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Washington University in Saint Louis e Number 11 Spring 2019 PRESENTATION w Mabel Moraña William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences Director of the Program s

Welcome to the new issue of the Latin American Newsletter. We are happy to l report that our program continues to grow both at the graduate and at the undergraduate level, and that students are taking advantage of the opportunity to expand their knowledge and understanding of the Latin American region through a great variety of interdisciplinary e courses, film series, colloquia, and the like. This specialization has proven to be very useful in the job market, allowing our graduates to find good positions in competitive institutions and to qualify for admission in research universities in order to continue their studies. Our program continues to be the launching pad for students attending prestigious programs in t graduate schools that include Columbia, Georgetown and the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as students who work in government, advocacy, law and international organizations. Both the major and minor in Latin American Studies are programs central to the ac- t ademic and diversity missions of the university. Our program serves a significant number of Latinx and Latin American students both through the classroom and through the academic engagement with their culture and heritage. In addition, core courses in Latin American e Studies directly serve 150 students or so every year, providing a gateway to study abroad, a pathway to engage in the challenges and rewarding intercultural experiences of a global- ized world, and a route into the professionalization of their Latin American interests. r During the past few months we continued with the work-in-progress sessions in the Latin American Colloquium and also held a symposium on the peace-process in Co- lombia. The wide attendance and enthusiastic participation of students was key for the successful development of these activities. We are happy to inform that the Latin American Studies Program has received au- thorization to hire a post-doctoral fellow to teach courses in our program, and to advance his/her research at this university. We are conducting a search for somebody qualified to teach courses on Brazilian culture, an area of study that is not currently covered in our program, so please check the course offering for next semester to find new topics in this area of study. We have a busy agenda of academic activities ahead of us. The most prominent announcement is the V South by Midwest International Conference in Latin American Cul- tural Studies. It will feature an amazing group of scholars from anthropology, sociology, history and cultural studies, who will come to our university to speak on the topic of migra- tion and borders. The title for the conference is Liquid Borders / Fronteras liquidas and will take place at Wash U in October 2,3, and 4, 2019. We expect to see all of you at the sessions and count on your active participation. Finally, I am extremely happy and proud to announce that Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Nacho), has received a special Chair at Washington University. Please congratulate Nacho for this outstanding achievement and plan on attending his installation Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in Arts and Sciences in the next few months. Faculty Works in Progress

Bret Gustafson

Energy and Empire documents the ways in which a natural-gas boom in Bolivia is transform- ing its politics, culture and the economy. The word “empire” in the title of the book is a reference to the longer historical domination of the United States and of a particular form of fossil-fuel-dependent capitalist growth that underlies the global environ- mental crisis of global warming — and the skewed and unequal relationship between places like Bo- livia and the consuming countries. In many ways, the book is an attempt to critique this relationship — between empire, fossil fuels and a particular form of development — and to imagine how countries like Boliv- ia are both trapped within yet seeking to move beyond this dependent relationship. The book attempts to explore the contradictions of a left-leaning government pursuing social and political transformation while dependent on the resources (rents) from a natural gas development apparatus that is dominated by and dependent on multinational capitalist firms. I suggest that a key challenge for the left is rethinking its paradigms in an age of global warming and a world dominated by fossil capital that is closely aligned with militarism and an imperialism based on finance (or fossil) capital. The argument I make is that beyond the apparent benefits in economic growth, and the efforts made by the government to redistribute that growth in the near term, that the ecological and social impacts of gas development are, in the longer term, environmen- tally destructive and socially regressive. This mirrors the effects of fossil fuels globally. I have attempted to write a book that is both from the North and from the South, and about the relationships between them. At the risk of being accused of trying to “appropriate” voices, I have spent enough time in Bolivia to recognize what scholar- ship rooted in Bolivia looks like, and what scholarship rooted in an imperial center like the United States looks like. I aspire to write at least closer to the former, de- spite my gringo status, than the latter. The latter — writing from the imperial center, however decadent that center is rapidly becoming — is usually blind and provincial, often presuming to know what Bolivia or Bolivians should do, and deploys catego- ries to that end. For example, the idea of “energy security” frequently dominates the way that U.S. scholars talk about Bolivia, whereas that category has little direct rel- evance to the ways that Bolivians understand and talk about the politics of gas. So, which categories should we use? In a small way, I hope to challenge these U.S.-cen- tric paradigms, since, in many ways, those ways of thinking are part of the problem.

2 Miguel Valerio

Miguel Valerio is finishing up his first book, The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial : Identity, Perfor- mance, and Power, 1539-1640. This book focuses on four documented instances (1539, 1608, 1610, and 1640) in which Afro- performed with their “king and queen” in the streets of Mexico City. Through the analysis of lesser- known printed texts and archival sources, The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City documents the forma- tion of Afro-Mexicans’ creole identity through this performative genre. In so doing, the book seeks to bring to the foreground of Latin American colonial literary studies a central component of colonial culture that has gone ignored for the most part since the inception of the field. Latin American colonial literary studies have traditionally privileged white lettered culture, while since the 1980s there has been increasing interest in indigenous texts. What has been lacking is attention to the performative creole (American) culture developed by Afrodescendants, even though this culture is represented in many colonial texts. Thus, my study of this culture in Mexico City serves to expand and move the field of colonial liter- ary studies in a new direction, toward an understanding of black creole identity in colonial . The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City makes a major contribution to the study of race and racism in early modernity. There are relatively few works focusing on racial categories in the colonial context within the field of Latin American colonial literary studies (Magali M. Carrera 2003, Ruth Hill 2005). However, a new generation of scholars, myself included, are highlighting how European racial ideologies were formed during and, at the same time, were instrumental to imperial expansion and informed the modus essendi and vivendi of colonial society (Daniel Nemser 2017, James Sweet 2005). I address this topic in Chapter One, where I analyze the legal investigation (causa) of a group of Afro-Mexicans who “elected and crowned a king and queen” on Christmas Eve, 1608. I argue, on the one hand, that this case helps us further understand how race making functioned in early modernity. On the other hand, I contend that it is against the backdrop of this hostil- ity toward Afro-Mexican festive practices that we must consider the other texts discussed in the book. Viewed from the perspective of colonial authorities’ resistance to any form of black autonomy, the other texts discussed in the book underscore how Afro-Mexicans developed varied strategies for navigating the colonial polity. Beyond its contribution to colonial studies, The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City remaps the black Atlantic in two ways: temporally and geographically. Temporally, the texts I analyze in The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City form the earliest known evidence Afrodescendants’ festive practices in the Americas. These texts document the emergence and formative years of the black Atlantic. Geographically, these texts further inscribe Mexico City, one of the world’s first global cities, within the black Atlantic, in whose debates it has not featured predominantly. Thus, my book extends the black Atlantic beyond the circum-At- lantic rim to which it has been confined thus far. At the same time, my study underscores Mexico City’s role— as colonial Latin America’s oldest and largest metropolis—in the emergence of the modern black Atlantic. The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City also contributes to the growing scholarship on black agency in colonial Latin America. Recently, black agency in colonial Latin America has been studied in many realms: the legal system (Herman Bennett 2006, José Ramón Jouve Martín 2005), clothing (Tamara J. Walker 2017), family (Bennett 2011), military service (Ben Vinson III 2001), whitening (Ann Twinam 2015), corporate organization (Nicole von Germeten 2006), among others. However, most of these studies have focused on the black experience in Latin America from the perspective of the institution of slavery. My study, on the other hand, seeks to highlight how Afro-Mexicans forged a social existence beyond the institution of slavery (Elizabeth M. Dillon 2014, Orlando Patterson 1985). The Black Kings and Queens of Colonial Mexico City does this in three ways: first, through its focus on the urban, rather than the plantation, black experience; second, by underscoring how Afro-Mexicans availed themselves of religious confraternities to preserve and adapt their African-derived festive practices; and third, by highlighting how Afro-Mexicans used their participa- tion in and contribution to Mexico City’s numerous public festivals to negotiate their standing in colonial society. 3 Faculty Updates

