The Politics of Presence in Latin America
Friday, 23 October 2009 to Saturday, 24 October 2009
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Friday, 23 October




All events occur at CRASSH unless otherwise specified.

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

 

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