Friday May 10th, 12pm, History Conference Room 529 Janey Fellow J. Alberto Fernandez presents his most recent work based on the 2012/2013 Janey Summer Fellowship he was awarded. See title and abstract below: From Peronist unity to labor pluralism: The CTA and the emergence of the libertad sindical agenda in Argentina (1991-1997) This paper analyzes [...]

JANEY PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (ILAS) AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY   2013 Annual Conference in Latin American Studies  The Past and Present of Populism 1: 45 INTRODUCTION  Pablo Piccato, Columbia University Federico Finchelstein, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. [...]

M E M O R Y   A N D   P O E T R Y: Between Reflection and Invention A poetry reading featuring six voices from Spain and Latin America: Isabel Cadenas Cañón-ESPAÑA Karla Coreas-EL SALVADOR Javier Peñalosa-MÉXICO Alexis Romay-CUBA Gema Santamaría-NICARAGUA Enrique Winter-CHILE Thursday April, 11th, 2013 6pm

A Genealogy of the Political in the Hispanic American World  Prof. Elías José Palti, Universidad de Quilmes / Conicet-Argentina Wednesday, April 3, 6pm The New School, Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor Professor Palti is one of the most innovative and prolific writers on the intellectual history of Latin America. The depth of the knowledge [...]

Prof. Alejandro Baer, University of Minnesota  Friday March 8th, 4pm. 80th Fifth Avenue, Room 802 Prof. Baer is Associate Professor at the Sociology Department & Director of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the representation of present and past mass violence in a global arena of [...]

February 7th, 6pm History Conference Room António Costa Pinto is a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Georgetown University, a senior associate member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University and at the University of [...]

Friday, December 7, 12pm. Conference Room 529 Caterina Pizzigoni, is associate professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America and the study of sources in Nahuatl (indigenous language of central Mexico), household and material culture, gender issues, church and government policies with respect to conversion, education, [...]