Något att fundera över även om man skippar seminariet

Från "Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University" som, tillsammans med "The Institute of Canadian Studies, Stockholm University, and the Embassy of Canada" anordnar ett öppet seminarium i Stockholm över ämnet på onsdag (11/11).

E-mailet är så intressant att jag lägger ut det i bloggen, utan - ursäkta detta - översättning:

"Concentration Camps in the Americas during the 20th CenturySome Readings from the Visual History During the 20th century, concentration camps were constructed across the world.
Most known are the Nazi concentration and extermination camps and the Gulags in the Soviet Union.

But examples can also be found in the Americas. During World War II, camps were built in North America in order to control the population of the Axis powers (Japanese, Germans and Italians).
Many prisoners sent to these camps were detained by Latin American governments and transported to North America via military bases in Panama. Concentration camps were also built in the 1970s and 1980s by the Southern Cone military regimes. These camps served as places in which members of the opposition were concentrated, interrogated, tortured and murdered. However, since many operated secretly and were demolished before the transition to democracy, there is little evidence of their functionality.

In the seminar, the panelists present photo examples of some of the concentration camps in the Americas and their respective records in order to make a closer inspection and discuss about their historical meaning in the past and the present.
Kirsten Emiko McAllister focuses on the Japanese concentration camps in Canada during World War II and Fernando Camacho concentrates on the conditions in the camps of Chile and Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s.
Panelists: Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Doctor in Sociology at Carleton University, Canada. McAllister is presently assistant professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada Fernando Camacho, PhD-Candidate in History at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Camacho is presently guest researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University. Language: English".