Symposium: Critical University, Critical Dissonance: Pedagogies on Art & Violence in the Americas

Organized by Prof. Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Spring 2019, Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

This two-day symposium analyzes the possibilities and limits of critical practices emanating from the university. How do universities reach out to address the social urgencies of today beyond the classroom walls? How might academics strive to work with stigmatized and marginalized “others,” rather than “on” them? Critical thinking emerges when spaces that have long been separated—the University and Prison, as but one example—create a friction that changes and re-signifies disciplinary knowledge and its practices within the university and within prisons. Artistic, pedagogical and juridical critical practices are at the core of this friction. Symposium participants from the Global South analyze how the critical university (public and private) intervenes not only in prisons, but in other state institutions.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

7:00 PM



7:15 PM

Welcome and Presentation



Marisa Belausteguigoitia



Spring 2019 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations



New York University (NYU)

Opening Keynote



Writing in Dissent: Social Suffering, Communality, and the Ethics of Care



Cristina Rivera Garza, University of Houston

FRIDAY APRIL 26TH | 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM



3:00 PM - 5:00 PM



6:00 PM

Translucent Strategies and Dissent: Maneuvers for Access to Justice



Michael Coyle, California State University, Chico



Susana Draper, Princeton University



Haizea Barcenilla, Universidad del País Vasco



Moderator: Marisa Belausteguigoitia, New York University (NYU)

Prison Borders: Activation of Love and Other Artifacts



Estibaliz de Miguel Calvo, Universidad del País Vasco



Maite Zubiaurre, University of California, Los Angeles



Moderator: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University (NYU)

4:00 PM- 4:20PM: “A Cell of Her Own,” performance by Estibaliz de Miguel Calvo

Closing Keynote



Maneuvering Absence: Artistic Practice as “Space of Appearance”



Rian Lozano, Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Sponsored by NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.

Additional contribution by NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.