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Alex Betancourt Serrano
Department of Political Science
University of Puerto Rico
PO Box 23345
San Juan, PR 00931
(787) 525-3842
(787) 764-0000 x-87474
alex.betancourt@upr.edu
Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. in Political Science, 2006
M.A. in Political Science, 2004
New School for Social Research
M.A. in Political Science, 1999
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
B.A. in Political Science, 1997 (Magna Cum Laude)
Academic Appointments
University of Puerto Rico
Department Chair, 2015-present
Associate Professor of Political Science, 2010-present
Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2006-2010
Journal of Social Sciences/Revista de Ciencias Sociales
Director, 2010-2012
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Colombia
Visiting Professor, summer 2009
Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Anthropology, Fall 2008
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Instructor in the Social Thought and Political Economy Program, 2001-2004
Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science, 2001
Teaching Assistant in the Department of French and Italian Studies, 2000
Books
El Poder en Plural: diálogos de teoría política y antropología
(co-edited book, University of Los Andes Press, 2014)
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Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud: Between Theory and Politics
(VDM Verlag, 2008, 2nd edition 2012)
Articles and Chapters
“La cultura de la violencia o la violencia de la cultura: en torno a Sigmund Freud” en
María de los Ángeles Gómez, ed. El psicoanálisis: una experiencia por venir
(Madrid: Fundamentos, 2015)
“Pensando el presente y sonando el pasado: La política y la historia en El proyecto de los
pasajes de Walter Benjamin,”
Tabula Rasa: Revista de Humanidades, 8:1 (2008)
“Dreams, Collections and History: From Freud to Benjamin,”
Filos Num. 3 (Spring 2007)
“Let’s bury a few liberals!” (A Lacanian Gesture),”
The Symptom, Num 5, Winter 2004
“J,accuse? A Critical Approach to Derrida’s Speculation on Freud,”
The Symptom, Num 4, Spring 2003
Essays and Reviews
“La dialéctica de la Familia”
80grados:Revista Digital (September 11, 2015)
“Cristo, Shakespeare y la Banca”
80grados:Revista Digital (July 31, 2015)
“Nietzsche y la crítica a la religión”
80grados:Revista Digital (January 23, 2015)
“Violence Then and Now” Ámbito de Encuentros Vol. 7, No.2, 2014
“Reflexiones en torno a Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…”
80grados (October 4, 2013)
“Our Angel in the City: A Remembrance of Marshall Berman”
Critical Legal Thinking (October 2013)
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“¿Por qué ofende la crítica?”
Diálogo Digital (February 2011)
“La UPR y los fondos ARRA”
El nuevo día (April 30, 2010)
“Bourdieu’s Sociology of Defense,”
Film and History Review Num. 37 (1) Fall 2007
“¿Quién le teme al psicoanálisis? Elizabeth Roudinesco en la UPR,”
Diálogo (april 2007)
“Postcolonial naiveté?,”
Disonante, Num. 1, Spring 2005
“From Politics to Visual Culture and Beyond,”
Bordes, Num 8, 2001
Manuscripts in Progress
Violence in Contemporary Political Theory
(Book project)
“The Dialectics of Violence,”
in preparation for journal submission
Invited Lectures
“ ¡Ciudadano! Un llamado político” Constitución de EEUU, Ciudadanía y Casos Insulares,
Departamento de Ciencia Política, FCS, UPR, 17 September, 2015
“¿Hay derecho a la violencia?” Brown Bag Lunch Series, Escuela de Derecho, Universidad de
Puerto Rico, 27 January, 2015.
“La modernidad de El Príncipe” Los Quinientos años de El Príncipe de Maquiavelo, University
of Puerto Rico, March 20, 2014
“Justicia y violencia en la filosofía política contemporánea” Seminario de Filosofía Ludwig
Schajowicz, Departamento de Filosofía, Recinto de Río Piedras, UPR, November 13,
2013
“Una reinterpretación de Para una crítica de la violencia” Serie de Charlas: Cultura, Política y
Memoria, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, April 26, 2012
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“The Favelas of Río de Janeiro: Western Democracies, Disempowered Populations” Faculty
Colloquium Series, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Rutgers University,
