9 October 2018 - The Metropolitan University Prague (Czech Republic), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), and in particular its Ibero-American Centre, in cooperation with Charles University in Prague is organizing the conference Multiple Modernities in Latin America: Discourse on modernity and antimodernity in the political and identification processes from the 19–21st century, that will take place on 23 November 2018 at the Metropolitan University Prague.
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to analyse the discourses on modernity and anti-modernity in Ibero- American cultural and political space, that is in Hispanic America, as well as Brazil, Spain and Portugal, in their complex cultural and political implications from the 19th century until this day. To this end, there will be an examination of how the discourse of modernity has been constructed.
What has been a specific Hispanic America's, Brazilian or Iberian trajectory to modernity? Can we speak of Latin America's distinctive version of modernity, one shaped by its peripheral position and colonial and postcolonial experience? These questions will the discussion during this academic exercise. For more information about the event, including the programme and registration details, please visit this website.