PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 23 APRIL, SEMINAR ROOM 1.33, IONTAS
​8.30 - 9.05
Registration
​9.05 - 9.15
Opening address by Prof Thomas O'Connor
9.15 - 10.40
Panel 1: Theatre, Painting and Cartography
Chair: Dr Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar
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María Belén Rabadán Vega – Maynooth University – ‘The Impact of Diplomatic Issues on the Musical Evita’
Guadalupe Gerardi – University of Oxford – ‘The “New Realism” of Antonio Berni’s Monsters’
Matthew Benwell – Newcastle University – and Alasdair Pinkerton – Royal Holloway, London – ‘“Las Malvinas Es Argentina”: Creatively Mapping Argentina’s Malvinas Claim’
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​10.40 - 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 - 11.55
Keynote speaker
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Dr Tzvi Tal, Sapir College, Israel: ‘Nación y Etnicidad en Films Contemporáneos de América Latina’
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​12.00 - 13.15
Panel 2: Cinematic Representations
Chair: Ms María Luján Medina
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Mirna Vohnsen – Maynooth University – ‘Holocaust Memories in Pablo Solarz’s El último traje (2017)’
Daniel Mourenza – Newcastle University – ‘Violence, Class and Impunity: Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza (2009) and the Hit-and-Run Motif’
Alan Smyth – Maynooth University – 'Remodelling the villa: Fashion, Femininity and Immigration in Julieta Sans’s Guido models (2015)'
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13:15 - 14:10
Lunch
​14.10 - 15.25
Panel 3: Photography, Cover Art and Literature
Chair: Dr Pilar Molina
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David Rojinsky – Lancaster University - ‘Reconciling Mythopoetics and Photographic Histories in Leandro Katz’s El día que me quieras (1997)’
Brigid Lynch – University of St Andrews – ‘“La batalla que nos parió”: New Visual Subjectivities of Citizenship in Post-Crisis Argentina’
David Conlon – Maynooth University – ‘Radiography of the Parlour. The Mysterious Voyeurism of Norah Lange’s Las personas en la sala (1950)’
15.25 - 15.45​
Coffee break
​15.45 - 17:00
Panel 4: Dictatorship and Film
Chair: Dr Catherine Leen
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Mauro Ignacio Greco – University of Edinburgh – ‘(Mis)trusting Argentine Images of the Latest National Dictatorship: Silent Majorities, Desires of Repression and Vacillations’
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes – University of Warwick – ‘From Silhouettes to Ghostly Traces: Lita Stantic’s Un muro de silencio’
Fiona Clancy – University College Cork – ‘Trauma and Witnessing in Albertina Carri’s Los rubios and La rabia’
17.00 - 17:55 in Rye Hall
Keynote speaker
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Dr Jordana Blejmar, University of Liverpool, UK: ‘“The Surviving Image”: Barthes, Didi-Huberman and the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentine Photography’
18.15 - 19.00 Wine reception in the Arts and Humanities Institute.
The wine reception is sponsored by the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
19.30 Dinner at Avenue, Maynooth
