Jon Beasley-Murray: CV

Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies
The University of British Columbia
797-1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z1

tel. +1 604 822 4951
fax. +1 604 822 6675
jbmurray@interchange.ubc.ca

Employment

2004- Assistant Professor, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia.
1999-2004 Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Manchester.
1999-2000 Lecturer, Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen.

Education

Ph.D. Duke University: Literature Program. October 2003.
MA. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: English and Comparative Literature. Concentration in Modern Studies. December 1993.
BA. King's College, Cambridge: English. June 1992.

Dissertation

"Posthegemony: Cultural Theory and Latin America, 10th October 1492 - 13th April, 2002."

Advisor, Alberto Moreiras.

Grants, Honors and Fellowships

2002. British Academy "44th International Congress of Americanists Fund" Award.
1999. Conference Travel grant to Peru from the Arts and Divinity Faculty Research Committee, University of Aberdeen.
1998. Travel grants to Chile from the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, funded by the Mellon foundation, and from Duke University’s Common Fund seminar on "Globalization and Equity"
1998. Summer dissertation travel grant to Argentina from the Ford Foundation and Duke’s graduate seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies
1998. Summer dissertation travel grant to Peru from the Ford Foundation and the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies exchange with the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and the Red de Ciencias Sociales Peruanas
1997. Summer predissertation travel grant to Peru from the Ford Foundation and the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies exchange with the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and the Red de Ciencias Sociales Peruanas
1997. Spring predissertation travel grant to Italy and France from the Ford Foundation and the graduate seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies
1994-5. Literature Program Fellow
1992-4. Uihlein Fellow

Fields of Specialization

Twentieth-century Latin American cultural, literary, and political history
Latin American cultural studies
Continental philosophy, especially Deleuze and Guattari, and Pierre Bourdieu
Italian social theory (autonomia)
Cultural studies and Marxist theory

Publications

Edited Collections:

The New Latin Americanism: Cultural Studies Beyond Borders. Special issue of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 11.3 (December 2002).
Includes:

• "Introduction: Towards a New Latin Americanism." 261-264.

Subaltern Affect. Co-edited with Alberto Moreiras. Special issue of Angelaki 6.1 (April 2001).
Includes:

• With Alberto Moreiras, "Subalternity and Affect." 1-4.
• "Anti-Facsism as Child’s Play: The Political Line in The Laurels of Lake Constance." 185-196.

Culture and State in Latin America. Co-edited with Alberto Moreiras. Special issue of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Travesía) 8.1 (June 1999).
Includes:

• With Alberto Moreiras, "After Hegemony: Culture and State in Latin America." 17-20.
• "Learning from Sendero: Civil Society and Fundamentalism." 75-88.

Translation:

Beatriz Sarlo, Scenes from Postmodern Life. Translation of Escenas de la vida posmoderna: arte, cultura y videocultura en la Argentina. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Includes:

• Translator’s Introduction, "In Argentina." vii-xix.

Book Articles:

• "The Coup Will be Televised." Coup Against Chavez in Venezuela: The Best International Reports of What Really Happened in April 2002. Ed. Gregory Wilpert. Caracas: Fundación Venezolana para la Justicia Global, 2003. 41-45.
• "The Revolution Will Not be Televised." Coup Against Chavez in Venezuela: The Best International Reports of What Really Happened in April 2002 Ed. Gregory Wilpert. Caracas: Fundación Venezolana para la Justicia Global, 2003. 77-86. [A reprint of "Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not be Televised," for which see below.]
• "Latin American Studies and the Global System." The Companion to Latin American Studies. Ed. Philip Swanson. London: Arnold, 2003. 222-238.
• "Beyond Hispanic Studies? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spain and Latin America." The Companion to Hispanic Studies. Ed. Catherine Davies. London: Arnold, 2002. 164-181.
• "Towards an Unpopular Cultural Studies: The Perspective of the Multitude." Cultura popular: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Popular culture. Ed. Shelley Godsland and Anne White. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002. 27-45. [A revised, shorter version of "Hacia unos estudios culturales impopulares," for which see below.]
• "La constitución de la sociedad: Pinochet, postdictadura y la multitud." Pensar en/la postdictadura. Ed. Nelly Richard and Alberto Moreiras. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2001. 23-39. [A translation of "The Constitution of Society, for which see below.]
• "Gilles Deleuze ou: le matérialisme, cette matière a penser." Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain. Ed. Jacques Bidet and Eustache Kouvélakis. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. 423-431.
• "Hacia unos estudios culturales impopulares: La perspectiva de la multitud." Nuevas perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina: El desafío de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2000. 149-167.
• "Value and Capital in Bourdieu and Marx." Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature and Culture. Ed. Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 100-119.

