August 2023
Washington DC
Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology, Invited Address: “Liberation Psychology & Challenges for 21st Century Activist Scholars: Ignacio Martín-Baró, Feminisms, and PAR
June 2022
U of Birmingham
Centering embodied persistence and sociality towards healing justice in the pluriverse. Invited Presentation, Online Conference: 'Why social ecologies matter: Thinking about conflict-related sexual violence and transitional justice through a resilience lens'.
March 2022
Online
Transitional Justice in Practice. Symposium: Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers. In Commemoration of International Women’s Day. Invited Presentation, with Saghar Sara Birjandian, Fatou Baldeh, and Veronika Hoelker
November 2021
San Francisco, CA
Persisting through Centering Identity and Transbordering Community: Guatemalan and Mayan Migrants Story Living in Boston College's Shadows, with Briana Diaz. Paper presentation and Symposium Chair, Critical Migration Scholarship, U of San Francisco
October 2021
Guatemala
Reimaginar el acompañamiento psicosocial: Centrar la socialidad encarnada de familias a través de las fronteras [Reimagining psychosocial accompaniment: Centering embodied sociality of transnational families]. Invited keynote address, Universidad Raphael Landivar.
July 2021
Puerto Rico
Inquietando a la psicología Euroamericana: Centrar la socialidad encarnada y la persistencia maya en el pluriverso [Unsettling EuroAmerican psychology: Centering embodied sociality and Mayan persistence in the pluriverse]. Invited address, Society of InterAmerican Psychology Award "Judith Gibbons"
April 2021
Baltimore, MD
Mayan Women's Creative Resistance and Protagonism: Redressing Gendered Racialized Violence. Invited keynote address. Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society: Protecting Civil Rights: Activism through Culture in the Americas. Loyola University Maryland.
November 2020
Puerto Rico
Niñez, marginalización y derechos humanos: Una mirada desde la psicología crítica. [Children, marginalization and human rights: A view from critical psychology]. Invited keynote address. Puerto Rican Psychological Association Annual Meeting.
April 2020
San Francisco, CA
Networked Learning to Expand Immigrants' and Refugees' Opportunities to Learn [Paper Session]. AERA Annual Meeting http://tinyurl.com/ue4prf3 with Martin Scanlan
July 2019
Guatemala
Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres Mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida [Beyond repair? Mayan women's protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm]. With Alison Crosby. Presentations, commentaries, and discussion in Guatemala City, Antigua, Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, Nebaj, Cobán, and Antigua Guatemala.
June 2019
Chicago, IL
Mapping lived experiences of Guatemalan and Mayan migrants in greater Boston. Poster Presentation with *Courtney Lloyd. Society for Community Research and Action, Biannual Meeting.
May 2019
Boston, MA
Justice-in-translation: Redressing racialized gendered harm in post-genocide Guatemala. Paper presentation with Alison Crosby, and Symposium Respondent. Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meeting.
October 2018
Santiago, Chile
Contesting priorities of/from the global north: Community psychology and feminist anti-racist participatory action research through dialogic relationality and reflexive praxis. Invited Keynote Address. 7th International Conference on Community Psychology.
September 2018
Temuco, Chile
Enhebrando relaciones sociales para la transformación de relaciones sociales en contextos de violencia e injusticia social: aportes desde la psicología comunitaria [Threading social relations for the transformation of contexts of violence and social injustice: Resources from community psychology]. Pre-Congreso, 7e Conferencia de la Psicología Comunitaria.
May 2018
Barcelona, Spain
Engaged activist scholarship with Maya Ixil and K'iche' women. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting.
June 2017
Albuquerque, NM
Listening to/form the global South: PAR reframes migration discourse. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Biennial Meeting.
June 2017
Ottawa, Canda
I am not going to stay with my arms crossed if I see another woman’s suffering[1]: Accompanying Maya protagonists through community-based activist scholarship post-genocide. Invited Speaker. 2017 Society for Community Research & Action Biennial Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action. [1] Q’eqchi’ Maya protagonist, June 2013
May 2017
Lima, Peru
Affective contestations: Engaging emotion in relation to sexual harm in postgenocide Guatemala. Co-author with Alison Crosby. Latin American Studies Association.
March 2017
Boston, MA
¿Can you ever go home again?: Accompanying cross-community women’s health promotion in post-Katrina New Orleans through feminist anti-racist participatory action research. Invited Address. VA Health Care Diversity-Inclusion Program
October 2016
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Académicos-activistas interdisciplinarias, migración y poblaciones mayas en movimiento: Contestando las amenazas en Guatemala y los EE.UU. post-11 de setiembre [Interdisciplinary activist-scholars, migration and Maya in movement: Challenging threats in Guatemala and the USA post 9/11]. Third International Seminar on Migration, University Rafael Landivar, Guatemala
May 2016
New York City, NY
Witnessing harm: Intermediary roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of sexual violence in Guatemala. Co-author with Alison Crosby. Latin American Studies Association.
April 2016
Lowell, MA
Gender and Violence: Exploring Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Invited Speaker & Workshop Facilitator. University of MA/Lowell.
November 2015
Santiago, Chile
Respondiendo a Desastres “No-naturales”: Investigación Activista Colaborativa con Promotoras Comunitarias de Salud Africanas Americanas y Latinas Post-Katrina. Invited Speaker. Universidad Alberto Hurtado
August 2015
Toronto, Canada
Picking up the pieces: Mayan women’s struggles for reparation in post conflict Guatemala. Co-author with Alison Crosby. American Psychological Association, Annual Meeting + Chair, Symposium.
August 2015
Toronto, Canada
Racialized and Gendered Violence against Mayan Families as Storied in their Migration Narratives. Co-author with Rachel Hershberg. American Psychological Association, Annual Meeting.
