#  DRCLAS: Tuesday Seminar Series: Allende, Pinochet, and the Long Spanish Civil War in Chile 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 21, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

Speakers: **Kristen Weld**, Associate Professor, Department of History

Moderator: **Steven Levitsky**, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University

   ![Kirsten Weld](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/history/files/feb_21_weld.jpg?itok=6z3p26mo) 

 

This presentation explores the curious resonance of the Spanish Civil War in 1970s Chile, analyzing how and why Chileans of varied political stripes — from far-right golpistas to ardent supporters of Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular — invoked the Spanish Civil War as an explanatory framework for their own country’s crisis. It dicusses the formation of historical consciousness, the nature of Spanish-Latin American relations in the twentieth century, and the place of the Spanish Civil War in what historians have recently termed Latin America’s “Century of Revolution."**Kirsten Weld** is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in Harvard University’s Department of History. She is a historian of twentieth-century Latin American political conflicts and social movements. Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, won the 2015 WOLA-Duke Human Rights Book Award and the 2016 Best Book Prize from the Recent History and Memory Section of the Latin American Studies Association. She is currently writing a history of the Spanish Civil War’s legacies in Latin America.



 

 



 

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