Imaginense, an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international bloom period for El Salvador. Prof. Lotti wonders if we may be in a bloom period now as we talk about her research in postwar El Salvador in the early 90s. Can we avoid the desencanto she describes in her first book “Everyday Revolutionaries”? Or are we continuing La Lucha like the 1.5 insurgent generation in her third book “After Stories”?

Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies at CCNY where she also holds the position of Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. She is also on the Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

• Take advantage of any research grants you can get
• Chalatenango, repoblaciones, and postwar
• First ethnographies of reconciliation
• Bringing popular education methos learned in Chalate to Anthro dept at CCNY
• Unpacking the discourse of violence and imagining something different
• Numbers, bodies, and bolados
• The 1.5 insurgent generation
• 1.5 Gen Argentina immigration story
• The blooming Salvadoran diaspora in DC in the 80s
• Starting out interviewing grassroots Salvadoran organizations in DC
• Allowed entrance entrance into las repoblaciones
• Anthropology and its colonial roots “go study where you’re from”
• “Who do you read?”
• ASALCA (Asociación Salvadoreña Canadiense)
• Memoria Histórica Sobreviviente en El Salvador
• Ralph Sprenkels
• “Stepping up to step aside”
• El Salvador in the early 90s, a hopeful time
• CORDES
• Struggling with Spanish and your identity
• Postwar internationalism in El Salvador - volunteers from around the world
• Proxy for the cold war - communism vs democracy fight
• Rebuilding across generations and intergenerational spaces in Chalate
• Numbers, cifras - illuminate and hide
• Bolados promised in the postwar
• Chalatecos hoping to raise kids outside the context of war
• Hoping for more objects
• The complexity of life during the war
• Collective care - the legacy of insurgent action

Show Resources:

• “After Stories - Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador” by Irina Carlota Silber
• “Everyday Revolutionaries - Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador” by Irina Carlota Silber
• Loti at The City College of New York
• “Long Journey to Justice: El Salvador, the United States, and Struggles against Empire” by Molly Todd
• ASALCA (Asociación Salvadoreña Canadiense)
• Memoria Histórica Sobreviviente en El Salvador
• After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador by Ralph Sprenkels
• CORDES – Asociación Fundación para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Comunal de El Salvador

Music:

“El Tiempo Va Lento” by Pao Campos