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The Independence Effect Symposium

 

The Independence Effect: 200 years of cultural and intellectual processes
October 27-29, 2011
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

For more information, contact Phyllis Ford (phyllis.ford@dartmouth.edu) (603) 646-2400

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Symposium Overview

This symposium focuses on the processes that, in the Humanities, gave rise to the independence movements of the Hispanic and the Lusophone world beginning in 1810. Although commemorative celebrations of the Bicentennial of Latin American Independence are worthwhile events, this symposium intends to concentrate on an examination of the systems of thought and representation that are propelled by independence movements since their beginnings to today. The main objectives of The Independence Effect include: identifying these creative and intellectual movements; observing their particularities, evolution, and current states; analyzing the complex set of narrative relations that shape them historically; and acknowledge the outstanding individual contributions made toward furthering these processes. Our purpose is to frame the debate and future study of such processes around the philosophy of independence movements in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (including their ethnic, subaltern, and transnational aspects), the system of thinking regarding the formation of nation-states and their autonomous insertion into modernity and globalization, the constitution of intellectual independence movements, and the polemics surrounding literary canon and national identity formation, such as Hispanism and Anti-Hispanism, Latin Americanism, Europeanism, or the fetishization of North American material culture.

 

 

Symposium

El efecto independentista / The Independence Effect

(jueves 27 a sábado 29 de octubre, 2011)

 

Schedule and Session Topics

Thursday, Oct. 27

Keynote and Welcome Remarks– 5:30 pm
Rockefeller 3

• José M del Pino, Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
• Adrian W. Randolph, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
• Mary Louise Pratt (New York University): "The Futurology of Independence"

Friday, Oct. 28

Haldeman 041
Panel I, 9am-10:45 Independence in History

• Tracy Devine Guzmán (University of Miami): "Eu Quero Mocotó!: Interrogating Independence in Authoritarian Brazil"
• Jennifer French (Williams College): "Between Two Fires: Intergenerational Trauma in Paraguayan History and Literature"
• Jossiana Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin): "On Techné: Writing the Grammar of the Americas"
  Moderator: Israel Reyes

Panel II, 11am-12:45 The Independence Effect on Thought: Philosophy and Critical Theory

• José Ignacio López Soria (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería –UNI–, Perú): "El efecto de la independencia en la filosofía y el pensamiento crítico"
• Beatriz Pastor (Dartmouth College): ["Independencia: Apuntes para una cartografía"]
• Alejandro Oscar Gómez (Center of Argentine Macroeconomic Studies Universtiy –CEMA–, Buenos Aires): "José del Valle: An Intellectual Leader of the Guatemalan Independence"
  Moderator: Beatriz Pastor

 Lunch 1pm-2:20

 Featured Lecture, 2:30 pm-3:30

• Carlos Malamud (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED-Spain): "Historia y política: la ulitización de los Bicentenarios"

Panel III, 3:45pm-5:30 Nation States: Independence and Modernity/ies

• Aníbal González (Yale Univeristy): "Razón y sentimiento en la escritura gestual de Simón Rodríguez"
• Laura G. Gutiérrez (University of Arizona): "1810 into Cinema & Cinema in 1910: El Centenario, Modernity and Visual Culture in Mexico"
• J. Andrew Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): "Chile's Weird Independence"

 Saturday, Oct. 29

Haldeman 041

Panel IV, 9am-10:45 Independence in Cultural Movements

• Marshall Eakin (Vanderbilt University): "Independence, Mythmaking, and National Identity
• Raúl Bueno (Dartmouth College): "En torno al sentido de ideologías independentistas"
• Álvaro Kaempfer (Gettysburgh College): "1808-1814: ciudadanía, representatividad y globalización"
  Moderator: Rodolfo A. Franconi

Panel V, 11am-12:45 Independence, Power and Ideology

• Beatriz González Stephan (Rice University): Las viruelas de la Revolución Haitiana: pánicos y silencios en la intelectualidad venezolana (siglo xix).
• Pedro Ángel Palou (Dartmouth College): "La culpa es de las élites, poder e ideología en los primeros años de la Independencia mexicana"
• José Lara (Georgetown University): "The Return of the Maya: The Importance of the Copán Ruins in the Construction of the Honduran Nation"
  Moderator: Pedro Ángel Palou

Lunch 1-2:30

Panel VI, 2:30pm-4:15 Independence, Subalternity and Globalization.

• Juan Aranzadi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, España): "El efecto independentista en los indígenas americanos y los esclavos africanos"
• Hernán Fernández-Meardi (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay): "La figura de los grupos subalternos en la constitución de las identidades nacionales"
• Lucas Savino (Huron University College): "From "dueños del país" to "un puñado de salvajes." The place of the indigenous subaltern in the independence movements of the Southern Cone"
  Moderator: Raúl Bueno

Closing Remarks – 4:30pm

Rebecca Biron (Dartmouth College)

Orozco Murals. A Visit Guided by Mary Coffey (Dartmouth College), 5:00-6:30pm

Farewell Words by Provost Carol Folt (Dartmouth College)