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Dying For something: Notes for the Study of Modern Martyrdom in an Authoritarian Age
Dra Marisol López Menendez (School of Social and Political Sciences, Iberoamerican University, Mexico)
Dra. Marisol López Menéndez (PhD, New School for Social Research) is a professor of Political and Social Studies at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. Her academic interests include political violence, resistance, and the formation of collective memory in Mexico and Latin America. López Menéndez brings together her interests in civil society and the sociology of religion through the tools of political sociology, in addition to studying martyrdom and social dimensions of “miracles” in the Catholic Church, and other non-religious forms of martyrdom in their relation with social mobilization and the consolidation of institutions.
This public talk is hosted by the FIMS Rogers Chair of Studies in Journalism and New Information Technology and the Transitional Justice Centre’s Speakers Series.