Dr. Giovanni Batz
Dr. Giovanni Batz (Assistance Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies) has researched and published on Maya history, culture, society, and identity, extractivist industries in Guatemala, and Guatemalan-Maya transnational migration to the US. He was a 2020-2022 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a 2018-2019 Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Batz was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University in Ohio, and New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
Dr. Batz has served as an expert witness in asylum cases. He has been featured, interviewed or quoted in several media outlets such as Democracy Now!, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Border Report, the Nation, among others. Most recently, he was intereviewed and participated in the documentary Borderland: The Line Within (Skylight 2024).
Despite the end of the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), land and structural inequalities and state-sponsored violence continue to be daily realities for most Guatemalans and Indigenous Peoples. Maya communities that suffered massacres during the war, are those impacted by extractivist industries today, and who have some of the highest migration rates. This presentation examines Guatemala in an era of increasing extractivist violence that has seen Mayas seek refuge, asylum and exile abroad.
Wydarzenie można zaliczyć w ramach programu OSA:
- Opiekun: Dr Justyna Budzik
- Liczba godzin OSA: 2 godziny
- Forma zaliczenia: sporządzenie krótkiej notatki w języku polskim lub angielskim (max. 500-600 znaków), dotyczącej tematyki wykładu i przesłanie jej dr Justynie Budzik do 23.04.26. Notatki wysłane po tym terminie nie będą przyjmowane. Podpisy na Kartach będą składane w czasie dyżurów dr Justyny Budzik.