The Diaspora of the Latin American Imagination


Venue

Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House,
Building 73, Lennox Crossing, The Australian National University

Dates

Tuesday 3 September, 2002 - Friday 6 September, 2002

Conveners

Dr Peter Read, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University
peter.read@anu.edu.au

Dr Marivic Wyndham, Academic Skills and Learning Centre, The Australian National University
marivic.wyndham@anu.edu.au

Conference Report


Program

Monday 2 September

6.00pm

ANU Public Lecture

Brian Burdekin, Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights:

National Human Rights Institutions: An Issue Central to the UN Human Rights Agenda

Chair: Andrew Byrnes

VENUE: MANNING CLARK LECTURE THEATRE 5


Tuesday 3 September              THEME: THE DIASPORA OF THE SPIRIT

9.00am – 9.30am                                    Registration

9.30am – 9.40am                                    Welcome and Opening of Conference

9.40am – 10.45am

Session 1: Human Rights in Latin America

Brian Burdekin The United Nations, Latin America and Human Rights

Chair: Peter Read

10.45am –- 11.15am                              Coffee Break

11.15am – 12.15pm

Session 2: Human Rights

Miriam Estrada: Human Rights in Latin America

Chair:  Erez Cohen

12.15pm – 1.30pm                                  Lunch Break

1.30pm – 2.30pm

Session 3: Human Rights

Jessica Wyndham: Regionalism in Human Rights

Chair: Olga Lorenzo

2.30pm – 3.00pm                                    Coffee Break

3.00pm – 4.30pm

Session 4: Human Rights

Hilary Charlesworth: Gender in Human Rights

followed by Panel including

  • Hilary Charlesworth
  • Penelope Richardson: Australia/Colombia
  • Jessica Wyndham: Australia/Ecuador
  • Brian Burdekin
  • Miriam Estrada

 Chair: Peter Read

5.00pm                                                   Welcome Drinks: Choral Presentation by SCUNA and Machitun (Latin American Women's Quartet)

VENUE: GREAT HALL UNIVERSITY HOUSE


Wednesday 4 September           THEME: THE DIASPORA OF THE IMAGE

8.30am – 10.45am

Session 1: Film

Following the screening from  8. 30am. David MacDougall will comment on the film Zulay Facing the Twenty First Century by the leading Argentinian ethnographic film maker Jorge Preloran. 

Venue: Old Canberra House Theatrette

10.45am – 11.15am                                Coffee Break

11.15am – 12.45pm

Session 2: Film

David Bradbury: Three Revolutions. Where is the dream?

Chair:  Marivic Wyndham

12.45pm – 2.00pm                                  Lunch Break

2.00pm – 3.15pm

Session 3: Art

Llilian Llanes

Chair: Penelope Richardson

3.15pm – 4.00pm                                    Coffee Break and walk/ride to Drill Hall Gallery

4.00pm – 4.45pm

Session 4: Art

Exhibition by Betsabe Romero, Mexico

Introduced by Nancy Sever

VENUE: ANU DRILL HALL GALLERY

4.45pm – 5.15pm                                    Performance: Adrian Hearn, percussion

5.15pm – 6.30pm                                    Cocktails, Tapas

ANU Drill Hall Gallery


Thursday 5 September           THEME: THE DIASPORA OF THE SENSES

9.30am – 11.00am

Session 1: What Did We Take With Us?

Olga Lorenzo: The goat and the bearded one: Shame and child rearing in a Latin American setting

Erez Cohen: Ethnic Radio’ and the complexity of diasporic practices in Adelaide

Euridice Charon: Yellow cassava, purple banana

Chair: Miriam Estrada

11.00am – 11.30am                                Coffee Break


11.30am – 12.45pm

Session 2: What did we take with us?  - cont

Penelope Richardson: Passenger on someone else’s train: The artistic diaspora

Greg Teal: TBA

Chair: Marivic Wyndham

12.45pm – 2.00pm                                  Lunch Break

2.00pm – 3.15pm

Session 3: Music

Ralph Newmark: Soundscapes of pride and parody: An aural history of Latin America in the United States

Chair: Jessica Wyndham

3.15pm – 3.45pm                                    Coffee Break

3.45pm – 5.00pm

Session 4: Music

Adrian Hearn: Producing communities: the exoticisation of Afro-Cuban religions

Chair: Jessica Wyndham

7.00pm                                                   Conference Dinner

Gods Café, ANU Arts Centre

DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF “MI TIERRA”


Friday 6 September                       THEME: THE DIASPORA OF THE HEART

9.30am – 10.45am

Session 1

Alejandro Garcia Alvarez: Social reality and the creative properties of an insular culture: Cuba

Chair: Marivic Wyndham

10.45am – 11.15am                                Coffee Break

11.15am – 12.45pm

Session 2: Living in New Countries

Dipesh Chakrabarty: TBA

Gabriela Coronado: Crossing boundaries, transforming identities

                                                               Begona Lobo: TBA

Chair: Peter Read

12.45pm – 2.00pm                                  Lunch Break

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Session 3: Dying in an Old and a New Country

Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham: Dying in the old and the new country

Chair: Greg Teal

3.30pm – 4.00pm                                    Coffee Break

4.00pm – 5 00pm

Session 4: The Life of the Exile

                                                               Performance—VENUE: CONFERENCE ROOM, OLD CANBERRA HOUSE

                                                               The Life of the Exile (Conference Participants)

                                                               Conference farewell


We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Australian National Council of Latin American Studies in the social functions of the conference.

Enquiries

Leena Messina, Programs Manager, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Email: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au