Science and Engineering at The University of Edinburgh

Caribbean and Latin American Research at Edinburgh (CLARE)

EVENTS

Film: Fresa y chocolate (Cuba, 1993)

Director: Tabio, Gutiérrez Alea

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North

Funded by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean

Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool Late Glissant: history, world-literature and the persistence of the political

Nalini Mohabir, University of Leeds Return Journeys in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora

Ronald Cummings, University of Leeds Narrative Testimony as Queer Methodology

Bill Ming, Bermudan sculptor and artist Stories of Wood, Wind & Fire

Venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh

Film: Guantanamera (Cuba, 1995)

Director: Tabio, Gutiérrez Alea

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Chris Ellis, University of Edinburgh

National Imaginaries of Puerto Rican Status

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Film: Alias la Gringa (Peru, 1991)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

La nación clandestina (Bolivia, 1989)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Cronos (Mexico, 1989)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Nathalie Mercier, Guatemala Solidarity Network

Impunity and Human Rights in Guatemala

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Daniela Vicherat Mattar, University of Edinburgh

Reading Democratization through the Struggles for Plaza Italia in Santiago

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Professor Priscilla Solis Ybarra

John Muir’s ‘Dark Stranger’: Mexican American Writing’s Transnational and Bioregional Challenges to Contemporary Ecocriticism

Venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh

Sense of Place: Uruguay-Scotland historical and contemporary connections

Funded by the British Academy

Venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh

For further details, please contact david.howard@ed.ac.uk

Jan Fairley, ethnomusicologist and writer

Daughters of Anacaona and Yemayá: Women and Music in Cuba

Website: http://www.janfairley.com/

Venue: Old Library, Geography, Drummond St, Edinburgh EH8 9XP

Film: La historia oficial (Argentina, 1985)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Maya Mayblin, University of Edinburgh

The Madness of Mothers: maternal sentiment and cosmological outrage

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Film: Como agua para chocolate (Mexico, 1992)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge

Gender, culture, nation and development issues in Latin America Title to be confirmed

Venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh

Film: Yo, la peor de todas (Argentina, 1990)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Carolina Orloff, University of Edinburgh

Mapping Recent Trends: films and texts of 21st century Argentina

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Film: Archipiélago (Chile, 1992)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Film: La ciénaga (Argentina, 1983)

For details of Latin American and Spanish film showings in the Division of European Languages and Cultures 2009-2010, please go to http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/hispanic/

Venue: LHC (Language and Humanities Centre), David Hume Tower basement, University of Edinburgh

Friday 26th March, 2010

Contemporary Argentina - Reading the last decade

Organized by: Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, Department of Hispanic Studies and the National Library of Scotland. A JISLAC regional seminar(Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin American and the Caribbean)

Venue: National Library of Scotland

The seminar will comprise three papers on recent prose and poetry from Argentina. Our keynote speaker is Guillermo Martínez (Premio Planeta), and he will be joined by Professor Evelyn Fishburn (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London) and Dr Ben Bollig (University of Leeds).

Professor Evelyn Fishburn , 'Argentinian Identity in Contemporary Argentinian Fiction'.

Professor Fishburn will discuss the work of various leading writers including Alan Pauls, Sergio Chejfec, Claudia Piñeiro, Martín Kohan and Eduaro Berti.

Dr Ben Bollig , 'Argentine Poetry in the 2000s: Displacement and Cultural Activism'. Dr Bollig will address the upsurge in poetry in new and unusual spaces, both geographically and culturally, for example Patagonian poetry, the Bahía Blanca poets, and poetry workshops in jails. He will also chart the rise of poetry as a form of cultural activism, one of a number of collective endeavours that question not just the cultural product itself, but its role, circulation, and political relevance, with specific reference to works by Cristian Aliaga, Washington Cucurto and Sergio Raimondi, amongst others.

Dr Guillermo Martínez , 'Myths and Clichés in Argentinian Literary Controversies'. During the past thirty years, literary critics and cultural journalists have repeatedly used certain fixed notions either to canonize or to denigrate new authors. These ideas have become common currency in the Argentinian literary scene, as was brought to light during recent controversies. We will identify these lines of reasoning in order to examine what is myth and what is new cliché in the Argentinian literary field.

