The two day event was open to the public and is being convened by Professor Valerie Fraser and Doctor María Iñigo Clavo of the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, and Doctor Michael Asbury and Doctor Isobel Whitelegg of TrAIN, the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation at the University of the Arts London.
The conference is part of Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978, a 3-year research project based at the University of Essex and the University of the Arts London, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy, the UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Speakers included Suzana Vaz (UAL/TrAIN), German Alfonso Adaid (UAL/TrAIN), Sergio Martins (University College London), Aquiles Pantaleão (UAL/London College of Communication), Fernando Davis (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Fernanda Nogueira (Researcher, translator and literary critic), Zanna Gilbert (Tate/University of Essex), Olga Fernandez (Royal College of Art/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Universidad Nebrija, Madrid) Eduardo Grüner (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jaime Vindel (Universidad de León), Miguel López (Art Historian and Independent Curator), and Oriana Baddeley (UAL/TrAIN), as well as contributions from Pablo La Fuente (Afterall), the convenors and the project's external advisors, including Taína Caragol, Guy Brett, Dawn Ades and Joanne Harwood.
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