About this Event
In this open lecture, Maia Gil’Adí explores Venezuelan protest and cultural production within a transnational framework. Drawing on literature, visual art, architecture, performance, media, and digital protest, the project theorizes what she calls an “aesthetics of the unfinished”—forms of resistance shaped by ongoing violence, incompletion, and deferred political futures.
Situating Venezuela alongside global histories of imperialism, revolution, and diaspora, Gil’Adí argues that Venezuelan cultural production offers a crucial lens for understanding contemporary modes of protest that refuse closure while sustaining political imaginaries of resistance across borders.
About our speaker
Maia Gil’Adí is Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and affiliated faculty in the Program in latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Doom patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence, examines how portrayals of destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure in humor, narrative beauty, and the grotesque.
This lecture is part of her second book project, tentatively titledThe Devil’s Recipe: Protest and Destruction in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries, which traces the scenes and sites of Venezuelan protest in a transnational context.
Organizer:
Humanities Lab, American University
This event is free and open to the poiblic.
Refreshments will be served.
Event venue & nearby stays
Humanities Lab - American University, 228 Battelle-Tompkins Hall, Washington, United States
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