10/26/2022
UPDATE!!!!!
Thursday, October 27 Online 10:10
“Whose Film is It? Translating Q***rness from Spanish to Quechua in the Film Retablo
A talk by Javier Muñoz-Díaz about Q***rness and the power dynamics between Spanish and Quechua
Register: https://RetabloTalk.eventbrite.com
Retablo’s director Álvaro Delgado Aparicio originally wrote the script in Spanish, but the dialogues were translated to Quechua by the actors in the leading roles with the support of professional translators. In this presentation, I discuss how specific terms regarding gender and s*xualities were translated from Spanish to Quechua and how such a translation contrast with the film’s point of view and haptic qualities. As a result, Retablo is a work that, while reproducing the limitations of traditional Indigenismo, showcases the power dynamics between Spanish and Quechua languages. This hierarchy problematizes the liberal discourse of tolerance towards homos*xuality/queerness, pointing out the impact of the colonial/modern gender system instead.
Javier Muñoz-Díaz (he/they) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at St. Lawrence University. His research focuses on the cultural history of the Andes and Amazon regions, Indigeneity, Q***r/Cuir Studies, and Environmental Humanities.
Thursday, November 3 Online 11:00
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Mapuche Gendering Bending as Power in Southern Chile, a Talk by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, SUNY at Buffalo
Register: https://MapucheGenderingBending.eventbrite.com
Professor Bacigalupo shows how shamanic discourses and practices (as they interact with more-than-humans) can be superb tools for transforming colonial and neocolonial structures of power—and for producing new logics and decolonizing epistemologies, methodologies, and theories in academia—because they challenge Western assumptions about the nature and organization of the world in myriad ways. Shamanic practice troubles the distinction between life and non-life; past, present, and future; human and more-than-human; nature and culture; history and myth; matter and spirit; and man and woman, as well as capitalist divisions of species, landscapes, and peoples that discredit Indigenous practices which collapse these categories. Professor Bacigalupo argues that because shamans mediate within and between worlds and temporalities, they offer a particularly productive place from which to question power and envision new realities and futures. She traces the many forms of social critique wielded by Indigenous shamans—from gender and landscape constructions to history, memory, and politics. Professor Bacigalupo also studies their roles as public intellectuals who offer alternative visions that inform Indigenous political mobilization and shape the larger politics of knowledge throughout Chile, Peru, and the world.
Professor Bacigalupo is the author of Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Patagonia (University of Texas Press, 2016); Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among the Chilean Mapuche (University of Texas Press, 2007); The Voice of the Drum in Modernity: Tradition and Change in the Practice of Seven Mapuche Shamans (Universidad Católica de Chile press, 2001); Hybridity in Mapuche “Traditional” Healing Methods: The Practice of Contemporary Mapuche Shamans (PAESMI 1996). She also co-authored Modernization and Wisdom in Mapuche Land (San Pablo Press, 1995). Bacigalupo has also published over sixty peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
