Preliminary Conference Program
Venue: Senatssaal, 1st floor, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
Thursday April 25th, 2013
Conference Opening
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| from 3:00 pm |
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Registration |
| 5:00 pm | Klaus Vollmer (Vice Dean) and Eveline Dürr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | Welcome Address LMU |
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Keynote: Dan Bendrups, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University | “Latin American popular music in Polynesia: Three case studies of musical migration” |
| 7:00 pm | Reception and opening of photo exhibition |
Friday April 26th, 2013
Economy and Trade
Chair: Eveline Dürr
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 am - 10:05 am | Alan Smart, University of Calgary | “The moral economy of food trade: Import bans and regional governance in the transpacific region” |
| 10:05 am - 10:40 am | Catherine Burdick, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago | “Mapping cinnamon and pepper in Alonso de Ovalle’s ‘Tabula Geographica Regni Chile’” |
| 10:40 am - 11:15 am |
coffee break |
“Asia in Puebla”: Los Chinos Poblanos
Chair: Karoline Noack
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15 am - 11:50 am | Phillip Ramirez, University of California, Irvine | “Los Chinos Poblanos: A study of Asians in the Spanish colonial city of Puebla de los Ángeles” |
| 11:50 am - 12:25 pm | María Cristina Manzano Munguía, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México | “Encountering the Chinese: Constructing the present and the future of Puebla” |
| 12:25 pm - 1:30 pm |
lunch break |
Rapa Nui: Between Oceania and Latin America
Chair: Silja Klepp
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:30 pm - 2:05 pm | Grant McCall, University of Sydney | “Chile and Rapa Nui: A foundational misunderstanding” |
| 2:05 pm - 2:30 pm | Lars Frühsorge, University of Hamburg | “Rapa Nui: Cultural interactions between Latin America and Polynesia” |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
coffee break |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:35 pm | Dan Bendrups, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University | “Performing Identity: The role of music and dance in interactions between Easter Island and Chile” |
| 4:10 pm | Vanessa Warheit (film director) | “The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands” |
Saturday April 27th, 2013
Cultural Connections across the Pacific
Chairs: Catherine Burdick and María Cristina Manzano Munguía
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 am - 10:05 am | Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawaii | “Shadowed Lives: Invisibility and visibility of Mexicans in Hawai’i” |
| 10:05 am - 10:40 am | Gigi Peterson, State University of New York at Cortland | “Cousins in anti-imperialism: Filipino and Latin American resistance to US policy” |
| 10:40 am - 11:15 am |
coffee break |
|
| 11:15 am- 11:50 am | Karoline Noack, University of Bonn | “Bollywood in Lima, Machu Picchu in Bollywood: The `new Indians´ in Lima” |
| 11:50 am - 12:25 pm | Silja Klepp, University of Bremen | “Climate change and migration: New rights and resources for environmetal migrants in the Pacific region” |
| 12:25 pm - 2:15 pm |
lunch break |
|
| 2:15 pm - 2:50 pm | Anne Grob, University of Leipzig | “’Our aspirations are linked to and expressed by other indigenous people throughout the world’ - Indigenous higher education and transcultural interactions in North America and New Zealand” |
| 2:50 pm - 3:25 pm | Eveline Dürr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | “Trans-pacific indigenous strategies: The case of language revitalization” |
| 3:25 pm - 4:00 pm |
coffee break |
Transpacific Material Culture: Perspectives from the Museum
Chair: Josephine Smart
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 pm - 4:35 pm | Viola König, Ethnological Museum Berlin | “One history, many perspectives: From the early contact terms of trade at Northwest Coast to a transpacific modernity” |
| 4:35 pm - 5:10 pm | Philipp Schorch, Deakin University, Melbourne | “Te papa travel stories: Negotiating the Americas and the South Pacific in a pluralist cosmopolitan space” |
| 5:10 pm - 5:45 pm | Allison Ramsay, The University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji Islands | “Re/building Cultural Connections: Cultural revitalization and museums in the Pacific and the Americas” |
Expert Talk: Research Initiatives and possible Cooperations
Chair: Eveline Dürr
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm | Alexander Widmann, Bayerische Forschungsallianz (BayFOR) GmbH | Special topic: “Shifting from the transatlantic to a transpacific perspective? Rethinking recent political and research initiatives of the European Union and future options and strategies for socio-economic and humanities research” |
| 7:30 pm | Conference Dinner |
Sunday April 28th, 2013
Indigenous Peoples, Legacies of Colonization and Emerging South to South Dialogue between Australia and the Americas
Chair: Phillip Schorch
| Time | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 am - 10:05 am | Victoria Grieves, University of Sydney | “’La bestia: …’ - The Beast as a global phenomenon? Comparative existences in Australia and Mexico” | |
| 10:05 am - 10:40 am | Abeyamí Ortega, Universidad Autónoma de México | “Taxidermic memories/claiming the spirit back: The quest for the re-inscription of social memory through human remains repatriation in Mexico and Australia” | |
| 10:40 am - 11:15 am | Vek Lewis, University of Sydney | “Translocal trajectories in the context of colonial difference: Indigenous knowledges between Australia and Latin America” | |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am |
coffee break |
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| 11:45 am- 12:20 am | Irene Strodthoff, University of Sydney | “The Role of the Pacific Ocean and progress in the discursive identity construction of contemporary Chile and Australia” | |
| 12:20 am - 12:55 pm | Fernanda Penaloza, University of Sydney | “Transpacific encounters/obsessions with primitivism: Scrutinity and control of ‘Fuegians’ and ‘Tasmanians’ in the 19th and 20th centuries” | |
| 1:00 pm | Conclusion and Closing Ceremony | ||
| 3:00 pm | Visit to the Staatliche Museum für Völkerkunde München: Material Culture in a Transpacific Perspective |
This conference is made possible by the support of:
