Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
RAYMOND CRAIB (Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University)
Over the course of three months in 1920 Chilean authorities—prefects, intendents, police agents, spies, and congressmen—hassled, harangued, persecuted, prosecuted, framed, caricatured, criticized, arrested, and expelled men and women they did not want in the country. Who were these people and why were they jailed, or at times expelled? This talk--an overview of a nearly completed manuscript--attempts to answer these questions by looking closely at the lives and experiences of five men subjected to the state's repression. Along the way certain subjects--the history of anarchism, university students as political subjects, the metaphysics of police work, among other things--are addressed. And we meet a man with x-ray eyes.
Raymond Craib (Dept. of History, Cornell University) is the author of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004; Spanish translation UNAM, 2014) and co-editor with Barry Maxwell of No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries (forthcoming with PM Press), an edited collection of papers originally presented at the ICM 2012 conference. He is currently completing a book on the persecution of subversives in Chile in 1920.
