Last May the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge hosted the symposium "The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Latin American Visual Cultures," inspired by a provocative essay by Professor Karen Lury according to which the child has been a powerful catalyst for visual narratives across the globe. Ms. Lury wrote: 'Films produced in Africa, India and Latin America, could reveal a different emotional register at play in relation to the child on screen, and interpreting these and other films could produce a very different series of analyses, particularly (…) in relation to the agency of the child protagonist.' According to the event organizers, "This conference aims to provide a forum for the burgeoning discussion on childhood and adolescence in recent Latin American visual cultures; a discussion which is already beginning to address questions of nationhood, politics and past trauma, as well as challenging notions of gender, sexuality, corporeality, play and child 'agency. (...) Particularly pertinent to a Latin American context is the deployment of childhood as a potentially cathartic space of memory in which to deal with past trauma or violent national histories." The symposium summoned academics, critics and artists from the U.K., Latin America, the U.S. and Europe. The keynote address was given by Dr. Carolina Rocha, professor at the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville. The symposium was divided into these sub-topics: (1) The Child's Gaze: Memory, Dictatorship, and Violence; (2) Contested Subjectivities: Indigenous Childhoods and Marginality; and (3) (In)Visible Children: Political Agency and Mediality. In this latter section Artnexus' regular contributor, Fernando Castro R., delivered a powerpoint presentation about his photographic work "Elián." Although the symposium had a strong film studies component, some presenters, like Castro, and Dominika Gasiorowski, engaged the photographic medium; whereas Sarah Wright and Rachel Randall covered performance, and Ed King focused on comic books from Brazil.