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Please join LACS for lunch and a lecture by Dr. Javier García Liendo.  With the global expansion of capitalist social formations toward rural areas in the early twentieth century, schooling became a transformative arena. In rural schools, the teaching of applied technology, social sciences, and humanities, as well as folkloric, literary, and artistic practices, radically altered the interconnections between the production and reproduction of life and culture. This talk explores such transformation, taking Peruvian rural schools as a case study. It pays particular attention to normalistas (graduates of teachers’ colleges) to discuss how American pedagogy and indigenismo shaped local interpretations of capitalist modernity and rurality. 

Dr. Javier García Liendo is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at Washington University.  He is the author of El intelectual y la cultura de masas: Argumentos latinoamericanos en torno a Ángel Rama y José María Arguedas (Purdue University Press, 2017). His teaching focuses on twentieth-century Andean and Latin American literature at culture, media theory, sound studies, ecocriticism, and indigenous cultures in Peru and Bolivia.