The Revolutionary Wave of the New Left in Latin America and Europe (1960-1990).

Two friends, Eduardo Rey Tristan (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) and Alberto Martin Alvarez (Instituto Mora, México), are putting the final touches on a November 18-19 conference at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain on The Revolutionary Wave of the New Left in Latin America and Europe (1960-1990).

The workshop seeks to open an academic dialogue about the origins, development and decline of the wave of revolutionary violence of the New Left in Latin America and Europe. The workshop favors the adoption of transnational perspectives that explore influences and links -ideological, material and personal- between organizations and revolutionary groups within and between the two continents. We are especially interested in such issues as the spread of ideas and repertoires of action, the collaboration, support or solidarity between organizations, and comparative perspectives that would allow us to find possible common patterns of emergence, development and disappearance of armed groups within the wave of the “New Left”.

The workshop will have two parts. During the first day, senior scholars will lead a seminar on Transnational Perspectives on Political Violence Research that will explore the state of contemporary scholarship on the New Left. The second day will be dedicated to the presentation of lines of research - of individual researchers or research teams- in order to build an international network among scholars in Latin America, Europe and the United States engaged in the comparative study of political violence and revolutionary mobilization between 1960 and 1990. 

If you are interested in attending and/or participating in the workshop, please contact Alberto (amartin@institutomora.edu.mx) or Eduardo (eduardo.rey@usc.es). It looks like a terrific conference with presentations by

Peter Waldman of the Universität Augsburg on European Terrorism and Latin American Guerrilla: Comparability and Paths to Explore.

Eduardo Gonzalez Calleja of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on The Conceptual Debate between European Terrorism and the Latin American Guerrilla.Shared or Different Waves of Mobilization?

Timothy Wickham-Crowley of Georgetown University (Washington D.C.) on Two Waves of Guerrilla-Movement Organizing in Latin America. 

Ybon Le Bot of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris on From Third World revolution to the social movement in globalization. Paradigm shift in Latin America.

There's also time built in for debates and the sharing of current and future research by all those attending. See here and here for more information. Hopefully, this will be the first of many fruitful gatherings.