Events

Professor Campisi will present his monograph The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times (Pittsburgh 2024), which explores how writers represent Latin America's neoliberal apocalypse brought about by ecological disaster, socio-economic crisis, lingering traumas of dictatorship, and slavery's afterlives. See below for more details. What: a lecture by Nicolás Campisi (Georgetown University) When: May […]

Join us for a materia panel on our yearly theme energies of energy!   What: a panel with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Design School professors Manuela Garretón and Martín Tironi When: Thursday, April 10th, at 5:00-7:00pm Where: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Rm 252 (German Studies Library) Abstract: This presentation proposes a series of reflections for an agenda that explores the planetary condition as a new horizon […]

Join us for a materia panel on our yearly theme energies of energy! What: a panel with Rice University professors Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer When: Tuesday, April 8th, 5:00-7:00pm Where: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Rm 252 (German Studies Library) Abstracts: . Sucro Carbo Petro: A Genealogy of Modern Energy Dominic Boyer This talk discusses the evolution of […]