‘Quo Vadis?’: Arts and Humanities Research in the 21st Century A Five-Day Online Conference
Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL
Monday 19 July 2021-Friday 23 July 2021
This valued-added, student-led Festival, ‘Quo Vadis?’, celebrating the Arts and Humanities in the modern world focusses on three interlocking themes: (i) Current research trends in the Arts and Humanities (ii) Preparing for a career in the Arts (iii) Research Impact and dissemination It includes a job surgery, ‘Getting a Job in the Arts in 2021’, full of great tips on how to get on in the world of the arts from experts in the media, the creative and cultural industries, education, the film industry, and the fashion and music industry, and a roundtable on future trends in the Arts and Humanities that looks at new theoretical and applied approaches to the arts. You can attend three plenary presentations by experts in the arts – Professor Efraín Kristal, the world-renowned Latin Americanist and Comparativist from UCLA; Ken Loach, the UK’s top film director; the UK’s leading expert on documentary film, Professor Stella Bruzzi, and the UK’s leading expert on Jane Austen, Professor John Mullan – and participate in two interdisciplinary sessions, one on ‘Decolonizing the Curriculum’, and another on ‘Health Humanities’ in which we will discuss the documentary, My Amazing Brain: Richard’s War, by the award-winning director Fiona Lloyd- Davies. Why not attend the networking group to swap ideas about your future career, and come to the roundtable discussion with UCL lecturers on how to advance in an academic career, as well as attend panels discussing new research trends in the arts and humanities, and enjoy the research films made by UCL’s PGR/PGT students? With special invited delegations from the Universities of UCLA, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Westminster, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, this conference provides an international panorama of cutting-edge research across the globe in the Arts and Humanities. All welcome! For more information on this festival, contact Stephen M. Hart at [email protected] Quo Vadis? Programme UK Time (Breaks: 13.00-14.00; 15.30-16.00; 17.30-18.00)
MONDAY 19 JULY 2021
10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-19.30
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TUESDAY 20 JULY 2021
10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-19.00
PGR/PGT Panels Job Surgery: Post-PhD Academic Bridgerton: Literature 10.00-10.55 Getting a Job in the Arts Career Post-trajectories: Versus Film in 2021 Panel Discussion with Chair: Xinyue Wang, UCL Lecturers Professor Stella Bruzzi ‘Posthumans and Feminist Fiona Cleary (Senior (Fellow of the British Dystopia in Apocalypse producer, BBC); Academy; English, UCL) and Literature’ Chaired by Dr Nick Witham Professor John Mullan (Lord Paper 1: Xinyue Wang, Graham Henderson (Associate Professor of Northcliffe Chair of Modern ‘Last Girls in Apocalyptic (Cultural Entrepreneur and United States History; English Literature; English, Fictions’ founder of Poet in the City); Institute of the Americas, UCL) discuss the Netflix Paper 2: Peiyao Lin, UCL) blockbuster, Bridgerton ‘Gender in Apocalypse Jonathan Romney (Film Literature: The Realist Critic, Sight & Sound, The Panellists Dialogue hosted by Collette Significance of Feminist Observer, Screen); Lux, Executive Director of Dystopia in Modern Society’ Dr Jacopo Gnisci (Lecturer Communications and Paper 3, Xinyi Yin, Chris Roberts (Music in the Art and Visual Marketing ‘Unthinking the Human: Journalist); Cultures of the Global Hybridity, Posthumanism South; History of Art, UCL) Bridgerton, a steaming and and Gender in Post- Megan Todd (Travel streaming television period apocalyptic Fictions’ Industry Expert and online Dr Xine Yao (Lecturer in drama created by Chris Van education specialist); American Literature in Dusen and based on Julia Link to join Webinar English to 1900; English, Quinn’s novels, was released https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9687 Cósima Ramírez Ruiz de la UCL) on Christmas Day 2020. It 8337959 Prada (Fashionista); quickly became the most- Dr Lucy Bollington (Lecturer watched series on Netflix. Set 11.00-11.55 Alex Turner in Comparative Literature in the Regency, and drawing (Educationalist); and Film; SELCS, UCL) on Jane Austen’s novels, Chair: Yingyan Zhang Bridgerton mixes history with (Comparative Literature), Michael Chanan Dr Clive Nwonka (currently fantasy in that it presents a ‘Understanding the (Documentary film maker); Fellow in Film Studies, racially integrated London Marginalised Voices in Sociology, LSE; from where people of colour are Contemporary Literature Rosalind Harvey (Literary September Lecturer in Film members of the aristocracy. and Film’ Translator); Studies, Institute of In this discussion Professors Paper 1: Yingyan Zhang, Advanced Studies, UCL) Bruzzi and Mullan will look at ‘The Modern Adaptions of Megan Milan (Publisher, the ways in which the the Fairy Tale Bluebeard: Tamesis); discourses of film and Women and the Forbidden literature overlap – and Rooms’ Adam Feinstein (Journalist This session was curated sometimes disagree! Paper 2: Yiting Kuo, and Biographer); and by Luis Rego, Joint Faculty ‘Reimagining Academia: Research Development The Representation of Robert Goodwin Manager for the Faculty of Intellectuals in (independent scholar and Arts and Humanities and Contemporary Campus trade book author) the Faculty of Social and Evie Robinson (Department Novels’ Historical Sciences, and Dr of English, and President, Pi Paper 3: Bei Ye, ‘The Helen Stark, Joint Faculty Media, UCL’s Student Media Connection Between Michel Research Impact Manager Society), chose and curated Foucault and Film’ Attend this session