Presentation
The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The policies created around the body generate diverse, dissenting, irreverent and complex narratives, discourses and poetics.
In this way, the congress is expected to convene studies on the body and the policies and narratives built around it, from perspectives that include an interdisciplinary approach. Thus, different disciplines of the human, social and artistic sciences would converge in order to transversally think about corporeality.
HONOUR COMMITTEE
David Le Breton
University of Strasbourg, France
His work has been translated into several languages. In Spanish: Estallidos de la voz. Una antropologia de las vozes (Topia); Experiencias de dolor. Entre la destruccion y el renasciemento (Topia); La piel y la marca. Acerca de las autolesiones (Topia). Conductas de riesgo, de los juegos de la muerte a los juegos de vivir (Topia). Antropologia del cuerpo y modernidad (Prometeo Libros); Interaccionismo simbólico (Prometeo Libros); Las Passiones ordinarias. Antropologia de las emociones (Prometeo Libros); Caminar la vida (Siruela); Desaparecer de si. Una tentación contemporánea (Siruela). He is also author in English of Sensing the world. An anthropology of the penses (Bloombury).
David Le Breton is professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Strasbourg, member of the Institut Universitaire de France and member of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS).
Fernando Degiovanni
The Graduate Center, The City University New York, US
His scholarship examines modern intellectual experiments in Argentina—especially avant-garde communities—by situating literature, cultural theory, and archival formations in dialogue with non-human ecologies, gendered technologies, and forms of counter-cultural life. He has authored the award-winning books Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline (translated into Spanish in both Argentina and Mexico) and Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en Argentina, and coedited Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930. A former president of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, his academic trajectory has been distinguished by numerous fellowships and visiting professorships across the Americas and Europe.
Fernando Degiovanni is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Mabel Moraña
Washington University in St. Louis
She has published extensively on literary criticism and cultural theory, on topics such as the Baroque; Colonial, modern and contemporary symbolic production in Latin America; biopolitics; affects; the role of intellectuals, Andean literatures and Mexican narrative and critical thought. Among her latest collective volumes: Liquid Borders. Migration as Resistance. London: Routledge (2021); Water Marks. Hydrocriticism in Colonial Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan). Constructing the Racial Other. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. Co-Edited with Miguel Valerio (Vanderbilt UP); Poetics of Race. Mabel Morana (Anthem Press). Her latest authored books include Filosofía y Crítica en América Latina. De Mariátegui a Sloterdijk (Santiago de Chile: Metales pesados, 2017; Pensar el cuerpo. Historia, materialidad y símbolo (Barcelona Editorial Herder, 2021; Líneas de fuga. Ciudadanía, frontera y sujeto migrante. Madrid: Ed. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2021 (forthcoming in English, Univ. of Pittsburgh); Nosotros los bárbaros”. Tres narradores mexicanos en el siglo XXI-Mexico: Ed. Artigas Bonilla, 2022; Literature and Globalization in Latin America. The World Inside (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023)., Caleidoscopio. 8 Ensayos críticos (Mexico, Bonilla-Artigas, 2025); and Género y Bio/Necropoeticas in Latin America. (Mexico, Bonilla Artigas, 2025) and Jacques Derrida, el ex-céntrico (Barcelona, Herder Ed. 2025).
Mabel Moraña is William H Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she directs the Latin American Studies Program.
Suely Rolnik
Universidad Católica de São Paulo, Brasil
Suely Rolnik (1948) is a psychoanalyst, writer and full professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She has been an invited teacher of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Theater and Living Arts at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá, 2013-2019) and a member of the teaching staff of the Programa de Estudios Independientes – MacBa (Barcelona, 2007-2015). Her work is inscribed in a territory crossed by philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics which are present in writing, teaching, artistic curatorship and clinical practice in strict sense. She is a researcher into the colonial-racial-heterocispatriarchal-capitalist regime of unconsciousness from a transdisciplinary theoretical perspective, inseparable from a pragmatic micropolitical resistance to this regime. Among her published books is Micropolitics. Cartografías del deseo (2005) written in collaboration with Félix Guattari, Esferas de la insurrección. Notes to decolonize the unconscious (2019), Antropofagia zombi (2005) and Cartografía sentimental (1989, In Spanish).
Suely Rolnik (1948) is a psychoanalyst, writer and professor.