Seminar Series

As part of the project’s outgoing phase spent partially in Argentina, Dr Lessa together with her local supervisor, Professor Emilio Crenzel, organised a series of six seminars on the subject of “Transnational Intersections: Justice, History, and Human Rights.”

The six seminars were:

1. March 6, 2018, Melisa Slatman (University of Buenos Aires/Public Prosecutor's Office for Crimes against Humanity of the Republic of Argentina): “The Archives of Operation Condor: Constructing Knowledge about Political Repression in the Southern Cone;”

2. March 19, 2018, Gabriel Pereira (CONICET, University of Oxford): “Corporate Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity: Argentina in Comparative Perspective;”

3. March 27, 2018, Aldo Marchesi (University of the Republic, Uruguay): “The 1970s, the Left, and Revolution in the Southern Cone: Between Local and Global History;”

4. June 11, 2018, Camillo Robertini (IIGG, University of Buenos Aires), presenting his project on “Fiat El Palomar, A History of Work and Memory:” “Neighbourhoods, Factories, and the Armed Forces: The Memory of a Community of Workers during the Argentine Dictatorship;”

5. June 15, 2018, Ana Forcinito (University of Minnesota): “Strands of Memory: Violence, Gender and Paradigms of Audio vision;”

6. July 19, 2018, Pilar Calveiro (Autonomous University of Mexico City): “Transformations of Enforced Disappearance under Neoliberal Governments: The Case of Mexico."

You can listen to the recording of each seminar in original Spanish by clicking on each title.