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UNLV School of Architecture
welcomes lecturer Dr. Alberto Guevara
February 4, 2008 in the Architecture Studies Library 7:00 pm
(Reception in the the lobby at 6:30 pm)
Dr. Alberto Guevara (aguevara@yorku.ca)
BA (Concordia), MA (York), PhD (Concordia)
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Cultural Studies
Originally from Nicaragua, Professor Guevara has harbored a lifelong interest in the intersections of performance and politics. Under the Nicaraguan Sandinista government, he participated in a cultural brigade and received training at the National Theatre School.
In Toronto, Montreal, and most recently in Lethbridge, Professor Guevara has collaborated in a number of inter-cultural theatre organizations including Teatro Sin Fronteras, Mise au Jeu, and Act!vision.
Professor Guevara holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree (Performance, Communications, and Cultural Anthropology) from Concordia University. His scholarly work focuses on contestations of social and national identities through performance and the theatricality of violence in Nicaragua and Nepal. While publishing on these issues, Alberto has co-curated and contributed multi-media works to two exhibits dealing with the aftermath of the Nicaraguan revolution (“20 ans après Reagan”, Long Hall Gallery, Montreal and “Nicaraquoi?”, Tongue n Groove Gallery, Lethbridge).
His latest major project is a documentary film launched in the Summer of 2007, on the efforts of a young Dalit theatre group fighting caste discrimination in Nepal. His most recent publication, “Where Heroes and Ideologies are Cast and Outcast: Changing Regimes and public Spaces in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua” was published by Brujula 2006.
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