Lecture Details
"Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration" with Dr. Aviva Chomsky
Date: Monday, October 28, 2024
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Format: In-Person
Location: Anne Belk Hall, Room 116
Description: American professor, historian, author and activist Aviva Chomsky will give a guest lecture on the following: President Biden claimed he would address “the roots of migration” from Central America, identifying these as poverty, violence and corruption. This talk will address what Biden forgot to ask, looking at the roots of poverty, violence and corruption in Central America in centuries of conquest, foreign domination and extractive economic projects. Chomsky will focus especially on how the revolutions of the 1980s attempted to create a more just reality, how they were crushed and how the neoliberal projects that followed left many Central Americans with few options other than fleeing their countries. In her talk, she will trace how the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have studiously erased this history and supported more of the very policies forcing people to leave.
Details: The event is free and open to the public. For a disability accommodation, visit odr.appstate.edu. Book sales and signings of Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration will follow the lecture.
Hosts: The lecture is organized by App State's Department of History and co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Department of Anthropology and global studies program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Questions? Please contact Dr. René Harder Horst, professor in the Department of History, via email at horstrh@appstate.edu or via phone at (828) 262-6007.
About Dr. Aviva Chomsky
Dr. Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University. She has published widely on labor history, immigration and undocumentedness, Central America, Cuba, and Colombia. Her most recent books include Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration and Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston, the latter co-edited with Steve Striffler. She has been active in Palestine and Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades.
Learn more about Dr. Chomsky at directory.salemstate.edu/profile/avi.chomsky.