Good afternoon everyone! Please see the below email for information on the College of Public Policy's upcoming lecture on paramilitary violence in Latin America. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who may be interested. All questions about the event should be directed to Michelle Skidmore in COPP at michelle.skidmore(a)utsa.edu. Thank you! Jo Ann Jo Ann A. Jones Communications Specialist The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Education and Human Development T: (210) 458-4486 | E: joann.jones@utsa.edu<mailto:joann.jones@utsa.edu> http://education.utsa.edu<http://education.utsa.edu/> UTSA College of Public Policy (COPP) to host lecture on paramilitary violence featuring Canadian scholar Jasmin Hristov, Nov. 3 The UTSA College of Public Policy will present a lecture featuring Jasmin Hristov from the University of Toronto at the UTSA Downtown Campus, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Hristov will give a presentation on paramilitary violence and how is it being used as a tool of economic globalization. She will offer current examples of paramilitary groups in different parts of Latin America. In Hristov's abstract, she explains paramilitarism as a hybrid and complex type of politically-motivated violence involving non-state actors and state agents. Paramilitary groups have played an increasingly important role in contemporary armed conflicts as well as violent social environments. Paramilitary groups have engaged in some of the most horrifying human rights violations. This phenomenon has been poorly under investigated and largely misunderstood. Join the College of Public Policy in the Buena Vista St. Bldg., Aula Canaria Lecture Hall (BV 1.328) for an enlightening discussion on the proliferation on the Political Violence of Global Capital: Dispossession and Repression in the Global South. Event is free and open to the public. Parking available in Lot D-3 under the I-35 bridge in unmarked spaces only. Hristov is a Canadian scholar an author of the books Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism: Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond (Pluto Press 2014) and Blood and Capital: the Paramilitarization of Colombia (Ohio University Press 2009). Her work has also been featured in: Journal of Peasant Studies; Latin American Perspectives; Journal of Peacebuilding and Development; Labour, Capital and Society; and Social Justice. Thursday, November 3, 2016 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. UTSA Downtown Campus, Aula Canaria Lecture Hall, BV 1.328 Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available in Lot D-3 under the IH-35 bridge in unmarked spaces only. Event is free and open to the public. For maps, visit http://www.utsa.edu/visit/downtown-campus.html<http://l.facebook.com/l... For more information, please contact Michelle Skidmore at (210) 458-3213 or email michelle.skidmore@utsa.edu<mailto:michelle.skidmore@utsa.edu> or copp@utsa.edu<mailto:copp@utsa.edu> You may visit our event page by clicking here<http://copp.utsa.edu/events/the-political-violence-of-global-capi... [cid:image003.jpg@01D22EC0.65004240]