The History Department at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College invites you to the conference: Internal Enemies and Dirty Wars in the Global 1970s April 5th, 2 to 6pm The New School, Conference Room 529, 80 Fifth Ave, New York City Panel I Angelo Ventrone (University of Macerata, Italy), The Italian [...]

History Talk: Raanan Rein, History Department, University of Tel Aviv “From Juan Per√≥n to Hugo Ch√°vez and Back: Populism Reconsidered” (Poster) Professor Raanan Rein is the Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and director of the Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has authored or edited more [...]

Professor Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Brooklyn College, presented his newest book “Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment” . Talk abstract: A critical historical assessment of the Cuban Revolution’s impact and legacy informed by the comparative sociology of Communist regimes. Special attention will be paid to current economic changes [...]

The Janey Program in Latin American Studies and the Sociology Department at the New School organized a talk with Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology, Sociology Department. University of Texas, Austin The title of his talk was Violence and the State at the Urban Margins,   Wednesday, March [...]

The Lang College History Club, and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research* present: Murder in the Archives: Post-Conflict Justice and Historical Accountability in Guatemala, About the discovery of Guatemala’s secret police archive, and the creation of an archive of genocide A talk with Kirsten Weld, Florence Levy Kay Fellow [...]

Political repression in Argentina between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Continuity or Break? By Professor Julia Rodriguez, History Department, University of New Hampshire and Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University Professor Julia Rodriguez is an alumnus of Eugene Lang College and the author of Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, [...]

Nicolas Figueroa and Gema Santamaria will be presenting 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 of the Constituent Power has been traditionally used to [...]