Center for InterAmerican Studies

We are pleased to invite you to the next session of the InterAmerican Studies Colloquium with Dr. María Herrera Cárdenas (Bielefeld University). Her talk "Affective Distress and the Politics of Legibility: Gender, Medicalization, and Care in Europe and Mexico" explores the intersections of gender, medicalization, care, and affective distress across European and Mexican contexts, offering critical insights into contemporary debates in feminist, literary, and medical humanities research.

📅 9 June 2026

🕕 18:00–20:00

📍 Room X-E0-226

Dr. María Herrera Cardenas is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, specializing in Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Her research contributes to developing gendered medical violence as an analytical category to examine how institutional medical practices produce harm and how contemporary literature generates forms of epistemic repair and feminist counter-knowledge.

Information about the colloquium here.