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The History Department at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College presents the "Internal Enemies and Dirty Wars in the Global 1970s" a conference which brings together various scholars from Latin America, Europe and the United States. The conference will reflect on the question of the "internal enemy" as well as on the so-called dirty wars developed during the global 1970s, which served to exclude and criminalize certain groups within and across different nations.

Panel and paper presentations include:

Panel I, moderated by Eric Zolov (SUNY-Stony Brook)

Angelo Ventrone (University of Macerata, Italy), “The Italian Revolutionary Left and the absolute enemy in the 70s: the ‘social-democratic police state,’ that is, the ‘perfect totalitarianism.’”

Louise Walker (The New School), "The Enemy Within: The Internal Bourgeois in Mexico"

Jeremy Varon (The New School), “Coming in From the Cold: CIA Defectors, Dirty Wars, and the American Conscience”

Panel II, moderated by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)

Greg Grandin (NYU), “Internalizing the External: Counterinsurgency and Neoliberalism during the Pivotal Decade”

Federico Finchelstein (The New School), “Before State Terror? Argentina’s Paramilitary Formations and their ‘Dirty Wars’ ”

Dominique Grisard (Zentrum Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland), “Body Politic. Hunger strikes and prison resistance by members of the Swiss, German and Italian Radical Left in 1970s Switzerland”

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