Latin American Indigenous Print Cultures Workshop. August 25th 2023
Latin American Indigenous Print Cultures Workshop
Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of St Andrews
August 25th 2023
Program
9am-10.30am – Panel 1: Cultural memory, authenticity and the book form[1]
Philippe Erikson (University of Paris-Nanterre) – Itënëimëk. Kunolo. An autonomous wayana editorial project in French Guiana.
Catherine Alès (CNRS/ University of St Andrews) – Production of Writing Documents in Amerindian Language and Transmission of Values
Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS/ University of Paris-Nanterre) – Old Maya palimpsests, regenerative copies and a modern publication
(Valentina comments on Phillipe, Phillipe comments on Catherine, Catherine on Valentina)
10.30am-11am: Coffee Break
11am- 12.30pm – Panel 2: The politics of (co)-authorship and collaboration
Olivia Casagrande (University of Sheffield) – ‘You taught me language; and my profit on’t’. Translation, collective authorship, and frictions as anticolonial collaborations in indigenous and anthropological writing
Jonathan Alderman (LMU, Munich) – Quechua, Aymara and Spanish texts in popular educational project in Andean Bolivia
Andrés Napurí (National University of San Marcos) – Life histories with members of indigenous societies: methodological and ethical remarks
(Jonathan comments on Olivia, Andrés comments on Jonathan, Olivia comments on Andrés)
12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch
1.30- 3pm – Panel 3: Multimodal expressions
Maria Koulouri (University of St Andrews) – Indigenous Infographics: how wool and colour on Khipu Board registries assisted in the understanding of Andean community classifications in nineteenth-century Peru.
Jessica Sequeira (University of Cambridge)- Santos Chávez’ evolving artistic vision in Mapuche print culture
Sol Barreto (Catapoesia – Minas Gerais) – As Loas no Tempo/ Espaco Da Memoria
(Jessica comments on Maria, Sol comments on Jessica, Patrick comments on Sol)
3pm-3.30pm – Coffee
3.30pm-5pm- Panel 4: Indigenous Writing: Autonomy vs Institutionalisation?
Mariana López Durand, Luz María Lepe Lira (University of Querétaro)- Approaching imagined publics through materiality of self and institutionally published indigenous literatures in Mexico
Angelica Waner (UCLA) Retaking the Path: Neza Cubi and the Start of a Movement
Dylan Bradbury (University of Manchester) – The sensory politics of writing in Mapuzugun
(Angelica comments on Mariana, Dylan comments on Angelica, Mariana comments on Dylan)
5pm-5.30pm- Closing Remarks (Patrick O’Hare and Natalia Buitron)
[1] 20-minute presentations, followed by 5 minutes from discussant then 15 minutes general discussion at the end.