Dear all,
The programme and booking form for this forthcoming seminar is now available. Please see details below and circulate widely!
Best wishes
Jordana.
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
21st Century Fiction from Latin America
12 February 2014
Senate House
A one-day seminar organized by ACLAIIR, the Institute of Modern Languages Research, the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Instituto Cervantes in London
Venue: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Fees: £15 (concessions) / £30 (full). Fees include coffees and lunch.
Registration closing date: 1 February 2014
10: 00 Welcome (William Marshall, Director, Institute of Modern Languages Research)
10: 15 – 11: 45 Fiction in Latin America Today: Current Trends
Chair: Jordana Blejmar (IMLR)
Joanna Page (Cambridge): Twenty-First Century Fiction from the Southern Cone: Sketches for a New Syllabus
Cherie R. Elston (Cambridge) Beyond Bolaño: translating new Latin American literature online
Juan Jesús Armas Marcelo (Spanish writer and journalist)
12: 00-13:30 Trends in Research in 21-century Fiction from Latin America
Chair: Claire Lindsay (UCL)
María E. López (LMU): Homosexuality as a destabilizing weapon in contemporary Cuban novel: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Claire Taylor (Liverpool): From Print to Hypertext: Digital Media and New Literary Genres in Latin America
Edward King (Cambridge): Critical approaches to comics and graphic fiction in Latin America
Break: Lunch
14: 30-15: 30 Collecting Fiction from Latin America in UK Libraries
Chair: Aquiles Alencar Brayner (British Library)
Geoff West (British Library)
Sonia Morcillo (Cambridge)
Joanne Edwards (Oxford)
Christine Anderson (ILAS)
15: 45-17:00 Fiction from Latin America: the UK Market
Chair: Rory O’Bryen (Cambridge)
Laurence Laluyaux
Bill Swainson
Nick Caistor
17:00-17:15 Conclusion
Full details and registration form at http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/advanced-search and http://aclaiir.org.uk/events/
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