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Lecture
Presenter:
Kirsten Weld
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 16:30 to 18:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Simmons A, Tepper Quad, Carnegie Mellon University
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Kirsten Weld, award-winning author and associate professor at Harvard University, will discuss her new book project: the Spanish Civil War's impact and legacies in Latin America. Kirsten Weld is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research explores struggles over inequality, justice, and historical memory in modern Latin America. She is the author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014); her current project, a study of the Spanish Civil War’s impact and legacies in the Americas, is under contract with Harvard University Press.
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of History
Non-University Sponsors:
Carnegie Mellon Global Studies; Carnegie Mellon Department of History