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What do we call an intellectual celebrity? On Tagore's trip to Latin America (1924)

What do we call an intellectual celebrity? On Tagore's trip to Latin America (1924) Tagore y Victoria Ocampo

Instituto Cervantes, in collaboration with the Argentine Embassy in India, presents this lecture, which is part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Association of Hispanists of India. 


 In 1924 Rabindranath Tagore visited Argentina for two months. His original destination was Peru, where he had been invited as the guest of honour to the Centenary celebrations of the Battle of Ayacucho. Buenos Aires was then a city eager for visits by intellectuals like Tagore, and his arrival was awaited with great expectations. But the expected planning for his reception were unexpectedly changed . This conference reconstructs the details of Tagore's visit to Argentina, the different contexts in which it took place, and through it reflects on the modalities of construction of great intellectuals as global celebrities in the inter war world. 

Programame: 
Opening address by the Counsellor, Mr, Andrés Rojas of the Argentine Embassy in India. 
Introduction by Dr. Sonia Gupta, Jamia Millia Islamia University. 
Lecture by Dr. Martín Bergel.

About Dr. Martín Bergel

PhD in History (University of Buenos Aires). Independent Researcher of CONICET and the Center for Intellectual History of the University of Quilmes, where he directs the Master´s Program in Intellectual History. Professor of Contemporary Latin American History at the University of San Martín and the University of Buenos Aires. He was postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University (2012) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (2015). He was also Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS, 2019-2020); Mercator Fellow of the Global Intellectual History program at the Freie Universität Berlin (2022); and George Forster Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2023). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Shanghai and El Colegio de México.

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