Tuesday, June 20 | Wednesday, June 21 | Thursday, June 22 | Friday, June 23 | Saturday, June 24

Tuesday, June 20

• 4:00pm | Registration opens

• 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Conference Welcoming | Recording

  • Opening Address: Rector Rosa Devés (University of Chile)
  • Introductions, Pablo Oyarzún (University of Chile) and Javier Durán (University of Arizona)

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Opening Keynote | Recording

  • Opening Keynote: Verónica Gago (University of Buenos Aires)

• 7:30pm - 8:30pm | Opening Reception

Wednesday, June 21

• 8:00am - 8:45am | Breakfast Conversations, Salón Danubio (2nd floor), Hotel Plaza San Francisco | Full schedule and descriptions

  • The Fight for Ideas: Addressing Banned Books and Ideological Attacks” (Jennifer Ho—CU Boulder, Erika George—University of Utah)
  • Public Humanities Initiatives (Rachel Sailor and Brigida Blasi, University of Wyoming)

• 9:00am - 11:00am | Membership Plenary

  • 9:00am - 9:45am | Directors Meeting | Recording | A member-led discussion on leading a humanities center or institute
    • Chair: Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa)
    • Bianet Castellanos (University of Minnesota)
    • Serenity Joo (University of Manitoba)
    • Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  • 9:45am - 10:00am | A State of the Consortium | Recording | A brief report from CHCI staff
  • 10:00am - 11:00am | Imagining the Future of Humanities Centers | Recording
    • Chair: Stephen Best (University of California, Berkeley)
    • Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis University)
    • Ian Baucom (University of Virginia)
    • Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
    • Erika George (University of Utah)

• 11:00am - 11:30am | Coffee Break

• 11:30am - 1:00pm | Debt: The Present of Coloniality and the Temporality of Neoliberal Capitalism | This panel will question the continuity of colonial dependence through the regimes of individual and national debt. | Recording

  • Chair: Verónica Gago (University of Buenos Aires)
  • José Miguel Ahumada (University of Chile)
  • Andrés Solimano (International Center for Globalization and Development, CIGLOB)
  • Rocío Zambrana (University of Oregon)

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Lunch & Discussion Roundtables

• 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Latin American Regional Session | Native epistemologies: ruptures and encounters | On this National Day of Indigenous Peoples, the panel will examine the challenges of humanist thought in Latin America centered on native epistemologies and claims, discerning the ruptures and encounters with interrogations and perspectives of the humanities at national, regional and global levels. | Recording

  • Moderators: Pablo Oyarzún, Andrés Claro
  • Verónica Figueroa Huencho (Professor, Faculty of Government; University of Chile)
  • Salvador Millaleo Hernandez (Mapuche Lawyer; Faculty of Law, University of Chile)
  • Maribel Mora Curriao (Mapuche poet and professor; Director of the Office of Equity and Inclusion, University of Chile)

• 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Critical Humanities Spaces Network—Repair: Temporalities and Spaces of Undoing | This member-led network provides a platform for critical reflection on the work of institutes, centers, and other venues for humanities and cross-disciplinary work. Repair: Temporalities and Spaces of Undoing builds from the assertion that repairing is neither replacing nor recreating, nor is repair reparation. The particularities of the historical commotions of the 21st century and the legacies of those past demand that we privilege the minor and the un-common as there from which any new can emerge. How to nurture spaces that refuse a sense of the common marked by inertia or myopia, that foreground the minor as method without fetishising nor entrenching it as subject position, and that engage with the historical legacies of violence and partition (caste, forced dislocation, the aftermaths of slavery) that persist in the present—these are some of the key challenges of the humanities today. In this framing, how might we think of the work of humanities centres and institutes, and the work holding such spaces, as venues for repair? We invite anyone engaged in the work of directing, administering, facilitating, imagining, and creating humanities spaces to join us in this conversation about nurturing spaces for doing the work of repair and human flourishing; indeed, for doing the work of imagining new futures. | Recording

  • Chair: Katharine Wallerstein, University of California, Davis
  • Rosinka Chaudhuri, Director and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
  • Heidi Grunebaum and Maurits van Bever Donker (Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape)
  • Roberto Celedón Fernández, Chilean human rights lawyer, member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
  • Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council.
  • Patricia Parker, Director of the Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC Chapel Hill and Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of Humanities

• 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Formal Dinner of the Annual Meeting (Optional), Hotel Plaza San Francisco

  • Pre-registration required. $80/person.
  • 7-8pm, "Cocktail hour"

Thursday, June 22

• 8:00am - 8:45am | Breakfast Conversations, Salón Danubio (2nd floor), Hotel Plaza San Francisco | Full schedule and descriptions

  • Small Budget Institutes (Serenity Joo, University of Manitoba)
  • The “Public” in Public Humanities (Russ Castronovo—UW-Madison, Ulka Anjaria—Brandeis University)
  • Publishing in Centers and Institutes (Sylvia K Miller—Duke University)

• 9:00am - 11:00am | Best Practices for Humanities Centers | Recording

  • Chair: Patricia Parker (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  • Jessica Berman (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
  • Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Jennifer Ho (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Amy Lind (University of Cincinnati)
  • Lee Wallace (University of Sydney)

• 11:00am - 11:30am | Coffee Break

• 11:30am - 1:00pm | Conmociones: Times of the Upheaval, Disruption, and Violence | This panel will interrogate the disruptive nature of the social uprisings that have proliferated in the first two decades of the 21st century in various regions. | Recording

  • Chair: Federico Galende (University of Chile)
  • Rodrigo Karmy (University of Chile)
  • Kader Konuk (Academy in Exile)
  • Minoo Moallem (University of California, Berkeley)

• 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Lunch & Discussion Roundtables

• 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Transportation to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (optional)

• 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Public Humanities Network—The Humanities and Human Rights, Auditorium of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights | This member-led network organizes regular events on the questions and best practices of this increasingly visible field. This panel explores the role of public humanities in contentious times of upheaval and disruption in different national and global contexts.