August 2015
Toronto, Canada
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Community-based activist scholarship across time and space. American Psychological Association, Annual Meeting
June 2015
Lowell, MA
Feminist Anti-racist Participatory Action Research with Maya Survivors of Sexual Violence in Postwar Guatemala. Co-author with Alison Crosby. Society for Community Research & Action, 15th Biennial Conference
May 2015
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Constructing knowledge at the interstices of community: Feminist participatory action research with Mayan and mestiza protagonists in Guatemala. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Co-author with Alison Crosby.
December 2014
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Procesos de acompañamiento a las mujeres Mayas sobrevivientes de violaciones de DDHH: Creatividad y Protagonismo [Accompanying Maya women survivors of human rights violations: Creativity and protagonism]. Invited Speaker. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Psicología.
December 2014
Cordoba, Argentina
Voces y silenciamiento de las mujeres: Del medioevo a la violencia contemporánea [Voices and silencing of women]. Invited Speaker. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y Universidad Católica de Córdoba.
December 2014
Boston, MA
Liberating psychology through pragmatic solidarity and activist scholarship: Walking the talk of Ignacio Martín-Baró’s Liberation Psychology. Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
November 2014
Boston, MA
Protecting all Children in the Commonwealth: Unauthorized migration, transnational families and giving thanks. Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA). Invited Speaker. Thanksgiving Luncheon, The Great Hall, Boston State House
July 2014
Salvador, El Salvador
Académicos-activistas, migración y poblaciones mayas en movimiento: San Niños y niñas en familias de estatus mixto y transnacionales [Activist Scholars, migration and Maya on the Move: Children in Mixed Status and Transnational Families. Invited Inaugural Address. Congreso Regional de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología [InterAmerican Psychological Association, Regional Conference]
May 2014
Cambridge, MA
Visual and Performative Strategies for Engaging and Transforming Silenced Pasts: Embodied Praxis and Creativity with Maya women. Invited Address. Psychosocial Dialogues: Film, Theory, and Practice, Psychosocial Work Group, Psychology and the Other Institute, Lesley University
May 2014
Chicago, IL
Reparation struggle of Mayan women survivors in postwar Guatemala. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Co-author, with Alison Crosby. And Discussant, Symposium: Continuties and Discontinuities of Racialized Gendered Violence Across Time and Space in Guatemala
March 2014
Carrollton, GA
Liberation Psychology & Feminist Participatory Action Research: Emancipatory Resources for Responding to Human Rights Violations Invited Address, 2014 Jim Klee Forum, U of West Georgia.
November 2013
Bogota, Colombia
Una mirada desde Procesos de Acompañamiento a las Mujeres Mayas en Guatemala. Invited Address, Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, Women’s Truth Commission, Colombia
November 2013
Boston, MA
Critically Engaging Community through Participatory Action Research: Generating Knowledge about Gendered, Racialized Violence. Invited Address, University of Massachusetts, Participatory Action Research Institute.
September 2013
Boston, MA
Ethical Ambiguities and Challenges to Informed Consent in Participatory Action Research with Unauthorized Migrants, Kalina Brabeck, First Author, and Erin Sibley, & Andrew Karberg. Third Annual Workshop in Applied Ethics, Frontiers of Informed Consent, Northeastern U.
August 2013
Honolulu, HI
Dismantling the Mainstream's House: Participatory Methods and Transformative Praxis From the Global Margins, 2013 APA International Humanitarian Award Invited Address, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting
August 2013
Honolulu, HI
Liberation Psychology: Limits and Possibilities of Transformative Praxis in the Wake of Armed Conflict. Ignacio Martín-Baró Lifetime Peace Practitioner Award, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting
May 2013
Washington D.C.
Performing border crossings: Deportees, community education, and the Feria Patronal Espíritu Santo, with Rachel Hershberg & Daniel Kanstroom. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting.
May 2013
Champaign, IL
“A limb was torn from my body when father left‟: Fathering in Transnational Mayan families, with Rachel Hershberg, First Author. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois.
April 2013
Miami, FL
Parents’ Perspectives on Parent-Child Communication about Detention and Deportation: Participatory Action Research with US-based Latino Migrants, with Kalina Brabeck. Invited Presentation. Council on Contemporary Families: Immigrant Families as they really.
April 2013
Miami, FL
Redefining Families: Transnational Girls Narrate Family Experiences of Immigration and Deportation, with Rachel Hershberg, First Author. Invited Presentation. Council on Contemporary Families: Immigrant Families as they really.
January 2013
Tucson, AZ
Engaging and transforming silenced pasts: Feminist participatory action research, embodied praxis, and creativity with Maya women. Invited Address. Center for Latin American Studies & Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, U of Arizona
November 2012
New Haven, CT
Understanding Migration's Effects on one Local Mayan Community: Mixed-Methods Exploration with K'iche' Families, with Erin McDonald, Megan Thomas & Kelsey Rennebohm. New England Council of Latin American Studies
November 2012
Amherst, MA
Transnational and Mixed-Status Guatemalan & Salvadoran Families Post 9/11: Critically Engaging Migration, Detention, & Deportation through Participatory Action Research. Invited Address in Series, Undocumented Migration and Criminalization in the Americas, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies
August 2012
Boston, MA
Addressing Psychosocial Effects of Human Rights Violations: Feminist Participatory Action Research and the Creative Arts in the US and Guatemala. Invited Keynote Address. Doctors for Global Health Annual Meeting.
May 2012
San Francisco, CA
Challenges in/to Feminist Participatory Accompaniment Processes with Indigenous Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in Guatemala, with Alison Crosby. Latin American Studies Association, Biannual Conference.
