Lectures

The lectures that we will present can be formulated on three forms: as an audio lecture, as a graphic scheme, and/or as a combination of both. Further or complementary readings will be avoided, however some lectures might be dedicated to a particular author, theory or subject.

Conciencia y pensamiento periférico (2012). A single lecture presented at the Simposium 'Temporalidad y contextos: visiones interdisciplinares entre el arte, la historia y la lingüística', Universidad Complutense de Madrid, May of 2012. First Part. La dimensión de la conciencia (PPT presentation). Second Part. La dimensión cinematográfica (PPT presentation). Third Part. Leading Cases (PPT presentation). Bibliography (Text Format).

Migración y poscolonialismo (2011). A single lecture presented at the Jornadas de Inmigración y Comunicación Intercultural, Universidad Europea de Madrid, May of 2011. First Part (PPT presentation). Second Part (PPT presentation). Third Part (PPT presentation). Fourth part (Diaspora paper, 2006). Fifth part (Written paper). Sixth part (PPT Presentation). A full dossier that is a complement of readings and arguments connected to the lecture is also available. Most of the parts of the lecture are in Spanish.

Some issues on Critical Theory (2006). The lectures are in MP3 format and the graphics on PDF format.

Program
[including general indications of readings]
Lecture 25.01.06 (Part 1 and Part 2)	Lecture 15.02.06 (Part 1 and Part 2)
Lecture 01.03.06 (Part 1 and Part 2)	Lecture 15.03.06 - (Part 1 and Part 2)
Lecture 26.04.06 (Part 1 and Part 2)	Lecture 10.05.06 - Practical Exercise (Audio MP3 - Graphics)

Some issues on Critical Theory (2005). The lectures are in MP3 format and the graphics on PDF format.

Lecture 09.02.05 (Part 1 and Part 2)	Lecture 18.02.05 (Single part)
Lecture 02.03.05 (Part 1 and Part 2)	Lecture 09.03.05 (Single part)
Lecture 16.03.05 (Single part)	Lecture 27.04.05 (Part 1 and Part 2)

The Ingaramo's Perspective (2005). The general hypothesis of the lecture is that the literary activities in peripherical societies cannot be explained and interpreted in the classical self-referential way, that is, for example, that “River Plate literature” can only be interpreted in epistemological terms when approached as part of the field of cultural production. More specifically the paper will propose that Elias Ingaramos’s works were designed having this previous hypothesis as their general assumption. A strategy which we will call “Ingaramo’s Perspective”, in the sense that, in our view, it constitutes one of the few literary and writing approaches to follow the example offered, differing radically from the borgesian attitude which has largely dominated the last 50 years of the River Plate cultural activities. The material of The Ingaramo's Perspective is in English and the file in PDF format.

Working On

Latin American Cinema

We have been working on the idea of how 'Latin America' is a phenomenon that has been constructed through cinema and movies. Rather than considering the 'content' of the film we are interestd in how the movie is constructed and how cinema is working in terms of symbolic values and financial market.

Argentinian Culture at the End of the XXth Century

How the notions of culture and understanding are constructed from movies and from cinematography is the aim of the lectures dedicated to the subject.

General Approach to Cinema

The great majority of the so-called 'Film Studies' approaches to movies and cinematography is a basic translation of literature methodologies to the movies' plot. In this sense the oversimplification of sociological, political or filosofical issues came from the fact that they are considered as elements of the plot and nothing more.