Philosophers Laura Llevadot and Ricardo Forster will be in discussion, reflection on the application of contemporary philosophical thought in current political discourses and movements in the Hispanic world. 

Ricardo Forster (professor of philosophy at the Universidad de
Buenos Aires) is among the most prominent public
intellectuals in Argentina of the past two decades. He is the author of
dozens of books, including Los hermeneutas de la noche: de Walter
Benjamin a Paul Celan (Madrid: Trotta, 2009), La anomalía kirchnerista:
la política, el conflicto y la invención democrática (Planeta. 2013), and
most recently Huellas que regresan: sobre la naturaleza, la infancia, viajes
y los libros (Akal, 2018). During 2014-2015 he served in the
government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as
Secretary of Strategic Coordination for National Thought within the
Ministry of Culture.

Laura Llevadot (professor of contemporary philosophy at the
Universitat de Barcelona) has been a researcher at the Søren
Kierkegaard Research Center of the University of Copenhagen, the
Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library (Minneapolis, USA), and
the University of Paris 8. Her research interests focus on the
contemporary philosophies of alterity, deconstruction and ethical
derivations of post-metaphysical thinking. She is the author of
Kierkegaard through Derrida: Towards a Post Metaphysical Ethics (Davies
Group, 2012). She is the editor of a new book series on
Postfoundational Political Thought, which so far includes books on
Agamben, Laclau and Mouffe, Hobbes, Rancière, and Lefort. In
addition to her professional academic activities, she has been active in
the Catalan Independence movement.

This event is cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Del Amo Foundation, the Departments of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (LAIC),
Comparative Literature (COLT), and the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (CSLC) Doctoral Program.