Latin American Studies Graduate Student Workshop

May 31 and June 1, 2012

Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room

6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC

Hosted by the UBC Latin American Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Liu Institute’s Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Workshop schedule (subject to change)

May 31, 2012

9:00am: Coffee and Introductions

9:30-10-30am: Tal Nitsan (Anthropology), “Guatemalan Feminists’ Anti Violence Performances”. Commenter: Hannah Wittman (Sociology, SFU)

10:45-11:45am: Ana Vivaldi (Anthropology), “Toba experience in Buenos Aires shantytowns”. Commenter: Alec Dawson (History, SFU)

12:00-1:00pm: Lunch

1:15-2:15pm: René Bautista (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “’Nuestra América’ de José Martí a la luz de ‘Nuestro ideal: la creación de la cultura americana’ de Andrés Bello”. Commenter: Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC)

2:30-3:30pm: Jorge Izquierdo (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “Latin American Vanguard art and literature from 1920-1940″. Commenter: Serge Guilbaut (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, UBC)

June 1, 2012

10:00am: Coffee

10:30-11:30am: Barbara Fraser (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “Intimate Multitudes: Femininity and collective eros in Gioconda Belli’s Sobre la grama and Linea de fuego”. Commenter: Bill French (History, UBC)

11:45-12:45am: Lunch

1:00-2:00pm: Rafael Wainer (Anthropology), “’You can’t put yourself not even for a second on someone else’s shoes’: The end-of-life for children with hematological conditions”. Commenter: Jon Beasley-Murray (FHIS)

2:00-3:00pm: Sara Koopman (Geography), “Making Space for Peace: International Protective Accompaniment in Colombia”. Commenter: Onur Bakiner (SFU)

3:00-4:00pm: Wrap-up and general discussion

This workshop is sponsored by the Liu Institute for Global Issues.