Carnegie Mellon University

Ruins and Glory

Ruins and Glory

The Long Spanish Civil War in Latin America

Talk by Kristen Weld, Department of History, Harvard University

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019

4:30 pm
Simmons A , Tepper Quad
Carnegie Mellon University

Kirsten Weld is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research explores struggles over inequality, justice, and historical memory in modern Latin America. She is the author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014); her current project, a study of the Spanish
Civil War’s impact and legacies in the Americas, is under contract with Harvard University Press.

Sponsored by: Carnegie Mellon's Global Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Modern Languages, and the University of Pittsburgh's Department of History and Global Studies Center