On Friday, November 19th, Dr. Gabriela Polit-Dueñas will give a lecture entitled "A Phenomenology of Affect: The Case of Marcela Turati."
This event, co-sponsored by CLAS, the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, and the School of Communication is free and open to the public and will be presented via Zoom.
SPPO graduate students will meet in Hagerty Hall 255 to participate as part of colloquium.
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About the speaker:
Dr. Gabriela Polit-Dueñas is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. Her new book Unwanted Witnesses: Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America, focuses on the works of five journalists from Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina who write about the most pressing problems affecting the region. While in her previous work Polit-Dueñas explored the representation of violence in contexts of armed conflict, political turmoil, and illegal business, her more recent work focuses primarily on the affective experience of writing. She is interested in how journalists listen to the subjects of their stories and embrace their testimonies and in the human bonding between subjects, authors, and audiences.
