4th Thinking Andean Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: Haverford College, Haverford, PA (Greater Philadelphia Area)

Program:
Event is free and open to the public
In-person and virtual
Virtual attendees (for panel sessions): Use this Link
DAY 1: Friday, March 24, 2023
1:15pm-2:10pm Registration (Chase Hall 101)
2:15pm-3:45pm Panel 1: Virtual Panel (Chase Auditorium for in-person audience)
- Beatriz Rodriguez (Arizona State University) “‘Agua’: derecho de vida a través del pensamiento indígena y el problema global del medio ambiente”
- Tsaywa Samay (Sallkamaywa) “Cuerpxs diversxs en geografías andino-amazónicas”
- Christopher Heaney (Penn State University) “The Andean Ancestors of American Anthropology: the Smithsonian’s First Hall of Physical Anthropology, 1965”
- Manuel Ostos (Penn State University) “The Sacred Valley in the Happy Valley: Andean Studies at Penn State”
Moderator: TBD
4:00pm-5:45pm Panel 2: Hybrid Panel (Chase Auditorium)
- Rachaell Diaz (University of Florida) “The Women of Sembradoras de Vida and their Modern Andean World” (virtual)
- Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar (Ohio State University) “Metáforas y metonimias acuáticas. Teorizaciones sobre la gestión quechua en las ciencias sociales peruanas (Siglo XX y XXI)” (virtual)
- Valeria Chávez Roncal (Northwestern University) “The Case of Chicha: From Sonic Marginalization to Nationalistic Embrace” (virtual)
- Karl Swinehart (University of Louisville) “Reconquista lingüística: Expanding Aymara Territories Online” (in-person)
- Américo Mendoza-Mori (Harvard University) and Sofía Vega-Zanca (University of Pennsylvania): “Quechua language programs as spaces for the promotion of Andean and Indigenous Cultures” (in-person)
Moderator: TBD
6pm-6:30pm Reception (Founders Great Hall)
6:30/7pm-8:30pm Andean Music Concert with Inkarayku (Founders Great Hall)
Program: Event is open to the public
DAY 2: Saturday, March 25, 2023
9am-9:45am Registration/Breakfast (Chase Hall 101)
10am-11:05am Panel 3: Indigenous Peoples and Lettered Practices (Chase Auditorium)
- Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University) “Indigeneity and Writing in the Andes 1890-1940”
- Tara Daly (Marquette University)“Bartolina Sisa, warmi: Indigenous Women Outside the Script”
- Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh) “Race and ethnicity, then and today”
Moderator: Jacqueline Campo
11:15am-12:45pm Panel 4 (Chase Auditorium)
- Karen Spira (Guilford College) “Domestic Employees and the Peruvian Novel: From Abjection to Resistance”
- Marta Sanchís Ferrer (University of Pennsylvania) “Decolonialidad temporal: múltiples perspectivas vitales en El Chaco de Liliana Colanzi”
- Mercedes Mayna-Medrano (Union College) “‘Quien ama no es cuerdo a medias, sino loco entero’: las desventuras del amor interracial y la minería boliviana en la tradición ‘Los tesoros de Rocha’”
- Lenin Lozano (University of Pennsylvania) “Realismo y desacralización andina: la mirada histórica de la violencia en Candela quema luceros de Félix Huamán Cabrera”
Moderator: TBD
12:50pm-1:40pm LUNCH (Chase Hall 101)
1:45pm-3:15pm Panel 5 (Chase Auditorium)
- Jack Martínez Arias (Hamilton College) “La destrucción ecológica de los Andes y la perspectiva de los escritores locales”
- Carmen Valdivia (Macalester College) “Colonialidad Mercurial, Extractivismo y Agua en Máxima (2019) de Claudia Sparrow”
- Jacqueline Campo (University of Massachusetts) “Being an immigrant in your own country: narratives and trajectories of Indigenous Quechua in Peru”
- Enzo Vasquez Toral (Northwestern University) “Embodying Settler (Waste) Colonialism in the Andes”
Moderator: Jorge Coronado
3:25pm-4:55pm Panel 6 (Chase Auditorium)
- KC O’Hara (University of Pennsylvania) “Afterlives of Her Animals: A Microhistory of Human-Herd Relationships in the Colonial Andes”
- Silvia Escanilla Huerta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Rethinking Narratives of Independence in the Central and Southern Andes (1783-1825)”
- José Miguel Munive Vargas (Stony Brook University) “Longing for Whiteness: The Fiesta de la Raza and the Construction of the Myth of Spanish Race in 1920s Peru”
- Lucia Stavig (University of Pennsylvania) “The Cosmopolitics of Health: Healing and Radical Resurgence in the Andes”
Moderator: Enzo Vasquez Toral
5:15pm-6:30pm Keynote Speaker (Chase Auditorium)
Dr. Ernesto Capello (Macalester College) “Andes: Landscape and Power”