if you for the Faculty of Arts and the clips from Bridgerton want to pick up some tips Humanities and the Faculty selected for discussion. Link to join Webinar on how to get on in the of Social and Historical https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9412 world of the arts, followed Sciences 8438814 by Q&A Session Convened by Gerri McHugh (Founder and Link to join Webinar Director, Global Health Film) 12.00-12.55 Link to join Webinar https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9781 https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9305 2899757 Link to join Webinar Chair: Milena Rochetaux 0086262 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ (Comparative Literature), 54cfykjs ‘Reflections on otherness and the unknown’ Paper 1: Milena Rochetaux, ‘Good vs. Dark Charisma’ Paper 2: Leming Zhong, ‘Gothic and Magical Realism: A Comparative Analysis of Nights at the Circus and The House of the Spirits’ Paper 3: Yuwen Yan, ‘Reimagining the Body: Gender and Sexuality in Ursula K. le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves’
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WEDNESDAY 21 JULY 2021
10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-20.12
PGR/PGT Panels Invited Delegation Panel Invited Delegation Panels 18.00-19.41 from University of 10.00-10.55 Cambridge 16.00-16.45 Film screening
Chair: Vanessa da Silva 14.00-14.45 Invited Delegation Panel Ken Loach, Sorry We Baptista (History), ‘Models from University of Costa Missed You (2019) of the Mind, Moulds for Chair: Javier Pérez Osorio Rica and Westminster Behaviour: Using Illusion (Centre for Film and University to Teach and to Entertain Screen/Modern and 19.42-20.12 in Medieval Europe’ Medieval Languages and Chair: Lorena Cervera Ferrer Linguistics) (Documentary-track PhD, Interview and Q&A by Paper 1: Jack Ford, UCL) Stephen Hart with Ken ‘Monastic, Scholastic and Paper 1: Javier Pérez Loach (TBC) Medical Maps of the Mind: Osorio, ‘Rethinking Latin Paper 1: Lorena Cervera An Elite Psychology’ American Queer Cinema Ferrer, ‘Latin American Paper 2: Genevieve from a Decolonial Women’s Documentary: Sorry We Missed You, Caulfield, ‘Seeing and Perspective’ Politics, Practices, and directed by Ken Loach and Salvation: The Paper 2: Josué Humberto Aesthetics (1975-1994)’ released in the UK in Dissemination of Optical Brocca Tovar Kuri, Paper 2: Liz Harvey-Kattou, November 2019, tells the Theory Through ‘Negative Poetics in ‘Contested Identities in Costa story of Ricky (Kris Hitchen) Preaching’ Modern Latin America: Rica: Constructions of the Tico who, desperate because of Paper 3: Vanessa da Silva Mapping Silence, Hybridity in Literature and Film’ the debts he has accumulated Baptista, ‘The Secretum and Resistance’ Introduction: as a result of the 2008 philosophorum: The fun in https://drive.google.com/file/ financial crash, decides to fooling the eye’ Link to join Webinar d/1AjifQ3jVM0zzvOKy2z9pgZ4 take on a job as a self- https://ucl.zoom.us/j/996 xQmlq7pk-/view employed delivery driver. As 89497378 Documentary: he soon realises, however, Link to join Webinar https://drive.google.com/file/d/ the job is not all it was https://ucl.zoom.us/j/913 1gx- cracked up to be. Like many 53919863 O2Y9fFC6OFwTuydf1SnIVTvz of Loach’s films Sorry We PGR/PGT Panel jvrhy/view Missed You has a political Paper 3: Amanda Alfaro punch; it won the Magritte 11.00-11.55 14.45-15.30 Córdoba, ‘Archipelagos and Award for Best Foreign Film Constellations: Political in Coproduction at the 10th Chair: Xiaomeng Liu Chair: Liyi Lu Economy and Aesthetics in Magritte Awards. (Comparative Literature), (Comparative Literature), Twenty-First Century Central ‘Comparative Feminist ‘The Link Between the American and Hispanic Studies of Selected Texts Human, the Animal and Caribbean Film’ in Modern Literature’ Ecology in Modernist Literature’ Link to join Webinar Session Convened by Gerri Paper 1: Xiaomeng Liu, https://ucl.zoom.us/j/991822 McHugh (Founder and ‘Female Friendship in Paper 1: Liyi Lu, ‘Natural 05301 Director, Global Health Film) Edith Wharton’s The Disasters in Gabriel House of Mirth and Henry García Márquez’s Novels’ James’s The Portrait of a Paper 2: Li Lanxin, ‘A Lady’ Comparative Analysis of 16.45-17.30 Link to join Webinar Paper 2: Yuzi Han, the Alienation of https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ ‘Female Figures and Protagonists in Franz Invited Delegation Panel nc4q7uuw Power in Selected Plays of Kafka’s Metamorphosis from the Casa de la Harold Pinter and Edward and Eugene O’Neill’s The Literatura Peruana/ Ministry Albee’ Hairy Ape, from the of Education, Peru Paper 3: Zhengjun Yu, Perspective of Marx’s ‘Sexual Illness and Alienation Theory’ Chair: Yaneth Sucasaca (Casa Metaphor: From Ibsen to Paper 3: Zhao Xinyi, de la Literatura Peruana), Female Images in Modern ‘Utopia/Dystopia and the ‘Repensando a Vallejo: un Literature’ Vision of Humanity: perfil para el bicentenario Translation and Cultural peruano’ (Rethinking César Link to join Webinar Identity in Modernist Vallejo: a profile for Peru’s https://ucl.zoom.us/j/919 Representations of China’ Bicentennial’; NB: the three 45618024 papers in this panel will be given in Spanish) Link to join Webinar https://ucl.zoom.us/j/918 Paper 1: Yaneth Sucasaca, 08614353 ‘Ya va a venir el día: Vallejo en la investigación con fines curatoriales’ 12.00-12.55 Paper 2: Mariana Rodríguez Barreno, ‘Vallejo, el artista Special Invited ante las puertas de la Delegation Panel: modernidad’ University of Edinburgh Paper 3: Rodrigo Vera Cubas, ‘Vallejo, cuerpo y poesía Chair: Kunyu Tan documental’ (English, Edinburgh), ‘Interdisciplinary Studies in Comparative Literature: His Excellency Juan Carlos Exploring Identities in the Gamarra, Ambassador of Peru Modern Period’ in the United Kingdom, and Minister Ricardo Malca, Paper 1: Kunyu Tan, Counselor in the Peruvian ‘Economics and Ethics: Embassy, will be in attendance Adam Smith’s Influence on during this panel, and the George Eliot’s Portrayal of Ambassador will say some Dorothea in Middlemarch’ words of welcome at the Paper 2: Qihui Pei beginning of proceedings. (Serena), ‘Aesthetic Romanticism and Link to join Webinar Consumerism: A https://ucl.zoom.us/j/936916 Comparative Study of the 99122 Perceptions of Three Aesthetic Elements: Beauty, Pleasure and Emotion, Between Romantic Writers and Modern Consumers’ Paper 3: Gefan Wang, ‘Maps of Desire, Disease, and Aesthetics: A Literary Cartographic Study of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow’
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THURSDAY 22 JULY 2021
10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-20.00
PGR/PGT Panels PGR/PGT Panels Invited Delegation Panels Special Session on Health Humanities 10.00-10.55 14.00-14.45 16.00-16.45 18.00-19.20 Chair: Patcharaviral Chair: Maria Kling (SELCS), Invited Delegation Panel Charoenpacharaporn ‘The Self and the World’ from the Pontifical Film screening of My Amazing (History), ‘Transnational Catholic University of Brain: Richard’s War (dir. Knowledge Production and Paper 1: Maria Kling, Chile (Pontificia Fiona Lloyd-Davies, 2018) its Academic and Cultural ‘“What we make of what Universidad Católica de Impacts, 1860s-1970s’ happens”: Identity and Chile, Santiago) 19.20-20.00 Q&A Autobiography in Natalia Paper 1: Patcharaviral Ginzburg’s Lessico Chair: Camila Gatica Mizala Q&A with the Director Fiona Charoenpacharaporn, Famigliare and Annie (Pontificia Universidad Lloyd-Davies; the UCLH ‘”Siam as a Greater Indian Enraux’s Mémoire de Fille’ Católica de Chile, Neurosurgeon Professor Nick Colony?: Translational Paper 2: Kwan Yi Soo, Santiago), ‘Resilience and Ward; and Lucinda Jarrett Knowledge Production in ‘Hong Kong Identity’ the Humanities’ (Artistic Director, Rosetta the Indian Fight for Paper 3: Nayla Ziadeh, Life). Independence 1920s- ‘Can Literary Trauma Paper 1: Nicolás Lema 1940s’ Theory Gain from Jung?: A Habash, ‘Resistance over Paper 2: Aleksandra Kaye, Discussion of Two Novels’ resilience’ Chaired by Professor Sonu ‘The Transnational in the Paper 2: ‘Camila Gatica Shamdasani (Vice Dean Brazilian and Polish Link to join Webinar Mizala, ‘Exile and Health, Faculty of Arts and National Exhibitions, 1861- https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9635 Resilience: Reimagining Humanities, UCL) 1894’ 9029709 Home Through Latin Paper 3: Yi Yang, ‘Five- American Film, 1970-1990’ Element “Chinese” Paper 3: José Manuel Acupuncture in Castro Torres, ‘People’s My Amazing Brain: Richard’s Counterculture Britain: The 14.45-15.30 Resilience and Natural War tells the true story of Transnational Knowledge of Disasters in Chilean Richard Gray and his Alternative Medicine in the Chair: Yujie Xie History’ remarkable recovery from a 1970s’ (Comparative Literature), life-changing catastrophic ‘Women, Monsters and Link to join Webinar stroke, as recorded by his Link to join Webinar Marginalised People: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9232 documentary film-maker wife https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9722 Otherness and Identity 1254408 Fiona Lloyd-Davies over a 4366296 Problems in Gothic and period of four years. The film Magical Realism’ follows Richard on his painful 16.45-17.30 journey back to health, Paper 1: Yujie Xie, ‘The showing the extraordinary Voice of Othered Identities: Invited Delegation Panel impact of the intensive Prophecy and Curse in One from the University of rehabilitation programme he Hundred Years of Solitude California Los Angeles underwent in Professor Nick and What Remains of Edith Ward’s care, and dipping into 11.00-11.55 Finch’ Chair: Jason Araújo his past as a peacekeeper Paper 2: Qingyue Wang, (Comparative Literature, when he was working in the Chair: Yishan Jiang ‘Monstering the 19th UCLA) brutal war in Sarajevo, Bosnia (Comparative Literature), Century: From Mary in the mid-1990s. ‘Reading China: Filmic, Shelley’s Frankenstein to Paper 1: Jason Araújo, Textual Representation and Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ ‘Transatlantic Translations, Session Convened by Gerri Translation’ Paper 3: Yitong Liu, Año I Sur, 1931’ McHugh (Founder and ‘Realising Equality: A Study Paper 2: Melanie Jones, Director, Global Health Film) Paper 1: Yishan Jiang, of the Representation of ‘Mad Literature in the ‘Real China?: The Witches in Nineteenth- Global Post-Truth Age’ Development of Chinese Century and Contemporary Paper 3: Stefanie Link to join Webinar Urban and Rural Modernity: Gothic Literature’ Matabang, ‘Project-ing https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ The Good Earth and Postcolonial Medievalism in 5cc7xdrf Moment in Peking’ Link to join Webinar the 21st Century’ Paper 2: Yi Li, ‘The https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9181 Development of the 8589532 Link to join Webinar Chinese Main Melody Film: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9684 The Merging Process of 6800560 Official Culture and Popular Culture’ Paper 3: Daniel Shaoqiang Zhang, ‘The Pandemic Isn’t Over: Developing Interdisciplinary Effectiveness-Enhanced Health Materials and their Translation to Overcome Barriers to Accessible and Multilingual Communication’
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12.00-12.55
Special Invited Delegation Panel: University of Glasgow
Chair: Kristina Astrom (French; School of Modern Languages and Culture, University of Glasgow) Paper 1: Kristina Astrom, ‘Towards a Poetics of Folding: Inter-art Relations Between Stéphane Mallarmé and James McNeill Whistler’ Paper 2: Gareth Hughes, ‘Within and Without the Nation: Reconfigurations of Community in the Oulipian Poetry of Urban Transit’ Paper 3: Sophie Maddison, ‘Urban Interconnections: Ecocritical Readings of the City in Works by Émile Zola and Matilde Serao’
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FRIDAY 23 JULY 2021
10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-19.00
PGR/PGT Panels Special Invited PGR/PGT Panel Screening of PGR/PGT research films, Session on Pedagogy followed by an Open Mike Discussion 10.00-10.55 and the Curriculum 16.00-16.45 on the Interaction Between Research and Film Chair: Janina Klement 14.00-14.45 Chair: (Phoebe) Jinru (CMII), ‘Ritual Bodies / Yang (CMII), ‘World Sponsored by the Documentary-Track Social Healing’ Maria Chiara D’Argenio Literature’ PhD programme, UCL (SELCS) and Elizabeth Paper 1: (Phoebe) Paper 1: Janina Chant (SELCS): Jinru Yang, Klement, ‘The Clinic ‘De-colonizing the Urban Marginality in Cósima Ramírez Ruiz de la Prada and the Collective: How Curriculum’ Sylvia Plath’s The Bell (Comparative Literature), ‘From Fashion to the Diagnosis Became Jar and James Literature’: Social in 20th-Century Link to join Webinar Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Psychiatry’ https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Room’ https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsezsby58j8tkq Paper 2: Ed Allnutt, ‘A 8725533207 Paper 2: Qin Yan, ‘The e/CosimaFV.mp4?dl=0 Hygienic Reading of Role of Nature in Dante’s Purgatory, 1’ Experimental Prose Leonor Serrano Rivas (Slade), ‘Estrella’: Paper 3: Luthien Writing by Virginia Cangemi, ‘Healing PGR/PGT Panel Woolf and https://vimeo.com/545279098 Hands in Old Norse Rabindranath Tagore’ Medicine’ 14.45-15.30 Paper 3: Jingyi Ouyang, ‘La creatura Ludwig Wagner (Film Studies), ‘South Link to join Webinar Chair: Duarte Bénard bella bianco vestita: African Queer Cinemas: An Introduction’ https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Da Costa (Comparative The Hidden Role of 804497167 Literature/ Greek and Female Fashion in Izabella Wodzka (SELCS), ‘Depictions of Latin), ‘Polyphonic Jane Austen’ Rome, Gypsy and Traveller Protagonists in 11.00-11.55 Texts: creative Contemporary European Cinema’ (mis)readings from Link to join Webinar Chair: Zitao Zhao, ‘The Dante Alighieri to Anne https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Lorena Cervera Ferrer (SELCS), ‘Latin Presentation of Carson’ 7391839081 American Women’s Documentary Cinema: Feminism in Practices, Politics, and Aesthetics, 1975- Developing Stages: Paper 1: Duarte Bénard 1994’ The Analysis of Da Costa, ‘Quoting and 17.00-17.45 Feminist Texts in Misquoting, in Different Countries’ Reference to John Invited Delegation Ruskin and Marcel from The Federal Session Convened by Gerri McHugh Paper 1: Zitao Zhao, Proust’ University of Minas (Founder and Director, Global Health Film) ‘On the Issue of Paper 2: Chiara Di Gerais and the Accepting the Writer’s Maio, ‘Ovid as Federal University of Words in Character and Ovid as Mato Grosso Link to join Webinar Autobiography’ Book: Two Examples of https://www.crowdcast.io/e/g59tmkqq Paper 2: Yin Lu, ‘The Ovidian Dramatic Chair: Nefeli Tragic Tone of Female Reception in the Italian Zygopoulou (CMII), Coming-of-Age Middle Ages’ ‘Revisiting Brazil’s Narrative in China: Paper 3: Zoe Harris- Cultural Roots: Looking Eileen Chang’s Works’ Wallis, ‘Exploring the Back to Grasp the Paper 3: Yuhan Li, ‘The Eidolon: The Reception Present’ Relationship Between of Euripides’ Helen in Gender and Colonial the Poetry of Sandeep Paper 1: Leticia Politics: An Parmar and Anne Capanema, Examination of the Carson’ ‘Catastrophic memories West’s obsession with in Brazilian Cinema: Veiling’ Link to join Webinar Phantasmagoria, https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Anachronism, and Link to join Webinar 8674102478 Slavery’ https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Paper 2: Daniel Melo 2594898027 Ribeiro, ‘Indigenous Countermapping: Affinities Between 12.00-12.55 Critical Cartography and Decolonisation’ Chair: Yixuan Chen (Comparative Link to join Webinar Literature), ‘Gender, https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9 Identity and Language’ 4455497785
Paper 1: Yixuan Chen, ‘Language and the Construction of Identity in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School’ Paper 2: Xiaoxiao Huang, ‘Men Constructing men: Male Characters in “New Woman” Novels by George Gissing (The Odd Women) and H.G. Wells (Ann Veronica) Paper 3: Xin Fang, ‘The Cinderella Archetype in Persuasion and Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City’
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KEN LOACH
Ken Loach is the UK’s most outstanding filmmaker. He read law at St Peter’s College, Oxford, and, soon after graduation, he began working as an actor and then a director for the BBC, producing a series of hard-hitting films about working-class people. His film Kes (1969), which tells the story of a troubled young boy and his kestrel, was voted the seventh greatest British film of the twentieth century. Loach has a vested interest in the Hispanic world, as evidenced by his film about republican resistance during the Spanish War, Land and Freedom (1995), and Carla’s Song (1996) which is about political resistance in Nicaragua, and which was highly influential throughout Latin America. In 2014 Loach was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and in 2016 he was awarded the Auteur award by the Raindance Film Festival. Two his films – The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) – were awarded the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers in history to win the award twice. We are screening his latest drama film, Sorry We Missed You, released in October 2019, at this conference.
EFRAÍN KRISTAL
Efraín Kristal is Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature in the University of California Los Angeles. He specializes in Latin American literature in comparative contexts, translation studies, and aesthetics. He is author of over eighty scholarly articles and prologues as well as the following books: The Andes Viewed from the City. Literary and Political Discourse on the Indian in Peru (1987); Temptation of the Word. The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa (1998); and Invisible Work. Borges and Translation (2002). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (2005), the Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (2012), and the Penguin edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ Poems of the Night (2010). He is also one of three associate editors of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel (2010). He has held various fellowships and awards, including at the Institute for Advanced Study at La Trobe University, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
FIONA CLEARY
With a career spanning 20 years in the media industry (10 at the BBC, 10 as a freelancer) Fiona has overseen the creation of some outstanding broadcast, commercial and digital content. Broadcast credits include flagship series like Portrait Artist of the Year, The Culture Show, This World, Equator/Tropic of Capricorn, and Newsnight.
With broad experience across sectors, she’s covered breaking news in World Service radio; pursued investigations across continents in TV current affairs documentaries (shooting second camera and translating along the way); and she’s brought complex science and history to life as compelling stories told through film, apps and an interactive graphic novel. More recently she’s focused on delivering gripping arts content, taking TV factual entertainment show, Portrait Artist of the Year right through from the first series, to what is now Sky Arts highest rating programme.
GRAHAM HENDERSON
A successful arts leader and cultural entrepreneur, Graham has successfully founded two new arts organisations in the UK over the last 15 years and has worked as a public art consultant. From 2006 he developed Poet in the City as a successful ‘mixed funding’ model combining corporate sponsorship, earned income and grant funding and achieved its selection as a National Portfolio Organisation by Arts Council England in 2010. Since 2014 Graham has been CEO of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation, a dynamic cross-arts organisation inspired by the French poets, commissioning new work (including several theatre shows), building relationships with partners all over Europe, and developing an innovative new investment model for the arts. As a public art consultant Graham delivered Pope’s Urn in 2015, a major piece of public art inspired by poetry, and wrote the official essay of support for the Farrell Review, calling for a new approach to the commissioning of public art.
ROSALIND HARVEY
Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator and writer based in Coventry. Her translations include Juan Pablo Villalobos’ Down the Rabbit Hole (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize), Enrique Vila-Matas’ Dublinesque (with Anne McLean; shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Award), and Herralde Prize-winner Guadalupe Nettel’s After the Winter.
She is a 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a 2016 Arts Foundation Fellow, and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network, a lively online community for early-career literary translators.
MEGAN MILLAN
Megan Milan is Commissioning Editor of Tamesis Books, a leading academic imprint specialising in studies on Hispanic and Lusophone culture, history and society, and Durham University IMEMS Press, a new partnership between the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University and Boydell & Brewer Ltd. Prior to her career in publishing, she worked in market research and as an interpreter. She has degrees from the University of Cambridge, Yale University and Hamilton College (NY).
ADAM FEINSTEIN
Adam Feinstein, born in Cambridge, UK, is a prize-winning author, poet, translator, Hispanist, journalist, film critic and autism researcher. His acclaimed biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). He also wrote the introduction to the English edition of Laberintos by Jorge Luis Borges (The Folio Society, 2007). Other books include his translations from Neruda’s Canto General, with colour illustrations by the celebrated Brazilian artist, Ana Maria Pacheco (Pratt Contemporary, 2013) and another bilingual collection of his translations, The Unknown Neruda (Arc, 2019). His latest bilingual edition of rhyming English translations from the great Nicaraguan poet, Rubén Darío, first came out in Managua in January 2020 and has just been published in a separate UK edition (Shearsman, 2020).
His widely praised books on autism include A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Autism Works: A Guide to Employment Across the Entire Spectrum (Routledge, 2018).
Feinstein has given lectures on Neruda, autism and the cinema around the world, including Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the United States, Russia, China, India, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
His own poems and his translations (of Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Mario Benedetti and others) have appeared in numerous magazines, including PN Review, Agenda, Acumen, Poem and Modern Poetry in Translation. He is currently working on the first English translation of Mario Benedetti’s novel in verse, El cumpleaños de Juan Ángel. He is also writing two novels and a book on Argentinian cinema.
He has taught Latin American cinema and poetry and taught literature as a member of the Royal Literary Fund. He is also a Member of the Academia Hispanoamericana de Buenas Letras.
CHRIS ROBERTS
Chris Roberts is a freelance writer who has written about music, films and books for everyone from Melody Maker and Record Collector to The Guardian and the BBC for thirty five years. He has published books on Elton John, Beyonce, Tom Jones, Lou Reed, Michael Jackson, Abba, Pharrell, Scarlett Johansson, the 100 best TV shows, and others. His book on The Velvet Underground comes out next year. He has interviewed David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry, Debbie Harry, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Janet Jackson, Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, and many more. He has appeared on music documentaries on TV. Born in Wales, he lives in London.
MICHAEL CHANAN
Michael Chanan is a seasoned documentarist, writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. His scholarly work ranges from early cinema to the politics of documentary, with a focus on Latin American, especially Cuban cinema, and he has also written on the social history of Western music. His first films were documentaries on contemporary music for BBC2 in the early 1970s, then in the 80s, after a spell teaching in a film school, he made films in Latin America for Channel 4, then returned to teaching in the 90s. He went back to filmmaking around the turn of the millennium by shifting from 16mm to digital video and finding funds within academia or working with minimal budgets, resulting in a variety of shorts and several long-form documentaries: on human rights; Detroit; the electrification of the Soviet Union; a compilation of video blogs on the protest movement of 2010/11 in the UK, originally made for the New Statesman; the City of London and finance capitalism; the politics of memory in Argentina and Chile; the confusions of the monetary system; and most recently, ecology in Cuba. In the perspective of this trajectory, he will critique the myths of ‘freelance’ employment and deconstruct the ‘gig’ economy, crowdfunding, the role of film festivals, etc. See www.mchanan.com
COLLETTE LUX
Collette’s career includes senior roles in the private and public sectors encompassing Unilever, BBC, the UK government’s Department for Education & Skills, the UK’s Technology Skills Council, King’s College London and UCL.
At King’s, Collette was responsible for developing and implementing strategies to target students from the UK and around the world, at all levels of study and all disciplines. As part of her overhaul of student recruitment, she set up in-country offices in USA, India, China, Nigeria and Malaysia. The impact of these changes led to King’s being able to attract consistently more applications from higher calibre students, thus bucking sector trends.
Since joining UCL in 2017, she has delivered a new brand positioning and campaign that won two of the most coveted awards in the design and advertising industry and higher education sector. Leading her 70 strong department, Collette has transformed UCL’s approach to student recruitment and established the largest and most successful professional network at UCL, spanning more than 700 communications practitioners. She has also revolutionised internal comms against a challenging external environment of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic while building a professional, responsive new department.
Collette has been recognised by a number of communications and marketing industry awards including IPA Marketing Effectiveness 1993, the coveted UK Marketing Society Award in 1998 for the BBC’s award-winning trail ‘Perfect Day’, Time Out and New Media Age 2000, World of Learning 2004 and most recently UCL has shortlisted for THE Outstanding Marketing/Communications Team, Won Marketing Campaign of the Year in the PIEoneer Awards, Gold in The Drum Design Awards, Silver in the Fresh Awards, Bronze in the 2020 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
CÓSIMA RAMÍREZ
Cósima Ramírez graduated from Brown University in 2013 (History BA) and began working for her mother’s eponymous fashion label – Agatha Ruiz de la Prada – promptly thereafter, while completing IE Business School’s Master in Management in Madrid. Intensely colourful and eclectic, Cósima’s adventures in the fashion industry have taken her all over the world, staging fashion shows and exhibitions, visiting fairs and factories, and collaborating with all manner of creatives, who have very often proven stranger than fiction. The rainbow-coloured universe of her family brand – which designs clothes, shoes, accessories, furniture, home-wear, stationary, washing machines, surf boards, cars and bullet-proof security doors (to name but a few categories) – has provided her with much material for her satirical columns in YoDona and La Razón. Cósima is currently studying a Masters in Comparative Literature at UCL.
ALEX TURNER
Alex did a BA in French and Spanish at UCL before completing his MA in Hispanic Studies. He then continued at the UCL Institute of Education to do a PGCE in Modern Languages. Alex began his teaching career at Harrow School in 2013 and became Head of Spanish in 2016. He is the Assistant House Master in West Acre and was also Head of Football for 4 years. He is a Governor at a local high school and has led tours and expeditions to New York, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Thailand, Gothenburg and Nice.
JOHN MULLAN
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. His books include What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012). He is also a broadcaster and journalist, and writes on contemporary fiction for the Guardian. He is the author of How Novels Work (OUP, 2006) and in 2009 was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent book is The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020). He published a new edition of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World’s Classics in 2017 has recently completed a new World’s Classics edition of Emma. He has been an advisor on the first series of Bridgerton, and the forthcoming series 2.
MEGAN TOOD
Megan Todd is the Program Director for Context Travel a leading American education and travel company. Based in Rome, Italy, Megan oversees content development for both online learning and on-site tours across the region. She recruits and trains subject area experts and tourist guides to provide high-quality, interactive learning experiences to adults and families. She works on new business strategy in the Mediterranean region. A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies, she first came to Italy as a student. She returned to Italy after graduation and has made it her home ever since.
FIONA LLOYD-DAVIES
Award winning filmmaker & photojournalist, Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been making films and taking pictures about human rights issues in areas of conflict since 1992, from Bosnia, Iraq, Pakistan, to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her film about Honour Killing in Pakistan, License to Kill, for BBC2 Correspondent was awarded a Royal Television Society award for Best International Journalism. Fiona found her way into this genre through an ad hoc trip to Bosnia in the first few months of the war in 1992. It landed her first job on Clive Gordon's BAFTA award-winning feature documentary: The Unforgiving. It is where she met the man she would marry many years later, Richard, who was the Senior Military Observer for the UN’s peace keeping mission UNPROFOR. It also triggered her passion for exposing human rights issues and bringing stories from areas of conflict to a wider audience. Her work combines journalism with a strong visual style that she learnt as a graduate of the Royal College of Art. She films much of her own work, drawing out intensely personal and difficult stories from people often at their most vulnerable; drawing the viewer into the subject’s life to render a deeply drawn portrait, while preserving the dignity and integrity of their story.
NICK WARD
Nick Ward is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Nick is interested in how we can radically improve upper limb recovery after stroke in humans. He is clinical lead of the Queen Square Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation Program and co-director of ARM Lab. He is co-founder of the UCLP Centre for Neurorehabilitation, co-editor Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation and Associate Editor of the journals Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
SONU SHAMDASANI
Sonu Shamdasani is a London-based author, editor, and professor at University College London. His research and writings focus on Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), and cover the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times. Shamdasani edited the first publication of Jung's major work: Liber Novus, The Red Book. Although its title had been well known for years, it was not until 2009 that its contents were revealed to the public and practicing psychotherapists. Currently Shamdasani serves as a professor in the School of European Languages, Culture, and Society (SELCS) at UCL. He is also Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre and Vice Dean Health in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
LUCINDA JARRETT
Lucinda Jarrett, the Creative Director of Rosetta Life, is a writer, independent dance artist, and performance maker who co- founded Rosetta Life in 1997. She currently leads a 3-year creative intervention in the stroke community, Stroke Odysseys, www.strokeodysseys.org. She also leads Dream a Difference www.dreamadifference.art - a poetry and song-making project building awareness of social justice and peace across ten countries where children are living with conflict.
MAURICE BIRIOTTI
Professor Maurice Biriotti (UCL Arts and Humanities) is Chair of Applied Humanities at UCL and Chief Executive of SHM, a strategy consultancy firm that uses approaches from the humanities and social sciences to solve complex issues for organisations. Maurice’s work at SHM is based on insights drawn from his own research on the nature of interpersonal dialogue, conflict resolution, cultural change and story-telling in the fields of literature, philosophy and, most recently, neuroscience. As Chair of Applied Humanities, he is leading a number of projects on the critical importance of humanities disciplines within and beyond the university and is currently chairing the UCL Enquiry on the Humanities. He is also Chair of the Bloomsbury Festival and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM).
STELLA BRUZZI
Stella Bruzzi studied English and Drama at the University of Manchester and completed her PhD (‘Trial and Error: The Political Use of Trials in Film, Theatre and Television’) at Bristol. Prior to joining UCL in April 2017, she was at the University of Warwick for 10 years, where she served as Head of the Department of Film and Television Studies and as Chair of the Arts Faculty for 3 years. 1993—2006 she taught at Royal Holloway and 1992—1993 at the University of Manchester. Stella was a Researcher at BBC Television, first in Bristol (Documentary Features) then in London (Music and Arts), from 1988—1992. For many years she was a regular contributor to Sight and Sound and has appeared in several television and radio programmes and documentaries. In 2013 she was made a Fellow of the British Academy.
JULIA JORDAN
Julia Jordan is Associate Professor of 20th Century English Literature at UCL. She has a BA in Classics, and an MA and PhD in modern English literature. Her research has largely focused on chance, late modernism, the avant-garde of the postwar period, and contemporary experimental fiction. She edited the work of experimentalist B. S. Johnson, and has published two monographs, and various essays. Chance and the Modern British Novel was published in 2010, and more recently Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies, came out with Oxford University Press in March 2020. She is currently working on a new project, largely about trees and representation in the poetry and experimental writing of the twentieth century.
LEE GRIEVESON
Lee Grieveson is Professor of Media History at University College London. He has taught previously at the University of Exeter, at King’s College, London, and as a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University. Grieveson works on cinema/media and political economy. His book Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System (University of California Press, 2018) examines the way cinema was utilized by states and corporations to facilitate the establishment of a transnational liberal political economy in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The book was supported by Fellowships from the Leverhulme Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council and it is the recipient both of the Limina Award for Best International Cinema Studies Book and the British Association of Film and Television Studies Award of Best Monograph. Grieveson was co-principal investigator, with Colin MacCabe, of a major UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project entitled ‘Colonial Cinema: Moving Images of the British Empire’, a project which both aimed to digitally archive British colonial cinema spanning the twentieth century and to organize scholarly gatherings to investigate these materials.
JAMES WILSON
James Wilson is a philosopher and ethicist based in the Department of Philosophy at UCL. His research integrates philosophy with other relevant disciplines, such as epidemiology, economics and political theory, to explore conceptual and practical challenges in the sustainable and equitable improvement of human wellbeing. He focuses particularly on public health ethics, and the ownership and governance of ideas and information. He is Director of MA Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health, and co-director of MA Health Humanities. He teaches modules in ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics -- particularly focusing on public health ethics. He was Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2015-19, and Interim Head of Department until the end of April 2021.
