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
Panel I
Angelo Ventrone (University of Macerata, Italy), The Italian Revolutionary Left and the absolute enemy in the 70s: the ‘social-democratic police state,’ that is, the ‘perfect totalitarianism.’,
Louise Walker (NSSR-LANG), “The Enemy Within: The Internal Bourgeois in Mexico
Jeremy Varon (NSSR-Lang) , Coming in From the Cold: CIA Defectors, Dirty Wars, and the American
Conscience,
Moderator: Eric Zolov (SUNY-Stony Brook)

Panel II
Greg Grandin (NYU) Internalizing the External: Counterinsurgency and Neoliberalism during the Pivotal Decade,
Federico Finchelstein (NSSR-LANG), Before State Terror? Argentina’s Paramilitary Formations and their ‘Dirty Wars’ ,
Dominique Grisard (Zentrum Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland), Body Politic. Hunger strikes and prison resistance by members of the Swiss, German and Italian Radical Left in 1970s Switzerland,
Moderator: Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)

This event is also co-sponsored by the
Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR

*Free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served.