Past Events
Latin American Realities: Survival and Resistance Documentary Series
In conjunction with SURCLA - the Sydney University Research Community for Latin America, this documentary series is being presented on Tuesdays throughout Semester I.
Venue: Architecture Lecture Theatre 1, Wilkinson Building, City Road map
Time: 3:00-5:30pm
- Cocalero USA/Bolivia, 2006
- Maquilapolis Mexico, 2006
- FASINPAT Argentina/Italy, 2004
- Apaga y vámonos! Chile, 2005
- State of Fear Peru/USA, 2005
- Favela Rising Brazil/USA , 2006
- On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez Mexico/USA, 2006
- Lesbianas de Buenos Aires Argentina, 2002
- Trans Chile, 2007
Calendar and full details of films – pdf version for printing
Cine Barrio
Free Community Screening program organised by Sydney Latin American Film Festival 2009 - hosted by SURCLA
Feature film: Condominium
Director: Jorge Carmona
Year: 2007 Country: Peru
Duration: 83min
Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles
When: Friday May 29, 6.30 pm
Where: Lecture Theatre 1, Wilkinson (Architecture) Building, City Road, Darlington.
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Jorge Carmona’s first ever feature film is a dark, quirky drama that takes us through the intertwined and highly eccentric lives of residents in one apartment block.
Clotilde is an elderly widow, whose only task in life is to take care of her obese and schizophrenic adult son, Javier, who has a broken leg. Together they have found a peculiar way to live their miserable lives.
Janet is an ex-prostitute and pregnant to a corrupt religious preacher. Along with her good friend Leslie, they dream of moving to Miami to set up their own business and hatch a plan to take revenge on the preacher for his treatment of women.
Freddy is a hairdresser, his partner and love of his life, Alvaro, is HIV positive. They plan a concert in the condominium to highlight their AIDS campaign.
Touching on tabooed themes and drawing inspiration from the soap opera, Condominium climaxes in spectacular fashion.
Talk by Viviane Namaste
International feminist scholar-activist, Viviane Namaste, will be in Australia to present a talk exclusively at University of Sydney. This event will attract anyone working at the intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and language, as well as human rights, health and social action research in the School and across the university.
Undoing Theory: Reflections on The Transgendered Question and the Limits of Anglo-American Feminist Theory
Viviane Namaste
Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal
4-6pm, Wednesday 22 October
Marjorie Oldfield Lecture Room, Edward Ford Building
Full details
Research Seminar
Venezuela: The new engine for Latin American unity?
Rodrigo Acuña
presented by
The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies and LAIRS
6pm, Wednesday 8 October 2008
Seminar Room 458, Education Building
Full details
Information about past events in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies will be placed here as it becomes available.
Semester 1 2008 Seminar Series
Wednesday 30th April 2008
Dr Kathryn Crameri
“Cultural Policy in Stateless Nations: What Should We Learn from the Case of Catalonia?”
Wednesday 9th April 2008
Dr Vek Lewis
“Not the Latin American ‘Subaltern’, but Institutional and Activist Ethnography in Latin America!”