CLAS Sponsored Upcoming Events

TOMORROW--The General and the Music Teacher: Tracing Orality in the Dirty War Archives of Chile"

by Steven J. Stern (Vice-Provost for Faculty and Staff and Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Room 2500, Posvar Hall

For more information: Laura Gotkowitz lgotkowi@pitt.edu or Luz Amanda Hank lavst12@pitt.edu

The fascinating archival trail of a remarkable music teacher kidnapped and disappeared by the Chilean secret police in 1974 provokes a new approach, methodologically and substantively, to the "dirty war" history of Chile and South America.

The lecture will draw out the oral foundations of written archives, the human issues at stake during the "dirty war" dictatorship, and a dramatic direct connection to General Augusto Pinochet.

 

Professor Stern is award-winning author of numerous books and articles on the Andes, Mexico, and Chile from colonial times to the present. His most recent books include Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Duke, 2006); Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile (Duke, 2010); and a co-edited volume on The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents (Wisconsin, 2014). In 2012, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), and the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh

 

 

2014 Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference—University of Pittsburgh

Date: Friday and Saturday, March 21 – 22, 2014

Location: University Club—University of Pittsburgh

For more information: Bravo@pitt.edu

 

Keynote Address

Who Aint a Slave: Slavery in Fact and Herman Melville's Fiction

By Greg Grandin

Professor of History, New York University

Friday, March 21, 12:45 p.m.

 

More information is available online at: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/laspp_conference   

Free and open to the public

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Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh