PROGRAMME
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09:00 - 09:30
Registration and Coffee
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote
Prof Claire Taylor
‘Contagion, Social Networks, and Digital Art as Contestation’
Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool
10:30 - 11:45
Panel 1: Going Viral
Chaired by Dr Joanna Page, University of Cambridge
Dr Thea Pitman
‘Viral Latinidad and Beyond: Viruses and Bacteria in Latin American Digital Cultural Production’
Latin American Studies, University of Leeds
Rebecca Fell
‘Gossip in the Late 19th-Century Hispanic Novel: The Stigmatic Secret’
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge
Emily Baker
‘(R)evolutions: Genetics and Ethics in an Era of Technological Transformations in Las constelaciones oscuras by Pola Oloixarac’
Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
11:45 - 12:15
Coffee Break
12:15 - 13:30
Panel 2: Contagious Poetics
Chaired by Dr Rory O’Bryen, University of Cambridge
Keylor Murillo Moya
‘Contagious Metaphor/Containing Image: José Lezama Lima's Work and the Concept of “Phantasia”’
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King’s College, London
Leonardo de Barros Sasaki
‘In which contaminated blood shall I sink my tongue?: The Poetic Contagion of Al Berto’
Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, University of São Paulo
Dr Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
‘Concrete Poetry in Brazil: The Architecture of a Poetic Labyrinth’
Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
13:30 - 14:15
Lunch
14:15 - 15:45
Panel 3: Reconfiguring Identities
Chaired by Dunja Fehimovic, University of Cambridge
Adjoa Osei
‘The Angolan Modern Nation-State and the Culture Industry: “Windeck” - A Case Study’
Modern Languages, University of Oxford
Dr Dominika Gasiorowski
‘The muxes of Oaxaca: Representations of Non-Binary Gender Identities in Contemporary Photography from Mexico’
Iberian and Latin American Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Hazel Robins
‘An Englishman’s Home is His Castle: Illusions of British Self-Containment in Júlio Dinis’s 19th-Century Porto’
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge
Karen Brown
‘Creatively Contained or Culturally Constrained? A Closer Look at the Waldeen Translations of Neruda’s Canto general’
Hispanic Studies, University of St Andrews
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30
Panel 4: Containing Bodies
Chaired by Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge
Patrick O’Hare
‘The Containment of Waste and Workers in Montevideo’
Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Dr Ben Hazard
‘Migration, Mediation and Medical Care: Jan Wouters van Vieringen (1539-c.1605),
Professor of Medicine in the Habsburg Netherlands’
School of History, University College Dublin
Rachell Sánchez
‘Mass Sterilisation and Clinical Pill Trials on Puerto Rican Women’
Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
17:30 - 18:30
Round Table Discussion
Chaired by Prof Brad Epps, Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge
Round Table Speakers: Prof Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool), Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge),
Dr Joanna Page (Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge)
18:30 - 19:30
Wine Reception
19:30
Dinner at The Anchor
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