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PLAS Graduate Workshop | Nora Muñiz (SPO) & Manuel Pérez Archila (ECO)
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Thu, Nov 13, 2025
12 PM – 1:15 PM EST (GMT-5)
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 216 (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff)
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
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"Admiration as Excuse: Fanmail in the Archive of the Latin American Boom"
PRESENTER
Nora Muñiz, Ph.D. Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese
Nora Muñiz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and holds two bachelor’s degrees: one in Latin-American Literature from Universidad Iberoamericana and another in English Literature from UNAM. Muñiz was awarded the Fulbright García Robles Scholarship for her graduate studies in the United States, the Lassen Fellowship from the Program of Latin American Studies at Princeton, and recently, the Arcadio Díaz-Quiñonez Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award.
Her work focuses on the figure of the reader, the publishing industry in Latin America, and contemporary Latin-American literature written by women. She currently works as a fellow at Princeton University Press and is a founding member of GESEI, a study group around independent publishing. Her article "Escatón con glitter" earned her the Graduate Essay Student Prize Emilia Pardo Bazán by Feministas Unidas. In 2024 she will publish her first novel, A flor de piel, with Dharma Books.
DISCUSSANT
Julien R. Stout, Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
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"Latin America's Open Economies and Closed Polities: The Lives and Afterlives of Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro"
PRESENTER
Manuel Pérez Archila, Ph.D. Candidate, Economics
Manuel F. Pérez Archila is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on the Global Financial Cycle and the role of the dollar in mediating capital flows to Latin America. He has experience working for international organizations where he has published articles on capital controls and international finance. Pérez Archila holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics and Latin American Studies from Columbia University. He also helps coordinate the Colombian Studies Group at Princeton, which is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to foster academic dialogue around Colombia, its people, and diaspora with an inter-American, critical, and progressive perspective.
DISCUSSANT
Pablo Pryluka, Assistant Professor, History Department, CUNY
MODERATOR
Alejandro Virue, PLAS Gradaute Fellow; Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
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Where
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 216 (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff)
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Speakers
Andrea Giunta
Art Historian & Independent Curator, Universidad de Buenos Aires; PLAS Visiting Fellow, Princeton University
Andrea Giunta (Ph.D., Universidad de Buenos Aires) Andrea Giunta is Professor of Latin American and Global Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a renowned writer and independent curator. Her publications and curatorial work have helped redefine the field of modern Latin American art history and its canon. She is the author of several groundbreaking books, such as Diversidad y arte latinoamericano (Siglo XXI, 2024), The Political Body: Stories of Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America (University of California Press, 2023) Rethinking Everything/ Pensar todo de nuevo / Puisqu’il fallait tout repenser (Paris, delpire & co, 2021), Contra el canon. El arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro (Siglo XXI, 2020), Feminismo y arte latinoamericano. Historias de artistas que emanciparon los cuerpos (Siglo XXI, 2018), Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics. Argentine Art After the Sixties (Duke University Press, 2007) and When Does Contemporary Art Begin? (ArteBA 2014). She was founder director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2009-2013) where she was the head of Latin American Art History and Criticism. She was curator of the controversial retrospective exhibition on León Ferrari’s works (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2004), co-curator (with Agustin Pérez Rubio) of Verboamérica, permanent collection of Latin American Art at MALBA (2016), and co-curator (with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill) of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Hammer Museum, LA / Brooklyn Museum, New York / Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, 2017-2018), Chief Curator Bienal 12, Mercosur, Brasil, Femine(s). Visualities, Actions, Affects, curator of Rethiking Everything (Rolf Gallery Buenos Aires 2020, Les Recontres de Arles, 2021), and When the World Changes. Questions on Art and Feminisms (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2021). Visiting Professor at Duke University, Durham, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, among others. She was awarded the Guggenheim, Getty, Rockefeller, Harrington, Tinker fellowship – as Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Spring 2017 – and the Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship at Humboldt Universitat, Summer 2021. Her essays on Latin American and international postwar art have been published in academic journals, books and catalogue exhibitions in the Americas and Europe.
Hosted By
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies