The panels this year will cover discussions from different parts of the world, and they will touch on satire, comedy, revolution, bodily changes, migration and other topics.
UC Merced will host a two-day conference beginning Friday, with panels, a musical and a keynote speaker all based on the theme “The World Upside Down.”
The free UC Merced Center for the Humanities conference kicks off at 9 a.m. in the 5200 N. Lake Road campus’s California Room, inside the library.
A number of panels are planned throughout the day, but the highlight will be an address from Marjorie Agosin, a Spanish professor from Wellesley College. Her speech is titled “The Inverted Imagination: A Poetics of Remembrance.”
Agosin, who is originally from Chile, has won the U.N. Leadership Award for Human Rights, the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor from the Chilean government and the Latino Literature Prize, to name a few awards.
Susan Amussen, director of the center, said the conference theme is a metaphor that has been used across cultures to describe the inversion, overturning or disruption of social, political or psychological order. That makes it ripe for interpretation.
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