COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
Present
Theory (in) Place
XXII ANNUAL
GRADUATE CONFERENCE
April 11-12, 2014 at Columbia University
Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
Keynote
Address
Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University)
Theory and the
Early Modern Archive Roundtable
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University)
Alessandra Russo (Columbia University)
Alessandra Russo (Columbia University)
Queer Public Lives in Latin America Roundtable
Gabriel Giorgi (New York University)
Opening Remarks
Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco (Columbia University)
Theory (in) Place
seeks to interrogate the problems, challenges and potentials that Iberian,
Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, places and spaces pose to critical theory,
specifically tensions between the particular and universal. How can we think of
theoretical frames such as queer and postcolonial from within our areas of
study? What problems do these cultures, places and spaces pose to Marxist, and
post-Marxist theories? What are the frictions created between decolonial
proposals and European /US/Northern Hemisphere geopolitics? Is it possible to
articulate universal theories from within non-hegemonic geopolitical and
biopolitical borders and frames? These questions reveal both problems and
potentials of theoretical discourses as we investigate disciplinary frames
imposed upon theory; theoretical frames imposed upon geopolitical and
biopolitical objects and areas of study; and their asymmetric interactions. From
these points of inquiry Theory (in) Place aims to
elaborate on reconsiderations and new ways of theorizing and thinking from particular objects and spaces.
Graduate Panels
- Cultural Practices in Francoist Spain, ‘50s-‘70s
- On the Confines of Critical Discourse
- Approaching Theory through the Politics of Space
- Re-writing the cultural space in Latin America: Interruptions of other/emerging cultural productions
See Program for detailed schedule and panel abstracts