Latin American Studies/ Romance Languages and Literatures

Mabel Moraña Since the last Newsletter, professor Mabel Moraña pub- lished the following books: El monstruo como máquina de guerra (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017) translated as The Monster as War Machine (Cambria, 2018), Filosofía y criti- ca. De Mariátegui a Sloterdijk (Santiago de Chile: Metales pesados, 2018). Edited books: Dimensiones del latinoa- mericanismo (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2018 ), Sujeto, Descolonización, Transmodernidad. Debates filosóficos latinoamericanos (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2018), Preca- riedades, Exclusiones. Emergencias. Necropolítica y Socie- dad Civil en América Latina (UAM/Gedisa) edited with J. M. Valenzuela Arce (2018), Del monólogo europeo al diálogo inter-filosófico. Ensayos sobre Enrique Dussel y la filosofía de la liberación, (UNAM, 2018), edited with José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado. Anthologies of her critical work were published in Bogotá and Perú: Momentos críticos (Bogotá: Univ. de los Andes, 2018) and Entre incas y pishtacos. Estudios sobre cultura andina (Lima: CELACP/Casa de la Literatura 2018). She delivered invited lectures at Univer- sity of Notre Dame, Universidad de Arequipa, Casa de America (Madrid), Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), Casa de la Literatura (Lima), etc.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado was appointed as the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities in Arts and Sciences, effective January 2019. In 2018, he published three books: a scholarly monograph, Strategic Occidentalism: On , The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press) and two edited collections, Mexican Literature in Theory (Bloomsbury) and Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture (Palgrave). His published articles and chapters in 2018 engaged topics such as Alfonso Reyes’s archives, contemporary Mexican , neoliberalism and cinema. Prof. Sánchez Prado gave invited lectures in various institutions of the United States and abroad, including the University of Köln, the University of Zagreb, Cornell University, Harvard University and the University of Virginia, among others. Prof. Sánchez Prado currently serves as Vice-President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, of which he will be president in 2019-2020.

Anthropology

David Freidel is working on co-editing a book on the ancient Maya “crafting” of time. This is the product of a series of working group meetings at the Santa Fe Institute, and it is the second book prepared by this group of archaeologists. He is collaborating with Yucatecan archaeologist Ivan Batun-Alpuche, a member of the working group on a chapter about beeswax as a surfacing for writing and calculating tablets. Ivan, native to Cozumel, studied the beekeepers at the Precolumbian site of Buenavista on the island. He wrote his dissertation about this site in the 2000s. While David Freidel wrote his dissertation about all of the sites on Cozumel in the 1970s. Ivan teaches in Valladolid and Freidel hopes to visit his university someday soon. Here at Wash U, Freidel’s student Juan Carlos Melendez will defend his dissertation this summer and Alex Rivas is carrying out dissertation research in Guatemala.

Bret Gustafson’s new book Energy and Empire: Bolivia in the Age of Gas, is in press. The work details the impact of nat- ural gas expansion in the Bolivia of Evo Morales, and examines the contradictions between fossil fueled capitalism and revolutionary aspirations. In addition to serving on the editorial board of NACLA, and frequently writing on contemporary 4 politics, he continues to work on Indigenous language politics, with a new seminar on Language and Power, examining Indigenous languages and decolonial struggle, and a new book project on the social history of the Guarani language. Kedron Thomas recently published a chapter titled, “Intellectual Property in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Trademark ‘Piracy’ in Guatemala,” in the volume, Comparative Law and Anthropology, and an article titled “Cultures of Sustainability in the Fashion Industry” in the interdisciplinary journal, Fashion Theory. The latter draws on her ongoing research in Portland, Oregon, which investigates how ethical questions regarding labor and environmental issues are being debated and addressed among fashion and footwear industry professionals. In the summer of 2018, she co-directed the AMCS On-Location course, Portland Beyond Portlandia: Creative Cities and the New Economy, which explored the creative culture and new forms of work, craft, and enterprise that are taking shape in Portland and other US cities, situating Portland within the broader history of entrepreneurship, urban development, gentrification, and racialized displacement in the United States. In the past year, she participated in the American Anthropological Association annual meetings and the American Ethnological Society/Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists/ Association of Black Anthropologists Joint Conference and gave talks at Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsyl- vania, and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. She is currently involved in organizing the Fifth International Conference of the Guatemala Scholars Network, which will take place in La Antigua Guatemala and Guatemala City from July 11th to 13th, 2019.

History

Diana J. Montaño has received the Center for the Humanities’ First Book Fellowship for Fall 2019. She will be complet- ing revisions for her manuscript Electrifying Mexico: Cultural Responses to a New Technology, 1880s-1960s. Her article “Machucados and Salvavidas: Patented Humour in the Technified Spaces of Everyday Life in Mexico City, 1900–1910” will be published this fall in the special issue “Technology in Latin American History” by the journal History of Technology.

Christina Ramos received two fellowships in 2018: a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (for 2018-2019) and a Faculty Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities (for spring 2020). She presented parts of her research on the New World’s earliest mental hospital at Yale University and at the Eighteenth-Century Salon, and will de- liver a talk at University of California-Merced in April. She is currently on leave for the 2018-2019 academic year to work on her book manuscript, Bedlam in the New World: Madness, Colonialism, and a Mexican Madhouse.

International and Area Studies

Rebecca Clouser recently published an article entitled “Security, development, and fear in Guatemala: Endur- ing ties and lasting consequences” in Geographical Review as well as a co-authored piece in Annals of Tourism Research on “Spectacle and adventure philanthropy.” She presented on this research at the American Association of Geographers’ conference in New Orleans in April 2018. She also presented a paper entitled “Development and denial: post-genocide development narratives” at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ conference in San José, Costa Rica in May 2018.

Steven J. Hirsch’s co-edited volume with Lucien van der Walt, Radical Encounters: Anarchists, Marxists, and Nationalists in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s, will be published by Routledge in late 2019. It contains a lengthy theoretical and historiographical introduction and 12 chapters on the complex relations, syner- gies, collaborations, and conflicts between anarchists, Marxists, and radical nationalists in colonial and postcolo- nial societies. Latin American coverage consists of four chapters on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. The latter, titled “The Road Not Taken: Eschewing Left Unity in Interwar Peru, 1924-1934,” was written by Hirsch. He continues to work on a book on the history of Peruvian anarchism and an edited volume on the impact of the Russian Revolution on Latin American anarchism. He is currently preparing a chapter on “Syndi- calism as a global phenomenon” for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Socialism, edited by Marcel van der Lin- den. In the fall term 2017, he invited historian Kevin Young, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, to give a lecture on “Bolivia’s Incomplete Revolution: Past and Present.” And, he arranged for historian Raymond Craib, Cornell University, to deliver a presentation on the history of Chilean anarchism on March 21, 2019.

