"Asynchronicity: Cultural Theory in Comparison." Keynote by Diana Sorensen (Harvard); talks by Neil Larsen (UC Davis), Ignacio Sánchez-Prado (Washington U St. Louis), Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley), Héctor Hoyos (Stanford), and guest writer Élmer Mendoza.

"Asynchronicity: Cultural Theory in Comparison." Keynote by Diana Sorensen (Harvard); talks by Neil Larsen (UC Davis), Ignacio Sánchez-Prado (Washington U St. Louis), Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley), Héctor Hoyos (Stanford), and guest writer Élmer Mendoza.
Date
Fri May 28th 2010, 8:45am

ASYNCHRONICITY
Cultural Theory in Comparison
Terrace Room, Bldg 460. Margaret Jacks Hall
Friday May 28, 2010


9:15-9:30

Introductory remarks by Roland Greene, ILAC/DLCL

9:30-11:00

Neil Larsen, UC Davis: “The Future is Past: On the Temporalities of Global Crisis, Fictional Capital, and the North/South Divide”
Ignacio Sánchez-Prado, Washington U St. Louis: “The Smile of the Slave: Alfonso Reyes, ‘Deep Time’ and the Critique of Colonial Modernity”
Discussant: Marília Librandi Rocha, ILAC.

11:00-12:30

Pheng Cheah, UC Berkeley: “Of Other Worlds to Come”
Héctor Hoyos, ILAC: “Globalization as Form”
Discussant: Alex Woloch, English/CSN.

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Guest writer Élmer Mendoza (Culiacán, 1949) in conversation with Jorge Ruffinelli, ILAC

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-5:00 Keynote talk by Diana Sorensen, Harvard: “Temporalities and Geographies for the 21st Century”
Discussant: Joan Ramon Resina, ILAC
 

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.