12 October 2011.
“Los profesores y la democracia” Invited lecture, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Facultad
de Estudios Generales, April 2011
“Walter Benjamin y la violencia,” Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Los Andes,
Bogotá, April 16, 2010
“El lugar de la violencia en la democracia,” IX Fulbright Lecture Series, Universidad del
Norte, Colombia, August 27, 2008
“Prácticas democráticas para el postconflicto,” IX Fulbright Lecture Series, Universidad del
Norte, Colombia, August 28, 2008
“Representations of Violence,” 2007 Social Research Center Symposium, University of Puerto
Rico, October 2, 2007
“Gramsci y el post-marxismo,” Perspectivas sobre Gramsci, University of Puerto Rico, May 7,
2007
“Post-marxismo: giros y tendencias,” Coloquio: ¿Hacia dónde va el marxismo?, University of
Puerto Rico, April 13, 2007
“Adios a la democracia? Debates en la teoría política contemporánea” The Seminar
Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, March 28, 2007
“Violencia y cultura”, Simposio: El malestar en la cultura, Facultad de Estudios Generales,
Universidad de Puerto Rico, October 18, 2006
“Violence and Democracy” Invited lecture, Department of Social Sciences, University of
Puerto Rico-Arecibo, 26 March, 2006
“The End of History, Again?: A Critique of Postcolonialism” Invited lecture, Department of
Political Science, Ithaca College, NY, 12 April, 2004
“The Politics of Lacan’s Television” Invited lecture, Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 2001
Conferences
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“Violencia y justicia: una mirada dialéctica” Simposio Violencia, Memoria y Justicia,
Universidad de Puerto Rico, 17 April 2015
“Violence between Justice and Equality” LASA 2013, Washington, DC, May 31, 2013
“Reflexiones puntuales sobre la producción de conocimiento y las revistas científicas”
Conferencia Asociación de Psicología de Puerto Rico, 17 November, 2012.
“La violencia como concepto” Simposio Comunidad Intelectual de Violencia, Recinto de Río
Piedras, Universidad de Puerto Rico, March 20, 2012
“Violencia y modernidad” Simposio Comunidad Intelectual de Violencia, Recinto de Río
Piedras, Universidad de Puerto Rico, March 20, 2012
“Sobre Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…de David Mauas,” Department of Anthropology,
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, April 15, 2010
“The Dialectics of Violence” 13th International Congress of Anthropology in Colombia,
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá September 30 – October 3, 2009
“Sueños de Favela,” Rutas de poder: lugares de la cultura, construcciones del espacio y
visiones de lo político en América Latina y el Caribe, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá,
November 13-14, 2008
Discussant, “De Puerto Rico a Guantánamo: excepciones constitucionales,” Department of
Political Science Lecture, University of Puerto Rico, March 11, 2008
“Violence and Democracy in the Favelas,” Second International Conference Analysis of
Genocidal Social Practices, Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires:
Argentina, November 20, 2007
“Political Ideas, Democracy and Violence,” New England Council on Latin American
Studies, Mount Holyoke College, November 10, 2007
“Entre utopía y teoría: apuntes políticos,” Panorama de las Ciencias Sociales en Puerto Rico:
historia, investigación y política, Univesidad de Puerto Rico, Centro de Investigaciones
Sociales, November 7, 2007
“Violencia ayer y siempre: Freud y Benjamin,” Simposio: El psicoanálisis: una experiencia
por venir, University of Puerto Rico, December 3, 2006
“Mourning Democracy? The Malaise of Contemporary Political Theory,” Rethinking Marxism
2006, University of Massachussets, October 26-28, 2006
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“Dreaming a New History While Thinking a Different Politics: Appropriating Walter Benjamin,”
Latin American Studies association 2006 International Congress Hotel Caribe Hilton,
San Juan, March 17, 2006
“Dreams as Historical Symptoms: Reading Benjamin Psychoanalytically” Cultural Studies
Association, Northeastern University, Boston, May 5-9, 2004
“Dreaming Historically, Living Politically” Marxism and the World Stage, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, 6-9 November 2003
Chair, “Theodor W. Adorno at 100: Critique and Critical Theory in the 21st Century” Marxism and
the World Stage, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 6-9 November 2003
“Between Freud and Benjamin: The Dream of History”, Subjects of Economy: A Rethinking
Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2002
Chair, “Interdisciplinary Work Series” Department of Political Science, University of Masachussetts,
Amherst, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
“The Dialectics of the Self in Jean Jacques Rousseau”, Thirty First Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999.
“State and Postmodernism”,5th Ronald E. McNair Annual Conference, Delevan, Wisconsin,
1996.