5 Romance Languages and Literatures

William Acree has been working on a collaborative research project called “Mapping Modern Latin American Street Cultures,” supported by a Center for the Humanities Collaborative Seed Grant. He recently published “On the Heels of Juan Moreira: Lessons for the Cultural History of Reading” (PMLA January 2019). At the American Historical Association meeting he presented on two panels, one centered on questions of Creole nationalism in the Río de la Plata, and the other about performance, loyalty, and urbanization across Latin America. Both were con- nected to his new book, Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina & Uruguay, which is forthcoming with the University of New Mexico Press this fall.

Andrew Brown has published several articles: “CHIL3 and the SF History of a Country” (Paradoxa 30), “Culture and Its Discontents” and “Sampling and Remixing in Contemporary Latin American Narrative” (Revista Hispánica Moderna). He also published two book chapters: “Weirded Soundscapes in Contemporary Chilean Narrative” in Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and edited by Frederick Aldama and “Iris y el nuevo cyborg latinoamericano” in Territorios del presente: globalización, tecnología y mimesis en las narrativas hispá- nicas del siglo XXI edited by Jesús Montoya Juárez & Natalia Moraes. In the last two years, working both on his interests in sampling and remixing in contemporary Latin American narrative as well as on his new book project: Weirding Latin America. He has also lectured at Cornell University and East Carolina University on developments in contemporary Argentine narrative generally and in particular on the work of Mariana Enríquez. He has also re- cently begun as chair of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures.

Mark Dowell received his B.A. in Spanish from Hendrix College in 1996. During his junior year, he studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid through the Marquette University in Madrid Study Center. He completed his Master’s Degree in Romance Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2003. His areas of professional interest are Span- ish and , Latin American, Peninsular, and Brazilian literature, and the representation and meaning of food in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures.

Javier García Liendo in 2017 published El intelectual y la cultura de masas: Argumen- tos latinoamericanos en torno a Ángel Rama y José María Arguedas (Purdue University Press). He is currently working on his second book-length project titled The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru (under ad- vance contract with Illuminations Series, Pittsburgh University Press). This book studies schoolteachers as local intellectuals who mediated between rural and urban cultures, reformulating campesino subjectivities through cultural interventions at the visual, aural, and written regimes. Connected to this project, he recently published “Teachers, Folk- lore, and the Crafting of Serrano Cultural Identity in Peru” (Latin America Research Re- view). He has served as research advisor for two public exhibitions: Un espíritu en mo- vimiento: Redes culturales de la revista Amauta (2017) and Experiencias inspiradoras de la literatura en la escuela (2018) at the Casa de la Literatura Peruana (Lima, Peru). As part of the latter, he also wrote the “nota introductoria” for the facsimile edition of José María Arguedas’s school journal Pumaccahua (1940). A study on Peruvian comic production (“Memory in Pieces: Chola Power’s Origin Story and the Quest for Memory in Peru”) is forthcoming next fall.

Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures) is currently editing a collec- tion of essays on Contemporary Translational Literature that includes the work of key 20th-century Latin American poets and translators. As part of this project, Prof. Infante presented his ongoing research on the translational poetics of the Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik at the 2019 ACLA Annual Meeting at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Stephanie Kirk has continued to publish on the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz with articles entitled “The Gen- dering of Knowledge in : Enclosure, Women’s Education, and Writing” (Routledge Research Companion to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) and “Gender and Authority in Sor Juana’s Sonnet to Sigüenza y Góngora” (Romance Notes) and a review essay in Chasqui: “New Scholarship on the Life and Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” She has presented invited lectures and conference presentations on Sor Juana, as well as on her new project on global 6 martyrdom and masculinity in both the US and Latin America. Tabea Alexa Linhard published Mapping Migration, Identity and Space (co-authored with Timothy Parsons, Palgrave 2018). This multidisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind. In addition to participating in Mediterranean Seminar Workshop at the University of Oregon, the XV Lessons and Legacies conference at WUSTL, the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, and the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, she presented her research at The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities (TORCH) Seminar at Oxford and at the meeting of the Genealogías de Sefarad Research Collective in Madrid. She is one of the founding members of Genealogías de Sefarad, a group of international scholars working at the crossroads of Iberian and Jewish Studies, and from diverse fields of scholarly inquiry, with the aim of tracing the genealogies of Sepharad (‘Jewish Spain’), in Spain and among Sep- hardi Jews across the world, from the late eighteenth century through the present. In Fall 2018 she was a Faculty Fellow at WUSTL’s Center for the Humanities where she worked toward completing Unexpected Routes: Displacement, Geography, and Memory (1931- 1945), a book-length study of the experiences of refugees in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. In AY 2018-2019 she was named the Ambassador for the University of Chile for the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Elzbieta Sklodowska published a book chapter, “No Laughing Matter: Post-Soviet Cuba in the Orbit of Postmodern Parody” in Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature: The Paradox of Ideological Construction and Decon- struction, ed. Helene Carol Weldt-Basson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: 167-194 and delivered the following invited lectures: “Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in Cuba,” Depart- ment of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia; “No Laughing Matter: Post-Soviet Cuba in the Orbit of Postmodern Parody,” King’s College, Cambridge University; and “Del artefacto al arte: la cultura material cubana durante el Período Especial,” Facultad de Humanidades y Letras, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile). Reviews of her latest book, Invento luego resisto: El Período Especial en Cuba como experiencia y metáfora (Cuarto Propio, 2016) appeared in Afro-Hispanic Review, Latin American Literary Review, Transmodernity, and Casa de las Améri- cas, among others. She also participated in the International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies in London with a paper “From Politics of Scarcity to Poetics of Frugality: Reclaiming Environmental Lessons from Post-Soviet Cuba.” She is serving as Director of the Summer Language Institute in Madrid and continues her work as a member of editorial boards of Latin American Literary Review, Studia Iberystyczne, Itinerarios, and Visitas al Patio.

Miguel A. Valerio is Assistant Professor of Spanish in Romance Languages and Literatures. Prof. Valerio earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2017. His research focuses on black culture in the early modern Iberian world, especially Afro-Catholic confraternities and Afrodescendants’ festive and ritual practices. His research has appeared in Afro-Hispanic Review and Confraternitas, the journal of confraternity studies. He has essays in two forthcoming volumes, Afro-Christian Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Atlantic Tradition (Pennsylvania State UP, forthcoming May 2019), edited by Cécile Fromont, and Slavery Dynamics in Medieval and the Modern Mediterranean: Markets, Circulations, and Mobilities (L’Erma di Bretschneider, forth- coming in 2020), edited by Iván Armenteros Martínez and Roser Salucrú i Lluch.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Bahia M. Munem is a second year Postdoctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Last summer she spent a few weeks in Brazil updating her ethnographic data for her book project, Unsettling Muslim Refugees: Gen- der, Class, and the Racialization of War Migrants in Brazil. Bahia has taught cross-listed courses in Latin American Studies at Wash U and developed and taught a new course in Fall 2018, “The Arab and Muslim Americas: Feminist Perspectives,” which focused on Arab and/or Muslim migration and integration in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina) and the United States. She also presented a paper at AAA on Transnational Refugee Families and kinship networks across time and space. This semester she is presenting a paper on Marielle Franco’s life and death and its impact on feminist activism in and outside of Brazil at AES’ Ethnographic Futures Conference. She will give a talk at the Crossing Borders Conference at WUSTL on the role of education in emplacing and displacing war refugees in the Americas, and is slated to present a paper on the Halal industry in Brazil at the Latin American Studies Colloquium. 7 New Postdoctoral Fellow

The Latin American Studies Program is happy to welcome to Washington University one postdoctoral fellow whose research focuses on the region. We recognize the host department for bringing into our community a wonderful young scholar who brings new perspectives on the field to the university.

