Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies

Professor Luciana Martins' inaugural lecture: 'Drawing together: the visual archive of travel in Latin America'

19 June 2019, 18:00 — 20:00; Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, B01, Clore Lecture Theatre

How can we explore the visual archive of travel to recover traces of cross-cultural exchanges and encounters in Latin America? What place does the act of visual documentation have in the culture of scientific observation and collection in the field? How can we re-connect histories of European scientific fieldwork to questions of Indigenous cultural heritage and value? For more information and to book, click on the image.

Reanimating collections, sharing knowledges

Tuesday 25 June 2019, 14:30-17:00, Birkbeck, University of London Room G03, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

This round-table brings together European and Brazilian researchers and curators, including indigenous researchers, to discuss ways of advancing co-curatorship on Latin American collections in European archives and museums. For more information click on the image.

New Publication - Postcolonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic edited by Jerome C. Branche

Articles by CILAVS' members Carmen Fracchia and Luis Trindade are included in the recently publised Postcolonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic