CONFLICT AND POST-CONFLICT IN LATIN AMERICA
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International Colloquium 17-19 NOVEMBER 2006

The first half of this major international conference was dedicated to the Gendering Latin American Independence project. The speakers associated with the project were Hal Klepak (Royal Military College Canada), Claire Brewster (Nottingham/Newcastle), Matthew Brown (Bristol), Catherine Davies (Nottingham), Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas (Memphis), Rebecca Earle (Warwick), Will Fowler (StAndrews) and Karen Racine (Guelph).

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UNEQUAL STATES:
RACE AND GENDER AT LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH , 2004

TWO-DAY CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, SCHOOLS OF HISTORY & COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, DEPT OF HISPANIC AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES.

The conference was held at the University of Warwick and focused on the politics of gender and race identities during the independence period in Spanish America (c.1810-1830). It engaged with questions concerning the politics of poetics (the discursive construction of gender and race categories, and representations of women and subordinate ethnic groups) and the politics of conflict (unequal access to power and resources) during the fall of the ancien regime and the constitution of the modern republics. The conference thus aimed to bring new questions to bear on the historiography of Spanish American independence and to enquire into the revisionist historiography which understands the transition to independence as an adoption of the principles and forms of modernity. It brought together research from the AHRB project 'Gendering Latin American Independence: Women's Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850' hosted at Nottingham with recent work by international scholars who are interested in the positions, power and perceptions of women, indigenous and blacks at a time of intense political change in Spanish America. Invited speakers included: Nestor Auza (Academia Nacional de Historia, Argentina), Peter Blanchard (Toronto), Sarah Chambers (Minnesota), Will Fowler (St. Andrews), Aline Helg (Geneva), Asuncion Lavrin (Arizona), Pamela Murray (Alabama), Karen Racine (Guelph), Peggy Sharpe (Florida State). The conference was organized by Professor Anthony Macfarlane (Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick) and Professor Catherine Davies (Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham). For further information, please contact:

Professor Catherine Davies: 00 44 (0)115 951 5655 catherine.davies@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor Anthony Macfarlane: 00 44 (0)2476 523425 A.McFarlane@warwick.ac.uk