| Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, professor of History at University of Texas, Austin, will present the 2007 World History Lecture "Prefiguration and Fulfillment: Biblical Readings of Colonization in the Atlantic World." This year’s lecture is jointly sponsored by Georgia State University's Department of History, its Program in World History and Cultures, and the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies and will serve as the key-note speech for the 2007 Symposium. | ||
All colonialisms are unique to place, time and peoples involved. All colonialisms, likewise, are a palimpsest where the images and ideas that inform how a people represent who they are and how they relate to the past and the present, create a strange even contradictory text. This symposium proposes to explore how Latin America has reflected upon, and continues to reflect upon its experience(s) with colonialism -- both in terms of its colonial past or colonized present. How have Latin Americans depicted their past? How do they depict their present? How do they speak of their future? In the end, what does Latin American film, literature and history say about the continent’s experience with imperialism?
The
topics of each panel will revisit questions about the colonization
and re-colonization of Latin America that have been asked before, but
these questions will be applied to new texts (films, fictions and histories)
through the filter of a new context – one that is informed and reformed
by new economic and political situations, as well as new technologies
such as the internet, cable television and inexpensive broadcast quality
film and television production equipment. The changed economies and
political systems have allowed for more critical scrutiny and reflection
by scholars and artists located in Latin America. Consequentially,
cinema, literature and history have seen an expansion of scholarship
and a wider dissemination of scholarly and artistic texts as a result
of the recent major changes in Latin America. Now is a critical moment
to invite an exchange in scholarship that examines how Latin America's
colonialisms are reconsidered, re-imagined and re-defined.
Get a downloadable PDF of the
program (3
mb).
| A viewing of Roberto Carminati’s A Fronteira will close the symposium. Carminati, a Rio de Janeiro based filmmaker, screened “A Fronteira” at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The movie depicts the destabilization of identity and class as it recounts the story of Brazilian immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border. Mr. Carminati will appear. 3/22 @ 8 PM, DAEL | ||
| Miguel Kohan’s visually stunning documentary , Salinas Grandes, will inaug-urate the 2007 Symposium. Mr. Kohan lived for months in the salt-flats of La Puna in northwest Argentina to film the story of an Omaguaca aborigine resisting the brutal forces of nature and the globalized market of salt. Mr. Kohan will be present. 3/21 7:30 PM | ||
Luisela Alvaray
Gilberto Blasini
Elise Bartosik-Vélez
Jerome Branche
Álvaro Félix Bolaños
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Kerry T. Hegarty
Hernán Feldman
Miguel
Kohan
Susan
McFarlane-Alvarez
Jeremy
Paden
Alisa Perren
Michele Reid
Fernando Reati
Yeidy Rivero
Sheldon Schiffer
Gustavo Verdesio
Cassandra White
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