Memory’s Turn: Culture and Transitional Justice in Brazil

Presented by Brazil Initiative Visiting Scholar Rebecca Atencio, Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Tulane University. In 2012, Brazil inaugurated a truth commission to investigate cases of torture, murder and disappearance during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985). Atencio proposes a theory about how cultural works interact with policies related to human rights memory and presents an argument for why analyses of such policies need to take cultural production into account.