Course Code

Course Title & Course Intructor

LACA 1504S

The Knowing Body: Memory, Grief and the Practice of Listening

Sandra B. Sánchez López

In Latin America, initiatives to address violent pasts, authoritarian regimes, and civil wars through accords and peacebuilding have prompted calls from public historians to integrate
historical analyses into transitional justice processes and public debate. Their objective is to intervene in a dominant narrative and establish solid routes into reparation. Through this interdisciplinary approach and a practice-as-research methodology, students will develop a performative project exploring memory, affect, and the history of grief and resilience in Latin American historical contexts. Students are given the option to select the specific socio-political violence, reconciliation, and restoration experience in the Latin American region with which they wish to engage and produce their final collective project. Rather than representing a case, students will perform an embodied translation of the complexity of memory making, grief, and listening in a specific case study.

LACA 1504T

This course offers an interdisciplinary overview of Latin American feminisms from the 19th century to the present, focusing on the political, intellectual, and social movements led by
women and feminist collectives. It will explore the political demands during the emerging republics, feminist struggles within proletarian movements, resistance to civic-military dictatorships, transnational expropriations, sexual dissident struggles, and the critical approaches linking class, sex, racialization, and gender as the focus of socio-political domination and exploitation. The course will also examine current challenges posed by the emergence of conservative far-right movements in the region. Students will be encouraged to develop their own proposals through scientific or creative research questions. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.