Past CAS Seminars
Martinmas Term 2010
A new series of lectures, workshops and fim shows on the theme 'The Riddle of Place in the Caribbean and Latin America' are currently planned for the coming academic year. These will include visits by esteemed commentators on the region:
In October (27th-31st) Professor Robert Hill will visit CAS.
His lecture 'Avatars of Menelik: 'Ethiopian' Impostors in America and the Caribbean, 1908-1960' will take place on Thursday October 28th in the Hebdomadar's room, 5-6pm. The lecture will be preceded by presentations from post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers in CAS from 2-4pm.
In December (10th-14th) Dr George Mentore will visit CAS.
His lecture 'Abandoned People, Madness and the Untranslatable' will take place on Tuesday December 13th, 5-6pm (venue TBA). The lecture will be preceded by presentations from post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers in CAS from 2-4pm.
Candlemas Term 2010
Wednesdays at 3 pm in the Social Anthropology Seminar Room (unless otherwise stated).
January 27th. Javier Carrera Rubio, Universidad de Extremadura (Cáceres, Spain). "'Look How We Speak!' Exploring the Voice System of Yanomami Mythological Narration" NB seminar will start at 4.30pm.
February 10th. Vahe Boyadjian, University of St Andrews. “History, Narratives and Genealogies: Identity Transformation in Baluchistan”.
February 17th. Stacy Hope, University of St Andrews. “‘How she don't know to make cassava bread?’ Identity Politics of an Amerindian Beauty Queen”.
February 24th. Patricia Oliart, Newcastle University. “Debating the Worth of Biodiversity: Ideology and Conflict Around Natural Reserves in Peru”.
March 3rd. Shelene Gomes, University of St Andrews. “Caribbean Rastafari in Ethiopia: Personhood and Land”.
March 10th. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, University of St Andrews. “From Paisano to Diablo: Ashaninka Participation in the Peruvian Internal Conflict and the Denial of the Good Life”.
March 17th. Roger Canals, University of Barcelona. “Representing Gods in a Mixed-race Society. Images, Rituals and Politics in María Lionza’s Cult (Venezuela)”.
March 24th. Conrad Feather, University of St Andrews. “‘Herding Cats’: The Challenges of Indigenous Rights Activism in the Amazon”.
EASTER HOLIDAY March 27th -April 11th
April 14th & 21st. NO SEMINAR.
April 28th. Matthias Röhrig Assunção, University of Essex. “‘Defend the Constitution and the Holy Catholic Religion, Love the Fatherland and the Emperor’. Popular Liberalism in the Balaiada Rebellion in Maranhao, Northern Brazil, 1838 -1841”.
April 29th. Andrés Guerrero, FLACSO (Quito). “Ecuadorean Indians (19th Century) and African Migrants (21st Century). Resonances Between Two Citizen ‘States of Exception’ in Ecuador and Spain.” NB. This seminar is co-sponsored with the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies (CCS). The venue for this talk is Seminar Room 2 in the New Arts Building.
*PLEASE NOTE This seminar has been rescheduled and was originally planned for 21 April.*
May 5th. Cornelia Nell, University of St Andrews. “Food and Movement in a Community of the Chawpirana, Northern Potosí, Bolivia”.
Martinmas Term 2009
Wednesdays at 3 pm in the Social Anthropology Seminar Room (Room 50), St Salvator’s Building, unless stated otherwise.
14th Oct: Christopher Kaplonski, University of Cambridge. “Archiving Repression: State Relations, Political Violence and the Rehabilitation of Documents in Anthropology"
21st Oct: Paolo Fortis, University of St Andrews. “Images of the Past in Central and South America"
28th Oct: Nick Nesbitt, University of Aberdeen. “The Haitian Revolution and the Globalization of the Radical Enlightenment”
4th Nov: George Lau, University of East Anglia. “An Andean Style of Making Chiefs: The Recuay Culture (AD 200-600) of Peru’s North Highlands”
11th Nov: READING WEEK
18th Nov: Veronika Groke, University of St Andrews. “Hungry for History: The Incorporation of ‘Culture’ in Bolivian Guaraní Pottery-Making”
25th Nov: Magnus Course, University of Edinburgh. “The Clown Within: Becoming ‘White’ and Mapuche Ritual Clowns”
2nd Dec: Maggie Bolton, University of Aberdeen. “Counting Llamas and Accounting for People: Livestock, Land and Citizens in Southern Bolivia”
9th Dec: Giuseppe Ciancia, University of St Andrews. “Ceremonies for the New Andean Year in Maragua, Bolivia: Individuals, Groups of Power and the 'Signs' for a Better Year”
Candlemas Term 2009
Wednesdays at 3 pm in the CAS Library (unless otherwise stated).
February 11th. Giovanna Bacchiddu, University of St Andrews. “From Mouse to Lion: Jokes and Their Counter-value in Apiao Society, Chiloé.”
February 18th. Serena Heckler, Nuffield New Career Development Research Fellow. “To Hunt the Head of Hunger, Misery and Oppression: Indigenous Higher Education amongst the Shuar of Ecuador.” NB seminar will start at 3.30pm.
February 25nd. Catherine Alès, CNRS. “Cannibalism and Procreation among the Yanomami.” NB seminar will start at 4.30pm.
March 4th. Joanna Overing, University of St Andrews. “‘Puzzles of Alterity in an Amazonian Ontology’: A Discussion.” NB seminar will start at 4.30pm.
