BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:19511-49e668e83a7026c7574cde49e0a1002c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T114916Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T193000 SUMMARY:“Holocaust Survivors, Immigration Policy, and Memory in Mexico and Argen tina: Beyond a Regional Response” DESCRIPTION:\nIn this lecture\, Daniela Gleizer will offer a comparative analysis of the reception of Holocaust survivors in Mexico and Argentin a after the war. Latin America is often treated as a single\, homogeneou s entity\, yet the experiences of these two countries were strikingly di fferent. This lecture will use the comparison to challenge that assumpti on and to highlight the very distinct policies and responses within the region after 1945\, a period less researched.\n\nDaniela Gleizer is a pr ofessor and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research\, Nationa l Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a Ph.D. in history f rom El Colegio de México and has received several awards for her work. H er research focuses on the relationship between the Mexican state and fo reigners\, with an emphasis on immigration and naturalization policies. She is the author of Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees fr om Nazism\, 1933–1945 (Brill\, 2014)\, and co-editor of The Holocaust an d Latin America: Migration\, Resettlement and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan \, 2025). She teaches graduate and postgraduate history courses at UNAM\ , is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers and the Latin A merican Jewish Studies Association\, and is an affiliate researcher at U niversity of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ holocaust-survivors-immigration-policy/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this lecture , Daniela Gleizer will offer a comparative analysis of the reception of Holocaust survivors in Mexico and Argentina after the war. Latin America is often treated as a single, homogeneous entity, yet the experiences o f these two countries were strikingly different. This lecture will use t he comparison to challenge that assumption and to highlight the very dis tinct policies and responses within the region after 1945, a period less researched.

Daniela Gleizer is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexi co (UNAM). She holds a Ph.D. in history from El Colegio de México and ha s received several awards for her work. Her research focuses on the rela tionship between the Mexican state and foreigners, with an emphasis on i mmigration and naturalization policies. She is the author of Unwelcome < span style="text-decoration: underline">Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Re fugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of The Holocaust and Latin America: M igration, Resettlement and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She teaches graduate and postgraduate history courses at UNAM, is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers and the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, and is an affiliate researcher at University of So uthern California’s Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Resear ch.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ho locaust-survivors-immigration-policy/

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