Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is pleased to present this lecture by Renee Hudson (Department of English, Chapman University). Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Ryan Calder, Assistant Professor, Sociology, JHU. Ditadura, Debt, and Deceit. The Wild World of Brazilian Frequent-Flyer Miles. for our LACLxS Work-in-Progress Seminar, run by graduate students Bruno Franco (MLL) and Matheus Mendoça (Sociology), where students and JHU faculty will present their current projects. […]
San Martin Center 200A The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Dennis Hogan (History & Literature, Harvard University) for his talk on the anticolonial century at the Panama Canal: Pedro Prestán, Eric Walrond and the Black Historical Tradition. In 1885, an explosive civil conflict in Colombia threatened commerce across the Isthmus of […]
Hackerman B17 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies and the Program in International Studies are excited to present this event where Michael Shifter, Former president of the Inter-American Dialogue, will discuss with Inés Valdez the likely outlines of U.S. Latin American relations in the Second Trump administration. The conversation will revolve around […]
Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Christine Folch (Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), for her talk on the cultural history of Yerba Mate. From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption Brewed from the dried […]
Gilman 479 The program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a lecture on IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- & ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive arguments […]
Gilman 119 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a workshop on ECOPOETRY/ECOPOETRY: THE AFFORDANCES AND PITFALLS OF ECOLOGICALLY ENGAGED POETIC PRAXIS This workshop presents three theoretical entryways to the concept of ecopoetry—understood broadly as ecologically […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Joao Gabriel, History, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “To Deport or to Imprison? The Case of the Mauvais Subjets in Guadeloupe (1827-1848)” Leana Mason, Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Rituals of Resistance to Racial Capitalism: Analyzing the Persistence of Jab Jab in Grenada” for our […]
Mergenthaler 426 Zoom: 880 923 6688 (https://zoom.us/j/8809236688) The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Sarah Fouts, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, for her talk on Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Central American […]
Mergenthaler 266 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Alonso Burgos (Sociology, JHU) • Towards a Contingency-Context Theory of the Political Economy of Census Race-Making: Insights from Colonial and Republican Peru. Keely Kriho (Political Science, JHU) • Mariátegui, the Mexican Revolution, and Marxist Dependency Theory for our LACLxS Work-in-Progress […]
Mergenthaler 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Inés Valdez (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) and Segundo Montoya Huamaní (Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú) for a conversation on Coloniality of Power meets Dependency Theory: Imperial Developmentalism, Marginality, and Marx’s Commune in Quijano’s Socialization of Power. Attention to the Modernity/Coloniality School […]
Macaulay 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Segundo Montoya Huamaní (Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú) for a book presentation: Interpretive Conflicts over Mariátegui's Marxism (Lima: Heraldos Editores, 2018). Conflictos de Interpretación engages with classic interpretations of José Carlos Mariátegui’s Marxism by thinkers like José Aricó, Aníbal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, […]