CONF: Gender and Materiality in Latin American History

Kathryn Santner Announcement
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, 1900-1950
Nichola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University

Lunch 12:00-12:45

Keynote: 12: 45– 1:30pm
Images 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-Madison

Closing Remarks 4:30 

Contact Information

Kathryn Santner and Sophie Brockmann

Contact Email
genderandmateriality@gmail.com