LACNET
the St Andrews Latin American and Caribbean Network
Latin America and the Caribbean: Writing, History & Creolization
An interdisciplinary conference organised by LACNET with support from the
Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC,
British Academy Learned Society).
All Welcome
October 5-6 2007
St Mary’s College Hall, North Street, St Andrews (opposite the Criterion
pub: enter the gateway and the entrance is on the right close to a big tree)
Programme
Friday October 5
9.30-9.45 ?Opening and welcome (Tristan Platt)
9.45-10.45?Keynote address:
Prof Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins)?
Title: The Caribbean region and Latin America: creolization and
modernization as defining regional concepts
10.45-11.15?Coffee break
11.15-12.45?Roundtable discussion: Essentialism, history and creolization?
Chair: Mark Harris?
Speakers: ?Tristan Platt, Huon Wardle, Charlotte Lange (Stirling), Eleni Kefala
1-2?Lunch (in local restaurant; participants pay for themselves)
2.15-3.15?Post-graduate presentations?
Chair: Emily Greenwood?
Speakers: Soledad Montañez, Rodrigo Villagra, Giovanna Bacchiddu
3.15-3.45?Coffee break
3.45-4.45?Post-graduate presentations (cont’d)?
Chair: Will Fowler ?
Speakers: Stacy Hope, Shelene Gomez, Conrad Feather, Jenny Cárdenas
4.45-5.15?Chair: Huon Wardle ?
Discussion and comments on graduate presentations
Conference dinner in local restaurant (£10 contribution requested per diner,
to be collected in the restaurant)
Saturday October 6
9.30-10.30?Keynote address:
Prof Verena Stolcke (Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona)?
Title: Mestizaje, cloning and the idea of ‘race’
10.30-11?Coffee break
11-12.30?Roundtable discussion: Essentialism, history and creolisation?
Chair: Chris Given-Wilson?
Speakers: Mario Aguilar, Will Fowler, Emilia Ferraro, Emily Greenwood
12.30-1.15?Plenary discussion.
1-2?Lunch
NB: Roundtable discussions will consist of brief discussion papers (c. 10
minutes each) addressing the title theme, followed by discussion open to the
floor.
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