April 2012
Medford, MA
Home and the politics of conflict resolution: Palestinian and Mayan women create and sustain homeplace/homeland, with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. “Western and Non-Western Views on Conflict Resolution” Fletcher School, Tufts University
March 2012
W. Barnstable, MA
Mayan Women's Silence and Speech in Struggles for Truth and Justice. Invited Address, Honors Colloquium Lecture Series, Cape Cod Community College
February 2012
New York City, NY
Maya Women of Chajul Twenty Years Post-Peace Accords: Exploring Individual and Social Transformations through Images and Text. Eastern Sociological Association, Invited Symposium: Celebrating Elliot Mishler: Performing Stories
February 2012
Bilbao, Spain
Investigación Acción Participativa Feminista en contextos de Guerra y PosGuerra [Feminist Participatory Action Research in Contexts of War and Post-Conflict]. Invited Address. Hegoa Research and Documentation Center, U of Basque Country.
November 2011
Belfast, North Ireland
Creative methodologies as a resource for Mayan women’s protagonism. Invited Address. Trauma, development and peacebuilding: Towards an integrated psychosocial approach. INCORE: U of Ulster, with Alison Crosby
October 2011
Chestnut Hill, MA
Two Communities, One Voice: African-Americans and Latinas engage Participatory Action Research in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Presentation/ Opening Exhibit of PhotoPAR, with Luanne Francis and Holly Scheib. Institute for the Study & Promotion of Race and Culture & Center for Human Rights & International Justice
October 2011
Norton, MA
Mayan Women's Silence and Speech in the Struggles for Truth and Justice Invited Address. Wheaton College. Sponsored by Worldfest, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, the Women Studies Program and the Departments of Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology.
August 2011
Washington D.C.
Exploring the Effects of Detention and Deportation on Mixed-Status Transnational Families through Interdisciplinary through Participatory Action Research, with Juan Manuel Leon Parra & Yliana Johansen. American Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Paper Presentation and Symposium Organizer and Chair.
March 2011
Philadelphia, PA
Critical explorations of feminist and liberation psychologies for a globalizing world. Invited Address and Distinguished Publication Award 2010: Association of Women in Psychology, with Geraldine Moane
October 2010
Boston, MA
Cross-Community Leadership Development post-Katrina: Assessing Theory and Praxis through Narrative and Photography, with Holly Scheib. Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, Annual Conference 2010.
October 2010
Toronto, Canada
Claiming Subjectivity: An agenda for reparation for survivors of sexual violence., with Alison Crosby, First Author. Latin American Studies Association, Biannual Conference. Also Organized and Chaired Panel.
June 2010
Minneapolis, MN
Methodological challenges in participatory-action research with Central American immigrants. With Kalina Brabeck & Rachel Hershberg. The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations, President’s Interdisciplinary Conference 2010, U of Minnesota.
March 2010
Santa Cruz, CA
Transnational mixed-status families: Understanding experiences of detention and deportation with and through Guatemalan and Salvadoran narratives and community-based actions. Invited Address, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 2010
New York City, NY
The Legacy of Martín-Baró. Invited Address, The Graduate School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY: Celebrating the life Legacy of Ignacio Martín-Baró
November 2009
Boston, MA
“Because of my participation, I am not like I was before”: PAR, post-war, and local community. Invited Address, Journey Through Healing Project, Belfast, N. Ireland, Site Visit to Boston
October 2009
New London, CT
An Exploration of the Effects of Deportation Policies on Guatemalan & Salvadoran Immigrant Families. Documented Hispanic Migration on the Margins of a Dream. With Kalina M. Brabeck and Rachel Hershberg.
September 2009
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Activist scholarship, visual resources, and feminisms as resources for documenting and contesting gross violations of women’s and girls’ rights. Invited Address and participatory workshop, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
August 2009
Toronto, Canada
Participatory Action Research with Immigrant Families: Methodological Contributions, with Kalina Brabeck, First Author & Rachel Hershberg, American Psychological Association
July 2009
Guatemala
Las familias transnacionales: Enfrentando los efectos psicosociales de la Guatemala deportación y pos-deportación [Transnational families: Confronting the psychosocial effects of deportation and post-deportation]. With Kalina Brabeck. InterAmerican Psychological Association, Invited Address.
May 2009
Boston, MA
PAR & PhotoVoice as Resources in Post-Katrina New Orleans. OXFAM America, Invited Presentation.
May 2009
New York City, NY
Participatory Action Research as Life Project. Qualitative Methods and Social Critique. Invited Address . City University of New York, Graduate Center.
January 2009
New Orleans, LA
Participatory Action Research and Photo Voice in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Documenting experiences & developing cross-community leadership, with Shaula Lovera and Luanne Francis. APA Multicultural Summit.
November 2009
Dover, MA
“No easy road to freedom”: Engendering and enculturating forced migration. Invited Address. Deeper Causes of Forced Migration and Systemic Responses Human Rights of the Displaced in Ethical, Religious, and Political Perspectives, Boston College.
November 2008
Cambridge, MA
Activist scholarship, the visual, and gross violations of human rights: Documentation, critical analysis, and social change. Invited Address. Radcliffe Symposium: Emergent Seeing and Knowing: Mapping Practices of Participatory Visual Methods
September 2018
Delhi, India
Re-Theorizing Trauma and Development in War’s Wake: In Search of Psycho-Social-Development Praxis towards Transformation. Invited Address, Trauma, Development and Peacebuilding Project, ENCORE, U Ulster and IDRC
August 2008
Boston, MA
American Psychological Association Annual Convention.
Critical Reflections from the Field: Activist Scholarship for Social Transformation, Presenter.
Promoting Immigrant Women’s Resilience: Psycho-Sociopolitical Responses to Detentions and Deportations, Discussant
Community-Based Approaches and Health Promotion for Low-Income Immigrant Women, Discussant
June 2008
Philadelphia, PA
Immigrant Families’ Experiences of Deportation: Interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research as a Resource for Generating Understanding, Organizing, and Change, with Kalina Brabeck, First Author, Daniel Kanstroom, Mary Holper & Rachel Hershberg. Drexel U. Children and Immigration Conference
June 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa
Participatory Action Research, Human Rights, and Community Psychology: Challenges and Contradictions for Community-University Praxis. Invited Address. Advanced Lectures in Community Psychology Series, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand.
