Colombia

The New Politics of Latin America
Faculty Development Workshop Series 2003-2004

Panelists

• Mary Roldan, Cornell University
• Michael Taussig, Columbia University

Mary Roldan (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992), is Associate Professor of history at Cornell University. She teaches courses in modern Latin American history. Her publications include, Hegemony and Violence: Class, Culture and Politics in Twentieth Century Antioquia.

Michael Taussig began fieldwork in Colombia in 1969 and just published Law in a Lawless Land, (The New Press). Throughout his career, Professor Taussig's books and articles on Colombia have focused on the commercialization of agriculture, slavery, hunger, the popular manifestations of the working of commodity fetishism; the impact of colonialism (historical and contemporary) on "shamanism" and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making, talking, and writing of terror; and mimesis in relation to sympathetic magic, state fetishism, and secrecy; and defacement. At the beginning of his career, he also published two books in Spanish for local people on the history of slavery and its aftermath. Much of Michael Taussig's work is an attempt to develop new forms of cultural artifactuality in the writing itself.

When: Friday, November 21, 4:30
Where: Room 9206
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (@34th Street)
New York City