Border Subjects / Global Hispanisms - International Conference
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Border Subjects / Global Hispanisms
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS)
This conference brings together scholars, curators, filmmakers, writers, and post-graduate students from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Europe, and the UK. It stems from the ongoing collaboration between members of staff from the programmes of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
The processes we associate with contemporary forms of 'globalization' have be they economic, political or cultural spawned a variety of re-worldings that, via a number of transdisciplinary formations, have reconfigured the humanities, including Hispanism and Latin-Americanism, Cultural Studies, Postmodernism, Post-colonialism and even Poststructuralism being the most well-known. After the financial crisis, new (and not so new) trans, de-, and/or non-national or regional objects, subjects and assemblages are coming to the fore, redrawing and digitalizing established frontiers and differences as well as re-defining the politics of culture and its study. Before our very eyes, the transversal routes of migration world-wide are breaking down established frontiers, both in the old metropoli and in the socalled peripheries, at whose sites new cultural and political subjects are emerging. In the light of this global expansion of neoliberalism and new forms of governmentality, as well as the histories globalization brings into view, what are the concerns that are or should define the research agenda of a newly globalized Hispanism? In this conference, we revisit LusoHispanic and Latin@-American geographies, and reconsider the subjectivities emerging out of the above mentioned processes, in their varying conditions and trajectories, and also by way of the items in the material culture that conspire in their fashioning.
Please note: The conference takes place at two different venues on the two days - full details are in the Programme.
Free event, open to all: Book Your Place
In collaboration with Canning House and the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), and as part of 'Thinking Ibero-America: Modernity and Indigenism' a conversation between Ticio Escobar and John Kraniauskas will be hosted on Thursday 23 November 2017 at 6.30pm. Attendees at the conference are able to attend this additional event free of charge and there is no need to book separately. Full details
This conference is generously supported by The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) and the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), both at Birkbeck, University of London. The Instituto Cervantes has also provided support for this event.
Contact name:
Madisson Brown
Contact phone:
(0) 20 7631 6612