Founded in the 1990s, the Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (LLACS) program at Northeastern returns to the Fall 2024 semester with the "Celebrating 30 Years of LLACS Scholarship: A Book Talk Series". This speaker series centers Northeastern LLACS faculty discussing their recent publications.

The inaugural speaker of the series is Dr. Daniel Noemi Voionmaa. Daniel Noemi Voionmaa is a cultural critic, chronicler, and scholar of Latin American literature and culture. His research and teaching focuses on the intersection of critical theory and literature, and on visual arts, film, and politics. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and is a regular contributor to Chile’s most important online newspaper, El Desconcierto.

We will be celebrating his most recently published book, Surveillance, the Cold War and Latin American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2022). Surveillance, the Cold War and Latin American Literature is a social, political, cultural and aesthetic analysis of the relations between secret police agencies and intellectuals and writers. Centering the secret surveillance of beloved writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Elena Poniatowska, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and others, this book illuminates the roots of today’s surveillance society and urges us to understand its reach across the Americas and world.

Please join us for this highly relevant and important discussion, as well as ¡CELEBRACIÓN! of Dr. Voionmaa’s compelling book.