Book presentation: Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas. Las islas, su gente y nosotros, by Sebastián Carassai

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Speakers: Sebastian Carassai, Professor of Introduction to the Knowledge of Society and the State at the Universidad de Buenos Aires; Amalia Lacroze De Fortabat Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS 2021-2022; and Oscar Chamosa, Associate Professor Department of History, The University of Georgia
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Presentation and discussion of the recently published book Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas. Las islas, su gente y nosotros (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores, 2022).

Sebastian Carassai is professor of Introduction to the Knowledge of Society and the State at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, and a member of the Center for Intellectual History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. He has published the books Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas. Las islas, su gente y nosotros antes de la guerra (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI editores, 2022), and The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence and Memory in the Seventies (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), which received Honorable Mention from the Bolton-Johnson Prize. A Spanish version of this last book was published in Argentina as Los años setenta de la gente común. La naturalización de la violencia (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI editores, 2013), and is now in its fourth edition. He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center (2016-17), held the General San Martín Chair at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018-2019) and is a fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (2022). In 2016, he was awarded the Konex Humanities Award of Argentina.

Oscar Chamosa is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He obtained his PhD in History in 2003 at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1955. (University of Arizona Press, 2010) and Breve historia del folklore argentino (Edhasa, 2012) He also co-edited with Matthew Karush The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power & Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina (Duke University Press, 2010). Chamosa has published several book chapters both in English and Spanish. His articles had appeared at the Hispanic American Historical Review and The Americas, among others. He is currently working on a book on the history of Habitat for Humanity in Latin America. 

Steven Levitsky is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. As the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, his research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions. He is author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), a New York Times Best-Seller that has been published in 25 languages, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge, 2010), and Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2003), and co-editor of Informal Institutions and Democracy in Latin America (with Gretchen Helmke) and The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (with Kenneth Roberts). He has written frequently for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Vox, The New Republic, The Monkey Cage, La República (Peru) and Folha de São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently writing a book (with Lucan Way) on the durability of revolutionary regimes. Levitsky received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.