Events in the Institute for Transnational Studies 2011/12
SPLAS/ITS seminar series
Semester 2
All seminars are on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 pm
8 February
Dr. Luciana Martins, Birkbeck College
Claude Lévi-Strauss and Aloha Baker in Mato Grosso: Framing the Bororo
Mansfield Cooper 2.02
15 February
Dr. John Kraniauskas, Birkbeck College
A Small Andean History of Photography: ‘Yawar fiesta’
Mansfield Cooper 2.02
7 March
Dr. Jordana Blejmar, Cambridge University/University of Manchester
Photography and Kinship: Fictional Memories of Disappearance in Argentina
Mansfield Cooper 2.02
2 May
Professor Isabel Santaolalla, University of Roehampton
The Call of the World. Iciar Bollaín’s Filmmaking
Stephen Joseph 1.1
18 April
Mony Penny commemorative lecture
Professor Jean Franco, Columbia University
Cruel Modernity
Sam Alex A7
Semester 1
26 October
Dr. Katia Chornik, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SPLAS
A lost manuscript by Alejo Carpentier: the origins of ‘The lost steps'?
Sam Alex A7
16 November
Professor Angel Smith, University of Leeds
Catalan Nationalism: an Overview
This talk will celebrate the signing of the agreement with Institut Ramon Llull, which will support Catalan Studies at the University of Manchester. It will be preceded by a brief ceremony. Reception to follow.
Sam Alex A215
23 November
Christian Aliaga, Argentine writer
Beggar’s corner: Poetry reading.
Sam Alex A7
7 December
Márcia Moura da Silva, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CTIS
Macunaíma - From the Rainforest to the Big Cities: a Cultural Look at Translation Strategies
Sam Alex A215
CLACS/ITS Round Table Series 2011-12
Monday 12 December, 5-7pm, Samuel Alexander South Theatre (SG1)
Latin America has acquired increasing visibility in recent global debates, with new political and economic actors, both national and regional, making Latin America more ‘knowable’ than ever before. Migrations and technologies have de-territorialised the region and increased its global visibility, with its communities represented in many aspects of popular socio-cultural practice across the world. What these patterns conceal, however, are the often unequal terms under which these transmissions are undertaken.
Round Table Series: 'Translating Latin America in Europe'. We use 'translation' to explore how Latin America translates in Europe – how it is imagined, communicated, consumed, managed, disrupted and contested. The Round Table series brings together disciplines, methods and professions in the public sphere to acknowledge the mutual impact that academia, journalism, culture industries, politics and business have in ‘translating’ the region and its nations, and to explore the productive tensions that emerge in theories, policies and practices.
Round Table 1: Reproducing Latin America in Popular/Urban Culture
Speakers
- Dr Hettie Malcomson (visiting scholar): The representation of women in Danzón and through danzón
- Dr Encarnación Gutiérrez (SPLAS, RICC): The “Latinisation” of Manchester
- Dr Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds): The place of Brazil in "Hispanic" film culture
- Rachel Hayward (Cornerhouse): VIVA Spanish and Latin American film festival
- Rebecca Ogden (PhD student, SPLAS/CLACS): The textual articulation of touristic encounters between the UK and Cuba
Chair: Dr James Scorer (SPLAS/CLACS)
- Reproducing Latin America in Popular/Urban Culture (poster) (PDF Document, 84 KB)
RICC/ITS Seminar
14 November 2011
Dr Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
'Wrong Sex and the City: Polish Migration and Masculinity'
University Place 5.210, 16:00-17:30
Full details
REES/ITS Seminar
24 November 2011
Stephen Ennis (BBC Monitoring, Caversham)
‘The Rebirth of the Russian Protest Song’
Samuel Alexander A112, 4.15 p.m.
The talk will look at how protest music or music with a political message emerged in Russia in 2010 as a cultural phenomenon and a potentially influential force in society thanks to its availability on YouTube. It will examine various examples of the genre, show how the phenomenon has been developing and how it is being exploited by state and non-state players to target youth audiences and energize the political process.
All are welcome!