The Latin American and Caribbean City
Symposium organised by RILAS (Research Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool), sponsored by JISLAC (Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin American and the Caribbean)
17-18 October 2008
Venue: 86 Bedford Street South,
formerly Institute of Latin American Studies building, University of Liverpool
Unless otherwise stated all panels will take place in Lecture Room 3
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Friday 17 September
1pm to 1.30pm: Registration, Board Room
1.45pm: Introduction (Professor John Fisher and Dr Lisa Shaw)
2pm: Imagining the City (chair Dr Lisa Shaw)
Professor Lúcia Sá (University of Manchester)
The nostalgic gaze of the flâneur: São Paulo in recent cinema
Charlotte Gleghorn (University of Liverpool)
The “espaço off” and the cinematic city: the negotiation of space in Um céu de estrelas (Tata Amaral, 1997)
Dr Felipe Hernández (University of Liverpool)
Inadequate drawings: from paper to cities
3.30pm: Refreshments, Board Room
4pm: Urban space/alternative spaces (chair Dr Felipe Hernández)
Dr James Scorer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Impenetrable darkness: some thoughts on lost cities
Dr Peter North (University of Liverpool)
Alternative spaces of the Argentinazo
Dr Diana Raby (University of Liverpool)
The hills of Caracas: a chaotic study in urban ecology
5.30pm: Drinks reception, Board Room
7.30pm: Buffet dinner at El Rincón Latino, Roscoe Street
Saturday 18 September
9.30am: Gender/sexuality (chair Dr Diana Raby)
Dr Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester)
Women and work in the cities and towns of the 18th-century British West Indies
Dr Johannes Sjöberg (University of Manchester)
Filming Brazilian transgender identity within the urban context of São Paulo
Ben Hoff (University of Liverpool)
Contesting the “global gay”: same-sex desire, globalisation and consumption in recent Latin American cinema
11am: Tea/coffee
11.30am: Port cities (chair Dr Rachel Douglas)
Dr Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)
Swallowing hard and not forgetting: Lancaster’s slaving past and contemporary artists’ response
Dr Leon Wainwright (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Curatorial provincialism and the Caribbean: some advantages of temporal alterity
Gorka Bilbao (University of Liverpool)
The impossible dwelling in three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges
1pm: Lunch break
2.30pm: Sounds of the city (chair Professor Charles Forsdick)
Dr Cornelia Graebner (University of Lancaster)
Analysing rhythms: sounds and rhythms in performed poetry from Mexico City and Spanish Harlem
Dr Jannine Golder (University of Liverpool)
Issues of class and gender in Nuyorican performance poetry
Dr Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool)
The rhythms of Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian film musical of the 1950s
4pm: Tea/coffee
4.30pm: Roundtable discussion – future plans (chair Professor Charles Forsdick)
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