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[PAST EVENT] Fall 2023 Study Abroad in La Plata, Argentina: Info Session
Interested in Human Rights? Considering spending Fall 2023 in Latin America? This is THE perfect opportunity for you! Come join us and learn more about our W&M Program in La Plata with our amazing program alums—Wednesday, February 15, 5:00pm, Washington Hall 315.
Our W&M program in La Plata, Argentina, offers an amazing opportunity to take classes at an NGO that focuses on issues of human rights, the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, and at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Live with Argentine host families while you explore the consequences of the policies and practices of the last Argentine dictatorship. Above all, take advantage of the unique service-learning internships designed by the Comisión exclusively for W&M students, such as:
- supporting the archival and preservation work of the Centro de Documentación of the Comisión;
- helping adolescents explore issues of memory, human rights, and state-sponsored violence via the Jóvenes y Memoria program;
- educating the general public by supporting exhibits and activities at the Museo de Arte y Memoria;
- assisting and doing translation work for the Comité contra la tortura.
For a full description of the program: https://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/hispanic/studyabroad/laplata/index.php
Need-based scholarships administered by the Reves Center are available for this program: https://studyabroad.wm.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=1033&Type=S&sType=O
N.B.: This info session will be held in conjunction with the info session for the Human Rights Research Fellowship for Summer 2023 in La Plata, Argentina.
Learn more about the latest publication co-authored by Prof. Silvia Tandeciarz, and developed with the assistance of W&M students of the La Plata Program and the NSA internship (spring 2021): https://globalvoices.pages.wm.edu/2021/04/15/w-new-publication-u-s-government/
Learn more about a project crafted through one of the program's internships (fall 2015): https://globalvoices.pages.wm.edu/2016/03/30/memorias-de-chapadmalal-memory-and-civic-engagement-in-argentina/
Learn more about the experience of a student during fall 2013: https://globalvoices.pages.wm.edu/2014/09/29/la-plata-argentina-a-students-experience/
Applications for Fall 2023 will be due on March 10, 2023, right before Spring Break!!!!