Latin America: Communities and Connections

4th December, 2024. 14-18h, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE (H–1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Room 0.100C)

2024.11.21.

Latin America: Communities and Connections

The Institute of Social Relations and the Department of Global and Development Studies at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, in close cooperation with the Latin America Research Center, will organize a conference entitled Latin America: Communities and Connections—A Showcase of Research Projects on Latin American Society and Culture at ELTE on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, from 14:00 to 18:00.

The event will showcase social science-related research projects on Latin America, carried out by faculty members and doctoral students of the Faculties of Social Sciences and Humaties, ELTE. The event—in addition to presenting scientific studies—aims at strengthening links between researchers focusing on Latin America.

The language of the presentations is English.

Poster of the event.

PROGRAM

14:00	Béla Soltész: Conference opening
14:10	Richárd Papp: Silo's Message: about a Spiritual Community in Sao Paulo
14:40	Bálint Urbán: An Aesthetics of Hunger and Violence. Glauber Rocha's Black God, White Devil
15:10	Ádám Tibor Balogh: Environmental and Economic Correlations in Hungarian Emigration to Brazil in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
15:40	coffee and refreshment break
16:00	Béla Soltész – Anna Szombathelyi: How Did the Venezuelan Exodus Create a ‘Double Diaspora’? Cultural Identities and Transnational Practices of Venezuelan Hungarians in Hungary
16:40	Diana Vallejo Robalino: The spatialization of neoliberalism and popular urbanization: Ethnographic reflections on Guayaquil's Barrios Populares
17:10	Titanilla Fiáth: Reintegration Programs in Colombian Prisons
17:40	closing