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Dramas of Remembrance: Popular Realism, Kitsch, and Moral Affects in Contemporary Latin American Memory Fiction
The Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS) welcomes Prof. Dr. Benjamin Loy from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as part of the Lateinamerika in Bewegung lecture series.
The lecture addresses the relationships between memory, popular realism, kitsch, and moral affects in contemporary Latin American literature. It considers how these aesthetic categories relate to literary representations of remembrance.
About the speaker
Benjamin Loy is Professor of Romance Philology at LMU Munich. His research and teaching focus on Latin American, French, and Spanish literature, as well as film from modernity to the present.
His academic work has received several distinctions, including the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Kurt Ringger Prize of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. He also contributes to various media on literature, theatre, and culture and works as a literary translator and editor of Latin American literature.
Event details
- Tuesday, November 24, 2026
- 18:00–19:30
- Room DP8-102, Domplatz 8, Eichstätt
Organized by: Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS), Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
