1) DISCORSE ON METHOD
ROMOLO SANTONI (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO”, ITALIA) romololmeca@hotmail.com
The title of the speech is an evident homage to the great work of René Descartes, to underline the great debt the occidental science incurred with him. American studies have always stand out from other studies for their inclination to interdisciplinarity and, on the other hand, for their need to be seen by a multi and interdisciplinary perspective. This aspect lets us open research to other fields, but also create serious problems about how to treat data.
These melting-pots are both bearers of useful meetings, exchanges and debates, and on the other hand also bearers of dangerous theoretical balancing acts (and in some cases with a consequence in practice), in in fields in which multidisciplinarity element become essential and accuracy of method unravels in different perspectives.
An intense debate, for example, divides different research lines, which find in the applicative method the limit between them and their action range. Studying method, which represents the peculiar aspect of occidental philosophy from Cartesio up to now, become an essential aspect in American studies more than in other fields. Therefore it seems necessary to propose a breathing space, a priori in the research field, in order to make evident perspective and methodological limitations.
2) INDIGENOUS AMAZON AND SOUTH AMERICAN LOWLANDS
PARIDE BOLLETTIN (DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, MASARYK UNIVERSITY - CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO”, ITALIA) paride_bollettin@msn.com,
EDMUNDO ANTONIO PEGGION (UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA “JÚLIO DE MESQUITA FILHO”, BRASIL) edmundopeggion@gmail.com
In the Amazon and the South American Lowlands, a multiplicity of indigenous peoples resides, each one with their own history, their social organization, their symbolic world, their ecosystem and their specificities. From people in “voluntary isolation” to people who have faced colonial invasion for more than five centuries, their struggles and resistance are proof of their vitality and power. These struggles currently assume innovative aspects of ontological and epistemological affirmation, projecting new ecological, territorial, academic and political demands. In this thematic session, we want to debate about and with the people of the Amazon and the South American Lowlands from a multiplicity of perspectives and experiences through which these people reaffirm their experiences and struggles. We intend for it to be a field of discussion that also includes a dialogue with the conceptual propositions elaborated by indigenous intellectuals.
3) INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: A TRANSNATIONAL DISCUSSION
MARIA LUISA DE FILIPPO, LADY SAAVEDRA, (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO”, ITALIA) convegno@amerindiano.org
This session aims to present an interdisciplinary discussion on the issue of the indigenous people rights.
The United Nations Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, approved in 2007, has as a principal target the respect of self-determination. The commitment and the challenge in front of such a statement consists of its application together with other measures with the same purpose, in the national Latin-American contests.
In what way the states-nations negotiate with these measures approved and signed by the majority of the Latin American countries? In what way the indigenous organizations demand the proper rights and the respect of the cultural differences in the sphere of the different national constitutions? Which are the principal conflicts?
Questions such as self-determination, diversity and cultural identity are the principal subjects that this session has to propose.
4) MIGRATIONS, CONNECTIONS AND NOMADISMS BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA
THEA ROSSI (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” – UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI “G. D’ANNUNZIO” CHIETI-PESCARA, ITALIA) thearossi@yahoo.it
This session proposes a reflection on movements and workflows, objects and human capital which distinguished the history of transatlantic connections between Europe and America. We propose to prefer three focuses, through a perspective which has the aim to promote a multidisciplinary dialogue. The first: dynamics and processes, both real and symbolic, which distinguished last century migratory phenomenon towards America, especially between the two World War, and at the same time the relative back migration movement, in particular during the last thirty years, because of socio-political and economical connections. The second: connections with plait both contexts, which create a common patrimony, which is material and immaterial. In addition to goods and manufactured products, we will take in great consideration the creation of a common imaginary. The third: we will extend this reflection to nomadisms phenomena at the time of globalization: the constant stream of human resources, negotiation and contact between cultures, together with all possible new sorts of integration which tend to combine local and global.
5) ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND INTERCULTURALITY: SURVIVAL, CONTINUITY AND NEW CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MUSIC AND TRADITIONAL DANCES IN AMERICA
MARÍA LINA PICCONI (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO”, ITALIA) lina_455@yahoo.com
Ethnomusicology's task is to answer a series of questions that humanity has asked itself throughout history: Who creates music? How? For whom? Why? This session is proposed taking into account the lack of information about the traditional music world, whose characteristics range from the variety to the subtlety of musical expressions. There are still musical or dance expressions in America, whose roots would extend to pre-Columbian times and would come from an ancient art whose meaning would be forgotten. The globalization and new intercultural contributions have contributed to the birth of many of those mainly urban musical expressions that tend, as in other parts of the world, to standardize local particularism. For this reason, it is essential nowadays to record and investigate these expressions, so that memory is not lost with the development of the globalized world.igate these expressions, lest we lose this memory with the development of the globalized world.
