CONF: Gender and Materiality in Latin American History
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies,
Women's & Gender History / Studies,
Anthropology,
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies
Registration is now open for Gender and Materiality in Latin American History (11 November at the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, London, UK). To register, please click here or visit genderandmateriality.wordpress.com.
Program:
Registration 10:00-10:45 am
Welcome 10:45-11:00
Panel 1 11:00 – 12:00
Elite dowries in late-colonial ArequipaKathryn Santner, Institute of Latin American Studies Clothing, Commissariats and Competing Visions of the Home: British Caribbean Domestic Servants and the Material in American Expatriate Households in Panama, Costa Rica and Cuba, 1900-1950Nichola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
Lunch 12:00-12:45
Keynote: 12: 45– 1:30pmImages Beyond the Veil: Funeral Portraits of Nuns and Sacred Materialities in New Spain’s Convents
James Córdova, University of Colorado at Boulder
Panel 2: 1:30-2:30
A Nation of Bronze and Marble: The First Female Sculptors of ArgentinaGeorgina G. Gluzman, Universidad de San Andrés Our Grandmother's looms: Q'eqchi' weavers, museum textiles and the repatriation of lost knowledge
Callie Vandewiele, University of Cambridge
Coffee Break: 2:30-3:00
Panel 3: 3:00-4:30
Beautiful Muxes: on Pageants and Non-Binary Gender Identities in Oaxaca, Mexico Dominika Gasiorowski, Queen Mary University London The (Matri)sociality of the Benevolent State: the Case of Bolivarian VenezuelaMariya P. Ivancheva, University College Dublin Pulpería Politics: Company Goods and Revolutionary Citizenship in the Bolivian MinesElena McGrath, University of Wisconsin-MadisonClosing Remarks 4:30
Contact Information
Kathryn Santner and Sophie Brockmann
Contact Email
genderandmateriality@gmail.com