Journal Articles:

• "On Posthegemony." Bulletin of Latin American Research 22.1 (January 2003): 117-125.
• "El régimen televisivo y la multitud: Crónica de un golpe de estado." Encuadre: Revista de cine y medios audiovisuales 75 (diciembre de 2002): 65-68. [A translation and revision of "Media and Multitude," for which see below.]
• "Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not be Televised." NACLA: Report on the Americas 36.1 (July/August 2002): 16-20. [Cited as the 12th Top Censored Story of 2002 and 2003 in Project Censored's Censored 2004 .]
• "Media and Multitude: Chronicle of a Coup Unforetold." JILAS: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Melbourne) 8.1 (July 2002): 105-116.
• "La luz cegadora: populismo y teoría del estrellato." Revista de crítica cultural 24 (June 2002): 52-57.
• "Lenin in America." Rethinking Marxism 13.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2001): 149-154.
• "The Constitution of Society: Pinochet, Postdictatorship and the Multitude." Radical Philosophy 105 (January/Feburary 2001): 15-24.
• "'El arte de la fuga': Cultural Critique, Metaphor and History." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9.3 (December 2000): 259-272.
• "The Ambivalent Legacy of Pablo Neruda: Articulation and Hegemony in Latin Americanist Intellectual Culture." Dispositio/n XXII.49 (1997 [2000]): 175-197.
• "Aprendiendo de Sendero. La teoría de la sociedad civil y el fundamentalismo." Universum 14 (1999): 13-30.
• "Peronism and the Secret History of Cultural Studies: Populism and the Substitution of Culture for State." Cultural Critique 39 (Spring 1998): 189-224.
• "So Here Comes a Book that makes Everything Easy: Towards a Theory of Intellectual History in the Field of Intellectual Production." Intellectuals and Global Culture. Ed. Charlie Blake and Linnie Blake. Angelaki 2.3 (Spring 1997): 125-146.
• "Whatever Happened to Neorealism? Bazin, Deleuze, and Tarkovsky's Long Take." Gilles Deleuze, philosophe du cinéma/Gilles Deleuze, philosopher of cinema. Ed. D. N. Rodowick. Iris 23 (Spring 1997): 37-52.
• "Intellectuals, Theory and Aesthetics: Modernismo and Latin American Postcoloniality." Postcolonial and the Americas. Ed. Santiago Colas. Dispositio/n XX.47 (1995): 17-35.
• "Ethics as Post-Political Politics." Research and Society 7 (1994): 5-26.

Review Articles:

• "Against Parochialism." Radical Philosophy 123 (January/February 2004): 41-43.
• "Alternative Globalisations: From the Fiction of Order to the Experience of Joy." Mute: Culture and Politics after the Net 27 (Winter/Spring 2004): 126-127.
• "Globalization from Below: The Latino/Chicano Experience." Journal of Romance Studies 3.1 (Spring 2003): 105-112.
• "Thinking Solidarity: Latin Americanist Intellectuals and Testimonio." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Travesía) 7.1 (June 1998): 121-129.

