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  • International Conference: narratives of the sociotechnical

    materia International Symposium Date: Friday, May 5th 9am-5pm; Saturday, May 6th 9am-12:30pm, 2023 Place: Bolívar House (Center for Latin American Studies), 582 Alvarado Row RSVP Description: On May 5th and May 6th, the DLCL Research Unit materia will be hosting a two-day symposium, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and art practitioners to discuss […]

  • Hybrid Roundtable Reading Session: Latour & Schultz’s “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo”

    Pigott Hall 252

    𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 is thrilled to invite you to our first event of the 2023-24 academic year: a hybrid roundtable discussion of "On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo", by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, in collaboration with Bio/Geo/Cosmopolíticas and NYU - Buenos Aires. The event will be held on Thursday, November 30th, at 9am PST/ 14h BsAs. This international panel […]

  • Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair

    Bolivar House 582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA, United States

    Dear all, materia is thrilled to announce our first event of 2024, an Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair. materia is a DLCL Research Unit focused on anthropodecentrisms, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Our 2023-24 yearly theme is narratives of the sociotechnical: infrastructure, telos, and scale. What: a unique opportunity to engage with advanced graduate students currently working with environmental humanities […]

  • Panel with Diana Montaño and Dhanashree Thorat: Collaboration with CPADA

    Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA, United States

    On February 27, materia will be hosting a panel in collaboration with “Colonialism, Post, and Anti, in the Digital Age (CPADA).” Diana Montaño (Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis) will be presenting with Dhanashree Thorat (Assistant Professor of English, Mississippi State University). The event will take place at 5:30pm at the Stanford […]

  • Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning

    Pigott Hall 252

    This talk focuses on queer performance art that foregrounds female pleasure in land defense and in re-imagining a world organized by desires other than profit, amid the rise of subjunctive aesthetic modes in environmentalist culture. CAROLYN FORNOFF is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the author of Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production […]

  • Differential Dispossession and the Rise of (European) White Indigeneity

    Pigott Hall 216

    A discussion of White Counterreformation from the perspective of Rising Seas | Melting Glaciers to demonstrate the ongoing conditions of geontopower as the ecological catastrophes begun in colonialism start seeping into European soils. ELIZABETH POVINELLI is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University, as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the […]

  • Introducing the New Humanities in Europe

    Pigott Hall 252

    In this lecture, building on the recent publication of The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities, Italian philosopher Rosi Braidotti maps out the impact of so-called “post-” human thought in European academic institutions. How does this sweeping phenomenon interface with recent developments in capitalism and nationalism in the continent? To what extent is it […]

  • Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty: ““Climate Change and the Politics of Difference”

    Pigott Hall 252

    materia is thrilled to announce our fourth and final meeting this quarter: a talk this Friday, May 24 by esteemed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty: “Climate Change and the Politics of Difference."  His talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the author, moderated by our team. Professor Chakrabarty teaches in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the […]

  • Reading Session: energies of energy

    Pigott Hall 252

    We are very pleased to invite you to materia's first event of the academic year: a Reading Session in collaboration with the DLCL's Marxisms Reading Group! What: Reading Session: energies of energy When: October 17th, 5-6:30pm Where: Pigott Hall 252 This reading session will be an introduction to our yearly theme: energies of energy. Our events will build upon the previous […]

  • materia Graduate Student Research Fair: Energies of Energy

    We are pleased to invite you to the second materia event in our Energies of Energy series: a Graduate Student Research Fair. This will be a colloquium-format series of presentations on Ph. D. students' ongoing research projects, followed by responses and a Q&A/discussion. Our guests will be: Ambika Athreya (UC Berkeley German) Title: "Los encuentros eléctricos de Humboldt: Affect, Adventure […]

  • Narrating Torture in the Military Dictatorship: An Electrical History

    Pigott Hall 216

    Date Thu February 20th 2025, 5:00 - 6:30pm Event Sponsor Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Location Pigott Hall 216 Narrating Torture in the Military Dictatorship: An Electrical History Since the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 began systematically using torture against political dissidents, depictions of torture in films and literature have […]

  • Forms of Energy and Cosmopolitics of Labor

    Pigott Hall 252

    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 […]

  • The Terrestrial Condition of AI: Notes on Planetary Design

    Pigott Hall 252

    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 […]

  • The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times

    Pigott Hall 252

    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 […]