Latin American Bicentennials: Gender, Ethnic Communities and the Nation
Friday 19 February 2010
Arts & Humanities Research Room, Callaghan Building, Swansea University
2010 sees the bicentennial commemorations of national independence from Spain in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Chile and Mexico. The aim of this symposium is to draw on textual and visual perspectives of the past from these three countries to discuss how, at key points during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, the category of gender and the position of ethnic communities have been deployed as a means to shape, challenge or resist independence and nationalist discourse, especially in relation to the exclusions inherent in the gendered and ethnic hierarchies underpinning normative discourses of national identity.
Schedule
9.50-10.10 Registration
10.10-10.20 Welcome and Introduction
10.20-11.20 Session 1: Independence and Nineteenth-Century
Latin American Independence: A Gender Perspective
Catherine Davies, University of Nottingham
Trompe-l'Oeil Tears in Fabric: Flesh and Textile and the Picturing of Ethnic Presence in Early Nineteenth Century Iconography in Mexico
Erica Segre, Trinity College Cambridge
11.20-11.50 Coffee Break
11.50-12.50 Session 2: Twentieth-Century
From outsiders to members of the Nation: The Welsh community in Patagonia at the centenary celebrations of Argentine independence
Geraldine Lublin, Swansea University
Island of Fools, Passions and Piracy: The Fate of Clipperton in the Mexican Revolution
Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster
12.50-1.50 Lunch
1.50-2.50 Session 3: Twentieth-Century (cont.)
The Convergence of the Public and the Private in Violeta Parra's Art
Lorna Dillon, King's College London
Pedagogías letales:el cuerpo del pupilo en Río abajo, de Ramón Griffero
Cristian Opazo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2.50-3.10 Coffee Break
3.10-4:00 Closing remarks / roundtable
For further information, including details of postgraduate travel bursaries, please contact the organizers: Dr Sarah Bowskill [s.e.l.bowskill@swansea.ac.uk] or Dr Mary Green [m.green@swansea.ac.uk]
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