(Offered as SWAG 267 and LLAS 267) From the crafting of the text “me too” in the United States to “not one less” in Latin America, social movements have configured in the streets and in the digital avenues of the continent to demand a different world and to change everything. We will approach these texts as events, as literatures, as cultural artifacts, and as entry points for the analysis of culture in our hemisphere.
(Offered as SWAG 124 and LLAS 124) This is an introductory class on Latin American feminist traditions and social movements since the turn of the twentieth century up to today’s conversations around gender identity, human rights, decoloniality and sexual violence. The course is organized into three sections: 1) women’s social movements , 2) Latin American theories of patriarchy and gendered/sexual violence and 3) sexual diversity and difference, and the contemporary transgender movement.
Fall semester. Visiting Professor Osorio.
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Ghosts are everywhere. From ancient religious texts to contemporary bestsellers, from urban legends to theoretical debates about late-stage capitalism, ghosts have haunted the popular imagination. They return time and again to declare that we are not yet done with the past. The ghost is a figure that undermines determinate endpoints and opens up a world in which a chill in the air or a rustle in the house can cause our faculties of rationalism to crumble, as our minds might race toward a supernatural explanation.