Reviews:

• Review of Paul Sullivan, Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatán (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Times Literary Supplement (17 September 2004): 30.
• Review of Hernando Calvo Ospina, Bacardi: The Hidden War (London: Pluto Press, 2002). Journal of Latin American Studies 36.1 (February 2004): 175-177.
• Review of Michael Hayes and David Tombs (eds.), Truth and Memory: The Church and Human Rights in El Salvador and Guatemala (Leominster: Gracewing, 2001). Ministry Today 30 (February 2004): 44-45.
• Review of Yvonne Unnold, Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma under Pinochet in Chile (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). Bulletin of Spanish Studies 80.4 (2003): 525-526.
• Review of Luis Alberto Romero, A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2002). Times Literary Supplement (11 October 2002): 31.
• Review of William Beezley and Linda Curcio-Nagy (eds.), Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79.1 (January 2002): 129-130.
• Review of John Perivolaris, Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez (Chapel Hill: UNC Department of Romance Studies, 2000). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79.1 (January 2002): 130-131.
• Review of Patricia D’Allemand, Latin American Cultural Criticism: Re-Interpreting a Continent (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2000). Modern Language Review 97.1 (2002): 212-213.
• Review of Anny Brooksbank Jones and Ronaldo Munck (eds.), Cultural Politics in Latin America (London: Macmillan, 2000). Modern Language Review 96.4 (2001): 1121-1123.
• Review of Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder (eds.), Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American Paths (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998). Bulletin of Latin American Research 20.4 (October 2001): 554-555.
• Review of María López Vigil, Oscar Romero: Memories in Mosaic (London: CAFOD, 2000). Ministry Today 22 (June 2001): 50-51.
• Review of Katherine Hite, When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow) LXXVIII (2001): 406-407.
• Review of Philip Oxhorn and Graciela Ducatenzeiler (eds.), What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow) LXXVIII (2001): 407-409.
• Review, "Outcasts Below Decks." Review of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (London: Verso, 2000). Times Literary Supplement (6 April 2001): 28.
• Review of John Beverley, Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). Bulletin of Latin American Research 20.1 (January 2001): 142-144.
• Review of Nicholas J. Saunders (ed.), Icons of Power: Feline Symbolism in the Americas, (London: Routledge, 1998). Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 6.2 (2000): 215-216.
• Review of Paula Alonso, Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Times Literary Supplement (10 November 2000): 37.
• Review of Derek Robbins, Bourdieu and Culture (London: Sage, 2000). Times Literary Supplement (25 August 2000): 30.
• Review of Nikki Craske, Women and Politics in Latin America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 77. 3 (July 2000): 273-274.
• Review of Doris Sommer (ed.), The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). Bulletin of Latin American Research 19.3 (July 2000): 405-407.
• Review of Julio Rodríguez-Luis (ed.), Re-Reading José Martí: One Hundred Years Later (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Bulletin of Latin American Research 19.3 (July 2000): 407-409.
• Review of Jeffrey Belnap and Raúl Fernández (eds.), José Martí’s ‘Our America’ (Durham: Duke UP, 1998). Bulletin of Latin American Research 19.1 (January 2000): 120-122.
• Review of Luis A. Salinas, The London Clinic (Santiago de Chile: LOM, 1999). Diáspora 5 (January/February 2000): 8-9.
• Review of Arthur Redding, Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence (Columbia: U. of South Carolina P, 1998). Polygraph 11 (Spring 1999): 189-191.

Other:

• Opinion Piece, "Why I. . . Think the Languages Crisis is Helpful." Times Higher Education Supplement (26 September 2003): 18.
• Article, "It Happened on TV." London Review of Books (9 May 2002): 6-7.
• Conference Report, "Rearguard Action." Report on "Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-aesthetics" (Tate Modern, 21-22 September 2001). Radical Philosophy 111 (January/February 2002): 51-53.
• Interview with Jesús Martín Barbero, "Cultural Studies Questionnaire." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 10.2 (August 2001): 223-230.
• Article, "Don't They Know the War is Over?" The New Statesman (26 March 1999): 35-36.

