January 21

Theme: “Narrative, Positionality and Power”

Reading & Discussion Session

Liu Institute, Boardroom, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs

Guest Commentator: Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray, Dept. of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

Readings:

Tobias Hecht (2006) After Life: An Ethnographic Novel. Durham: Duke University Press.

[This book is available online through UBC Library. Alternatively, a hard copy of this book can be found at Koerner Library reserve collection (third floor). Call Number: PS3608.E382 A69 2006.]

Carol Smith (1999) Why Write an Exposé of Rigoberta Menchú? Latin American Perspectives 26(6):15-28.

[The article is available through UBC Library. From within the UBC intranet, or logged into the MYVPN or RSVPN server, click here to go directly to the paper.]

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About

Welcome to the blog of the Liu Institute's Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.

This research group brings together undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and community members interested in issues of gender, sexuality and feminism, with a particular geographical focus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The group members seek to investigate and challenge essentialist gender ideologies, explore contemporary social movements organized around issues of gender and sexuality, consider customary and alternative sexualities, and interrogate notions about Latin America and/or the Caribbean as homogeneous geopolitical and sociocultural regions in critical ways.

The group hosts reading and discussion sessions, film screenings, and graduate student workshops, among other events.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in launching and sponsoring the activities of the Research Group since 2010.