The annual Baldwin-Dahl Lecture, will be held on October 31, 2024, at 4:30 p.m., in HQ 134 with guest speaker Héctor Hoyos, Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature at Stanford.
Professor Hoyos also directs the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of the Novel. The author of the monographs Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (2015) and Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America (2019), both with Columbia University Press, he is also a former Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. His talk ‘García Márquez and the Critique of Law’ will explore the “…global, lawless affective community prefigured in the author’s oeuvre…”
Additionally, there will be a special workshop on November 1, 11:00 a.m., in Bingham Hall Library, 8th Floor, 300 College St.
This will be a great opportunity for graduate students to reflect upon and discuss his work “Global Supply Chain literature vs. extractivism”. You can use this link to RSVP and find the reading material along with some reflective prompts for the Workshop. We are looking forward to seeing you there!