Materia

Active Focal Group

materia: Latin Americanist and Comparative Post-Anthropocentrisms

materia is a DLCL Focal (formerly Working) Group on anthropodecentric thinking. Since 2014, the group has served as a platform for graduate and faculty research. Our meetings combine reading discussion, student presentations, and guest speakers. Regular workshop meetings include some twenty-five participants from ILAC and Comp Lit (the pillars of the group), as well as from English, MTL, German, Anthropology, and Music, among others. We collaborate with several other groups on campus and correspond with similar projects in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Cognate courses, as well as completed and ongoing dissertation projects, speak to the continuing impact of the group. There have been sixteen workshops and an international conference to date. The former average twenty-five participants; the latter had over seventy. The convening theme for our sixth year of activities will be “Life and Transmission.”

Session formats alternate to include discussions of readings moderated by faculty and graduate students, presentations of works-in-progress, and talks by guest speakers. All readings will be pre-distributed by email and are available to download from our website, materia.stanford.edu.

For more information, please contact João Viana at jglviana [at] stanford.edu (jglviana[at]stanford[dot]edu) or Sofia Silvas at silvas [at] stanford.edu (silvas[at]stanford[dot]edu)

 

Past Events

January
31
Date
Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
May
6
Date
Saturday, May 6, 2023, All day
April
13
Date
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
February
16
Date
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 5:00pm
January
12
Date
Thursday, January 12, 2023, 12:00pm
November
17
Date
Thursday, November 17, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
October
20
Date
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 12:00pm
September
29
Date
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 12:00pm
May
27
Date
Friday, May 27, 2022, 2:00pm - 3:30pm