Each year, the Division of Arts and Humanities celebrates its faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to present a public lecture on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects.
"Majos are some of the most important characters in popular plays and skits produced in Madrid between 1760 and 1825. Plotted into working-class neighborhoods, Madrid's theatrical majos are construed as salt-of-the-earth defenders of a "Spanishness" resistant to elite or foreign interests. However, what about majo accounts of immigration to the city, harassment by authorities, arrests for “vagrancy”, and transport to arsenals and African presidios? The lecture approaches majo dialogues as a heterogeneous and fragmented collective narrative about 18th and 19th century mobilities, requiring analysis within new frameworks."
Reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to the public. RSVP
