Creativity in Contemporary Latin-American Culture

Dr Charlotte Gleghorn (School of LLC) successfully secured funding from the Institute of Latin American Studies in London to organise a seminar series on creativity in contemporary Latin American culture.

The series will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow during 2014-15 and includes prominent Latin Americanist scholars based in Scotland. The event poster can be found here:

 

Creativity poster - combined (662.68 KB / PDF)

The series will consist of four half-day meetings which will take place on Friday afternoons:

Semester one

Creativity in Contemporary Latin-American Culture - Seminar oneFriday 3 October 2014, 12.30pm - 5pmSeminar Room, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW
  • 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’

 

Creativity in Contemporary Latin-American Culture - Seminar twoFriday 14 November 2014, 12.30pm - 5pmSeminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University Ave, Glasgow G12 8QQ
  • Dr Tatiana Heise, University of Glasgow: ‘Creativity and Memory in Post-dictatorship Films’
  • Dr Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, University of Stirling: ‘Creative Lexicography: Decolonizing Knowledge in Dictionaries for Minority Amerindian languages’
  • Dr Nerea Arruti, University of Aberdeen: ‘Creativity in Crisis: Bricolage and Surface in Contrast’

 

Semester two

Creativity in Contemporary Latin-American Culture - Seminar threeFriday 13 February 2015, 12.30pm - 5pmSeminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University Ave, Glasgow G12 8QQ
  • 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 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)’

 

Creativity in Contemporary Latin-American Culture - Seminar fourFriday 27 March 2015, 12.30pm - 5pmSeminar Room, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW
  • 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 Fiona Mackintosh, University of Edinburgh: ‘Creativity and Anxiety of Influence: Writing in the Wake of Gabo’
  • Professor Patience Schell, University of Aberdeen: ‘Leisure and the Productive Life: Learning from Latin American Examples’
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