WSP Seminar with Ángeles Picone

Date: 

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

In person, CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St.

WSP Seminar with visiting scholar María de los Ángeles Picone, Boston College

“Locality as a Metaphor for the Nation: Nature and the Built Environment in Argentine Patagonia, 1930-1945”

María de los Ángeles Picone, a fall 2022 visiting scholar, is assistant professor of history at Boston College. She is a historian of modern Latin America with an interest in nation making, border regions, spatial history, and the environment. Her current book project examines how people in the northern Patagonian Andes created new understandings of the nation.

 

To attend virtually, please contact Erin Goodman (egoodman@wcfia.harvard.edu)