Monday 9th December, 2019.
Lecture Room II (St Mary’s Quad, South Street)
A one-day symposium bringing together researchers from different fields and disciplines who work on the Americas through the lens of Memory or Identity studies.
Co-sponsored by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CISI/CIMS) and the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS)
Brought to you with financial support from the St Leonard’s Doctoral and Postgraduate College Community Fund
10-10:15 – Welcome
[10:15 – 11:30] Panel 1
Chair. Prof. Jordi Larios (DoPG, SoML)
Dr. Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri (Art History): ‘Traces in the Absence: Venezuelan Kinetic Art in the Time of Political Migration’
Sohni Chakrabarti (English Lit): ‘Remapping the Margins: Gloria Anzaldúa and Ana Castillo’s Spiritual Crossings’
Dr. Ana Gutierrez Garza (Social Anthropology): ‘Racial Locations and Dislocations among Latin American Women Migrants in London’
11:30 -11:45 – Tea/Coffee
[11:45 – 13:00] Panel 2
Chair. Dr. Ana Gutierrez Garza (CAS Director, SoSA)
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia (Social Anthropology): ‘Cuba, Caliban, Caribbeanness and Latino America’
Braulia Barbosa Ribeiro (Divinity): ‘Self-immolation among the Suruwahá, a Case Study of Human Sacrifice’
Dr. Sarah Bennison (Social Anthropology): ‘Recordar, acordar, acordarse: remembering and recording Inca laws in The Entablo of Huarochirí, Peru (1921).’
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
[14:00 – 15:15] Panel 3
Chair. Prof. Catherine O’Leary (CISI/CIMS Director, SoML)
Gabriel Restrepo (Modern Languages): ‘La siempreviva and Celebraciones: Acting Out National Traumas’
Dr. Karunika Kardak (Modern Languages): ‘Gendered Memories: Nineteenth-century Women in Contemporary Uruguayan Literature’.
Dr. Brigid Lynch (Modern Languages): ‘Reanimating Solidarity: Postmemory and Post-Fordist Plasticity in Nae Pasaran (2018)’
15:15 – 15:30. Break. Snacks.
[15:30 – 16:15] Roundtable: Proposal to create a network of researchers on memory and identity in Latin America and the Caribbean at St Andrews (and beyond?)
[16:30 – 18:30] Film screening of Abuelos (2010, dir. Carla Valencia), followed by a Q&A with Fernanda Mino (Film Studies).