Invitation for participation

Newcastle University Americas Research Group (ARG) Postgraduate Conference:

“Citizenship and collective subjectivities in the Americas”

This conference aims to explore debates around the processes of formation, transformation and expression of citizenship and collective subjectivities in the Americas, from the remote past to the present. In particular, the tensions and paradoxes that emerge in the configuration of these processes around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, use of resources and space, political, religious and cultural allegiance.

Venue: Bamburgh and Alnwick Rooms, Kings Road Centre, Newcastle University, UK

Date: 17th March 2011

Time: 12:00 – 6:00 pm

Keynote speaker: Professor Jenny Pearce, Professor of Latin American Politics
Director of International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford. Profile: http://www.brad.ac.uk/peace/staff/academic/ProfessorJennyPearce/

Please contact: Silvia Espelt Bombín [log in to unmask] or Gisela Zapata [log in to unmask] by Sunday 6th March 2011 if you would like to attend the conference, so we can plan for catering. Attendance is free.

For further information about ARG events, please visit our website at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/

Conference Programme

12:00 - 12:30	Registration
12:30 - 1:15	Welcome and Keynote Prof. Jenny Pearce "Beyond Rousseau and Montesquieu: The Quest for a Latin American Democratic Subjectivity"
1:15 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:20	Panel 1: Civil society and socio-political change Chair: Prof. Nina D. Laurie
2:00-2:20	Anaïd Flesken: Bolivia’s New Regional Autonomy Movement: A Case of ‘Ethnic’ Mobilization?
2:20-2:40	Adam Baird: Forgotten Heroes? Civil Society Activism Amidst Violence & Pioneering Youth Policy in Medellín
2:40-3:00	Juan Pablo Ferrero: New Democratic Subjectivities in South America: From democratic regimes to democratic politics? Reflections on Argentina and Brazil
3:00-3:20	Discussion
3:20 - 3:40	Tea/Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:40	Panel 2: Culture, subjectivities and territory Chair: Dr. Patricia Oliart
3:40-4:00	Lisa Costello: Beyond Borders: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
4:00-4:20	Maria Magalhães Pachêco: Places and things - Aldeia Flor D'Agua: a practice-led experiment in site specific art
4:20-4:40	Discussion
4:40-5:40	Panel 3: State violence and citizens rights Chair: Prof. Jens Hentschke
4:40 -5:00	Andrew Burridge: Migrant rights and humanitarian aid in southern Arizona: a case study of Operation Streamline
5:00-5:20	Elizabeth Kerr: Living in the Shadow of the State: Displaced People’s Struggle for Citizenship
5:20-5:40	Discussion
5:40 - 6:00	Plenary Discussion Chair: Prof. Jenny Pearce