Friday March 8th, 12pm, History Conference Room 529 Janey Fellow Nicolas Figueroa presents his most recent work based on the 2012/2013 Janey Summer Fellowship he was awarded. See title and abstract below: Nicolas Figueroa: Constituent Power in Colombia: A Preliminary Exploration This paper describes the uses and abuses of the concept of constituent power in Colombia before [...]

Friday March 1st, 12pm, History Conference Room 529 Janey Fellow Emmanuel Guerisoli presented his most recent work based on the 2012/2013 Janey Summer Fellowship he was awarded. See title and abstract below: Emmanuel Guerisoli: Targeting Women: Gendered Torture and Rape during Argentina’s Dictatorship The paper discusses the particular ways in which women were interpellated as potential [...]

Friday November 30th, 12pm, History Conference Room 529 Janey Fellows Maria Cabrera Arús & Javier Fernández Galeano will present their most recent work based on the 2012/2013 Janey Summer Fellowship they were awarded. See titles and abstracts below: Maria Cabrera Arús: Material Culture and Socialism: Cuba, 1976-1989 Abstract: The socio-historical narrative of twentieth century in Cuba generally comes [...]

Janey Fellow Gabriel Vignoli presented a paper based on the 2011/2012 Janey Summer Fellowship he was awarded Title: Habanomics: cuentapropismo vs. capitalism, towards a kaleidoscopic ethnography Abstract: On Sunday April 22nd 2012, Esteban Lazo Hern√°ndez, member of the Political Bureau and one of Cuba’s vice-presidents said: Today almost 95% of the country’s GDP is produced [...]

Janey Fellows Brie Gettleson & Melissa Amezcua Yepiz presented their most recent works based on the 2011/2012 Janey Summer Fellowship they were awarded. See titles and abstracts below: Brie Gettleson: Living la Mano Dura: Neomilitarismo in Guatemala’s newest presidency This paper is concerned with neomilitarism in Guatemala. Through two anecdotes taken from my field notes [...]

Janey Fellows David Bond and Luis Herr√°n presented their most recent work based on the 2011/2012 Janey Summer Fellowship they were awarded. Luis Herr√°n: “Revolution Through Reaction: Anti-Communism and the “National Revolution” in Argentina, 1955-1966“Abstract: This paper explores some of the ideological features of Argentine anti-communism and its relation to the changing trajectories within Argentine [...]

In the first Spring session of the 2011/2012 Janey Annual Workshop, Nicolas Figueroa and Gema Santamaria presented their most recent work, based on the 2011/2012 Janey Summer Fellowship they were awarded. Nicolas Figueroa’s paper is entitled The Constituent Power, in the Hands of Judges, The Supreme Court and Constitutional Change in Colombia Abstract: The concept [...]

December 9th 2011: Alberto Fernandez, “The Struggle for Union Freedom and Autonomy in Mexico and Argentina. A Critical Review of Literature towards a ‘Viewpoint of the defeated’” [Abstract]