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Cristian Silva (MA Interdisciplinary Studies)
 
2009 & 2010 Fieldwork Updates

Cristian Silva (supervisor: Catherine Nolin) applied and was invited to participate as one of 20 students in a series of Master Classes on Human Rights as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2010 held at Concordia University in Montreal, 29 May 2010. 
 
In the Fall 2009, Cristian was in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the 5th Forensic Anthropology Congress of the Latin American Forensic Anthropology Association (ALAF) to present his paper: Silva, C. and C. Nolin (2009), "The exhumation of Margarita Telón Cún: Analysing the effects of the internal armed conflict in rural Guatemala.” 

Cristian Silva  
Cristian Silva (right) in Santiago, Chile with Dr. Cristian Orrego (California Department of Justice & the Medical Examiner's Office in Santiago, Chile) and Dra. Alejandra Jiménez (Program Coordinator for Human Rights, Medical Examiner's Office of the Chilean Ministry of Justice).
Photo credit: Cristian Silva


Forensic anthropology & gender violence
 
While in Chile to visit family in July 2009, I was invited by forensic anthropologist Dr. Eugenio Aspillaga to speak at the University of Chile about UNBC and my graduate research on femicide in Guatemala.
 
I also visited the University of Alberto Hurtado to meet with Dra. Elizabeth Lira -- a 2007 guest speaker at UNBC-- who researches the psychological effects of political violence.
 
Additionally, I was invited by Dra. Alejandra Jiménez (in photo above) for a week-long visit with the Medical Examiner’s Office in Santiago which is run by the Chilean Ministry of Justice.
 
 
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