Prof. Alejandro Baer, University of Minnesota 

Friday March 8^th, 4pm. 80^th 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 interconnected memory cultures (particularly the cases of Spain, Argentina and the holocaust). Recent work involves a series of articles on how memories of the holocaust condition ways in which the memory building process takes shape in contemporary Spain. He completed his PhD at Complutense University in Madrid and held an Assistant Professor position at the University of Bayreuth and a interim professorship for sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (lmu) in Munich.

Co-sponsored by the Janey Program In Latin American Studies, the History Department at NSSR and Eugene Lang College and the Jewish Student Union