May 2008
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Interdisciplinary studies, activist scholarship, and human rights: Towards a globalized community-based psychology. Department of Psychology Colloquium, University of Stellenbosch.
April 2008
Lowell, MA
Activist scholarship, human rights, and community psychology. Invited Colloquium, Psychology Department, UMA/Lowell
March 2008
Boston, MA
Activist scholarship, human rights, and social justice: Possible contributions to a global, community-based psychology. Invited Address. Eastern Psychological Association, Society for Community Research and Action
December 2007
Cambridge, MA
Collaborative activist research, participatory photography, and the creative arts: Ethical dilemmas and the emergence of “girls as youth” in one rural Mayan community. Visible Rights: Photography as Art and Social Agency. Harvard University: HGSE & CAI.
October 2007
New Orleans, LA
Towards a psychology of liberation and transformation: Scholarship, activism, and pedagogy. Invited Address: Langer Award Lecture, The American Orthopsychiatric Association Symposia at the Institute on Psychiatric Services
September 2007
Montreal, Canada
Gender and Psychosocial. Approaches to Reparations Processes in Post- Conflict. Latin American Studies Association
August 2007
San Francisco, CA
American Psychological Association Annual Convention
Critical Explorations of Participation and Performance: Visually-infused Feminist/Activist Research
What are the Effects of Psychological Torture and Abuse? Invited address: Ethics and Interrogations: Confronting the Challenge Program
Multicultural-feminist community research in global perspective: Challenges to transformational praxis. With Kelly Rabenstein, Poster.
March 2007
Amherst, MA
Feminist-infused participatory action research and universal human rights: Challenges from field work in rural Guatemala and urban USA. Psychology of Peace & Prevention of Violence/Department Colloquium, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
October 2006
Chestnut Hill, MA
Racism, Resilience, and Refugees: Contributions of a human rights framework to community-based organizing, activism, and rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans, with Erzulie Coquillon. Diversity Challenge 2006: Do Immigrants Catch or Carry Race and Culture? Boston College
August 2006
New Orleans, LA
American Psychological Association Annual Convention
Liberation psychology challenges U.S. psychologists: Ethics, torture, and Guantánamo, with Joan Huser Liem. Invited Address. Symposium: Human Rights, Torture, and Professional Responsibility
Human Rights Discourse, Liberation Psychology, and U.S.-based Activism, with Erzulie Coquillon. Poster.
June 2006
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arte y Catastrophe: Las mujeres Maya Ixil de Chajul: Sufrimiento social pos-guerra y FotoVoz. International Society of Traumatic Stress and World Psychiatric Congress: Section on Disaster Intervention
June 2006
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prevención, Intervención y Reconstrucción en desastres: Reconstrucción y Salud Mental: Intervenciones psicosociales para la elaboración del trauma político, la generación de sujetos activos y nuevo entramado de realidades sociales. International Society of Traumatic Stress and World Psychiatric Congress: Section on Disaster Intervention
March 2006
Cambridge, MA
Narrating survival, representing gender: Interrogating the politics politics and praxis of feminist-infused participatory action research. Invited Address: 1st Annual Graduate Consortium Women’s Studies Conference: Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster
March 2006
Middleton, CT
Critical community praxis and feminist-infused participatory action research: Surviving war, crossing cultures, re-telling lives. Psychology Department Colloquium, Wesleyan University
March 2006
Hollins, VA
Hollins University, Founders Day. Invited Address: Looking for activists in unlikely places: One white Southern woman’s journey
August 2005
Washington D.C.
American Psychological Association. Annual Convention.
Lykes, M.B. & Lazarus, S. Indigenous and Euro-American psychologies: Resources and barriers for generating knowledge and practice. Paper presented in symposium: The globalization of psychology: Implications of the 2004 APA resolution on culture and gender awareness
Assessing cultures of peace: The case of Guatemala. Roundtable presentation and discussion
July 2005
Philadelphia, PA
Human Rights and Psychosocial Work; Case Examples from the Field. 2005 Summer Institute, Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
June 2005
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Narratives and representations of survival: The politics and praxis of action research and liberatory community psychology in a post-9/11 world. Invited Address. And, Discussant on Symposium: School Change and Participatory Action Research: Challenges and Encouragement. Society for Community Research and Action Biennial
October 2004
Boston, MA
Diversity Challenge 2004: Making Race and Culture Matter in Community-focused Interventions, Boston College
Critical issues in community-based collaborations: The politics and praxis of “crossing cultures” in participatory action research, Invited Address
Workshop presenter: Haitian women in action: Focus groups as a resource for developing women’s leadership, with Carline Desiré, Ruth Dube, Christie Menager, Rebecca Johnson
October 2004
Guatemala
1er Congreso Regional de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología. Taller/Workshop: Investigación acción participativa con mujeres en comunidades de pos-guerra: Una experiencia multicultural [Participatory action research with community women in post-war contexts], con Ana Caba Mateo y Gaspar Ijom Pacheco
August 2004
Honolulu, Hawaii
American Psychological Association
Liberation Psychology as Praxis: Innovative Responses to Human Rights Abuses, with Ramsay Liem & Maria de Jesus, Poster
Narrating the future, negotiating the past: Maya women’s storytelling and community survival. Paper presented in Symposium: Narrating war, re-storying lives: Korean and Guatemalan war survivors story the future
October 2003
Lewiston, Maine
Las mujeres Maya Ixiles: Trabajando para un futuro mejor [Maya Ixil Women: Working for a better future]; Human rights, war, and post-war reconstruction in local communities. Invited presentations. Bates College.
