University of Victoria

PO Box 1700 STN CSC

Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4

Jan. 27:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at UVic film screening

Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 at the University of Victoria screening of Why Am I Here?, which follows the story of Victoria resident and child Holocaust survivor Julius Maslovat. UVic alumna Chorong Kim directed the documentary film that follows the journey of Maslovat, the youngest prisoner on record at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and the process Maslovat took to research his own past and to discover the people who helped keep him alive. The screening also marks the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The film’s executive producer, Germanic and Slavic Studies Associate Professor Helga Thorson, will moderate a Q&A with Maslovat after the screening.

What: Why Am I Here? followed by Q&A with Julius Maslovat

When: Monday, Jan. 27, 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Room 125, Engineering/Computer Science Building, University of Victoria

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

UVic is accessible by sustainable travel options including transit and cycling.

For those arriving by car, pay parking is in effect. Evening parking is $3.50.

Parking info and campus maps: www.uvic.ca/maps.

Helga Thorson

Associate Professor

Germanic and Slavic Studies

University of Victoria

T 250-721-7320

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Feb. 7:

Friday Feb. 7, 2-3 Sedgewick C168

"The Infrapolitics of Mexican Democratization: Three Episodes from the Life of an Indigenous Activist, 1980-2004"

Timo Schaefer (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Toronto)

Abstract: This talk is about the experiences of an indigenous democracy activist during the transition from dictatorial to democratic rule in late-twentieth century and early-twenty first century Mexico. Born into poverty in the indigenous hamlet of San Miguelito, Raúl Gatica was a leading presence in the indigenous social movements that during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s pushed Mexico¹s political elites toward gradual democratic reform. The talk highlights the clash between competing democratic imaginaries during Mexico¹s period of political reform andchallenges the perception that democratic reformers in Latin America shared a single understanding of what ³democracy² meant or how it should be achieved. By focusing on Gatica¹s ground-level experiences of regime repression and negotiation, furthermore, it describes the workings of an informal dimension of politics that is often ignored in standard accounts of Latin America¹s democratic transitions.

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Dr. Michelle Bonner, Professor

Department of Political Science

University of Victoria

Tel: 250-853-3561

Margo L. Matwychuk, PhD

Director, Social Justice Studies

c/o Dept of Anthropology

University of Victoria

PO Box 1700, STN CSC

Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2

Office: Cornett B210

PH: (250) 721-6283

FAX: (250) 721-6215

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