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Transnational Counterrevolutions:

Ideas and Practices of the Right in Latin America’s Cold War

Columbia University, November 9-10, 2018

Sponsored by the Columbia History Department, the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies, the Columbia Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Janey Program at the New School for Social Research.

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 (Jerome Greene Hall 101, Columbia Law School)

 

1:45 – 2:00            Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

2:00 – 3:45            Panel 1: The (Transnational) Caribbean Counterrevolution

 

Jennifer Lambe (Brown University). “The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War.”

 

Aaron Coy Moulton (Stephen F. Austin State University). “Counterrevolutionary Synergy: A Caribbean Basin Anti-Communist Network, 1947-1952.”

 

Michelle Chase (Pace University). “Cuban Anti-Communism from the Caribbean to the Congo, 1960-65.”

 

Discussant: Eric Zolov (Stony Brook University)

 

3:45 – 4:00            Coffee Break

 

4:00 – 5:45            Panel 2: Infrastructures and Relationships in the Southern Cone

 

1. Patrice McSherry (Long Island University). “Operation Condor: The Organization of Transnational State Violence.”

 

Paul R. Katz (Columbia University). “A Pericentric Approach to the Superior War Colleges of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s.”

 

Mila Burns (Lehman College, City University of New York). “Between Coups: Brazil and Chile Relations Before Allende and After 1964.”

 

Discussant:  Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)

 

6:00 – 7:30            Keynote 1: The European Democracies and the Brazilian Dictatorship: The Case of Great Britain. João Roberto Martins Filho (Federal University of São Carlos)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 (Jerome Greene Hall 104, Columbia Law School)

 

9:00 – 9:30            Light Breakfast

 

9:30 – 11:15         Panel 3: Transatlantic Networks and Inspirations

 

Luis Herran Avila (University of New Mexico). “La guerra por los caminos del mundo: transnational anticommunist violence and Latin America’s counterrevolution after 1959.”

 

Daniel Gunnar Kressel (Columbia University). “The ‘Spiritual Technocrat’ and the Theory of the “Post-Ideological” Society in Spain, Argentina, and Chile (1957-1977).”

 

Kirsten Weld (Harvard University). “A Guatemalan Reconquest: Falangist Ideology and Arbenz’s Overthrow.”   

 

Discussant: Nara Milanich (Barnard College)

 

11:15 – 11:30      Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 1:15         Panel 4: Neoliberalism and Right-Wing Theories of Progress

 

Benjamin Cowen (University of California, San Diego). “A Hemispheric Moral Majority: Brazil and the Transnational Construction of the New Right.”

 

Cos Tollerson (New York University). “Not One, But Many Brazils: Race-Thinking, Regionalism, and the 1964 coup d’état.”

 

Mary Roldán (Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center). “Foundation(al) Fictions: The Alliance for Progress, Corporate Philanthropy, the Catholic Church, and Neoliberal Development in Colombia.”

 

Discussant: Rachel Nolan (Society of Fellows, Columbia University)

 

1:15 – 2:15            Lunch

 

2:30 – 4:15            Roundtable: The Latin American Right and the Global Counterrevolution

 

Featuring Federico Finchelstein (New School), J. Patrice McSherry (Long Island University), Luca Provenzano (Columbia University), and Colleen Woods (University of Maryland). Moderated by Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University).

 

4:15 – 4:30            Coffee Break

 

4:30 – 6:00            Keynote 2: The Importance, Insights, and Challenges of the Study of Transnational Counterrevolutions. Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology)

 

6:00 – 6:30            Closing Remarks

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