Isabella Cosse, “’We Were Like a Bomb’:  

Child Refugees, Cuban Politics, and Argentine Revolutionary Organizations” 

History Department Colloquium, Monday, January 29, 3:00-4:30 pm 

Mesa Vista 1104 

In this colloquium session, visiting scholar Dr. Isabella Cosse will present her unpublished chapter, “We Were Like a Bomb,” for questions and discussion with the audience.  The chapter examines the experience of children and families of Left-wing Argentine insurgents, and their Cuban exile in the 1970s, in order to deepen our understanding of revolutionary internationalism, love, and politics in Cold War Latin America.  Attendees can access the chapter here:

Isabella Cosse is a historian and researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research) and a professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina. She has written several books (including Estigmas de Nacimiento, 2006; Pareja, sexualidad y familia en los años sesenta, 2010; and Mafalda: historia social y política, 2014, also published in English as Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic, 2019) and other publications where she looks at childhood and family in relation to social, cultural and political processes. She has been a Fulbright Fellow and Tinker Professor at Columbia University, has taught in different universities in Argentina and Latin America, and was co-founder of the Network of Latin American Childhood Historians. She is currently working on a book project entitled “Love and Politics during the Cold War”.