Workshop: Encountering Transnational (In)Security and Violence in Guatemala, 7-8 February 2014

FRIDAY - 7 FEBRUARY

9:30 am - 10 am
Welcome and Introduction
Marianne Braig & Markus-Michael Müller
(Freie Universität Berlin)

10 am - 11:15 am
The Police in 19th Century Guatemala
Michael Riekenberg (Universität Leipzig)
Lead questioner: Dirk Kruijt (Universiteit Utrecht)

11:15 am - 11:30 am - Coffee Break

11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Transnational Knowledge and Violence: Guatemala’s Lethal Embrace of Science
David Carey (University of Southern Maine)
Lead questioner: Kedron Thomas (Washington University
in St. Louis)

12:15 pm - 1 pm
Transnational Security Programs and the Guatemalan Police
Otto Argueta (Interpeace Latin American Office, Guatemala City)
Lead questioner: Daniel Nuñez (University of Pittsburgh)

1 pm - 2:30 pm - Lunch Break

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Violence Perfected: Transnationalism and States in Guatemala’s Genocide
Ariel C. Armony (University of Miami)
Lead questioner: Deborah T. Levenson (Boston College)

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Transnational Violence in Guatemala as Structural Violence
Kedron Thomas (Washington University in St. Louis)
Lead questioner: David Carey (University of Southern Maine)

4:15 pm - 5 pm
Transnational Causes and Consequences of Violence During the Guatemalan (Post-)Insurgency, 1960s - Present
Dirk Kruijt (Universiteit Utrecht)
Lead Questioner: Ariel C. Armony (University of Miami)

5 pm - 5:15 pm - Coffee Break

5:15 pm - 6 pm
Violence and Accommodation at the Guatemalan Frontier, 1890-2010
Finn Stepputat (Dansk institut for internationale studier, Copenhagen)
Lead questioner: Michael Riekenberg (Universität Leipzig)

SATURDAY - 8 FEBRUARY

9:30 am - 10:15 am
Extralegal Violence in Guatemala: Some Global Aspects of Linchiamientos and Limpieza Social
Daniel Nuñez (University of Pittsburgh)
Lead questioner: Kirsten Weld (Harvard University)

10:15 am - 11 am
Placing Maras and Responses to Them

Deborah T. Levenson (Boston College)
Lead questioner: Markus-Michael Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)

11 am - 11:15 am - Coffee Break

11:15 am - 12 pm
Manufacturing Counterinsurgency: U.S. Police Aid in Guatemala, 1954-1974
Kirsten Weld (Harvard University)
Lead questioner: Finn Stepputat (Dansk institut for internationale studier, Copenhagen)

12 pm - 12:45 pm
The Return of the Counterinsurgent State in Neoliberal Guatemala
Markus Hochmüller & Markus-Michael Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)
Lead questioner: Otto Argueta (Interpeace Latin American Office, Guatemala City)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm - Lunch

2:15 pm - 3 pm
Final Discussion
Moderation: Günther Maihold (Colegio de México)

3 pm - 3:30 pm
Concluding Remarks
Markus-Michael Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)

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