<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>I am sharing with you this email that I received. Please see below. </div><div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Juan G. Ramos<div>Director of Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies</div><div>Associate Professor of Spanish</div><div>College of the Holy Cross</div><div>1 College Street</div><div>Worcester, MA 01610</div><div>(508) 793-2607</div><div><a href="mailto:Jramos@holycross.edu">Jramos@holycross.edu</a></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chair of the <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/sections/ecuadorian-studies.aspx" target="_blank">Ecuadorian Studies Section</a> (LASA).<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Author of <a href="http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400240" target="_blank"><i>Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts</i>.</a> Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.<br><br>Co-editor of <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137603128" target="_blank"><i>Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures</i></a>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.</span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Mneesha Gellman <<a href="mailto:mneesha_gellman@emerson.edu">mneesha_gellman@emerson.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 11, 2019 at 12:13:51 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu">jramos@holycross.edu</a>, María Amelia Viteri <<a href="mailto:mviteri@usfq.edu.ec">mviteri@usfq.edu.ec</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Fwd: Expert Witness Section - call for additional signatures</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">Dear Dr. Ramos,</div><div class="gmail_attr">Maria Amelia mentioned that she though circulating the below could perhaps garner interest from the Ecuadorian Studies Section. I would be grateful if you'd be willing to send out to your list serve.</div><div class="gmail_attr">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_attr">Mneesha</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Though we have reached the requisite 75 signatures on our petition to start a new expert witness section, 20+ of those signatures were from folks without current LASA membership, or with memberships about to expire as of August 2019. We need 75 signatures from current members to found the section.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are a CURRENT LASA member and haven't signed, but would consider joining a new section on expert witnessing, please consider signing.</div><div><br></div><div>If you signed already, and have renewed your membership since August/Sept so that you are now a current member again, please email me so I can update that information on our petition.</div><div>Link: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_m4gNgCl2_frQzNseuai1rrhF3rM5bl16oRKV25qF8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_m4gNgCl2_frQzNseuai1rrhF3rM5bl16oRKV25qF8/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As a side note, if you are interested in issues of asylum, here is a link to a short article I just published today on The Conversation: <a href="https://theconversation.com/us-will-send-migrants-to-el-salvador-a-country-that-cant-protect-its-own-people-124475" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/us-will-send-migrants-to-el-salvador-a-country-that-cant-protect-its-own-people-124475</a></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Mneesha</div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mneesha Gellman</div><div><br>Associate Professor of Political Science<br>Director, Emerson Prison Initiative <br>Emerson College<br>Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies<br>120 Boylston Street<br>Boston, MA 02116-4624<br><br>email: <a href="mailto:mneesha_gellman@emerson.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mneesha_gellman@emerson.edu</a><br>phone: 1-617-396-6145<br>website: <a href="http://mneeshagellman.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://mneeshagellman.org</a><br><br>***Check out my new publications: <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">“</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">The
right to learn our (m)other tongues: indigenous</span><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><u><span style="font-size:13pt;color:white"> </span></u></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">languages
and neoliberal citizenship in El Salvador and Mexico</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">.”</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"> <i>British Journal of Sociology of</i></span><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><u><span style="font-size:13pt;color:white"> </span></u></b><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Education</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">, 40:4, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">2019, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">523-537</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17442222.2018.1457006" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17442222.2018.1457006</a></span></div>
<p style="margin:0in 40.95pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">“The Politics of Memory: What Future for Transitional Justice? <i>Latin
American Research Review</i>, <i>54</i>(2), 2019. 524–531: </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.460/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.460/</a></span></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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