The British Library Conference Centre. The World of Jorge Amado/ Jorge Amado and the World. A day of literary and cultural reflections marking the 100th anniversary of Jorge Amado's birth. Este evento es patrocinado por la Biblioteca Británica, la Embajada de Brasil, la Academia Brasileña de Letras, Instituto de Brasil del King's College de Londres, el Instituto para el Estudio de las Américas, y la Centro Eccles de Estudios Americanos de la Biblioteca Británica.

 

Programa

Welcome and Introduction
Ana Maria Machado, Academia Brasileira de Letras

Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Brazilian Nation – Jorge Amado’s ‘Bahia’
Alberto da Costa e Silva, Academia Brasileira de Letras
Roberto DaMatta, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Commentator: David Treece, King’s College London

The Meaning of Jorge Amado for the Lusophone World
Mia Couto (tbc)
Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro
Commentator: Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham

Race Mixture, Gender and the World of Jorge Amado
Peter Wade, University of Manchester
Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke, Cambridge University
Commentator: Ana Maria Machado, Academia Brasileira de Letras

Cash Bar/Music

The World of Jorge Amado/ Jorge Amado and the World: An evening of discussion and debate on the legacy and meaning of Jorge Amado’s oeuvre.
Confirmed speakers: Roberto DaMatta, Kenneth Maxwell, Alberto da Costa e Silva

Wine Reception/Music

Convoca: Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Escritores y académicos de Argentina, Francia, Alemania y el Reino Unido disertan sobre la representación de las islas Malvinas / Guerra de las Malvinas y los debates en curso en la ficción, historia, poesía, cómic y el cine en Argentina. Este evento se enmarca en el 30º aniversario de la guerra, y también se hace eco de la publicación este año de varias novelas, traducciones y estudios académicos sobre el tema por los participantes del simposio.

Intervienen: Carlos Gamerro (Argentina), Federico Lorenz (Argentina), Ben Bollig (Oxford), Nick Caistor (East Anglia), Philip Derbyshire (Birkbeck), Marián Durán (Lyon), Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel (Lille), Amanda Hopkinson (Manchester), Claire Lindsay (UCL), Ana Luengo (Bremen), Joanna Page (Cambridge), Sabine Schlickers (Bremen) y Victoria Torres (Cologne).

Argentina: Representations and Memories on the Desaparecidos and the Malvinas War. Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study. Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Seminar, Room G34 (Senate House). Conferenciantes invitados: Dra. Claudia Feld y Dr. Federico Lorenz (CONICET Argentina y miembros del Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social IDES). Organizado por: Jordana Blejmar en colaboración con el Centre for Cultural Memory Studies at IGRS.

Claudia Feld: ‘Images of Disappearance. A Reflection on Audiovisual Mediums of Memory’

Recent extreme experiences in Argentina raise questions over and encourage reflections on the links between audiovisual communication mediums and social memory. This paper will focus specifically on the systematic disappearance of people during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. In contrast to other cases of mass crimes that have occurred in different places and at different historical times, in Argentina there are no documentary images of torture and the clandestine murders. Despite this absence of visual documents, images have played a crucial role in the representation of these crimes in memory works during the dictatorship and beyond. Disappearance, an event defined by the subtraction of images, has become visible precisely through the use of images. This paper examines the role of photography, television, documentary and fiction films in the last Argentine dictatorship as an indication of how these events are held in memory and of the different aspects highlighted by these audio-visual mediums.

Federico Lorenz: Ambiguities on the Malvinas War and the Construction of a Narrative on the Recent Past

The 1982 Malvinas war was the only conventional war undertaken by Argentina in the twentieth century. The recent debates that took place in Argentina within the framework of the 30th anniversary of the war, brought to light a series of archetypal representations of the conflict and its protagonists that were shaped in the immediate post-war period. Was the Malvinas war an heroic deed, an absurd confrontation or a military strategy of the dictatorship? This paper will analyse the process of formation and circulation of some of these representations of the war. It will focus on the impact, be it large or small, that these depictions have had on the public sphere, and how they came to be seen as responses to the different political situations that developed as democracy was consolidated and as the conflict was re-interpreted.