
Helene Risør
Teaching associate professor in anthropology and visiting research fellow at Copenhagen University, senior researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy in Chile, with research on violence, transitional justice, and reparations.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 1h 14min
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Karine Vanthuyne, medical and political anthropologist focused on memory and indigenous mobilization. Helene Risør, researcher on violence, democracy, and reparations. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, anthropologist specializing in land claims and indigeneity. They discuss reparations across Latin America. Short takes on imagination, translation of harm into policy, reshaped belonging, public memorials, multispecies and environmental repair.

Mar 20, 2026 • 1h 14min
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Karine Vanthuyne, anthropologist studying Indigenous memory and reparations. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, scholar of land claims and indigeneity in Chile. Helene Risør, researcher on violence, democracy, and reparative practices. They explore reparations across Latin America. Conversations cover translation of harm into policy, land and environmental repair, public memory, and how reparations reshape belonging and political futures.

Mar 20, 2026 • 1h 14min
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Karine Vanthuyne, anthropology professor specializing in memory and Indigenous mobilization. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, associate professor focused on land claims and political imagination. Helene Risør, researcher of violence, reparations, and democratization. They explore reparations as ongoing practices, contested translations of harm into policy, imagination of alternative futures, Indigenous environmental claims, and public memory and protest.


