Global Hispanism Workshop (GHW)  

Whither the Intellectual?: Latin American Intellectuals in the Twenty-First Century 

As Latin America has undergone rapid political and social transformation in the first decade of this century, this workshop will explore how intellectuals have fared.  Do these figures have the same cultural power and capital they once enjoyed?  Do governments still look to them as promoters of cultural policy?  And Finally, in the current media age, are public intellectuals still relevant?  The Global Hispanism series will focus on the changing role of the Latin American intellectual in the twenty-first century, examining how intellectuals contributed – if at all – to these changes.

Workshop Coordinator:

Manuel Gutierrez
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
manuel.gutierrez@rice.edu

Sponsored by:

Humanities Research Center
Rice University’s Department of Hispanic Studies
Dean of Humanities
Institute of Hispanic Culture, Houston  

Lectures:

Humanities Building, Room 119
Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Assistant Professor of Spanish and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
“The Democratic Dogma: Mexican Intellectuals in the Neoliberal Age”

November 15, 2011 – 7pm
309 Sewall Hall
Sara Castro-Klarén
Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
“The Electronic Age and the Public Intellectual in Latin America”

January 31, 2012 – 5pm
119 Humanities Building
Nicolás Shumway
Dean of humanities, professor, Hispanic studies, Frances Moody Newman Chair, Rice University
“How Liberalism Became a Bad Word in Argentina”

February 16, 2012 – 7pm
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Enrique Krauze
Essayist and author, El Colegio Nactional
“Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America”

April 2, 2012 – 5pm
119 Humanities Building
Rick A. Lopez
Associate professor, department of history & Program in Environmental Studies, Amherst College
“Intellectuals, Indians, and the State in Crafting of the Modern Mexican Nation”

Click here to read about past Global Hispanism Workshops