Dr. Barbara Sutton, associate professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies at University at Albany, will make the keynote speech for the annual Spanish Colloquium at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in 114 Marano Campus Center.
The colloquium -- formally titled the Fifth Colloquium on Hispanic Literature and Culture -- will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to host and moderator Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti of the modern languages and literatures faculty.
Sutton will deliver a presentation drawing on research for her recently published book, "Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina." Based on oral testimonies of women who survived clandestine detention centers during a period of state terrorism in Argentina (1976–83), her talk will illuminate the gendered and embodied forms of trauma that women endured, while also highlighting their historical and political agency. Her talk will also draw on the urgent lessons that women survivors offer to a world that continues to grapple with atrocities. In the words of pioneering scholar of gender and militarization Cynthia Enloe, the book “reveals how our listening to these women is crucial for sustainable democracy.”
Also affiliated with the departments of sociology and of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino studies at UAlbany, Sutton earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, her country of origin, as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Her 2010 book, "Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina," received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association.