Latin American Landscapes Symposium. “Over the Mountain and Down the River to the Coast”
Location: Coach House, Green College, UBC
Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
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Program
Word of welcome. 9:20 am. Kim Beauchesne and Aleksa Alaica
Session 1. 9:30 am to 11:00 – Historical Landscapes
Chair. Kim Beauchesne. UBC, French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies
1. Aleksa Alaica. Multispecies Landscapes: Archaeological Insights on Human-Environment Interactions in the Ancient Andes
2. Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga. “Navigating Bioarchaeological Landscapes: A Mesoamerican Case-Study”.
3. Alycia Hall. Market Places, Provision Grounds, and (Non)Roads: Maroons and Enslaved Peoples
4. Daniel Orizaga. Visions of China from New Spain, 17th Century
Session 2. 11:15 am to 12:45. Land and Soil
Chair. Ángela Bohorquez Oviedo, Postdoctoral researcher, UBC LAS
5. Debbie Pierce. Assessing security of land rights among women in Caqueta, Colombia using mixed methodologies
6. Pablo Gonzalez Moctezuma and Susana Klassen. Female labor in Mexican Agriculture
7. Camila Scheidegger Farias. Uncertain Rights, Uneven Enforcement: Understanding Environmental Governance under Fragmented Land Tenure
8. Kathryn Houston. Unnatural Nature: Dirty Secrets in Distancia de rescate (2014)
Lunch. 12:45-2:15. Green College. Registration Required.
Session 3. 2:30 to 4:00. Ways of Knowing
Chair. José Ricardo García Martínez. UBC Latin American Studies
9. Jon Beasley-Murray. “River Thinking: José María Arguedas and Mobile Indigeneity”
10. Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda. “Indigenizing Nature? Exploring the Potential of the Rights of Nature as a Transition Tool in Abya Yala. A Critical Appraisal of the Case Studies in Bolivia and Peru”
11. José Ricardo García Martínez. The Making and Unmaking of Modern Mexico: From Paisaje Zapatista to Amores Perros
Session 4. 4:15 to 5:45. Globalizing Latin American Landscapes
Chair. Takahiro Miyachi. Visiting Professor, UBC Anthropology/Professor, University of Tokyo.
12. Juanita Sundberg and Columba González-Duarte. Tracing Relational Care Across Landscapes: Towards Geopolitical Imaginaries Otherwise
13. María Cervantes-Macías. Landscapes of the “Global North”: Tracing Networks of Elite Mobilities in the Americas
14. Manuel Piña and Paul Haase. Paisajes E-mergentes Latinoamericanos
Reception. Green College. Registration Required