On Friday 25 September, Tori and Thea took part in a panel on ‘Digital Visibilities’ at the ‘Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies’ conference, held at Senate House in London. The conference was organised by Tori in collaboration with Sara Brandellero (Leiden) and Stephanie Dennison (Leeds), with support from the Institute of Latin American Studies. The purpose … Continue reading
On 21 August, Tori took part in a panel on Digital Cultures in Brazil at BRASA, the Brazilian Studies Association conference, which was this year held at King’s College London. She presented some of her current work on webdocumentary and urban change in Rio de Janeiro. The other members of the panel were Daniel O’Maley, … Continue reading
At the beginning of April, Tori attended part of the 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and ICTM-Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast, which focused on the theme ‘Ethnomusicology in the Digital Age‘. As the conference website put it, ‘Increasingly, digital technologies are mediating people’s engagement with music, posing new challenges to … Continue reading
Earlier this month, Claire attended the annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) at the University of Stirling. Whilst there was no panel on Latin American digital media specifically (unlike the panel organized by Latamcyber in 2008), there was a broader panel on Digital Hispanism, organized by Kirsty Hooper, which provided … Continue reading