History Seminar: División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Speaker(s): Laura Cucchi, Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC, and Eduardo Zimmermann, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
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Laura Cucchi obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires and currently holds a position as Associate Researcher at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council. She is Visiting Researcher at the Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Latin American Center (University of Oxford) thanks to a Gerda-Henkel- Postdoctoral Grant. Her publications include "Tensions between Congress and the Executive in 19th Century Argentina: Federal Intervention and Separation of Powers", Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 37:2, 2017 (with Ana L. Romero); and "Confrontations in the Argentine Congress during state formation (1862-1880): Provincial politicians, national authorities, and the public sphere of Buenos Aires", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 29:2, 2023. Her research focuses on Argentine parliamentary politics in the late 19th century.
Eduardo Zimmermann received a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a D.Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London; a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame; Visiting Professor at the Department of History, Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He teaches at Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been Head of the Humanities Department and Rector. Among his publications are the following books: Los liberales reformistas. La cuestión social en la Argentina, 1890-1916 (1995); (ed.), Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (1999); (co-ed.): Los saberes del estado (2012); Las prácticas del estado (2013); Las fuerzas de guerra en la construcción del estado. América Latina, siglo XIX (2013).
