27/03/2024
Recent events in have placed the search for and social center stage, and Torres also studies the temporalities underpinning these movements, asking whether these projects are providing alternatives to overused past and future tropes. She suggests ways of thinking for today's , encouraging them to remember history and imagine new possibilities while cultivating space for human agency now.
Speaker: María de los Angeles Torres, Distinguished University Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the author or editor of many books, including In the Land of Mirrors: Politics in the United States and The Lost Apple: Operation , Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future.
Moderator: Tania Bruguera, Senior Lecturer In Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media, Affiliate Of Art, Film, And Visual Studies and Faculty Member of the Cuba Studies Program at harvard University.
To participate, register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4FPpFq_aSoCqS_ep0b2REQ #/registration
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST
Language: The event will be in English.