Research seminars 2008/9
Seminars are in the Second Floor Boardroom of the Arthur Lewis Building on Wednesdays, from 5 pm to 7 pm. All are welcome.
Semester two
February 4th. David Wood, Head, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield. Title of paper: Sports and Literature in Latin America.
February 18th. Fiona Wilson, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Title of paper: Indigenismo or Mestizaje: working out identities in the Peruvian Central Andes.
March 4th. Jens Hentschke, Professor of Latin American History and Politics, Programme Director, Newcastle University. Title of paper: Getúlio Vargas: Origins, Policies and Representation.
March 18th. Tanja Bastia, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Global Urban Research Centre, University of Manchester. Title of Paper: Migrants and the right to the city: villas miseria in Buenos Aires.
April 22. Guy Baron, Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham. Title of paper: The Illusion of Equality: Machismo and Cuban Cinema of the Revolution.
May 6th. Lisa Shaw, Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool. Title of paper: Recreating Rio in Paris in the 1920s: Afro-Brazilian music and dance in the context of the vogue for the African exotic.
Semester 1
Oct 1. Dick Geary (Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Nottingham) Atlantic Revolution or Local Difficulty: Aspects of Revolt in Brazil, 1780-1880.
Oct 15. Matthias Vom Hau (Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester) Changing Conceptions of Nationalism in Mexico, Argentina and Peru through the Lens of Education.
Oct 29. Maria Gabriela Hita (The Federal University of Bahia, Capes Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester) The Reproduction of "Matriarchal Houses" in a Black Brazil.
November 12. Alexis Diaz Pimienta (Cuban Writer) Literatura oral en la cultura cubana: el repentismo.
November 26. Dennis Rodgers (Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester) Haussmann in the Tropics: Paris, Managua, What's the Difference?
December 10. Grace Livingstone (Writer and Journalist), The United States and Latin America: the legacy of George W Bush.