2024 SPRING CALENDAR

“Resisting the Colonial-Carceral Gaze: Chicano Rap as Decolonial Sonic Resistance”

Jonah Francese (PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology) & Amy Andrea Martínez (Asst. Professor of Justice Studies, San José State University)

Thursday, April 4, 5:00-6:30pm, Logan Center 801

Cosponsored by the UChicago Justice Project

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“Rio de Janeiro Funk: Corridor Events, Criminal Governance, and Identity in the Violent City”

Patrick Murphy (PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology)

Wednesday, April 17, 5:00-6:30pm, Pick 118

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“Sovereign Spaces: Black Place-Making in Colonial Brazil”

Miguel Valerio (Professor of Spanish and Afro-Latin American Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis)

Tuesday, April 30, 5:30-7:00pm, The LaSalle Banks Room at the Oriental Institute

Sponsored by the African Studies Workshop

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“Segismundo Despierto: La vida es sueño in the Chilean Imaginary, 1973-2023″

Leora Baum (PhD Candidate in RLL)

Thursday, May 2, 5:00-6:30pm, Pick 118

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“Emancipation in Slavery’s City”

Brodie Fischer, Professor of Latin American History

Thursday, May 9, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

Cosponsored by LAHW

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Qualifying Paper Session:

“¿Vanguardia literaria o retroceso estético? Las voces campesinas de Juan Rulfo y Agustín Yáñez” – Azucena Garza (PhD Candidate in RLL)

“La Virgen del Cerro en la Villa Imperial de Potosí: revisiones en torno al sincretismo y representación de lo sagrado en los Andes” – Ricardo Soler (PhD Candidate in RLL)

Thursday, May 16, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Pick 118

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2024 WINTER CALENDAR

Wednesday, Jan 10 (12:00-1:30pm, Wieboldt 207): Carlos Halaburda (University of Cologne, Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow, European Commission)

Chapter from book in progress, Argentina’s Villainous Reproduction: Melodrama and the Making of Queerness and Disability in the Age of Eugenics

Co-sponsored by RLL

Thursday, Jan 18 (5:00-6:30pm, Pick 118): Shai Zamir (Postdoctoral fellow)

“Lima produces Saints for Spain and the Caribbean: The Marvelous case of Antonio de San Pedro”

Thursday, Feb 1 (5:00-6:30pm, Pick 118): Lorna Hadlock (PhD candidate)

“Pilgrimages of the Plant Medicine Community: New Perspectives on Ayahuasca Tourism in the Peruvian Amazon”

 (cancelled)

Thursday, Feb 29 (5:00-6:30pm, Pick 118): Madeleine Stevens (PhD candidate)

“”Subversives” and “Delinquents”: The Politics of Enforced Disappearance in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico”