Academic and Scholarly Events

  • Women Warriors of the Southern Cone

    In the years after World War II, Latin America’s Southern Cone served as a refuge for former Nazis. A generation later, the military governments there abducted and “disappeared” thousands of their own citizens in a violent pursuit of “civilization” and “national purity.”  Professor Wassner, will highlight the historical parallels between the Holocaust and the “Dirty Wars” through an exploration of the Holocaust imagery Jewish feminist cultural activists in Argentina and Chile employed both during the dictatorships and in their aftermath in her presentation “Multi-Directional Cosmopolitans: Women Warriors of the Southern Cone” on November 14 at 1:15PM in the Class of ’47 Room at Homer Babbidge Library.  A kosher lunch will be served. 

     

    The lecture is part of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life’s Faculty Colloquium Series and is being co-hosted by El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies. 

     

     

    For more information, contact: Uconn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at 860-486-2271

If you have any questions, please contact Grad School at 860-486-3617.