“Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years After the El Salvador Peace Accords”

The conference “Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years After the El Salvador Peace Accords (1992-2007)” held at the Ransom Center April 17 -18.

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, in collaboration with the University of Texas’ Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Communication, Department of History, Harry Ransom Center and the Rothko Chapel of Houston, will center its Fourth Annual conference around the recent acquisition by the Harry Ransom Humanities Resource Center of a historic collection of photojournalistic work documenting El Salvador’s 12-year civil war. In the spirit of the Rapoport Center, the conference brings together a multidisciplinary group of academics, activists, artists and policy-makers to explore the relationship between the local and the global, as well as the economic and the political.