Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
Klaus Gallo was born in Buenos Aires in 1961, and obtained a DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford. He was a member of St Antony’s and Wolfson Colleges, where he was awarded the Norman Hargreaves Scholarship for studies in the history of Spain and Spanish America. At present he is Associate Professor of the History Faculty at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. His current research interests focus on politics, ideas and culture in Buenos Aires during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is author of De la Invasión al Reconocimiento. Gran Bretaña y el Río de la Plata 1806-1826, Buenos Aires, A-Z Editores, 1994, which was translated to English as Great Britain and Argentina. From Invasión to Recognition 1806-1826, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001; co-editor with Nancy Calvo and Roberto Di Stefano of Los Curas de la Revolución, Buenos Aires, Emecé, 2002; editor of Las Invasiones Inglesas, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2004; co-editor with Graciela Batticuore and Jorge Myers of Resonancias Románticas, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2005; author of The Struggle for an Enlightened Republic. Buenos Aires and Rivadavia, Institute for the Studies of the Americas, University of London, 2006; Bernardino Rivadavia. El primer presidente argentino, Buenos Aires, Edhasa, 2012; and Las Invasiones Argentinas. Nuestros Futbolistas en Inglaterra, Buenos Aires, Editorial Planeta, 2017.

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Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00
Venue: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Speaker: Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
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Part of: Latin American History Seminar
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