JISLAC
REGIONAL SEMINAR IN THE WEST
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, FRIDAY 22 AND SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2008
DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tel: 0117 331 7002. DIRECTIONS & TRANSPORT INFORMATION
Provisional Programme
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY
All sessions to take place in LR8. 21 Woodland Road.map
15.30-16.45 First Panel Session – The Study of Activism
Lara Coleman (Bristol) ‘NGOs and Masculinity in Colombia’abstract
Dr. Marina Prieto-Carron (Birkbeck/ Bristol) ‘Central American Women Workers, Social Reproduction and Organising Strategies'abstract
Sonja Wolf (Aberystwyth) ‘Contesting Mano Dura: human rights advocacy in El Salvador abstract‘
17.00-19.00 ‘State of the Field’ Interdisciplinary Discussion Plenary
Chair: Dr. Matthew Brown (Bristol)
Speakers:
Dr. Peter Lambert (Bath)
Professor Linda Newson (KingsCollegeLondon)
Dr. Lucy Taylor (Aberystwyth)
Dr. John Kraniauskas (BirkbeckCollegeLondon)
SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY
Specific locations to be confirmed.
9.00-10.45 Parallel Seminar Sessions
Panel 1:
Chair: Dr Emily Walmsley (Bristol)
Professor Elizabeth Dore (Southampton) 'Cuban Oral Histories and Racial Identities'abstract
Dr. Melisa Moore (Exeter) ‘Detractors and Devotees: Modernity, ‘Mestizaje’ and the Rise of a New Intellectual Hegemony in 1920s Peru abstract’
Dr. Mary Green (Swansea) ‘Nelly Richard and the Category of the “Feminine”’abstract
Panel 2: ‘Elites, Arts and the City’
Chair: Dr. Lorraine Leu (Bristol)
Dr. Mark Dinneen (Southampton) ‘Twentieth century socialism in Venezuela: The Chavez government's policies for the media, education and the arts’abstract
Dr. Jane Lavery (Southampton) ‘Breaking Boundaries in Cuerpo náufrago: Ana Clavel’s Multimedia Narratives of Transgender/genre, Sex and Urinalsabstract’
10.45-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.45 Parallel Seminar Sessions
Panel 1: ‘Madness, Violence and Death’ Chair:
Dr. Jo Crow (Bristol)
Dr. Andrew Redden (Bristol) ‘Angelic Death in the Early Modern Hispanic World’abstract
Professor Lloyd Hughes Davies (Swansea) 'History and Hysteria in Laura Restrepo’s Delirio’abstract
Antonio Márcio da Silva (Bristol) ‘Troubling the femme fatale gender in Brazilian film Madame Satã (2002)abstract’
Panel 2: ‘Relations and Representations’
Chair: Dr. Matthew Brown (Bristol)
Dr. Joseph Smith (Exeter) ‘Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Brazil’abstract
Dr. Heidi V Scott (Aberystwyth) ‘Paradise in the New World: a seventeenth- century Spanish vision of the tropics’abstract
Dr. Claudio Canaparo (Exeter) ‘The Location of Knowledge: Science and Empire’abstract
12.45-13.00 Final end-of-conference session
13.00 End of conference
The Bristol-based participants will be going for a short walk and a pub lunch at the end of the conference, somewhere near the Clifton Suspension Brige – you are more than welcome to join us.