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