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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, February 28, 2024 12:00 pm to 
 2:00 pm \n Emmanuel College 108 \n 75 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M
 5S 1K7 \n\nSpeakers \nIrina Troconis \n\nDescription: \nWe are glad to wel
 come Irina Troconis as our first guest for ¡Pa' Fuera! in a new series on 
 the cultural productions of the Venezuelan diaspora in the 21st. century.A
 bout the PresentationIn this talk, I propose an approach to the cultural 
 production that has recently developed around and from the Venezuelan dias
 pora that focuses on what I, in my current book project, call “transluce
 ncy”: a concept that refers to both an aesthetic and a practice of ethics\
 , remembrance, and care. Through an analysis of a selection of installati
 ons and poetry volumes by contemporary Venezuelan artists and writers, I 
 will argue that the way translucency is mobilized in their work renders ma
 terial and urgent a mode of resistance to narratives that privilege transp
 arency, linearity, immediacy, and legibility. As a result, a possibili
 ty emerges to see the contemporary migrant condition as a point of departu
 re to explore new and radical ways of being with and for each other that g
 o beyond discourses of empathy, compassion, and indifference. About the 
 PresenterIrina Troconis is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies i
 n Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Her research dialog
 ues with Memory Studies, Venezuelan Studies, Politics and Performance, 
 Affect Theory, Visual Culture, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities
 . She is the co-organizer of the online conversation series (Re)thinking V
 enezuela / (Re)pensando a Venezuela.Dr. Troconis’s work has eloquently tra
 ced the influences that the Venezuelan diaspora has in the processes of na
 tion and citizenship building in their multi-sited locations. The Necroman
 tic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Rev
 olution (under contract) – her first book –, as well as her second untitl
 ed book focusing on the Venezuelan diaspora, analyze cultural productions
  in multiple media forms. By focusing on the affective and materiality tie
 d to the many cultural expressions in the diaspora, her work convincingly
  highlights the complex geopolitical and transnational processes that thes
 e diasporic subjects find themselves in and the ways that they are negotia
 ting (through and by) their self-representations. Related Events:Migración
 , autonomía y mercado en la novela venezolana de hoy, by Miguel Gomes (U
 niversity of Connecticut) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.Reading, by Dani
 el Centeno on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. \n\nContact Information: \n Joh
 a\n Kirchenbauer j.kirchenbauer@utoronto.ca Department of Spanish & Portug
 uese \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of Spanish & Portuguese, Cente for Diaspor
 a & Transnational Studies \n75 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7 
 \n\nCategories \n Lectures and Conferences \n\nAudiences \n Latin American
  StudiesSpanish
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LOCATION:75 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7
SUMMARY:Translucency: Memory, Materiality and Loss in the Venezuelan Diasp
 ora
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