Grad Student Colloquium with José Madrid

Join us for lunch and a conversation with José Madrid. José is a PhD candidate in Black Studies, whose research focuses on race, history, and global political economy. His talk "Enforcing Peace" examines how U.S. and U.N.-brokered reforms in El Salvador’s Chapúltepec Peace Accords (1992) allowed the postwar neoliberal regimes to maintain repressive hierarchies by modernizing and expanding the Salvadoran state’s police infrastructure. Rather than addressing longstanding grievances between El Salvador’s historically marginalized populations and the country’s repressive ruling class, I argue, the peace accords implemented a hyper-carceral model of neoliberal governance and advanced the neoliberal interests of the U.S and Salvadoran ruling class under the guise of “protecting” postwar peace. Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.