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 SPIRIT9.00am – 9.30am Registration 9.30am – 9.40am Welcome and
Opening of Conference
Brian Burdekin The United Nations, Latin America and Human Rights Chair: Peter Read 10.45am –- 11.15am Coffee Break
Miriam Estrada: Human Rights in Latin America Chair: Erez Cohen 12.15pm – 1.30pm Lunch Break
Jessica Wyndham: Regionalism in Human Rights Chair: Olga Lorenzo 2.30pm – 3.00pm Coffee Break
Hilary Charlesworth: Gender in Human Rights followed by Panel including
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
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
David Bradbury: Three Revolutions. Where is the dream? Chair: Marivic Wyndham 12.45pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break
Llilian Llanes Chair: Penelope Richardson 3.15pm – 4.00pm Coffee Break
and walk/ride to Drill Hall Gallery
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
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
Penelope Richardson: Passenger on someone else’s train: The artistic diaspora Greg Teal: TBA Chair: Marivic Wyndham 12.45pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break
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
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
Alejandro Garcia Alvarez: Social reality and the creative properties of an insular culture: Cuba Chair: Marivic Wyndham 10.45am – 11.15am Coffee Break
Dipesh Chakrabarty: TBA Gabriela Coronado: Crossing boundaries, transforming identities Begona Lobo: TBA Chair: Peter Read 12.45pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break
Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham: Dying in the old and the new country Chair: Greg Teal 3.30pm – 4.00pm Coffee Break
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
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