Description:

Julio César Guanche Zaldívar, a renowned legal and political historian of modern Cuba, joins the Northwestern community in spring 2019 as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies. He will give the annual Buffett Lecture.

Guanche’s work focuses on republicanism, populism, and constitutional law. In a current project, he is studying the ideas, conflicts, actors, and repertoires of control and contestation that revolve around the pillars of a democratic understanding of republicanism. Learn more.

The lecture will be followed by a public conversation with Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History at Harvard University, and will be moderated by Paul Gillingham, associate professor of history at Northwestern University.

About the Professorship

Roberta “Bertie” Buffett Elliott endowed the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professorship in International Studies, which brings to campus leading scholars from around the world to build international relationships and provide educational opportunities for Northwestern students.