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Kathleen Chung Guest |
#26 Torture and murder2011-02-14 15:03Have respect for all the victims of the junta's torture and murder. |
Juanita Burnett Guest |
#27 IGU Regional Meeting2011-02-14 15:58I am asking you to please change the venue of this meeting. This is not the appropriate place to hold it. Thank you for your understanding and acknowledgment. |
Marion Werner, University at Buffalo, SUNY Guest |
#28 IGU and Chile2011-02-16 18:31The website shows an organizing committee dominated by military officers and a "scientific sub-committee". How are we to believe that this structure in no way influences the character of the program? Even if there were no direct influence, the fact that the conference is organized by the military in a military institution already alienates a great number of Latin American geographers (as this petition effort demonstrates). It seems to me that the IGU should actively be pursuing new relationships in Latin America -- a slow process no doubt -- rather than opportunistically seizing upon offers that stem from a dubious institutional legacy. The IGU should be lending its institutional influence to change the position of geography in Latin American academe rather than to reinforce inherited repressive structures. |
NANDINI CHAKRAVARTY SINGH Guest |
#292011-02-18 16:50It seems interesting that the organisers have taken the IGU meeting to the infamous military school ,perhaps to show that any thing like brutal force to oppress is a phenomena that is bound to die out. but accademicia is not to be dictated as an demonostratve tool to prove something ,rather it requires conditions for thought and creativity that needs to be free of all such burdens of tremendous violation of Human rights and therefore explicit acknowledgment and commitment to discuss such issues at the venue/conference must surely be a prerequisite. A site like this must be avoided given its history until and unless there is such acknowledgment/commitment I join to call for an alternative venue for the IGU conference. |
Irene Molina Guest |
#30 Re:2011-02-19 01:54#29: NANDINI CHAKRAVARTY SINGH - Fantastic comments! Thanks all for all the immensly valuable support! Just a clarification: the military school has never been mentioned in any report by authorities, neither mlitar nor civil, as a place of torture and murder, although it has been well identified by two official reports on human rights violation. Other torture centra have been recognized and transformed into museums for the National Memory and Human Rights. But not the military School! That is why it is naive to believe that the UGI can wash the history away through one speech or two. That is a historical task for the chilean society in general and in this particular case for chilean geographers - many of them protesting through rejecting meet inside this place of horror. |
Sandra Fernandez Guest |
#31 :2011-03-02 15:02Hans,
Vives en Chile? Si es así, quisiera saber dónde estás. Yo trabajo en la UDEC Saludos fraternos
Sandra Fernández |
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