Events
Events organised by the Americas Research Group 2011/12
Campus / City Map
Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30
Percy Building G10
Megaproyectos hídricos y luchas por el agua en América Latina:los casos de El Zapotillo (México) y Baba (Ecuador)
Ms. Jimena Sasso, lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Ecuador.
Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30
Daysh Building G05
The Fissures of the Revolutionary City in Post-Soviet Cuban Literature
Dr. Nestor Rodriguez Associate Professor at the Spanish and Portuguese
University of Toronto
Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
Percy Building G10 (Lunch served 13:00-14:00)
New research and new researchers
As we do every year, new ARG members will present their current research topics.
Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00 - 17:00
Research Beehive 2.21, Old Library Building
Telenovela noir in Alvaro Uribe’s Colombia,
Nick Morgan, NU Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies – Organised by the SML seminar series.
Wednesday 14 March 2012, 16:30 - 18:30
Bedson Teaching Centre B.29
Legal Latins: webs of irregularity among Latin Americans living in London
Cathy McIlwaine, School of Geography, Queen Mary.
Thursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-17:00
Research Beehive 2.22, Old Library Building
Americas Research Group IV Post Graduate Conference
Rethinking the Americas: Peoples, Places and Cultures
Keynote by Dr. Simon Hall, University of Leeds
The American Left and Interracial Cooperation: Lessons from the Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Occupy Wall Street
Conference Programme
Conference Poster
Wednesday 03 May 2012, 10:00 - 18:00
Research Beehive, 2.20 and 2.22, Old Library Building
Symposium: UK Postgraduate research on Peru
A two minute video of the symposium
Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00 - 18:00
Culture Lab, Space 5
American Ruins: The Material Past in the Chilean Post-Dictatorship.
Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia – Organised with Politics.
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 17:00-18:30
Daysh G.05
(Un)equal outcomes: exploring Bolivian ex-miner’s migration strategies through intersectionality
Dr Tanja Bastia, Manchester University (Organised by the Geography Seminar series).
Monday 28 May 2012, 19:30
Recital Room, Armstrong Building
Andean Baroque: a concert/presentation
Dr Julián Gómez Giraldo will spend time at Newcastle’s International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS) working with staff and students on the preparation of a programme centring on South American baroque.
Newcastle University students and staff with conductor Andrés Franco (Colombia/US) and cellist Jennifer Morsches (US/UK)
Sponsored by the Santander Visiting Fellowship scheme
01 June - 15 July 2012
Vamos! Festival 2012
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