el taller 2025 presents: The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please join us online on Friday, May 9th at 12:00PM for our fourth event of 2025, an online roundtable between Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson. The event will take place online and will be moderated by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. This event is free. Please register at this link to attend.

Megan Saltzman teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Her research combines literary and visual arts with ethnographic fieldwork to expose how everyday public practices carve out autonomy and resistance from below. Megan has published on urban culture in Spain related to gentrification, spatial in/exclusion, undocumented immigration, waste, urban furniture, grassroots cultural centers, street vending, and “artivism.” These themes come together in Megan’s most recent publication, the book Public Everyday Space. Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona (2024).

Enric Bou is Emeritus Professor on Iberian Studies at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He is specialized in the study of 20th century literature and has published on autobiography, the relationship between art and literature, visual poetry and on Salvador Dalí, among others. His latest publications include Sabor y Saber: Acerca de los Paisajes Alimentarios Ibéricos (2023), and Cartographies of Disappearance in Literature. From the Routine to the Extraordinary (2024).

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, Editor of the Romance Quarterly and co-editor (with Benjamin Fraser) of Palgrave Macmillan’s Urban Cultural Studies book series.

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is Lecturer at Fordham University. His book Un país entre dos tiempos. Una década de experimentación política is about to be published by Lengua de Trapo/Circulo de Bellas Artes in Spain. The book examines the changes in Spanish political culture from the 2008 crisis to the pandemic, like the 15M movement, the PAH, Municipalisms, Podemos, VOX and other developments within the last tumultuous political decade in Spain. Vicente writes frequently about Spanish and US politics in El Salto, CTXT, Jacobin América Latina and other places.

Keep an eye out for more details on our upcoming events. Look out for future emails or visit wp.nyu.edu/eltaller for further information. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

¡Hasta pronto!

Sandra Baena Velázquez

On behalf of the coordinating committee

Abigail Balbale
Jordana Mendelson
Sarah Pearce
Víctor Sierra Matute
Ameya Tripathi

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