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John Patrick Leary is associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit and a Fulbright fellow in the Faculdade de Letras – 2019. He is a scholar of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century US and Latin American culture and the cultural history of capitalism. His first book, A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the US Imagination (Virginia 2016) explored how of US intellectuals have imagined poverty in the Americas. His new book, Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism is a critical lexicon of the popular vocabulary of working life in the 21st century.

15 February 2019 14h, Room 8.2-FLUL

The professor is teaching this semester in the Critical Theory program at the Universidade de Lisboa, and this is the syllabus of the class

Marxism in the 21st century–a syllabus.

The conference “CIRCULATIONS - The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”, between 3 and 4 November 2016, in Johannesburg, invites scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, etc.) to rethink the region’s past and present in its multiple transnational intricacies and complex maps of connectivity, beyond and across borders. We encourage interested scholars to send paper proposals for 20 minutes presentations in any of the following indicative, but not exhaustive, areas:

– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.

– Of Settlements and Diaspora: rethinking migration and settler colonialism.

– Dangerous liaisons: security and circulation under colonialism and apartheid.

– Migrating power: networks and movement during liberation struggles.

– Pathways of circulation: social histories of infrastructure (roads, railways, etc).

– Bodies on the move: histories of legal and illegal migration, for labor and leisure.

– Intersections: the politics of race, gender and class in transnational movements.

– Knowledge unbound: scientific cooperation and circulation of scholars and ideas.

– Celebrating togetherness: the politics of cultural diplomacy and official visits.

– Moving objects: consumption, material cultures and the social worlds they make.

– Moving words: circulation of newspapers, correspondence, books, etc.

– Moving images: photography, film, art, and visual culture across borders.

– Moving sounds: the making and circulation of music beyond borders.

– Entangled representations: circulation of writers, artists, filmmakers, etc.

Potential contributors should submit a short abstract (no more than 200 words) and a career description (one paragraph, no more than 15 lines) no later than May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on June 15, 2016. Draft papers are expected on October 1, 2016, and will be pre-circulated amongst participants. We intend to publish a collection of essays in an edited volume or journal issue.

Abstracts should be sent to both the organizers:

Caio Simões de Araújo (caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch)

Ana Balona de Oliveira (ana.balona.oliveira@gmail.com)

For more information, click here.

Between 3-6 November, Johannesburg will host the conference “The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”.

This conference invites scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, etc.) to rethink the region’s past and present in its multiple transnational intricacies and complex maps of connectivity, beyond and across borders. We encourage interested scholars to send paper proposals for 20 minutes presentations in any of the following indicative, but not exhaustive, areas:

– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.

– Of Settlements and Diaspora: rethinking migration and settler colonialism.

– Dangerous liaisons: security and circulation under colonialism and apartheid.

– Migrating power: networks and movement during liberation struggles.

– Pathways of circulation: social histories of infrastructure (roads, railways, etc).

– Bodies on the move: histories of legal and illegal migration, for labor and leisure.

– Intersections: the politics of race, gender and class in transnational movements.

– Knowledge unbound: scientific cooperation and circulation of scholars and ideas.

– Celebrating togetherness: the politics of cultural diplomacy and official visits.

– Moving objects: consumption, material cultures and the social worlds they make.

– Moving words: circulation of newspapers, correspondence, books, etc.

– Moving images: photography, film, art, and visual culture across borders.

– Moving sounds: the making and circulation of music beyond borders.

– Entangled representations: circulation of writers, artists, filmmakers, etc.

Potential contributors should submit a short abstract (no more than 200 words) and a career description (one paragraph, no more than 15 lines) no later than May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on June 15, 2016. Draft papers are expected on October 1, 2016, and will be pre-circulated amongst participants. We intend to publish a collection of essays in an edited volume or journal issue.

Abstracts should be sent to both the organizers:

Caio Simões de Araújo (caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch)

Ana Balona de Oliveira (ana.balona.oliveira@gmail.com)

More information here.

SHORT VIDEO ART SHOW KATHMANDU 2O11 

Opening Jan 14^th 2011

Space A, for alternative art practice 

presents ”Playing with Borders”

curated by Cecilia Freschini

Participating Artists: Alessia De Montis, Andreco, Daniele Girardi, Debora Vrizzi, Diego Zuelli, Elisabetta Di Sopra, Filippo Berta, Francesca Romana Pinzari, Girolamo Marri, Sabrina Muzi

Since ancient times mankind has felt the need to build and define situations and concepts in order to create clear boundaries that facilitates its perception of the surrounding world. The human condition does not seem able to conceive the phenomenal and noumenal reality without the help of proper structures, both physical and mental, that somehow impose limits on our actions and thoughts. But only by breaking down these boundaries can lead to a better understanding and expand awareness of themselves.

Therefore, every day we need to face a large number of differences: personal, social, cultural, territorial, linguistic and physical barriers, able to create well enclosed areas. However, rather than being an impediment, this kind of strain, can be a strength as this project aim to suggest combining a detailed system of references on different levels, where the individual language told us about a specific encumbrance.

Basically, these artists describe a contrast between an inner space and outer space, their incompatibility and lack of communication. They are all playing with their borders and with the concept of limit, emphasizing differentiations through a new perspective that can, actually, reveal interesting findings.