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  • 2018 Lozano Long Conference: Colonial Latin American ARTifacts

    February 21–23, 2018
    The University of Texas at Austin

    The 2018 Lozano Long Conference, “Create, Consume, Collect: The Lives of Colonial Latin American ARTifacts,” was co-sponsored by LLILAS Benson and the Blanton Museum of Art.

    In the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of the “New World” in the early sixteenth century, complex cultural negotiations developed among the indigenous populations living in the area and the Spaniards they encountered. Artifacts of all kinds, produced during three centuries of colonial domination, are silent but powerful witnesses to such negotiations and exchanges, embracing in their materiality the social relationships that allowed for their existence.

    How does the analysis of material culture inform our understanding of social interactions? How do we understand the relationships that people from different backgrounds have with Spanish American artifacts today when they are perceived as “cultural heritage”? What are the ethical components of studying, preserving, collecting, and exhibiting material culture of the period? Why does the colonial past matter, and how could it help us shape the future?

    The 2018 Lozano Long Conference provided a forum to reflect on these questions.

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    Cosponsored by LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the Blanton Museum of Art

  • 2017 Lozano Long Conference: Contemporary Food System in Latin America

    February 22-24, 2017
    The University of Texas at Austin

    Latin America’s Food Revolution [Archived Event Description]
    Our global food system is broken. It is making us sick, undermining the environment and eroding workers’ rights. No region in the world serves as a better example of this broken system than Latin America.

    Trade liberalization, political upheaval, population displacements, and environmental change have all played a role in shaping the food system in the region. Traditionally, the Latin American agricultural sector has grown by focusing on exports at the expense of producing fresh food for local communities. So even after a decade of economic growth, undernutrition overlaps (sometimes in the same population) with diets high in fat, sugar, and over-processed foods. In addition to these negative health outcomes, industrial agriculture produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

    So what to do? Join us to find out!

    There is an emerging global food movement that is reimaging how we can grow and distribute food in a more sustainable and fair way. In Latin America, social movements made up of farmers, agricultural workers, consumers, environmental groups, indigenous communities, and other experts have been pushing for greater food self-sufficiency, agro-ecological production and equitable nutrition policies. This conference will address the opportunities and obstacles to transforming the current food system in Latin America and what the rest of the world can learn from it.

    Food studies is by nature multi-disciplinary. This event will bring together many innovative activists, researchers, and artists. The fields represented in the conference will be anthropology, ecology, geography, public health, law, history, sociology, political science, and film. Topics include agroecology and alternative farming styles; rights-oriented food movements; the land, work, and market struggles surrounding industrial agriculture; and nutrition and public health approaches to food policies.

    Our panelists come from and/or are experts on different parts of the Americas, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.

    Conference coordinator: Paloma Diaz

    2017 Lozano Long Conference Program

    Faculty Organizers
    Pilar Zazueta is lecturer and undergraduate faculty adviser at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Her research focuses on food and nutrition policies in Mexico during the twentieth century. She holds a PhD in History from Columbia University. Zazueta has worked as a public health expert and project manager for programs funded by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, singer and philanthropist Shakira, and the Canadian Institutes of Health. She regularly appears on Spanish-language television as a political analyst. At LLILAS, Zazueta teaches courses on research methods, the food system, and contemporary Latin America.

    Raj Patel is a research professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, and LLILAS affiliated faculty. He studies the global food system and alternatives to it. He is currently working on a ground-breaking documentary project about the global food system with award-winning director Steve James. The author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel received a James Beard Foundation Leadership award in 2016. Before coming to Austin, Patel co-taught the 2014 Edible Education class at UC Berkeley with Michael Pollan. He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial Services Committee and was an adviser to Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

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Conference Proceedings Archive


LLILAS Conferences & Proceedings Archive in the LANIC Etext Collection
This collection contains materials associated with dozens of LLILAS Conferences held between 1999 and 2010. Materials include conference information, calls for papers, conference programs and posters, and in some cases conference proceedings, papers and videos.

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