JISLAC/British Academy/University of Warwick

Latin America Research Seminar

Colombia: Recent Research in History, Literature and Film

Friday, 1 May 2009

British Academy, Council Room, 10, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

PROGRAMME

10.15

Welcome and Registration

10. 30

Eduardo Posada 
Elections and the Origins of Democracy in Colombia

11.15

Refreshments 

11. 30

Christopher Abel
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Colombian Politics

12.15

Rory O’Bryen
Colombian Cinema and La Violencia

1.00

Lunch

2.00

Geoffrey Kantaris
Colombian Urban Cinema and the ‘Third’ Violencia  

2.45

Gerald Martin and John King
García Marquez: Writing History

3.30

Refreshments

4.00

Anne McLean and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Uses and Abuses of History in the Fiction of Juan Gabriel Vásquez

 

Registration for this event is free but limited.  To register for the conference, please apply before 23 April 2009. Applications to Professor Anthony McFarlane, History Department, University of Warwick (email: a.mcfarlane@warwick.ac.uk)

Bursaries to assist with travel expenses incurred in travel to the conference are available for a limited number of postgraduate students: please contact Professor Anthony McFarlane at a.mcfarlane@warwick.ac.uk before 23 April 2009.

The conference will be followed by a lecture by Juan Gabriel Vásquez at Canning House, 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ

5.15

Public Lecture by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Colombian Fiction Since García Marquez

6.00

Reception sponsored by Colombian Embassy and Canning House

 

These events are sponsored by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC); the British Academy; Warwick University Humanities Research Centre; The Colombian Embassy; Canning House.