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Dalia Wassner

Dalia Wassner is the Director of HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina (Brill, 2014). She writes on feminist cultural connections between Jews and other minorities involved in Latin American processes of national democratization.

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Aida Bortnik

Aída Bortnik was an Argentine journalist, dramaturge, and screenwriter who wrote the first Argentine screenplay nominated for an Academy Award (“The Truce,” 1974), an award she later won for best foreign film in 1986 (“The Official Story”). Bortnik was also the first Argentine to pen a screenplay that addressed the military dictatorship (1976-1983) and the first Latin American admitted as a permanent member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.