UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Anne Garland Mahler, assistant professor of Latin American cultural studies at the University of Arizona, will present “Beyond the Color Curtain: Cold War Networks and the Global South Imaginary,” at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 15, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.
Mahler’s research interests include Global South studies, black internationalism, and Cold War politics, and her book manuscript is titled, “The Color of Resistance: Race and Solidarity from the Tricontinental to the Global South.” Her second project, “Men with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism in the Modern Americas,” was awarded a 2015 Ford-LASA Special Projects Grant. Mahler’s articles have appeared in Latin American Research Review, Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and U.S. Latino(a) Studies.
This event is a part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series, a weekly, informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community. Each week the event begins at 12:15 p.m. — participants are encouraged to bring lunch; coffee and tea are free. At 12:30 p.m. there will be a presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline. All students, faculty, colleagues and friends are welcome. For a full list of Comparative Literature lunches, visit http://complit.la.psu.edu/news-events/comp-lit-luncheon-series.