Gerardo Caetano | Itinerarios y perspectivas de las nuevas derechas en el Cono Sur

This talk discusses the recent rise and development of new conservative right movements in the Southern Cone according to a historical approach which may help understand the region. In Spanish.
 
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER

Gerardo Caetano (Ph.D. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) is a historian and political scientist. He was director of the Instituto de Ciencia Política between 2000 and 2005. He is a member of the Uruguayan Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Argentine Academy of History, and the Spanish Royal Academy. He also was president of the high council of the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) for Uruguay and Argentina. Among his many publications are “Secular Uruguay” (2014), “A Brief History of the Dictatorship” (2019), and “José Mújica. Other Possible Worlds” (2014). He has published many books and essays and has received national and international awards, more recently the Latin American and Caribbean Award in Social Sciences in 2022, CLACSO’s highest distinction.

DISCUSSANT

Susana Draper, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
 

This event will be held in Spanish and is open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff.

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