Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala
Thursday, April 18 – Friday, April 19, 2024
Glickman Conference Center, RLP 1.302B
This conference is free and open to the public; no registration necessary
Simultaneous English–Spanish interpretation will be available
Thursday, April 18 | 1:00–7:30 PM
1:00 – 1:30 PM | Opening Ceremony
Marika Alvarado (Lipan Apache, Of the Earth Healing Institute of Indigenous Cultures and Teachings)
Of the Earth Healing
1:30 – 2:00 PM | Welcome Remarks
Adela Pineda Franco – Director, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
Luis Cárcamo-Huechante – Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS); Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Enzo Vasquez Toral – Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance
2:00 – 3:45 PM | Circle of Sharing 1
Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla, “MALLMAPU: Eróticas de un territorio despojado” (MALLMAPU: Erotics of a Dispossessed Territory)
Montserrat Madariaga-Caro, “Micropolíticas de liberación: Eróticas de la tierra, las aguas y los cuerpos en el País Mapuche” (Micropolitics of Liberation: Erotics of the Land, Waters, and Bodies in the Mapuche Country)
Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta, “Entre el deseo y lo sagrado: Los traumas coloniales en las sexualidades Mapuche” (Between Desire and Sacredness: Colonial Traumas in Mapuche Sexualities)
Threader: Luis Cárcamo-Huechante
3:45 – 4:00 PM | Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 PM | Circle of Sharing 2
Lukas Avendaño, “Ya no me verán la cara” (You Won’t See My Face Anymore)
Joseph Pierce, “Naked Indians and Desirous Bodies” (Indios desnudos y cuerpos deseosos)
Threader: Laura Gutiérrez, Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies, UT Austin
6:00 – 7:30 PM | Reception
Friday, April 19 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Simultaneous English–Spanish interpretation will be available
Note: Events taking place from 3:30 PM on will be held in RLP 1.302D
9:00 – 9:30 AM | Light Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 AM | Threading-Back Remarks
Luis Cárcamo-Huechante
Enzo Vasquez Toral
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Circle of Sharing 3
Ty Defoe, “Come to the Circle” (Ven al Círculo)
Vered Engelhard, “Llamando desde la tercera orilla: Resonancia, disidencia, transmutación y sanación con pututo” (Calling from the Third Shore: Resonance, Dissidence, Transmutation, and Healing with the Pututo)
Threader: Isadora Dumont, PhD Student, Department of Radio-Television-Film, UT Austin
12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 PM | Circle of Sharing 4
Manu Tzoc Bucup, “Sueños debajo del Ja´” (Dreams underneath Ja´)
Bianet Castellanos, “Amor y Tierra: Maya Women and Land Rights in Cancun, Mexico” (Amor y Tierra: Mujeres Maya y derecho a la tierra en Cancún, México)
Threader: María José Pérez Sián, PhD Student, Department of History, UT Austin
3:00 – 3:30 PM | Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM | Circle of Sharing 5 (RLP 1.302D)
Edgar Soliz Guzmán, “Allpa nanay: ¿maypitaq kachkanchik ripuqkuna? / Dolor de tierra: ¿dónde somos los que nos fuimos?” (Land Pain: Where Are the Gone Ones From?)
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, “Munay: Radical Love in the Andes” (Munay: Amor radical en los Andes)
Threader: Enzo Vasquez Toral
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Closing Circle of Sharing (RLP 1.302D)
Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla, Lukas Avendaño, Ty Defoe, Edgar Soliz Guzmán, Manu Tzoc Bucup, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Enzo Vasquez Toral
