Agents of Change: Latin American Women as Cultural Ambassadors during World War II
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- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Speaker
- Dr. Vanesa Miseres
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- Originating Calendar
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
On April 2nd at 4 PM, Vanesa Miseres, Associate Professor of Spanish at Notre Dame University, will present a lecture titled "Agents of Change: Latin American Women as Cultural Ambassadors during World War II". The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. See more on the flyers attached.
"This presentation will analyze the crossings between antifascist politics and culture in the work and exchanges among Latin American women intellectuals such as Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo during and after World War II. The war in Europe altered Latin American socio-political parameters and forced these authors to redraw the map of Western civilization by placing Latin American women and their work as cultural agents rooted in feminist principles at the center. Through their cultural endeavors, Mistral and Ocampo were able to shift power dynamics and created a political impact in the region beyond the symbolic domain. As “agents of change” these authors worked in the dissemination of a gendered americanismo in the Western World while discussing in essays, letters, and conferences the failure of European democracy."