Date/Time: Wednesday 25th May, 3pm

Venue: Armstrong Building G69/G70

This event will showcase the range of cutting-edge research related to Latin America and the Caribbean happening at Newcastle. Students from across the university and at different stages of their career will share details about their research, present their methodologies and summarise their completed projects.

Al Hoyos-Twomey is a PhD student in Art History, where his research explores Latinx art and activist spaces in New York's gentrifying Lower East Side in the 1980s, with a particular emphasis on the work of the Nuyorican activist group Charas and the multidisciplinary cultural and community space El Bohío.

Grace Flerin is a Masters student in Public History who researches migrant communities, specifically the Caribbean communities who have settled in Britain. She will be speaking about her current oral history project, which aims to record the often ignored life histories of the Caribbean Community’s second generation in Bradford as they manoeuvre dual identities and construct cultural identities around music and sport.

Laura Pinzón is an early career and interdisciplinary researcher with a background in Architecture and Urban Design, and professional and academic experience that spans urban and social geographies. She will be discussing her PhD thesis, which explored the possibilities and limitations of citizen participation and collective action for spatial justice across online and offline spaces of everyday life in Manizales, Colombia.

Carlos Bolomey Córdova is a rural sociologist undertaking a PhD in the Centre for Rural Economy, who has extensive experience conducting ethnographic and collaborative research within indigenous territories in southern Chile. He will be speaking about the choices faced by growers as the cash-crop fruit industry expands southwards in the context of climate change and neoliberal modes of production.