What's Left of the Latin American Left

The University of Texas at Austin will host the conference What's Left of the Latin American Left? April 28-29, 2008. This interdisciplinary event was organized to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the events of 1968. The global upheavals of that spring triggered a new era of revolutionary violence in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala.

Specialists in music, history, literary criticism, and art history will explore what remains of those movements, how they evolved, disappeared, or became neutralized, and what legacy, if any, remains of them in Latin America today. They will discuss topics including protest music in socialist Cuba, the new policies and politics of the Brazilian PT, and the current face of the Frente Sandinista.