Extractive Landscapes: A Latin American and Caribbean Landscapes Symposium
Location: Coach House, Green College, UBC
Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
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Program
Word of welcome. 10:15 am. Ben Bryce, Kim Beauchesne, Aleksa Alaica
Session 1. 10:30 am to 12:00 – Gendered Extraction
Chair: Jon Beasley-Murray, FHIS, UBC
1. Anna Casas Aguilar. “Latin American Female Workers and Landscape Exploitation in the Tourist Industry in Spain”
2. Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda. “ Aepatsite: When the Land is a sibling that breathes – Indigenous Women Against Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon.”
3. Ángela María Bohórquez Oviedo. “Volver a los Principios y a los Valores’: The Landscape of the Colombian Campaign against ‘Gender Ideology’”
Lunch. 12:00-1:30. Registration Required
Session 2. 1:30 pm to 3:30 – Democracy and Political Power
Chair: Kim Beauchesne, FHIS, UBC
4. Maxwell Cameron. Patrimonial states contribute to durable low-quality democracy in Latin America: A Comparison of Peru with other Andean democracies.”
5. Leigh Payne, University of Oxford “FARC Confessions to the Unmaking and Promises of Remaking Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Landscapes”
6. Stephen Meili, University of Minnesota, “Legal Categorization of Displacement and Mobility in Mexico”
Break. 3:30-3:45. Registration Required
Session 3. 3:45pm to 5:15 – Landscapes of persistence
Chair: Cynthia Milton, University of Victoria
7. Aleksa K. Alaica. “Relationality with Other-Than-Human Beings in the Andes: Animals as Resources, As Companions and As Kin.”
8. Luisa Wittmann. “Colonial Violence and Laklãnõ-Xokleng Struggles for Territory.”
9. Benjamin Bryce “Contested Landscapes: Uva criolla and Malbec grapes in Argentina, 1890-1940.”
Reception. Green College. 5:15-6:30 Registration Required