The IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Association presents
Between Absurdity & Possibility: Envisioning Liberation in an Age of Nonsense 9th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE February 28 and 29, 2020
About CLACS
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) was founded in 1963 (originally as the Latin American Studies Program) as an umbrella organization uniting Latin Americanists from all campuses of Indiana University (IU). As a Title VI National Resource Center in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and part of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at IU, CLACS is a pivotal site for research, instruction, and outreach focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. CLACS also sponsors a wide range of lectures, conferences and events highlighting aspects of the region’s cultures, societies, and languages in addition to providing information on Latin America and the Caribbean to local, regional, and national constituencies.
CLACS provides interdisciplinary academic programs in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to students preparing for careers in research, teaching, or management in public, private, or nonprofit sectors. CLACS offers an undergraduate minor and area certificate, a Master’s degree, Dual Degree graduate programs (Business Administration, Library Science, Information Science, Law, Public Health, and Public Affairs) and a doctoral minor and certificate.
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Keynote Address Reimagining Technofeminist Futures Mechanisms of control through science and technology have been historically inherent to colonial and development policies. Technological systems continue to amplify numerous forms of violence that increasingly affect marginalized communities– women, LGBTQI+ and gender non-conforming individuals, low-income communities, and people of color– as they integrate the datafied society, as well as becoming the focus of activism. In this presentation, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle will discuss her feminist decolonial approach to the study of gender, technology, and development in Latin America through a study of the emergence of pleasure and solidarity as a framework of resistance. She will analyze both the ways in which development discourse constructs what she calls an exemplary neoliberal “Third World Technological Woman” and how feminist activists create strategies to imagine other futures and rethink technologies. In line with feminist and decolonial praxis, Professor Shokooh Valle will also address her methodology and experiences during fieldwork in Costa Rica. Her presentation draws from extensive archival and ethnographic research since 2015.
Friday, February 28, 4 p.m. in GA1134 Followed by Reception in GA 1060
Dr. Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is a sociologist and journalist from Puerto Rico. She is an
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, PA. Her book manuscript Politics and Pleasure: Feminist Technofutures in the Global South examines how development policy frames the relationships between gender, technology, and science, and how they are being contested by feminist organizations in Latin America and other regions of the Global South. Firuzeh has authored and co-authored academic articles published in the peer-reviewed journals Sociology of Development, Social Movement Studies, and the Cuban academic journal Temas. As a journalist, she has covered violence against women and gender politics, racism, poverty and socioeconomic development, and migration in Puerto Rico. She has earned numerous national awards for her journalistic investigative work. She is the former Spanish Language Editor of the independent multilingual digital media publication Global Voices Online, where she mentored numerous aspiring journalists and women of color. Firuzeh has also done volunteer work with grassroots women’s organizations helping them design social media strategies that reflect their vision.
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FRIDAY, February 28
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies 355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST - 8:30 - 9:00 AM 1134 9:15 AM 10:30 AM
Panel 1 : Alienation and inequality: multidisciplinary approaches (1134) Bruno Nassi Peric (Boston University) - La mercantilización del tiempo como factor determinante de la posición del sujeto en la sociedad de consumo. Una comparación entre La prueba (1992), de César Aira y Mano de obra (2002), de Diamela Eltit Jen Watkins (Indiana University) - Tourism, Supermarkets, and Changing Foodways in San Cristóbal de las Casas Victoria Elizabeth Alvarado Vasquez (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala) - Trabajo público asalariado y la división del trabajo doméstico DISCUSSANT: Christopher Jillson
10:45 AM 11: 45 AM
Panel 2: Negotiating Conflict and Relations to the Land (1134) Jesús Nazario (University of Texas at Austin) - Critical Indigenous Photography: An (auto)Ethnographic Analysis Angelica Aguirre (University of California, Berkeley) - "Sorry for the Inconvenience, This is a Revolution": Counterinsurgency, Paramilitarism & Low-Intensity Warfare in Chiapas Óscar Rodríguez Rodríguez (El Colegio de Sonora) - Nuevas soluciones a viejos conflictos: Un recorrido por la cuestión agraria en Oaxaca, siglo XVI al XXI DISCUSSANT: Dr. Daniel Webb LUNCH - 12:00 PM Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 1060
1:00 PM 2:15 PM
Panel 3: Against the Grain: Supplementing the Archive (2134) Ángel Rodríguez (Harvard University) - Augmenting the Archive: Case Study in Medical History, Global Health, and Digital Interfaces Sergio Cruz (Photographer) - La importancia de la fotografía en Guatemala Markus Brown (Rich Coast Project) - Documenting Community-Identified Cultural Heritage through Participatory Media in South Caribbean Costa Rica DISCUSSANT: Dr. Andrew Bentley
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2:30 PM 3:45 PM
