Munch and Learn: Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
Schedule
Wed Mar 19 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
4339 Park Ave, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117 | Memphis, TN
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Enjoy lunch alongside this weekly lecture series featuring presentations by artists, scholars, and Dixon staff sharing their knowledge on a variety of topics.Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
Vania Barraza Toledo, Professor of Spanish, Department of World Language, University of Memphi
Vania Barraza is Professor of Spanish at the University of Memphis. Her research focuses on Latin American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on film, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of El cine en Chile (Cuarto Propio, 2018), a book that examines contemporary Chilean cinema, and Insubordinadas (RIL 2010), which centers on Latin American women’s writing. More recently, she has co-edited Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) in collaboration with María Helena Rueda, and she also co-edited Chilean Film in the Twenty-First Century World (Wayne State University Press, 2020) with Carl Fischer. She has been awarded a spring 2025 Crosstown Arts Residency Program to develop her scholarly videographic essay: “‘Para verte mejor': Gaze and Aesthetics in Chilean Bildungsfilms.”
Wednesdays can be especially busy at Park and Cherry. If you're attending Munch and Learn, please plan ahead and place your lunch orders early. To reduce disruptions during the lecture, guests are asked to bring their own food from the cafe to the auditorium. You may request to-go containers to make the trip to your seat easier.
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MUNCH AND LEARN IS ENDOWED BY THE LANDAU FAMILY IN MEMORY OF LESLIE MANN LANDAU
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