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Memory and Erasure in US Highway Femicides: A Conversation with Professor Brigittine French

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Red Interamerican Anti Femicida (RIAF)
Date
Apr 30, 2021   12:00 pm  
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*This event will be in English with simultaneous Spanish translation/Este evento sera en ingles con interpretacion simultanea a castellano*

Using an unsolved murder of a young white woman in the United States in 1992 as a situated point of entry, French considers interventions of feminist, human rights, and Indigenous scholars in the global South to discuss current research about the systematic murder of women as a gendered form of violence in the United States. French argues that so-called “highway homicides'' demonstrate clear characteristics of femincide as a gendered crime of violence, the persistent inadequacies of state agencies to solve them, and the erasure of such gendered crimes from the politics of counting. It considers some of the ways that memories of lethal gendered violence against women produce a culture of fear in which women are rendered chronically at risk in the foreseable future.

Brigittine French is a feminist linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on violence, testimony, collective identities, and conflict. She is currently Assistant Vice President of Global Education and Professor of Anthropology at Grinnell College.

“Memoria y Olvido en Feminicidios de la Carretera de los EEUU”

A partir de un femicidio sin resolver de una joven mujer blanca en los Estados Unidos en 1992 como un punto de entrada, esta presentación considera las intervenciones de académicos feministas, de derechos humanos e Indígenas en el Sur global para discutir la investigación actual sobre el asesinato sistemático de mujeres como una forma de violencia de género en los Estados Unidos. Sostiene que los denominados “homicidios de carretera” demuestran claras características del feminicidio como un delito de violencia de género, las persistentes deficiencias de las agencias estatales para resolverlos y el borrado de tales delitos de género de la política del conteo. Considera algunas de las formas en que las memorias de la violencia letal de género contra las mujeres producen una cultura del miedo en la que las mujeres corren un riesgo crónico en el futuro previsible.

Brigittine French es una antropóloga lingüística feminista cuyo trabajo se centra en la violencia, el testimonio, las identidades colectivas y el conflicto. Actualmente es vicepresidenta asistente de educación global y profesora de antropología en Grinnell College.

Sponsored by The Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Red Interamerican Anti Femicida (RIAF)

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