Panel 4: Dystopias & Utopias: Past, Present, & Future of Brazil (2134) Charles Exdell (Indiana University) - Minor Musical Utopias: Reflections on Race, Music, and Black History in Brazil Liliana Gil (New School for Social Research) - The Brazilian "Electronics Paradise": Repair Work, Expertise, and Global Connections in Santa Efigênia Caio Fernandes Barbosa (Universidade Federal da Bahia) - Paralelos obscurantistas: O “veto ideológico” na ditadura civil militar (1968) e no governo Bolsonaro (2019) DISCUSSANT: Dr. Micol Seigel
4:00 PM
Keynote Address: Dr. Firuzeh Shokooh Valle Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, 1134 Followed by Reception in GISB 1060
SATURDAY, February 29
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies 355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
BREAKFAST - 9:30 AM 1134 10:00 AM 11:15 AM
Panel 5: Re/un-covering Orgullo (1134) Connie Chavez (Alegria Peruanx) - Alegria Peruanx: Building intersectional bridges of solidarity toward liberation Jorge Cruz (California State University) - Reimagining Masculine Mexican Revolutionary Figures from a Queer Lens Nate Young (Indiana University) - Queerly Religious: Exploring the Intersections of Organized Religion and Sexual Diversity in Mexico DISCUSSANT: Dr. Solimar Otero LUNCH - 11:30 AM Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 2067
12: 30 PM 1:30 PM
Visibilizando transformaciones curativas: Reassessing Identities (GA 2134, 2055) Gallery and Participatory Workshop Markus Brown & Katie Beck (Rich Coast Project) Connie Chavez (Alegria Peruanx) Angiee Liliana Rocha Parra (Indiana University)
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1:45 PM 3:00 PM
Panel 6: Cuatro Miradas: Re-conociendo la violencia en Colombia desde un enfoque interdisciplinar / Re-thinking Colombian violence from an Interdisciplinary Approach (1134) Amelia López L. (Indiana University) - Aprendiendo a Desaprender lo Mal Aprendido: Reflections on the Absence/Silence of Afro-Colombian Violins in Bogotá Angiee Liliana Rocha Parra (Indiana University) - Honrando las heridas / Honoring Wounds Margarita Martínez-Osorio (Indiana University) - Campesino Struggle for Land in the Colombian Caribbean Coast: Oral History and Citizenship Natalia Duarte-Mayorga (University of Pittsburgh) - Mobilizing Without Arms: The Role of Transition Communities in the Activist Struggles of Former Guerrillas After Colombia's Peace Accords DISCUSSANT: Dr. John Holmes McDowell
CLOSING REMARKS - 3:00 PM Dr. César Félix-Brasdefer
from the Planning Committee This conference would not have been a possible without the generous support of our sponsors: the IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the IU Department of Anthropology; the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design; the IU School of Public Health; the IU Department of History; and the IU Funding Board. We would like to thank all our faculty discussants for their time and committment to student-scholarship. We would also like to thank CLACS graduate students Monty Montgomery, Oscar Lemus, Aline Xavier de Araújo, Saeed Halim, Celia Meredith, Clara Luft and Nate Young for their hard work in organizing this year’s conference. In addition, thank you to CLACS Director Dr. César Félix-Brasdefer, CLACS Associate Director Dr. Bryan Pitts, CLACS Academic Secretary Katherine Cashman, and CLACS Intern Nina Castro-Sauer for their much appreciated support.
-The CLACS GSC Planning Commitee
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Participants
Angelica Aguirre - University of California, Berkeley, History Katie Beck - Rich Coast Project Markus Brown - Rich Coast Project Connie Chavez - Alegria Peruanx Jorge Cruz - California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies Sergio Cruz - Photographer Natalia Duarte-Mayorga - University of Pittsburgh, Sociology Charles Exdell - Indiana University, Ethnomusicology Caio Fernandes Barbosa - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Social History Liliana Gil - New School for Social Research, Cultural Anthropology Amelia López L. - Indiana University, Ethnomusicology Margarita Martínez-Osorio - Indiana University, History Bruno Nassi Peric - Boston University, Hispanic Language and Literatures Jesús Nazario - University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies (LLILAS) Angiee Liliana Rocha Parra - Indiana University, SOAAD, MFA- Fibers Ángel Rodríguez - Harvard University, Takemi Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population Óscar Rodríguez Rodríguez - El Colegio de Sonora, Ciencias Sociales Jen Watkins - Indiana University, Geography Nate Young - Indiana University, O'Neill School & Latin American Studies Victoria Elizabeth Alvarado Vasquez- Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Antropología
Discussants
Christopher Jillson - Department of History Dr. Daniel Webb - Department of Latino Studies Dr. Andrew Bentley - Department of Spanish and Portuguese Dr. Micol Seigel - Department of American Studies, Department of History Dr. Solimar Otero - Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Dr. John Holmes McDowell - Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
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Indiana University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to present the 9th Annual CLACS Graduate Student Conference on February 28- 29 at Indiana University Bloomington. Thank you to all of our participants, discussants, and supporters!
Thank you to all of our co-sponsors: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Department of History, Department of Informatics, Department of Public Health, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design; Latin American Music Center and Indiana University Funding Board
To learn more about our center and our upcoming events, please contact us at: 355 N. Jordan Ave Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855 9097 clacs@indiana.edu https://clacs.indiana.edu/ Twitter: @IUCLACS Instagram: @IUCLACS