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Join Hispanic Studies PhD students as they present their doctoral research to fellow students and colleagues! Each student will make a short presentation, and we will then have an informal discussion, with questions, comments and feedback. Tea and coffee will be served.

Special Lecture: Trabajos orgánicos

An award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic, Diamela Eltit published her first texts during the dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) while becoming involved in visual arts and diverse modes of performance as a founding member of the renowned CADA group. Her novels, some highly experimental and others more accessible in narrative style, always bring provocative perspectives to bear on issues such as dictatorship, disappearance, and state terror; poverty, neoliberal capitalism, and marginalization; gender and sexuality; national identity, indigenous cultures, and racism. Eltit is also an important critic in the field of Latin American literature and has lectured at many institutions in the US and Latin America.

A CCPS Seminar with Dr Carlos Falci, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

'Shadow and Substance: returning to the ideas of cinematic pioneers in the creation of new digital interfaces'

After spending two decades making performances that played with the intersection of the on-stage with the onscreen performer Mary Oliver is applying her performance methodology to the creation of new kinds of sensor driven embodied interfaces. In this lecture she will address how this 21st Century embodied cinematic practice has its roots in the ambitions of the very first film/theatre impresarios who were a combination of storyteller, engineer and magician.

Mary Oliver is Professor of New Media Performance and Head of Media at Manchester School of Art. She has been devising performance work for over 30 years, for the last two decades she has interrogated the meaning of liveness in a digital age. Much of the focus of this work has been on the use of digital technology in bringing impossible performers to the stage. She is currently using her experience of digital storytelling to develop affective embodied learning interfaces.