Memorias at
Bowdoin College
Memorias at
Bowdoin College
Opening Gallery Talk
Monday, April 24, 2017
7:00 p.m.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall
Gustavo Gac-Artigas, novelist and playwright
Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Professor of Latin American Literature, Monmouth University
Reception to follow at Lamarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union
Sponsored by the Crandall Fund, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the Departments of Visual Arts, History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Government.
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE STUDENT WORKS ABOUT MEMORIAS (Slide Show)
Dr. Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of Latin American History: “The exhibit will be something that will stay with these students long after all much of the content of the course is forgotten. This is all to say thanks so much for making such a difference in my course.”
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EVENTS
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Instituto Cervantes NY
March 23 (opening) to April 16, 2017
Es un honor para el Instituto Cervantes ceder la galería del Instituto de Nueva York para la muestra de Memorias-Geography of a Decade: Chile 1973-1983 comisariada por Gustavo y Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
It is an honor for the Instituto Cervantes to host the exhibit Memorias-Geography of a Decade: Chile 1973-1983 curated by Gustavo and Priscilla Gac-Artigas, in our New York Institute gallery.
Instituto Cervantes NY
211-215 East
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NY NY 10017
Memorias at the Instituto Cervantes NY
Memorias at the Instituto Cervantes NY
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FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
University of Pennsylvania (UPENN)
September 10th to October 4th, 2018
We would like to bring a one-of-a kind, spectacular photographic exhibit entitled Memorias, Geography of a Decade: Chile 1973-1983 to the University of Pennsylvania. The exhibit captures with vivid imagery, exquisite detail, and artistic expression the intensity, terror, suffering, and diversity of experiences during and after the September 11th military coup.
This exhibit will create an indelible impact on the University of Pennsylvania’s students, professors, researchers, staff, and visitors, and on the Greater Philadelphia community. Students typically learn about Chile’s military regime through books, acquiring a sense of the dates, facts and figures of the time period. However, encountering and engaging with documentary evidence directly will foster profound insight and a deeper appreciation of the severity and intensity of the September 11th coup and the ensuing authoritarian regime. Inexorably, Memorias offers a window into the horrors of, as well as the pain and suffering exacted by, the Pinochet dictatorship. Most importantly, experiencing the exhibit nurtures an empathic understanding for those who lived in society without the protection of civil rights and liberties, and where many were killed, tortured, or exiled for speaking their mind or questioning the government. It also invites conversation about the role of the US government in supporting that coup and many other interventions in Latin America during the Cold War era. This type of learning experience is imperative today, as we continue to witness flagrant human them perpetrated, again, by US government institutions.
Tulia Falleti, Ph.D. Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Pennsylvania