The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela, 19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 6: (Trans)National Identities
Manuel Silva-Ferrer (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
¿Hegemonía comunicacional?
Katie Brown (Kings College)
Manifiesto: País
The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela, 19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 5: Socialist Symphonies/Sympathies?
Geoff Baker (Royal Holloway)
Politics and El Sistema
Wilfredo Hernández (Allegheny College, Pennsylvania)
La política de la música en La clase (2007), de José Antonio Varela
Hazel Marsh (University of East Anglia)
Popular music and politics in Venezuela in the Chávez period: ‘New Song’ and 21st century Bolivarianism
Yana Stainova (Brown University)
A Sonorous Silence: the Polyphonous Politics of Classical Music in the Youth Orchestras of Venezuela’s El Sistema
The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela, 19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 4: Territorialities, Landscapes and Urban Narratives
Elizabeth Barrios (University of Michigan)
Dead Landscapes, Living Nation: Nature and The Limits of National Narratives
Santiago Acosta (Columbia University)
Territoriality and Representation in Posthegemonic Times
Jacinto Fombona Iribarren (Independent scholar)
Venezuela está candela, When is chaos rhetoric not rhetorical?’
Gonzalo Chacón Mora (University of Kent)
Imagining the Malandro: Anti-politics and the representation of the Malandro in Venezuelan Cinema
The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics in Contemporary Venezuela, 19-20th September 2014, University of Cambridge
Panel 3: Divine Intervention and Political Performativity
Colette Capriles (Universidad Simón Bolívar)
Ser visto, ser hablado. Lecciones de poder en la Venezuela Bolivariana
Isaac Nahón-Serfaty (University of Ottawa)
Por una estética del discurso esperpéntico: el caso de Hugo Chávez
Javier A. García (University of Cambridge)
“Chávez, el Nuevo Cristo”: The Aesthetics of Popular Religion in Venezuela from Chávez to Maduro
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