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Cultural Analysis Summer Academy - CASA 2006:
Constructing Social Change
June 22-26, 2006
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Netherlands.
Hugo Pezzini introduced, screened, and offered for debate two Argentine films that constitute excellent representations of what has been called by some critics the New Argentine Cinema or, alternatively, the “School of a Generation of Orphans”:
• Lucia Martel's La Ciénaga (“The Swamp”) (2001)
• Adrián Israel Caetano's Bolivia (2000)
The first film eyes a minimalist “end of history” though the (seemingly everlasting) agony of a decadent family of northwest Argentina's fading agricultural petit-aristocracy. The second exhibit, busts into the mortal present of the post- and transnational subaltern subjectivities, impossibly trying to inhabit a restrictive, suffocating space that they have forced themselves into, within the interstices of a socially and racially belligerent Buenos Aires.
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4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
January 11-14, 2006
The Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu. Hawaii.
Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed "the gathering place." The 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities was once again the gathering place for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities [and] related fields from all over the world. Here, Hugo Pezzini presented the results of his
historiographical
investigation on the succession of events that led to the mass assassination of "reformist" workers and labourers in August 1819 in Manchester, England: the episode infamously known as "the Peterloo massacre." The results of his research on the subject constitute the text of his long essay "A People Starved and Stabbed in th' Untilled Field," which provided the substance of the talk Hugo Pezzini gave in Hawaii.
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Cultural Analysis Summer Academy - CASA 2005:
Borders, Markets, Movements
June 17-20, 2005
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Netherlands.
On Monday, June 20, Hugo Pezzini discussed his thoughts gathered on his article "The Formation of the Latin American Neoliberal Individuality: Constructor Sui?" Inspired by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's assertion that "Just as modernization did in the previous era, postmodernization or informatization today marks a new mode of becoming human," his theory challenges opinions—current among a group of Latin Americanist cultural theorists—on the hypothetical advent of a certain Latin American neo-or even post- subjectivity forged by the neoliberal cultural industry.
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7th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Theory & Criticism, and Spanish
Pornography's Not About:
On Pornography, Obscenity, and Spectacle
April 7-9, 2005
University of Western Ontario, Canada.
On Saturday 8, in the panel “Feminism, Alternaporn & Robo-copulation” [1:00 PM – 3:00 PM] Hugo Pezzini introduced his (long-titled!) work "Sexuality and Surveillance: Categories and Degrees of Existence: Humanity as a
Gradual Substance. Women, Art, Film: A Gendered Approach to the Replicant." The title is long enough to become selfexplanatory. Continuing an ongoing conversation on the problems of film production and the representation on women, Hugo Pezzini deepened concepts he had already delineated in the Out of This World, conference, in Berlin, Germany, on October 3, 2004. |
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Tenth
Annual International Graduate Students Conference
in New York City:
Expanding Perspectives in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages: Discourses of Identity,
Gender, and Sexuality
Friday, December 10, 2004.
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 5th Avenue, New York, USA.
In the panel "La
literatura como reflejo de la identidad"
[9:30 - 11:00 AM] Hugo Pezzini presented his
work "The Actors Method," an analytical
reading --drawing from gender, identity, and
performance theories-- of Manuel Puig's 1968
novel La Traición de Rita Hayworth.
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Out of This World 4
Science Fiction, Politik, Utopie
Radikale Kritik, süffige Exegese, packende soziale Utopien, warpgetriebene popkulturelle Interpretationen sind die Eckpfeiler eines Projekts, das die kleinen und großen Erdbeben erkundet die uns klar machen: diese Welt ist schon längst nicht mehr so, wie sie zu bleiben versucht.
Sept 30 to Oct. 2004
Helle Panke, Kopenhagener Str. 9 b, Berlin, Germany.
On Saturday 2, at 2 PM,
there was a projection of Ridley Scott’s
film Blade Runner
(The Director’s Cut).
Afterwards, Hugo Pezzini gave a talk on Blade
Runner from the critical/theoretical
standpoint expressed in his article " A
Feminist Eye on Blade Runner:
Sexuality and Surveillance; Categories and Degrees
of Existence: Human as a Gradual Substance.
Women, Art, Film: A Gendered Approach to the
Replicant.” Then, he opened the floor
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Cultural Analysis Summer Academy - CASA 2004:
Theory and Practice / Privatization of Education?
Acting - Spectating / Universities and Social Movements
July 2-5 2004
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Netherlands.
The CASA 2004 meeting explored the relation between thought and action, between theory and practice with particular references to communication between universities and social movementes and discussions about privatization of education.
On Sunday, July 4, Hugo Pezzini presented his 2003 book The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? This is a book on critical theory, strongly charged with Pezzini's personal political views.
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