Dear all,
Please see below the Programme of Events on Latin American and Spanish Culture at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, for this term.
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21st Century Fiction from Latin America
A one-day seminar organised by ACLAIIR, the Institute of Modern Languages Research, the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Instituto Cervantes in London
Date: 12 February
Venue: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor
Registration closing date: 1 February, 2014
10am-6pm
Fees: £15 (concessions) / £30 (full). Fees include coffees, lunch and wine reception.
More information: http://aclaiir.org.uk
Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue
Organisers: Institute of Latin American Studies, Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Human Rights Consortium
This series 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 will be introduced by a guest speaker and it will be followed by an open debate with the audience.
Free. All welcome.
6-8pm
6 February: Screening La forma exacta de las islas [The exact shape of the islands], by Edgardo Dieleke and Daniel Casabe. 85 m. Argentina.
Invited speakers: Edgardo Dieleke and Prof. Bernard McGuirk.
Room: 103 (first floor)
20 March: Screening: La teta asustada [The Mil of Sorrow] by Clauda Llosa (2009) Peru.
Invited speakers: Dr. Sarah Barrow (Lincoln)
Room: Chancellor’s Hall (first floor)
22 May: Screening: Onibus 174 [Bus 174] (2002), by Padhila. Brazil.
Invited speaker: Dr. Luciana Martins (Birkbeck)
Room: Senate Room (first floor)
5 June: Screening: Nostalgia de la luz [Nostalgia for the Light] (2010), by Patricio Guzmán. 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Chile.
Invited speaker: Prof. Brad Epps (Cambridge)
Room: 349 (third floor)
Date tbc: Screening: La mujer sin cabeza [The Headless Woman] (2008) (87 min) and Nueva Argirópolis (2010) (8 min.), both by Lucrecia Martel. In Spanish with English subtitles. Argentina.
Invited speaker: Dr. Debbie Martin. (UCL).
New Poetics of Disappearance: Narrative, Violence and Memory
International Conference
Date: 16 and 17 June, 2014
Organisers: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London), ERC - Narratives of Terror and Disappearance (Universität Konstanz)
This conference gathers together academics and writers living and working on memory issues in Latin America, the United States and Europe. We aim to discuss the way in which literature has addressed the complicated neither-dead-nor-alive figure of the disappeared from the 1970s and 1980s to the present. The term disappeared was popularized in Latin America to account for the crimes perpetrated by the dictatorships of the last century, whereby citizens were detained, held and often murdered without trace. Not only ‘standardized’ and ‘transnationalized’ by Human Rights laws, the term was also translated worldwide to describe similar or analogous cases of uncertain death at the hands of a terror State.
The intention of this event is to identify and explore new poetics in the representation of the disappeared. Allegorical narratives, testimonies and memoirs have been predominant forms of addressing this figure in the aftermath of collective traumas. More recently, however, we are witnessing adventurous and experimental writings of the past and of the self. New generations in particular are exploring original ways of narrating this figure in accounts presented as science fictions and hard-boiled memories, fantasy tales and horror stories, autofictions and online diaries.
Although the conference is centred on literary approaches to the figure of the disappeared, the interdisciplinary nature of many of these contemporary works means that we can no longer stick to formerly rigid genre borders. There will be thus papers that cross disciplines (literature, theatre, cinema, photography, performance) and draw on non-conventional formats (including comics, social networks and blogs).
Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group
Coordination: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (ILAS/UEL) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (IMLR)
Free. All welcome.
22 January: 2-4pm Room STB5. Colleen Becker, ‘Nostalgia in Nineteenth-Century Arbeiterkultur’
5 February: 1,30-4pm Room 246. Vikki Chalklin, '(In)Appropriate(ly) Touching: Queer and Feminist Porn as Community Making'
19 February: 2-4pm Room STB5. Federico Lorenz, ‘Malvinas: Writing Fiction as an Historical Task’
19 March: 2-4pm Room STB5. Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro. ‘Redistributing the Sensible. Mapping Ecologies of Memory through Participative Action Research’
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Editor, Journal of Romance 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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