This conference brings together historians and anthropologists who work from distinct conceptual perspectives -- including hegemony, postcolonial studies, and neo-Tocquevillean approaches to the public sphere -- to discuss Andean cases in a broadly comparative framework. Specific issues to be treated concern nationalism and nation-state formation, "race," ethnic identity, and political projects of inclusion and exclusion, violence, political participation and the power of national governments, gender orders, state-building and different notions of space, caudillismo and the politics of representation, and Andean configurations of civil society and public spheres.

Presenters

Cristóbal Aljovín (Peru)
Enrique Ayala Mora (Ecuador)
Rossana Barragán (Bolivia)
Kim Clark (Canada)
Carlos Contreras (Peru)
Carlos Espinoza (USA)
Carlos Forment (USA)
Margarita Garrido (Colombia)
Laura Gotkowitz (USA)
Tulio Halperín-Donghi (USA)
Sudir Hazareesingh (England)
Aline Helg (USA)
Nils Jacobsen (USA)
Alan Knight (England)
Thomas Krüggeler (Germany)
Brooke Larson (USA)
Carlos Mamani (Bolivia)
Nelson Manrique (Peru)
Ulrich Mücke (Germany)
Scarlett O'Phelan (Peru)
Tristan Platt (Scotland)
Mary Roldán (USA)
Sergio Serulnikov (USA)
Charles Walker (USA)

Commentators

Thomas Cummins (USA)
Zephyr Frank (USA)
Michael Gonzales (USA)
Peter Klarén (USA)
Andrew Orta (USA)
Vincent Peloso (USA)
Cynthia Radding (USA)
Frank Safford (USA)
Mary Kay Vaughan (USA)
Mary Weismantel (USA)
Norman E. Whitten, Jr. (USA)

For further information, and to read and comment on most papers, please go to the conference web page at http://AndesPolitics.history.uiuc.edu/. The conference is free and open to the public. There is a $25 charge for the reception, dinner and debate on Friday, March 24, and another $25 charge for the dinner on Saturday, March 25. Tickets may be purchased at the door or beforehand from the conference organizers.