The Gender and History Lecture Series Presents:
“Gender and the Politics of Consumption and Labor in Cold War Chile and the United States”
Heidi Tinsman, Professor of History
University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
4:30 pm
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Public reception to follow.
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor Heidi Tinsman’s work focuses on twentieth-century Latin American social history, gender history, and labor history. Her recent book, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile.
These events are co-sponsored by the History Department, El Instituto, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
For more information, contact: Cornelia Dayton at cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu