May 14
LatAm History Zoom talk by Dr Ian Merkel '10
Virtual research presentation by Dr. Ian Merkel, '10
Join this meeting on Zoom: https://carleton.zoom.us/j/91002771530
Ian Merkel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Miami University in Coral Gables, Florida. He received his dual PhD in History and French Studies from New York University and History from the Universidade de São Paulo in May 2018 and has taught at NYU, Cornell University, and the University of Turin. Dr. Merkel is an historian of Brazil and Latin America. His research and teaching examines exchanges and interactions between Latin America, Western Europe, and the colonial world historically and how they have impacted the social sciences, political and social formations, and aesthetics. His book manuscript, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Remaking of the French Social Sciences argues for the importance of Brazilians such as Mário de Andrade, Gilberto Freyre, and Caio Prado Júnior in reframing French debates about geography and culture, articulating the relationships between race and class, and understanding long-distance trade and the capitalist world system. By focusing on the dialogues between intellectuals such as these and Roger Bastide, Fernand Braudel, Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, it resurfaces the global nature of knowledge production and the inequalities that governed it during the middle of the twentieth century.
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