Memory, Resistance and Democracy: Argentina 1976 - 2026: 50 Years After the Coup

Join us in marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'état in Argentina. Half a century later, the past is not behind us. The legacy of the civic-military dictatorship continues to shape how we understand memory, justice, democracy, and the ongoing search for truth. The Argentine experience offers not only a history to remember, but lessons that continue to resonate. 

Panel Discussion: Authoritarianism and democracy in Argentina: 50 years after the military coup

Moderator: Dr. Marcelo Vieta
Departmental Chair and Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

This panel will examine the political and social struggles surrounding the 1976 coup, how they were transformed with the return to democracy, and what these developments reveal about political change in Argentina over the last fifty years. It also invites reflection on the limits that the legacy of the dictatorship continues to impose on the country's political and economic life.

These reflections seem particularly important as the democratic consensus that, despite its limitations, helped keep authoritarianism at bay since the1980s gives way to a far-right political experiment whose full consequences 
remain uncertain.
 

Presentations by invited speakers
• Workers and working class struggles in Argentina
• Human rights as continual struggle
• From the transition to democracy to the authoritarian turn
 

For further event details, please visit https://neveragain.crd.co/#panel