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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">**apologies for cross-posting**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">The Association for Cultural Studies</a> (ACS) welcomes you to an upcoming talk in its <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Virtual
Lecture Series</span></strong>, by <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Julieta Infantino (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), </span></strong>titled<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> ‘Circus, from popular to legitimized
art. Transformations in the valuations of circus arts in Argentina'</span></strong> (followed by a Q&A), which will take place on <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">February 21st, 6 PM ART/ Argentina Time (GMT -3)</span></strong> (more
information underneath).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information on the Virtual Lecture Series and upcoming talks, please visit: <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Julieta Infantino (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Circus, from popular to legitimized art. Transformations in the valuations of circus arts in Argentina</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">February 21st, 2024</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">6 PM ART/ Argentina Time (GMT -3)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Abstract:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Throughout my research career, the study of circus as a popular art has been a tool to analyze
and register power relations, critical potentialities of arts and histories of hierarchies in Argentina. The circus has been an art form that passed from being discredited as a <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">minor, popular</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">marginal</span></em> art
to being legitimized as the cradle of authentic national theater at the end of the nineteenth century, when Argentina established a unique circus form known as <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Circo Criollo</span></em>. This circus style
was characterized by a first part of circus skills and a second part of theatrical drama based on the criollista-gaucho genre derived from a literary movement that exalted the figure of the Argentine gaucho as an emblem of nationality. This fusion produced
an innovative modality and a modification in the evaluative appraisals of the circus. However, this period of transitional appreciation ended, and the circus was again dismissed as a minor art by the middle of the 20th century. This presentation discusses
this process and analyses the construction of hierarchies based on the weighting of the spoken drama and high art over the popular bodily based performances and the way these hierarchies become brands that continue to influence contemporary valuations of art
in Argentina. It also reflects on the ways in which contemporary circus artists recover this art and rethink its popular character and its critical-political potentialities, focusing on the process of resurgence, redefinition and artification of the circus
that took place in Argentina since the post-dictatorial 1980s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Bio: Julieta Infantino</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> is Professor and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, and a researcher
of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She is a specialist in the development of circus arts in Argentina and in Latin America, studying its historical and aesthetic characteristics, as well as identity and political aspects.
She has integrated several research teams linked to the study of popular culture and cultural policies and has published books, compilations and articles in national and international academic journals. She is also responsible editor of Cuadernos de antropología
social. Among her most recent publications are: “A arte do circo na América do Sul. Trajetórias, tradições e inovações na arena contemporânea. Sao Paulo: Ediciones SESC (2023); “Pedagogías circenses. Experiencias, trayectorias y metodologías”. Club Hem editors
(2021); “The Criollo Circus (Circus Theatre) in Argentina. The emergence of a unique circus form in connection with the consolidation of the Argentine nation state”. In <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Cambridge companion to the Circus</span></em> (2021);
“Working with circus artists: reflections on a process of collaborative research, participation and commitment,” <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation</span></em> (2018).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To register for this free event, please email:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:vls@cultstud.org">vls@cultstud.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Please note that email registration is an automated process. If you do NOT receive a reply to your email with the relevant information within an hour, please check your spam folder, as some
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The ACS is the Data Controller of the records collected and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. Please submit any data subject rights
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Founded in 2002, the ACS aims at forming and promoting an effective worldwide community of cultural studies. It is intended as a tool for building strong interdisciplinary and transnational
connections by offering meaningful meeting places for the great diversity of committed scholars in this field. The Virtual Lecture Series, launched in May 2021, is an ongoing programme of online presentations by cutting-edge cultural studies theorists and
practitioners and serves as a way to keep establishing these connections when we are no longer able to easily meet in person. If you would like to support the association’s work by becoming a member (which enables us to continue to organise events like these),
you can do so here: <a href="http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/membership/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/membership/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Upcoming VLS talks (more details TBA):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">March 19th, 5 PM GMT — Poppy Wilde (Birmingham City University, UK), 'Posthumanism and play: Embodying avatar-gamer entanglements'<br>
April 16th, 8 PM CST/ China Standard Time (GMT +8 ) — Mengyu Luo (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, PRC)<br>
May 24th, 11 AM MDT/ Mountain Daylight Time (GMT -6) — Runchao Liu (University of Denver, USA)<br>
June — Lindsay Balfour (Coventry University, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information, visit <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Archive of the previous talks <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Recordings are available on the Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_acs_" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_acs_</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On behalf of the ACS,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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