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 social, literary, and artistic traditions it produced from 1810 to the present. The course is divided into 5 units, each of them organized around an artist, a filmmaker, a writer, or an art form. Topics include gaucho culture and national identity, the birth of tango, the artistic avant-gardes, the politics of memory, commodity culture, and gender and environmental politics. In addition to class discussions, the course includes class visits by local scholars and artists.