Inhalt des Dokuments
Dissertation
Buenos Aires in the Epidemic Years: Disease,
Nature, Barbarism and Civilization. 1867-1874.
In
the years between 1867 and 1874, Buenos Aires was struck by an
impressive succession of epidemic diseases. In 1867, cholera reached
for the first time the southern shore of the River Plate and ravaged
the city for two years. In 1871, following an ascendant dramaturgy,
the porteños were struck by a massive yellow fever
epidemic that killed almost a tenth of the city’s population and
left deep scars in the space and memory of the city. In 1874 cholera
broke out again in the city showing the impotence of contemporary
medical and hygiene theory.
During these ‘epidemic
years’, Buenos Aires was struggling to gain its position as
hegemonic capital of the Argentinean confederation, fighting to
consolidate its geographic role as trading and industrial intermediary
between the green pampa prairies and the Atlantic World. The epidemics
represent a major crisis moment in the construction of the city as
mediator between the pampa and the world. Both places that represented
this connection, the slaughterhouses – as place where the products
of the pampa were processed – and the harbor – as place where the
goods were sold and shipped – became through their polluting and
spreading of contagions potential highly controversial. My
dissertation analyzes these epidemic crises and contextualizes them in
the colonial tension between urban Buenos Aires and its imagined
natural ‘other’. My work aims to contribute to the deconstruction
of the historical dichotomy between ‘urban’ and ‘natural’. The
special position of Buenos Aires in the context of the
colonial/post-colonial relationships as well as its semi-peripheral
position in the economic world-system makes of it an extraordinary
interesting case that goes beyond the classical global north/global
south dichotomy.
CV
EDUCATION
Since May
2012
PhD Candidate in History: “Buenos Aires in the Epidemic
Years: Disease, Nature, Barbarism and Civilization. 1867-1874.”
Advised by Michael Goebel (FU Berlin) and Dorothee Brantz (TU
Berlin)
May 2012 - May 2015
DFG-Fellow, International
Graduate Program “the World in the City”, Technische Universität,
Berlin.
PhD Candidate, Technische Universität, Berlin (advised
by: Dorothee Brantz).
December 2011
Master of Arts in
Historical Urban Studies, Technische Universität, Berlin.
July 2008
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Università “La
Sapienza”, Rome.
September 2006 – September 2007
Erasmus Scholarship, Philosophy and History, Freie Universität,
Berlin.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since November 2015
Editor of the Academic Blog
“Global Urban History” [www.globalurbanhistory.com [3]]
Since October 2015
Research Assistant, FU Berlin
February 2012 – June 2012
Organizational assistant –
conference Kulturen des Bruchs – Kulturstiftung
des Bundes. Berlin
Since 2010
Creation of the
initiative Berliniamo!
Tour guide, historical and
political education programs for Italian schools. Berlin.
September 2009 – December 2010
Student assistant – Center
for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2015 Blog Entry
“Historicizing ‘Urbanity’: Buenos Aires in the Epidemic Years”
http://globalurbanhistory.com/2015/12/03/historicizing-urbanity-buenos-aires-in-the-epidemic-years/
[4]
Conference Report: Metropolitan Temporalities,
20.11.2014 – 22.11.2014 Berlin, in: H-Soz-Kult,
29.04.2015,<http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-5946>.
CONFERENCES / WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS
October 2014
‘There is no reason for
fear’. Emotions and control in Buenos Aires first cholera
epidemic. At Urban History Association
Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
October 2014
‘No hay motivo de miedo’: los vecinos en
la epidémia de cholera de 1867.
At VI Taller de
Historia Social de la Salud y la Enfermedad, Rosario, Argentina.
July 2014
Buenos Aires in the time of Cholera.
Fear, compassion and urban control.
At Epidemic
Entanglements, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
RESEARCH TRIPS
January
2013
New York City / USA
(Columbia University)
February 2013 – May 2013
Buenos Aires / Argentina
(Archival research)
January 2014
New York City /
USA
(Columbia University)
February 2014 – April
2014
Buenos Aires / Argentina
(Archival Research)
September 2014
New York City / USA
(Columbia
University)
TEACHING
SoSe 2016
“Einführung in die Geschichte Lateinamerikas:
lokale Strukturen und globale Ströme”. Freie Universität Berlin.
SoSe 2014
“Städtebau und Architektur im
Faschismus” in Katharina Schembs’ Übung “Kulturgeschichte des
italienischen Faschismus“. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
WiSe 2013/14
with Lisa Vollmer. Part concerning theories in
“Methoden, Quellen und Theorien moderner Stadtforschung”.
Technische Universität, Berlin.
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