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Atlantic Insularities: Languages of Exorbitance in Spanish-speaking Island Cultures
Outputs by Francisco-J. Hernánez Adrián
Book Chapters
2020 'Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American Cinema', in Davies, Catherine, O’Bryen, Rory & Green, Stuart (eds.), Transnational Hispanic Studies, Liverpool University Press.
Papers
10-12 July 2019
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián co-organises the symposium Borders, Regimes, Disposability: A Symposium on Migration and State Violence at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University and presents paper titled ‘Photography as Anecdote: "Translating" Walker Evans’ Cuban Portfolio, ca. 1933’.
15-17 November 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián organises and presents his work at the symposium Latin American Cinema and Environmental Politics: Colombia and Cuba at St Chad’s College, Durham University.
29-30 May 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián co-organises the symposium Decentred / Dissenting Connections: Envisioning Caribbean Film and Visual Cultures (Newcastle University) and presents paper titled ‘Conflicted Islandscapes of Recent Caribbean Cinema: Jeffrey (2016) by Yanillys Pérez, and Keyla (2017) by Viviana Gómez Echeverry’.
17 April 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián organises and chairs the panel ‘Transversalities of Atlantic, Caribbean and Global North/South Studies’ at the conference Our Uncommon Ground: Modern Languages and Cultures in the 21st Century, Durham, 16-18 April 2018.
21-22 March 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents paper ‘Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together (1997) Two Decades On: Imagining a Future South-South Film Aesthetics in Transnational Cinema languages’ at the International Symposium on Translingual and Transcultural Studies (College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, China).
19-22 September 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents paper ‘Fragile Visual Futures: The Imagination of Littoral Precarity in Recent Latin American Cinema’ at the conference Vulnerabilities:The Impact of Hazard, Risk and Disasters on Societies, organised by Durham University's Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR).
28 June - 1 July 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents paper ‘A Cinema of Extreme Places: Imaging Colombia in Global South Context’ at the international symposium Crisis and Beyond: Imaginaries, Narratives, Anticipations, ‘Fictions of Threat’ Project, Department of English, Uppsala University.
14-16 June 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián co-organises the symposium Borders, Regimes, Disposability: A Symposium on Migration and State Violence, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, and presents paper titled ‘Borders Regimes: Oscuro animal and the Colombian Interior’.
29-30 May 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents paper ‘An Aesthetics of Fixity, Interiority and Silence: Violence in the Films of Felipe Guerrero’ at the international workshop Violence and Aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean, Radical Philosophy Research Group, University of Bergen.
31 March 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents paper ‘Da pa’ lo’ do’ de Rita Indiana Hernández y Engel Leonardo: riesgo, desidentificación y responsablilidad en los Caribes de la imagen’ at the Seminário Estado actual dos estudos culturais e literários das Caraíbas hispânicas, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Universidade de Lisboa.
13 March 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents ‘On the Concept of Insular and Littoral Cinema: Shaping Ruination in El vuelco del cangrejo by Óscar Ruiz Navia’ at Shaping Nature, Shaping Humans: Entwined Landscapes in Latin America, IV Latin American Cultural Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures.
30 November-2 December 2016
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents two seminar papers on Latin American cinema: ‘La mirada indignada: el cine reciente de Colombia’ and ‘La mirada vehemente: El cine de Lucrecia Martel’ at the Curso Arte, Literatura y Violencia en Latinoamérica, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Casa de Colón, Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Impact
17-20 September 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián organises the workshop 'Beyond Ruins, the Submerged and the Emerging: Visions of Space and Its Flights in Recent Latin American Cinema' at the Colombia's National Cinemathèque, Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá. See poster.
12-15 September 2018
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián runs, as visiting scholar, a research module on Caribbean and Latin American cinemas and environments in Global South contexts for the MA in Visual Culture Practice and Research, Facultad de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
29 September - 8 October 2017
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián co-curates What's Left? A Century in Revolution, a special programme of screenings, talks and discussion at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, hosting the sessions on Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's classic Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo, 1968), the UK premiere of Léa Rinaldi’s documentary Esto es lo que hay (2015), and the audience discussion around the art film Cayuco (2013) by Marcos Ávila Forero.
21 June 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián participates in Q&A discussion following the screening of Johanna Schwartz’s documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First as part of Refugee Week, an event hosted by CVAC, Durham County Council, and Gala Theatre, Durham.
1-6 March 2017
Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián curates 'Caribbean Cinemas: Visions of the Ruin, the Submerged and the Emerging', a special programme of contemporary Caribbean and island films for FICCI 57 (Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias). He is also a member of the Jury for the festival's Official Short Film Competition.