March 11th. Philippe Erikson, Nanterre-Paris X. “The Social Life of Matis Objects.”
March 18th. Narmala Halstead, University of East London. “‘Outside Stigma’ and the Local: ‘Chaste Brides’, Multi-skilled ‘Experts’ and Others.”
March 25th. Stacy Hope, University of St Andrews. “The Politics of Laughter: Learning How to Laugh Wapichannao.”
April 15th. Eleni Bizas, University of St Andrews. “Politics on the Dance-floor: Sabar Class in New York City.”
April 22nd. Veronika Groke, University of St Andrews. “Dueños, Duendes, ‘Bichos’: The Engaging (A)Sociality of the Forest Realm.”
April 29th. Scarlett O’Phelan, University of Cambridge. “Popular Expectations and Leadership Response during the Process of Peruvian Independence.”
May 6th. Mercedes Prieto, FLACSO-Quito, Ecuador. “Indigenous Citizenship: Voting Rights and Development in Ecuador, 1941-1952.”
Martinmas Term 2007
Wednesdays at 3 pm in the CAS Library (unless otherwise stated).
3 Oct - Video of John Victor Murra (Odessa 1916 – Ithaca, NY 2006)
Interview on the Spanish Civil War and its impact on his understanding of Anthropology
In Room 36 (School VI)
Thurs 4 Oct - Sidney Mintz - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Remembering John V. Murra
Special meeting at 12.00 in the SA Seminar room
Fri-Sat, 5-6 Oct - LACNET Conference
St Mary’s College Hall
10 Oct - Mariusz Ziólkowski - University of Warsaw
Solar oracles in the South Central Andes (in the SA seminar room)
17 Oct – Conrad Feather - University of St Andrews
The restless life of the Nahua: Shaping people and places in the Amazon
24 Oct – Nicholas Ellison - University of Aberdeen
Totonac landscape aesthetics
31 Oct - Stacy Hope - University of St Andrews
Staggering men and shop dynamics in Bushrope (Guyana): at the bottom of a rum glass
7 Nov - Mark Jamieson - Durham University
Bloodman, manatee-owner and the destruction of the turtle book: Ulwa and Miskitu representations of knowledge and economic power.
Thurs 8 Nov - Ricardo Calla - Universidad de la Cordillera, La Paz, Bolivia
Processes of Change in Modern Bolivia
Special meeting at 11.00 in the CAS Library
14 Nov - READING WEEK NO SEMINAR
21 Nov - Jenny Cárdenas - University of St Andrews.
Interpelating the State from the State: Music, nation and social movements in Bolivia.
28 Nov - Federico Fernandez Christlieb - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Territory and culture of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
5 Dec - Casey High - Goldsmiths College, University of London
From victims to killers: the ‘wildman’ in Amazonian history, and contemporary Huaorani masculinity.
12 Dec - Emilia Ferraro - University of St Andrews
"Transnational" currencies and local uses of money in Ecuador.
Candlemas Term 2007
February 6 - Sabine Dedenbach – University of Stirling
Sermon and Satire: The Image of the Other in Colonial Andean Discourse
February 19 - Lewis Taylor – University of Liverpool (LACNET)
Sendero Luminoso in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980-1997: Insurrection, Counter-insurgency and the Campesino Experience
To be held in the New Arts Building Seminar Room 1
February 27 - Nicole Bourque – University of Glasgow
Talking to the Converted: Researching Conversion to Islam in Scotland and Conversion to Protestantism in Bolivia
March 6 - Margherita Margiotti – University of St Andrews
Fertility and Transformations in Kuna Social Life (Panama)
March 13 - Evan Killick – London School of Economics
Autonomy and Leadership: An Analysis of Competing Political Philosophies Amongst the Ashéninka of Peruvian Amazonia
March 20 - Stephen Rubenstein – University of Liverpool
De-Gendering Shuar Ethnography
EASTER HOLIDAY – 23RD MARCH to 6TH APRIL
Apr 10 - Carlos Ivan Degregori - Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Truth, reconciliation and "holocaust denial" in the wake of the Peruvian civil war.
Apr 24 - Mette Berg – University of St Andrews (LACNET)
Generating Diaspora: Belonging and Nation Among Cubans in Spain
To be held in the New Arts Building Seminar Room 7
May 1 - Elke Mader - University of Vienna
A Magical Discourse of Love: Meaning and Agency in Shuar Spells (anent)
May 8 - Marilyn Cebolla – Universitat de Barcelona
Una etnografía sobre la miel en la cultura mbya-guaraní
Martinmas Term 2006
24th October Joanna Overing, University of St Andrews
Spectre of the tyrant: Oedipus the King in the Amazon
14th November Alan Campbell, University of Edinburgh
Writing Waiwai
21th November Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Amerindian Torture Revisited: Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude in Tropical America
28th November Elisabeth Acha, University of Newcastle
Researching Violence in Multicultural Societies: Toward a ‘Performative’ Social Science Methodology in the Context of Post-conflict Peru.
5th December Pablo Sendon, CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)/Visiting Fellow 2006/07 The British Academy
The Andean Ayllu: Comparative Approaches to an Old Problem
12th December Paolo Fortis, University of St Andrews
Giving beautiful shape to powerful beings. A Kuna practice of carving wood.
ALL ARE WELCOME
For further information, please contact:
Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
School of Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
University of St Andrews
71 North Street
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9AL Scotland, UK
Email: amerindian@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 462986/2977
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