Invited papers:

• "The Qual Remix." With John Griffiths, Greg Rowland, and Siamack Salari. The Qual Remix Seminar. Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, London, 8 July 2004. [This was an afternoon seminar dedicated to discussion of this paper after it had won the Market Research Society Conference's Best New Thinking" award in March 2004, for which see below. The paper was subsequently shortlisted for the Market Research Society's "David Winton Award," which is awarded annually to the Best Technical Paper" in the field, i.e. the paper that most effectively introduces a new technique" or best shows the application of an established technique from another discipline to a research environment."]
• "The Topography of Terror: From the Salvador Sheraton to New York's Twin Towers." End of Term Conference organised by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies . Birkbeck College, London, 29 May 2004.
• "War: Pirates and Tyrants." Sovereignty and Subjectivity Workshop. Santiago de Compostela, Spain (under the auspices of the Duke Center for European Studies), March 2004.
• "Making Use of Culture: Area Studies after the Inter-Regnum." Latin America and the Caribbean: Crisis, Utopias, and Works in Progress. Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, February 2004.
• "Nelly Richard: Beyond Latin American Art Criticism." Latin American and Chicano/a Art Criticism Since the 1940s: Between Modernity and Globalization. Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy, November 2003.
• "The Subaltern State." University of Connecticut, 5 November 2003.
• "Escalón, November 1989: Terror, Subalternity, and the State." Working Group on Rethinking the Political." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 29 October 2003.
• "Beyond the Social Contract: Posthegemonic Latin America." Latin American Seminar series. University of Cambridge, 20 October 2003.
• "Más allá de los estudios culturales." Saberes fronterizos: La antropología y los estudios culturales, poscoloniales, y subalternos. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, September 2003.
• "Los estudios culturales como línea de fuga." X Congreso de Antropología en Colombia. Manizales, Colombia, September 2003.
• "From Noise to Sound (and Back Again)." 10th Laterna Film Academy. Pécs, Hungary, September 2003.
• "Enrique Metinides." Enrique Metinides: Modernity, Chaos and the Urban Experience. The Photographer's Gallery, London, 19 August 2003.
• "Lenin in America." Seminar on Empire . Discourse Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3 June 2003.
• "1492: Action, Reaction, and the case of Columbus's Crew." Spanish Reactionary Thinking. Duke University, May 2003.
• "Viral Identities." Popular Noise in Global Systems. Institut für Weltgesellschaft, University of Bielefeld, Germany, November 2002.
• "Towards a New Latin Americanism." Institute of Latin American Studies, Liverpool, 14 March 2002.
• "The Limits of Theory: Towards a Multitudinous Intellectual Practice." What’s Left of Theory? The Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Conference of Australia. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 2001.
• "The Nomad’s Fatal Attraction to Tall Buildings: From the San Salvador Sheraton to the World Trade Centre." Department of Hispanic Studies Postgraduate Research Seminar. University of Birmingham, 5 December 2001.
