New Approaches to Latin American Popular Culture
Thursday, 23 April 2009 to Saturday, 25 April 2009Location: CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane
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Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College |
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17.30 |
Eve-of-Symposium Lecture by the 2009 Cambridge Maccoll Lecturer Followed by drinks at the Centre of Latin American Studies (from 18.30) THE LECTURE IS OPEN TO ALL. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! |
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Fri 24th April |
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane |
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9.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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10.00 |
Opening words
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Panel 1: Politics of the Popular (Moderator: Rory O’Bryen)
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10.15 |
Prof Alberto Moreiras, University of Aberdeen, “Populism and the Popular: An Antibiopolitical Critique”
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11.00 |
Prof Francisco Ortega, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, “The Birth of the Pueblo and its political legacies”
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11.40 |
Prof Andrea Noble, University of Durham, “Tears and Revolution”
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12.20 |
Lunch (at suggested venues in Cambridge)
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Panel 2: Global Cultures (Moderator: Geoffrey Kantaris)
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14.00 |
Screening of the short film 2 Horas by Alberto Fuguet (25 mins)
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14.30 |
Alberto Fuguet, writer and filmmaker, “Latin American Liminality: Fear (and Sorrow) and Loathing (and Good Times) in Non-Places” (paper in Spanish)
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15.10 |
Dr Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool, “Approaches to Latin American Cyberculture”
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15.50 |
Tea (CRASSH)
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Panel 3: Urban Mediations (Moderator: Alberto Moreiras)
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16.20 |
Dr Lorraine Leu, University of Bristol, “Brazilian Cinema, Mass Media, and Criminal Subjectivities”
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17.00 |
Prof Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester, “Girl-Singers in the Streets of Hell: Tata Amaral’s Antonia”
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17.45 |
T.b.c. Screening of Street Art Shorts (t.b.c.)
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Sat 25th April |
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane |
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9.50 |
Coffee (CRASSH) |
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Panel 4: Folk Art, Street Art, and Other Junk |
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10.20 |
Prof Stephen Hart, University College London, “Santería, Black Magic, and the Black Market in Cuba” |
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11.00 |
Chandra Morrison, University of Cambridge, “Colouring Pollution: ‘Cleaning’ the City and ‘Recycling’ Social Values in São Paulo Street Art”
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11.40 |
Erica Segre, University of Cambridge, “‘El convertible no convertible’: Reconsidering Refuse and Disjecta Aesthetics in Contemporary Cuban Art”
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12.20 |
Lunch (at suggested venues in Cambridge)
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Panel 5: Hybrid Genres (Moderator: Erica Segre)
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14.00 |
Prof Edmundo Paz-Soldán, writer and academic, Cornell University, “Mexican Pulp Fiction: Of Drug Lords and Writers” (paper in Spanish) |
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14.40 |
Dr Joanna Page, University of Cambridge, "Intellectuals, revolution and popular culture: a new reading of El eternauta”
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15.20 |
Abilio Estévez, writer, “Tres tristes tigres, La Estrella y el bolero” (paper in Spanish)
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16.00 |
Tea (CRASSH)
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Panel 6: Round Table |
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16.20 |
Round Table/Open Floor Discussion
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17.30 |
Clausura |
