Professor at the LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre.
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EDAS 8: Dr. Diego Nieto Sáchica, Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Interculturales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali & PhD in Comparative, International and Development Education, University of Toronto, presented his PhD thesis on the disjuncture between young people’s experiences of war and their school curricula, with comments by Dr. Julia Paulson, Associate Professor in Education, Peace and Conflict, School of Education, University of Bristol.
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