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Featured Speaker

María del Rosario Acosta López is a Full Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies in UC Riverside. She was until very recently Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. Before that she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Colombian National University in 2007, and was a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, between 2013 and 2014.

She teaches and conducts research on Romanticism and German Idealism, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Political European Philosophy, and more recently, her work has also moved into the areas of Decolonial and Latin American studies, with emphasis on questions of memory and trauma in the Americas. She is the author of a book on silence and art in German Romanticism (2006) and a monograph on Friedrich Schiller and the political sublime (2008), and has edited and co-edited volumes and special issues on Hegel (2008), Schiller (2008 and 2018), Paul Klee (2009), Aesthetics and Politics (2010), Recognition Theories (2010), Contemporary Political Philosophy (2013), Law and Violence (2014), Art and Memory in Colombia (2016 and 2019), Collective Temporalities (2019), Philosophy in Colombia (2019) and Women Philosophers in Colombia (2019). Her most recent publications (2023) are a co-edited volume on transitional justice in Colombia (Justicia transicional en Colombia: una mirada retrospectiva (Planeta)) and the monograph and compilation of interviews Memory Work in Colombia: Past and Present Experiences, Legacies for the Future (World Humanities Report) which is entirely available online in both Spanish and English. She is also, together with Rocío Zambrana, the director of a new series on Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Thinkers for Herder (Spain). 

This event is presented by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.