This online taster session will give you an insight into what it's like to study Spanish at university. You'll have the chance to hear from a Spanish academic, participate in a taster lecture and engage with current undergraduates.
Visions of Havana on Instagram
Havana is often fetishized as a place "frozen in time:" the sort of place people often wish to see "before it changes". But what do we base this expectation on? This lecture explores how Instagram is an important way that outsiders imagine and experience the city. Further enabled by the features of Instagram’s format to ‘age’ photos and highlight specific textures and colours, Instagram photos draw on and add to a nostalgic vision of an exotic, underdeveloped Havana. However, with the majority of images created and circulated by tourists rather than the city's residents (due to a relative lack of access to digital technologies in Cuba) the resulting vision is somewhat lopsided.
When: Thursday 30th November 2023, 3.50pm - 5.15pm
Age group: year 12 and Year 13
Location: Online
Schedule:
Please note that this is an approximate schedule and is therefore subject to change.
3.50pm - log-in & get comfortable
3.55pm - welcome & introduction to the department
4.05pm - taster lecture
4.50pm - Q&A on the taster lecture, leading into
5.00pm - Q&A about your subject at Sheffield -with Admissions Tutor and UG ambassadors to answer questions & talk about their own experiences
For more information and to register, please follow the “visit website” link below.