Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Emerging Research on LACS

Join us from 15:00 to 17:00 at Merz Court in L.302 for a series of presentations on research covering Latin America & the Caribbean from a wide range of disciplines.

Learn more about those involved in the event, and each speaker and their research below.

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Special Speakers

Dr Marilia Costa Morosini

PUCRS

PUCRS Print: Institutional Project of Internationalization

Internationalization has been a factor in building peace between nations and building knowledge for the development of nations. The lecture aims to discuss possibilities for academic relations between the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) through the the PUCRS Print project. This will include: PUCRS overview, Institutional Program of Internationalization (PUCRS-Print) Goals and Themes and Projects of PUCRS-Print.

Dr Solange Aranha

UNESP

The Achievements of Teletandem Brasil project: 20 years of implementation and research

The purposes of this paper are (i) to show how teltandem practice has been implemented in Brazil via Teletandem Brasil Project since 2006; (ii) to present pedagogic scenarios and some tasks developed within this learning environment; (iii) to discuss achievements and difficulties of the implementation of different modalities in various contexts; (iv) to present consistent research developed within the project; (v) to briefly introduce Multimodal Teletandem Corpus as a tool for further research.

Speakers

Georgina Hulston

Newcastle University

Amazonia Land Invasion and Indigenous Languages

Bernardo Carvalho de Mello

Newcastle University

From the Americas to the World: The Impact of the Inter-American Court

Jocelia Martinis Marcelino

Newcastle University

The Role of Virtual Exchange for Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Higher Education

Pilar D'Alo

Newcastle University

Colonial Legacies of a Radical Alternative: The Green Tide Political Spirituality

Sergio Serrano-Blanco

Newcastle University

Microbial Diversity of Bolivian Rivers

Jocelia De Nayara Albrecht

Newcastle University

Politicisation of the bureaucracy in Brazil: reflections and insights

Vic Riveros Schober

Newcastle University

Second Generation Exile Memory and Creative Writing from the Southern Cone

Moderators

Georgia Davison

Charlotte Pickles

Ruby Buttolph