Art History and Archaeology

Sara Ryu is Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts & Sciences. In addition to teaching new courses in the Department of Art His- tory and Archaeology, Sara is working on projects in the College Office, developing new programs for undergraduates, and in the Center for the Humanities, assisting with the studiolabs initiative, part of Redefining Doctoral Education in the Humanities funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sara received her B.A. in the History of Art at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. in the History of Art at Yale University. Her dissertation was the recipient of the Association for biennial Dissertation Award and the Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize. Most recently, Sara was a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. While in residence at the Getty, Sara worked towards the completion of her book, The Art of Making Again in Colonial Mexico, which studies the reuse of art in the aftermath of iconoclasm in terms of two intersecting themes: changing conceptions of antiquity during the early modern period, especially in New Spain, and new sacred economies of art-making within the post-conquest indigenous world. She has published on the transmission of tech- niques of sculptural replication from Europe to New Spain and the Canary Islands in the sixteenth century. The con- nected histories of art in the transatlantic world are at the core of Sara’s research and teaching, and she is excited to connect with faculty and students across disciplines in Latin American Studies at Washington University.

The Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies

The Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies (GCLAS) offers Washington University students the opportunity to pursue a multidisciplinary specialization on this region of the world while completing their Ph.D. degree. The GCLAS combines discipline-based training with cultural studies, thus allowing for a rigorous approach to Latin America’s social, economic, and political history. At the same time, students are exposed to new theories and current debates on the topics of nation formation, governance, colonialism, development, regionalism, public health, modernization, globaliza- tion, neoliberalism, etc. Today, as globalization has made internationalization an even more pressing concern, Latin American Studies is part of a new need for better understanding of other world regions. Alumna Update

Silvia Juliana Rocha Dallos

Pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies at Washington Uni- versity is an excellent option for those who wish to concentrate their work in a specific discipline yet maintain a Latin American focus in their coursework. As a doctoral stu- dent, this Certificate gave me the opportunity to build a research and academic agenda grounded in an interdisciplinary knowledge of Latin America’s issues, languages, and cultures. From my own experience, I can say this certificate is a postgraduate credential that can open the door to a more fulfilling career inside and outside of academia. While I was completing my Ph.D. classes, the professors from the program offered me the chance of conducting a research in Mexico City and of writing a seminar paper based on that field experience. Today, I gracefully affirm that without the great supervision and the advice of these professors, my paper would never have been turned into a peer journal publication, or it would never have received an Honor Mention in an Interna- tional Award either. The Certificate courses also inspired my research and teaching. Currently, I am completing my dissertation focused on Colonial Studies, and because of the knowledge gained during the doctoral certificate, my work is informed by an interdisciplinary ap- 8 proach that includes questions of gender, performance studies, medical humanities and colonial encounters. In my teaching, the certificate seminars and conferences led me to bring into class discussions aspects of race, colonialism, development, and modernity, while encouraging my students to use these critical vocabularies to understand the current debates that surround Latin American. I truly recommend taking part in the LAS certificate because in a world that is becoming increasingly global- ized, there are many opportunities in sectors of the workforce for people who are well-versed in Latin American culture. This multidisciplinary specialization can provide an edge over the competition in many cases, especially if you also have a deep understanding of the language and culture of the Latin American region. Over the years, I have collected several experiences from my doctoral time in Wash U. However, many of them belong to my personal and academic enrichment in this certificate. Graduate Certificate Student Updates Anthropology

Natalia Guzmán Solano is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology. Currently, Natalia is in the writing phase of her disser- tation. Her research is based on over fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork spanning 2014-2017 in the Region of Cajamarca, Peru. Her dissertation, Prompting the Political: The Emergent Politics of Women’s Anti-Mining Activism in Peru, explores how “defensoras del medio ambiente” (women environmental defenders) at the capitalism-patriarchy nexus became political actors who extended their participation to a political terrain beyond the anti-mining movement. In April 2018, Natalia participated in “The Global South after 2010: Epistemologies of Militarization,” an inter-disciplinary colloquium hosted at Duke University, where she presented the paper “Understanding New Forms Militarized Life and Ecoterritorial Conflicts in Latin America: Chronicles of Common Histories, the Shared Present, and ‘continuums of vio- lence.’” This spring she co-organized a panel on transnational feminisms with Francesca Dennstedt, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies, for the AES / ALLA / ABA “Ethnographic Futures” Conference at Washington University in St. Louis.

Romance Languages and Literatures

Gabriel Antúnez de Mayolo Kou is a Peruvian second year student in the Hispanic Studies Ph.D. program and he is also pursuing a certificate in Latin American Studies. He holds a B.A. in Linguistics and Literature with mention on Hispanic Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a Master of Arts degree in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fields of interest are Latin American contemporary literature, music, comic strips, and counterculture artistic movements in the Andean region. Last year, he presented “‘La modernidad en la pi- cardía criolla: análisis de los recursos gauchescos en las tiras cómicas de Roberto ‘El Negro’ Fontanarrosa” at the 3rd Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies in April 2018, and “‘Somos hombres de ciencia’. La reivindicación del intelectual científico en El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) de Ciro Guerra” at the 2018 North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) Conference in October 2018.

Lauris McQuoid-Greason is completing her third year of the Ph.D. program in Hispanic Studies at Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis, and is completing a certificate in Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on late 20th and 21st century Latin American narrative, with an attention to literary relations with France as well as broader questions of international circulation, market dynamics, and world literature. In May she organized and presented in a sponsored panel for the Southern Cone Section of the LASA 2018 Congress in Barcelona titled “Between Resistance and Complic- ity: Media, Aesthetics, Market and Politics in the Southern Cone.” In March she will be presenting a paper at the annual ACLA conference titled “The Politics of Representation of Latin American Place in the ‘World Literature’ of Mariana Enríquez.”

Soledad Mocchi Radichi is a Uruguayan fourth-year Ph.D. student. She received her BA in Letras from the Universi- dad de la República in Montevideo. She is also pursuing a Latin American Studies Certificate. Her main fields of inter- est are nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature and popular culture. Her research focuses on popular urban entertainment in Uruguay and Argentina. During Spring Break 2019 she will be participating in the “Lively City Masterclass Program” that will take place in London, developed by Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. In summer 2019, she will be conducting research for her dissertation in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is in the Hispanic Studies section specializing on Colonial Literature and Cultural Studies in the Iberian World. Juan’s dissertation topic focuses in women, gender, space and mobility during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in New Spain (currently Mexico). He is working with different Inquisitorial trials and non-canonical texts where the accused women were sentenced to move to different regions of the Americas. As a graduate student pursuing the Latin American Studies certificate, Juan enjoys taking classes from other departments at Wash U and learning differ- 9 ent methodologies that might impact his dissertation. During his time at Washington University, Juan has presented his work at different national and international conferences. In May 2018, he presented an essay about teatro bufo cubano and blackface at the “Visualizing Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, 16th-19th centuries” conference at the Institute of Latin American Studies in London, UK. Juan is also presenting this upcoming April at the Rocky Moun- tain Council for the Latin American Studies Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He will present an essay titled “Two Exemplary Cases: Spanish Women and the Colonial Inquisition in New Spain 1536-1538.”

