[2022] Latin American Knowledges in Circulation

Thematic Workshop
Latin American Knowledges in Circulation
Mediating Differences in Convivial Contexts

14th – 16th September 2022

Tuesday, 13th September 2022
18.00 – 20.00 Public Lecture | Medialisation in Science: From Idealism to Virtualism

Ana María Cetto
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Throughout history, diverse currents have played out in the field of the theory of knowledge, with the confrontation between realism and idealism occupying a prominent place. The starting point for this conference is the development of quantum physics that emerged a hundred years ago, under the influence of idealism prevailing in an era of crisis in which the media acquired perverse power. The idealist current went beyond the frontiers of science, reaching other spheres of thought and giving rise to an extended subjectivism that persists until today and has taken new turns. The production and circulation of knowledge, values and ideas, is now immersed in an unequally distributed digital mediality, which seeks to dominate the objective world and replace it with “realities” manufactured at convenience.

Wednesday, 14th September 2022
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome Addresses
Barbara Göbel, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Christoph Müller, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Gloria Chicote, IdIHCS/Conicet, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Susanne Klengel, Freie Universität Berlin

9.30 – 13.00 Group Visits
Materialities, Differences, Inequalities: The Collections of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut as a Convivial Context

14.00 – 17.30 Decolonizing Information Infrastructure?
Moderator | Moderadora: Barbara Potthast, Universität zu Köln

14.00 – 15.30 Medialities of Conviviality in Heinrich Brüning’s Sound Collection: The Humboldt Forum and Identity and Heritage Politics on Peru’s Northern Coast 
Gisela Cánepa Koch, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Digitization for Democratization of Knowledge and Decolonization of Cultural Heritage? International Projects related to Latin America and the Caribbean
Christoph Müller, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Discussant | Comentarista: Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College

16.00 – 17.30 Latin American Migrant Food Practices as Cultural Heritage? Decolonizing Knowledge Infrastructures in the Context of Digital Transformation
Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin

Contested Objects: Collection Management between Cultural Heritage, Open Science and Multiperspectivism
Barbara Göbel, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Discussant | Comentarista: Ana María Cetto, UNAM

18.00 – 20.00 Public Lecture | The Encounter of Knowledges: Epistemic Dialogues in Unequal Contexts

Margarita Valdovinos
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The universal interest in material culture has always offered a place for the encounter of knowledges from different cultures. But how do these knowledges circulate in complex social contexts? How have our practices of knowledge impacted the knowledges of others and vice versa? Margarita Valdovinos addresses these questions on the bases of her research in Berlin and among the Náayeri of Northwest Mexico.

Thursday, 15th September 2022
09.00 – 13.00 Circulation, Appropriation and Transformation of Knowledge 
Moderator | Moderadora: Mariana Teixeira, Freie Universität Berlin

09.00 – 11.00 Science in Latin America: Acquisition of Linguistic Skills and Insertion in the World Academic System
Juan Piovani, IdIHCS/Conicet, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Open Science in Latin America and Europe in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Practices and Challenges
Peter Birle, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Discussant | Comentarista: Laura Flamand, El Colegio de México

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break | Pausa de café

11.30 – 13.00 Contesting Modernization in Rural Peripheral Settings: The Pioneering Lens of Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Clara Ruvituso, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

Laurette Séjourné in Mexican Archaeology: A Gendered Perspective
Ian William Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin
Discussant | Comentarista: Ana María Barletta, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break | Pausa de almuerzo

14.00 – 20.00 Knowledges between Tensions and Re-Negotiations: Exploring the Humboldt Forum with the Lens of Conviviality-Inequality

14.00 – 15.00 Introduction to the Humboldt Forum
Barbara Göbel, IAI / Gisela Cánepa Koch, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee Break

15.15 – 16.00 Transfer to the Humboldt Forum

16.00 – 20.00 Visit to the Humboldt Forum

Friday, 16th September 2022

09.00 – 13.00 Medialities of Conviviality: Literary Perspectives
Moderator | Moderadora: Gesine Müller, Universität zu Köln

09.00 – 11.00 Poetics of Conviviality from the Difference: The ‘Az Mapu’ and Contemporary Mapuche Poetry 
Claudia Hammerschmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität-Jena/Calas

Dealing with Differences in Times of the Cold War: Chilean Authors in Exile
Susanne Klengel, Freie Universität Berlin
Discussant | Comentarista: Michel Otayek, Freie Universität Berlin

11.30 – 13.00 Knowledge, Environmental Policy and Transdisciplinarity in Alexander von Humboldt’s Conception of Latin America
Gloria Chicote, IdIHCS/Conicet, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Symbolic Regionalism and Heterogeneous Critique: A Proposal 
Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle, Ibero-Amerikanisches InstitutDiscussant | Comentarista: Tomaz Amorim, Freie Universität Berlin

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break | Pausa de almuerzo

14.00 – 16.00 Medialities of Conviviality: Contributions and Challenges
Moderator | Moderador: Peter Birle, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Laura Flamand, El Colegio de México
Juan Piovani, IdIHCS/Conicet, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin

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Simón Bolívar Hall
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37
D-10785 Berlin