To honor International Women's Day, URI's Gender and Women's Studies and the History Department host a public lecture by Sandra Saēnchez–López.  Ms. Saēnchez–López is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá - Colombia.

Ms. Saēnchez–López studies the history of print and media cultures in Latin America, particularly in Twentieth-century Colombia. Her research has primarily focused on power and resistance, considering gender and class as categories of historical analysis. Her approach includes an interdisciplinary vein and an interest for digital ways to create and circulate history broadly.  Mujeres de prensa: prácticas del periodismo femenino attests for such an approach.  She explores archives as narrative and memory and is currently working on an article on historical archives and the digital for the Journal of Women’s History to be published as part of a dossier led by Jordana Mendelson, NYU, and Carmen Gain Salinas, CSIC–Spain.

As part of her teaching, Ms. Saēnchez–López also works and experiments with physical and sensorial theatre and storytelling. Her book manuscript, Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and Exclusion in Colombia, 1943-1968, will be soon published by Rowman and Littlefield, under its Social Movements in the Americas Series.