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Please find the list of confirmed speakers for the one-day
interdisciplinary conference Musical and Other Cultural Responses to
Political Violence in Latin America. Registration and location details will
be available later in October from http://events.manchester.ac.uk/.
Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America
One-day Conference at the University of Manchester, 6 December 2013
Supported by the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, the Centre for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages (CIDRAL).
Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Lazzara (University of California,
Davis), author of Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory
(2006).
Testimony and myth in armed conflict
‘New Song, New Time: Peruvian Marxisms and Music in a Revolutionary Era’ –
Jonathan Ritter (University of California, Riverside)
‘The Violent Andes: Crisis and Cultural Difference in Narratives of Peru’s
Internal Armed Conflict’ – Daniel Willis (University of Manchester)
‘Singing a Change: Rephrasing White Upper Class Identity through Fusion
Music in Post-war Lima’ – Fiorella Montero (Royal Holloway)
Experimental aesthetics of violence
‘Enrique Lihn’s El Paseo Ahumada (1983) and the Mapping of Violence’ –
Constanza Cereza (University College London)
‘Is There a Politics in the Sounds of Raul Ruiz? The Case of La Maleta
(1963)’ – Laura Jordán (Université Laval) and Nicolás Lema (Australian
National University)
Clandestine movements and detention under dictatorship
‘Quem cala morre contigo [He who stays silent dies with you]: Clandestine
Movements, Musical Activism, and the Lyricists of the Clube da Esquina in
Dictatorial Brazil’ – Holly Holmes (University of Illinois)
‘The Power of the Song: Forbidden Singing in an Argentine Prison’ (film
excerpt by Michael Chanan, University of Roehampton) plus ‘Cinema Sundays
in a Maximum Security Prison in Córdoba, Argentina’ – Ana Mohaded
(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
‘Musical Commemorations of the Fortieth Anniversary of Pinochet’s Coup’ –
Katia Chornik (University of Manchester)
Contemporary communities’ responses to police brutality and other State
wrongs
‘Culture and Freedom? Creative Responses to Political Violence in Medellin,
Colombia’ – Theresa Bean, Jez Collins and Ruth Daniel (In Place of War
Project, University of Manchester)
‘Vinegar: A Brazilian Anthology of Poetry against Oppression’ – Rosane
Carneiro Ramos (King’s College London)
Keynote lecture
‘Complicity and Responsibility in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Regime: The
Case of “El Mocito”’ – Michael Lazzara (University of California, Davis)
Dr Katia Chornik
Leverhulme Research Fellow
Department of Music
The University of Manchester
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Coupland Street
Manchester M13 9PL
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