Institute for the Study of the
Americas
CEMHAL
University of Nottingham
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE
Generously sponsored by Joint Initiative for
the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Institute for
the Study of the Americas, the Society for Latin American
Studies, and the University of Nottingham
The bicentenary commemorations of Latin
American political independence have given rise to a lively
public debate on women’s involvement in the Independence
conflicts, their exclusion from mainstream historiography and
their problematic position in post-Independence politics and
public culture. Revisionist historians are questioning previous
assumptions about the Independence process and reassessing the
significance of everyday life, civil society, gender, social
class, race and ethnicity. Current research focuses on diversity
and the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion. In addition, the
concept of Independence has taken on contemporary relevance in
the headline politics of Morales and Chávez and the recent rise
to prominence of women in Latin American politics.
The Symposium is organized in collaboration
with CEMHAL (Centro de Estudios la Mujer en la Historia de
América Latina) established in 1998 by Sara Beatriz Guardia to
promote the study of Latin American women’s history. Guardia is
also Chief Editor of the monthly journal Revista Historia de las
mujeres (virtual) CEMHAL. CEMHAL have held four international
symposia and published four edited volumes to date. The most
recent volume, Guardia et al ed, Las mujeres en la
Independencia de America Latina (CEMHAL/ UNESCO, 2010, 468
pp), selected proceedings of the International Symposium held in
Lima, 2009, will be launched in the Symposium. This will be
CEMHAL’s first Symposium held outside Latin America.
Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA)
Senate House, University of London
Venue: Room Woburn Suite (Room 22/26)
Date: Monday 13th
March 2012
Time: 9.30 to 6.30
9.30 Registration
10.00-10.30
Sara Beatriz Guardia. CEMHAL, Universidad San Martín de
Porres, Lima. Exclusión y género: las mujeres en la
independencia del Perú.
10.30-11.00
Mary G. Berg. Resident Scholar, Women's Studies Research
Center, Brandeis University, USA. Recuperación y reevaluación de
Francisa Zubiaga de Gamarra (Perú, 1803-1835).
11.00 Coffee
11.30-12.00
Inés Quintero. Universidad Central de Venezuela (Fellow of St
Anthony’s College, Oxford, 2003-4). Monárquicas y Heroínas: dos
maneras de vivir la independencia.
12.00-12.30
Lucía Provencio Garrigós. Departamento Historia Moderna,
Contemporánea y América, Universidad de Murcia. La pregunta del
género a los procesos independentistas en América Latina.
12.30-1.00
Berta Wexler. Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la
Mujer, Universidad Nacional del Rosario. ‘Juana de Azurduy:
Guerrillera de la Independencia Americana.
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.00
Izaskun Alvarez Cuartero. Vicedecana de la Facultad de
Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Salamanca. Invisibles y
olvidadas: las mujeres mayas yucatecas de la colonia a la
independencia.
3.00-3.30
Patricia Martínez. Universitat de Barcelona. Representaciones
políticas femeninos en América latina en prensa y literatura
Siglo XIX y XX.
3.30-4.00
Catherine Davies. University of Nottingham. La importancia de
los versos en la Independencia: Poesía de ocasión escrita por
mujeres entre 1810 y 1830.
4.00 Tea
4.30-5.30
European Launch of Guardia et al ed, Las mujeres en la
Independencia de América Latina (CEMHAL/ UNESCO, 2010, 468
pp), selected proceedings of the International Symposium held in
Lima, 2009.
Launch of Iona Macintyre, University of Edinburgh,
Women and Print Culture in Post-Independence Buenos Aires (Tamesis,
2010, 214 pp)
5.30-6.30 Reception
Free Event: Open to the public.
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