October 2003
Bellagio, Italy
Reparations in Post-war contexts: Reparations and Mental Health. Invited participant and presenter, International Centre for Transitional Justice, NYC, Bellagio Seminar.
October 2003
Washington D.C.
War’s violence against women and humanitarian aid: Ethical dilemmas from the field. Rethinking Gender and War, Psychologists for Social Responsibility Conference.
October 2003
Belfast, North Ireland
Reweaving community in “post-war” Guatemala: Mayan Ixil women, survival, and change. Invited presentation: Towards a Better Future Building Healthy Communities, North and West Belfast Health & Social Services Trust and the Eastern Health & Social Services Board.
August 2003
Toronto, Canada
American Psychological Association.
Presentation: Participatory Action Research and Cultural Psychology: Internationalizing Psychological Praxis in the 21st Century.
Interactive Symposium: Participant/Discussant. Towards a critical and liberatory psychology for a new millenium: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean. With Wanda Rodríguez Arocho
Chair and discussant: Psychology in the age of identity: One or many psychologies? With James Statman
July 2003
Philadelphia, PA
Local Women's Initiatives and Action Research: Workshop. 2003 Summer Institute, Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
April 2003
Cambridge, MA
“Because of my participation, I am not like I was before”: PAR, post-war, and local communities. Invited Address: Children, Families and Trauma: The World After 9-11. Sponsored by Harvard Children’s Initiative: Children’s Global Mental Health Working Group
March 2003
Washington D.C.
Constructing a Shared Social Meaning and Response to Terror-ism: Lessons from Ignacio Martín-Baró’s Liberation Psychology, with Maria De Jesus & Ramsay Liem. Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Social Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century. Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
January 2003
Ann Arbor, MI
Crossing cultures/building bridges/contesting power: Maya women of Chajul in post-war Guatemala. Invited Address: Symposium: Women in the Aftermath of War: Disruption, Displacement, and Refugees. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan.
October 2002
Guatemala
Taller/Workshop. Desarrollando respuestas a los efectos psicosocial de guerra: Capacitación de promotores de salud mental [Developing responses to the psychosocial effects of war: Training for Mental Health Promoters]. GTZ-ECAP-USAC
August 2002
Chicago, IL
American Psychological Association Meeting
Presentation: Truth and Reconciliation: Re-threading Community in Trauma's Wake
Discussant for invited address: Purification and power: The psycho-political roots of religious terrorism, by Richard Rubenstein
Discussant for Moderated Poster Discussion Session: Global Perspectives in Social Justice and Terrorism
July 2002
Chestnut Hill, MA
Multicultural education: Lessons from war zones. For the University of the Middle East – Boston College, July 2002. Invited Presentation
July 2002
Orono, Maine
Conference on Personal and Community Reconstruction, Resilience, and Empowerment in times of Ethnopolitical Violence. Psychologists for Social Responsibility. Participant and presenter.
July 2002
Guatemala
Reconfiguración psicosocial [Psychosocial reconstruction]. Quinto Encuentro (3 días). Maestria: Psicología social y violencia política [Lectures for 3 days in MA: Social psychology and political violence] Universidad de San Carlos y ECAP
July 2002
Guatemala
Taller. Enfrentando los efectos psicosocial de guerra: Capacitación de promotores de salud mental [Workshop: Confronting the psychosocial effects of war: Training for Mental Health Promoters]. GTZ
June 2002
Toronto, Canada
(De)constructing terror-isms: Toward a theory and practice informed by Ignacio Martín-Baró’s liberation psychology, with Maria De Jesus. 4th Conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI): Understanding and Addressing Disparities: International Approaches
June 2002
Johannesburg, South Africa
Participatory Action Research: An introductory workshop – 1 week. University of the Witwatersrand, CHESP program
June 2002
Johannesburg, South Africa
Community Psychology Workshop – 1 week. MA Program, University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development
May 2002
Madrid, Spain
Niños/as en situaciones de violencia política: Psicología comunitaria Diploma en Salud Mental en situaciones de violencia política y catástrofes. [Children in situations of political violence: Community psychology. Two day workshop in Mental Health in Situations of Political Violence and Catastrophe Diploma Program].
November 2001
Johannesburg, South Africa
Creativity as a Resource in Community-based Work: Experiences of War and Peacemaking in Guatemala. Healing through Creative Arts, EED and CSVR. Invited Address.
October 2001
New Orleans, LA
Bridges to Justice: Building Community in a Global World. Academy of the Sacred Heart, Invited Address.
September 2001
San Sebastian, Donastia, Euskadi
La experiencia de Suráfrica e Irlanda del Norte: Un enfoque psicosocial. [South Africa and the North of Ireland: A psychosocial analysis]. Violencia, Apoyo a las Víctimas y Reconstrucción Social. Experiencias Internacionales y el desafío vasco [Violence, Victim Support, and Social Reconstruction: International experiences and the Basque challenge]. Ponencia invitada [Invited Address] Universidad del Pais Vasco.
October 2000
Kleinmond, South Africa
Convenor: Workshops on Participatory Action Research and on Community Psychology in South-South Dialogue, 10 day workshop/conference. Best practices in confronting globalization and state-sponsored political violence. 40 participants from Asia, Africa & Latin America.
September 2000
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fronteras, territorios y límites de la identidad [Frontiers, territories and limits of identity]. Ponencia principal. Taller Regional sobre “El Derecho a la Identidad de Niños y Adolescentes” en el MERCOSUR, Implicancias y Recomendaciones [Invited Address, Regional workshop on “Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights to Identity” in the MERCOSUR, Implications and Recommendations].
September 2000
Guatemala
Reflexiones sobre los procesos de crear Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. [Reflecions on the proceses of creating Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul]. Invited Address at book presentation/launching.