NICOLA MILLER
Nicola Miller is Professor of Latin American History in the Department of History at UCL. She is interested in the intellectual, cultural, political and international history of the Americas, in comparative and transnational perspectives; and in nationalism and national identity, especially in the Americas. Her current research focuses on the history of knowledge in Latin America. She held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 'Public Knowledge and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', 2014-17. Her book, Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America, was published by Princeton University Press in 2020. She is currently director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL.
JONATHAN ROMNEY
Jonathan Romney is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Screen International and more. He is the author of Atom Egoyan (BFI) and Short Orders, and the editor of Celluloid Jukebox: Popular Music and the Movies Since the 1950s. In an interview he commented: ‘I came to film as an obsession really late and I think I got that typical Parisian cinéphile thing where suddenly you find yourself watching three Rivette films a day, five days a week and realising that you really like living in the dark.’
ROBERT GOODWIN
Robert Goodwin studied at King’s College London, UCL, SOAS, and Granada and Seville Universities, ‘which left him with a marked Sevillian accent’. The University of London awarded him a PhD for his thesis on Food, Art, and Society in Early Modern Spain (2001), supervised by B.W. Ife. He is a Research Fellow in SELCS, UCL, and he has recently collaborated with scholars at the Indigenous Peoples Law Program at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His highly successful book, Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682, was published by Bloomsbury on both sides of the Atlantic in 2015. It's a narrative history of the cultural revolution known as the ‘Spanish Golden Age’ taking place at the heart of the vast Spanish empire, and which sets sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain at the epicentre of the new western world. His history of Spanish America, América, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
LUCY BOLLINGTON
Lucy Bollington is a cultural theorist with interests in film and literature since 1960. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics and aesthetics and has addressed topics including conflict, technology and the body. She is currently completing a book entitled The Art of Necropolitics: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Culture, and writing a second book on technology and the body in artist's films concerned with digital culture, the first part of which focuses on the films of Hito Steyerl. Her work engages extensively with critical and cultural theory and political philosophy. With Annie Ring, Lucy is currently engaged in a project that examines how transnational moving image art and screen media index the uncertainty and turbulence brought about by technological and informational change under late modernity. With Annie Ring and Emily Baker she convenes a theory reading group on 'Internet, Matter, World'.
NICK WITHAM
Nick Witham is a historian of the twentieth-century United States. He joined the UCL Institute of the Americas in 2015. Nick is Co-Editor of the Journal of American Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Nick’s interests span post-1945 US political and intellectual history in transnational perspective, encompassing the histories of protest, imperialism and anti- imperialism, historiography, and memory. His first book, The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015), won the British Association for American Studies Arthur Miller Prize. He is also the co- editor of Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
JACOBO GNISCI
Jacopo is a Lecturer in the Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at UCL, and a Visiting Scholar in Department of Africa, Oceania, and the America at the British Museum. He is the co-PI of the projects Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527) (2021–24, AHRC Grant Ref. no. AH/V002910/1; DFG Projektnummer 448410109) and Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia (2021–24, Gerda Henkel Foundation). His research has been supported by a range of institutions including the Getty and the Met. Jacopo sits on the editorial board of several journals for medieval and African studies including Gesta (International Center of Medieval Art), Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, and the Rassegna di Studi Etiopici.
XINE YAO
Dr. Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London. Her first book is Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America which has won Duke University Press’s Scholars of Color First Book Award (October 2021). Her honours include the American Studies Association’s Yasuo Sakakibara Essay Prize and her research has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of PhDivas Podcast.
CLIVE NWONKA
Dr Clive James Nwonka completed his PhD in Film Studies at Brunel University, which sought to improve understandings of the relationship between political ideology and film texts, and the broader concept of film as social practice. His research is situated at the intersections of contemporary realism and film policy, with particular interests in black British film, international cinemas and American Independent film. This is framed around the representation of socio-political issues in contemporary cinema, exploring the linearity between decontextualized representations with the macro changes in the political sphere – how national cinemas appropriate and counter political hegemony. Clive is currently writing on the political economy of diversity policy within the UK film industry, neoliberal aesthetics in contemporary black cinema and the representation of the white working class in American Independent Film.
MARIA CHIARA D’ARGENIO
Maria Chiara D’Arengio’s research interests are the representation of indigenous cultures and ethnicity in Latin American cinema; decoloniality; Latin American print culture and magazine; Peruvian visual culture; early and contemporary cinema in Latin America; cultural connections between Latin America and Italy. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research. She has presented papers at conferences in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, USA, Spain and the UK; written chapters for edited books; published articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies; Studies in Spanish and Spanish American Cinemas; Postcolonial Studies Journal); and edited a special issue of the prestigious Revista Iberoamericana on modernity, visuality and the press in Latin America. In 2019, she co- organised the international conference 'Periodicals on the Periphery? Magazines and Print Culture in Latin America'.
ELIZABETH CHANT
Elizabeth Chant was recently awarded her PhD in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London. She works at the intersections of history and cultural studies. Her AHRC-funded research analyses the evolution of representations of Patagonia in the south of Argentina and Chile using a diverse body of material including cartography, photography, literature, and voyage accounts from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Liz’s thesis considers why and how the tropes of hostility and desolation have come to be the defining factors in non-indigenous understandings of Patagonia, and asks what we can learn from these historical processes about humanity’s relationships with the natural world.
STEPHEN HART
Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He has published a series of monographs and edited volumes on Latin American literature and film, including Autógrafos olvidados, an edition of the 52 hand-written manuscripts of early versions of César Vallejo’s poems which were discovered in Montevideo, a literary biography of Gabriel García Márquez (2010), a new biography (2017) and an edition of the apostolic process (2017, 2019) of the inaugural saint of the Americas, Santa Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and a history of Latin American film with Reaktion Books (2015). Stephen Hart is currently Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.