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Past Nalacs Events
Annual Meeting 2011 and Lecture
On the 27th of January 2012, Nalacs held its annual meeting. Following the meeting, Dr Wayne Modest gave a lecture entitled "jah jah mek ya fi di black man": Fleshing out Difference and Belonging in the Caribbean". The discussant for this lecture was Gemma van der Haar, Wageningen University.
LAFF 2011: The collective memory of Latin America
Film: Nostalgia de la Luz
Date: 8 May 2011
Debate: What is the meaning of a collective memory (memoria histórica) for contemporary Latin America?
In 'Nostalgia de la Luz' the Chilean collective memory takes central stage, in which recollections of the last dictatorship form an important part. The question is whether a collective memory is primarily tied to a nation or if a Latin American collective memory also exists? And if so, what does it consist of and who determines this? For example, is the remembrance of the conquista in ‘indigenous’ Bolivia different from ‘white’ Argentina or 'mestizo' Mexico? How do independence, the dictatorships and the recent phase of neo-liberalism figure in this collective memory? And what role does it play in the everyday lives of Latin Americans in the 21st Century?
Annual Conference 2010
“Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Neoliberalism?”
Groningen, November 18th and 19th, 2010
International Conference organized by the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), in collaboration with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) and the Centre for Mexico Studies (CEM) of the University of Groningen, and the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA).
Two days of academic and cultural activities, exchange and discussion on the current neoliberal context in Latin America. Over 60 paper presenters from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the US, the UK and Venezuela distributed in 15 panels. Three keynote speeches. documentary presentation, art display and more!
Keynote Speakers:
Mariclaire Acosta (CIDE-Mexico), John Holloway (BUAP, Puebla) & Lucia Sá (University of Manchester).
Conference Program:
The complete schedule of the panels and information about room assignments can be found here.
Annual Conference 2009
"Sex and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean"
The keynote speakers were prof. dr. Peter Wade (University of Manchester) and dr. Amalia Cabezas (University of California Riverside).
Peter Wade is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His interests centre on race and ethnicity in Latin America, with particular reference to black populations. He has done several spells of fieldwork in Colombia, looking at processes of racial discrimination, black cultural identities, and the black social movement and constitutional reform. He has also traced the social history of Colombian popular music in the twentieth century and its connections with ideas about nation and race.
More recently, he explored the construction of nature, biology, genetics and culture in ideas about race, as part of a large-scale project on the Public Understanding of Genetics (PUG), 2001-4, funded by the EU and involving seven research teams in different European countries.
He is currently working on themes of race and sexuality in Latin America. In 2006-7, he held a British Academy award which supported bi-lateral international seminars between Colombia (specifically the Universidad del Valle) and the UK (Manchester) which focused on this theme (and also involved Brazilian scholars). An edited volume arising from these seminars was published in Colombia in 2008 (see "Recent and forthcoming publications"). He is also currently writing a book on the topic of race and sex in Latin America.
He is planning research on the way concepts of race, ethnicity and nation enter into recent genomic research about the ancestry of Latin American populations and how findings from such research are received and interpreted in the public domain.
Amalia L. Cabezas is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include sex tourism, women’s human rights, the politics of gender, health, and women’s labor. She is the author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the first ethnographic study to examine the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. It offers startling insights into the commingling of sex, intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican republic, two nations where tourism has had widespread effects. In her multi-layered analyses, amalia cabezas reconceptualizes our understandings of informal economies (particularly "affective economies"), "sex workers," and “sexual tourism,” and she helps us appreciate how money, sex and love are intertwined within the structure of globalizing capitalism. She is also co-editor of The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women’s Poverty.
Click here for the program.
LAFF 2009
Je leugen of je leven
‘In een oorlog is het eerste slachtoffer de waarheid.’ Achter het gewapende conflict in Colombia gaat een minstens zo harde imagostrijd schuil. Zowel de regering als de guerrilla willen in de internationale publieke opinie naar voren komen als de partij die vrede wil, maar wordt bedreigd door een meedogenloze tegenstander. Dat gevecht wordt in de media gevoerd en heeft grote gevolgen voor de positie van journalisten en de nieuwsmedia die te maken krijgen met valse informatie, intimidatie, zwartmakerij, regelrechte bedreigingen en zelfs ontvoeringen. Naar aanleiding van de documentaire ‘Sin Tregua’ (Engelse titel is 'Unwanted Witness’) nodigt NALACS de Colombiaanse onderzoeksjournalist Hollman Morris uit. Morris is de hoofdpersoon uit de documentaire en is onlangs door de Colombiaanse regering beschuldigd van lidmaatschap van de guerrilla.
Plaats: Louis Hartlooper Complex, Tolsteegbrug 1 (Ledig Erf) Utrecht
Tijd: 10 mei - de film begint om 15.30, het debat met Hollman aansluitend om 17.00 uur.
De inspiratie van Che
Ernesto Che Guevara was een van de grote helden van de Cubaanse revolutie, maar hij is bovenal wereldwijd een icoon voor iedereen die zich wil presenteren als jong en revolutionair. De dagboeken van Che Guevara zijn al een halve eeuw lang als verplicht instructiemateriaal voor guerrillabewegingen in de hele wereld, zijn ideeën en opofferingsgezindheid spreken tot de verbeelding van miljoenen. Ter gelegenheid van de vertoning van de tweeluik ‘Che’ van Steven Soderbergh op het Latijns Amerika Film Festival organiseert het LAFF in samenwerking met de NALACS een talkshow over de betekenis van Che in het vijftigste jaar van de Cubaanse revolutie. Is Che de Cubaanse revolutie ontstegen? Had hij geluk door jong te sterven? Wat was zijn invloed op de opkomst van andere guerrilla’s? Waarom werd hij een icoon?Deelnemers zijn Eric Moormann (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) en deskundig op het gebied van klassieke en moderne mythologie, Kees Koonings (Universiteit Utrecht en kenner van Che Guevara) en Cubakenner Kees van Kortenhof.
Plaats: Louis Hartlooper Complex, Tolsteegbrug 1 (Ledig Erf) Utrecht
Tijd: 10 mei - de film begint om 11.45 (twee delen, totaal 4 uur), de talkshow om 20.00 uur.
Meer informatie op http://www.laff.nl/
Nalacs & Cedla Lecture
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009, 15:30, Cedla:
Lecture by Professor Mitchell A. Seligson, Vanderbilt University
Economic Shocks and Democratic Stability in the Americas: A View from the AmericasBarometer
The economic meltdown is affecting all regions of the world. Descriptive and historical evidence suggest that economic crises are linked to democratic decline and even breakdown, with the prime illustration being the breakdown of 13 democracies in Europe in inter-war period. Quantitative evidence has found that in the post-war period, bad economic times are bad for democratic sustainability. In this presentation Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, and also Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, will present an analysis of the AmericasBarometer (El Barómetro de las Américas) survey research data on 24 countries involving over 40,000 interviews to help estimate the probable impact of the crisis at the level of the individual and the nation (by using multi-level analysis techniques).
Past Nalacs Events
In recent years, NALACS activities have addressed topics such as:
- The neoliberal city (2008)
- Political parties and democracy (2007)
- The rise of the Left (2006)
- Black-Indigenous land rights (2005)
- Indigenous (self-)representation (2005)
- New violence (2004)
NALACS regularly contributes to the Latin America Film Festival in Utrecht with lectures or roundtables (since 2005).