Figuring Futures - Futures from/of Latin America


 History     Feb 25 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Zoom

Please join us for

Figuring Futures: Futures from/of Latin America
A Conference

Friday, February 25, 2022
11:00AM - 12:00PM PST

Public Keynote by Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva (UBC) followed by Q+A
Register for the keynote here: https://tinyurl.com/FiguringFutures

An academic and practicing artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work addresses the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagavel (2019), Unpayable Debt (forthcoming) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). In her keynote, she will respond to the many implications of the conference theme, Figuring Futures - Futures from/of Latin America, which includes (but is not limited to) dystopian art/literature, ancestral knowledges, indigenous worldviews, afrolatinamerican thought, racialization, decolonial thought, environmental issues, border crisis, anti-futurism.

Translation to Portuguese and Spanish will be available.
Tradução para o português disponível. | Traducción en español disponible.

Please send any questions to interversarconferences@gmail.com