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…
El historiador uruguayo Aldo Marchesi analiza los procesos guerrilleros de los años 60 en Sudamerica. Aunque cada uno de estos procesos ha recibido algún grado de atención por parte de los historiadores en sus respectivos países, Marchesi rescata el carácter trasnacional de estos movimientos y la emergencia de una identidad Read more…
Carlos Dimas, Nicole Pacino, and Glen Kuecker joined Steven Hyland to discuss epidemic diseases in historical context and how the past can help us understand living in the moment of pandemic. They also explore what it means to live in a moment of transition; in a world that no longer Read more…
Dr. Natalia Milanesio has earned Honorable Mention from the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award committee for her monograph Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Congratulations from all of us at SECOLAS!
Jeffrey Shumway and Steven sat down and talked about Argentine history – especially the early nineteenth century. Shumway discussed his passion for histories of love, the family, and gender, and how that led to his first book, The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Read more…
Drs. Mark Healey and Ernesto Semán joined Steven to discuss this past Sunday’s presidential and gubernatorial elections in Argentina. The discussion features a deep dive on the evolution of political culture over the past four decades and the emergence of a consolidated, radicalized center-right political movement. Check out Ernesto’s op-ed in the Financial Times Read more…
Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s. See Francesca’s recent article in Read more…
With or Without Them: Contemporary Student Movements and Parties in the Southern Cone In this week’s featured article, Dr. Indira Palacios-Valladares (2016) examines shifts in social movement ties to political parties. It does so by focusing on three important contemporary Latin American movements: the student movements of Argentina, Chile, and Read more…