Description: A sense of incertitude and anxiety dominates the current age. This instability is closely related to the (re)emergence of populism(s), the increase in hate speech, and the resurgence of ethnic and religious violence and xenophobia. Besides evincing a complex web of relations and gestures toward the Other, all these facts together with the impending threat of ecological catastrophes call the project of modernity into question. Introducing the MLA International Symposium’s theme Remembering Voices Lost, panelists will explore the “lost voices” of humanity from the perspectives of globalization and culture, environmental preoccupations, and feminist and queer histories.

The symposium will take place at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa from 23 to 25 July 2019 in Lisbon.

Speakers

Anna M. Klobucka, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Adriana Martins, U Católica Portuguesa

Diana Gonçalves, U Católica Portuguesa