Speaker: Dra. Iliana Padilla Reyes
Dr Iliana Padilla Reyes is a Tenured Professor at the National School of Higher Studies (ENES), Juriquilla Unit, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliated with the Bachelor’s in International Business under the Global Society and Inclusion area.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, where she also earned a Master’s in United States and Canadian Studies, and a PhD in Regional Studies.
She has been a visiting scholar at the International Forum for U.S. Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico, and conducted postdoctoral research in Criminology at the Centre for Legal and Criminological Research “Héctor Fix Zamudio” at the Autonomous University of Querétaro.
She is a Level I member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) and part of the expert group of The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC). Additionally, she is a tutor for the Master’s in Urbanism at UNAM, within the line of research “Politics and Urban Sociology Applied to Territorial Planning.”
Her publications and collaborations in national and international media address issues of security, violence, gender, urban development, and international dynamics, always from a critical and socially engaged perspective.
Abstract:
The lecture “Women in Territories of Conflict: Experiences of Mexican Women Facing Multiple Forms of Violence” examines how women living in regions affected by structural violence build collective strategies of resistance, community care, and resilience. Drawing on testimonies and concrete experiences, Dr Iliana Padilla Reyes analyses the ways in which women sustain life in contexts where state institutions are often absent or insufficient, while also confronting risks of armed violence, everyday insecurity, and the invisibility of their contributions within public policy frameworks.