UIB LAC CONFERENCE 2023

Q&A series for the UiB Latin America and Caribbean Conference 2023

In a weekly series in the run-up to the conference “Winds of Change and Streams of Solidarity: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe in the 21st Century”, we interview the members of the programme committee for the conference. Find the interviews collected on this page.

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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Q&A SERIES

Portrait of Associate Professor Ernesto Semán, University of Bergen

Q&A: Ernesto Semán

Historian Ernesto Semán recommends a visit to Buenos Aires for its energy, raves about Chilean TV series Los ’80, waxes lyrical about the mountains of Latin America, and bakes medialunas, an Argentine version of croissants, for his guests.

Photo of health researcher Ana Lorena Ruano in Madrid.

Q&A: Ana Lorena Ruano

Global health researcher Ana Lorena Ruano raves about the active volcanoes in her native Guatemala, loves the short stories of Augusto Monterosso and serves arepas to her guests whilst sipping Guatemalan coffee and Zapaca rum, the best in the world according to her.

Portrait of Professor Leiv Marsteintredet from the University of Bergen, Norway

Q&A: Leiv Marsteintredet

Political scientist Leiv Marsteintredet points at how democracy in Latin America and Europe are linked, bemoans Norwegians who romanticise revolutions and urges everyone to visit Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, both for its colonial history but not the least to grab a cold beer in front of...

Portrait of Associate Professor Gaby Ortiz-Barreda from the University of Bergen

Q&A Gaby Ortiz-Barreda

The UNESCO World Heritage city of Cusco leaves public health researcher Gaby Ortiz-Barreda speechless and she recommends everyone to read Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat. When she cooks the Peruvian flagship dish ceviche, it evokes in her the longing for...

Portrait of Professor Lise Øvreås from the University of Bergen

Q&A: Lise Øvreås

Marine microbiologist Lise Øvreås loves the Atacama Desert in Chile for its unique biological and geological features, enjoys getting into the groove with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, and was introduced to the wonders of magic realism when reading Isabelle Allende’s The House of the Spirits.

Winds of Change and Streams of Solidarity

The University of Bergen, in cooperation with international partners, hosted the conference Winds of Change and Streams of Solidarity: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe in the 21st Century in the University Aula, 4-5 September 2023.

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