Lucía García Santana (LCL) UConn Humanities Institute Fellows’ Public Talk MARCH 26, 2015 -- 4:00-5:30 PM AUSTIN 301 “Representing Spanishness in 1940s Argentina: The Republican and Galician Exiles” Christopher Clark, a specialist in United States history, is a Professor of History at the Christopher Clark, a specialist in United States is a ProfessorBefore of History at the University of Connecticut and currently heads the history, History department. coming to University of Connecticut and currently heads the History department. Before coming to Connecticut in 2005 he taught at the University of York and then the University of Connecticut he taught at the of York andRoots then of theRural University of Warwick, bothinin2005 England. Among hisUniversity publications are The Capitalism: Warwick, both in England. Among his publications are The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990); The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990);(1995); The Communitarian Moment:with The Nancy Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association a volume (co-authored Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995); a volume (co-authored with Nancy Hewitt) of the American Social History Project’s Who Built America? (2000; 2007); and Hewitt) of the American Social History Project’s Who Built America? (2000; 2007); and Social Change in America from the Revolution through the Civil War (2006), which was Social Change from External the Revolution the Civil War (2006), which was his project whileinheAmerica was a UCHI Fellowthrough in 2002-3. hishis project while he he was a UCHI External Fellow in in 2002-3. project while was a UCHI External Fellow 2002-3. Social Change in America from the Revolution through the Civil War (2006), which was During the late 1930s and early 1940s, a significant number of Spanish Republican intellectuals settled Hewitt) of the American Social History Project’s Who Built America? (2000; 2007); and down in America fleeing the Spanish Civil war. The analysis of the cultural production of the ones who Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995); a volume (co-authored with Nancy arrived in Argentina during those decades of a(1990); risingThe Nationalism bringsMoment: to the fore Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 Communitarian Thequestions Radical with regard to identity and representation in a country built European immigration: HowCapitalism: does Exile contribute Warwick, both in England. Among his upon publications are The Roots of Rural to construe Connecticut the concept in of 2005 modernity in the former colony´s cultural Do these of intellectuals revisit he taught at the University of York and terrain?; then the University their antebellum aesthetics or develop new artistic strategies in a transatlantic cultural field?; University of Connecticut and currently heads the History department. Before coming toHow do their undertakings defy or support of States Spain,history, and what their political underpinnings? In Christopher Clark,a amonolithic specialist inimage United is a are Professor of History at the this talk, works by María Teresa León and Maruja Mallo will be the means to discuss the symbolic productivity of the Spanish Exiles´ artistic strategies to overcome the marginal status of displacement and, by the same token, perform an active opposition to Franco´s regime. Lucía García Santana is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literatures, Cultures and Languages Department at the University of Connecticut, where she is completing her dissertation “Transatlantic Intellectual Meridian: Spain in the Configuration of the Argentinean Field of Cultural Production (1900-1950).” She received her M.A. in Spanish Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2010, and she has been awarded different scholarships to carry out research in Argentina. She has published articles on Argentinean Theatre and Fiction in Latin American Theatre Review and INTI.