Motion, Medium, Message.

To become, displace, flip, withdraw, spin, convey, escape, dance, halt. Movement — or its absence — is experienced everywhere. It finds its carrier, its medium: in migration, in economic activity, in hybrid artistic forms, in the performing arts, in paradigm shifts, in fluctuations of affect. Only then the message is created and reaches its audience. Contemplating this panorama, it is worth asking: what dialogues are produced in this conduit of movement, medium, and message in diverse Hispanic-Lusophone-Caribbean theories and cultural products in a global context?

Postgraduate scholars share their research in a series of talks and moderated discussions. Conference keynote speakers are Edmundo Paz Soldán (Professor of Latin American Literature, Cornell University) and Zeb Tortorici (Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU). 

Presented by Penn's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Cosponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center.