Ángela María Rodríguez Moreno is a Colombian fifth-year Ph.D. student of Romance Languages and Hispanic Literature, Department of Spanish. She completed her Certificate in Latin American Studies with an investigation on relations between human body/urban body in Santiago de Chile, during the civic-military dictatorship, 1973-1990. The research analyzed some places of memory and memorials built in Santiago for remembering dictatorship’s victims, including the Museum of Memory and Human Rights where Rodríguez earned an internship throughout the 2018 sum- mer. Last year, she participated in the Sixth Biennial International Graduate Student Conference at the University of California with the paper: “Necropolitizar la frontera, obliterar muertos: La fila India de Antonio Ortuño.” She presented as well the paper “Marta Orrantia’s Mañana no te presentes: broken/erased memory and obliteration in the recent History of Colombia” in the Conference Armed Conflict and its Afterlives: Uses of War in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Ángela is writing her dissertation about transnational violence: complex depictions of violence/memory/space in contemporary Latin American Literature and Cinematography, de- cades after those violent events occurred in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.

Santiago Rozo Sánchez is a Graduate Student of Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies. His areas of re- search include Latin American literary, film and cultural studies; cultural theory, ‘world literature’ theory and neoliberal culture. He recently presented the papers “Literatura como exceso y residuo: cuerpos huecos, límite y consumo en Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe de Daniel Sada” at the XXXVI International Congress of The Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, Spain. May 23- 26, 2018. “Coloniality as Hyperobject: Weird and Eerie affects in Juan Cardenas’s Los estratos” at the 38th Cincinnati Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, April 6-7 2018. He also was awarded the Graduate Summer Research Fellow- ship, The Divided City a Mellon-Funded Urban Humanities Initiative, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis (2018).

José Salinas-Valdivia is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies at Washington University. He also finished a Gradu- ate Certificate in Latin American Studies from the same institution. José is currently writing his dissertation entitled “Indigenismo en movimiento. Tecnología, media y modernidad en los andes (1923-1957)” which discusses Peruvian indigenismo within a context of intense modernization in the media. Addressing particular transformations in terms of visuality, institutional and intellectual practices, and cultural industry. This research dialogues with an ongoing inter- disciplinary conversation in the field that understands indigenismo as a modern gesture, analyzing how a variety of cultural practices interact with modern elements such as cosmopolitanism, technical reproducibility, architectural and institutional modernities, and the emergence of the market. Also, Jose is co-convener of the Transpacific from the Global South Reading Group. This space, sponsored by the Center of the Humanities in WU, gathers several gradu- ate students from different origins and disciplines interested in current theoretical and methodological conversations to address the challenges brought by globalization into national and local cultures and societies. The group seeks to develop a transnational, horizontal, and fluid perspective that will engage with the personal interests of its members. Last year, he presented “Fausto Burgos. Indigenismo, modernidad y folklore en el norte argentino” at the XXXVI Inter- national Congress of Latin American Studies Association (May 2018).

José Patricio Sullivan is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies program and a McDonnell Academy scholar. He earned a BA in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a MA in Literature at Universidad de Chile. His main research area is Southern Cone contemporary literature, in topics such as science fiction, materiality and technology. In 2017 he participated in the Divided City seminar, a Mellon founded initiative. He is now working on a volume about Spanish XXI century science fiction called Recalibrando los circuitos de la máquina: imaginarios tecnológicos y ciencia ficción en la narrativa hispánica del siglo XXI.

Rodrigo Viqueira is a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies program. He earned a B.A. in Literature from the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and an M.A. in Latin American Literature from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay. His areas of research include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern Cone and Brazilian literature and culture, in top- ics such as modernity, ethnicity, popular culture, history of intellectuals and cultural theory. He has published articles and book chapters about the work of Ildefonso Pereda Valdés, Mário de Andrade and about early 20th-century Afro- Uruguayan intellectuals and press. He recently presented at many conferences, such as Southern Cone Section of 10 the LASA Congress. Pablo Zavala is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Studies. His dissertation is titled “Forging a People: Visual Culture in the Illustrated Press of Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” and analyzes the ways in which the concept of “a people” was constructed visually in mediums such as newspapers and magazines. His article “The Perfect Spectatorship: Culture and Criticism in Mexico’s La dictadura perfecta (2014) and ‘Ingobernale’ (2017-),” is forthcoming in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. He is contributing an essay on El Universal Ilustrado (1917-1940) to the collection Las culturas de las prensas, 1880-1930. And he attended the Latin American Studies Association confer- ence in 2018 in Barcelona, Spain with a presentation on the spectropolitics of the Juárez feminicides in FX’s “The Bridge” (2013-14), and in 2019 in Boston with a presentation on Mexico’s communist newspaper El Machete (1924-38).

The Undergraduate Program of Latin American Studies

The Latin American Studies Program offers an undergraduate major and minor in Latin American Studies. This program provides students with a unique opportunity to specialize in the cultures, politics, and history of the region through an in- terdisciplinary approach. Our gateway class, Latin America: Nation, Ethnicity and Social Conflict (L45 165D), introduces students to Latin America by engaging in topics such as nation creation, the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in historical development, as well as critical terminologies of the field. Students then harness the course offerings from affili- ated faculty across departments in the humanities and social sciences: Anthropology, History, Romance Languages and Literatures, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Art History and Archaeology. Undergraduate students cap the major with theoretical seminars that allow them to think about the materials they acquired in their coursework through theo- retical categories and paradigms, including race, gender, postcolonialism, media studies, cultural studies, and others. Student Spotlight Isabel Kennon is a senior working on her undergraduate honors thesis in Latin American Studies. Her research looks at Chilean public housing, and how public housing policies have affected feelings of crime and of community. She had learned about the inequalities and divisions in Latin American society in classes, but it was during the 2017 LAS Summer Program in Lima, Peru, that her interest in spatial segregation was really sparked. For her Latin American Studies and Spanish majors, she participated in the WUSTL Study Abroad program in Santiago, Chile, and lived there for seven months. While there, she was able to contact professors in the Urban Studies department at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and learn about the neoliberal Chilean public housing system, which is a privatized system that relies on government subsidies. She also, with the support of her Chilean host mom and Católica professors, did investigative field work and interviewed women in two former public housing neighborhoods about their feelings of crime and of commu- nity. Upon her return to St. Louis, she took Dr. Clouser’s “Geographies of Development in Latin America” class, and researched the contemporary housing system even further within the context of neoliberal development. She will graduate in May with a double ma- jor in Latin American Studies and Spanish, and a minor in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Alumni Updates Andrea León

Since graduating from Wash U in 2017, I have stayed in the St. Louis area during my gap years working as a clinical research assistant for Wash U SoM’s Gynecologic On- cology department, recruiting patients to various behavioral intervention trials, and in- terpreting at Casa de Salud to facilitate the physician-patient interaction. I’ll begin my medical education next fall, and am currently deciding between a couple of schools, but leaning towards George Washington University in DC! My Latin American Studies education has allowed me to better understand the cultural and historical background that shapes Latin American policies and thus, its people. It taught me that though my experiences as a Peruvian immigrant are similar to other Latinx peers, I should also be aware of the nuanced differences. This informed perspective allows me to connect with patients of various backgrounds (both at Casa and at my job), thereby bridging the so- ciocultural gaps between physician and patient, and influencing the type of physician I 11 want to become. Therefore, in applying to medical school, I looked for programs that had a clear focus on public health and providing medical care to immigrant populations. The MD program at GW offers vast opportunities to delve into health care policy and sociocultural determinants of health, so I hope to use my LAS knowl- edge to fully take advantage of these programs, and become a community-conscious doctor for Latinx populations.