6) IMAGINARY AND MEMORY
ELSA LÓPEZ (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO”, ITALIA) convegno@amerindiano.org
This session has an interdisciplinary character and has the principal objective to present studies about the cultural diversities that have every form of representation as an expression.
We know that it is through the social and individual representations that we can localize the identitary formations, transformations and resemantizations that characteristically are polysemic and therefore polyphonic. For this reason, the interdisciplinarity is not an instrument of work but a theory that has as a finality to study the symbols: how they are perceived, conceived and represented.
We contemplate every type of cultural manifestations for the fact that we understand that cultural subjectivities are represented in literary, cinematographic and artistic forms, and that the studies of the cultural representations do not monopolise the disciplines for this finality.
7) TOPICS OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
PAOLA MARIA SESIA (CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL CIESAS UNIDAD PACÍFICO SUR, MÉXICO) paolasesia@yahoo.com.mx
To construct a session dedicated to the medical anthropology in Latin America means to give voice to the multiple conceptions and practices around the concepts of health and sickness presented through a historical perspective that is aware of present and past. The hegemonic relationships that flow between biomedicine and the multiple responses of “local and traditional” health constitute an example of the most important fields of interest in this discipline. The objective of constituting a useful space for dialog and confrontation for the americanistic community that is committed in this field is assumed with the experience and the theoretical elaborations of the different traditions of this domain. Based on the experience made by this session in earlier editions of the International Americanistic Studies Congress, we want to favour the time of debate for the construction of common reflections that might have an operative outcome on the examined contexts.
8) PUBLIC POLICIES, INSTITUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA
BEATRIZ CALVO PONTÓN (CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL, MÉXICO) beatrizcalvo_mx@yahoo.com
The neoliberal model in Latin American countries has led to the withdrawal of the state from social responsibilities and functions, as well as the implementation of structural reforms that seek to ensure that companies are managed by the criteria of the free market.
We observe some consequences: reduction, privatization and rising expenses of public services in education and health, growing inequalities and poverty and strengthening of monopolies in key sectors of the economy and the media, which increasingly intervene in political processes and the design of public policies.
The redefinition of social policies has been oriented by focusing on the social groups under conditions of extreme poverty, but at the same time resources that enable progress towards universalizing social rights were reduced.
On the other hand, spaces were opened in which they were born autonomous institutions related to issues such as human rights, transparency and the contraloría social. In the civil society the number of organizations fighting for the democratization of institutions and improvement of social services has increased. The combination of these processes has changed substantially the image of the Latin American societies.
9) ELECTIONS AND PARTIES IN LATIN AMERICA
RENÉ VALDIVIEZO SANDOVAL (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI "CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO", MÉXICO) valdiviezorene@gmail.com
Our region has lived regularly, since the end of the dictatorships, electoral processes that allow to renew the authorities and popular representatives, generally in a pacific way. From a liberal (and neoliberal) optic, these processes are the expression of the existence of a democratic life in these nations. In a more critical perspective, the electoral processes are becoming more of a ritual used to maintain in power the political movements. Often they don’t represent the population, and they employ these processes in order to legitimize their permanence in power, sometimes by extra-legal mechanisms. This session seeks to generate discussion around the elections in Latin America in its three (or four) levels: on the political-electoral action (competition, results, conflicts, campaigns and relationship with other aspects of social life), on the electoral and political players (political parties, social groups and authorities), and on the conformation of the national/regional/local powers, over the electoral processes. Even though current studies are preferred, historical ones are also accepted.
10) CAMINANTE, NO HAY CAMINO, SE HACE CAMINO AL ANDAR (A. MACHADO)
ROSA MARIA GRILLO (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO – CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” DI SALERNO, ITALIA) grillovov@gmail.com
This session on Latin American literature aims to highlight and analyze the process that brings a work to a point of completeness, or one considered such by the author, and to identify coincidences, interferences, intertextual and intratextual relationships, relationships with an evolving context, variants, the effects of censorship or self-censorship, changes in genre, style, register, recipient, and print, electronic, and audiovisual media. This can also include a project, whether completed or not, works unfinished, whether intentionally or involuntarily, works published—produced—in series or in installments, new editions corrected, revised, and expanded, and intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translations.
11) LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS: FREE SESSION
ROSA MARIA GRILLO (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO – CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” DI SALERNO, ITALIA) grillovov@gmail.com
12) ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE AMERICAS: BETWEEN MATERIAL CULTURE AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS
MARÍA TERESA MUÑOZ ESPINOSA (DIRECCIÓN DE ESTUDIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS, INAH) munoz7576@yahoo.com
JOSÉ CARLOS CASTAÑEDA REYES (UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA-IZTAPALAPA, MÉXICO) mrwti@xanum.uam.mx
The ancient American cultures and civilizations, since their arrival to the Continent and up until the contact with the Europeans, took or produced the materials which fostered the great manifestations of thought, art or simple life throughout America’s rich history, from the Bering Strait until Tierra del Fuego.
This table is proposed as a meeting place in order to share the different experiences of archaeological investigation in the American continent, with a special focus in Mesoamerica, the Central Andes and the Amazon. In all America, the symbols associated to the religious and artistic iconography are features that archaeology recovers, compares and explains in order to understand our ancient history.
The academic dialogue established has as an objective to be a meeting place where the progress in the projects of archaeological investigation developed in different parts of the continent, or the new studies and interpretations based on plastic sources or written testimonies, among others, would be discussed. The proposal is to establish it as a periodical meeting where different aspects of the continent’s archaeology can be presented and discussed.
13) METHOD, DESIGN AND STYLE OF THE CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS SPACE IN LATIN AMERICA: SOCIAL EXPRESSION MATERIALIZED IN THE XX-XXI CENTURIES
MARÍA CRISTINA VALERDI NOCHEBUENA (BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA, MÉXICO) crvalerd@gmail.com
The religious social expression has manifested itself in the temple as a material space for the celebration of people gathered to perform a rite of worship and doctrine, which has undergone changes due to the cultural and religious significance that has been renewed and the application of guidelines represented in the way of building it and that are the reason for experiences that promote diversity of styles and spatial arrangements. Therefore, we invite to present contributions that show collective spaces that capture the languages of the visible, the artistic and the folklore, and that present the historical, artistic and social manifestations through the study of the transformations that the Religious space has suffered in Latin America in the XX-XXI centuries; maintaining an inter and multidisciplinary perspective combining history, anthropology, architecture, arts and theology, offering a space for reflection to international specialists in the study of method, design and style as a social expression materialized in religious spaces.
14) FEASTS IN LATIN AMERICA: CUSTOMS, CULTURAL HERITAGE, MODELS OF SPACE MANAGEMENT
DANIELA SALVUCCI (LIBERA UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLZANO, ITALIA) salvuccidana@gmail.com
TOBIAS BOOS (LIBERA UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLZANO, ITALIA) tobiboos@gmail.com
This session analyses the role of latin-american feasts, both in the relationship between different social-cultural entities of the city and its surroundings (areas, associations, municipalities, etc.) and in the creation of identities (ethnic, syncretic, mixed-race, regional, national, etc.).
A particular attention will be dedicated to customs (parades, games, representations, etc.), to spatial and temporal models (places with a new sense, occupied places, the public space that becomes private) of the feast. Process of feast’s inclusion in cultural heritage will be considered, highlighting the role of media and tourism. A possible hypothesis to start the discussion is that the festive heritage is an area of social, cultural and political negotiation. An other hypothesis is that feasts allow to create new, inclusive and plural identities, starting from the fusion of different urban and rural life forms. Empirical studies and theoretical reflections will be welcome, to develop intercultural comparisons of festive systems.
15) GENRE STUDIES: THEORETIC-METHODOLOGICAL TENDENCIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE FACE OF AMERICAN SOCIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY
MARTHA ESTELA PÉREZ GARCÍA (UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MÉXICO) meperez@uacj.mx
The origins of genre studies lie in the feminist movement. This relation doesn’t represent only a form of socio-political action, but it also produces a scientific activity and new analytical views. Researching by genre prospective calls into question the neutral and andro-centric visions of the world, and, starting from the genre category as a unit of analysis, we can explain the conditions of inequality, subordination, exclusion and discrimination in which women and men are living. For this reason we consider several factors that concern the subjects: age, ethnic origin, social class, religion, geographic localization, sexual orientation, etc. It’s important to analyse and discuss tendencies and challenges of genre studies to know their present state and the contribution that this analytic line gives in America. Themes of everyday life, labour market, health, education, sexuality, social and political participation, legal structure, environment, domestic and sexual violence are only some of the spheres that we study from the point of view of different disciplinary lines: cultural, anthropological, political, historical, economic, juridical, psychological, religious, of communication and education studies, etc.
16) COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
CRISTINA PIZZONIA (UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA. UNIDAD XOCHIMILCO) pizzonia@hotmail.com, ÁNGEL JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ SALINAS (UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA. UNIDAD XOCHIMILCO) anuamtz@gmail.com
This session aims to explain the social dynamics from the perspective and formalisation of complex systems, to the extent that they allow the creation of a transdisciplinary and integrative theory of different knowledge; using methods that identify variables in configuration spaces that can be modelled. These models allow to clarify invisible interdependencies in the first instance, and allow the construction of new research hypotheses using Mathematics and Physics, aided by computational techniques. In this context, it is pertinent to discuss whether by formalising complexity it will identify different knowledge from what we would obtain with cause specifications and lineal effects; considering the possibility to reflect on how connexions can be found the complex systems of the American continent, so far absent, formalising, in this way, holistic thoughts. We propose in this session that the participants present researches based on the Sciences of Complexity, enriching this area of research with their experiences.
17) INDIGENOUS LIFE THROUGH THE DIFFERENT MEXICAN SOURCES: CODICES AND TEXTS
LUZ MARÍA MOHAR BETANCOURT (CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL, MÉXICO) quecholli@gmail.com
This session wants to show the different typology of primary sources, as codex and manuscripts, which bring new information to Mexican history. We require each speaker to show innovative research results, which examines in depth indigenous life, its changes and continuity elements since the conquest. Topics such as evangelization, belonging to the land and identity will be the one we are interested in developing and discussing, as also iconography studies about its transformation on different material supports will be central points of the session. We are interested in knowing the different techniques used in analyzing documents stored in libraries, archives and museums and so on, as in Mexico as in other places in the world.
18) AFFECTIVITY, CARE AND SUBJECTIVES FROM SOCIAL SCIENCES, NEW PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICANISTIC STUDIES
DIANA TAMARA MARTÍNEZ RUÍZ (ESCUELA NACIONAL DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES UNIDAD MORELIA) tamara_martinez@enesmorelia.unam.mx
One of the most intimate dimensions of human beings is the emotional one, however, it is one of the topics that has been left aside by the social sciences in general. The study of affects and emotions in their social dimension is relatively new and involves taking into account the social and cultural aspects of emotions, that is, investigating and analyzing the way in which we learn to feel and express emotions. Following this idea, it is possible to link the emotional dimension to the realm of the subjective and its relationship with care. Weaving the relationships between care and affection implies entering through this link into a shifting and ambiguous terrain of the same being, where we start from recognizing that the process of knowledge implies a relationship of a complementary and dialectical nature between the dimensions that have been erroneously divided and characterized as objective or subjective. Therefore, with this session we seek to enrich the discussion on these hitherto marginal topics in American studies in general, and to deepen the view from the social sciences and humanities towards affection and care as prominent topics in Latin America.
19) LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN ADAPTATION AND FILM TRANSPOSITION
CARLO MEARILLI (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” DI SALERNO, ITALIA) carlomearilli@libero.it
This session addresses a topic that has always been the subject of lively debate: the fidelity of film adaptations of literary works. Some believe that a good adaptation should be as faithful as possible to the text, respecting its literal meaning, while others recognize the difference between words and images, seeking to bring the soul of the work to the screen rather than its literal form. While some seek to resolve and synthesize the book's literal meaning, others almost completely betray its form, but aim to capture its deepest spirit. The aim of the session is to present works that broaden the debate and express their preference between the two solutions, or perhaps, with an eye to the future, explore the case of Latin American novels turned into television series, such as the more recent Cien años de solitude or El mejor infarto de mi vida. Will this be the new frontier of film adaptation?
