FIMS News
Contact Information
FIMS Communications
Becky Blue
Email
519-661-2111x88493
FIMS & Nursing Building
Rm 2060C
London researchers want to recover El Salvador's forgotten past
August 29, 2018: Professor Amanda Grzyb recently spoke with CBC News about her ongoing research project titled, "Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador." Together with collaborators, Grzyb is working to restore memories from the Salvadoran civil war, which lasted from 1979 to 1992.
From CBC News online, by Moses Monterroza
For over three decades, El Salvador's history has remained largely in the shadows. But a team of London researchers is changing that.
In collaboration with organizations in the small Central American country, scholars at Western University are documenting the Salvadoran civil war, which lasted from 1979 to 1992.
"Particularly the experiences of massacre survivors, civilians who were internally displaced and refugees," said Amanda Grzyb, associate professor of Information and Media Studies at Western and leader of the project (continue reading).
