The Departments of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies and of Political Science, with support from the President’s Advisory Committee on Lectures, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and SFU’s Latin American Studies program are pleased to present two events featuring Bruno Bosteels: a roundtable and a public lecture. Both events are free and open to the public.
1. March 30, 2011, 12:00-1:30pm:
* Roundtable on “Community and the State” in Bolivia and the Latin American Left Turns
With Bruno Bosteels, Oscar Cabezas, Max Cameron, Alec Dawson, and Gaston Gordillo. Moderated by Jon Beasley-Murray.
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies conference rooms.
A sandwich lunch will be served.
2. March 30, 4pm-6pm:
* Public lecture: Bruno Bosteels, “Can the New Man Speak?”
(You may want to watch Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memorias del subdesarrollo / Memories of Underdevelopment in advance of this talk. The film is available free to watch online)
799 Buchanan Tower.
Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and one of the leading critics and theorists of Latin American politics and culture, as well as a leading expert on the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou.
He is the author of dozens of articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy and political theory. His research interests further include the crossovers between art, literature, theory and cartography; the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; decadence, dandyism and anarchy at the turn between the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural studies and critical theory; and the reception of Marx and Freud in Latin America. He is the general editor of the journal Diacritics.
His publications include The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011) and Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011). He is currently preparing two new books, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Religion, and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Terror, and After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy.