Seminar Series | Semester 2 2009

An exciting series of seminars is presented this semester by the department of Spanish and Latin American Studies and SURCLA - the Sydney University Research Community for Latin America.

Venue: Seminar Room 444, new Law School, University of Sydney
Time: 5:30pm onwards
Location - how to get there.

Click here for a printable version of this information and information on this semester's Documentary Series (2pp).

Tuesday 11 August

"Recent Developments and Challenges to Democratic Politics in Latin America"
Professor Alfredo Rehren
Instituto de Ciencia Pol'tica, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

This event is jointly organised by SURCLA and the University of New South Wales with the support of COALAR (Council on Australia Latin America Relations) and ANCLAS (Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies).

Tuesday 25 August

"Independence in Spanish South America: An Andean Imaginary"
Professor David Cahill
University of New South Wales

Tuesday 8 September

"Problematising Postcolonial Critique in Latin America"
Dr Jeff Browitt
University of Technology, Sydney

Tuesday 22 September

“From State Terrorism to State Errorism:
post-Pinochet Chile's long search for truth and justice”
Dr Marivic Wyndham - University of Technology, Sydney
Professor Peter Read - University of Sydney

Tuesday 13 October | University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Students Panel

• Eugenia Demuro: “The Latin Americanist discourse in Los pasos perdidos and Rayuela”
• Vivianna Rodríguez-Carreón: “Women as agents of peace within a peace-building process”
• Sebastián Ignacio Madrid Peralta: “Silence, fear and desire: Why Chile doesn’t have a gender equity policy in education, and some lessons for Australia”
• Irene Strodthoff: “Discursive Construction of Bilateral Relations: the Case of Chile and Australia (1990-2009)”

Tuesday 27 October

“Emotional Strategies for the Migrant: Remembering and Smelling Mexico in Film”
Dr Gabriela Coronado
University of Western Sydney