The Politics of Presence in Latin America
Friday, 23 October 2009 to Saturday, 24 October 2009Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
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Friday, 23 October |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration and coffee |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Welcome and introduction by Sarah Radcliffe |
| 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 10:30 |
Session 1 Chair and discussant: Sarah A. Radcliffe (University of Cambridge) Keynote address 1: Alejandro Frigerio (FLACSO and CONICET, Argentina) (Re)Presenting African Heritage in Argentina: The constraints of multicultural policies and politics |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Keynote address 2: Juliet Hooker (Government, University of Texas Austin) Territorial or Multiethnic Autonomy in Nicaragua: The Politics of Presence and Political Solidarity in Heterogenous Spaces |
| 11:00 - 11:25 |
Discussant’s comments and audience questions & discussion |
| 11:25 - 11:45 |
Coffee |
| 11:45 - 13:00 11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 2 Chair and discussant: David Lehmann (University of Cambridge) Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Pedagogies of political agency in El Alto, Bolivia: Education, multiculturalism and citizenship |
| 12:10 - 12:35 |
Juan Carlos Barron Pastor (University of East Anglia) From demanding to constructing spaces: mapping what is ‘indigenous’ in Mexican Higher Education |
| 12:35 - 13:00 |
Discussant’s comments and audience questions & discussion |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:25 14:00 - 14:30 |
Session 3 Chair and discussant: Alejandro Frigerio (FLACSO and CONICET, Argentina) David Lehmann (University of Cambridge) Intercultural Universities in Mexico: between indigenism and corporatism |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Annabel Pinker (University of Cambridge The Janus-faced Junta: Irony and the materiality of state representation in the Ecuadorian highlands |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Discussant’s comments and audience questions & discussion |
| 15:25 -15:45 | Tea |
| 15.45 - 16.00 |
Introduction to Keynote lecture |
| 16.00 - 17:15 16:00 - 16:45 |
Session 4 Chair and discussant: TBA Keynote address 3: Charles R. Hale (Anthropology, University of Texas Austin) The Rise (and Demise?) of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Central America (1987-2009) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Discussant’s comments and audience questions & discussion |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Drinks reception hosted by Centre for Latin American Studies, Mill Lane |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (Speakers only) |
| Saturday, 24 October |
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| 09:30 - 09:35 |
Introduction to Day Two: Sarah A. Radcliffe |
| 09:35 - 11:00 09:35 - 10:05 |
Session 5 Chair and discussant: Andrew Canessa (University of Essex) Gabriela Ramos (History, University of Cambridge) The presentation of the self among Indians in the colonial Andes |
| 10:05 - 10:35 |
Sandra Brunnegger (St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge) The indigenous law school of the Nasa community in Cauca: A case study of local adoption of human rights in Colombia |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Discussant’s comments, audience questions & discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 - 13:00 11:30 - 12:00 |
Session 6 Chair and discussant: Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Sandra Moog (University of Essex) Who's Representing the Rainforest? The Rise of the Transnational Eco-regional Biodiversity Agenda, the Waning Influence of the Organized Indigenous Movement, and the Future of the Amazon |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Sarah A. Radcliffe (Geography, University of Cambridge) Indigenous women and development in Ecuador: Selective visibility and the contested politics of presence |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Discussant’s comments, audience questions & discussion |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Session 7 Roundtable discussion |
