Creativity in Contemporary Latin American Culture

This series was supported by a Regional Seminar Series Grant from the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, London.

Seminar 1

University of Edinburgh, Friday 3 October 2014.

  • Dr Soledad García Ferrari, University of Edinburgh: ‘Creativity and City-building: Innovative Approaches in Latin American Cities’.
  • Dr Nathaniel Gardner, University of Glasgow: ‘Creativity and Crisis in Mexico’.
  • Dr Charlotte Gleghorn, University of Edinburgh: ‘Intertextual Hybridity and Artistic Re-creation: Indigenous Cosmologies on Film’.

Seminar 3

University of Glasgow, Friday 13 February 2015.

  • Dr Julie Cupples, University of Edinburgh, (with Kevin Glynn and Dixie Lee): ‘The Negotiation of Black Identities in Convergent Media on Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast’.
  • Dr Fiona Mackintosh, University of Edinburgh: ‘Creativity and Anxiety of Influence: Writing in the Wake of Gabo’.
  • Dr Eamon McCarthy, University of Glasgow: ‘Ricardo Darín: Creating the Conscience of Argentina in the 21st Century’.
  • Dr María Soledad Montañez, University of Stirling: ‘Crafting Gendered Visions through Film: The Case of Alicia Scherson’s Los turistas (2009)’.

Seminar 4

University of Edinburgh, Friday 27 March 2015.

  • Dennis Hanlon, University of St Andrews: ‘The Legacy of Jorge Sanjinés’ Theory and Practice of a Cinema with the People in Contemporary Bolivian Indigenous Video’.
  • Dr Guillermo Olivera, University of Stirling: ‘Queer Shame, Performativity and the Emergence of the New in Argentine Cinema’s Child/Youth Subjectivities’.
  • Dr Karen Benavente, University of Glasgow: ‘Archive, Manuscripts, and Authenticity’.
  • Professor Patience Schell, University of Aberdeen: ‘Leisure and the Productive Life: Learning from Latin American Examples’.

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