Nelly Richard, Honorary Doctor
On Thursday, August 25, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) awarded an honorary doctorate to Chilean critic, essayist, and professor Nelly Richard . In her address, she emphasized the value of the UBA as the "foremost Latin American symbol" of the "public university" and that the recognition constitutes a significant event in the relations between Argentina and Chile.
CLACSO was present at the ceremony to present him with the latest volume of his authorship published by our imprint: Social Revolt and New Constitution.
Likewise, Fernanda Pampín , Director of Publications at CLACSO, participated on Friday the 26th in the reception at the Embassy of Chile in Argentina on the occasion of the awarding of the Honorary Doctorate of the UBA to Nelly Richard.
Nelly Richard with the new Chilean Constitution, accompanied by Verónica Gago, Mónica Tarducci, Fernanda Pampín and Andrea Giunta
Ambassador Barbara Figueroa Sandoval
Nelly Richard was born in France in 1948 and has lived in Chile since 1970. She provided the theoretical framework for the Escena de Avanzada (Advanced Scene), internationally recognized as the main experimental reference point for art of resistance to the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s. She was the founder of the Revista de crítica cultural (Journal of Cultural Criticism) (1990-2008) and directed the Master's Program in Cultural Studies at ARCIS University in Santiago, Chile (2006-2013). Among her most important publications are Márgenes e Instituciones (Margins and Institutions, 1986), Residuos y metáforas. Ensayos de crítica cultural sobre el Chile de la transición (Residues and Metaphors: Essays on Cultural Criticism about Chile during the Transition , 1998), Fracturas de la memoria. Arte y pensamiento crítico (Fractures of Memory: Art and Critical Thought , 2007), and Feminismo, género y diferencia(s) (Feminism, Gender, and Difference(s) , 2008.
We are proud to have two books by this great cultural critic in our catalog, available in open access at the Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Bookstore.
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