• "After Latin America(nism)." Occasional Seminar Series. Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 31 October 2001.
• "Postcolonialism and Hegemony: Subaltern Multitudes?" Postcolonial Research Seminar. University of North London, 14 October 2001.
• "Exoticism and Empire, Particularism and the New Universal: So-Called Modern Languages in the 21st Century." Hispanic Studies Research Seminar. University of Manchester, 3 October 2001.
• "Subaltern Politics: Solidarity and Critique." Latin American Studies Association. Washington DC, September 2001.
• "Guerrilla Poets of Central America." East/West: Words and Warriors. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in European/Post-Colonial Cultures. University of Manchester, 21 May 2001.
• "The Blinding Light: Eva Perón as Star of the Peronist Cinematic Imaginary. " Stars Beyond the Hollywood Firmament. University of Warwick, 19 May 2001.
• "The Latin American Anomaly?" A Red Holocaust? School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, London, 21 February 2001.
• "The Intellectual and the State: Latin American Modernismo and Transculturation from Below." Colloquium: The Margins/Borders of Modernism. Goldsmiths College, London, 3 November 2000.
• "Mutiny and Multitude: Columbus to the Zapatistas" Institute of Latin American Studies, Liverpool, 5 October 2000.
• "The Pinochet Case." End of Term Conference organised by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Birkbeck College, London, 13 July 2000.
• "Quality Time and Precious Moments: Leisure and Capital Culture." Marking Time. Seventh Annual Word and Image Conference. University of Aberdeen, May 2000.
• "Before Latin America, after Hegemony (or, How Columbus Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)." Hispanic Studies Departmental Research Seminar. University of Aberdeen, 10 May 2000.
• "Latin America in the Global System?" Contesting Hegemonies in Latin America. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, April 2000.
• "Peronism and the Absent State" and "Once Again, the Multitude." Una conversación sobre peronismo/populismo and Una conversación sobre cultural studies. With John Kraniauskas. Georgetown University, Washington DC, 5 and 5 April 2000.
• "The Antinomies of Pierre Bourdieu." Contraflows in Cultural Theory: Marxist Cultural Network Seminar Series. University of Sheffield, 29 March 2000.
• "The Matter of History." Deleuze and Guattari Seminar. Birkbeck College, London, 8 February 2000.
• "La sociedad civil y el fanatismo." Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos Juan Ignacio Molina. Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile, 22 October 1998.
• "The Intellectual and the State." Transculturation and State Discourse in Latin America. Duke University, November 1997.
• "Learning from Sendero: Neoliberalism and the Exclusion of Culture from State." Literature Program Dissertation Colloquium. Duke University, 6 November 1997.
• "Aprendiendo de Sendero: el estado, la sociedad civil y la negacion de la cultura." Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, 18 August 1997.
• "Affecting Civil Society: Sendero Luminoso and the Exclusion of Culture from the State." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, 24 July 1997.
• "Internet Resources for Learning and Teaching about Cuba". "Cuba Considered". A Workshop for Secondary School Teachers. Duke University, Durham, May 1997.

