Thursday, June 25
13.00 - 13.15
Welcome Address (Olaf Kaltmeier)
13.15 - 14.00
Keynote: Valeria Coronel (FLACSO, Ecuador): Diálogos socialistas indoamericanos. La coalición de Lázaro Cárdenas y Enríquez Gallo en la Liga de las Naciones en torno a la relación trabajo-etnicidad y soberanía estatal
14.00 - 15.45
Panel 1 – Spaces of Entanglement and Contact
Thilo F. Papacek (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Cruceños, Guaraníes and Cambas: The Genesis of (proto-)nationalism in the oriente boliviano and its entanglements with Paraguayan nationalism in the context of the Chaco War (Bolivia vs. Paraguay, 1932-1935)
Ursula Regehr (Universität Bern, Switzerland): The dynamics and politics of entanglement of different modes of figuration in the Gran Chaco
Clara Buitrago, Mirko Petersen, Paul-Matthias Tyrell, Dorothea Wehrmann (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Nuestro Norte Es el Sur: Researching Entangled Imaginaries in the Americas
15.45 - 16.15
Coffee Break
16.15 - 18.00
Panel 2 – Social Movements and Protest
Cruz González (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Feminism and political subjectivation of women in the urban popular movement in Mexico: a comparative study between Sinaloa and Mexico City, 1980-1988
José Antonio Villareal (FLACSO, Ecuador): Las prácticas políticas de los sectores urbano marginales y la ‘Revolución Ciudadana’
Julia Roth (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Feminist Politics of Connectedness in the Americas
18.00 - 18.30
Coffee Break
18.30 - 20.15
Panel 3 – Postcolonial Entanglement and Solidarity
Peter van Dam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands): The puzzle of postcolonial entanglement: fair trade activism in the 1960s and 1970s
Sebastian Garbe (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany): Decolonial Perspectives on Solidarity – the Case of the Mapuche Solidarity Network in Europe
Sabine Kim (Universität Mainz, Germany): Rethinking Indebtedness: Canadian Investment in the Caribbean
Friday, June 26
8.30 - 9.00
Keynote – Isabel Caldeira (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal): Literary Entanglements of the African Diaspora in the Americas
9.00 - 10.45
Panel 4 – Migration Processes and Transnational Flows
Pablo Sebastián Gómez (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina): Re-discutir la integración de migrantes sur-sur en Argentina (Córdoba): patrones sociodemográficos y segregación residencial de migrantes peruanos y bolivianos en la Ciudad de Córdoba, 2001-2010
Stefanie Quakernack (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Narrating ‘Dispossession‘ – Digital Testimonios of Undocumented Youth in the United States
Susanne Willers (Universidad Autónoma de Mexico): Migration processes and gender: Experiences of women migrants in a changing migration system between Central America and the United States
10.45 - 11.15
Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.00
Panel 5 – Social Production of Environment
Juan Javier Rivera Andía (University of Bonn, Germany): Development, extractivism and indigenous livelihoods in the Andes: local protests and conflicts between Cañaris, the Peruvian state and mining mega-projects
Clara Gläve, Alexander Mosena (Unversität Bielefeld, Germany): From an ‘era of intentional introductions‘ to endeavors to prevent, control and eradicate: how a shifting mindset about non-native species influenced legislation in the United States through the years
Anne Tittor (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Environmental history in two Central American borderlands: Current socio-ecological dynamics and historical entanglements
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch Break
14.15 - 15.25
Panel 6 – Politics of Development and International Cooperation
Martin Breuer (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): The nexus of Indigenismo and international development cooperation in the Andean region, 1950-1970
Thomas Maier (Institute of the Americas, University College London, United Kingdom): The promises of a transnational history of Social Security – Argentina and the ILO in the década infame
15.25 - 15.45
Coffee Break
15.45 - 17.30
Panel 7 – Visions of Buen Vivir
Philipp Altmann (Universidad Central del Ecuador): La búsqueda del Sumak Kawsay como construcción de un pasado indígena latinoamericano
Juan Jacobo Tancara Chambe (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Subjetividad, teología y el K’epiri – contrucción del sujeto en la teología de la liberación y en la literatura marginal boliviana. Una interpretación a la teología
Carmen Ibañez (Universität zu Köln, Germany): Criticas desde el buen vivir al concepto de desarrollo
17.30 - 18.30
Keynote – Rebeca Ramos (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba): Cuban International Migration. Migration Trends from Cuba to Canada
19.30
Conference Dinner @TBA (self-pay)
Saturday, June 27
9.00 - 10.45
Panel 8 – Rocking Entanglements
Dorothea Gail (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany): Aztec Mystic Meets the Marsian on the Black Planet Somewhere in Detroit: The Latin Side of Detroit Techno
María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli (Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland): Ambientes musicales y estéticas rurales: Desafíos ecológicos entre la reparación y la resiliencia
Matti Steinitz (Berlin): Black Power in a ‘paraíso racial’? Black Rio and the impact of soul music on Afro-Latin identity formation
10.45 - 11.15
Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.00
Panel 9 – The Language of Entanglements
Xaver Daniel Hergenröther (Universität Graz, Austria): Factual and Fictional Narration in El Salvador: Memory, Representation and Strategies of Reworking after the Civil War
Brian Rozema (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Acknowledging the Reality of Language: English-Based Creoles, Multilingualism and Cultural Production in the Americas and Beyond
Joseph Farquharson (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Jamaica(n) to de worl‘: The Transnationalisation of a nonstandard(ised) language
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch Break
14.15 - 16.35
Panel 10 – Religious Flows and Imaginaries
Verena Adamik (Universität Potsdam, Germany): Strange Cults, Communes, Utopias and the United States
Andrea Althoff (Universität Eichstätt, Germany): Migration and the Transformation of Latino Religious Identities in the United States: Findings from Field Research in Chicago Immigrant Pentecostal Communities
Cecilia A. Delgado-Molina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico): Redefiniendo ‘lo secular’ y ‘lo religioso’ en contextos de violencia social y construcción de paz en Cuernavaca, México
Manuel A. Vásquez (University of Florida, Gainesville, United States): TBA
16.35 - 17.35
Keynote – Héctor Raúl Solís Gadea (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico): Reflections on the Current Political Situation in Mexico
17.35 - 18.00
Concluding Remarks & Farewell