Natacha Bacolla

Natacha Bacolla is a researcher at CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina), where she currently co-directs the Humanities and Social Sciences Institute (IHUCSO). She holds professorships in Contemporary European History at the Faculty of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional del Littoral, and in Contemporary Social History at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. She has published numerous articles in indexed journals, books and book chapters, mainly on the social studies of the state, its knowledge and the phenomena of transnational circulation of knowledge and the relations between politics, academia and public life. Among the books she has published in recent years in this field, she participated as editor with an international team in the Routledge Handbook on circulation of Academic Knowledge (Routledge, 2023); and has and co-organized the collection Dimensiones del reformismo universitario. (HyA Ediciones, 2018).

The project

Title: Diplomacy, cultural transfers and the circulation of political languages. The construction of networks between France and Argentina, from the interwar period to the Cold War.

The aim of this research is to study the processes involved in building networks of circulation and cultural transfers between France and Latin America, focusing initially on Argentina between the 1930s and 1960s. The investigation focuses on the role played by various diplomatic and academic agencies, private foundations and publishing houses, as well as on the less formal actions of certain actors who acted as intermediaries in the circulation of themes and ideas from the two conflicting poles during the Cold War. Although this was a period when Germany and the United States were gaining significant positions in Southern Cone diplomacy, we argue that France maintained a relevant role as a cultural and political mediator, particularly in the Río de la Plata region.

Selective Bibliography

• Wiebke Keim, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Natacha Bacolla, Rigas Arvanitis, Chandni Basu, Stephan Dufoix; Stefan Klein, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Barbara Riedel, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Hebe Vessuri (Eds.) (2023). Handbook on circulation of Academic Knowledge, London: Routledge.

• Natacha Bacolla (2023). “Política y contingencia en la circulación global de ideas. Un caso de estudio: el Instituto de la Universidad de Paris en Buenos Aires en la primera mitad del siglo XX”. Dans: Klein. S. (coord) Circulação do conhecimento em teoría e prática. Brasil: Appris/UFB.

• Natacha Bacolla, Jimena Caravaca (2023). “Consultancy praxis. Dynamics of knowledge circulation between academia, private business and State”. Dans: Keim, W. and Rodriguez Medina, L. et al. (Eds). Handbook on circulation of Academic Knowledge. London: Routledge. 

• Natacha Bacolla (2022). “Redes transnacionales académicas en la Santa Fe de entreguerras. Espacios de sociabilidad intelectual,  diplomacia cultural y exilios”. Dans: Fernández, S.;  Sedrán, P. & Man, R. (comp.) Santa Fe en el escenario de la entreguerra: conflicto, solidaridades y tendencias. Rosario: Ishir. 

• Natacha Bacolla (2018). « Legislar el trabajo. Notas acerca de la construcción de un saber jurídico sobre el trabajo en Argentina: el caso de la Universidad del Litoral », Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [En ligne], Questions du temps présent, mis en ligne le 16 février 2018, consulté le 21 février 2018.

• Natacha Bacolla, “A propósito de Rafael Bielsa. Semblanza para una historia de la Ciencia Política en Argentina en los inicios del siglo XX”. Dans: Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades, N° 38, Universidad de Sevilla, segundo semestre de 2017.

• Natacha Bacolla ; Francisco Reyes (2018). “Los socialistas argentinos ante el conflicto argentino-chileno. Formas y sentidos del antimilitarismo en los orígenes del Partido Socialista en Argentina (1984-1902)”. Dans: en Iberoamericana, n°68, 2018, Berlín.