Estudios Culturales en las Américas

Fecha: 24 al 27 de agosto de 2010
Lugar: Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

C O N V O C A T O R I A

Con el objeto de conmemorar el Bicentenario de la Independencia de México, el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana y los movimientos emancipatorios de América Latina, el Tecnológico de Monterrey, a través de la División de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Escuela de Gobierno, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, convoca a investigadores en las áreas de filosofía, literatura, historia, lingüística, ciencias políticas y sociales, artes visuales, semiótica, música y arquitectura al Congreso Internacional: Utopía: Espacios alternativos y expresiones culturales en América Latina.

La fecha límite para la recepción de resúmenes es el 01 de marzo 2010.  Los resúmenes se reciben en las siguientes direcciones electrónicas: utopia@itesm.mx o saldana.alicia@gmail.com

Más información

Estudios culturales en las Américas: compromiso, colaboración, transformación

Fecha: lunes-martes-miércoles 26-27-28 de octubre de 2009
Hora: 4:00-7:00PM
Lugar: 126 Voorhies (entrada libre)

En años recientes han tomado mayor relevancia los cuestionamientos realizados desde el campo de los estudios culturales a las diversas disciplinas pertenecientes a las humanidades y ciencias sociales. Además de lo cual, este proyecto intelectual ha establecido, con cierta velocidad, sus propios espacios institucionales, tales como programas de posgrado, series de libros, congresos y coloquios, revistas especializadas, etc. tanto en América Latina como dentro de los campos de estudios latinoamericanos y estudios latinos en los Estados Unidos (igual que en otros lugares: Canadá, Europa, Australia, etc.).  Mas información

Taking Indigenous Politics on its Own Terms Requires an Analysis Beyond “Politics”

Speaker: Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 4-6PM
Location: 3201 Hart Hall

Indigenous politics in Latin America has been branded as ‘ethnic politics,’ a quest to make ‘indigenous cultural rights’ prevail. Yet, what if ‘culture’ is insufficient, even an inadequate notion, to conceptualize the challenge that indigenous politics currently represent? Drawing ethnographic inspiration from recent events in the Andes I argue that current indigenous movements propose an ontological pluralization of politics as they conjure sentient entities (mountains, water, and soil-i.e. what we call nature) into the public political arena. Epistemically, this process cancels the nature-culture divide central to modern forms of representation, and exceeds notions of plurality conceived as the opening of politics to the participation of humans marked by gender, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religious belief–or any other diacritic of human difference.

Co-sponsor: Latin@American Cultural Studies Research Cluster

Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi

Speaker: Diana Taylor,  Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU; Founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Date:  Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Time:  4:00-6:00PM
Location:  126 Voorhies

Villa Grimaldi was a country estate in suburban Santiago that was turned into a covert prison and torture center during the Pinochet dictatorship. The property, mostly leveled, was rescued as something of a museum of memory al fresco in recent years.

This event is cosponsored by: Cultural Studies Graduate Group, Department of Spanish, Department of Theater and Dance, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and Hemispheric Institute on the Americas.

Unsung Architects: Free Blacks in 19th Century Havana (1830s-1840s)

Speaker: Luz Mena, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Geography (UC Davis)
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 1:00-2:30PM
Location: HIA Conference Room (5214 SS&H)

Luz Mena is a Cultural Geographer who works on race and gender issues in colonial relations, gendered configurations in political violence, the body as prime site of space production, and spatial constructions in music and dance. Her regional emphasis is Latin America with a focus in Cuba. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2001. Members of the supercluster, please read Luz’s book prospectus, posted on SmartSite, prior to the meeting.