Lauren Molina

Growing up in South Florida with Cuban parents, I always felt connected to Latin America and the Caribbean. So while my passion for Latin American Studies did not begin at Wash U, it definitely flourished there. I searched history, political economy, and culture in my classes and immersed myself into the language by studying abroad in Peru. Since graduating from Washington University, I moved to Washington D.C. and started my Masters in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. In my graduate experience, I am focusing primarily on development and energy security in the Caribbean as well as matters of international governance. I would not be able to delve deeper into these issues if I did not come with the foundation in the region and area studies that I developed at Wash U. I continue to refine my research and writing skills, which I know will contribute greatly to my future plans. I am expecting to graduate with my Masters in May 2020 and I hope to apply the knowledge I have accumulated over my academic career to serve as an advocate for Latin America and the Caribbean in developing U.S. policy, particularly in regards to sustainable and inclusive develop- ment. While the lens I view a lot of these issues through has remained in Latin America and the Caribbean, I know the ideas and level of cultural competency I have cultivated pursuing Latin American Studies can be applied elsewhere and I look forward to contrib- uting to efforts in strengthening diplomatic relations and fortifying development globally.

Gwen Alessandra Unger

I am an LAS alumni from the class of 2014! While I was at Wash U I studied Brazil- ian culture, focusing on music and fine arts, and completed a minor in studio art. After graduation I began a position as Gallery Director at the Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis. Currently I am studying art history in a Ph.D. program at Columbia University in New York, focusing on modern and contemporary Latin American art. Since beginning the program, I have earned my MA degree, with an MA thesis on the work of Helio Oiticica during his time in New York City, and am currently studying towards my MPhil exams. I was also part of the MoMA Museum Research Consortium in 2018, for which I wrote a short piece on two works by Lygia Clark. This will be published in a collection of writ- ings from the MRC sessions by all the graduate students who were involved. Currently my research focuses on contemporary Cuban art: I was a part of a symposium held at the Casa de las Americas led by Professor Alex Alberro in 2017, and recently de- livered a paper at LASA 2018 on the role of the Cuban artist in the global market. I am incredibly grateful to my LAS degree and the professors I was able to work with at Wash U, especially Ignacio Sánchez Prado whose influence I am indebted to. Mov- ing between fields was a difficult task, but I found that my background in LAS helped me to have a better understanding of Latin American theoretical and critical issues at play in art. Because of my LAS degree I have a different perspective and understand the socio-political understandings differently than purely formalist art historians would.

Association of Latin American Students (ALAS)

The Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), founded in 1991, recognizes and advances the cultural and academ- ic contributions of Latin America and of Latinx to the world and to the Washington University community. We strive to pro- vide a space for Latinx students of the University community to share in a common heritage while celebrating differences. We welcome students of all backgrounds regardless of ethnic, gender, religious, sexual, cultural, educational, or political identity. We program various events throughout the school year including but not limited to political and cultural discus- sions, dance nights and study hours. Email us at [email protected] to be added to our mailing list or for more information.

12 Study Abroad The Washington University Andean Studies Summer Program in Lima, Perú

Javier García Liendo

For the third consecutive year, the Peru Andean Studies Summer Program, organized by WU’s Latin American Studies Program in conjunction with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, was offered last summer. For six weeks (June 4 to July 16, 2018), a cohort of nine students (including a student from a peer- institution) lived in Lima with local families, ex- plored the culture and food of this Latin Ameri- can megacity, and traveled to Cusco, Ayacucho and Arequipa to learn about traditional medicine and state-locality interactions. As part of the course “Governance, eth- nicity and development in the Andean region,” students visited the agricultural and mining re- gion of Cocachacra (Arequipa) and indigenous communities in the Colca region (Arequipa). They met with local leaders, authorities, and indigenous families, and discussed traditional use of water and other natural resources, as well as the effects of ecotourism and mining projects on the region. As part of the course “Public health, healing and traditional medicine in the Andean Region,” students met with traditional healers and midwifes both in Lima and Ayacucho. They learned about the use of me- dicinal plants, and the differences between indigenous communities and the Peruvian national health system in their approach to health and medicine. While in Cusco, students visited Machu Picchu and other archeological sites. Students also had the opportunity to learn about the history of political violence and the debates on post- conflict memory in contemporary Peru. In Lima, they visited the museum Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social, and in Ayacucho they met with relatives of disappeared persons in the ANFASEP Museo de la Memoria. We are looking forward to repeating this experience in the summer of 2019. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to Prof. Javier García Liendo ([email protected]).

A Student Perspective

Bryan Wilensky

As the wheels of my United Airline flight touched down at Jorge Chávez International Airport after flying for however long it takes to watch four consecutive in-flight movies, I gazed out the miniscule airplane window across the unfamiliar geography that constituted a city, a region, a way of life that was largely foreign to me. Yes, I had read a substantial number of articles and journals that documented the cultural and political formation of both Peru and the larger Andean region, but as the airplane doors were disarmed and I slowly rose to my feet whatever knowledge I had previously extracted from those pages quickly vanished. I felt overwhelmed. What on earth was I doing in Lima, Peru thousands of miles from home? Would I be able to communicate with my taxi driver, or would he mock my developing accent? How would I get to class everyday if the bus system was too complicated? Was I going to be okay? All of these questions, and millions more, swirled around my head as I was promptly whisked away from the airport. By the time I arrived at my homestay’s door, I was a literal bundle of nerves. My hand shook as I gently pressed down on the glistening doorbell. As the front door swung open, I was met by my 4-foot 11-inch host mom, Cecilia, who welcomed me with a hug that somehow covered me better than any blanket imaginable. As she released me from her loving grasp, I was affectionately smothered by her mother and son pit bulls, Ganja and Atlas, who treated me as if I was a long-lost family member. At that moment, I was no longer alone, adrift in a foreign country, not sure how I was going to get by. I knew I was going to be okay. I was simply home. 13 My seven weeks in Lima as part of the Andean Studies Summer Program in Peru, during which my cohort of nine Washington University in St. Louis students enrolled in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, was one of the most transformative and incredible experiences of my life. On the academic front, my coursework pertaining to the historical de- velopment of the Andean region helped me better conceptualize the current economic, political, and social situations that characterize this vibrant part of the globe. Furthermore, lectures on traditional methods of healing in the Andean region al- lowed me to explore world views that starkly contrasted the one I grew up in, which further challenged me to question basic elements of health and community that I used to take for granted. Lastly, academic excursions to a myriad of locations, rang- ing from the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture in Lima to community museums in the highlands of Ayacucho, allowed my peers and I to meaningfully observe concepts from the classroom at work in the society and culture that surrounded us. While my experience in a Peruvian classroom has greatly impacted my scholarly pursuits, which is evident from my newly acquired Spanish major and Latin American Studies minor, it was the energetic and vibrant Peruvian culture, and how local Peruvians wholeheartedly embraced me, that I will remember most fondly. World-class cuisine available in all shapes, sizes, and styles, found in all corners of the country, ranging from seven-course meals prepared by the extraordi- nary Gastón Acurio to Choclo con Queso purchased from a roadside cart near the Colca Canyon, exemplify Peru’s rich and varied cultural roots that continually astounded me. Soccer matches with my host brothers near the docks of Callao, paired with World Cup viewing parties in Arequipa and Cusco further showed me the unifying power of sport as La Blanquirroja quickly became my national team as well. Moreover, cultural explorations to jazz bars in Barranco, a traditional wedding in Huamanga, and sand dune surfing in Ica, helped my newly acquired Peruvian and American friends to develop years’ worth of memories in a handful of weeks. As I hugged a teary-eyed Cecilia and pet the always energetic Ganja and Atlas goodbye before hailing my last taxi to the airport, I couldn’t help but feel as if I was leaving part of my family, a part of myself behind in her humble three-story house. As I boarded my return flight to New Jersey, I knew that I was leaving a different person compared to the one who had arrived in Lima, horribly nervous, just a seven weeks earlier. My time in Peru challenged to be the best version of myself, as I went about my day wholeheartedly embracing every new experience that fell in my path as explored the varied landscape of the nation. I will never forget my immersive experience in the Andes, and I am already counting down the days until I can once again return to my second home, Peru.

