Based in Santiago at the Universidad Diego Portales, this seminar explores the connections between Chilean art and politics since the military coup of 1973 against President Salvador Allende, focusing on responses to censorship and repression by visual artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, and collectives, and considers the complex negotiations of the later democratic transition, the contemporary Chilean art and literary scenes, the implementation of neoliberalism, the feminist turn, the rise of recent political movements and the creation of a new constitution.

This course studies the role of culture in Argentina's modernity and the political, social, and artistic traditions it produced. Topics include popular culture and national identity, the birth of tango, local avant-gardes, populism, and the myth of Evita Peron, State terrorism and the politics of memory, neoliberalism and commodity culture, new forms of activism and gender and environmental politics.