Not every student has the chance to spend a semester abroad. The International Guest Lecturer Program of the International Office now brings international experience to the students: Guest lecturers from outside of Europe come to Bremen and give students the chance to participate in international courses and acquire intercultural competencies at home. While the guest lecturers themselves work as important multipliers at their home universities, they intensify the university’s cooperation and motivate students to study at the University of Bremen. At the same time, they enlarge their research networks.

In the context of this program, the work group “History of Latin America” in the Faculty of Social Sciences welcomes a special guest: From December 10 to 15, the historian for Latin America Prof. Gabriela Soto Laveaga will visit the Institute for History in Bremen. During a public lecture on Monday, December 10 she will speak on Mexico’s input on the worldwide pharmaceutical development. Everybody interested is gladly invited. In her courses she will also deal with topics such as vocational training for doctors in Mexico and Kuba since the 1950s, demographic policy and Latin American history of science.

On Soto Laveaga

Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga, a US citizen of Mexican descent, is a teacher and researcher at the University of California in Santa Barbara. There she is director of the Iberian and Latin American Studies and member of the editors’ advisory board of the well-respected Hispanic American Historical Review. She primarily works on Latin American history of ideas after 1945. Her work also includes the topic of health science from a historical perspective with a focus on Mexico and Kuba.

Further information
on the program
Universität Bremen
International Office
Janna Rodi
Phone: +49 421 218 60380
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on the guest lecturer:
Universität Bremen
Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft
Annika Hartmann
Phone: +49 421 218-67212
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or
Teresa Huhle
Phone: +49 421 218-67201
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