20) THE METHODICAL STUDY OF THE IMAGE IN THE CULTURES OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND NEW SPAIN
CARLOS ALFREDO CARRILLO RODRÍGUEZ (UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ZACATECAS, MÉXICO), carlos.carrillo@uaz.edu.mx,
MIGUEL ÁNGEL RECILLAS (INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ANTROPOLÓGICAS, UNAM; ESCUELA NACIONAL DEANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA, MÉXICO) mareg6@gmail.com
This session proposes the integration of works aimed at researching the image that makes up the narrative in Mesoamerican codices, colonial manuscripts and in various supports, both from Ancient Mexico and the New Spain Era, based on the application of scientific approaches that contribute to approaching and deciphering the discourse contained in them; the above with the purpose of delving into its plastic constitution and structuring rules, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the system that allows the articulation of stories in said documentation.
21) RIOPLATENSE TANGO IN 360 DEGREES
MARIA AUSILIATRICE GINATEMPO (UNIVERSITÀ DI SIENA) mariaausiliatrice.ginatempo@unisi.it,
ROSA MARIA GRILLO (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO – CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” DI SALERNO, ITALIA) grillovov@gmail.com
The session is open to exploring tango yesterday and today in all its many aspects and implications, including: literary, historical-literary, and linguistic aspects; musicological and historical-musicological aspects; tango, the dance of the embrace, as a social experience, one of interpersonal and gender communication, and from an ethno-choreographic perspective; the milonga, its codes, and its history as a place of socialization and inclusion; its therapeutic (rehabilitative and psychotherapeutic) and pedagogical functions (especially for gender education); the relationship between tango and power in 20th-century Argentine and Uruguayan history, between democracies and dictatorships, migration, interculturality, and identity processes; tango in recent decades between operations of memorial recovery (World Heritage, academies, embassies), globalization (spread of the dance and tango shows throughout the world), touristification (tango for export and world championships), spectacularization and commercialization (as a sport discipline) to the detriment of cultural and social aspects.
22) ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PAST THROUGH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
GAIA CAROSI (MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE E DEL MERITO, CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO") gaia.carosi@outlook.com,
MARIA FELICIA REGA (ISTITUTO DI SCIENZE DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE, CENTRO STUDIAMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO") mariafelicia.rega@gmail.com
The study of Mesoamerica is such a rich and complex field that it requires a variety of approaches to embrace its diversity. Therefore, the session will welcome contributions analyzing ancient Mesoamerican cultures from the Preclassic to the early colonial period from a variety of perspectives, including epigraphy, linguistics, iconography, art history, paleography, sociology, anthropology, literary analysis, ethnohistory, IT technologies applied to land and cultural heritage (GIS, remote sensing, 3D modeling, digital humanities), and even trans- and multidisciplinary approaches. The ultimate goal is to foster academic dialogue between disciplines by offering new perspectives on application, interpretation, and dissemination.
23) IMPLICATIONS OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS IN SOUTH AMERICA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
MARISTELLA PETTI (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO") maristella.petti@gmail.com
In the second half of the twentieth century, the reverberations of the Cold War loomed over South America, projecting the totalitarianism of the armed forces. Beginning with Paraguay in 1953 up to Argentina in 1976, one state after another is torn apart by strikes, which just represent the very first moment of an era made of censorship, surveillance, torture, and death. It is not difficult to discern, beyond the violent repression of dissent as a factor that flattens the peculiarities of each military dictatorship, the Condor Plan directives and the interference of the United States in what they consider their own backyard. Appealing to literary critics and linguists, this session aims to bring together contributions that can restore the impact the regimes had on aesthetic forms in prose, verse or music of the time, but also ponder about the contaminations of those years in the days of today, analyzing, in the same fields, examples of critical reworking of the period, as well as denialism, revisionism or nostalgism that reflect intimidations within modern democracies.
24) DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE AMERICAS: NEW FRONTIERS OF AMERICAN STUDIES RESEARCH LARISSA TERRANOVA (CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO", ITALIA) l.terranova3@gmail.com
The session offers an interdisciplinary discussion on the role of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the many fields of American studies, including anthropology, archaeology, ethnolinguistics, history, ethnomusicology, visual arts, and cultural heritage studies. Innovative approaches to the documentation, analysis, and valorization of materials, archives, and cultural practices will be presented, demonstrating how digital humanities can enhance traditional methods, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and expand access to knowledge of the cultures of the Americas.
25) NON-THEMATIC SESSION
CENTRO STUDI AMERICANISTICI “CIRCOLO AMERINDIANO” convegno@amerindiano.org
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