SATURDAY, APRIL 2nd, 2011
340 WEST HALL
FROM 10:30 A.M. - 7:10 P.M.
"Imagining Ecuador" will offer a space for leading scholars to present their most recent work on Ecuador, one of the Andean countries that has experienced significant sociopolitical changes over the last few decades. Our presenters will cover a variety of themes that will engage the audience in thoughtful conversations about change, continuity, and the process of re-envisioning the nation.
DETAILED PROGRAM
10:30 – 11:00 – Welcome (Bruce Mannheim)
11:00 – 12:40 – Panel 1: Risk, Representation, and Racialized Borders (Discussant: Sergio Miguel Huarcaya, Anthropology and History)
11:00-11:20 -- Scars of Nation: Surgical Penetration and the State in Ecuador (Liz Roberts)
11:20-11:40 -- Imagining an Indigenous Ecuador in Otavalo (John McDowell)
11:40-12:00 -- Crossing borders from Calhuasí to Quito to Brooklyn: indigenous youth’s rural-to-urban migrations and beyond (Kate Swanson)
12:00-12:20 -- Risk-seeking Peasants, Excessive Artisans: Speculation, Fashion, and Longing in the Northern Andes (Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld)
12:20-12:40 – Discussant comments + Q&A
12:45 – 2:00 – Lunch
2:10 – 3:30 – Documentary: La Curación (The Healing)
Movie + Discussion
La Curación examines multi-situated narratives about health and healing in the urban, coastal, and rural communities of Ecuador. Set within the lush volcanic landscapes of the Northern Andes, this experimental documentary reveals deeply layered understandings of the body as a porous and permeable subject. An epileptic revolutionary, a pair of fire-breathing shamans, and a poet physician discuss embodiment through the prism of poetry and folk history. Direction: Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke; Production: The Quito Film Collective – Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke, Sergio Miguel Huarcaya, Anica Madeo, Kyle Fish, Dana Kuhn, Gonzalo Escobar, and Susan Fawcet.
3:30 – 4:00 – Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:40 – Panel 2: Reconfiguring Nationhood (Discussant: Daniel Noemi, Romance Languages)
4:00-4:20 -- Indigenismo in Ecuador (Marc Becker)
4:20-4:40 -- Afro-Ecuador Beyond the 'lettered city': Rethinking the representation of blackness in the literary works of Nelson Estupiñán Bass (Michael Handelsman)
4:40-5:00 -- Rafael Correa’s Technopopulism (Carlos de la Torre)
5:00-5:20 -- Mediated Freedom(s): The Politics of AfroEcuadorian In/Exclusion in (De)Colonial Perspective (Catherine Walsh)
5:20-5:40 – Discussant comments + Q&A
5:40 – 5:50 – Break
5:50 – 6:10 – Closing (Javier Sanjinés)
6:10 – 7:30 – Dinner
9:00 – Celebration (basement of Café Habana, 211 E. Washington St.)
Contact Information: alyhand@umich.edu
Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Departments of Anthropology, Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Education grant, and the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Grant.
Organized by Circulo Micaela Bastidas Phuyuqhawa - Michigan Andeanists.