Martín Bergel

Martín Bergel is professor of Latin American and Global History at the University of San Martín, and researcher of CONICET (Buenos Aires). He also directs the MA Program in Intellectual History at the University of Quilmes. He was visiting researcher at Harvard University and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in Berlin. Among his books, he has published El Oriente desplazado, Los intelectuales y los orígenes del tercermundismo en Argentina, and two anthologies by Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui.

“The Other Last Utopia. Genoa 2001 and the Memoirs of an Alternative Globalization” This project aims to produce a historical-philosophical essay and a series of personal chronicles about the city of Genoa, 25 years after the protests against the G8 Summit held in July 2001 in the context of the “movement of movements” for global justice. The author, who traveled from Buenos Aires and was present at those demonstrations, proposes a “return to Genoa” as a way of unearthing the lost stories of a historic moment that heralded an alternative globalization and other horizons of possible worlds.