Other Papers Delivered

• "Beyond Marginality: Connectivity and Conjugation in Aesthetic Theory and Practice." Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
• "The Uses of Culture: Some Considerations on the Future for Area Studies." Society for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting and Conference. Leiden, Holland, April 2004.
• "The Qual Remix." With John Griffiths, Greg Rowland, and Siamack Salari . Welcome to the Dream Economy. RESEARCH 2004, The Annual Conference of the Market Research Society, London, March 2004. [This paper won the award for "Best New Thinking" and was also shorlisted for the conference's "Best Paper Award."]
• "Viral Latinidad." Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, March 2003.
• "After the Party: Organizing for Crisis." Modern Languages Association. New York, December 2002.
• "The Limits of Theory: Towards a Multitudinous Intellectual Practice." What's Left of Theory? The Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Conference of Australia. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 2001.
• "Exoticism and Empire, Particularism and the New Universal: So-Called Modern Languages in the 21st Century." Hispanic Studies Research Seminar. University of Manchester, 3 October 2001.
• "Subaltern Politics: Solidarity and Critique." Latin American Studies Association. Washington DC, September 2001.
• "Quality Time and Precious Moments: Leisure and Capital Culture." Marking Time. Seventh Annual Word and Image Conference. University of Aberdeen, May 2000.
• "Pinochet and Public Secrecy: Before and After Hegemony." Society for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting and Conference. University of Hull, April 2000.
• "El arte de la fuga: Cultural Critique, Metaphor, and History." Latin American Studies Association. Miami, March 2000.
• "'The Multitude Against the People': Unpopular Culture in Latin America." Keynote presentation. ¡Cultura Popular! A conference on Hispanic Popular Culture. Manchester Metropolitan University, September 1999.
• "Globalisation and Provincialism: For a Really Global Globalisation from Below." Also organizer of session "Globalisation from Below." New Statesman Annual Conference, London School of Economics, September 1999.
• "Hacia la multitud: una nueva lectura de testimonio." JALLA99CUSCO: Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Cusco, August 1999.
• "Modernity and Globalisation from Below in Chile." Society for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting and Conference. Centre of Latin American Studies and Selwyn College, Cambridge, April 1999.
• "New Novels, Old Narratives: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Latin America." The Millennial Border. Second Conference of the New Novel Association. Aberdeen, April 1999.
• "Learning from Sendero: Neoliberalism and the Exclusion of Culture from State." Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, September 1998.
• "'We the People': Intimations of General Intellect in Latin America?" Also organizer of session "Notes on Populism: Popular Cultures and the Nation State." Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Tampere, Finland, July 1998.
• "Towards an Unpopular Cultural Studies." New Perspectives in/on Latin America: The Challenge of Cultural Studies. U. of Pittsburgh, March 1998.
• "Pedagogical Moralism: Education as Anti-Ethic." A workshop presentation with students from the seminar on "Why Educuation is Bad for You." Moral Education in a Diverse Society. Duke University, February 1998.
• "The Matter of History: Deleuze and Guattari's Historical Materialism." Deleuzeguattari and Matter. Warwick University, October 1997.
• "Cultura de anticultura: el neoliberalismo y la exclusión de la cultura desde el estado." JALLA97QUITO: Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Universidad Andina "Simón Bolívar," Quito, August 1997.
• "The Intellectual Field and its Conditions of Possibility." Double Take: Inviting New Perspectives on Literary Studies. A Workshop between the Department of Literature, Uppsala University, and the Program in Literature, Duke University. Duke University, May 1997.
• "The Intellectual Field and its Conditions of Possibility." Double Take: Inviting New Perspectives on Literary Studies. A Workshop between the Department of Literature, Uppsala University, and the Program in Literature, Duke University. Duke University, May 1997.
• "Peronism and the Secret History of Cultural Studies: Populism and the Substitution of Culture for State." Latin American Studies Association Congress. Guadalajara, Mexico: April 1997.
• "Deleuze, Guattari and a Political Philosophy of Interest." "Deleuze: A Symposium." University of Western Australia, Perth, December 1996.
• "The Afterlife of the Aesthetic Institutions." Assault: Radicalism in Aesthetics and Politics. Duke University, October 1996.
• "Peronism and the Secret History of Cultural Studies." Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, June 1996.
• "Intellectuals, Theory and Aesthetics: Latin American Postcoloniality." Modern Language Association. Chicago, December 1995.
• "Deleuze, Guattari and the Human Security System." "Virtual Futures '95: Cyberevolution." Warwick University, May 1995.
• "Deleuze, Guattari, and an Anti-Fascist Politics of the Body." International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Villanova University, May 1995.
• "Value and Capital in Bourdieu and Marx." "Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Philosophy" conference. Duke University, Durham, April 1995.
• "Becoming Gay without Being Gay? Queer Theory, Deleuze and Guattari, and Identity Politics." Midwest Modern Languages Association. Chicago, November 1994.
• "Literature, Ethics and Premodernity: The Concept of the Body in the Medieval Morality Plays." Literary Studies Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 1994.
• "What Can a Body Do? Deleuze, Negri and a Spinozan Conception of Agency." Colloquium on Deleuze and Guattari. Duke University, March 1993.

