Argentine Guest Researcher María Inés Tato at the University of Potsdam

Professor María Inés Tato, PhD, is a Principal Researcher of CONICET, based at the Institute of Argentine and Latin American History “Dr Emilio Ravignani” at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She coordinates that institute's Group of Historical War Studies (GEHiGue). Dr. Tato is also a Professor in the Master's program in War History at the Superior War College, Army Faculty, National Defense University (UNDEF). Her last book was “Falklands/Malvinas 1982. A War of Two Sides”, a rare collaboration between Argentine and British military historians on this sensitive topic, co-edited with Peter Stanley, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana and Rob McLaughlin.

As part of her project on the social and cultural history of the First World War, during her stay in Potsdam Professor Tato will research the military and economic mobilization of the German community in Argentina and the German diplomats' and military's perceptions of Argentine neutrality. She will also contribute to a seminar on the history of violence in Latin America taught by the Chair of War Studies.