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
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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.