PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Gabriel Giorgi (NYU, Spanish and Portuguese) Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa's text "Meu tio o iauaretê" ("My Uncle the Jaguar," ca. 1950) is a turning point in the cultural reflection about the relation of animality and politics in South America: it marks the disappearance […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Ericka Beckman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spanish and Portuguese) This talk explores how two key works of mid-twentieth century fiction registered the uneven and contradictory dynamics of rural modernization in Latin America. While it remains commonplace to associate the […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Eric L. Santner (University of Chicago, Germanic Studies) Santner proposes a new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. The soveriegn's phantasmatic flesh -- the sublime subject-matter of the King's Two […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Andrew Brown (Washington University in St. Louis, Spanish and Comparative Literature) In this talk, Brown will review many of the ways Latin American writers have imagined the posthuman as an instrument for navigating complex political and social realities. He will then consider how […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Francine Masiello (University of California at Berkeley, Spanish and Comparative Literature) Under authoritarian regimes of the 1970s and 80s, a focus on the "bare life" conditions of the detained and disappeared triggered a wide conversation in the arts regarding ways to represent the […]

Bill Brown's talk this Wednesday has been cancelled. Thank you to all of you who had confirmed your participation. We will keep you posted about a possible rescheduling later in the academic year. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you on November 18th to discuss Pope Francis and Philip Drake! Contact Email: pvalderr@stanford.edu, […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. In this meeting, we will be discussing Pope Francis's Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and Philip Drake's "Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn: Animating Nonhumans, Exploitation, and Politics with ANT and Animal Studies" (2015). The encyclical is available for […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Jacques Lezra (NYU, Spanish and Comparative Literature) "Objects," writes Graham Harman, in an essay titled "I am also of the opinion that materialism must be destroyed," "are not a gullible fetish resulting from a sad, reactionary obsession with the manifest image. Instead, individuals […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Speaker: Anna Castillo (Stanford, PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures) This talk looks at the potential effects of biomedicine’s ever-intensifying intrusion into everyday sexual intimacy and suggests that genderqueer agency can manifest through body modification. As plastic surgery and sex-reassignment procedures have become […]

PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Guest speaker: Dierdra Reber (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese) This talk will explore the ways in which animal metaphor turns up in Latin American film from the 1960s to the present in the service of denouncing neoliberalism, elitism, and socio-ecological death, and, conversely, of propounding […]

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Thursday, May 12, 2016 - Schedule of Events Breakfast & Introductory Remarks | 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom Panel 1 | 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom Panel Chair: Zephyr Frank, Professor of History, Stanford "The Anthropocene and the Posthuman in […]

In this session, we will discuss selections from Osvaldo Lamborghini’s Tadeys (1983/ 2005) and António Vieira’s "Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes” (1654). We will also discuss Terry Eagleton’s Materialism (2017). Our session will be led by Patricia Valderrama (Comparative Literature, Stanford) and Leo Velloso (Comparative Literature, Stanford).   

PIGOTT HALL (BLDG. 260), RM. 216 FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC Guest speakers: Laurie Palmer (UC Santa Cruz) and Orlando Bentancor (Barnard College) Professor Palmer’s talk, "Sedimental Advocacy" will explore some of the contradictions involved in advocating for the rights of nature in courts of law as a strategy to stem the tide of extractive […]

PIGOTT HALL(BLDG. 260),RM. 216 FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC   A panel with Monica VanBladel (Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University) and Zac Zimmer (UC Santa Cruz) A Liturgy of Land Reform This presentation takes up the question of liturgy and duty in Rosario Castellanos’s 1962 novel Oficio de tinieblas (literally, “office of darkness,” or Catholicism’s Good […]

PIGOTT HALL(BLDG. 260),RM. 216 FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC RUNAKUNA: HUMAN, BUT NOT ONLY MARISOL DE LA CADENA, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of two major books: Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 (2000) and Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across […]