Events

    2024 Mar 27

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) takes us to the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. As Rosario Hubert demonstrates, in the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce.

    Disoriented Disciplines understands translation as a material act of transfer,...

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    2023 Oct 25

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Afectos metafísicos: Borges, modernidad urbana y duelo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This workshop will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker Juan Torbidoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)

    Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    En este workshop vamos a conversar sobre el proyecto de investigación del Prof. Juan Torbidoni sobre los modos en que Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández y Leopoldo Marechal procesan la experiencia de la modernidad...

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    2023 Sep 25

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | A conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Martín Kohan

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speakers: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Writer; Martín Kohan, Writer
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    Gabriela Cabezón Cámara y Martín Kohan escribieron algunas de las novelas, cuentos y ensayos más notables de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Sus textos reescriben y dislocan la historia política y la tradición literaria argentinas, y las reinscriben y...

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    2023 Apr 24

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Femme populism: Vulnerability and desire in Argentine political aesthetics

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Julia Fierman, College Fellow, Anthropology, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    In this session we will discuss two articles that analyze the personalist aspects of Peronism through Fierman's ethnographic work among Kirchnerist militants.

    Fierman is a sociocultural anthropologist who received their PhD from Columbia University. Their research has focused on the social world of Peronist activism during...

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    2023 Apr 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | La ciudad latinoamericana. Una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    Speaker: Adrian Gorelik, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Tinker Visiting Professor of History,  University of Chicago
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    La “ciudad latinoamericana” surge como categoría de pensamiento a mediados del siglo XX, resultado de una articulación de época entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la transformación...

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    2023 Mar 30

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Las desmayadas (fábula autobiográfica): militancia feminista y ficciones del yo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Cecilia Szperling, Writer
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Una adolescente se desmaya como una forma súbita de interrumpir el mundo. Muere su padre, su madre vive astillada por el duelo, y mientras la muerte cruza el jardín de su casa como un relámpago, también se despliega su enérgico viaje de iniciación por el sexo, la hermandad y los afectos nuevos, en una Buenos Aires pesadillesca de los primeros...

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    2022 Dec 05

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | El otro lado del trabajo. Propuestas contra la aceleración capitalista en la narrativa contemporánea del cono sur

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    Speaker: Alejandra Laera, Professor of Argentine Literature and Director of the Institute of Argentine Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Para esta sesión vamos a leer y discutir los textos “Ocupación territorial, cuerpo y relato: las novelas de la...

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    2022 Nov 04

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | elDiarioAR, a new national newspaper in the context of political polarization, economic crisis, and concentration of media ownership

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar 
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee,...

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    2022 Nov 03

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Evo Morales and the Burnt Palace: His Fall and Unexpected Rebirth (A documentary and a diary)

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to Sivak’s work-in-progress narrative and diary of the last three years in Evo Morales’s life. Since September 2019, Sivak has been working on a documentary (together with Noah Friedman-Rudovsky) based on Morales' life. Thanks to their unique access to the former president, they have been able to document his...

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    2022 Oct 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Breve historia del antipopulismo: A conversation with Ernesto Semán

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    To register for this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Ernesto Semán, Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of Bergen
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 7 of  Breve historia del antipopulismo. PDFs available below...

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    2019 Apr 30

    Arts and Science Workshop Series: The Archive of the Iberian Slave Trade: Death, Value and Historical Ethics

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Anna More, Professor, Universidade de Brasília

    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

    The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century slave trade was predominantly Iberian, with the...

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    2018 Nov 13

    Arts & Sciences Workshop: Volverse Palestina: Strategies of Erasure in Palestinian Identity Today

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Lina Meruane, Chilean novelist, Liberal Arts Clinical Associate Professor, NYU

    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

    The quest to "return home" is one of the most controversial...

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    2018 Oct 25

    Arts & Sciences Workshop: Sergio Pitol's Strategic Occidentalism: Translation and Literary Worldmaking

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

    The...

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    2018 Sep 27

    Arts & Sciences Workshop: The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Caroline D. Eckhardt Early Career Professor of Comparative Literature and Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State

    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and...

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    2017 Oct 05

    Arts and Sciences Workshop: "The Future that Finally Arrived: Latin American Literature and the Global Contemporary"

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Emilio Sauri, Associate Professor of English College of Liberal Arts,  Director Concentration in Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures, UMass Boston

    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor Department of Romance Languages and...

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