Dr. Irina Popescu joins Steven to discuss her latest article entitled “Memorialization and Escraches: Ni una Menos and the documentation of Feminicidio in Argentina,” published recently in The Latin Americanist. More about Irina – www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/…opescu/index.html Her article – muse.jhu.edu/article/805479
Historias Podcast · Historias 136 – State of the Field – Argentina from Dictatorship to Democracy 24 March 2021 marked the 45th anniversary of the coup that launched Argentina’s most violent period of military rule. From 1976-1983, the armed forces and their civilian allies ruled through terror. The dictatorship became Read more…
Steven welcomes Dr. Jennifer Adair back to the program to talk about her book, In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina. In addition to considering the experience of transitioning from an era of state terror to one of neoliberalism, the two discuss the study of memory, Read more…
Carlos Dimas returns to the mic to talk with Dr. Ashley Kerr about her new book, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina, 1860-1910. Sit back and listen to disturbing but significant stories about displays of indigenous peoples in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Argentina. Dr. Kerr also Read more…
Historias Podcast · Historias 115 – Assessing Alberto Fernández's First Year as Argentine President Dr. Mark Healey of UConn and Dr. Ernesto Semán of the University of Bergen (Norway) joined Steven to assess the first year in office of Argentine president Alberto Fernández.
El destape fue un movimiento social y cultural vital para ampliar la definición de democracia y la creación de una sociedad pluralista después del periodo dictatorial de los años setenta. El destape que se constituyo en una explosión de imágenes sobre sexualidad en Argentina, marcó en palabras de la historiadora Read more…
Dr. Pablo Palomino joined Steven to discuss his new book The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History. Historias Podcast · Historias 102 – Pablo Palomino on the invention of Latin American music Intro/Outro: El Manisero – youtu.be/sj7NfrrnaKEArgentinaBrazilMexicomusicLatin America musicMemoriaAbiertaculturalhistory
Dra. Cecilia Tossounian en su libro La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation, and Popular Culture reconstruye diferentes representaciones de la feminidad moderna de la Argentina de los años 20 y 30, un período complejo en el que el Argentina vio la prosperidad y la crisis económica, una población Read more…
Esta semana en Historias en español tuvimos el grato placer de tener en el programa al historiador argentino Ernesto Semán para dialogar sobre su libro Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. Este libro, concentrado en la historia de los agregados Read more…
Dr. Natalia Milanesio joined Steven to discuss her new book ¡Destape!: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina. For Milanesio, the Destape was “the biggest and most explosive sociocultural phenomenon after the fall of the military dictatorship… that made sexual culture into a powerful metaphor for democracy and the reconstruction Read more…