News and Upcoming Events

For the Seminar and Documentary Series presented by the Department and by SURCLA, please click the tabs to the left.

SURCLA Special Event: Peruvian Photographer Jorge Deustua

De Amor Y Muerte: Reflexiones Sobre la Fotografia de Guerra

Friday 9 October, 5.30pm
Lecture Theatre 026, New Law Building

Renowned photographer, Jorge Deustua, is visiting Sydney for his exhibition In Search of the Hero, a collection of black and white photographs that were taken over the last 32 years. A selection of Deustua’s work, which features predominantly scenes of Peru and its people, will be exhibited during the month of October at the Instituto Cervantes.

SURCLA invites students, staff and the general public to meet this Peruvian photographer and educator who is one of the most influential and successful of his generation. As the title suggests, Deustua’s talk, De amor y muerte: Reflexiones Sobre la Fotografia de Guerra will be in Spanish, but will be followed by a Q & A session in English and Spanish.

We are grateful to Professor Roy Boland (Honorary Professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Sydney), who will be presenting this event.

Cine Barrio - free film screening!

SURCLA invites students, staff and the general public to a documentary screening organised by the Sydney Latin American Film Festival. All welcome!

When: Friday 28 August, 6pm
Where: Lecture Theatre 026, New Law Building
Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)

Download the film flyer!

La otra copa / The Other Cup

OFFICIAL SELECTION, INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, AMSTERDAM 2006
Director: Damian Cukierkorn
Year: 2006
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90min
Genre: Feature Documentary
Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles

For the first time in history, an Argentinean team is participating in the World Football Championships for homeless people. This is a chance to escape the daily grind of living on the street in Buenos Aires. They train hard to get on the team, dream about a better life and hope for an experience that will change everything. However getting to the World Cup takes more than just practice, they also need money and a passport to Sweden.

The Other Cup is a captivating portrait of people who have found themselves living on the street and who suddenly regain hope for a better future.

Writing Workshops

by Teresa Solana and Peter Bush, visiting Australia as guests of the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

Presented by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, The Transnational and Transcultural Research Network, and Translation Studies.

The Art of Noir: Barcelona in crime fiction

Teresa Solana
author of Un crim imperfecte - A Not So Perfect Crime

Writing Workshop
Wednesday 19 August
6-8pm
Eastern Avenue Seminar Room 119

Teresa Solanas, born in Barcelona in 1962, is author of A Not so Perfect Crime which won the Brigada 21 Prize and has been translated into six languages since its publication in 2006.

The Art of Writing and Re-translation

Peter Bush
translator of Juan Celestina and Juan the Landless.

Writing Workshop
Thursday 20 August
6-8pm
Eastern Avenue Seminar Room 119

Peter has just done radically new translations of La Celestina and Juan the Landless, and also Leonardo Padura the Cuban, and most recently The Last Patriarch by Najat El Hachmi.