Pervuvian writer, anthropologist, and editor Karina Pacheco will discuss her books The Year of the Wind and Niños del pájaro azul and will be joined by Gisela Ortiz, human rights activist and former Secretary of Culture of Peru.

The event will also feature a photography exhibit by Percy Rojas related to human rights and justice.The book/photo event is part of “Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting: An Itinerant Gathering of Literature, Documentary Film, and Photography on Memory and Justice in Peru” a project to foster public conversations about memory and justice regarding the political violence Peru experienced between the 1980s and 2000s.

Karina Pacheco: Peruvian writer, anthropologist, and editor. Author of The Year of the Wind and Niños del pájaro azul. Her fiction explores memory, violence, and everyday life in the Andes and the Amazon, and her novels consistently interweave memory, human rights, and gender, linking intimate experiences with collective conflicts.
Gisela Ortiz: Longtime Peruvian human rights activist and Director of Operations of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF), with decades of work alongside families searching for the disappeared. She is also a former Secretary of Culture of Peru and hosts the podcast Diálogos on Radio Harawi.Percy Rojas: Historian and photographer. Works with the Department of Justice on human rights. He previously worked with EPAF and has contributed to documentation and training initiatives related to transitional justice and the search for missing persons in Ayacucho.