RLL Program in Portuguese

The RLL Program in Portuguese is designed primarily for students who come prepared with native or near- native fluency in Spanish. Proficient speakers of all Romance languages, however, are certainly welcome in our courses. Students are encouraged to take advantage of their current language abilities in order to develop profi- ciency in Portuguese more rapidly. We emphasize similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese whenever possible in order to facilitate the learning process. The main communicative goal of the Portuguese program is to encourage students to become more recep- tive in listening and reading, more productive in speaking and writing, and more adept in their socio-cultural skills. By the end of each course, they will be able to engage with markedly improved proficiency in meaningful, contextu- ally and culturally appropriate conversations with various types of speakers. They will be able to comprehend basic authentic texts in Portuguese, and produce their own projects “in-language.” Currently, RLL offers Introductory level Portuguese (“Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I and II”). In the Fall of 2019, we will also begin offering our first class in the intermediate-level course, “Reading and Conversation.” We are in the planning stages of the second intermediate-level class.

The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic Studies

The Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies remains a leader nationally, as well as among Ph.D. programs at Washington University. This past year we have designed and developed a new series of Transdisciplinary Cours- es (five in total) that will be offered starting in Fall 2019. These courses include Global Hispanic Studies, Cultural Theory, Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality, and Media, Material & Popular Cultures. This new series of courses will allow students to develop vocabularies, learn about key debates, and produce knowledge in cross-disciplinary areas that are of critical importance not only in Hispanic Studies but in the humanities as well. Current and former students have attended major conferences such as MLA and LASA, published essays in top journals, and have been at the forefront of transformative initiatives for the field & graduate study more broadly. A key example of such an initiative is the Association of Gender Minority & Women Graduate Students, launched in part by Franc- esca Dennstedt and Emma Merrigan. Our students have also continued to excel at securing support for innova- 14 tive reading groups and grants from the Divided City initiative. SOUTH BY MIDWEST V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES FRONTERAS LÍQUIDAS LIQUID BORDERS WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS OCTOBER 2-3-4, 2019

15 FRONTERAS LIQUIDAS / LIQUID BORDERS Washington University in St. Louis -- October 2-3-4, 2019

Exiles; Diasporas; Nomadism; Forced Displacements; Dis/Re/locations; migration; boundaries, borders and frontiers; Transnationalism; third space; no-go zones; ethnoscapes; refugees; biopolitics; asylum; “Illegal aliens”; necropolitics; contact zones; interstices; passages, Walls, funnels, caravans; tolerance; hospitality.

The problem of migration constitutes, without a doubt, one of the crucial topics of our time. The mass mobilizations that are taking place in all parts of the planet entail intense processes or cultural interaction, and represent an extraordinary political, legal, and administrative challenge for the nation-State. Migration poses unavoidable questions to the fields of philosophy, ethics, sociol- ogy, economy, and cultural criticism. These interrogations focus on the significance and reach of human rights, the meaning of borders, the notion of national security, and the ethos of productivity and integration that seems to define, at least for some, global capitalism. The V South by Midwest International Conference titled Liquid Borders / Fronteras líquidas which will be organized by LASP in Wash U on October 2-3-4, 2019 constitutes an attempt to analyze, from transdisciplinary perspectives, the issue of migration, in its multiple manifestations: political and economic exiles, “sex- iles,” diasporas, forced displacements, and other forms of collective mobilizations across national and regional borders. All of these practices result in the formation of new forms of individual and collec- tive subjectivity where uprooting, de/re/territorialization and the horizons of post-nationalism reveal a world in profound and accelerated process of transformation. At the same time, the repressive mea- sures against immigration and the dehumanized strategies for the criminalization and victimization of migrants must be seriously scrutinized, both through the study of concrete cases and through the elaboration of new categories and models of interpretation that could shed light on the issue of migra- tion from conceptual, ethic, philosophical, political, and symbolic — representational — perspectives. Taking into consideration the social importance and the geopolitical expansion of mi- gration at a planetary level, and the dramatic developments this situation is presenting around the world, the Latin American Studies Program has expanded, on this occasion, the scope of its inquiries beyond the limit of Latin America. We have added to the study of Latin Ameri- ca the case of other countries where migration is also a key issue, that requires urgent intel- lectual and political attention. Being as it is a global situation, we believe that all of us, no mat- ter our areas of specialization, can learn from international experiences and scholarly work around this issue, which, by definition, expands across disciplinary and national boundaries. Some of the topics to be analyzed are, among others: the connections between citizenship, migration, and the law; the construction of migrant subjectivities; the definition of new social and po- litical agendas related to territoriality, public policies, and survival strategies; the changing role of na- tional borders in the context of globalization; the relations between local/regional/national and global dimensions; and the current uses of notions of governmentality, biopolitics, and transnationalism. Given the nature of the topic at hand, we would like to encourage presentations that go beyond literary studies. If literary texts are used as a point of departure, or to illustrate different aspects related to the representation of migration, we hope that the main focus will be placed on the theoretical/cultural/ economic/philosophical/legal aspects of human mobility. All presentations (20-30 minutes long) will be in English or Spanish (we will arrange for simultaneous translations, or prepare translations in advance in order to make all presentations accessible to all). As with previous conferences, a book will be published 16 with selected articles in the series South by Midwest, with Iberoamericana/Vervuert (Frankfurt/Madrid). Talks and Events

Latin American Studies Program

“Lecciones en transición: democracia, violencia y poder en Colombia” Hernán Alejandro Cortés Ramírez. Universidad de los Andes-Colombia. December 5, 2018.

The recent peace process with the FARC-EP (the oldest guer- rilla group on the continent) and the Colombian government has brought radical problems to the table in historical, political and philosophical terms. In this sense, it is necessary to think about the content of the transition in a democratic key. What is put into play when abandoning 50 years of internal armed conflict? Is the transition process a commitment to deepen democratic institu- tions? In what sense is this transition configured and in what way is it positioned with respect to the processes of reparation and inequality? This talk presents some ideas in which democratic ideology is questioned, so that it is palpable to recognize both the colonial legacies that shape political power in Colombia, and a problematization of the “hegemonic peace” built by Colombian institutions.

“Sobre la verdad y las formas del poder en contextos de violencia paramilitar de Colombia. Algunas aristas sobre los retos actuales de la comisión de la verdad” Jaime Santamaria. Universidad de los Andes-Colombia. December 5, 2018.

