The Latin American Studies Program at the University of Kentucky presents a conference by Joanne Rappaport, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Georgetown University entitled "Challenges to the Production of Indigenous Knowledge"

The talk will take place on Wednesday March 7th at 3:00p.m. in the Niles Gallery in the Fine Arts Library.

Joanne Rappaport received a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 1982. Her interests include ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, and Andean ethnography and ethnohistory.

Sunday February 26th at 6:00p.m. is the UK Confucius Institute's 2012 Spring Gala. The program, performed by the Hubei University Dragan-Lion Dance Troupe, will feature the dragon dance, lion dance, tai chi fan, a kung-fu demonstration, a show of chinese zither, calligraphy, and Han Dynasty Chinese Costumes.

To purchase tickets click here or call (859)-257-4929

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Power to the People?

March 30

UK Alumni House

In this workshop-conference we want to reflect on the usages of the phrase “power to the people” by insurrectional movements, oppositional parties, and governments. Our aim is to compare leftwing populist regimes in Latin America, with right wing populist movements in Europe and the US, and insurrections made in the name of the people in different parts of the world. We have invitied colleagues to present case studies, comparative work, and theoretical reflections on the different meanings and usages of the term the people. The conference will take place at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. The University Press of Kentucky will publish an edited volume with the conference papers.

Power to the People?
Symposium presented by the International Studies Program

Friday, March 30, 10am - 6pm
Ballroom, King Alumni House
400 Rose St. Lexington, KY

10:00am  Panel 1: The people?
 
Robert Jansen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism”
 
Paulina Ochoa, Yale University
“Power to Whom? A Processualist View of the People”.
 
Benjamín Arditi, National University of Mexico
“Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan. Political reformatives of vanishing mediators in 2011”
 
Ernest Yanarella, panel commentator, University of Kentucky
 
12:30pm-1:30pm  Lunch on your own
 
1:30pm   Panel 2: Power to whom?
 
Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University
“Populism and political representation in comparative perspective”
 
Carlos de la Torre, University of Kentucky
“The Contested Meanings of Insurrections, the Sovereign People, and Democracy in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia”
 
Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego
“Who Speaks for the People of Plurinational Bolivia?”
 
Margarita López-Maya, Central University of Venezuela, and CENDES Venezuela
“People´s Power in Laws and Discourses of Hugo Chávez´ Government”
 
Jeffery Paige,  panel commentator, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 
4pm  Panel 3: Exclusionary inclusions? 
 
James  Hertog and Robert Zuercher, University of Kentucky
"Media Coverage of Tea Party Claims to Represent the People"
 
George Michael, Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education, USAF
“The Tea Party and the Extreme Right: Fellow Travelers?”
 
Cristóbal Rovira, University of Sussex
“Explaining the (re)emergence of populism in Europe and Latin America”
 
José Pedro Zuquette, the author of 'Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe'
‘”Free the People’: The Search for ‘true democracy’ in Western Europe’s political far-right culture”
 
Ron Formisano, panel commentator, University of Kentucky
 

A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.