May 2000
Lenasia, Johannesburg, South Africa
Participatory Action Research as a Resource in Reconciliation Processes. Social and Health Sciences Seminar Series, Centre for Peace Action, UNISA
March 2000
Johannesburg, South Africa
Moving beyond counselling: Challenges in dealing with the impact of large scale political trauma - Guatemala. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
September 1999
Johannesburg, South Africa
A critical re-reading of PTSD from a cross-cultural/community perspective. Fifth Annual Qualitative Research Conference: Normality and pathology in late 20th century South Africa.
August 1999
Boston, MA
Social class, subjectivity, and activism: Challenges to Psychological Practice, Co-organizer of Symposium, Chair & Discussant. American Psychological Association Annual Meeting.
July 1999
St. John's, Canada
Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights. Invited Address. Reconstructing Health Newfoundland Canada. Psychology: International Conference on Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Health Psychology
June 1999
Portadown, Northern Ireland
Creative workshop: Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community, III, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland & the Residents’ Association, Portadown, with Deahdra Butler- Henderson
March 1999
Boston, MA
Urban Migrant/Immigrant Youth as Action Researchers: Building Participatory Responses Through Collaboration, with Angela Shartrand, Faustino Cruz, Bethy Joana Verano, Clara Ruiz. Boston Symposium on Youth Development
March 1999
Boston, MA
Participatory Action Research & Community Photography: Cross Border Collaborations for a Better Future among Maya Ixil Women, with Ana Caba Mateo and Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. UMA/Boston; Boston College
March 1999
Storrs, CT
Rethreading community among Maya Ixil Women: Collaborative Re-presentations of Survival and Change. Invited Address, with Ana Caba Mateo and Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. University of Connecticut, Women and Gender Conference.
March 1999
New York City, NY
Participatory Photography and Action Research: Cross Border Collaborations in Post-War Guatemala, with Ana Caba Mateo and Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.
August 1998
San Francisco, CA
Recrafting stories: Collaborative Representations of Survival as Ixil women, II. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association.
With Lisa R. Jackson, Bridgitte de la Cruz, Faustino Cruz, Angela Shartrand, and Kalina Brabeck. Diversifying Participatory Action Research Teams: Implications for the Research Process. Paper.
June 1998
Johannesburg, South Africa
Re-membering Bodies, Re-threading Lives: Culture and Ceativity in Trauma’s Wake. University of Witwatersand.
May 1998
Boston, MA
Creative Resources for Working with Survivors of Organized Violence and Oppression in a Context of Ongoing Fear, Training Workshop with members of WAVE Trauma Center. PeaceWatch Ireland and Boston College, with Deahdra Butler-Henderson.
January 1998
Portadown, Northern Ireland
Creative workshop: Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community, II, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland, AISLING, and the Residents’ Association, Portadown, with Deahdra Butler-Henderson.
December 1997
Brookline, MA
Anthropological and cultural perspectives on the adaptation to trauma, Trauma Center Lecture Series, Arbour-HRI Hospital.
August 1997
Chicago, IL
American Psychological Association.
Presentation: Recrafting stories: Collaborative re-presentations of survival among Ixil women.
Women and peacebuilding – Global, cultural, and gender perspectives. Discussant.
With Faustino Cruz, Alice McIntyre & Angela Shartrand. Engaging in participatory action research: Being both insider and outsider.
Constructing selves in transition – Women crossing economic and geographic borders. Chair of session
April 1997
Portadown, Northern Ireland
Creative workshop: Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community, I, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland and AISLING, and the Residents’ Association, Portadown, with Deahdra Butler-Henderson.
March 1997
Chestnut Hill, MA
Culture, ethnicity and violence: Mayan threads for weaving meanings of war and survival. Boston Area Culture Workshop, Boston College.
November 1996
Worcester, MA
Recovering memory and re-constructing community: Peacemaking in Guatemala. Invited Address, Violence, Non-Violence, and Conflict Resolution Program, Assumption College.
June-July 1996
Guatemala
Taller sobre salud mental desde una perspectiva multicultural. [Workshop on mental health from a multicultural perspective], Redd Barna, Hotel Conquistador Ramada.
June 1996
Guatemala
Taller sobre el manejo del stress en el proceso de paz [Workshop on stress in the peace process for NGO workers], Redd Barna
May 1996
Cambridge, MA
Truth commissions in the process of peace making and democratization. Harvard Law School--Human Rights Program of World Peace Foundation. Invited participant of working symposium. Proceedings published.
April 1996
New York City, NY
Participatory action research and the university: Democratizing teaching and learning, with Alice McIntyre & Pat Calderwood. AERA Annual Meeting.
December 1995
Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston College Baccalaureate Address.
November 1995
Boston , MA
Thinking culturally about children in contexts of state-sponsored violence and war. Invited presenter, Developmental and Behavioral Advocacy Seminar, Boston City Hospital.
October 1995
Boston, MA
Reflections on Anti-racist teaching in the Boston College environment. Presentation, Interdisciplinary Studies Potluck Supper, Boston College.
August 1995
New York City, NY
Contrasting images, contrasting realities: Violence, youth and identity. Chair, organizer and discussant, American Psychological Association.
August 1995
New York City, NY
Speaking against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return. Invited Presenter, American Psychological Association.
August 1995
New York City, NY
Dialogue on gender, race, ethnicity and coping. Invited Discussant, American Psychological Association.
March 1995
Boston, MA
Guatemala: Mayan reality in an ongoing struggle. Community Church Center, with Gregorio Tum.
February 1995
Boston, MA
Cultural perspectives on the construction of self. Symposium discussant, Boston Area Cultural Psychology Forum and Boston College Psychology Department Forum.
