XXIV Annual Graduate Student Conference

The PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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Feminismos, Cuidados y Disidencias

Feminist discourses generate new spaces of discussion and critique; spaces often configured by dissident bodies and discourses that destabilize the production of gender and social organization. The power of the feminist subject lies in the subversion and redefinition of the existing tension between, on the one hand, the critique of the imaginaries and representations of gender in institutionalized spaces, and on the other, the attention to other forms of existing and coexisting that resist capitalist, patriarchal, and heteronormative logics. From this perspective, the dissident power of solidarity, vulnerability, and care allows us to trace a political environment in which affective labor reimagines the conditions of equality and otherness in various spheres of life. Thinking from feminisms, cares, and dissidences suggests a reconfiguration of the value assigned to bodies that work, produce, and reproduce; a reconfiguration that brings us to question the very notion of body and what a body can ___.

  • April 18-19, 2019

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Louise Vasvári

Susana Draper

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