Asia-Latin America Reading Group: Transpacific Studies and the Political Unconscious of Asian-Latin American Writing
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
We hope you’ll join us for a Zoom talk by Ignacio López-Calvo (UC Merced).
Transpacific Studies and the Political Unconscious of Asian-Latin American Writing
Date and Time: Thursday, May 11, at 1pm PT
The draft paper and Zoom were sent out by email. Please email Yurim at yrk3pt [at] stanford.edu (yrk3pt[at]stanford[dot]edu) or dlclevents [at] stanford.edu (dlclevents[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Chair in the Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities, and Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters, as well as nine single-authored books and twenty-three essay collections. He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, the Palgrave-Macmillan Book Series “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia,” and the Anthem Press book series “Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series.” His latest books are The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, Performance (2022); Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production (2019); Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru (2014), and The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru (2013).
Learn more about the Asia-Latin America Reading Group here.
This event is sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and co-sponsored by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.