October 1994
Boston, MA
Community-based interventions for child survivors of war. National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
September 1993
Germany
Continuities and discontinuities in war against the Maya: Terror and voice among child survivors. Invited Address. Congress on Children, War, and Persecution.
August 1993
Toronto, Canada
Speaking against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return. American Psychological Association.
August 1993
Toronto, Canada
Human rights and refugee issues. Invited Participant, Conversation Hour, American Psychological Association.
August 1993
Toronto, Canada
Religious identity and community in adaptation to political violence. Invited discussant, American Psychological Association.
July 1993
Santiago, Chile
Effects of war on children in Central America. Invited Address, InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXIV Congress.
July 1993
Santiago, Chile
Consecuencias psicológicas y sociales de la represión política y la guerra en niños y jóvenes de cuatro países Latinoamericanos [Psychological and social consequences of political repression and war in children and youth of four Latin American countries]. InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXIV Congress.
July 1993
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Relaciones de poder y género en la generación de testimonios y narraciones: Perspectivas de una científica social [Relations of power and gender in testimonies and narratives: A social scientist’s perspective]. Cátedra de Psicología Política y el Seminario de Ética y Derechos Humanos. Invited Address, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires.
April 1993
Chestnut Hill, MA
Children and war: The effects of state violence on our world’s youth. Faculty/Student Discussion. Amnesty International, Boston College.
March 1993
Boston, MA
Participatory action research with Maya children and youth in Guatemala. Invited Address, Adult Education Series, Boston University.
October 1992
Chestnut Hill, MA
Children and violence. 40th Anniversary Celebration School of Education, Boston College.
September 1992
Los Angeles, CA
Red de derechos humanos y salud mental: Una experiencia de colaboración entre profesionales de ciencias sociales de America Latina y USA: Intercambio científico y solidaridad activa [Networks in human rights and mental health - A collaboration between Latin American and U.S. social scientists: Scientific exchange and solidarity]. Latin American Studies Association, XVI International Congress.
August 1992
Washington D.C.
Thinking through ethnicity and gender: Crafting community amidst structural violence. American Psychological Association Centennial Convention.
May 1992
Washington D.C.
The ethics and politics of treatment of war-traumatized children. Invited Address, Coalition of Children-in-War and Communal Violence.
April 1992
Chestnut Hill, MA
Play, creativity, and human rights: Developing work with children in situations of organized violence, with Luciano Suardi. School of Education, Boston College.
April 1992
Chestnut Hill, MA
Justice for children at risk: Training mental health workers in a context of state-sponsored violence, Annual Conference, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
April 1992
Ann Arbor, MI
State-sponsored terror and women's rights: Voices from Latin America. Invited Address: Celebrating 20 years of Women's Studies at Michigan, University of Michigan.
April 1992
Corpus Christi, TX
Terror, silence, and voice: Participatory action research with Maya children and youth in Guatemala. Invited Address, Psi Chi: The National Honor Society in Psychology, Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention.
January 1992
San Salvador, El Salvador
Psicología comunitaria: Perspectivas alternativas para la práctica de la psicología hacia la paz [Community psychology: Alternative strategies for the practice of psychology in the process of peace]. Workshop, Department of Psychology, Central American University, José Simeón Cañas.
December 1991
Bronx, NY
Children and war in Guatemala, Invited Address followed by workshop, Fordham University, Campus Ministry.
November 1991
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cuestiones éticas en la investigación psicológica: Algunos interrogantes sobre las relaciones entre la ciencia y la política [Ethical questions and psychological research: Exploring relations between science and politics]. Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires.
November 1991
Santiago, Chile
Trabajando para un futuro mejor: Talleres creativos con niños en una situación de guerra [Working for a better future: Creative workshops for children in contexts of war]. International Conference on Centres, Institutions and Individuals concerned with the Care of Victims of Organized Violence: Mental Health, Political Repression, and Human Rights
June 1991
Tempe, AZ
Community approaches to mental health care for children of war: International, multidisciplinary collaboration in action-research. Invited Address, Third Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, Division 27, American Psychological Association.
November 1990
Boston, MA
Reflections commemorating the continuing struggle of the Salvadoran people. November, 16, 1990. Invited Address, Boston College. Searching the Silence: In Commemoration of the November 16 Assassinations at the University of Central America, San Salvador, 1989.
October 1990
Boston, MA
Caring for Guatemalan Indian children of war: Mental health strategies Invited Address, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College.
October 1990
Kingston, RI
Children of war: Some examples from Latin America. Invited Address, University of Rhode Island's 1990 Honors Colloquium lecture series, Defining Human Rights and Responsibilities.
August 1990
Boston, MA
Community approaches to mental health care for children of war: Guatemalan Indian children. American Psychological Association.
August 1990
Boston, MA
Psychology in active conflict situations: A tribute to Ignacio Martín-Baró. American Psychological Association.
March-April 1990
National speaking USA tour in universities, health clinics, research centers, and solidarity groups With Gustavo Esteban Costa. Washington, DC; Amherst and Boston, MA; Ann Arbor, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Bay Area, CA; Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX. Organized by the Mental Health Committee of the Boston Committee for Health Rights in Central America and local faculty and students. Presentations included: Mental Health and Human Rights: Terror and the Practice of Psychology in Latin America; Guatemalan Indian Children of War: International, Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Action-Research in Psychology.
November 1989
San Jose, Costa Rica
El bocón y el azul: Niños guatemaltecos y la prevención en salud mental [Guatemalan children and preventative mental health]. International Conference of Centres, Institutions, and Individuals Concerned with the Care of Victims of Organized Violence: Mental Health, Political Repression and Human Rights.
November 1989
San Jose, Costa Rica
Red comunitaria en salud mental y derechos humanos. [Community-based networks in mental health and human rights]. International Conference of Centres, Institutions, and Individuals Concerned with the Care of Victims of Organized Violence: Mental Health, Political Repression and Human Rights.
