Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures

Organisers: Amit Thakkar (a.thakkar@lancaster.ac.uk) and Christopher Harris

(c.harris@liv.ac.uk)
UNIVERSITY of LANCASTER , FRIDAY 10
th
DECEMBER 2010


11.00 Registration, Welcome and Coffee

11.30 Cornelia Grabner (Lancaster University): Politics is Sexy:
Gendered and Political Violence in Francisco Goldmans The Long
Night of White Chickens (1998)

12.15 Ben Hoff (Liverpool University): Changing Tides: Remapping
Latin American Male (Homo)Sexualities in Javier Fuente Lens
Contracorriente (Peru, 2009)

1-2 Lunch

2-3 Mo Hume (Glasgow University) (Keynote): Es que para ellos el
deporte es matar: Confronting Stereotypes of Violent
Masculinities in El Salvador

3-3.30 Coffee

3.30 Victoria Carpenter (University of Derby): Power Tug of War:
Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainzs
Obsesivos das circulares (1969)

4.15 Jo Crow (Bristol University): The Araucanian Warrior in
Contemporary Chile: A Contested Icon