| 12:00 | Museo de Historia Natural Río Seco (MHNRS) The Museo de Historia Natural Río Seco is situated in the ruins of the historic South American Export Syndicate LTDA meatpacking plant, now owned by Algina SA. With over ten years of operation, the MHNRS functions as a space dedicated to research, conservation, and the promotion of the natural and cultural heritage of South America’s southernmost tip. Collaborating with local, national, and international research networks, the MHNRS oversees projects focused on managing objects and collections, conserving memories marginalized from official history, and recovering and transforming abandoned spaces. Talk with museum curators Miguel Cáceres and Aymara Zegers. |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 | Public conference Greetings: Dr. Sebastian Brünger, on behalf of Kulturstiftung des Bundes |
| 15:15 | 1st session: Conservation of the Remnants of Divine Violence * Alberto Harambour: Nation-state, white gold and religion: the social division of genocidal labour This talk analyzes the role of three fundamental forces of every contemporary colonial process through the particular articulations that produced the conquest of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia between the 1870s and the 1920s. Though the relation between those forces – uninational States, capitalism and religion – is modified at different moments by other forces, Harambour argues, colonialism is further reproduced. By looking at the local mythology of the uninational-States, as produced and reproduced by historiography and the politics of heritage, the presentation argues that long-lasting colonialism publicly celebrates and renders invisible dispossession as a means of reenacting the exceptionalism of the dominant. Recommended reading besides El placer genocida: https://n9.cl/wg4sr & https://n9.cl/g7ex54 * Alberto Serrano: The decolonization process of the Yagan Usi Territorial Museum The Museo Territorial Yagan Usi – Martín González Calderón is the southernmost museum in the world. It was founded in the 1970s by naval military personnel to support Chilean sovereignty. However, perspectives on history have evolved over time. In the past decade, the museum has been working closely with the Yagan native community on a deep decolonization process, which includes the recontextualization of the collection and development of a new narrative led by the Yagan community to interpret the displayed objects. * Panel: Alberto Serrano, Miguel Cáceres, Aymara Zegers, Alberto Harambour | Moderator: Iris Dressler Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’ makes a significant contribution to the study of nations and nationalities by highlighting the active role of imagination in shaping social and cultural perceptions. For Anderson, nationalism and national identity are creative inventions through which we can understand the law, LTD companies, banking credit system, rights (for humans, animals, rivers, etc), but also supremacism; they are all constructs of human imagination. His work traces the roots of nationalism to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America. He later explores colonial contexts in Indonesia and examines both the similarities and differences across colonial states and mindsets. Anderson’s approach stresses the material conditions that influence culture and the institutions that reinforce it—including mass media, education, and administrative regulations. In later editions of his book, Anderson revisits his arguments, focusing on three institutions of power that altered their roles as colonized areas entered the age of mechanical reproduction: “The census, the map, and the museum: together, they profoundly shaped how the colonial state imagined its dominion—the nature of the human beings it ruled, the geography of its domain, and the legitimacy of its ancestry.” Suppose the museum is one of the apparatuses that strengthened the colonizer’s domination over others. Can this apparatus change its nature and disarm the fascist nation’s domination over its subjects? |
| 17:00 | Break |
| 17:15 | 2nd session: The Gaze of the Wild * Adriana Mercado: Selknam people: a journey towards the horizons of memory Adriana Mercado will share the Selk’nam worldview and respect for nature from an indigenous perspective, because at this moment, they are a valuable key to the continuity of natural biomes. The connection with nature is understood as a living body of which we (humans) are a minimal part of its structure. The Selk’nam people have been victims of marginalization throughout history, treated unequally in their claim to be recognized as a living people, and even today, violated by the colonialist perspective * Panel: Karen Luza, Adriana Mercado, Miri Lavi Neeman | Moderator: Oded Keynan Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination is widely recognized by international law and includes the right to shape their own economic, social, cultural, and political development. There is limited theoretical understanding of how political economy affects the practical realization of this right. Settler colonial projects do not primarily aim to dominate and exploit indigenous peoples but instead focus on invading others’ land. Settler regimes usually seek total control of the land they claim, disregarding any indigenous claims to sovereignty. In many settler colonies, the destruction of indigenous societies is often carried out by civilians, especially settlers, who play a key role in erasing the social structures of indigenous people and their communities, which are connected to the land. |
| 19:30 | 3rd session: The Transdisciplinary Opportunity * Panel: Daniel García Andújar, Liesbeth Bik, Malkit Shoshan, Nicolás Grum | Moderator: Hans D. Christ The transdisciplinary knowledge developed by artists and other experts in response to social and political issues is indispensable to contemporary society. It is essential to respond to social and political conflicts with imaginative proposals, and to develop alternatives that challenge established, orthodox narratives. Therefore, to break through the disciplinary separation that often segregates artists from other workers and experts from different fields who could work together in solidarity for a better social reality. The support of cross-border exchange for artists and researchers whose mobility is restricted is an essential part of creating a sustainable, open platform for committed collaboration |
| 20:45 | Break |
| 21:00 | Performance: Oscar Barrientos |
| 22:00 | Ride back to hotel |