October 1989
Wellesley, MA
Children of war: Guatemala and Argentina. Invited Address. Symposium: Enlightened Collaboration: Technology and Human Rights, Wellesley College.
September 1989
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Experimentación con niños: Cuestiones éticas y psicológicas relativas al cambio e identidad y a la parentalización forzada [Experimentation with children: Ethical and psychological issues surrounding identity within the context of forced adoptions]. With Juan Jorge Fariña, J. J. Simposio Ética para La Situación Contemporánea, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, University of Buenos Aires.
June 1989
Buenos Aires, Argentina
El género y las bases colectivas o individualistas para la construcción de la noción del self [Gender and collectivist and individualist bases for the construction of notions of the self]. InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXII Congress.
June 1989
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Los niños y la familia guatemalteca ante la guerra [Children and the Guatemalan family in contexts of war]. InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXII Congress.
June 1989
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Construyendo una Red de salud mental y derechos humanos: Análisis y respuesta a las consecuencias del terrorismo de Estado [Building a network in mental health and human rights: Responding to state-sponsored terror]. InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXII Congress.
April 1989
Kingston, RI
Psychosocial trauma in a situation of war: Guatemalan Indian children (and North American psychology), Invited address, University of Rhode Island.
January 1989
San Francisco, CA
Creating an international Network in Mental Health and Human Rights, co‑hosted with the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, Office of Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. Coordinator and presenter.
November 1988
Boston, MA
Violence and psychosocial trauma in Guatemala. American Public Health Association Annual Meetings.
August 1988
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Desarrollo en la investigación de identidad femenina [Research on gender and identity: A review of the literature]. Invited Address, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires.
August 1988
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Violencia y subjetividad en mujeres guatemaltecas [Violence and subjectivity in Guatemalan women]. Invited Address in series: Ciclo de charlas sobre la violencia, Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental.
August 1988
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Charla: Identidad femenina [Gender and identity]. Invited Address. Lugar de Mujer.
March 1988
New York City, NY
Conceptualizing women's sense of self: Theoretical and methodological issues in cross‑cultural research. Invited Address. New School for Social Research.
March 1998
New Orleans, LA
Guatemalan Indian children of war, Latin American Studies Association, XIV International Congress.
January 1988
Paris, France
Mental health issues in the context of war: Perspectives from Central America. Institut Santé et Developpement, Université de Paris.
October 1987
South Hadley, MA
Psychological perspectives on stereotyping. Invited Address. Mt. Holyoke College.
July 1987
Havana, Cuba
Intentionality and survival among Guatemalan Indian women refugees. InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXI Congress.
June 1987
New York City, NY
Perspectives on mental health issues in Central America: Experiences of Guatemalan Indian women refugees. National Central America Health Rights Network Annual Meeting.
June 1987
Boston, MA
Victimization and resistance: Challenges to cross‑ cultural collaborative research. Working Conference, Mental Health Committee, Boston Committee for Health Rights in Central America.
October 1986
Lowell, MA
Roundtable: Theoretical and methodological issues in community psychology: Perspectives gained from collaboration with Latin American psychologists, with R. Liem. Northeast Regional Community Psychology Conference.
October 1986
Boston, MA
Issues of self and community among Guatemalan Indian refugees. New England Psychological Association.
October 1986
Boston, MA
The will to resist: Preservation of self and culture in Guatemala. Latin American Studies Association.
August 1986
Washington D.C.
The preservation of culture and intentionality among Guatemalan refugees. American Psychological Association.
April 1986
Amherst, MA
Individuality and sociality in conceptions of the self. New England Psychological Association, University of Massachusetts.
November 1985
Newton, MA
Collective bases for notions of the self. Feminist Ethics Consultation.
August 1985
Los Angeles, CA
I. Psychology in Latin America: Responding to current realities; II. Dialogue with Latin American psychologists. Coordinator of invited symposium and chair of dialogue, with R. Liem. American Psychological Association.
March 1985
Boston, MA
Feminist research group: Theory and practice in action, With Amaro, H., Espin, O., Fearey, M., Lykes, M. B., Mulvey, A., Obler, L., Reinharz, S. Eastern Psychological Association.
March 1985
Boston, MA
Autonomous individualism and social individuality: Alternative understandings of the self. Eastern Psychological Association.
August 1984
Toronto, Canada
Collective action and the development of social individuality in women. American Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 251 729.
August 1983
Anaheim, CA
Evaluating the feminist challenge in psychology: 1963-1983, with Abigail J. Stewart. American Psychological Association.
April 1983
Philadelphia, PA
Discrimination in the lives of older Black women. Eastern Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 244 168.
April 1983
Philadelphia, PA
Assessing ideology: The influence of fundamental belief systems on social and political opinions, with William Ryan & B. Bertner. Eastern Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 241 399.
March 1983
Cambridge, MA
Racism and sexism in the lives of Black women: A social science analysis using oral history data. Presented in symposium: Documenting the lives of older Black women: The use of oral history and a social science analysis. Radcliffe College.
August 1982
Washington D.C.
Studying the effects of early experience on women’s career achievement, with Abigail J. Stewart. American Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 225 072.
March 1982
Durham, NH
Black women in social context: New directions, with Althea Smith. Colloquium, New England Social Psychological Association, University of New Hampshire.
May 1981
Cambridge, MA
Educated women's career patterns: Separating developmental and social change, with Abigail J. Stewart. Colloquium, Henry A. Murray Center, Radcliffe College.
April 1981
New York City, NY
Control and aspirations in adolescents: A comparison by race and sex, with Abigail J. Stewart and Marianne LaFrance. Eastern Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 212 948.
February 1981
Boston, MA
Racism and alternative women’s educational programs: Developing feminist and anti-racist programs, with Joan Martin and Nancy D. Richardson. New England Women's Studies Association