Order’s other histories: revisiting South America

International Symposium: Thursday, 25 November 2010

• 10am-3pm: Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
• 3pm-5pm: The Studio, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Focusing on South America, this interdisciplinary symposium aims to foster discussion on the multiple ways of ordering, representing and ‘othering’ nature and society within different experiences of colonial encounters.

Speakers include: Denise Y. Arnold (ILCA and Birkbeck), Dana Leibsohn (Smith), Tristan Platt (University of St Andrews), Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Cambridge) and Luciana Martins (Birkbeck).

This Symposium is a collaboration amongst Birkbeck's Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the British Museum. It is part of the international research network The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1700-1850.

The Symposium is funded by Birkbeck’s School of Arts Research Fund.

Admission is free, but booking is required. To book a place, contact Luciana Martins.