University of Maryland, College Park
Latin American Studies Center
Visiting Scholar
Intellectual History and the Political Languages of Latin America and
the Hispanic World
April 2 - 6
Prof. Elías José Palti,
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prof. Palti will be
in residence for seven days. He will lecture publically and run an intensive workshop
for graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates may also attend.
Mark your calendars.
Lecture:
In the Folds of the Sacred: A Genealogy of the Political in the Hispanic World
Date and Time:
Tuesday, April 2, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location:
3202 Knight Hall
"The
political" is not
an eternal category but rather an "invention" of the seventeenth century
from within the frameworks of theological thought and was even
inconceivable before. The development of political thinking in the
Hispanic world between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
provides us fundamental keys to comprehending that crucial phenomenon
that will determine all subsequent political development and debates.
Workshop:
Recent Approaches in Intellectual History and the Political Languages of Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Date and Time:
Saturday, April 6, 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Location:
2120 Francis Scott Key (Merrill Room)
The
theoretical developments that made intellectual history one of
the most dynamic and innovative areas in the field of the humanities
paved the way for the definition of new objects and kinds of approaches
to them and oblige us to revise traditional forms of understanding Latin
American politico-intellectual history. A fundamental aspect of these
reformulations
is the new possibilities they open to integrate cultural processes into broader scenarios than the national ones and to
analyze modes of symbolical interaction and intellectual exchange much more complex and problematic than previously thought.
Elías José Palti
is one of the most innovative and prolific writers on the intellectual
history of Latin America. He obtained his PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley,
in 1997, after which he pursued postdoctoral studies at El Colegio de
México and Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and frequently serves as a guest professor in
universities worldwide. He is the author of ten books and currently a member
of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Palti has received various prizes and fellowships, including the Guggenheim
Fellowship in 2009.
Those wishing to attend the workshop should RSVP to lasc@umd.edu
by Friday, April 5, 2013.
Participants in the workshops should be prepared to do a short
set of readings, which will be provided by e-mail.
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