Prensa y academia. Los seminarios de El Colegio de México y su presencia periodística en la discusión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1943-1944)

This paper seeks to understand the journalistic coverage of academic institutions and their spaces in the public discussion of World War II in the Mexican context of the first half of the 1940s. To this end, we examine the case of El Colegio de México and its Collective Seminars on the War and Latin America, specialized discussion initiatives held between 1943 and 1944. Set in a context of political tension due to Mexico’s entry into the global conflict, the debate about the war, and the institutionalization of the social sciences, this article explores how these projects and their journalistic coverage helped various intellectuals and public officials close to El Colegio de México seek to strengthen their position in the country’s public and political sphere. Based on the analysis of the journalistic coverage that was carried out on the seminars, we seek to understand how the position of the actors participating in these spaces was sought to be legitimized, in addition to presenting a series of criticisms to other groups in power.

Institutionalisation · Latin Americans · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Afro-Latin American Studies · Argentine historical studies · History and International Relations