The Center of Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese invite...
Transnational Indigeneity
A Mini-Symposium
March 25, 2014
2:20-5:30pm
Barbie Tootle Room, Ohio Union
"Mediated Migrations: Mobility and Aspirational Economies in the Peruvian Andes"
Ulla D. Berg
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology
Rutgers University
Ulla D. Berg (Ph.D. Anthropology, NYU 2007) is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research focuses mobility, race, class, and performances of self in the context of transnational migration between Peru and the US. She has published articles in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latin American Perspectives, Identities, Latino Studies, Política Internacional, and e-misférica, among other journals. She is co-editor with Karsten Paerregaard of El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diásporicas en la Migración Peruana (IEP, 2005) and has also co-edited special issues on migration, borders, and transnational citizenship of the journals: e-misférica (2006), Latin American Perspectives (2010), and Identities (2013). Ulla is also a filmmaker and has directed the documentary Waiting for Miracles (2003). She is currently working on a documentary about the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos.
"Narratives of Identity: An Analysis of Recent Mayan Audiovisual Productions in the Yucatan"
Francisco J. Fernández Repetto
Professor
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Francisco Javier Fernández Repetto (PhD. Anthropology, Universidad de Florida 1994) is Profesor Investigador Titular C and Director of the Research and Graduate Studies Unit of the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas at Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. His research has focused on identity and rituals, and currently on academic tourism and ethnography and the theorization of international academic exchanges. His publications include Una población perdida en la memoria: Los negros de Yucatán (Con Genny Negroe Sierra, UADY 1995); Religión popular de la reconstrucción histórica al análisis antropológico (Aproximaciones casuisticas). (G. Negroe Sierra y F. Fernandez Repetto, eds. UADY 2000); Izamal Festivo (con Genny Negroe Sierra, UADY 2006) y Estampas Etnográficas de Yucatán (F. Fernandez Repetto, ed, UADY 2010).
"Purijkuna: Otavalan Transnational Migrants and the Politics of Destination"
Michelle Wibbelsman
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Michelle Wibbelsman (PhD. Cultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2004). Her research interests and areas of specialization include South American indigenous cultures, ethnographic studies and ethnomusicology. Her work in Andean Ecuador since 1995 has focused on symbolic and semiotic analytical approaches to indigenous performances, ritual practices and politics. She is the author of Ritual Encounters. Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community (U. Illinois P, 2008). Her current research explores indigenous transnational migration, diaspora and cosmopolitanism.
"Transnational Indigeneity. A Critical Response"
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Professor
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
Jeffrey H. Cohen (PhD. Anthropology, Indiana University 1994) has studied the impact, structure and outcome of migration from indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico to the US with support from the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on migration, development and nutrition. Since the early 1990s he has also conducted comparative research on Mexican, Dominican and Turkish migration. His work on traditional foods, nutrition and migration was supported by the National Geographic Society. Among his works are The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico (U Texas P, 2004) and Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca (U Texas P, 1999). In addition to ongoing work in Oaxaca, he is currently studying the migration of Mexicans to Columbus.
Program:
2:20-2:30- Welcome
2:30-3:00 – Presenter 1 (Berg)
3:05-3:35 – Presenter 2 (Fdez)
3:40-4:10 – Presenter 3 (Wibb)
4:10-4:25 – Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 – Concluding Remarks Panel
(Cohen + P1,P2,P3)
Co-sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Folklore Studies, and the Department of Anthropology
