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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce RILAS’s programme of events for AY 2009-2010.
October 8 RILAS Seminar 5:30 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Manuel Barcia Paz
Lecturer in Latin American Studies - Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Deputy Director - Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds
The 1825 African Slave Rebellion in Cuba
October 22 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America
University of Oxford
A new Central America? Prospects after globalization and the global crisis
November 5 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Claire R. Lindsay
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature
University College, London
Beyond Imperial Eyes
November 19 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Tanja Bastia
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Global Urban Research Centre, University of Manchester
Migration as protest: reconfiguring gender relations in transnational migration?
December 3 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Henry Stobart
Senior Lecturer in Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Protecting our own: ethnographic perspectives on music and its commodification in the Bolivian Andes
February 11 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Emily Morris
Director, Research Unit, International Institute for the Study of Cuba, London Metropolitan University; former Senior Analyst, Latin America, Economist Intelligence Unit
The logic of Cuba's post-1990 economic transition.
February 25 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Professor Alberto Moreiras
Chair in Hispanic Studies & Modern Thought
University of Aberdeen
Marrano Theory
March 11 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Sian Lazar
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Militancia and contención. Technologies of the self and citizenship in Argentinean trade unions.
March 25 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Professor Mark Millington
Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
University of Nottingham
Configuring the Self as Public Intellectual in José Vasconcelos’ Ulises criollo
April 22 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Elizabeth Ewart
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Oxford
Wasps, Indians and white people: the transforming world of Panará alterity
May 6 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Dr. Gavin Bridge
Reader in Economic Geography
University of Manchester
What Drives the Extractive Frontier? Mining Booms and the Long Twentieth Century
May 20 RILAS Seminar 4:00 pm Lecture Room 3 LAS Building
Professor Peter Halward
Modern European Philosophy
Middlesex University
Haiti 2001-2009: Pacification in the Postcolony
Please consult our website for further details. My apologies for any cross-postings.
Best wishes,
Steve
Dr. Steven Rubenstein
Reader in Latin American Anthropology
Director of the Research Institute of Latin American Studies
School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies
University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is an internationally recognized centre for Latin American Studies, with research in this field characterized by a strong commitment to critical scholarly research, from a variety of disciplinary approaches, on all facets of Latin America.
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For more information, please see our website, call +44 (0) 151 794 2731, or mail to: The Research Institute of Latin American Studies
The University of Liverpool, 86 Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L69 7WW.
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