Date/Time: 30 March 2017 - 31 March 2017, 09:30 - 16:00

Venue: Percy Building G.05

Lead panellists: Professor Andrew Canessa, University of Essex
Professor Catherine J. Allen, George Washington University, D.C.
Professor Martin Holbraad, University College London

Key note speaker: Professor Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis

Full Programme: Rethinking Difference Programme (PDF: 369 KB)

Abstracts: Rethinking Differences Abstracts (PDF: 611 KB)

Thursday 30 March, Percy Building G.05

09.00 – 09.30 Registration

09.30 – 09.40 Welcome from the Director of CLACS

09.40 – 11.00 Lead panellists:
Professor Andrew Canessa (University of Essex)
Professor Catherine J. Allen (George Washington University) 
Professor Martin Holbraad (University College London)

11.00 - 11.30 Refreshments

11.30 - 13.00 Keynote speaker: Professor Marisol de la Cadena, University of Davis, California Uncommoning nature

Marisol de la Cadena Abstract (PDF:356KB)  Link to Marisol's work: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01061.x/full 

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.30 Human non-human relations

Jonathan Alderman, University of St Andrews. Mountains as actors in the Bolivian Andes: The interrelationship between politics and ritual in the Kallawaya ayllus
Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University. Conversations in the field: on “the things that do exist in all the villages of Huarochirí”
Antonia Manresa, Newcastle University. Contesting intercultural education as an pistemological struggle

15.30 - 16.00 Refreshments

16.00 - 17.30 Identity and politics (1)
Joanna Crow, University of Bristol. Beyond Identity: Tracing the Circulation of Ideas about Indigeneity through Transnational Intellectual Networks in Early 20th Century Latin America
Laura Alessandra Nocera, University of Insubria, Como, Italy. Indigenous land rights in new Latin-American Constitutions
Ernesto Schwartz Marin, Durham University. The net worth of Mexican “indigenous DNA”: genomics, (bio) economy and the sovereign making of ancestry

17.30 Reception

19.30 Dinner at Café Vivo

Friday 31 March, Percy Building G.05

09.30 - 11.00 Identity and politics (2)
Elena McGrath, Institute of Latin American Studies, London. The Politics of Class and Indigeneity in Bolivia
Sarah Fearn, University of Southampton. “We are not indigenous, we are not cholos, we are not Indians. We are Aymaras”: Extra-group and Intragroup Understandings of Ethnic Identities in Rural Peru
Stefan Rzedzian, Newcastle University. Promoting and Defending the Rights of Nature in Ecuador: Environmental Activist Organisations and their Resistance to Extractivism.

11.00 – 11.30 Refreshments

11.30 - 13.00 Discourse and indigeneity
Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia. Gold mining and new indigenous identities in SE Peru
Peter Baker, Durham University. Who is indigenous in Bolivia today? Defining an emergent indigeneity through the activism of indianismo-katarismo
Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway, London. Grasping cacophony in Bolivian heritage otherwise (with Michelle Bigenho, Colgate University)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 16.00 Language and identities
Cinzia Monti, Newcastle University. The language of memory: the role of the Amazonas Quechua in the identity construction of its last speakers
Elizabeth Torrico, University of Southampton. The struggle to revive the Kunza language by the Lican Antai people of San Pedro
Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University. Shifting voices, shifting worlds: human-non-human relations in Quechua storytelling performance (Peru)

16:00 Close

 

Publications by the lead panellists

Martin Holbraad The Ontological Turn

Catherine Allen The Living Ones (PDF 560KB)

Andrew Canessa From foetuses to mountain ancestors (PDF 5,961KB)