Open Seminars

Easter Term 2012

* Seminars are held on Mondays with the exception of Wednesday May 9th*

Alison Richard Building    7 West Road    5.15pm    Seminar Room  SG2    Ground Floor   

 Monday April 30th    Joanna Crow University of Bristol

      Mapuche People and the Chilean State: complex, creative negotiations

*Wednesday May 9th*    Mark Healey University of Connecticut

   The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the remaking of San Juan after the 1944 earthquake

Durham: Duke University Press, 2011 (synopsis)

Monday May 14th    Ben Bollig University of Oxford

      What do We Say When We Say “Juan Gelman”: on pseudonyms and polemics in recent Argentine poetry?

Monday May 21st    Claire Taylor University of Liverpool

    Mapping the Americas Online: Latin(o) American net.art and the aesthetic production of space

Monday May 28th    Catherine Boyle King’s College, London 

    Cultural Translation in the Extreme : on mining performance

*Wednesday May 30th    Linda B. Hall University of New Mexico

    Dolores del Río: from revolutionary Mexico to Hollywood and back

Monday June 11th    Claudia Feld CONICET/IDES, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Buenos Aires

    Imagen y desparación en Argentina. Apuntes sobre una fotografía tomada en el sótano de la ESMA (in Spanish)

Refreshments will be served after the seminars, at CLAS, Second Floor 

ALL WELCOME