Central American Studies

International Women's Month: Celebrating Salvadoran Women in Social Justice and Memory

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 9:30am to 10:45am

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Zoom: Meeting ID 867 9202 7362

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International Women's Month: Celebrating Salvadoran Women in Social Justice and Memory

Elena Salamanca.  Salvadoran historian and writer residing in Mexico.

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Her lines of research are exile, citizenship, Mexico and Central America relations, history of political ideas, and history of women and memory.

Her academic books crossroads between artistic practices and political culture.  Women in Central America, 18th-21st centuries (Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala) and CONS-TELAR.  Coordinates, networks and interconnections of women in the visual culture of Central America and Mexico, 1921-2021 (Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador) will be published in autumn 2024 in Guatemala and El Salvador.

In literature, she has published three bilingual books, Maybe Monsters/Monsters Maybe (bilingual edition, Mouthfeel Press, United States 2022); Landsmoder (bilingual edition, Not a Cult Press, United States, 2022) and La familia o el olvido (bilingual edition, translation by Alexandra Lytton-Regalado, Editorial Kalina, El Salvador, 2017).  She is the creator, author, researcher and co-coordinator of the historical and scientific dissemination collection SIEMPREVIVAS.  Extraordinary women in the History of El Salvador (Editorial Kalina, El Salvador, 2022).

This event is co-sponsored by Central American and Transborder Studies, American Indian Studies, and the College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund.