Please join LACS and Círculo Andino for their “Imagining Ecuador” conference, featuring the following presentations:
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Welcome by Bruce Mannheim |
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Panel 1: Risk, Representation, and Racialized Borders Discussant: Sergio Miguel Huarcaya, Anthropology Scars of Nation: Surgical Penetration and the State in Ecuador Imagining an Indigenous Ecuador in Otavalo: Beyond Commemoration in Otavalos Song Crossing borders from Calhuasí to Quito to Brooklyn: indigenous youth’s rural-to-urban migrations and beyond Risk-seeking Peasants, Excessive Artisans: Speculation, Fashion, and Longing in the Northern Andes Discussant comments + Q&A |
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:10 – 3:30 | Documentary Film: La Curación (The Healing) Movie + Discussion |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 – 5:40 | Panel 2: Reconfiguring Nationhood Discussant: Daniel Noemi, Romance Languages Indigenismo in Ecuador Afro-Ecuador Beyond the 'lettered city': Rethinking the representation of blackness in the literary works of Nelson Estupiñán Bass Rafael Correa’s Technopopulism Mediated Freedom(s): The Politics of AfroEcuadorian In/Exclusion in (De)Colonial Perspective Discussant comments + Q&A |
| 5:40 – 5:50 | Break |
| 5:50 – 6:10 | Closing remarks by Javier Sanjinés |
