Event Host: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, Department of English Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Short Description: This interdisciplinary and transhistorical event convenes researchers and practitioners from Spanish and Portuguese, English and history to discuss the use of personal narratives in reckoning with the relationship between the past and the present.
This interdisciplinary and transhistorical event, co-sponsored by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and the Department of English Diversity and Inclusion Committee, convenes researchers and practitioners from Spanish and Portuguese, English and history to discuss the use of personal narratives in reckoning with the relationship between the past and the present. The aim of this conversation is to bridge the gap between Portugal’s legacies of slavery, and autotheory, or life writing, which positions the memory and embodiment of the speakers as central tools that help us understand the lives and afterlives of racial violence.
This event will be moderated by Spanish and Portuguese Professor Lisa Voigt. Presenters include Pedro Schacht Pereira, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese; PatrÃcia Martins Marcos, PhD candidate in history and science studies at the University of California San Diego; Kathryn Vomero Santos, assistant professor of English at Trinity University; and Mira Assaf Kafantaris, senior lecturer of English.
This event will have live captioning. If you require additional accomodations to participate in this event please email Mira Assaf Kafantaris at kafantaris.6@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.