Against silence: Life-threatening research in Colombia (in Spanish with translation)
Date
Thu, Nov 14, 2024
Admission
6:00 PM
Start
6:30 PM
Promoter
Reporter ohne Grenzen
Speakers
Ginna Morelo, Tininiska Zanger Montoya
Violence reigns on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Paramilitary groups are fighting for land, displacing and murdering people. Colombian journalist Ginna Morelo has been researching human rights crimes in the region for years - and has herself been the target of intimidation and death threats. With the help of Reporters Without Borders, she came to Berlin in 2021 for a research fellowship to continue her work. A question that has haunted her ever since: How can she break the silence and tell the stories of those affected? At Publix, she presents her project “Entre Rios” - a digital museum that aims to do just that. The evening will be hosted by the German-Colombian anthropologist Tininiska Zanger Montoya.
Ginna Morelo is a journalist, author and professor. She was head of the press freedom alliance La Liga contra el Silencio and co-founder of Consejo de Redacción, an organisation that promotes investigative journalism in Colombia. She was also the founder and editor of the data journalism department at the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. Morelo has written several books and teaches investigative journalism at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She has been honoured with national and international journalism awards and was voted Colombian Journalist of the Year in 2018. The book ‘La voz de los lápices’, which is part of her Entre Ríos project, was awarded the Simón Bolívar Prize as Book of the Year 2022. Morelo is also a teacher at the Gabo Foundation, which promotes investigative journalism and trains reporters.
Tininiska Zanger Montoya is a German-Colombian anthropologist. She works as a project coordinator for the Chile-Latin America Research and Documentation Centre and is part of the journal collective Lateinamerika Nachrichten. Her thematic focus is on exile and migration, human rights and the armed conflict in Colombia. In her doctoral thesis, she analysed the return of Colombians from political exile.
Speakers
Ginna Morelo
Journalist, author and professor
Tininiska Zanger Montoya
Anthropologist, moderator