Dear all,
Please do join us on Thursday 20th of March for a new session of the series Human Rights and Latin America. Films in Dialogue.
We will feature La teta asustada [The Milk of Sorrow] (2009), the awarded film by Claudia LLosa (Peru, 98 min.)
We are delighted to have Dr. Sara Barrow (University of Lincoln) as our invited speaker to discuss the film with the audience.
FREE ENTRANCE
Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue
20 March, 6 pm: La teta asustada [The Milk of Sorrow] (2009),
Dir. Claudia LLosa (Peru, 98 min.)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sarah Barrow (University of Lincoln)
In Spanish (with English subtitles). Senate House. Free Entrance. All Welcome.
The Milk of Sorrow is an award-winning feature directorial debut that recounts the story of Fausta, a young Peruvian girl who has fallen ill with a rear disease transmitted through breast milk of woman abused during or soon after pregnancy. The film offers a critical and fictional approach on a still sensitive issue in contemporary Peruvian society, namely, the political violence that hunted the country in the last decades of the twentieth century. It does so by using an unusual metaphor to describe the sufferings of a new generation of woman wholiterally carry the effects of a painful period of the national history in their bodies. This original production combines an apparently simple plot line and aesthetics with complex issues such as the affective transmission of trauma, gender violence, bodily mourning and the skin of memory.
Dr. Sarah Barrow has published on Hispanic cinemas in a range of edited collections and journals, and guest edited a special issue of Transnational Cinemas on Latin American cinemas. She is completing a long term project on identity, violence and identities in Peruvian fiction cinema, with specific reference to the Shining Path era. She co-edited 50 Key British Films (Routledge, 2008) and was a contributor to 50 Key American Films (2009). She is co-editor of a new Encyclopedia of World Cinemas also by Routledge. Sarah was education officer at the Cambridge Arts Cinema/Festival, and is currently Head of the School of Media at the University of Lincoln, UK.
The series Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue invites both the academic community and the general public to reflect on contemporary discourses of Human Rights in Latin America through the gaze of renowned filmmakers of the region. Some of the topics addressed are democracy, indigenous population, economical inequality, race, gender and sexual slavery. Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker and followed by an open debate with the audience.
Coordination and facilitation: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London/ Institute of Latin American Studies) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research) with the collaboration of the Human Rights Consortium.
20 March, 6 pm, Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall (1st floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
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
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