When:
Friday, February 27, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jeff Cernucan
(847) 467-2770
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
The Dark Side of the Cold War: The War on Drugs as Counter-Insurgency in Colombia's First Narcotics Boom
Lina Britto, History
Lina Britto, History, (PhD New York University, 2013) is an historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research focuses on the social, political, and cultural history of drug economies in Colombia, particularly marijuana. Her work situates the emergence and consolidation of illegal drug smuggling networks in the Caribbean and Andean regions in the context of growing articulation between Colombia and the United States during the Cold War. At Northwestern, she will be teaching on the transnational history of narcotrafficking and the “war on drugs” in the Americas, popular music and nation, and oral history and the production of archives.