Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the School of Advanced Study

Keynote speakers

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon,General Oscar Naranjo, Justina Demetriades

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana

José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge)

Juan Pimentel (CSIC)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana

José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge)

Juan Pimentel (CSIC)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana

José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge)

Juan Pimentel (CSIC)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

The ‘Lost’ Cabinet on Exhibit: A Metaphor for LAGLOBAL?/El gabinete ‘perdido’ puesto en escena: ¿una metáfora para LAGLOBAL?

Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana

José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge)

Juan Pimentel (CSIC)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

The ‘Lost’ Cabinet on Exhibit: A Metaphor for LAGLOBAL?/El gabinete ‘perdido’ puesto en escena: ¿una metáfora para LAGLOBAL?

Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos.

Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón

The ‘Lost’ Cabinet on Exhibit: A Metaphor for LAGLOBAL?/El gabinete ‘perdido’ puesto en escena: ¿una metáfora para LAGLOBAL?

Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

Institute of Latin American Studies

Homophobias, Human Rights and Social Change in the French and British Caribbean

Professor David Murray

(York University, Toronto)

The Caribbean region is often characterized as uniformly homophobic and LGBT rights are often claimed by governmental and non-governmental organizations as the conduit through which change can be effected. What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on dispersed and diverse societies? How might we also constructively question rights as a universal strategy through which to change local laws, beliefs and practices? The goal of this presentation is to critically engage with key concepts in sexual minority discrimination and rights talk occurring in transnational contexts, utilizing ethnographic examples from Barbados and Martinique in order to challenge assumptions of the uniformity and translatability of LGBT rights as a primary response to homophobia in the Caribbean.

Convenor: William Tantam, Postdoctoral Fellow (Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research)

Institute of Latin American Studies

Homophobias, Human Rights and Social Change in the French and British Caribbean

Professor David Murray

(York University, Toronto)

The Caribbean region is often characterized as uniformly homophobic and LGBT rights are often claimed by governmental and non-governmental organizations as the conduit through which change can be effected. What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on dispersed and diverse societies? How might we also constructively question rights as a universal strategy through which to change local laws, beliefs and practices? The goal of this presentation is to critically engage with key concepts in sexual minority discrimination and rights talk occurring in transnational contexts, utilizing ethnographic examples from Barbados and Martinique in order to challenge assumptions of the uniformity and translatability of LGBT rights as a primary response to homophobia in the Caribbean.

Convenor: William Tantam, Postdoctoral Fellow (Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research)