Report: Peru: A UK Postgraduate Symposium presenting new research
Americas Research Group
Location: Research Beehive 2.20/2.22, Old Library Building
Time/Date: 3rd May 2012, 17:15 - 20:00
On Thursday 3 May the Americas Research Group hosted a very well attended UK postgraduate Symposium on Research on Peru. Patricia Oliart and Fernando Gonzalez Velarde organised the successful event with the help of MALAIS students and members of SPLAS chairing sessions. The symposium attracted PGR and MA students from all over the UK and a number of academics and activists working on this Andean country.
New! Video impressions from the conference now online
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and Introduction (Research Beehive 2.20)
10:10 – 11:55 (Research Beehive 2.20) Chair: Dr. Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco
- ‘The singularity of our revolutionary process’: social mobilisation under General Velasco
Anna Cant, PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Email:annacant@googlemail.com - The evolution of Peruvian policy and planning thinking and its influence on the built-up environment of cities
Jessica Pineda-Zumarán, PhD candidate in Planning, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. Email: jessica.pinedazumaran@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk - Land conflicts in a valuable but vulnerable town: Tourism development in Mancora, Peru
Fernando González-Velarde, PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University. Email: fernando.gonzalez-velarde@ncl.ac.uk - The role of tourism in altering the structure of power relations and facilitating sustainable socio-cultural development for Indigenous communities in Peru.
Rosa Codina, PhD candidate in Business Studies, Oxford Brookes University, School of Hospitality Management. Email: rosa.codina-2011@brookes.ac.uk - - The Geography of Participation: The Case of the Fractionation Gas Plant in Pisco, Peru
Andrea Boyco Orams, M.A. candidate, University of Bergen (UiB) (Norway). Email:andreaboyco@gmail.com
12:00 – 12:45 Light Lunch at the Courtyard Bar
12:45 – 2:30 (Research Beehive 2.20) Chair: Dr. Patricia Oliart
- Capturing the State: Forms of Relatedness and Modes of Power among the Amahuaca of the Peruvian Amazon
Christopher Hewlett, PhD Candidate Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews. Email: ch628@st-andrews.ac.uk - The nativo strikes back: the unrecognised politics of the Amazonian ‘good life’ Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Research fellow, University of St Andrews. Email: jps5@st-andrews.ac.uk - Why do the Peruvian Andes lack grassroots movements? Negotiating identity: a romantic exclusive endeavour
Martina Tonet, School of Languages Cultures and Religions, University of Stirling (Scotland). Email:martina.tonet@stir.ac.uk - Bringing the Excluded in? Decentralisation and Indigenous Political Participation in Peru
Sarah Fearn, PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. Email: sarah.fearn@postgrad.sas.ac.uk - Social Mediation: unveiling different forms of racial domination
Nathalie Koc-Menard, PhD. Socio-cultural Anthropology, Research Associate- Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Email: snk33@cam.ac.uk
2:30 – 2:40 Coffee
2:40 – 3:40 (Research Beehive 2.22) Chair: Dr. Silvia Espelt-Bombin
- Political blogging in post conflict Peru
Franka Winter, PhD. Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Irish School of Ecumenics at Belfast. Email:winterf@tcd.ie - Staging a Fragmented Port-City: Lima seen through Yuyachkani’s eyes
Michelle Nicholson-Sanz, PhD candidate, Queen Mary, University of London. Email:mi_nicholson@hotmail.com - Reinventing roots: White elite imaginaries and intercultural fusion music in Peru.
Fiorella Montero Diaz, PhD candidate, Royal Holloway, University of London. Email:fiorellamont@gmail.com
3:40 – 4:20 (Research Beehive 2.22) Chair: Fernando González-Velarde
- On ‘Dramas’ of Culture, Place and Identity: Performing Peruviannes through Lima's Urban ‘Foodways’
Denise Claux, Goldsmiths University, Visual Sociology MPhil. Email: dcf19@hotmail.com - Struggles around Peruvian identity: The “Brand Peru campaign”
Felix Lossio Chavez, Msc in Culture and Society, London School of Economics and Political Science. Email: F.A.Lossio@lse.ac.uk - ‘The Ghosts of Incas Past': Representations of Authority in Peruvian Early Colonial Histories
Steve Elliot, Mphil Student, University of Cambridge. Email: se320@cam.ac.uk
- The Writer as Intellectual: The Literary Criticism of Mario Vargas Llosa
David Powell, The University of Sheffield. Email: spp07dcp@sheffield.ac.uk - Evaluating the diffusion of social innovation in networks of knowledge for Peruvian entrepreneurs applying Actor Network Theory (ANT)
Andrea Jimenez Cisneros, Msc. Practising Sustainable Development (ICT4D) Specialism, Royal Holloway, University of London. Email: jimcis.andrea@gmail.com
4:20 – 5:00 (Research Beehive 2.22) Chair: Lauren Cordell
- Community Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon: the case of the Machiguenga and the Megantoni National Sanctuary.
Luis Felipe Torres, MA LAIS, Newcastle University. Email: l.f.torres-espinoza@newcastle.ac.uk - The conflict between indigenous land rights and the extractive industry in Peru.
Roger Merino Acuña, PhD student, Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Email:rm468@bath.ac.uk - Gender and Ethnic Identity Formation within Anti-mining Resistances in the Peruvian Andes.
Lexy Seedhouse, PhD candidate in Human Geography and Modern Languages, Newcastle University. Email: a.seedhouse@newcastle.ac.uk - Women that were raped during the internal war in Peru.
Paula Escribens, MA Sociology, LSE. Email: paulaescribens@gmil.com - Mother migrants: Peruvian women trying to survive in Chile.
Angélica Cabezas P., MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking, University of Manchester. Email: angelicamaria.cabezaspino@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
5:00 – 5:10 Coffee
5:10 – 6:10 (Research Beehive 2.22)
- Fiona Wilson, Professor Emeritus from Roskilde University and visiting fellow at the Institute of Development studies in Sussex.
28 May , 7:30 p.m. Recital Room, Armstrong Building
Andean Baroque: a concert/presentation
Newcastle University students and staff with conductor Andrés Franco (Colombia/US) and cellist Jennifer Morsches (US/UK)Sponsored by the Santander Visiting Fellowship scheme
1 June to 15 July: Vamos! Festival 2012
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Published: 12th May 2012