Arts & Humanities Workshop

This event will be in Spanish. ¿Por qué el archivo, y por qué ahora? Las apuestas en torno al archivo nunca han sido tan altas. En un tiempo en que las historias se disputan intensamente, la memoria se utiliza como arma y el futuro de nuestros pasados...

In this session, we will discuss a draft of the introduction to Romina Wainberg’s monograph-in-process, Against Productivity: Unproductive Writing in Early Latin American Fiction. The introduction grapples with a long-standing grand narrative about early...

In the spring of 2013, televisions across Venezuela announced the death of then-president Hugo Chávez, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and key political actor in Latin America’s “turn to the left.” Chávez’s death, however, was not the end of Chávez’s...

Please join us for a discussion of Amy E. Wright’s book, Serial Mexico (2024). In it, Wright undertakes an engaging analysis of how serialized narratives across literature, television, and digital media reflect and shape Mexico’s national and cultural...

In this session, we will discuss a draft of the introduction to Romina Wainberg’s monograph-in-process, Against Productivity: Unproductive Writing in Early Latin American Fiction. The introduction grapples with a long-standing grand narrative about early...

Please join us on a discussion of Carolyn Fornoff’s book, Subjunctive Aesthetics. Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024). In it, Fornoff undergoes a fascinating analysis of how contemporary writers...

Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) takes us to the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. As Rosario...

This workshop will be held in Spanish. Speaker Juan Torbidoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative...

This event will be held in Spanish. Speakers: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Writer; Martín Kohan, Writer Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Gabriela Cabezón Cámara y...

Speaker: Julia Fierman, College Fellow, Anthropology, Harvard University Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University In this session we will discuss two articles that analyze the...