Belonging in Contemporary Chile

The Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies/Hispanic Studies department at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, are organising a one-day symposium on 31 October 2014.

The title of the day is 'Belonging in Contemporary Chile' and the keynote speaker is Professor Catherine Boyle, King's College London.

This is a free event and a light lunch and tea/coffee refreshments will be provided. Please find linked below the poster for the event:

Belonging in Chile

 

Chile symposium poster (6.29 MB / PDF)

Please direct all queries to Charlotte Gleghorn or Fiona Mackintosh:

Programme

09.15- 9.30Welcome, intro to IRG and ICIIS
Research presentations and responses
09.30-10.15Bárbara Fernández, ‘El discurso poético femenino mapuche hacia la hegemonía de la cultura chilena’
Response by: Fiona Mackintosh
10.15-11.00María José Barros, ‘Reescritura de la(s) identidad(es) mapuche(s) desde una poética urbana y punk. Aproximaciones a Mapurbe. Venganza a raíz de David Aniñir’
Response by: Charlotte Gleghorn
11.00-11.30Coffee
11.30-13.00Research presentations and responses
11.30-12.15James Kelly, 'Translation Nemesis: The refashioning of Chilean identity in the translation of Roberto Rivera’s A fuego eterno condenados (1994)’
Response by: Catherine Boyle
12.15-13.00Pablo Briceño, ‘Belonging to the población and the country: Reflections from Everyday Life in La Victoria, Santiago-Chile’
Response by: Piergiorgio di Giminiani
13.00-14.15Lunch
14.15-14.45Chilean Indigenous film shorts
15.00-16.30Keynote address
Professor Catherine Boyle, Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, King’s College, University of London, 'How to Belong: Performing Modern Chilean Dramas of Marginality'
16.30-Response and vote of thanks

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