Indigenous Missing Persons and Enforced Disappearances -Canada and Colombia

The Orchestrating Listening Situations in Restorative Transitional Justice Initiatives Research Project (ORLI), in collaboration with United College’s Human Rights Program and Indigenous Studies, invites you to the knowledge exchange conversation Enforced Disappearances in Colombia and Indigenous Missing Persons in Canada.

The Orchestrating Listening Research Project -ORLI

The event aims to foster a dialogue among lawyers, artist, scholars... on enforced disappearances and missing persons in Colombia and Canada

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The Orchestrating Listening Situations in Restorative Transitional Justice Initiatives (ORLI) research project, in collaboration with United College’s Human Rights Program and Indigenous Studies, invites you to the knowledge exchange conversation<h4>Enforced Disappearances in Colombia and Indigenous Missing Persons in Canada</h4><h4> </h4>Speakers:• Mohawk lawyer Kimberly Murray, Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies, former federal Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools.• Colombian lawyer Luz Marina Monzón, O’Brien Fellow at McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and former Director of the Unit for the Search of People Deemed Missing (UBPD).• Colombian artist Constanza Ramírez, founding member of the Association "Otras Voces" and currently artist in residence at the Acts of Listening Lab at Concordia University.Discussants:• Sara General, Assistant Professor and Director of Indigenous Studies at United College, University of Waterloo.• Luis C. Sotelo Castro, Visiting Associate Professor at United College, director of the Acts of Listening Lab and former Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance at Concordia University.Moderator: Nancy R. Tapias Torrado, Assistant Professor of Human Rights at United College, University of Waterloo.This knowledge exchange conversation aims to foster a dialogue among Canadian and Colombian initiatives, scholars, lawyers, students, activists, and artists addressing the issues of enforced disappearances and missing persons in Colombia and Canada. It focuses on how legal definitions and frameworks in each country shape institutional understandings and responses to the issue. It also explores how art can amplify the voices of families of the disappeared/missing and raise public awareness.November 13, 2025 - 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.Attend in person: Alumni Halll, United College at the University of Waterloo (light refreshments will be served).To attend online please register here: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W-JNv90vSqaFpbtA1u50hw