Pedro Iacobelli Delpiano

Pedro Iacobelli Delpiano (M.A. & Ph.D. the Australian National University) is a historian of trans-regional connections between Latin America and the Asia-Pacific whose research focuses primarily on the cultural and political dimensions of migration, economic exchange and diplomacy since the 19th century. He is also interested in contemporary migration, Pacific studies and Japanese cinema. Pedro Iacobelli is currently Associate Professor of History and Director of the History Institute at the Universidad de los Andes in Chile.

The project

Title: Échanges et mobilité entre l'Amérique du Sud et la Polynésie du Sud-Est, 1848-1871

Host institution: CREDA – UMR 7227 (CNRS-USN), Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers

Selective bibliography

• 2024. De cara a Asia: pautas en la relación chilena con China y Japón, 1880-1940. Santiago: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana.
• 2023. The Japanese Empire and Latin America. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. (coedited with Sidney X. Lu).
• 2023. « Rapa Nui au XIXe siècle : l'île convoitée », in Revue d´histoire du XIXe siècle Vol. 67, No. 2, pp.29-35.
• 2022. “Ambivalences orientalistes : économie chilienne et marchés asiatiques, 1900-1940” in Cahiers des Amériques latines, Vol 100-101, No. 2-3
• 2021. “Japan´s intelligence network in Chile during WWII” in Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 56, no. 1 (2021) pp. 77-95 (Online First, January 2020).
• 2020. Memoria y paisaje en el cine japonés de posguerra. Santiago: Ediciones UC, (co-edited with Claudia Lira)
• 2017. Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. London: Bloomsbury Academic.