#  Arts and Humanities Workshop | Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943-1970 

 



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 **November 4, 2025** 

 02:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **CGIS South, S216**  

 [1730 Cambridge Street,  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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How has it been to research and write the history of women journalists and their efforts to expand political action in an exclusionary society during the mid-twentieth century? What do we learn about disruptions and (new) historiographical consensuses when we turn our gaze toward women, even as they themselves, through their gendered crusades, contributed to a hierarchized society?

In this conversation, **Sandra Sánchez-López** presents the key questions guiding her research, how they have evolved over time, the process of working with sources centered on women’s experiences, and the motivations that have sustained the production of this historical narrative.

*This event will be conducted in Spanish.*

**Speaker**  
**Sandra Sánchez-López**, Cogut Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University; Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes.

**Moderator**  
**Alejandra Vela**, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

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**About the Speaker**

**Sandra Sánchez-López** is a Cogut Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University and an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. In 2024, she published *Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943–1970*, which received an Honorable Mention for the Michael Jiménez Award from LASA–Colombia in May 2025.

She is currently co-curator of the 2026 annual exhibition at the Luis Ángel Arango Library, one of Colombia’s leading cultural institutions, which under her direction will highlight its collections and archives on women. Sánchez-López is also developing a project titled *The Body Archive or How to Re-write History in Times of Peace and War*, exploring how movement and phenomenology can open new possibilities for archival analysis—inviting historians to reimagine both the stories they tell and the methods they use.



 

 

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