Prof. Mosquera gives paper at LAS meeting

Daniel Mosquera, assistant professor of  Spanish, presented a paper titled "El San Pacho quibdoceño: la crónica como espectáculo y el espectáculo como crónica" at the 2004 Latin American Studies Association Congreso at Las Vegas. Presented as part of a panel dealing with displaced peoples, this paper explores how an afro-descendent religious festival re-appropriates portions of regional history. It analyzes particularly the representation of a massacre of 119 members of the Chocoan community of Bojaya that took place in 2002 at the hands of guerrillas and paramilitary groups in order to problematize official histories of the event and to draw attention to realities of destitution and territorial loss in Colombia.