Narco-Cultures of Latin America: A Workshop

This event has ended.

A workshop for Latin Americanists working broadly in the area of ‘narco-cultures’ to share works in progress with each other, and anyone else who might be interested.

Confirmed speakers and talks include:

Professor John Kraniauskus, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Breaking Bad: Blackholes, Apache Refusal’

Dr Emily Baker, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘From detectives to theory: savage narcotics in Los detectives salvajes by Roberto Bolano and Las teorias salvajes by Pola Oloixarac’

Lucy Bollington, University Cambridge: ‘Allegories of Property in Drug War Cinema’

Joey Whitfield, Cardiff University: ‘Against the Aesthetics of Prohibition: Form and metaphor in the narconovela’