3rd Thinking Andean Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference

April 12-13, 2019
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Greater Chicago area)

The Thinking Andean Studies conference continues its mission to strengthen the interdisciplinary network of scholars working in the growing field of Andean Studies, as well as to help foster a mentoring relationship between established and emerging scholars. The event aims to provide a space for participants to share their research through paper presentations and roundtable discussions, and hopes to showcase the increasing number of scholars in the US conducting research in and about the Andes. This interdisciplinary conference also aims to connect scholars with indigenous language and culture advocates. In this spirit, the conference will include presentations that explore the intersections of indigenous languages of the Andes and media and activism, language pedagogy, literature, performance, and community organizing.

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(PDF) Thinking Andean Studies 2019 Program

FRIDAY, April 12th, 2019

12:00pm-1pm: Registration (KRESGE)

1pm-2:15pm: Panel Session 1   (KRESGE 1515)

Past, Present, and Future of Education

1. Marc Becker (Truman State University)- Ecuador’s Early Bilingual Schools
2. Frances Kvietok Dueñas (University of Pennsylvania, UPCH) – ‘Ellas mismas al hablar se sienten inferiores’: Raciolinguistic socialization in Quechua language education and schools
3. Alysa Handelsman (Wofford College)- Ethnography as Decolonial Pedagogy in Ecuador: Youth-Led Research and Learning

2:15pm-3:45pm:   Panel Session 2 (PARALLEL SESSIONS) 

2A) Race and Representation (KRESGE 3535)

1. Diego Arispe-Bazán  (Northwestern University)- “Pero Si es Peruano y Apellida Quispe…:” Colonial Echoes and the Semiotics of Race in Lima, Peru
2. Michael Handelsman (University of Tennessee)- Complicidades no intencionadas y otras sutilezas de la representación de lo afro en el Ecuador
3. Henry Tarco Carrera (University of Alabama) – La descolonización del ser en El facilitador (2013) de Victor Arregui

2B) Modernity and Narratives (KRESGE 3438)

1. José Gabriel Chueca (Stony Brook University)-  El misti arguediano y el príncipe barroco, claves de la modernidad Latinoamericana
2. Daniel Runnels (Indiana University, Bloomington)- Representation, Intellectuals, and Writing: Manuel González Prada’s Anarchism
3. Javier Velasco (University of Oregon) Transporte y espacio social andino: Pensar lo social desde las “infraestructuras” de la ciudad

3:45pm-5:15pm: Panel Session 3 (PARALLEL SESSIONS)

3A) Representaciones de la indigeneidad y sus usos en las prácticas letradas andinas (KRESGE 3535)

1. Jorge Coronado (Northwestern)-Indigeneidad entre la arqueología y la literatura
2. Walther Maradiegue (Northwestern)-Grupo Norte: Ser Indio, Ser Indígena, y Ser Indigenista
3. Stephen McNabb (Northwestern)-Ayllu as Literature in within Gamaliel Churata’s “El gamonal”
4. Marcus Vinicius Salinas (Northwestern)- Pueblo enfermo y la construcción de una prosa contrainsurgencia en Bolivia

3B) Narratives in and from the Archives (KRESGE 3438)

1. Mariko Plescia (University of Oregon)- An Epistemology of Doubt: Agency, the Archive and Ecuadorian History in La muerte de Jaime Roldós (2013) and Con mi corazón en Yambo (2011)
2. Marlén Rosas (University of Pennsylvania)- “Soy luchadora fiel desde guambrita”: Agency at the Center of Cayambe Activists’ Narratives of a Usable Past
3. Karen A Spira (Guilford College)- Nuestras voces tejiendo: A New Form for the Novel of the Sendero Luminoso 

5:30pm- 6:30pm: HORS D’OEUVRES / Entremés (A.M. SWIFT HALL 109)

BOOK PRESENTATION:

Carlos Mendoza (Texas State University), Crítica de la razón andina

6:30pm-8:45pm: FILM & DISCUSSION (A.M. SWIFT HALL-PEGGY HELMERICH RM.)

