Workshops/seminars

Guest Speakers

Professor Mary Berg, Brandeis University, ‘Clorinda Matto de Turner, a Literary Life’, University of Nottingham, 2 December 2005.

Professor Peggy Sharpe, University of Florida, ‘Julia Lopes de Almeida and the Abolitionist Novel in Brazil’, 13 February 2006, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Manchester.

Professor Nara Araújo, La Habana, Cuba, 'La patria en la lejanía. Género, política y nación en el discurso de José María Heredia, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, y Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda', University of Nottingham, 8 September 2006.

Guiomar Duenas-Vargas, University of Memphis, 'Family LIfe Politics and the Liberal Colombian Convention of 1863: Agripina Samper and Manuel Ancizar, a Liberal Couple', November 2006.

Workshop

Race and Gender in the Spanish American Wars of Independence: The Unsung Heroes of Latin American Independence, Americas Research Group, University of Newcastle, 20 October 2006

Aline Helg, University of Geneva, 'Slaves and free people of African descent in the independence wars--and the aftermath'

Claire Brewster, University of Nottingham, 'Women and Latin American Independence: the Problem of (Miss)-Representation'