Dr Jordana Blejmar

Summary

2020. Keynote speaker at I Congreso internacional GILCO/Grupo de investigación en Literatura contemporánea “Pensar lo real: (auto)ficción y discurso crítico”, Göteborgs universitet.

2019. Keynote speaker at the Visual Culture in Argentina Symposium, Maynooth University, .

2018. Interview for national newspaper in Argentina, Página/12, about my co-edited book El pasado inasequible: https://www.pagina12.com.ar/131953-el-pasado-se-sigue-interrogando

2018 Guest speaker at book launch of Sara Gallardo’s Land of Smoke (Pushkin Press), Argentine Embassy in London, 5 March, and Guest post at Cambridge University Library Website:‘Sara Gallardo: Recently rediscovered Argentine writer’: www.europeancollections.wordpress.com

2017 Guest speaker at the Liverpool Iberian & Latin American Film Festival, 1 November

2016 Guest speaker at the Oxford Argentine Contemporary Film Festival, supported by the Argentine Embassy London and DAC-Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos, 29-30 October

2016 Controversial Issues in Contemporary Filmmaking, Screenings series with invited directors, School of the Arts, Liverpool (convenor)

2016 Memory, Politics and Art 40 Years after the 1976 Coup in Argentina, 24 February, SotA library, Liverpool (convenor)

2016 Article for The Conversation: ‘Trials against the perpetrators of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina are no act of revenge’ (www.theconversation.org)

2015 Blejmar J. and Taylor, C. Policy document for AHRC-funded Project Latin(o) American Digital Art, Policy Document, September 2015 (contains observations and recommendations regarding exhibition spaces for digital artwork, the uses of social media for curation and engagement, and future possibilities for European-Latin American artistic collaborations) [published in Spanish and English]

2013-2014 ‘Meeting the Directors: Dialogues Between New Argentine Cinema & Theatre’, Sponsored by the Argentine Embassy in London, Senate House

2013 Cornerhouse Cinema, Manchester. ‘Dictatorship and Memory in Latin American Documentary Films’, part of Spanish and Latin American Film in the 21st Century evening course, 4 March

2012 Respondent to public talk ‘Memoria y escritura’ given by Argentine writer Laura Alcoba as part of Contemporary Latin American Woman Writers, Artists and Filmmakers Conference, 26 October, University of Stirling

2012 Interview for the Television Programme Fotos de Infancia (episode: Identidad), State Channel Encuentro, Argentina Link: http://encuentro.gob.ar/programas/serie/8392/5045?temporada=1

2011 Infancia, dictadura y transmisión. Organiser of conference for general public that included presentations by artists and writers. FLACSO, Buenos Aires

2010 Discovering Latin America Film Festival. Head of Film and Culture section, London