Past events

2010

9-10 April 2010: 46th Annual Conference of the Society of Latin American Studies

27 January 2010: Postgraduate Colloquium: All welcome! Download poster here:

Tuesday 30 November 2010 : Andrés Felipe Solano  - Granta Top Writers in Spanish

Wednesday 1 December 2010: Postgraduate Colloquium in Latin American Studies - 2-5pm, room G65, 15 Woodland Road

Autumn 2010 - Conversatorios

Wednesdays 1pm, in G65, 15 Woodland Road

Conversations in Latin American Studies with cutting-edge writers and researchers.  All welcome.

All talks and conversations will be in English.

Programme for Autumn 2010

14 October, Héctor Abad Faciolince, 'Biography and Fiction in Colombia'

20 October, Stephanie Kennedy, 'Gender and Ethnicity in Venezuela and Brazil'

27 October, Karen Racine, 'Latin Americans in London, 1800-1830'

17 November, Round-table Conversatorio

1 December, Rupert Mould, 'Postgraduate Colloquium in Latin American Studies'

8 December, Cathleen Schmitke, 'Ethnotourism and the Mapuche'

15 December, Locus Christmas Lunch

2009

21 October 2009, Book Launch of Matthew Brown, ed. Simón Bolívar: The Bolivarian Revolution introduced by Hugo Chávez (Verso, 2009).

2008

June 2008: Professor Arturo Arias (University of Texas) 'Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchu', and Professor Jill Robbins, (University of Texas) 'Andalusia, Travestism, and the Phallic Woman: Ana Rossetti's Plumas de España'.

12 June 2008: Dr. Igor Pérez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): 'Soldiers, Privateers and Factotums: Irish Integration in the Spanish Caribbean in the Golden Age of Piracy'

20 May 2008: Alejandro Cánovas Pérez, ‘Medio siglo de Guerra del tiempo: la narrativa breve en las grandes novelas de Alejo Carpentier’.

13th February 2008: Dr Gwendolen MacKeith (UCL) 'La impronta Pavesiana: a discussion of the literary relation between Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) and the contemporary Argentine novelist Antonio Dal Masetto (1938-)'

22-23rd February 2008 -  Latin American Studies Regional Seminar in the West and Wales. Sponsored by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC: programme: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/events/arts/birtha/jislac/info.html).

1st March 2008 - LATIN AMERICAN FORUM: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/27437

2007

Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 December 2007: We marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, (1967) with a continuous (all day and all night) reading of the novel, beginning at 10am on 10th December - International Human Rights Day. It was reported on the BBC like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7135448.stm.

Wednesday 5 December 2007: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, 'Contesting the meaning of patria: becoming Peruvian through war, 1809-1824'.

Wednesday 21 November 2007: 'Conflict, Territory and Culture' workshop, 3pm, speakers: Lorraine Leu, Jens Andermann (Birkbeck) and Jo Crow

Wednesday 10 October 2007: 'Debating Violence' - an interdisciplinary discussion of the role of violence in shaping contemporary Latin America. http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/violence

Friday 4 May and Saturday 5 May 2007: Siete Somos Todos - http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/siete. a most visual and musical performance in Spanish, devised and performed by students of the acclaimed and award-winning course 'Language Through Theatre', with the collaboration of Colombian musicians Miranda and Julián. For more information contact: R.Vallejo@bristol.ac.uk.

Wednesday 2 May 2007: 'New Films made about Latin America by British Film-makers', screenings and discussion;  http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/film

Monday 6 August 2007: The celebrated Guatemalan writer Marco Antonio Flores visited the department and spoke about the meaning of literature and role of childhood in shaping artistic sensibility.

On 10 February 2007 we hosted the second annual Latin American Forum on Saturday 10 March - follow this link for details: http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25909.

10-17 February was Semana Cultural - Cultural Week in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. There was an impressive line-up of films, discussions, lectures, art and music. The programme can still be downloaded here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/cultweek.

On Monday 22 January Dr. Emily Walmsley, 'Raised by Another Mother: Informal fostering and kinship ambiguity in northwest Ecuador'.  http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/walmsley

On Wednesday 24th January we held a Lunchtime Seminar: 'The Legacy of Augusto Pinochet'; at 1.15pm, organised by Dr. Jo Crow and Carmen Brauning. Download poster: http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/pinochet

On 26th January and 27th January we hosted the BIRTHA conference 'Informal empire?', organised by Dr Matthew Brown, looking at foreign involvement in Latin America from 1800 to 1960. The programme is still available on the conference webpage.

2006

Latin American Elections Workshop - 8 November 2006 (pdf file 55kb)

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