“Retablo” (2017), dir. Álvaro Delgado Aparicio

Discussant: Danielle Roper (University of Chicago)

Moderator: Enzo Toral (Northwestern)

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SATURDAY, April 13th, 2019

9:00am-9:45am: Breakfast (KRESGE LOUNGE)

9:45am-11:00am Panel Session 4 (KRESGE 1515)

4) Resistance, Revolt, Reform 

1. Rohan Chatterjee (University of Chicago)- “La tierra para quien la trabaja”: The 1969 Peruvian Agrarian Reform in the Pampa de Anta
2. Carwil Bjork-James (Vanderbilt University)- Street Sovereignty and Regimes Founded on Revolts: Rethinking the Turbulent History of Bolivia, 1936–2010
3. José Miguel Munive Vargas (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)- Diálogo, negociación y resistencia: tensiones de la escolaridad rural y agencia campesina en la región de Ayacucho (1940-1968)

 

11:00am-12:45pm   Invited Faculty Panel (KRESGE 1515)

1. Anna Babel (Ohio State University)- The Sweet Land: Manufacturing “tradition” in small-town Bolivia
2. Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)-Visualizing Blackness in the Andes
3. Rocío Ferreira (DePaul University)- El Búcaro Americano: el periodismo y la experiencia bonaerense de Clorinda Matto de Turner
4. Carlos Villacorta (University of Maine)- 1960-2000: cuarenta años de poesía peruana

 

12:45pm-2:15pm:  LUNCH / Activist Roundtable (KRESGE 1515)

1. Sandy Enriquez, Jamie A San Andres, Stephanie Barreto Lastra, Claudia Urdanivia (Rimay Raiz Collective)
2. Guido Mamani (University of Notre Dame)
3. Arely Amaut (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)-“El Apu por ser nombrado”- investigación artística en el ecosistema de Lomos de Lúcumo

Moderator: Carlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2:15pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER: (KRESGE 1515)

Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh)

“La inquietante intervención de Gamaliel Churata en el horizonte epistemológico andino”

3:15pm:-4:30pm: Panel Session 5  (PARALLEL SESSIONS) 

5A) Poder, literatura y movimientos sociales (KRESGE 3535)

1. Marcia Stephenson (Purdue University)- Relationships of Power and Knowledge in a 19th-Century Andean Camelid Contact Zone
2. Margarita Saona (University of Illinois-Chicago)-  El Inkarri y la masculinidad postcolonial en el Perú
3. Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar (Ohio State University)- La literatura quechua antiextractivista en el Perú (1990-2015)

5B)  Linguistic Transformations (KRESGE 3438)

1. Karl Swinehart (University of Louisville)- Translating Sovereignty:  Singing the National Anthem in Plurinational Qullasuyu
2. Santiago Gualapuro (Ohio State University)- Pilot study of Language Contact Outcomes in Imbabura Kichwa
3. Lorna Hadlock (University of Chicago)- Synecdochal Perspectives: Radical Translation and Spatial Frames of Reference in Quechua

4:30pm: 6:15pm:   Panel Session 6    (PARALLEL SESSIONS)

6A) Looking Ahead (Visions Past and Present) (KRESGE 3535)

1. Paul Guillén (University of Pittsburgh)- El Humor y La Mirada Post Andina En Garcilaso, Huambar y El Sueño Del Pongo
2. Beatriz Carlota Rodríguez (Arizona State University)- Todas Las Sangres: Sin Muros y Recobrando Nuestra Ecología en América Latina
3. Raquel Alfaro (University of Rochester)- Conciencias posibles sin un centro: kharisiris, huayronqos y zumbayllus
4. Mercedes Mayna (University of Pennsylvania)- “Economía regional en código melodramático en El Padre Horán de Narciso Aréstegui”.

 

6B) Performance and film (KRESGE 3438)

1. Candy Hurtado (Florida Atlantic University)-Dance as Religion Syncretism in the Andes: The Cult of Saint Sebastian in Cuzco and Jauja
2. Enzo Vasquez Toral (Northwestern University) – Re-thinking the Andean Fiesta in Cuir Times
3. Américo Mendoza-Mori (University of Pennsylvania)- Runas everywhere: Quechua and Andean diaspora in the United States
4. Caroline Shipley (Ohio State University)- Infinite Endings and Unsettling Beginnings in the films Wiñaypacha, Yvy Maraey, and Zona Sur

6:15pm: Final words (KRESGE 1-1515)

6:30 Closing Reception – Bangers & Lace (810 Grove Street, Evanston, IL)

 

 

 

Sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, as well as the Department of History and the Quechua Language program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Department of History

Quechua Language Program