AAFS 2026
HHRRC Film Screening
Tuesday, February, 10 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Open to ALL Meeting Registrants
The FSF and HHRRC are pleased to offer conference attendees a special viewing of The Judge and the General, a 2008 documentary that chronicles Chilean judge Juan Guzmán's efforts to bring former dictator Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights violations during his regime.
The film, directed by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, follows Judge Juan Guzmán as he investigates the crimes committed during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. Initially a supporter of Pinochet, Guzmán's perspective shifts dramatically as he confronts the brutal realities of the regime's actions, including murder, torture, and enforced disappearances of political opponents.
Synopsis: When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzmán had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup — waged as an anti-Communist crusade — that left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared." The filmmakers trace the judge's descent into what he calls "the abyss," where he uncovers the past — including his own role in the tragedy. The Judge and the General reveals one of the 20th century's most notorious episodes and tells a cautionary tale about violating human rights in the name of "higher ideals." A co-production of Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Latino Public Broadcasting. (PBS).
The HHRRC Poster Session
Tuesday, February, 10 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Open to ALL Meeting Registrants
The Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center (HHRRC), with the support of the Forensic Sciences Foundation (FSF), provides resources and support for research, laboratories and active projects around the world that apply modern forensic science techniques to global humanitarian and human rights projects. This HHRRC Poster Session is an open meeting where attendees can learn about some of the recently funded HHRRC grants, highlighting research and projects dedicated to the investigation of humanitarian and human rights injustices.
Moderator:
Dawnie W. Steadman, PhD
HHRRC Chair
Director Emeritus, Forensic Anthropology Center
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Poster Presentations:
The Distomo Massacre: A Preliminary Osteological Assessment of Civilian Victims of a Nazi Reprisal in Greece
Constantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University), Matteo Borrini, Konstantinos Moraitis, Georgios Panagiaris
Improving Femicide Data Quality and Strengthening Classification in Morocco: A Forensic Approach to Human Rights, CRVS Reform, and Prevention from the Femicide Data Quality Improvement Project of Casablanca
Hind Abouzahir (Medico-Legal Institute of Casablanca), Barthelemy Munkana Matadi, Olga Helena Joos, Sam Notzon, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Hicham Benyaich
Dental Age Assessment Using Orthopantomograms: Validation of the Demirjian Dental Age Estimation Method in the Nigerian Pediatric Population
Busuyi Kolade Akinola (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria), Candice Small, Gabriel Oladipo, Michael Oyakhire
Documentation of a Colonial Genocide in Western Cameroon
Julia Barnes (University of Tennessee), Jacob Tatsitsa, Ferdinand Marcial Nana, Lucie Mbogni Nankeng, Gilbert Wate Sayem, Alain Tamonoche, Duarte Nuno Vieira
Forensic Anthropology Training: Enabling African (Uganda) Forensic Practitioners to Assess Human Skeletal Remains
Desiré Brits (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Sam (Skalungi) Kalungi, Stacey Simons
A Humanitarian Forensic Assessment of the Management of the Dead in Arizona
Sherry C. Fox (Arizona State University)
Tracing the Nameless Dead: Forensic Data Centralization for Migration-Related Fatalities in Greece
Despoina E. Flouri (University of Crete, Greece), Sophia R. Mavroudas, Despoina Nathena, Christina Kaydi, Fatemeh Parivand, Konstantinos
Moraitis, Elena F. Kranioti
Root Dentin Translucency as an Indicator of Age-At-Death: A Model Based on Bayes' Theorem
Gonzalo Garizoain (CONICET), Roberto Carlos Parra, Claudia M. Aranda, Leandro Luna
First Forensic Entomology Training and First Survey of Forensically Important Diptera in the Republic of Gambia
M. Denise Gemmellaro (Kean University), Amanda J. O'Connor, Gloria Raise
Evaluating the Suitability of Ultrawide Band Dual Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for Detecting Operation Condor-Era (c. 19702s) Clandestine Graves in Paraguay
Jacob A. Harris (Arizona State University), Adriana Sartorio, Rogelio Goiburú, Katelyn Bolhofner
Validation of the Forensic International Dental Database (FIDBx2), A Global Forensic Proposal for Adult Age Estimation Using Single-Rooted Teeth
Leonardo Luna (CONICET), R. Parra, G. Garizoain, D. Ubelaker, P. Rodríguez, L. Matrille, K. Escalante Florez, C. Souza Faviero, A. Franco, D. Mansegosa, S. Giannotti, P. Miamoto, M. Mishra, F. Camarasa, E. Baccino, F. Retana-Milán, C. Hernández Flores, E. Zorba, K. Moraitis, L. Condori, C. Aranda
Biogeochemical Approach to Forensic Migration Issues Based on Contemporary Populations from Peru and Argentina
Martha Palma Málaga (Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de Perú), Belén Sandoval Ramos, Paula Miranda de Zela, Roberto C. Parra, Lucio Condori, Digna M. Vigo Corea, Samantha Robinson, Jazmin Borrayo, Petrus le Roux, Augusto Tessone, Eric Bartelink
Fixing a Broken System: Challenges and Advancements in the Development of a Human Identification Center in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV)
Courtney C. Siegert (Texas State University, San Marcos), Carina Marques, Molly A. Kaplan, M. Kate Spradley, Victoria M. Swenson, Savannah Molina, Armando Montalvo, Navit Nachmias, Daniela Martinez-Herrera, Rebecca Stowe, Victoria Rosas, Luke Gent, Chloe McDaneld
BITACORA Project Update: An HHRRC-Supported Isotopic Reference Database of Contemporary Human Tissues for Forensic Applications in Argentina
Luciano Valenzuela (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina), Felipe Otero, Luciano L. Loupias, Marien Beguelin, Rocio Garcia Mancuso
The Impact of HHRRC Sponsored Projects
Dawnie Wolfe Steadman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)