Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research seminars 2009/10
Seminars are in the Second Floor Boardroom of the Arthur Lewis Building on Wednesdays, from 5 pm to 7 pm. All are welcome.Semester 1
7 October
Adam Baird (University of Bradford)
Violent and 'prosocial' pathways to manhood: Breaking cycles of violence in marginalised Medellín, Colombia
21 October
Paulo Drinot (University of Manchester)
Taming Venus: VD policy and state formation in Peru, c.1900-1950
28 October
Steve Rubinstein (University of Liverpool)
"Now you see it, now you don't": how I came to see gender as a method of research rather than an object of study among the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon
4 November
Keith Brewster (University of Newcastle)
Teaching Mexicans how to behave. Public education on the eve of the Olympics
18 November
Monica Moreno (University of Newcastle)
"I've never had the need to name myself": Recognising racism and mestizaje in Mexico
2 December
Esther Gabara (Duke University)
The new art of making fiction: contemporary interventions with word and image
Semester 2
3 February
María Luisa Méndez (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago)
Whose heritage? Narratives of authenticity and belonging in 'heritage' neighbourhoods in Chile
17 February
Fulya Apaydin (Brown University)
Discipline without punishment: the politics of skill formation in Turkey and Argentina
3 March
Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge University)
Indigenous women, development and intersectionality: the disappointments and hopes of development for indígenas in Ecuador
17 March
Sian Lazar (Cambridge University)
Militancia and contención. Technologies of the self and citizenship in Argentinean trade unions
(Easter Vacation)
21 April
Peter Gose (Carleton University)
Race and nobility in early modern Spain