The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela, 19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 2: Ideological Inscriptions and the Body
Paula Vásquez (CESPRA- CNRS France)
La lógica sacrificial y el fin de la ciudadanía: Los tres cuerpos de la revolución bolivariana
Juan Peraza Guerrero (Universidad Del Salvador)
The True Face of Simón Bolívar. Televised Exhumations and other Necrophiliac Tendencies in Contemporary Venezuela
Natalia García Bonet (University of Kent)
The Indian within: negotiating indigenous identity among dominant images of indigeneity in Venezuela
Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols (Drury University)
The War of Silicon: Aesthetic Surgery, Consumption and Physical Beauty in Venezuela
The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela,19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 1: Memory, Heritage and History in National Discourse
Erik Del Bufalo (Universidad Simón Bolívar)
Aesthetics of restraint: the imagination of an enclosed society in Bolivarian Venezuela
Raquel Rivas-Rojas (Freelance researcher and translator)
Memory and Horizons of Affect in Mirtha Rivero’s Historia menuda de un país que ya no existe
Desiree Domec (University of Essex)
Conservation and Assets of Cultural Heritage in Venezuela: From Social Participation to Governmental Policies and the Case Study of Armando Reverón’s Castillete
Marco Cupolo (University of Hartford)
Caudillo grandfather, oil rentier son, beggar grandson, and Venezuela today