Events 2018/2019
- Neighborhood Life: Spatial appropriation practices of Haitian migrants in central and peripheral neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, 14 November 2023 - Join us for a public lecture by Chilean scholar Francisca Pérez Pallares in which she will discuss her research on the everyday lives and homemaking practices of Haitian migrants in Santiago, Chile. When: Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 18:00 to 20:00... Continue Reading →
- Exhibition The Body of Memory / El Cuerpo de la Memoria by artist Janet Toro, 12 Oct 2023 – 7 Dec 2023 - Janet Toro’s performance series The body of memory (El cuerpo de la memoria) rekindles both individual and collective consciousness of the coup d’etat in Chile – that took place 50 years ago. This exhibition of photography and video documentation of... Continue Reading →
- CHILE50: Politics & Aesthetics (20 October, 10 November, 15 December 2023) - These film screenings, specially curated and organised by the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (FIC Valdivia), commemorates the 50th... Continue Reading →
- Making Monuments from Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War (15 June 2023) - A lecture by Dr Daniel Palacios González Chair: Dr Margarita Palacios Thursday 15 June 2023, 18:00 – 19:30 Keynes Library, School of Arts Building, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD This event is organised by the Centre for Museum Cultures. After... Continue Reading →
- Jerome Branche in conversation with Marcus Wood: Exploding Archives (8 March 2023) - CILAVS is delighted to invite you to this in conversation event, in which Leverhulme Visiting Professor Jerome Branche and Professor Marcus Wood will debate ways of creating an alternative, more inclusive colonial archive that incorporates the records and art left... Continue Reading →
- Everything as Everything: Maroonage and the Elementalist Aesthetic of Jesús Cos Causse, or The Revolution will not be Sacralized (14 March 2023) - We are delighted to invite you to Professor Jerome Branche’s fourth Leverhulme Lecture on Tuesday, 14 March at 6pm. Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Branche is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of... Continue Reading →
- Black Life and Death in Theory: ninguneo, Necropolitics, Afropessimism, and an Afrofuture (3 March 2023) - We are delighted to invite you to Professor Jerome Branche’s third Leverhulme Lecture on Friday, 3 March at 6pm. Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Branche is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of... Continue Reading →
- White/mestizo Heritage Tourism, the Restoration of Ruins, and Colonial Nostalgia: Towards the Consideration of a Black Counter-narrative (24 January 2023) - We are delighted to invite you to Professor Jerome Branche’s second Leverhulme Lecture on Tuesday, 24 January at 6pm. Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Branche is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of... Continue Reading →
- (Of Souls and Black Folk): On Accumulation, Conversion, and Colonial Capture, Alonso de Sandoval’s Treatise on Slavery (De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute, 1647) (2 December) - We are delighted to invite you to Professor Jerome Branche’s Leverhulme Lecture on Friday, 2 December at 6pm. Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Branche is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the... Continue Reading →
- Alien Nation: The Cinema of Michel Lipkes (21-22 October) - Presented by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Birkbeck Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, and Close-Up Film Centre Friday 21 October (Birkbeck) and Saturday 22 October (Close-Up) Mexican filmmaker Michel Lipkes has dedicated much of his professional life to... Continue Reading →
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