The Centre will be dedicated to advancing theoretically-informed understanding of Latin American realities through the analysis of diverse cultural formations, including visual media. To this end a series of interdisciplinary research seminars will be launched in September 2008.

The Centre’s main focus will be on literal and metaphorical spaces relating to: geographical frontiers, gender boundaries, the search for home, fixity and identity counterbalanced by nomadism (both literal and philosophical), diversity and transformation. Key areas of theoretical engagement and current research specialisms include:

• colonial history
• national/regional identities
• canon formation
• cultural memory
• migration
• transnational dissemination and transformation of ideas
• ethnicity
• diaspora
• gender
• visual culture
• city cultures especially in relation to modernity and postmodernity

A new MA Programme in Latin American Studies is to be launched in September 2009.

Please visit our website for further details.