Mapping Massacres in Postwar El Salvador: Surviving Memory team presents at University of Toronto

On March 5, 2026, four members of the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador mapping team spoke about their collaborative massacre mapping initiative in the Speaker Series of the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (CDTS) at the University of Toronto. María Laura Flores Barba, Amanda Grzyb, Reynaldo Hernández, and Zack MacDonald shared the challenges of documenting in the interactive map the civilian massacres and other war-era human rights violations, a project led by Salvadoran Civil War survivors in Chalatenango and Cuscatlán.

The CDTS Speaker Series holds guest lectures from scholars around the world on topics related to the themes of diaspora and/or transnationalism. 

The mapping work is supported by equipment and infrastructure funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario Research Fund (ORF), and Western University.