We created this site to facilitate discussion on the state of Andean History for the Andean Studies Section of the upcoming 2010 AHA/CLAH conference in San Diego. Rather than a typical roundtable or panel, we hope to engage in a broad ranging discussion of the future of the Andean past, in which all attendees are participants rather than an audience of consumers.
Over the course of the Fall 2009 Semester, panel participants will be providing a series of posts on the state of the discipline. We invite comments from any and all Andeanists and Latin Americanists on these posts, as well as on any theme scholars of the region deem appropriate for understanding “The Future of the Andean Past.”
Here is the proposal submitted to CLAH:
Andean Studies (Conference on Latin American History)
San Diego, January 7 – 10, 2010
Roundtable: The Future of the Andean Past
Chairs: Kimberly Gauderman (University of New Mexico) & Rachel Sarah O’Toole (University of California, Irvine)
Panelists would discuss the state of Andean Studies, the direction of the scholarship, and how the concerns of the present influence the particular shifts in historiography. Questions that may be addressed include: Are we post post-studies? Is there or has there been a unified focus of Andeanists? Is there a distinction between North American or European scholars and those from Latin America? What is the future of Andean Studies – within ethnohistory, history, and anthropology?
We would propose that prior to the CLAH meetings to establish a blog where members of the Andean Studies section of CLAH can also post their perspectives and topics for discussion during the round table. We request that each of the panelists post a short piece of, say, 1000-1500 words on what they are thinking before the conference. Hopefully, others from the Andean Studies section would read, make suggestions, and generate cyber discussion before our actual meeting.
Round table participants include:
Kathryn Burns
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
Jeremy Mumford
University of Mississippi
310 Bishop Hall
University, MS 38677
Erick Langer
Georgetown University
Department of History
Intercultural Center 600 Box 571035
3700 O St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20057-1035
Chad Black
University of Tennessee
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065
