We are absolutely glad to announce our keynote speaker, Professor Julie Cupples, from the University of Edinburgh.
Julie Cupples is a Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies. Her work spans cultural geography, development studies and media and cultural studies. She has been working in Nicaragua and other parts of Central America since 1990 and has published on questions of development/post development, gender and sexuality, disasters and environmental risk, elections, municipal governance, neoliberalism and indigenous and Afro-descendant media. She is the author of Latin American Development (Routledge 2013), the co-author of Communications/Media/Geographies and Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice (Springer 2018) the co-editor of Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media (Springer 2015), Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University (Routledge 2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. She is also a co-editor of the Transforming Capitalism book series published by Rowman and Littlefield.