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SOPHIE ESCH
Upcoming Talks
March 2026
"Ecologies of Liberation in African and Latin American Literatures"
Comparative Literature Luncheon, Penn State
May 2025
"War as a Multispecies Contact Zone"
Society of Novel Studies, Duke University
Oct 2024
"The Sandinista Revolution as World Literary Event"
Third Coast Central America Collaborative, Texas Christian University
Oct 2024
"Furry Comrades and Repressive Memories"
APSA, Brown University
Sept 2024
"Ecologías de guerra"
Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
Sept 2024
"Letra y metralla"
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
June 2024
"The Mesh of War"
LASA, Bogotá
June 2024
"Mosquito Might. Talking Politics with Insects"
Speculative Fiction in Mexico and Central America, Ibero-American Institute, Berlin
Feb 2024
"Rifles as Commodities, Artifacts, and Props"
Spanish and Portuguese Department, Yale University
Sep
2023
"Creaturely Cold War. More-Than-Human Narratives of Revolution and War in Africa and Latin America"
Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvannia
Jun
2023
"Temporalities and Ends of Worlds in Rita Indiana"
World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures Conference, University of Cologne
May
2023
"The Animal Turn in Latin American Studies: Absences, Perspectives, and Potentialities”
Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, BC
May
2023
"Premio Iberoamericano para Letra y metralla: Presentación del libro”
Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, BC
May
2023
“Critters, Cadres & Kin: The Creaturely Cold War in Cuban and Angolan Literature,”
Red World Literature, Reykjavík
Apr
2023
"The Mesh of War. Human-Nonhuman Entanglements in Narratives of Armed Conflict in the Global South”
Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America), São Paulo
Mar
2023
"Letra y metralla. Presentación de libro"
UNITESO, ITESO, Guadalajara
Feb
2023
"Abaixo o Peixefritismo: The Politics of Eating Animals Across the Socialist South Atlantic"
Atlantic Latinidades: New Models for Trans-Oceanic Engagement Conference, Duke University
Feb
2023
"Modernity at Gunpoint Revisited"
University of Virginia (virtual)
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