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Politics of Entanglement in the Americas
7th International Postgraduate Forum
Bielefeld University, June 25-27, 2015
June 25: Studentenwerk Administration Office, Morgenbreede 2-4
June 26/27: University Building X, Room E0-002
- Conference Program Thursday, June 25 (Studentenwerk Administration Office, Morgenbreede 2-4)
1230 - 1300
1300 - 1330
Registration
Welcome Address – Olaf Kaltmeier & Wilfried Raussert
Politics of Entanglement. Perspectives for InterAmerican Area Studies
1330 - 1430
Keynote – Isabel Caldeira (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal): Literary Entanglements of the
African Diaspora in the Americas
1430 - 1540
Panel 1 – Spaces of Entanglement and Contact
Thilo F. Papacek (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Cruceños, Guaraníes and Cambas: The
Genesis of (proto-)nationalism in the oriente boliviano and its entanglements with
Paraguayan nationalism in the context of the Chaco War (Bolivia vs. Paraguay, 1932-1935)
Clara Buitrago, Mirko Petersen, Paul-Matthias Tyrell, Dorothea Wehrmann (Universität
Bielefeld, Germany): Nuestro Norte Es el Sur: Researching Entangled Imaginaries in the
Americas
1540 - 1615
15
16 - 18
00
Coffee Break
Panel 2 – Social Movements and Protest
Cruz González (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Feminism and political subjectivation of
women in the urban popular movement in Mexico: a comparative study between Sinaloa and
Mexico City, 1980-1988
José Antonio Villareal (FLACSO, Ecuador): Las prácticas políticas de los sectores urbano
marginales y la ‘Revolución Ciudadana’
Julia Roth (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Feminist Politics of Connectedness in the
Americas
1800 - 1830
Coffee Break
1830 - 2015
Panel 3 – Postcolonial Entanglement and Solidarity
Peter van Dam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands): The puzzle of postcolonial
entanglement: fair trade activism in the 1960s and 1970s
Sebastian Garbe (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany): Decolonial Perspectives on
Solidarity – the Case of the Mapuche Solidarity Network in Europe
Sabine Kim (Universität Mainz, Germany): Rethinking Indebtedness: Canadian Investment in
the Caribbean
2015
Conference Dinner @ Studentenwerk Administration Office
Friday, June 26 (University Building X, Room E0-002)
830 - 930
Keynote – Rebeca Ramos (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba): Cuban International Migration.
Migration Trends from Cuba to Canada
930 - 1115
Panel 4 – Migration Processes and Transnational Flows
Pablo Sebastián Gómez (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina): Re-discutir la
integración de migrantes sur-sur en Argentina (Córdoba): patrones sociodemográficos y
segregación residencial de migrantes peruanos y bolivianos en la Ciudad de Córdoba, 20012010
Stefanie Quakernack (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Narrating ‘Dispossession‘ – Digital
Testimonios of Undocumented Youth in the United States
Susanne Willers (Universidad Autónoma de Mexico): Migration processes and gender:
Experiences of women migrants in a changing migration system between Central America
and the United States
1115 - 1145
Coffee Break
1145 - 1255
Panel 5 – Politics of Development and International Cooperation
Martin Breuer (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): The nexus of Indigenismo and international
development cooperation in the Andean region, 1950-1970
Thomas Maier (Institute of the Americas, University College London, United Kingdom): The
promises of a transnational history of Social Security – Argentina and the ILO in the década
infame
1255 - 1415
Lunch @ Westend, University Main Building (self-pay)
1415 - 1600
Panel 6 – Social Production of Environment
Juan Javier Rivera Andía (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany):
Development, extractivism and indigenous livelihoods in the Andes: local protests and
conflicts between Cañaris, the Peruvian state and mining mega-projects
Alexander Mosena (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): The influence of human settlement on
the historical dispersal of non-native plants in the North American West
Anne Tittor (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Environmental history of a Central American
borderland: Current socio-ecological dynamics and historical entanglements
1600 - 1630
Coffee Break
1630 - 1815
Panel 7 – Visions of Buen Vivir
Philipp Altmann (Universidad Central del Ecuador): La búsqueda del Sumak Kawsay como
construcción de un pasado indígena latinoamericano
Juan Jacobo Tancara Chambe (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Subjetividad, teología y el
K’epiri – contrucción del sujeto en la teología de la liberación y en la literatura marginal
boliviana. Una interpretación a la teología
Carmen Ibañez (Universität zu Köln, Germany): Críticas desde el buen vivir al concepto de
desarrollo
2030
Dinner @ Brauhaus (self-pay)
Saturday, June 27 (University Building X, Room E0-002)
900 - 1045
Panel 8 – Rocking Entanglements
Dorothea Gail (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany): Aztec Mystic Meets the
Marsian on the Black Planet Somewhere in Detroit: The Latin Side of Detroit Techno
María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli (Universität Bern, Switzerland): Ambientes musicales y
estéticas rurales: Desafíos ecológicos entre la reparación y la resiliencia
Matti Steinitz (Berlin): Black Power in a ‘paraíso racial’? Black Rio and the impact of soul
music on Afro-Latin identity formation
1045 - 1115
Coffee Break
1115 - 1300
Panel 9 – The Language of Entanglements
Xaver Daniel Hergenröther (Universität Graz, Austria): Factual and Fictional Narration in El
Salvador: Memory, Representation and Strategies of Reworking after the Civil War
Brian Rozema (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Acknowledging the Reality of Language:
English-Based Creoles, Multilingualism and Cultural Production in the Americas and Beyond
Joseph Farquharson (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Jamaica(n) to de worl‘: The
Transnationalisation of a nonstandard(ised) language
1300 - 1415
Lunch @ Westend, University Main Building (self-pay)
1415 - 1635
Panel 10 – Religious Flows and Imaginaries
Verena Adamik (Universität Potsdam, Germany): Strange Cults, Communes, Utopias and the
United States
Andrea Althoff (Universität Eichstätt, Germany): Migration and the Transformation of Latino
Religious Identities in the United States: Findings from Field Research in Chicago Immigrant
Pentecostal Communities
Cecilia A. Delgado-Molina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico): Redefiniendo ‘lo
secular’ y ‘lo religioso’ en contextos de violencia social y construcción de paz en Cuernavaca,
México
Manuel A. Vásquez (University of Florida, Gainesville, United States): Healing a Karmic
Country: The Case of a Brazilian New Religious Movement in the United States
1635 - 1735
Keynote – Héctor Raúl Solís Gadea (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico): Reflexión sobre la
situación política en México
1735 - 1800
Concluding Remarks & Farewell
Conference Organizer: Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier
Contact: Dr. Lukas Rehm
Center for InterAmerican Studies
Bielefeld University
P.O. Box 10 01 31
D-33501 Bielefeld
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +49 (0)521-106-6956