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

During two days this symposium analyzed 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 analyzed how the critical university (public and private) intervenes not only in prisons, but in other state institutions.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5: A Cell of her Own performance

Sponsored by NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.

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