Center for InterAmerican Studies

Due to health issues of our speaker, we have to cancel today's colloquium. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, 24th of June 2025 from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University, Main Building, Room V2-213.

Argentinian scholar Martín Bergel will speak about "Populism from below and from abroad: the early stages of Peruvian Aprismo (1921-1945)"

Martín Bergel is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and at the Center for Intellectual History at the University of Quilmes, where he directs the Master's program in Intellectual History. He is also a professor of Contemporary Latin American History at the Universidad de San Martín and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University (2012) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (2015). Dr. Bergel was also Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS, 2019-2020); Mercator Fellow of the Global Intellectual History program at Freie Universität Berlin (2022); and George Forster Senior Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2023-2025). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Shanghai and El Colegio de México. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Seminar for the History of Ideas, Intellectuals and Culture “Oscar Terán” at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of the board of the yearbook Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual , and was between 2007 and 2018 of Políticas de la Memoria , yearbook of CeDInCI (Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierda). He directed the collective PICT research project “Intellectuals, Periodical Press and Globalization. The making of the public opinion on global issues (Buenos Aires, 1870-1940)”, and coordinates the research area "Perspectives on Latin America and Global History" at the Center for Latin American Studies of the UNSAM.