The Argentine Golpe - 50 Years Later

The Argentine Golpe - 50 Years Later

Overview: On 24 March 1976, a military coup against Argentine president Isabel Perón initiated a dictatorship (1976-1983) that disappeared or killed over 30,000 people while violating the human rights of many more. Fifty years on, social, academic, and state responses to this period remain deeply contested. After an uneven history of juridically innovative criminal trials against military generals, “Impunity Laws” seeking to bury the past, and the construction of internationally influential human rights organisations and forensic research, the current far-right government of Javier Milei has reinforced negationist attitudes towards the genocidal violence of the so-called “National Reorganization Process”. This interdisciplinary event brings scholars from different fields together to reconsider the still weighty impact of dictatorship as well as the different ways this impact has been approached (and continues to be approached) academically.

This event is organised by the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge with generous support from the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS).

Speakers:

• Dr. Grace Livingstone (Affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge)
• Dr. Luciana Zorzoli (Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Essex Business School)
• Clara Panozzo (Senior Library Assistant for the Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Collections at the Seeley Library and at the Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library)
• Dr Jordana Blejmar (Senior Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies, University of Liverpool)

Details:

• 13:00 - 14:00: Small lunch reception and welcome
  
• 14:00 - 14:45: Talk 1 + Q&A by Dr. Luciana Zorzoli
• 14:45 - 15:30: Talk 2 + Q&A by Dr. Grace Livingstone
• 15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break 
• 16:00 - 17:00: A Dive into Cambridge University's Archives on the Argentine Dictatorship by Clara Panozzo
• 17:00 - 18:00: Talk 3 + Film Screening by Dr Jordana Blejmar
• 18:00: Drinks Reception

For further information, please get in touch with the conveners:

Arantxa Figueroa (af839@cam.ac.uk); Ana María Villaveces Galofre (amv49@cam.ac.uk) & Dr Oliver Wilson-Nunn (ojw33@cam.ac.uk).