2022/2023 Andrés Bello Chair In Latin American Cultures And Civilizations

Verónica Gago

Verónica Gago. Foto: Irupé Tentorio.

She teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is professor of sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). As a researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET), she is also part of GIIF (Group for Feminist Research and Intervention). Gago is the author of Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Duke University Press, 2017), Feminist International (Verso 2020), is co-author of A Feminist Reading of Debt, with Luci Cavallero (Pluto Press 2021), and of numerous articles published in journals and books throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is a member of the independent radical collective press Tinta Limón. She is part of the scientific board of different academic journals: Critical Times (Berkeley University), Hypatia. A journal of feminist philosophy (Oregon University), Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales (Universidad de Barcelona), Dialogues in Human Geography, (Sage Journals) and Revista Bajo el Volcán, (Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, México). She was visiting professor and lecturer at different universities in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Unites States, Germany, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, and México.

Graduate seminar

During her stay at KJCC in Spring 2023, she will teach the graduate seminar “Prácticas feministas: tiempos y territorios de la revuelta” on Tuesdays, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. More information below:

“Prácticas feministas” special program

Gago will also curate the special program “Prácticas feministas”. More information below:

Events:

¿Qué significa hoy reencantar el mundo? | Diálogo entre Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair) y Silvia Federici

https://www.kjcc.org/event/que-significa-hoy-reencantar-el-mundo-dialogo-entre-veronica-gago-spring-2023-andres-bello-chair-y-silvia-federici/

Taller | Investigación feminista: metodologías y prácticas de experimentación https://www.kjcc.org/event/taller-investigacion-feminista-metodologias-y-practicas-de-experimentacion/

Variaciones del neoliberalismo en América Latina: una genealogía feminista crítica | Diálogo entre Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair) y Susana Draper (Princeton University; La Laboratoria – New York) https://www.kjcc.org/event/variaciones-del-neoliberalismo-en-america-latina-una-genealogia-feminista-critica-dialogo-entre-veronica-gago-spring-2023-andres-bello-chair-y-susana-draper-princeton-university-la-laboratoria-new-york/

Andrés Bello Chair In Latin American Cultures And Civilizations

Officially inaugurated in December, 2001, the Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations was established at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, thanks to an extraordinary gift from the CITGO Petroleum Corporation, the American subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela. The endowed Chair honors one of the greatest political and intellectual figures of the American hemisphere, the Venezuelan-born humanist, poet, scholar, diplomat, and public intellectual Andrés Bello (1781-1865). Essayist, historian, and linguistic and legal scholar, Bello wrote poetry, history, legal works, and was a remarkable scholar of the Spanish language. As a philologist, he compiled one of the most important Spanish modern grammars for the Americas. Andrés Bello is also remembered as the founder of the University of Chile and a great promulgator Chile’s Civil Code.

The Chair allows the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center to bring to NYU leading scholars of Latin American culture as visiting professors and researchers, and to support conferences and public lectures centered on the Andrés Bello Professorship.

In addition to being a major educational and scholarly resource, the Andrés Bello Chair is a sign of New York University’s longstanding commitment to promoting interdisciplinary research and teaching on contemporary Latin America cultures and civilizations.

ATRIUM: Voices from the KJCC

In April 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center turned 25. To commemorate this milestone, we produced ATRIUM: Voices from the KJCC, an oral history project that captures memories of the KJCC through the recorded testimonies of our past Chairs going as far back as the ’80s, before the Center was as we know it today: a robust cultural and educational institution that hosts both the Andrés Bello and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chairs.

Below we present a historic reel with the voices of some of our interviewees for the project:

You can also watch the individual interviews of the series here.

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