THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
AFTER FOUCAULT: GENDER AND BIOPOLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
The collaborative project between professor Daniel Link (Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina), professor Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern), and professor Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern) highlighted instantiations of biopolitical formations of gender, sexuality, and reproduction as they become forces of necro- and thanatopolitics. The project focused on several sub-themes while incorporating different lineages of engagement with Foucault and biopolitics in the global north and south, such as the sovereign right to maim (Puar); burdened individuality (Hartman); necroresistance (Bargu); slow death (Berlant); endebted life, control, and the assemblage.
The result of the collaboration is the development of a new bibliography and syllabus on the subject and a series of events. The Mellon fellow, Andrés Mendieta, assisted with the research for the course development while visiting Northwestern.
Director of the Program for Contemporary and Comparative Latin American Studies (PELCC), Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies and Policies (CIEPOG), and a professor in Masters in Latin American Literary Studies and Gender Studies, at the Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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THE project's Mellon Fellow. Mendieta joined Northwestern in the fall of 2022 as a PhD scholar in Spanish and Portuguese.