Many bloggers and other readers end up on this site looking for information on Baltasar Garzón. I am now accepting proposals on Judge Garzón for a Special Session panel at the Midwest MLA (Modern Language Association), to be held in St. Louis in November 2011. For more information on the conference, please click here.
Baltasar Garzón: International Justice on Trial
This panel explores the figure of Judge Baltasar Garzón as a metaphor for post-dictatorial justice in Spain and Latin America. Seen alternately as an advocate for human rights or as a celebrity “activist judge,” many argue Garzón has displaced the cause of the very victims he purports to defend. From his orchestration of the Pinochet arrest to his failed attempt to investigate Francoist-era crimes, Garzón remains at the center of an ideological battle over the narrative reconstruction of the dictatorial past. This panel examines Garzón’s portrayal by self or others in journalism, film or new media, especially with regard to the construction of a transnational memory culture and the practice of citizenship in democratic societies. Papers welcome in English or Spanish.
Please submit 250-word abstracts as email attachments to Kathy Korcheck by June 3, 2011.
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