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Seminario abierto en Zoom: “Radical Presentisms: Putting the Early Modern to Work”, primera sesión de “Contemporary Pasts”, con Nick Jones (Bucknell U), Chad Leahy (U of Denver) y Rachel Stein (Tulane U), moderada por Karina López (Yale U), del seminario Iberian Connections: Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Contemporary Critical Thought, organizado por Jesus Velasco (Yale U)

JUEVES 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE, 4 PM EDT

 

Inscripción para participar por Zoom: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeY3CVFyOs_KRqprXmCcHvge0OFi2B_cD0i56_k-Dtv4sz0Yg/viewform“Contemporary pasts. The expression may look like a very traditional trope –looking at the past from the assumption that nothing in the past can be properly examined without articulating some of our most pressing, urgent questions. In that sense, it is –it is a traditional trope. However, this expression, contemporary pasts, indicates something else: by examining the past, we are constantly engaging in the question what does it mean to be a contemporary, that is, what does it mean to combine intellectual activities with the pressures of activism.”The first session, “Radical Presentisms,” addresses “the question of how the present radically informs some of the critical questions we need to ask about the past. Blackness, Black Iberia, and #BlackLivesMatter, as well as Critical Race Studies and Public and Collective Humanities constitute the theoretical and practical backdrop to this conversation.””Our guests are preparing materials and ideas for us to discuss and think with them. Nicholas Jones has prepared a reading list, plus a short paper on “Black/Early/Iberia”. Rachel Stein, likewise, has suggested her own reading list, as well as a paper outlining her ideas “Imagining a Collectivist Humanities”.”Please, do not hesitate to send us your ideas and interventions. We will be happy to publish them as part of this important conversation.”

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