In conjunction with Boston University's Lectures in Criticism series, Néstor García Canclini of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City will lecture on: "Creatividad Precaria: Los Jóvenes en una Cultura Postindustrial" ("Precarious Creativity: Youth in a Post-Industrial Culture," translated by Victoria Livingstone). Canclini is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity." This concept is fundamentally associated with the emergence of postcolonial discourse and its critiques of cultural imperialism. The second stage in the history of hybridity is characterized by literature and theory that focuses on the effects of mixture upon identity and culture.

Canclini received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the House Essay Award in recognition of the Americas Popular Capitalistic Cultures and the first Ibero-American Book Award from the Association of Latin American Studies for the book Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Other works include Consumers and Citizens and Imagined Different Globalization, Uneven and Disconnected: Maps of Multiculturalism. His current research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics, art, anthropology, creative strategies and cultural networks of youth.

Canclini holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the Universities of Paris and La Plata. He has taught at Duke and Stanford, as well as at universities in Austin, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Canclini works as a Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, where he directs the Cultural Studies Program. He also sits on the Editorial Collective of the academic journal Public Culture.

September 13, 6:30 pm
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
Reception to follow at SMFA

Enter at the MFA's Huntington Avenue entrance to receive a free ticket.