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Latin America in View with Maria del Rosario Acosta

In the context of the Symposium "What is Art Doing for You?" organized by Faculty from Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature as part of the Southern California Working Group "Hispanism/Critical Thought" which will take place on Thursday April 25, 2019, we are happy to invite you to participate and attend our Graduate Student workshop with and about the work of Professor María del Rosario Acosta (DePaul University).

This workshop is organized by the Graduate Student Reading Group on Latin American Thought "Thinking In/From Latin America", and will take place on Wednesday April 24, 2019 as a seminar style meeting with presentations and a roundtable discussion from current graduate students, faculty and with the participation of Professor Acosta.

María del Rosario Acosta is a well-known Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department that was at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, until December 2014, when she joined the Philosophy Department at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches and conducts research on Romanticism and German Idealism, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, and Contemporary Political Philosophy. Her more recent work has also moved into the areas of memory, trauma and representations of violence with a focus on Colombian and Latin-American contexts. She used to collaborate with the Historical Memory Center in Colombia in producing reports on paramilitary violence and creating and consolidating Regional Historical Memory Groups. Some of her latest published works explore the relationship between Hegel's political philosophy and the notion of "community" within a certain contemporary French tradition (Derrida, Esposito, Nancy, and Agamben). She is also the main researcher of a project entitled "Narratives of Community: On Law and Violence," which addresses possible encounters between contemporary political philosophy and the transitional justice process in Colombia. She has now moved this expertise to Chicago in working with police torture survivors in the South Side of the city in coordination with the Chicago Torture Justice Center and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials.

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