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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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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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Speakers: Leila Gómez, Director of the Latin American Center and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, CU Boulder; Martín Bergel, Professor of Latin American Contemporary History, Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Aires); Irene Depetris Chauvin, researcher CONICET UBA and Professor, Universidad Nacional de las Artes; ...

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This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish.  To register, click here.

Speakers: Gustavo Guerrero, Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, CY Cergy Paris Université; Adalber Salas Hernández, Poet, Essayist, and Translator; Santiago Acosta, Scholar and Poet; Natasha Tiniacos...

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Speaker: Alejandro Zambra, Poet and Novelist
Moderated by: Nicole Inostroza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University and Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

---Alejandro Zambra vuelve en grande a la novela con este magnífico libro sobre familias...

Speakers: ...