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 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 the role of narrative...
"Literatures of planetary thresholds", our last event of the Fall quarter 2022, focused on the role of literature and the imaginary in contexts where the so-called frontiers of "natural" spaces are being re-thought and redefined. It took place in Pigott Hall 252, on November 17, 2022, at noon, featuring Christian Galdón (Univ. Paris 1...
"The Rights of Nature and the Imagination," the second session of the two-day event "Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South," centered on the juridical personhood of nature, nonhuman rights, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these problems. The session, which took place on March 3 2022 via Zoom, featured: Alberto...
The first session of the two-day event "Framing Law & Humanities in/from the Global South" entailed a four-speaker roundtable, featuring: Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez (Associate Professor of Law, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Leila Neti, (Professor of English, Occidental College), Beth Piatote (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies, UC Berkeley), and Marco...
Thomas Moynihan (historian) and Carolina Caycedo (artist) discussed the relationship between extraction and extinction in connection with the notion of political ecology. This event took place on February 10, 2022 via Zoom.
Our last event of the Fall quarter 2021 took place on November 16, 2021 via Zoom featuring Mary J. Weismantel (Anthropology, Northwestern University) and Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra.
This event took place on November 4, 2021 and featured McKenzie Wark (Media and Culture, The New School) in conversation with Orlando Bentancor (Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College).
“So far, materia events have been some of the most interesting and engaging conversations I’ve experienced at Stanford. I really appreciated the discussion from earlier this month with Arndt Niebisch & Gisela Heffes and specifically the discussion of ‘viruses.’ I wrote a research proposal for the FEMGEN class I took this quarter that focused...
This event took place on April 15, 2021 via Zoom. Prof. Sybille Krämer (Aesthetics and Culture of Digital Media, Leuphana University) delivered a talk entitled "Performative Operativity of Writing, or 'Women's Contributions to Digital Literacy'." Prof. Krämer's presentation was followed by a response by Hank Gerba (Art & Art History, Stanford) and a Q&A...
This event took place on March 11, 2021 via Zoom. Focused on the theme "Uncontained Toxicity," the gathering featured talks by Prof. Gisela Heffes (Rice University) and Arndt Niebisch (Universität Wien).
