Please join us for the launch of On the (Im)Possibility of Listening to Oneself by María del Rosario Acosta López. María will be joined by her colleague Fanny Söderbäck, for an informal conversation on questions of the unspeakable. The publication is part of a new series of pamphlets on listening, published in connection with The Listening Biennial.

Location: Errant Bodies studio, Lettestrasse 7, 10437 Berlin

María del Rosario Acosta López is a Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies in UC Riverside. She was until very recently Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. Before that she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Colombian National University in 2007, and was a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, between 2013 and 2014. María conducts work on historical memory with survivors of police torture in Chicago and with survivors of political violence in Colombia. This work has informed her current book project, Grammars of Listening: Philosophical Approaches to Memory after Trauma.