EU: Europe undreamed, artistic responses to a political initiative, Iowa City, Iowa, April 14, 2021

Martín-Estudillo, Luis

Winkleblack, Thais

2021-04-14

Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Community Television Service (Iowa City, Iowa)

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This week's program features Luis Martín-Estudillo, who speaks to us on "EU: Europe Undreamed. Artistic Responses to a Political Initiative.”
Questioning and reassessing the European Union (EU) is vital for the future of the transnational organization as it struggles to connect with its people. Many works of art of the last few decades pointed to the roots of popular discontent with the EU even before it was known as such. Recent pieces exude a sense of urgency, manifesting deep concern about the European integration project. Their contribution provides new perspectives to debates that are often the monopoly of politicians, technocrats, and academics.
Luis Martín-Estudillo is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa and holds affiliate positions at the Universities of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Groningen (The Netherlands). He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish cultural and intellectual history, visual culture, and European studies. He has published and edited eight books, including The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), winner of an inaugural National Endowment for the Humanities' Open Book Award. His latest book, Goya and the Mystery of Reading, will be published this year.

Speaker: Luis Martín-Estudillo, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa and holds affiliate positions at the Universities of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Groningen (The Netherlands)
host: Thais Winkleblack
Via Zoom while the pandemic curtailed how we were able to gather in public.

European Union
Art
Literature
Identity

Martín-Estudillo, Luis
Winkleblack, Thais

2020-2030

Europe

00:59:26

Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

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