  • Chair: Kylie Message (Australian National University)
  • María Fernanda García (Museum of Memory and Human Rights)
  • Dr. Manuela Badilla Rajevic (Valparaiso University)
  • Rex P. Nielson (Brigham Young University)
  • Marcel Solá (Social Outbreak Museum)
  • Rebecca Wingo (University of Cincinnati)

• 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Museum of Memory and Human Rights tour (optional)

  • Download the museum's phone app (MMDH App) and bring your headphones to enhance your self-guided tour.

• 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Return transportation (optional)

• 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Srinivas Aravamudan Memorial Lecture: Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) | Recording

Friday, June 23

• 8:00am - 8:45am | Breakfast Conversations, Salón Danubio (2nd floor), Hotel Plaza San Francisco | Full schedule and descriptions

  • Possibilities and Challenges of Interpretation and Translation across Languages Spoken within the Continent of the Americas in Public Humanities Scholarship (Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington)
  • Social Media for Humanities Social Justice (Nanda Jarosz, University of Sydney)
  • The Collapse of the Academic Job Market & Issues of Access for Contingent Faculty (Jessica Berman—University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gustavus Stadler—Haverford College)

• 9:00am - 10:30am | Construcción de lo común: Individual and Collective Subjectivities, Diversity, and Otherness | This panel will question the conditions of possibility for the construction of a community that does not foreclose the exigency of the common, as a non-exclusive configuration of ways of life. | Recording

  • Chair: Pablo Oyarzún Robles (University of Chile)
  • Maylei Blackwell (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Alejandra Castillo (Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences)
  • Fatimah Tuggar (University of Florida)

• 10:30am - 11:00am | Coffee Break

• 11:00am - 12:30pm | Critical Distancing: Responsibility, Strategies, and Varieties of Humanities Intervention in the Public Sphere | This panel will question the relevance of 'critical distancing' as a methodology and epistemology of the humanities in the face of the immediate action demanded by contemporary urgencies and crises. | Recording

  • Chair: Andrés Claro (University of Chile)
  • Renato Janine Ribeiro (University of São Paulo)
  • Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University)
  • Nelly Richard (ARCIS University)

• 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch & Discussion Roundtables

• 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Translating the Humanities: Setting a New Agenda for International Collaboration | This roundtable builds on the outcomes of two CHCI international research initiatives: the World Humanities Report (WHR) and the Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs). Contributors to the WHR, which will be released shortly before the conference, and conveners of the GHIs will discuss the outcomes and lessons of those two major projects, with a focus on language, translation, and trans-regional collaboration. The goal of the discussion is to outline the priorities and challenges for global humanities for the next few years, in a post-pandemic international landscape in which policies, priorities, and resources are shifting rapidly. The session will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the role of the humanities in addressing global challenges such as climate change, migration, and social inequality, and to explore innovative approaches to research and collaboration across regions and disciplines. The roundtable will be structured as a moderated conversation among the contributors, with ample time for questions and discussion from the audience. | Recording

  • Chair: Sara Guyer (University of California, Berkeley)
  • María del Rosario Acosta López (University of California, Riverside)
  • Lydia Liu (Columbia University)
  • Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Seteney Shami (Arab Council for the Social Sciences)

• 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Health and Medical Humanities Network, Rishi Goyal, Columbia University | This member-led network is the largest organization in the field, forging new interdisciplinary networks and collaborations between campus, clinic, and community. | Recording

  • The medical and health humanities present a critique to fundamental habits of thought in institutional biomedicine. The field strives to be anti-essentialist, inclusive and committed to health justice and the mitigation of health inequity. As we promote a global medical and health humanities, can we conceive of global in a way that does not rehearse and reproduce tired distinctions of center and periphery? Health and disease are universal human experiences, but as the pandemic reminds us, differently experienced across the planet and often determined by class, nationality, gender and race. How can we construct a field that is properly anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist? How do we reflect the historical solidarity of the global majority? To address these questions, we will be joined by faculty from the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Chile and colleagues from the Medical and Health Humanities Africa network (on Zoom) who will offer us their perspectives. We will extend these presentations to an open conversation of network and CHCI attendees.

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Closing Lecture: María del Rosario Acosta López (University of California, Riverside) | Recording

Saturday, June 24

• 9:00am - 6:00pm, approximately | Casablanca Valley & Vineyards (Optional)

  • Pre-registration required. $50/person, including transportation. We do not recommend this trip if you have a Saturday evening flight.
  • Casablanca Valley is located 68 kilometers from Santiago, Chile, in the region of Valparaíso. Due to its unique geography and climate, Casablanca Valley has become a leading destination for viticulture and gastronomy, including its rich landscape of local restaurants and vineyards. It is currently considered one of the seven capitals in the world for the development of wine. In addition, Casablanca is recognized locally for the great number of Christian pilgrimages made in the area due to its proximity to the Sanctuary of the Virgen de lo Vásquez, which is often visited throughout the year.