Autumn Quarter Schedule
The Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean meets Thursdays from 5:00-6:30pm CDT in Kelly Hall, Room 114. For the 2021-2022 academic year, all meetings will be open to virtual attendees via Zoom; we plan for events to be hybrid in-person and virtual. Zoom links will be included in email announcements for each session.
Oct. 7 – Joint reception with the Latin America History Workshop
Oct. 14 – Eduardo Leão, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: La plaga somos nosotros: el apocalipsis epidémico en narrativas de México y Brasil
Oct. 21 – Eduardo Terra Romero, PhD Student, History, UChicago: An International Perspective on the Brazilian Miracle and its Aftermath. Co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop. (Please Note: This session takes place from 4:30-6:00pm)
Nov. 17 – Pablo Ottonello, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago, “No sé para qué escribo”: el fracaso en los diarios de Ricardo Piglia. Please note that this session takes place virtually on a Wednesday from 4:30-6:00pm. Zoom link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/93977849395?pwd=K0JmbGo4VEZwZm5DU1F0MjBzRy9UQT09.
Dec. 2 – Laura Colaneri, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: Beautiful Corpse, Terrible Curse: Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita (1995)
Winter Quarter Schedule
In light of the development of the Omicron variant, all sessions this quarter will be entirely virtual. Zoom links provided in the email announcements.
Jan. 13 – Nicholas Carby-Denning, Visiting Faculty, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr: Planetary Resonance of the Latin American Discourse of ‘Exctractivismo’
Jan. 20 – Victoria Saramago, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: Electroshock Revisited: Scenes of Torture as Narratives of the Anthropocene. Co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop. (Please Note: This session takes place from 4:30-6:00pm)
Jan. 27 – Cristina Esteves-Wolff, PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: On Apocryphal Archives and the Uses of Fiction: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s La renuncia del héroe Baltasar
Feb. 10 – Christopher Bloechl, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UChicago: Managing the Maya: State Mediation of Indigeneity in the Mexican Yucatán
Feb. 24 – Thomaz Amancio, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: Songs of the Field: Archive, Rural Landscape, and the Labor of the Other in Silvio Romero. Co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop.
Spring Quarter Schedule
The Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean meets Thursdays from 5:00-6:30pm CDT in Kelly Hall, Room 114. Unless indicated, workshop sessions for the Spring quarter will be held in person.
Mar. 31 – Agnes Mondragón Celis Ochoa, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UChicago: Propaganda, Speculation and the Contradictions of Mexico’s Drug War
Apr. 14 – Emilio Frignati, Visting PhD Student, Anthropology, LAS & UChicago: The fabric of myths: Maximiano José Roberto and the Legend of Yuruparí
Apr. 28 – Miguel Martínez, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: Prehistoria de La ciudad letrada
CANCELLED May 4 – Norman Mora Quintero, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago: TBA (Please note that this session takes place on a Wednesday)
May 12 – Fernando Miramontes Forattini, PhD Candidate, History, PUC-SP/Visiting Student, UChicago: TBA. Co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop. (Please Note: This session takes place from 4:30-6:00pm)
May 19 – MA Panel, Green Hall 117
Mary 26 – Wlamyra Albuquerque, Associate Professor, History, Universidade Federal da Bahia TBA. Co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop. (Please Note: This session takes place from 4:30-6:00pm)