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International Symposium: The Afterlives of Dictatorships

October 11, 2023 - October 12, 2023
11:00 AM - 9:30 PM
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Casa Hispánica, Columbia University (612 W 116th St)

El Simposio Internacional La sobrevida de las dictaduras propone examinar críticamente y debatir las secuelas de las dictaduras latinoamericanas del siglo XX, con especial atención al 50 aniversario del golpe cívico-militar chileno de 1973. 

El simposio es una colaboración entre la Graduate Student Association del Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (GALAIC), Columbia Global Centers | Santiago, el Institute for the Study of Human Rights de Columbia, Counter-Memories (un proyecto de humanidades públicas apoyado por The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities), el Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) de Columbia y la iniciativa Chile/NYC 1973-2023.

 

PROGRAMA MIÉRCOLES 11 OCTUBRE

11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Contramemorias: desmantelando el legado de la represión en América Latina (monumentos, archivos, artes visuales). Evento online

Lanzamiento de la plataforma digital de historia oral Counter-memories.

Participan:

- Magdalena Novoa, Co-fundadora de Monumentos Incómodos, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Alexandre Mourão, Member of Aparecidos Políticos (Brazil), artist, psychologist and Professor at the Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão 

- Alexandre Mourão, Miembro de Aparecidos Políticos (Brasil), artista, psicólogo y Profesor en la Universidad Estadual de la Región Tocantina de Maranhão 

- Luise Malmaceda, PhD candidate, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

- Iuri Bauler, Postdoctoral Scholar and Future Faculty Fellow, History & Global Languages and Cultures, Northern Arizona University

4:00 - 4:30 pm: Bienvenida

4:30 - 6:30 pm: Resistencia chilena en la ciudad de Nueva York, años 70

Invitado: 

- Marcelo Montealegre, Fotoperiodista chileno radicado en Nueva York

Modera:

- Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

6:30 - 8:30 pm: Representaciones de la memoria en el Chile de la postdictadura

Panelistas:

- María José Contreras, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Columbia University

- Ángeles Donoso, Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, City University of New York (CUNY)

- Richard Peña, Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Media Studies, Columbia University

Modera:

- Luiza Franco, Periodista, editora y productora, America’s Quarterly

 

PROGRAMA JUEVES 12 OCTUBRE

4:30 - 6:30 pm: Performance “Memoriales Móviles” y taller de grabado (To be held in English and Spanish)

Invitada: María Verónica San Martín, Artista multidisciplinaria y educadora chilena radicada en Nueva York

6:30 - 8:30 pm: Del golpe al estallido: 50 años de feminismos y disidencias sexuales en Chile

Panelistas:

- Alondra Carrillo, Psicóloga, traductora, Convencional Constituyente (2021-22) por la Coordinadora Feminista 8M

- Fernanda Carvajal, Investigadora CONICET, miembro de Red Conceptualismos del Sur, Profesora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Modera:

- Susana Draper, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University

8:30 - 9:30 pm: Recepción

 

ENGLISH VERSION

The Afterlives of Dictatorships proposes to critically examine and debate the afterlives of the 20th-century Latin American Dictatorships, with particular attention to the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean civil-military coup. 

The symposium is a collaboration between the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (GALAIC), the Columbia Global Center | Santiago, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia, Counter-Memories (a public humanities project supported by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities), the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the Chile/NYC 1973-2023 initiative. 

 

PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 11

 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Counter-memories: Dismantling the Legacies of Repression in Latin America (monuments, archives, visual arts).

Magdalena Novoa: Co-founder of Monumentos Incómodos, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Luise Malmaceda, PhD candidate, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

Iuri Bauler, Postdoctoral Scholar and Future Faculty Fellow, History & Global Languages and Cultures, Northern Arizona University

4:00 – 4:30 pm: Welcome

4:30 – 6:30 pm: Chilean Resistance in New York City, 1970s

Marcelo Montealegre, Chilean Photojournalist based in NYC

Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

6:30 – 8:30 pm: The Representation of Memory in Post-Dictatorial Chile

María José Contreras, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Columbia University

Ángeles Donoso, Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, City University of New York (CUNY)

Richard Peña, Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Media Studies, Columbia University

Luiza Franco – Journalist, editor and producer, America’s Quarterly

 

PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 12
 

4:30 – 6:30 pm: Performance Moving Memorials and Printmaking Workshop (to be held in English and Spanish)

María Verónica San Martín, Chilean Multidisciplinary Artist based in NYC
 

6:30 – 8:30: From the Coup d’état to the Estallido: 50-years of Feminism and Sexual Dissidence in Chile

Alondra Carrillo, Chilean psychologist, translator, political activist and feminist organizer. Former elected member of the Constituent Assembly (2021-2).

Fernanda Carvajal, Researcher at CONICET in Argentina, member of the Red Conceptualismos del Sur, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires

Susana Draper, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University

8:30 – 9:30 pm: Reception