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Meeting program

 16.7.2017 Arrival of the participants, check-in and registration
 17.7.2017  [Food]
  9:00 - 9:30Christiane Berth (Universität Bern): Welcome speech an introduction
  9:30 - 11:00

Keynote and discussion led by Christiane Berth (Bern):

Rose Spalding (DePaul University): Sustainable Communities and Territorial Struggles: Political Ecology of Land and Place in Sandinista Nicaragua

11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30Discussion led by Mona Nikolić (FU Berlin): ¿Continuidad o cambio por intercambio? Algunas reflexiones sobre el impacto de la migración nicaragüense en los hábitos culinarios costarricenses
12:30 - 14:15Lunch break
14:15 - 15:30

Panel discussion led by Christiane Berth:

Fernanda Soto (Universidad Centroamericana): From dreams of “individual colonization” to collective work: the experience of peasants in the Siuna Region during the 1980s.

15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00Discussion led by David Cooper (University College London): Food Sovereignty, Populist Sovereignty: Provisional Citizenship in Rural Nicaragua
17:00 - 17:30Break
17:30 - 19:30

Panel discussion led by Matei Chihaia (BUW/CeHis) and Beatrix Burghoff (BUW/Bergisches Kolleg): 30 años de solidaridad entre Wuppertal y Matagalpa: la cultura del sandinismo entre Nicaragua y Alemania

Guests: Reinhold Hikl, Lutz Kliche, Barbara Lucas, Hermann Schulz, Ulla Sparrer, Claas Wellinga, Hans Langenberg

19:30Opening of the exhibition of photographs by Cordelia Dilg-Richter
 18.7.2017[Gender]
  9:15 - 9:30Christine Hatzky (Leibniz Universität Hannover) / Barbara Potthast (Universität zu Köln): Welcome speech and introduction
  9:30 - 10:15Keynote by María Teresa Blandón (Programa
Feminista La Corriente): El movimiento de mujeres de Nicaragua, memoria colectiva de muchas revoluciones
10:15 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00Discussion led by Lorraine Bayard de Volo (University of Colorado Boulder): Sandinista Culture: Gender and Mobilizing a Nation to Revolution and War
12:00 - 13:00Discussion led by Friederike Apelt y Christian Helm (Leibniz Universität Hannover): ¿La mujer nueva? Visual representations of nicaraguan women in transnational  imaginaries (1978-1990)
13:00 - 14:00Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30Discussion led by Florence Babb (University of North  Carolina at Chapel Hill): Nicaraguan Legacies: Advances and Setbacks in Feminist and LGBT Activism
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30Discussion led by Alejandro Bendaña (Centro
de Estudios Internacionales, Managua) and Lea Guido
(AMNLAE): La mujer en la lucha sandinista
17:30 - 17:45Break
17:45 - 19:00Panel discussion: Results of the discussions
 19.7.2017[Language and Literature]
  9:00 - 9:30Bénédicte Pivot (Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3): Welcome speech and introduction. Desafíos etnolingüísticos del programa del Gobierno Revolucionario Sandinista
  9:30 - 11:30

Panel discussion led by Natascha Pomino (BUW):

Jeffrey Blokzijl (Universiteit Leiden): Asymmetry in code-switching: linguistic or extralinguistic factors?

Tim Diaubalick (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) / N.Pomino: Evolution away from European Spanish: On the aspiration and elision of /s/ in Nicaraguan

11:30 - 11:45Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30

Conferencia y discusión dirigida por Alejandro Gasel (Universidad Nacional de Patagonia Austral):

Ileana Rodríguez (Ohio State University/Instituto de  Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica): La prosa de la contrainsurgencia

12:30 - 13:30Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15

Keynote and discussion led by Mariela Sánchez (Universidad Nacional de La Plata):

Werner Mackenbach (Universidad de Costa Rica): Literatura y revolución. La literatura nicaragüense de los años ochenta y noventa entre política y  ficción

14:15 - 14:30Coffee break
14:30 - 16:00

Panel discussion led by Mercedes Mafla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador):

Gema D. Palazón Sáez (Universitat de València): El hombre nuevo revisitado: lecturas de la revolución en dos testimonios del Servicio Militar Patriótico

Gesine Müller (Universität zu Köln): Modelos caribeños de producción  teórica: desde la transculturación al tout-monde.

Kirsten Kramer (Universität Bielefeld): Geo-imaginarios y globalización

16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00Visit of Wuppertal's Historic Centre and of the Villa Waldfrieden (meeting point at 16:30: Friedrich Engels statue in the Engelsgarten, next to the station “Adlerbrücke”)
 20.7.2017
1. A History of Solidarity
 9:10 - 9:30Between machismo and Liberation. The Sandinista Revolution and the West German Solidarity Movement  with Nicaragua, 1978-1991. A Gender-specific Perspective
Friederike Apelt
Leibniz Universität Hannover
9:30 - 9:50Propaganda and Revolution: the media offensive of the FSLN and the struggle for liberation, 1977-1979
Gerardo Sánchez Nateras
El Colegio de México
9:50 - 10:10Dutch solidarity, Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Global  Cold War, ca. 1981-1983
Eline van Ommen
London School of Economics
10:10 - 10:30Sobre internacionalistas, activistas y brigadistas. La red transnacional de solidaridad política con la Revolución Sandinista desde el estado español (1978-1990)
José Manuel Ágreda Portero
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
10:30 - 11:00Discussion
11:00 - 11:20Poster exhibition + coffee break
2. The Central American Context
11:20 - 11:40El triunfo revolucionario en Nicaragua. Revisión histórica, impactos nacionales y centroamericanos
Fabián Campos Hernández
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
11:40 - 12:00Las izquierdas costarricenses y las revoluciones centroamericanas en el contexto de las relaciones geopolíticas de la guerra Fría, 1970-1990.
Mario Salazar Montes
Universidad de Costa Rica
12:00 - 12:30Discussion
12:30 - 13:30Lunch break
3. A New Mythology
13:30 - 13:50'Love is Stronger than Hate’: Popular Politics in the “New Times” of Sandinismo
Luciana Chamorro Elizondo
Columbia University
13:50 - 14:10Speculative Sandinismo
Emilia Yang Rappacioli
University of Southern California
14:10 - 14:30Habla e Ideología en la creación musical de Carlos Mejía Godoy
Francisco Condori Miranda
Universität Hamburg
14:30 - 15:30Discussion
15:30 - 16:00Poster exhibition + coffee break
4. Models of Development
16:00 - 16:20The Ends of Modernization: Development, Ideology, and Catastrophe in Nicaragua after the Alliance for Progress
David J. Lee
Temple University
16:20 - 16:40Afro-Indigenous Economic Imaginaries on the Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua
Fernando Montero
Columbia University
16:40 - 17:00Discussion
17:00 - 18:00Break
18:00Film El hombre Nuevo (2015): FH 1 (FH building, floor 02, room 01)
20:00Panel discussion with Sven Pötting (http://kinolatino.de/) and Alejandro Ferrari
 21.7.2017Check-out