After negotiations with the FARC in Havana, Colombia is at the most difficult moment in the process: the implementation of agreements. Many difficulties have arisen, among which we can name: dissidence of the FARC, assassinations of leaders and human rights defenders, lack of political will by state institutions, lack of alternatives in the substitution of illicit crops and a civil society that does not want to accept the demobilized guerrilla (an other!) as a political subject. In addition of all these thorny edges, last May was installed the Truth Commission. Led by the Jesuit Father Francisco de Roux, this commission has the difficult task of finding the conditions so that the truth of the war is not hidden and contributes with the justice and reparation so longed for. Now, what is meant by truth here? How is truth and political exercise linked beyond a discourse of reparative memory for the victim? How does truth connect with power, sovereignty and biopolitics or even necropolitics? What are the rarest ways in which the exercise of power and sovereignty of paramilitary groups—in all their ambiguous relationship with the State—produced forms of cruelty, horror, death and also effects of truth ? All these issues point to one of the biggest challenges we have today as a country, namely, how to conjugate truth (with all its infamous weight) and political exercise.

17 Latin American Colloquium

Natalia Guzmán Solano. October 08, 2018.

In “Vivencias desde la lucha. Stories of Women Defending the Terri- tory in Peru’s Northern Anden,” Natalia Guzmán Solano, Ph.D. Can- didate in Anthropology and student of the LAS Graduate Certificate, explored women’s accounts of mobilizing against large-scale mining and state interests. Her presentation in the LAS Colloquium during the Fall, was a work-in-progress based on ethnographic research with luchadoras (fighters) and defensoras del medio ambiente (environmental defenders) from the Cajamarca Region in Peru. LAS Graduate Certificate funding allowed Natalia to collect oral political histories in Celendín and Cajamarca (city) that document women’s experiences of their participation in the lucha (struggle) since the 2011 Conga mining conflict. These stories represent narratives sel- domly documented in studies about the politics of socio-ecological struggles in Latin America. Drawing on the themes of agua (water) and indignación (indignation) in the narratives, Natalia delved into the interpretative frameworks sustaining women’s activism during and in the aftermath of state repression.

Ángela Rodríguez Moreno. November 05, 2018.

The Certificate in Latin American Studies gave me funds for traveling to Santiago de Chile during the last summer. There, I got an internship at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and I had the opportunity of studying the Na- tional Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report, Valech Report, the Peter Kornblut Archive which contains the CIA declassified files regarding the coup d’état, and a wide range of audiovisual materials from its Documentation Centers. Further- more, I investigated at Memorials, former centers of detention and torture, testimonies of victims and diverse materials regarding violent memories that reflect how the Chilean Society copes with that violent background. I visited Londres 38, the National Sta- dium, Villa Grimaldi, “La Venda Sexy” and other public spots like the Mapocho River in order to check remembrances and particu- lar acts of resistance against the repressive regime of Augusto Pinochet. I presented my investigation at the Colloquium with the title: “Urban body, Human body: Where the Memory of Santiago de Chile prevails after September 11th, 1973?”

18 Other Latin American Activities

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos New Directions Speaker Series Under the editorship of Stephanie Kirk, the REH New Directions speaker series brought a dynamic group of schol- ars doing cutting edge research to campus for the benefit of our faculty and graduate students. eW were delighted to welcome the following group of scholars between 2017 and 2019: Benita Sampedro (Hofstra University), Javier Guerrero (Princeton), Lisa Surwillo (Stanford U), John Patrick Leary (Wayne State U), Julio Ariza (Dartmouth College), and Emily Maguire (Northwestern U). In addition, the REH sponsored three panels at the Society for Early American- ists Religion and Politics Conference held in St. Louis in 2018. Leading scholars presented work on the intersection of colonialism and globalism in Latin America. Papers drawn from these panels will be featured in a special dossier to be published in the REH entitled Colonial/Global.

Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. “The Cursed Circumstance of Water All Around Us.” Leonardo Padura. April 2018.

The Fanny & Dr. Adolfo Rizzo Endowed Lecture. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. “Orlando Fals Borda and the Emergence of Participatory Action Research in Latin America.” Joanne Rappaport. Georgetown University. April 5, 2019.

Visiting Hurst Professor. Department of English “Domestic Archeology of Reparation.” Cristina Rivera Garza. University of Houston. February 28, 2019.

Special Guest. Sponsor by Romance Languages and Literatures, REH, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and International and Area Studies. “Transfeminismos: Frontera, migración y violencia.” Sayak Valencia. Colegio de la Frontera del Norte. April 12, 2019. 3:00 pm. Seigle 301.

Editor Ignacio Sánchez Prado Co-Editor Francesca Dennstedt 19 Courses in Latin American Studies 2018-2019

Fall 2018 L45 165D L45 3548 Latin America: Nation, Ethnicity and Social Conflict Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica Prof. Ignacio Sánchez Prado Prof. Deborah Spivak L45 3095 L45 364 The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of the Anarchism: History, Theory, and Praxis Ancient Andes Prof. Steven Hirsch Prof. Sarah Baitzel L45 3800 L45 343 Topics on Hispanic Cultures. Making Latin American Popular. Latin American Literatures and Cultures Despacito…Futbol…. Prof. William Acree, Francesca Dennstedt, Javier García Liendo Prof. William Acree and Elzbieta Sklodowska L45 3800 L45 3546 Topics on Hispanic Cultures. Imagining the Andes: Ethnicity, Mo- Art and Archeology of the Ancient Andes dernity and Human Rights in Peru. Prof. Deborah Spivak Prof. Javier García Liendo L45 356 L45 3880 Andean History: Culture and Politics Topics on Hispanic Cultures. The paradoxes of Contemporary Prof. Steven Hirsch Cuba: The Good, The Bad, and The In-Between. Prof. Elzbieta Sklodowska L45 3800 Topics on Hispanic Cultures. Latin American Contemporary L45 4121 Cinema: Transnationalism, Neoliberalism, Resistance. Language and Power Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Prof. Bret Gustafson L45 410 L45 4611 Major Seminar. The Politics of Borges. Latin American Populism and Neo-Populism Prof. Andrew Brown Prof. Steven Hirsch L45 439 L45 4622 The Arab & Muslim Americas: Feminist Perspectives Labor and Labor Movements in Global History Prof. Bahia Munem Prof. Steven Hirsch L45 4660 L45 4662 Geographies of Development in Latin America: Critical Central American Geographies of Violence Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges Prof. Rebecca Clouser Prof. Rebecca Clouser L45 468 Media Cultures in Latin America Spring 2019 Prof. Ignacio Sánchez Prado L45 3161 L45 4744 Religion, Race and Gender in Early Modern Latin America TransAmerica: The US and Mexico Between the Wars Prof. Stephanie Kirk Prof. Angela Miller L45 3354 L45 502 Ancient Mesoamerica Latin American Studies: Critical and Theoretical Approaches Prof. David Freidel Prof. Mabel Moraña L45 343 L45 537 Latin American Literatures and Cultures The Production of Culture: José María Arguedas and the Migrating Prof. William Acree, Stephanie Kirk and Elzbieta Sklodowska Andes Prof. Javier García Liendo

For Further Information

If you are interested in further information on Washington University’s Latin American Studies Program, our activities and our work, please contact Prof. Mabel Moraña: [email protected].

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