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Theorizing Translation in Latin America

Date & Time: Friday, April 24, 2026
8:30 a.m.
Location: Jewel Box, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
On/Off Campus: On Campus

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)

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