Transatlantic New York Fest

The transatlantic critique started at Brown University in 1995 with colloquiums organized by Julio Ortega and Steven Boldy from the University of Cambridge and Brown. Through seven international conferences at Brown and others in Cambridge, Puerto Rico, Madrid, Havana, Lima and Santiago de Chile, the model of rearticulatory reading, propitiated by the transatlantic repositioning, defined an open and pluralistic critical practice, which refuses the canon, the will of truth, and the exclusion policies. For the 2017 edition, Nueva York Transatlántico takes over and continues the journey to propose the articulation of the various dimensions of Hispanic culture and writing in the city that defined Martí and Lorca. New York City is home to linguistic varieties of Spanish from everywhere which testifies to creativity, a capability of humanizing the opposing space, and of its capacity to forge an academic and cultural environment both anti-authoritarian and hospitable.