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On Thursday, January 13, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m., Prof. Dr. Pedro Erber (Waseda University Tokyo) will speak via Zoom on Descent to the Everyday: The Politics of Abstraction and the Emergence of Contemporary Art in Postwar Japan.
Pedro Erber is Professor of Comparative Literature at the School of International Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Communication Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. Before moving to Tokyo in 2019, Erber was Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Director of the East Asia Program at Cornell University. His research and teaching focus on translation studies, literary studies, critical theory, political and economic thought, Brazilian studies and Japanese studies, as well as contemporary art. He is the author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan (UC Press, 2014), Politics and Truth: Martin Heidegger’s Political Philosophy (in Portuguese; Loyola/PUC-Rio, 2004), and numerous articles, catalog essays, edited volumes, and translations. In 2016, Pedro Erber curated the exhibition The Emergence of The Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950–1970 at Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro.
The event is part of the seminar “Current Research on Art, Society, Economy, and Knowledge” (Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez, Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel, Prof. Dr. Mi You) and the documenta Institute.
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Meeting ID: 992 2210 7651
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