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SUMMARY:The Dominican Wake: Contradictions of the Human and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic with Dr. Génesis Lara
DESCRIPTION:As a part of the Sovereignty & Solidarity Fall Speaker Series\, the Huerta Center is thrilled to host Dr. Génesis Lara from UC-Irvine to speak on topics related to her upcoming book.  \nThe May 1961 assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo propelled the Dominican Republic into the center stage of Cold War Caribbean geopolitics. This presentation places the Organization of American States (OAS) human rights inspection of the Dominican Republic in contrast to the writings of Dominican women to showcase the limitations of hemispheric entities of human rights in the Caribbean. The paper argues that in the absence of public platforms for truth and reconciliation\, the strategic employment of human rights and maternalism on behalf of Dominican women sought to hold the Dominican state accountable for state violence. Through the close reading of personal correspondence and state memoranda\, I examine how varying definitions of human were utilized by Dominican women to extract specific demands from Dominican officials. This presentation also examines the ways conservatism and rising Dominican radicalism influenced the demands women made of the state. Critically\, this paper excavates the central role of Dominican women in hemispheric development of human rights and reconciliation to argue for its inclusions in evaluations of the legacies of the Cold War radicalism in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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SUMMARY:Archaeobotany of an Ainu Kotan: from Ethnographic Trope to Empirical Data
DESCRIPTION:Anthropology Lunch Talk with Emanuele Guglielmini — October 21st at 12 noon in Rm 261\, Social Sciences 1. \nAbout the talk:. Located at the northern edge of the Japanese archipelago\, the island of Hokkaido is often framed as the country’s untouched natural frontier. Its Indigenous inhabitants\, the Ainu people\, have long been a source of fascination in Western anthropological discourse\, in large part due to their distinct way of living that\, at the onset of Japanese imperialist expansion\, set them apart from the mainland Japanese. Despite decades of research on Ainu ethnography and history in Japan and in the West\, the image of the Ainu as a primitive\, non-agrarian society has solidified into scientific truth — they are one of several textbook examples of complex hunter-gatherers. \nThis talk takes an opposite stance to the characterization of Ainu subsistence\, rooted in a growing body of archaeobotanical evidence that tells a different story\, centered on farming and intentional ecosystem engineering. Recently acquired data\, in the form of macrobotanical remains from a kotan\, an Ainu village (ca. 1600–1800 CE)\, are presented and their ecological significance\ndiscussed. The case study offers an example of the value of plants in archaeological scholarship\, while also delving into the difficulties associated with identifying species from a fragmentary record. \n  \nAbout the speaker: Emanuele Guglielmini is a doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of California\, Berkeley’s Anthropology department. Trained in archaeobotany and plant science\, he investigates the subsistence history of the Ainu\, the Indigenous people of northern Japan. His dissertation focuses on the study of macrobotanical remains\, wood charcoal and seeds\, from the sites of Karinba and Karinba-1 in central Hokkaido. One of the central questions he explores at these sites is the relationship between human subsistence and external social and environmental disturbances\, including climate\, demography\, and the pressures of settler colonialism. His work has been generously supported by the University of California\, Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies\, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, and the United States National Science Foundation. At Berkeley\, he enjoys teaching archaeobotany to undergraduates alongside conducting his research. He is expected to complete his PhD in the spring of 2027.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/archaeobotany-of-an-ainu-kotan-from-ethnographic-trope-to-empirical-data/
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