tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67246062011-04-21T15:37:08.640-07:00personal and professional website with curriculum vitaevekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03651054122304160364noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724606.post-1098758144272313202004-10-25T19:15:00.000-07:002007-01-25T06:12:42.680-08:00<span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Lecturer in Latin American Studies, </strong></span></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>University of Sydney</strong></span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>email: <span style="color:#000099;"><a href="mailto:vek_lewis@yahoo.com">vek_lewis@yahoo.com</a></span></strong></span></span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Research interests</span></strong><br /><br /><br />Gender and sexuality in Latin America * Marginalised groups and representation * Social theory * Sociological research * Visual and music cultures in Latin America * Mass media and cinema * Postmodern literatures * Informal social organisation and change<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">PUBLICATIONS</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Articles<br /></span><br />2004<br />‘Walking in the “delinquent” city’ in Place, Memory, Identities: Australia, Spain and the New World. Antípodas VI Special Issue.<br /><br />2003<br />‘La noche delincuente: la representación del prostituto en El vampiro de la colonia Roma, Las púberes canéforas, y La Virgen de los Sicarios’ in JILAS: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9.1.<br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Reviews</span><br /><br />2005<br />‘Educating the Educators by Malcolm K Read’ in Colloquy, Issue 9. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/others/colloquy/issue9<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Translations<br /></span><br />2006<br />‘The City: Deconstructing the Barcelonan Imaginary’ by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Antípodas Special Issue in Memory of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán - in press.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS<br /></span><br />2006<br />‘Of Lady-killers and “Men Dressed as Women”: Soap Opera, Scapegoats and the Mexico City Police Department’. Hyperworld: Language, Culture and History. VII International AILASA Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, September 27-29.<br /><br />2006<br />‘Performing Translatinidad: Miriam the Mexican Transsexual Reality Show Star and the Tropicalisation of Gendered/Raced Identity in Anglo-Australian Media’. LASA 2006: De-centering Latin American Studies. XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 18.<br /><br />2005<br />‘Transgender Rights in Latin America: Why This is an Important Issue for the Left’. Re-inventing Revolution in Latin America Melbourne Social Forum, CERES Park, November 20.<br /><br />2005<br />‘Trans in Latin America: Overcoming Stigma, Social Exclusion and Economic Exile’ From Stonewall to No Wall: What do Transpeople offer in the Struggle Against Neoliberalism? Trades Hall, October 26.<br /><br />2005<br />‘Trans Activism in Latin America’. Queer Agencies and Social Change in International Perspectives. UTS Institute for International Studies Annual Symposium, June 28.<br /><br />2005<br />‘The Gods Must be locas: Transgendering Santería and the Travesti Sandra la Cubana in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's novel El Rey de La Habana’. Hispanic Studies seminar series, Monash University.<br /><br />2005<br />‘Crimes of Inhumanity: State Institutions and Cultural-legal Discourse as Perpetrators of Violence Against Gender Variant/Transgender People in Latin America’. Crime, Violence and Gendered Identities. Fourth Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium, Monash University, May 13.<br /><br />2004<br />‘Transfigurations: Transgender in the Mexican Cinematic Imaginary’. Reflecting Genders. 6th International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 12.<br /><br />2004<br />‘Transgendering the Nation’. Masculinities in Hispanic Studies. Third Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium, Monash University, August 20.<br /><br />2003<br />‘Walking in the “delinquent” city’. Place, Memory, Identity: Australia, Spain and the New World. The 2nd LaTrobe-Universitat de Barcelona Conference. 10 July.<br /><br />2003<br />‘Cuerpos desviados/cuerpos autónomos’. (De)constructing Deviance in Hispanic Studies. Second Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium, Monash University, April 24. </span></strong><br /><strong></strong><p><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">ARTICLES <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~akagen">www.livejournal.com/~akagen</a></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">ACTIVISM <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~translocal">http://www.livejournal.com/~translocal</a></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6724606-109875814427231320?l=veklewis.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>vekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03651054122304160364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724606.post-1098756413888392802004-10-25T19:06:00.000-07:002004-11-05T07:19:54.386-08:00Queer and gender musings -- this page has moved and is under re-construction. 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