Preliminary program

Location: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL – Chicago area)

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025

12:15pm-1:15pm: Registration 

1:20pm-2:40pm: Panel Session 1 Narratives of Decolonial Feminist Justice

Valentina Wiñay Wara Quispe Isnado, Centre College, “Decolonización y Desoccidentalización de la Educación Sexual Integral para Combatir los Embarazos Adolescentes No Deseados en Bolivia”

Gloria Macedo-Janto, University of Oregon, “Mujeres andinas sin futuro: estereotipos de género en la narrativa de la violencia política en Perú”

Brianna Griesinger, Queen’s University Belfast, “Navigating the Legacy of Conflict through Practices of Aynikawsay: A Gaze into the Intersectional Communitarian Feminist Praxis of Storytelling in Pursuit of Reproductive Justice in Peru”

Rocío Ferreira, DePaul University, “Memoria y violencias en los Andes en la narrativa de Karina Pacheco Medrano” 

2:45-3pm Coffee break

3pm-4:20pm  Panel Session 2A New Cultural Production from El Alto, Bolivia

Carolyn Wolfenzon, Bowdoin College, “Identidades migrantes en El Gran Movimiento de Kiro Russo y Seúl  Sao Paulo de Gabriel Mamani Magne”

Raquel Alfaro, University of Rochester, “Angustias comunicantes en Altopía y Helena 2022”

Tara Daly, Marquette University, “El humor incongruente en las nuevas crónicas alteñas”

Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri, “Lo abyecto en ‘Perro Gris’”

3pm- 4:20pm Panel Session 2B Migrations, Ruptures, and Development

Tess Renker, Georgetown University, “Internal Migration and Mobile Immobility in José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958)”

Daniel Ospina Pérez, Northwestern University, “The Túquerres Earthquake: Building Liberal Modernity on Colombia’s Andean Borderlands (1935-1940)”

Emilia Tamayo,  Northwestern University, “Un turista en mi camino: Colombian Childhood in the Tourist’s Gaze”

Ximena Briceño, Stanford University, “Escalas y desarrollo: El futuro del guano con Vallejo y Arguedas”

4:25pm-6pm Panel Session 3 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Family, Language

Ximena Gallegos Gutierrez, University of Washington-College of Education, “Land as Sacred: Teacher Reflections on Andean Rituals”

Lenin Lozano-Guzmán, Bryn Mawr College, “¿Revolución militar y/o andina?: indigeneidad y memoria de la reforma agraria en el arte peruano contemporáneo”

Rubén Pachas, Art Institute of Chicago, “Teaching Peruvian Indigenous Dance to Non-Indigenous people”

Carlos Flores Quispe & Meghan Armstrong, UMass-Amherst, “Creencias Culturales del Cuidado Proximal en Chuquisaca – Bolivia”

Américo Mendoza-Mori, Harvard University, “Embracing ‘Ayni’;: The relevance of Indigenous Languages and Cultures in the Humanities”

6pm- 6:30pm: Hors d’oeuvres

6:30-8:00pm Short Film + QA

Hatarimuy (dir. Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood, Quechua Nation, Member of Ñawpa Ñan Cultural Community in Taray (Cusco), Peru; Kusi Kawsay Association; Graduate student, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025

9am Light Breakfast

9:30-10:50am Panel Session 4 Ecological and Territorial Struggles

José Saldaña Cuba, McGill University, “Legalidades eco-territoriales emergentes en la región andina: Los seres de la tierra y la gran minería en la provincia de Espinar (Cusco)”

Nicholas Carby Denning, Bryn Mawr College, “Extractivism and the Rights of Nature”

Kathleen Julca, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The impact of water quality testing for Andean Water Planning in the Lake Titicaca Basin in the community Pukachupa, Pucará”

Thomas Martynowicz, University of Southern California-Law, “Pachamama and Policy: Exploring the Role of Nature’s Legal Status in Peru’s Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Process”

10:55am-12:15pm Panel Session 5  The Power of Collective Memory

Cecilia Beltrán Rodríguez, University of Washington-Seattle: “Entre la epopeya y la tragedia: El papel de la crónica en la política y la memoria colectiva de Bolivia”

Marlen Rosas, Haverford College, “Recording a Usable Past: Indigenous Communists’ Memories and Public History in Ecuador”

Kleber Naula Yautibug, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Yuyarina (Remembering) Concept in the Ecuadorian Andean Indigenous Memory”

Yvette Ramirez, University of Michigan, “Sentirpensar: Memorizing through the Heart”

12:20-1:25pm Panel Session 6A Religious Rituals, Resistance, Representation

Eddy Santiago Huamani, Indiana University, “Resistencia Y Sincretismo En La Representación Del Huaca Llocllayhuancu En Dioses y Hombres de Huarochirí”

Rachaell Diaz, University of Florida, “Faith Behind Glass: Religious Ceremonies Under Performance”

Ricardo Soler Rubio, University of Chicago, “De la ritualidad como técnica. La reapropiación contemporánea de la Virgen del Cerro (ca 1680) en Atomito de Liliana Colanzi (2022)”

12:20-1:25pm Panel Session 6B Puntos de inflexión en los estudios andinos (1960-2024)

Nicolás Aguía Betancourt, Ohio State University, “Fratricidio y acumulación primitiva en Todas las sangres (1964), de José María Arguedas”

Ulises Juan Zevallos Aguilar, Ohio State University, “Muerte y resurrección en el mito de Inkarri”

Victor Vimos, Ohio State University, “Guamote. Articulaciones políticas entre seres humanos y montañas.”

1:30-3pm Lunchtime Roundtable Reflexiones sobre los estudios andinos

Jorge Coronado, Northwestern University, “Lo andino: contextos y consideraciones”

Valeria Coronel Valencia, FLACSO, “Genealogía crítica y política del significante andino para pensar la modernidad desde los andes” 

  

3pm-4:20pm Panel Session 7 Theorizing Methods, Philosophies, and Frameworks

Mercedes Mayna-Medrano, Union College, and Juan-Pablo Cárdenas, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, “Towards an Andean-Amazonian Frame of Reference”

Arnold Arnez, Independent, “Historicizing Andean Philosophy: A Transnational Overview”

Lewis Hawkins, Northwestern University, “Andean Diagnostics of Extractivism: Pishtaco Stories, Histories of Community Harm, and Non-Extractive Outsider Research”

Diego Arispe-Bazán, Northwestern University, “Indigenous Reconnection and Questions of Decolonization”

4:25-5:45pm Panel Session 8 Recuperation and Empowerment through Alternative Arts

Gabriel Antúnez De Mayolo Kou, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, “Cumbia in Hi-Fi: sounds and images of the Peruvian psychedelic cumbia record”

Evelyn Saavedra Autry, Rutgers University, “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi + art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus” 

Javier Muñoz-Díaz, SUNY Farmingdale, “El retorno de Chuquichinchay: Recuperación de la herencia indígena en el arte queer/cuir peruano contemporáneo”

Enzo Vasquez Toral, University of Texas-Austin, “Cholita Transformistas: Decolonizing Beauty and Rethinking LGBT Pageants as Political Activism”

5:45-6pm Coffee break

6pm-7pm Keynote Speaker: Javier Puente (Smith College)