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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

Speakers: ...

Speaker: Paloma Duong, Assistant Professor, Latin American...

Speaker: Sarah Ann Wells, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Series co-chaired and moderated by...

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 Literatures, Harvard...

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 Portuguese controlling much of...

Speaker: Fernando Degiovanni, Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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

In...

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 issues in the Palestinian/...

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 seminar seeks to explore...

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 Literature

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Speaker: Paloma Vidal, Writer, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Paloma Vidal will present a performance in which poetry and music intersect: a poem by the Brazilian poet Marília Garcia, from her book Câmera Lenta (2017), will be translated into Spanish accompanied by a theme by the Argentinian musician Carlos Aguirre, from the album Calma (2017). The body that translates,...

Speaker: Luz Horne, Professor of Literature at the Humanities Department at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. DRCLAS de Fortabat Visiting Scholar 2019-2020

Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

This presentation explores the connection between a contemporary global catastrophic imaginary with the one from mid-twentieth century Latin America: that of a territory impregnated with future. Paying attention to this connection will shed light on the...