Café Latinoamericano: Prof. Diego Galeano (PUC-Rio)

GWZ, 2. Floor, Room: 4.216

Language: English

This presentation analyzes the connected history of transnational crime and policing networks in the South American Atlantic region between the 1890’s and 1940’s, with a focus on currency counterfeiting. I follow the trajectories of two cross-border counterfeiters: a French photographer who emigrated to Argentina in the late nineteenth century and a Portuguese photographer who emigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their trajectories are only a fragment of a wider web of criminal and police circulations in the Atlantic world.

CfP: Latin America and “1989”. Social, political, and economic antecedents and consequences

Summer School 2019 “1989 – A Caesura in Global History and its Consequences”
XVII International Summer School of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies of the
Research Academy Leipzig.

Leipzig, 12 to 15 June 2019

The Latin American region offers evidence for considering “1989” a caesura in global history,
and not just a Central European historical particularity. Latin America was one of the main test
grounds for the neo-liberal structural adjustment programs prescribed by the “Washington
Consensus.” The region was also one of the main cases for what Samuel Huntington called “the
third wave of democratization,” a concept that many associate with the year 1989. Moreover,
country specific events in or around the year 1989 would suggest transnational interdependencies of social, economic and political factors. A few empirical examples are: the
neoliberalization of previously staunchly revisionist states like Mexico, the end of long-standing
military governments and democratization of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Haiti, as well as the
violent reactions to IMF-sponsored structural adjustment measures in Venezuela. This panel
aims to critically analyze the relationship between the social, political, and economic processes
leading to or following “1989.” Scholars have in the past argued in favor and against the connection between social processes in Latin America and a “global 1989.” By bringing in inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives, the panel hopes to achieve a critical discussion that helps us to further understand whether contemporary changes in the region – like the left-right regional political shifts or continuing economic woes in countries like Argentina and Venezuela – are related to the global historical caesura of 1989. Detracting arguments are particularly welcome, as they would enrich the panel’s theoretical discussion.

Please submit abstracts for individual presentations (max. 250 words), before April 29, 2019.
Contact: cel-le@uni-leipzig.de

Dear Friends and colleagues,

We would like to share with you the initiative Coloquio de estudios latinoamericanos en Leipzig (CEL-LE). This new endeavour arises from the successful response to the conference Latin American Transitions, held at Leipzig University in October 2018.

CEL-LE seeks to generate a space for reflection, critical thinking, and debate about Latin America in the global context. In addition, it is our goal to promote Latin American studies in Leipzig. In order to fulfil these goals, we will carry out a series of activities like a monthly colloquium for Latin America researchers. Please feel free to share this information with your contacts. The meeting times will be available on our Website, as well as on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Coloquio-de-Estudios-Latinoamericanos-en-Leipzig-CELLE . In addition, you can reach us through our new mail address cel-le@uni-leipzig.de

We hope to hear from you soon and we invite you all to follow CEL-LE initiatives through the above-mentioned channels.

The CEL-LE Organization Team