Thursday 8th- Friday 9th April, 2010

Sense of Place II: Scotland – River Plate connections Language, Ethnicity and Narrative

(funded by the British Academy)

Venue: Instituto de Letras, Universidad de la República, Montevideo

Followed by three guest lectures on 12th – 16th April at the Universidad de la República Further details to follow, or please contact david.howard@ed.ac.uk

Friday 25th April, 2010 at 5pm

Dr Pablo Herrera , Title: to be confirmed

Venue: Blind Poet pub, West Nicholson Street, upstairs function room.

PAST EVENTS- 2008/2009

Dr Carlos de la Esprilla, Lund University

The application of poverty maps on urban planning: The use of census microdata in Liberia, Costa Rica

Venue: Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh

Dr Innes Keighren

'Something to read on the way home': John Murray's 19th Century Travellers in South America

Venue: 6th Floor, Main Library, University of Edinburgh

Prof. Daniel Everett, Illinois State University

Lives and Languages in the Amazon Jungle: The Fundamental Role of Culture in the Evolution of Human Language

Social Anthropology Seminar Series

Venue: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh

Dr. Stephen Hugh-Jones, University of Cambridge

Books as valuables: why some Amazonians publish their myths - and others don’t

Social Anthropology Seminar Series

Venue: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh

CLARE meeting: current research on Chile and Colombia

Carlos de la Espriella     Unforeseen effects of public interventions: the case of Las Cruces in Bogotá, Colombia

Sara Rowe    The relations between Gabriel García Márquez and contemporary Chinese fiction

Magnus Course     Mapuche people and the Chilean state

Cristóbal Bonelli     Current research with Mapuche communities

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, EH8 9DD

Dr David Howard

The hidden ‘race’ of development: citizenship and migration policies in the Dominican Republic

Migration and Citizenship Research Group

Venue: Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 6, University of Edinburgh

Dr. Casey High, CNRS/Université de Paris X - Nanterre

Multiple Temporalities: Lévi-Strauss and Amazonian understandings of history

Venue: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh

Prof. Joanna Overing, University of St Andrews

Society Against the Tyrant

Social Anthropology Seminar Series

Venue: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh

Dr Gustavo San Roman and Dr Iain Stewart

‘Don Heriberto’, A Tale of Two Identities: Sir Herbert Gibson, Scotsman and Argentine

Scottish Transatlantic Relations Project (STAR) seminar in conjunction with the Human Geography Research Group

Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

Dr Luis Rebaza Soraluz, King's College London

'El efecto mental de los lienzos': impressionism and modernity in José Martí's Journalism of the Senses

Venue: David Hume Tower, Room 11.06, University of Edinburgh

Dr Iona MacIntyre, University of Edinburgh

Women, national identity, and the 1910 centenary in Buenos Aires

Hispanic Studies Research Seminar

Venue: 3rd February, David Hume Tower Room 11.06, University of Edinburgh

Dr Innes Keighren, University of Edinburgh

Inscription, observation, and trust: understanding British travellers' accounts of nineteenth-century South America

Scottish Transatlantic Relations Project (STAR) seminar in conjunction with the Human Geography Research Group

Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

CLARE meeting: current and future research and seminar plans; links with development and environmental studies

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, EH8 9DD

CLARE meeting

Carolina Amador Pérez , Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and Gilda Chacon Bravo , Cuban Trade Union Centre (CTC)

Women in Cuba: Celebrating 50 years of the revolution

Gender & Politics Research Group (School of Social and Political Science), Women of the World and the Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign

Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower, Crichton St, University of Edinburgh

CLARE meeting

Katharine Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Edinburgh     40,000 years of rain in South America: The Bolivian Story

Dr Diana Pritchard, British Academy/University of Kent     National Survey of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Venue: Function Room, The Pear Tree, 38 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, EH8 9DD

Professor Sylvia Chant

The 'Feminisation of Poverty' as a Globalising Concept: reflections from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica

Human Geography Research Group

Venue: Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh

CLARE meeting: all welcome

Venue: 56 North , West 2-8 Crosscauseway, opposite George Square, Edinburgh

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