October 2021
“ESCAPE TO DESPECIALIZATION The shapes that art takes on the edges”
Alejandro Meitin About the presentation: In my presentation I will focus on certain transdisciplinary initiatives that integrate the artistic way of thinking and action in their constitution and development, analyzing some examples of which I…
Find out more »November 2021
Lecture: “Short Term Medical Missions to Central America”
Douglas Dulli, MD, MS Presented by: Douglas Dulli, MD, MS About the speaker: I am a recently retired professor of Neurology and former director of the MEDiC Student-Run Free Clinic program. I have as an…
Find out more »Lecture: “Contemporary art and poetry and the colonial archive in Brazil | Arte y poesía contemporánea y el archivo colonial en Brasil”
Diana Klinger Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Diana Klinger About the presentation: In a moment marked by institutional crises and struggles over material and symbolic territories and meanings of the nation,…
Find out more »“The Sacrificial deaths of Peccary and Puma: A Pan-Andean Ethnographic Theme?”
Frank Salomon Description of the talk: From the Ecuadorian Andes in the 1970s and in the Peruvian central Andes in the 2000's, a surprising unity appears in the sphere of ritual drama. In both places…
Find out more »“Ficciones endeudadas latinoamericanas: el poder mimético y ficcional de la deuda/Indebted Latin American Fictions: The Power of Debt” (presented in Spanish with interpretation provided)
Karen Garcia Escorcia About the presentation: In this lecture, I will explore functions of debt as a literary motive in cultural productions from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Cuba. I will argue that debts are used…
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