Other conference and public participation

• "Juegos de azar: entre nos otros." Session discussant. Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
• "Roundtable Panel Discussion with the Principal Editors of the Leading Latin American Studies Journals." Session participant. Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
• "Teoría de sistemas, significados discretos y teoría literaria: un debate en torno a los estudios macro en América Latina." Session participant. Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
• Respondent to Antonio Negri. Politics, Subjectivity, Event: A Workshop with Antonio Negri around his book Time for Revolution . Birkbeck College, London, 25 June 2004.
• "The New Argentine Cinema." Public lecture. ¡Viva! 10th Spanish Film Festival. The Cornerhourse Cinema and Arts Centre, Manchester, 24 March 2004.
• "The Uses of Culture." Session organizer and chair. Society for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting and Conference. Leiden, Holland, April 2004.
• Participant in debate on "Latin American Cinema," organized to celebrate the launch of The Cinema of Latin America (Alberto Elena and Marina Díaz López, eds.). The Other Cinema, London, 13 November 2003.
• "Comunidad y comunión." Session discussant. Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, March 2003.
• "Multitud y latinoamericanismo." Session chair. Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, March 2003.
• "Literature." Response to Sergio Chejfec. The New Latin Americanism: Cultural Studies beyond Borders. University of Manchester, 21-22 June 2002.
• Moderator to Andrew Ross. Recycling: Graduate Summer College. University of Manchester, 28-30 June 2002.
• Respondent. Mediated Worlds: Representations of Latin America in the UK. Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Liverpool, 25-26 April 2001.
• Respondent. Hegemony and Subalternity. Duke University, 9 April 2001.
• "Globalisation from Below." Session organizer and chair. New Statesman Annual Conference, London School of Economics, September 1999.
• "Geotopographies of Affect: Fear and Joy in Latin America." Session organizer and chair. Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, September 1998.
• "Notes on Populism: Popular Cultures and the Nation State." Session organizer and chair. Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Tampere, Finland, July 1998.

Teaching Experience

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Collaboration, Organization, and Administration

Service to the profession:

Publicity Officer and Committee Member, Society of Latin American Studies, 2003-2004.

Co-editor of Bulletin of Latin American Research , 2002-
Member of Angelaki editorial board, 1996-
Member of Polygraph editorial collective, 1995-1998.

External Examiner, MPhil in Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, 2003-2004.

Conference organization:

Co-organizer, Society for Latin American Studies conference, University of Manchester, May 2003.
Co-organizer, "The New Latin Americanism" international conference. University of Manchester, June 2002.
Organizer, "Culture and State in Latin America" conference. Duke University, May 1998.
Co-organizer, "Globalization from Below: Contingency, Conflict, Contestation in Historical Perspective" international conference. Duke University, February 1998.
Organizer, "Politics and Ethics" graduate student conference. Milwaukee, October 1993.

Other:

Director, the Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies. University of Manchester, 2003-2004.
Member of executive committee, Critical Theory Institute. University of Manchester, 2003-2004.
Co-Director, MA in Latin American Cultural Studies. University of Manchester, 2000-2003.
Programme Director, BA in American and Latin American Studies. University of Manchester, 2000-2004.
Organizer, "Culture and Power in the Global System" seminar. University of Aberdeen, 1999-2000.

Program Assistant, Graduate Certificate in Latin American Cultural Studies, Duke University, 1997-1998.
Coordinator, "Culture and State in Latin America" working group. Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1995-1998.
Member, "Globalization and Equity" Common Fund seminar, Duke University, 1997-1998.
Member, "Global Labor, Global Capital" Ford Foundation Graduate Seminar in International Issues, Duke University, 1996-97.
Member, "Culture, Ethnicity, and Identity in Flux" Ford Foundation Graduate Seminar in International Issues, Duke University, 1996-97.

Responsible for website of Manchester Cultural Theory Institute, 2004.
Responsible for website of Manchester Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies, 2000-2004.
Responsible for website of Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 2000-2003.
Responsible for website of Aberdeen Hispanic Studies, 1999-2000.
Responsible for website of Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1996-1998
Creator of website of Duke Comparative Area Studies Program, 1996.

Delegate to "Webmasters of the Americas" meeting, Summit of the Americas Center, Miami, March 1997.

Co-president, Milwaukee Graduate Assistants' Association, AFL-CIO. U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1993-94.

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