Mecila
26 Mar

[2021] Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges

GHI | Mecila

Virtual

About the event

Mecila is supporting a four-part lecture series on “Mobilities and Migration across the Americas,” organized by Albert Manke (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at the University of California, Berkeley) and Mario Peters (GHI Washington).
The third virtual lecture, “Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges,” will be held this Friday (March 26).
In this session, historian Andra B. Chastain (Washington State University Vancouver) will discuss the history of the metro system in Santiago de Chile where French-Chilean collaboration played an important role
Sociologist and historian Dhan Zunino Singh (National University of Quilmes) will address the introduction of underground railway systems for urban public transport in Boston and Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a cultural-historical and transnational perspective.
To participate, please register here!
Sponsors:
Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Global International and Area Studies, Center for Latin American Studies,
CALAS – Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Temporalities of Future” and Mecila.