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DESCRIPTION:Join the GW Department of American Studies for part one of our 
 2026 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Cristina Beltrá
 n\, associate professor at New York University.\n\nProfessor Beltrán's le
 cture\, titled "Refusing the Politics of Elimination: A Rasquache Ethos of
  Abundance\,” argues that countering the Right’s politics of violence\
 , domination and scarcity requires cultivating democratic imaginaries that
  promise not only justice\, but also pleasure\, joy\, beauty and delight.\
 n\nRather than mirroring conservative logics of dehumanization and removal
  that conflate freedom with the power to subjugate\, this talk argues for 
 a defiant\, non-eliminationist ethos of what Beltrán refers to as affecti
 ve abundance. Overflowing with feeling and embracing the excessive and con
 tradictory feelings that subjects feel about one another and the world we 
 share\, affective abundance is a civic orientation that acknowledges both 
 the violence of colonialism\, conquest and slavery alongside our shared en
 counters with justice\, solidarity and freedom dreams.
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SUMMARY:2026 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture\, Part I: Cristina Beltrá
 n
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 ed-lecture-part-i-prof-cristina-beltran
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CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Speakers
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