NOPolitics of Culture in Latin America (POCLAT)
Interdisciplinary Network for Latin American Research in Tromsø
Politics of Culture in Latin America is an interdisciplinary local network constituted for researchers of the University of Tromsø-Artic University of Norway, which has the function of meeting arena for the collaboration, exchange and diffusion of research projects and issues about Latin America. According the different disciplines of the group members (Politic, Sociology, Anthropology, Religion, Linguistic, Literature, Education, etc.), this network has established a collective research framework, accessible to receive academic contributions from each one of them: the Politic and Cultural praxis in a multicultural society.
News
The 9th Conference Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN)
The Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN) is organizing its 9th Conference, hosted by the School of Global Studies at the Campus Linné, University of Gothenburg. The theme is 'Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century: Societies in Motion' (Desafíos latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI: Sociedades en movimiento).
NorLARNet Conference 2016 (Bergen, 31. august - 2. september)
NorLARNet Conference 2016 (Bergen, 1-2. september)Latin American Research for a Troubled World
Activities
Events
29.10. 04 (kl. 13.00-15.00)
Fiesta No Siesta -Tromsøs Latin Festival (Sted: Prelaten Kro & Scene)
Samfunn, kultur og politikk i Latin Amerika
Kl. 13.00 Presentasjon av forskningsprosjekter om Latin Amerika
v/UIT Forksningsgruppe: Politics of Cultures in Latin-America –POCLAT og Carlos Cabanillas (Inst. for språk og kultur) Bjørn Ola Tafjord (Inst. for historie og religion) Marcela Douglas (Regionalt kunnskapssenter for barn og unge- Nord)
Kl.13.30 "Venezuela og Latin-Amerika: et land i krise, en region i endring"
v/Leiv Marsteintredet (Førstamanuensis Universitetet i Oslo)
Past events
15.09.2016
Gjesteforelesning:
prof. Esperanza López Parada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spania)
"Tesoros de Indias: procesos de apropiación y expropiación en el archivo material americano"
LInk
11.05.2016
International seminar
Persistence of the Indigenous myths and religions during the Christianisation of Latin America
14.04.2016
Violence, Memory and Collective Trauma in Latin America - See more at: https://uit.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/sub?p_document_id=428388&sub_id=433468#sthash.bANLUnCU.dpuf
International seminar
Violence, Memory and Collective Trauma in Latin America
15.10.2015
Seminario internacional:
Dirigido por Bjørn Ola Tafjord (IHR)
16.10.2015
Conversatorio:
Metodologías indígenas contextuales: acercamientos bribris.
Dirigido por Bjørn Ola Tafjord (IHR)
1.10.2015
Seminar:
The Indigenous communities in Mexico during the 20th Century. A cultural heritage
by María Fernanda González Rojas (Brown-bag seminar, Centre for Sami Studies)