Conference
The graduate students
of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
are pleased to announce their
third biannual (des)articulaciones conference:
(In)visible Cosmovisions:
Dialogues in Afro and Indigenous
Latin America and the Caribbean
Keynote speaker:
Catherine Walsh
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
Quito, Ecuador
October 21-22, 2011
With the emergence of subaltern and postcolonial studies over the past quarter century, scholars have increasingly shifted attention to the political, epistemic, and poetic force of indigenous and Afro-descendent communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nonetheless, the potential analogies and resonances between the worldviews, textualities, and recurrent political struggles of these populations remain largely overlooked and underexplored.
Des)articulaciones 2011 seeks to create a productive dialogue between these perspectives and explore new possibilities for decolonizing conceptual frameworks in the 21st century. This two-day conference brings together graduate students from various departments across the United States whose research engages with these issues.
Schedule:
Friday, October 21 9:00 am – 5:15 pm Student Sessions in 527 William Pitt Union
5:30 – 6:30 pm Roundtable discussion in 548 William Pitt Union
Saturday, October 22 9:00 am – 4:15 pm Student Sessions in 540 William Pitt Union
4:30 – 6:30 pm Keynote Address in 548 William Pitt Union
Keynote address: “Afro and Indigenous Life-Visions in/and Politics.
(De)colonial Perspectives”
Dr. Catherine Walsh,
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
This conference is sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Latin American Studies, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Humanities Center, and the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies.