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Dear All,
Please find details below of an interdisciplinary conference Latin American Utopian Visions: A Critical Look for the 21st Century which takes place at CRASSH, University of Cambridge 19-20 April 2013.
This conference seeks to bring together recent scholarship on how utopian visions have shaped Latin America throughout its history. Uniting work from across and between disciplinary boundaries, the conference looks to explore the history, construction, contexts, and effects of imagined utopias, as well as, and crucially, the interrelations between them. From its inception as an ideologically constituted unit born of the colonial encounter, Latin America has been a subject and producer of idealized imaginaries of universal order and humanity’s place within it. Its relegation to Europe’s ‘savage slot’ (Trouillot 2003) and the projections of European escapist fantasies onto its terrain was a fundamental determinant of colonial policy for several hundred years. In exploring a range of utopian visions, from the lasting allure of communist revolution to the idealist programs that directed modernism’s drive to develop, this conference explores the multifarious ways in which Latin America has served as the landscape upon which utopian ideas have been imagined, designed, and attempted. Furthermore, in bringing together a diverse set of scholarship, the conference aims to excavate the complex entanglements and overlaps between seemingly contradictory but inherently intertwined elements of different utopias. Fundamentally, the conference seeks to serve as a forum for productive discussion and debate of the nature and potential in contemporary utopian visions, or in what Fernando Coronil has described as “the present-day future imaginary” (2010).
The keynote addresses will be given by Deborah Poole (Johns Hopkins University) on Territories of Law and Desire: Rescaling Utopia in the Neoliberal State and Walter Mignolo (Duke University) on 'Latin' America at the Cross-Road: Rewesternization, Dewesternization and Decoloniality.
Speakers include: Isabel Yaya (School of Advanced Study), Richard Weiner (Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne), Christian Fernández Palacios (Louisiana State University), Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés (Alcalá University), Joanna Page (Cambridge), Enrique Gómez Llata Cázares (Universidad de las Américas Puebla), Matt Wilde (LSE), Maria A Cabrera Arus (New School for Social Research), Austin Zeiderman (LSE), Adriana Laura Massidda (Cambridge), Johannes Waldmüller (Vienna), Camilo Pérez Bustillo and Karla Hernández-Mares (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México), Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster), Juan G. Ramos (College of the Holy Cross), Victor Cova (St Andrews), Zac Zimmer (Virginia Tech) & Jason Pribilsky (Whitman College).
Full details and online registration.
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