Talks and Interviews
“Ciudadanía” Hilando Fino desde las Ciencias Sociales, Radio Universidad, September
22, 2015
“Consecuencias políticas del pliego acusatorio,” Programa Radial Mundo Obrero: WIAC
Radio, April 1, 2008
“Relevancia del marxismo” Hilando Fino desde las Ciencias Sociales, Radio Universidad, May
21, 2007
“Aspectos políticos del cine documental,” El Sur También Existe, Radio Once (1120 AM),
September 8, 2006
“Disturbios Políticos en Francia,” Hilando Fino desde las Ciencias Sociales, Radio
Universidad, April 3, 2006
“Inmigración, Violencia y Democracia,” El Sur También Existe, Radio Once (1120 AM)
March 24, 2006
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“La Responsabilidad en el Pensamiento de Hannah Arendt,” El Sur También Existe Radio
Once (1120 AM) March 10, 2006
Interview, “Generational changes in the university”, The Collegian, May 2004
Interview, “Zizek: The Movie”, Documentary Film by HBO producers, November 2003.
Interview, “War on Iraq”, Radio University of Massachusetts, October 2002.
Research Interests
Violence and Political Theory
Contemporary Political Thought
Psychoanalysis and Political Theory
Democratic Theory
The Frankfurt School (Benjamin and Adorno)
Madness and Political Theory
Teaching
Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico
CIPO 4605 Literature and Political Theory
CIPO 4306 Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School
CIPO 4275 Theories of the State
CIPO 4635 Theories of Justice
CIPO 4605 Walter Benjamin: ethics and politics of violence
CIPO 5025 Political Theories of Violence
CIPO 3156 Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
CIPO 3165 Modern Political theory
CIPO 4185 Contemporary Political Theory
CIPO 3011 Principles and Problems of Political Science
Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Los Andes
ANTR 4105 Anthropology of Violence
ANTR 4065 Theories of the State and Violence
Social Thought and Political economy Program, UMASS
Junior Seminar I: Modern Social Thought
Junior Seminar II: Contemporary Social Thought
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Post-doctoral
Faculty Fellow, Conditions for Democracy: From Mesopotamia to Iraq Faculty Resource
Network, New York University Summer, 2006
Other Academic Experience
Founding Member, Red Antropolítica (2008-present)
Editorial Assistant, Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst (2000- 2004)
Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, The Graduate
Faculty of Political and Social Science, New York (1998)
Research Assistant, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1997)
Academic Service
Member, Editorial Board, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2010-present)
Member, Editorial Board, Ámbito de encuentros (2013-present)
President, Dean of Social Sciences Search Committee, University of Puerto Rico (2014)
President, Personnel Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico (20112015)
Member, Faculty Personnel Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico
(2011-2015)
Member, University Reform Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico
(2013)
Fellowship Evaluator, Fulbright Commission, 2008-present
Member, Curricular Development Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Puerto
Rico (2006-2015)
Member, Sesquicentenario Natalicio de Sigmund Freud Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (2006)
Member, Senior Honors Thesis Committee, Social Thought and Political Economy Program,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2002-2004)
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Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Political Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2000-02)
Member, Ombusperson Search Committee, New School for Social Research, New York (1998)
Vice-President, Social Sciences Student Government, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P.R.
(1996-97)
Student Representative to the Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio
Piedras, P.R. (1996-97)
Member, Committee for the Reconceptualization of the Bachelors Degree, University of Puerto
Rico, Rio Piedras, P.R. (1995)
Honors and Fellowships
iINAS Title V Summer Grant, Project: Rutas de Poder: diálogos entre antropología y teoría
política (july-august 2012)
Fulbright Scholar, The J. William Fulbright Program, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá,
Fall 2008
Social Research Center Grant, University of Puerto Rico, 2007-2008
Opportunity Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1999-2000)
University Fellowship, New School for Social Research, The Graduate Faculty of Political
and Social Science, New York (1997-99)
Fellowship with the Ronald E. McNair Research Program, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras,
P.R. (1996-97)
Dean’s List, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P.R. (1993-97)
Presidential Academic Achievement Award (1993)
References
Dr. Nicholas Xenos
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Email: xenos@polsci.umass.edu
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Dr. Gabriel De La Luz Rodríguez
Department of Social Sciences
University of Puerto Rico
Email: gabrieldelaluz@gmail.com
Dr. Antonio Y. Vázquez Arroyo
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Email: ayv@umn.edu
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