
Theorizing Translation in Latin America
8:30 a.m.
Panel I: Material Translations from the Colony to Today
“Translating the Frontier: Road Wars in Colonial Mexico”
Daniel Nemser (University of Michigan)
“Translatio Metallis: Rethinking Inter-American History and Periodization Through the Movement of Metals”
Allison Bigelow (University of Notre Dame)
Panel II: Translation Between Science and Culture
“Anexact yet Critical: Translating Freud and Einstein in Peru”
Alejo Stark (University of Utah)
“Translation as Beginning: On Psychoanalysis and Latin America
Candela Potente (The University of the Arts Helsinki) Panel III: Translating Revolutionary Temporalities
Panel III: Translating Revolutionary Temporalities
“Bodied Translation in the Latin American Long Sixties”
Olivia Lott (Yale University)
“History and Theory in Peripheral Marxisms: The Two Times of Translation”
Martín Cortés (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Institute for Advanced Study)
Keynote: “Translation as a Site of Struggle”
Gavin Arnall (University of Michigan)