CLACS seminar programme, 2010-2011
All seminars are held at 5:00 on Wednesday in the Arthur Lewis Building, second floor boardroom, unless otherwise noted.
Semester 1
13 October
Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge University)
Poverty and Governance in early colonial Peru
20 October
Parvathi Kumaraswami (University of Manchester)
Workshop, title TBC
17 November
James Scorer (University of Manchester)
Strikers, Vandals, Looters and other Subversive Visitors to Northern Chilean Ghost Towns
22 November
Pedro Lasch (Duke University)
Naturalisations and Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: A Presentation and Workshop with Pedro Lasch
(4:00, University Place 3.211)
1 December
Susanne Hofmann (University of Manchester)
Dynamics and ambivalences of the neoliberal sex industry at the Mexican-American border
Semester 2
2 February
Shirin Hirsch (University of Manchester)
"Somewhere in between": Chile Solidarity Campaign and the politics of memory
2 March
James Dunkerley (Queen Mary, University of London)
Andres Bello: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan State-builder
16 March
Mauricio de Oliveira (University of Manchester)
Modernity Remade: The Possible Future in Jorge Amado's Jubiabá
30 March
Sara Albuquerque (Birkbeck College and Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew)
Everard Im Thurn in British Guiana: Collecting Tropical Nature
11 May
Session chaired by Laurence Brown (University of Manchester)
Migration and the Crisis of Globalisation in Latin America and the Caribbean
This talk willl be from 4-6 pm