Full professor Sociology Department Universidad Alberto Hurtado UAH
Director Center for Human Rights UAH
Principal researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy
Oriana Bernasconi work examines contemporary subjects and subjectivities, and how societies confront state violence and its legacies. Her research has focused specifically on the role that documentation of human rights violations and archives play in a society’s ability to deal with violent pasts.
The book “Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America. Documenting atrocity” (Palgrave, 2019) provides an in-depth analysis of the documentation, reporting, and resistance to state violence and how it affected civilians, activists, and victims in Chile and beyond.
Dr. Oriana Bernasconi will guide the Gender and Memory: Archives, Materialities and Affects workshop together with Dr. Tania Pérez Bustos from Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
