EVENTS 2011-2012
The LUC Research Centre organizes a range of activities for researchers, students, opinion leaders, professionals and the general public. Some events are by invitation only, others are open to anyone who is interested. Below you will find the list of activities scheduled for this academic year.
Selected events that are organised by LUCRC partner institutes or events that are in line with LUC Research Centre's research agenda are listed below as well. Please check the individual website for details regarding registration.
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Selected events that are organised by LUCRC partner institutes or events that are in line with LUC Research Centre's research agenda are listed below as well. Please check the individual website for details regarding registration.
If you would like to be kept up to date with events and developments at the LUC Research Centre, please register for our mailing list.
Special Series Special Series
How do we, as a collective of citizens, occupy political space and time?
How is this political engagement distinct from your or my political action as an individual occupying the same political space and time?
The PAI Workshop Series takes these questions as a starting point and explore them through artistic avenues and practices, towards a more robust understanding of political expression.
Dates and details on the workshops can be found here.
How is this political engagement distinct from your or my political action as an individual occupying the same political space and time?
The PAI Workshop Series takes these questions as a starting point and explore them through artistic avenues and practices, towards a more robust understanding of political expression.
Dates and details on the workshops can be found here.
16 January 2012, Bucharest
Romanian protesters against the government's austerity cuts.
picture taken from http://02varvara.wordpress.com/
Filmseries 'Screening the Political - A Window on Latin America'
Films are like bridges: they help us to see and connect with others, and other realities. Aside of entertaining, they can play a crucial role in decoding (un)known forms of life, making them visible and making us aware of the imbricate forms and connective networks exisiting across different historical events and spacial realities.
Since it was first formulated, the question what is political? has been related to the necessary spatiality and temporality of the human condition: plurality, which implies having something in common - already a spatial determinant - and deeds and words that are expressed in public, in turn giving form to the public. In this sense, we have always somehow 'screened' the political, as a way to (trans)form our understanding of what is public.
Screening the Political is a research initiative that will address various topics-views. The launching gaze is on Latin America. During the second half of the academic year 2011-2012 we will gather to watch a selection of films/documentaries, followed by a debate lead by invited speakers coming from various disciplinary backgrounds and activities.
Since it was first formulated, the question what is political? has been related to the necessary spatiality and temporality of the human condition: plurality, which implies having something in common - already a spatial determinant - and deeds and words that are expressed in public, in turn giving form to the public. In this sense, we have always somehow 'screened' the political, as a way to (trans)form our understanding of what is public.
Screening the Political is a research initiative that will address various topics-views. The launching gaze is on Latin America. During the second half of the academic year 2011-2012 we will gather to watch a selection of films/documentaries, followed by a debate lead by invited speakers coming from various disciplinary backgrounds and activities.
América Invertida (1943) by Joaquín Torres García
This drawing from 1943 became a centerpiece in the history of Latin American efforts at reclaiming themselves in a world vision. Torres García placed the South Pole at the top of the earth, thereby suggesting a visual affirmation of the importance of the continent, and in an effort to present a pure revision of the world.
Further information with details about the dates, films and commentators can be found below
Everybody is welcome to attend!
convenor: Dr. Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (d.a.vicherat.mattar@luc.leidenuniv.nl)
Everybody is welcome to attend!
convenor: Dr. Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (d.a.vicherat.mattar@luc.leidenuniv.nl)
LUCRC would like to thank the organisers of the Movies That Matter film festival for their collaboration in the 'Screening the Political' research initiative.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the people at the Latin American Film Festival (LAFF) for their support
We would also like to express our gratitude to the people at the Latin American Film Festival (LAFF) for their support
Upcoming Events Upcoming Events
Enter the category for this item: MAY 2012
Tuesday 29 May
16.00-18.00 hrs
ISS
Kortenaerkade 12
2518 AX The Hague
Aula A
16.00-18.00 hrs
ISS
Kortenaerkade 12
2518 AX The Hague
Aula A
NATO Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success?
Professor Alan J. Kuperman, University of Texas
Western media and politicians typically praise NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya as a humanitarian success for averting a bloodbath and helping replace the dictatorial regime of Muammar Qaddafi with a transitional council pledged to democracy.
Based on this ostensible success, experts cite Libya as a model for implementing the emerging international norm of the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). Before embracing such conclusions, however, it is important to conduct a more rigorous assessment of the intervention’s impact.
In this lecture, Prof. Alan J. Kuperman compares the actual outcome in Libya to the likely outcome without intervention, based on the best available documentary evidence. He reaches the disturbing but unavoidable conclusion that NATO intervention significantly exacerbated the duration and human toll of violence in Libya.
Accordingly, Kuperman concludes with lessons to help ensure that any future humanitarian intervention does more good than harm.
more information on the ISS website
Wednesday 30 May
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
Cuando las Montañas Tiemblan / When the mountains tremble
N.T. Siegel & P. Yates, USA, Guatemala - 1983
This vigorous and persuasive documentary describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quich Indian woman, the film knits a variety of forms--- interviews, direct address, re-enactment, video transmission, and on the spot footage shot at great hazard--- into a wide-ranging and remarkable cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle.
Speaker: Dan Saxon (Former Prosecutor at ICTY & Leverhume Visiting Professor at Cambridge University)
