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Series ‘Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue’
5 June, 6 pm: Nostalgia de la luz [Nostalgia for the Light] (2010), by Patricio Guzmán (90’)
Introduced by guest speaker: Professor Brad Epps (Cambridge)
In Spanish with English subtitles. Senate House. Free Entrance. All Welcome.
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's dictatorial regime.
Brad Epps is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor and former Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University for over two decades. He has published extensively on modern literature, film, art, architecture, urban theory, queer theory, and immigration. He is the author of Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo; Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity (with Luis Fernández Cifuentes); Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality (with Bill Johnson-González and Keja Valens); All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (with Despina Kakoudaki).
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 by the screenings are: democracy, indigenous population, economical inequality, race, gender and sexual slavery. Each film is introduced by a guest speaker and followed by an open debate with the audience.
In collaboration with the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Human Rights London Consortium.
Coordination: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London/ Institute of Latin American Studies) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research).
5 June, 6 pm, Senate House, Room G35 (Ground 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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