Archives, Memory and Power - 30 Years of Trials of Argentina’s Military Junta Leaders (1985-2015)
Date: 6pm, Monday 16th March 2015
Venue: UCL Institute of the Americas, Lecture Theater 103, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN.
Speaker: Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti, Professor of American History, University of Salamanca
Chair: Dr Daniel Ozarow, Co-Convenor, Argentina Research Network and Middlesex University, London
Organisers: Argentina Research Network and UCL Institute of the Americas
IMPORTANT – Entry is free but you must reserve your place at the Eventbright page beforehand. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archivos-memoria-y-poder-a-30-anos-del-juicio-a-las-juntas-militares-argentinas-1985-2015-guillermo-tickets-16069103120
The talk will ONLY be given in Spanish.
Abstract:
On the 22nd April 1985 the “Junta Trials” began at the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires in which the leaders of the military dictatorship that had ruled Argentina with an iron fist between 1976 and 1983 during the so-called “National Reorganisation Process” took place.
The Trial of the Military Leaders became emblematic of Argentina’s return to democracy, understood as the re-establishment of full constitutional guarantees and the Rule of Law.
This seminar will pose three questions about this exceptional event and which correspond to the three concepts in its title: Archives, Memory and Power. First we run through the factors that helped to make The Trial of the Military Leaders a reality, distinguishing this case from those that sought to “wipe the slate clean” which occurred during the transitions to democracy in other parts of Latin America (and elsewhere in the world) under the “third wave of democratisation”. Secondly we record the unfolding of the trial; its revelations, the extent to which culpability was proven, its consequences. We end by outlining how the trials’ proceedings have since been documented and archived and the meaning that its preservation holds for recording memory of the Southern Cone dictatorships.
Speaker Biography:
Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti, Professor of American History, University of Salamanca.
As a specialist of Contemporary Latin American History Professor Delli-Zotti researches a range of problems presented by authoritarian and democratic regimes in the Southern Cone. He has published articles on the genesis of political violence during the 1960s and 70s, exile as an effect of dictatorial repression and other publications on the transition to democracy. Since 2009 he has participated in the “Footprints of Change” Project, a digital portal at University of Salamanca which collects, preserves and publicises documentation about Human Rights, Truth Commissions, Democracy and Justice in Iberoamerica. His forthcoming co-edited work with Fernando Pedrosa, Nuevas agendas en la Historia reciente. Extendiendo los límites, provides a panorama of the state of this discipline.
For further information: https://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/archivos-memoria-y-poder-lunes-16-de-marzo-de-2015archives-memory-and-power-monday-16th-march-2015/
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Dr. Daniel Ozarow
Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in Leadership, Work and Organisations
Deputy Head - Latin American Studies Research Group
Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT, UK
T: +44 (0) 208 411 3535
W: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/daniel_ozarow.aspx
Convenor - Argentina Research Network UK http://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/
***My newly published book***
"Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future", co-edited with C Levey and C Wylde, New York: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=758971
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