The Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies cluster presents...
Monica Szurmuk // Visiting Professor, Stanford University // Senior Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina
With respondent Sofía Sánchez // PhD candidate, Spanish & Portuguese
Intimate Cartographies, Collective Memories: Engaged Humanities in Suburban Buenos Aires
Thursday, May 7, 2026 // 5-7pm // Kresge 2-351, Kaplan Institute seminar room
Event co-sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Focusing on work carried out in a research-intervention project in suburban Buenos Aires, this talk addresses questions of multidirectionality of memory, intergenerational trauma, environmental humanities, and the creations of new and alternative archives. Some of the questions addressed include: Can the participation of local community actors inspire new questions about the past in dedicated memory spaces? How can conceptions of space and memory be redefined in new iterations of the continuum between past, present, and future? Can communal interventions in memorial disputes create new meanings about community territories?
Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and a Professor of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín where she chairs the M.A. program in Latin American Literatures. She is the author of Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives, La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff and Malmö. She has coedited Mujeres en viaje, Memoria y ciudadanía, Dictionary of Latin American Studies, Sitios de la memoria: México Post ´68, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, Entre mundos y lenguas: las cartas de un maestro de la Alliance Israélite Universelle, Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2017 and A History of Argentine Literature. She is the editor of the series “Latin American Literature in Transition” for Cambridge University Press.
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