Past Talks
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Professor María del Rosario Acosta López
Friday 1/26
“One Hundred Years of Forgotteness: Aesth-ethics of Memory in Latin America”
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Mario Santana (University of Chicago)
Friday 2/23
“Timely Matters in Jaume Cabré’s Jo Confesso: The Poetics of Redemption in Contemporary Fiction”
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Peter Elmore (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Friday 3/9
“Migraciones y retornos: Modernización y utopía andina en el Perú de los 60”
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Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University)
Friday 4/6
“Maritime Unionism and Proletarian Verse Cultures CA. 1934”
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Steven Marsh (UIC)
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Rosie Hernandez (UIC)
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Margarita Saona (UIC)
April/May
(Latin American / Gender Studies)
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Gabriel Riera (UIC)
September
Del “comunismo literario” a la farsa democrática: avatares y destino de lo “teórico” (Theory)
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Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
October
(Medieval)
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Nena Torres (UIC)
November
(Political Science)
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Roundtable
December
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Dianna Niebylski (UIC)
January 27
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Xabier Granja, Andres Aluma-Cazorla, Ana Baez (UIC)
February 16
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Javier Durán (University of Arizona)
March 8
Ethical and Bio-Political Dimensions of Migrancy, Life and Death in Mexico’s Southern Border
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Daniel Noemi (University of Michigan)
April 19
Últimamente todos los libros hablan de eso: realismos y memoria en la narrativa latinoamericana reciente
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Cristián Roa (UIC)
September 29
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Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis)
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Agnes Lugo Ortiz (University of Chicago)
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Roundtable
December 1
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Martín Ponti, Melissa Huerta, Raúl Gutiérrez (UIC)
January 27
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Tatjana Gajic (UIC)
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Alejandro Madrid (UIC)
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Frederick de Armas (University of Chicago)