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Lecture: “Anti-Semitism in the Río de la Plata Region in the 1930s”

August 5, 2015
On August 17, 2015, the lecture “Anti-Semitism in the Río de la Plata Region in the 1930s” was held on the Pocitos campus. It was presented by Dr. Ricardo López Göttig, a professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the School of Management and Social Sciences and an academic advisor at the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America. The speaker analyzed the blend of religious anti-Semitism and fascism that was embodied by figures in key sectors of society and politics during the interwar period in Uruguay and Argentina.
Dr. López Göttig holds a Ph.D. in History from Charles University in Prague. He is a professor of history. He served as director of the Political Science program at the University of Belgrano in Argentina. He was a senior researcher at the Friedrich Foundation in Argentina. His publications include: The Founders of the Republic, The Parliamentary Debate on the 1902 Electoral Reform, Borges and Peronism, The Religious Question at the 1853 Constitutional Convention, Free-Trade Socialism in the Argentine Congress between 1912 and 1914, The Legislator, the Community, and Individual Liberty, and The Bicentennial and the Evolution of Republican Institutions.

The event was organized by the university's Department of Jewish Studies.