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“Guantánamo and the Border” 3-530 EST, in English As the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base enters a new chapter in its history as a detention site, with Cubans among the migrants who have recently been held there, this lecture explores relationships between the base and Cuba that have taken shape over the past three decades. Although… Read more

“Embodying imagination, sensing irreparability: bodies and reproduction in times of exhaustion and displacement” 3-530 EST, in English How do we approach the question of justice when we look at forms of irreparability affecting bodies, territories, and ecosystems? The talk explores a dialectics between collective forms of defending dignified life and the intensification of systemic harm… Read more

“Study Without Ends: Aesthetic Education in Neoliberal Latin America” 7-830 EST, in English What will have been neoliberalism? At a moment when this question has become pressing, Study Without Ends seeks answers in the cultural politics and political cultures of those Latin American societies that served as its laboratory. Drawing from aesthetic theory and heterodox… Read more

What Are Cities Made of?  Agrarian Transition and the Latin American Boom 4-530 EST, in English Drawing from her forthcoming book, titled Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (Verso, 2026), this talk examines how a set of experimental 1960s novels plotted the massive, epoch-making agrarian transitions that created the modern Latin… Read more

With translator Brian Whitener 7-8pm EST Please join us at a book launch for the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism just out from Duke University Press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-of-capitalism “Framed by brilliant readings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism… Read more

Communal Hypothesis Annual Symposium 830am-1pm EST Please join the Communal Hypothesis Research Group for our annual symposium which will take place April 3 at the University at Buffalo. The morning sessions are open to the public, while the afternoon roundtable is for members of the research group only. April 3, Grenier Hall 216 8:00-8:30am: coffee… Read more

“We Are Like Oil: Culture, Nature, and Modernity in Venezuela” 4-530 EST, in English While the 1970s are remembered as a decade of energy crisis, in Venezuela they were a period of extraordinary abundance that redefined the nation’s economy, culture, and relation to the environment. Oil became at once a blessing and a curse, driving… Read more

“Alebrijes anárquicos. Anarquismo, praxis anticolonial y autonomía en América Latina” 6-730pm EST, en español Durante la plática me concentraré en mostrar los acercamientos entre el anarquismo entendido como una teoría política y práctica social y las prácticas anárquicas de los pueblos entre los cuales destacan especialmente las llamadas comunidades indígenas. Por prácticas anárquicas de los pueblos y sectores… Read more