Friday, April 11
3 PM – 5 PM
Theory and the Early Modern Archive
Guests
Gayatri Spivak
(Columbia)
Alessandra
Russo (Columbia)
Participants
Daniel Da Silva (Columbia)
Nicole Hughes (Columbia)
Rachel
Stein (Columbia)
Moderator
Ibai Atutxa (Columbia)
This roundtable will explore the relationship
between archive and theory and the ways in which archives challenge and expand theoretical
discourses. The graduates will introduce
an aspect of their research or a short work related to this topic and Professors
Spivak and Russo will then respond to and engage with the presented work while
also relating larger questions of theory and archive to their own work. Daniel
da Silva presents a reading of Portuguese Manuelino architecture that reveals
its liminal qualities, complicates theories of globalization and engages with the
concept of connected histories. Nicole
T. Hughes argues that mestizo practices and spaces of theater in the long
sixteenth century represented and thereby situated Iberian geopolitical events
in the Americas and, at the same time, inscribed new societies into European
history. Rachel Stein turns to books on the New World printed in early
seventeenth-century Lisbon to investigate the functioning of the printing press
in the global expansion of the Spanish-Portuguese Union of Crowns, proposing a
method of reading as the deployment of networks in order to rethink the
workings of early modern composite monarchies and Iberian globalization.
Saturday, April 12
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Queer
Public Lives in Latin America
Moderator
Gabriel
Giorgi (New York University)
Participants
Marcelo Carosi (NYU)
Jonathan Gómez (NYU)
Cristel Jusino Díaz (NYU)
Francisco Marguch (NYU)
Danielle Roper (NYU)
This panel will explore queer theories
and studies that address temporality, affect, the commons, and/or institutional
life (the university and the public humanities). Each of the graduate students will speak for
about 7-10 minutes in either English or Spanish with Gabriel Giorgi moderating.
