The Institute of Latin American Studies and The Anglo-Bolivian Society are pleased to announce their joint conference “Revolutions in Bolivia”.

Friday 16 March 2018
Room G35 (Bloomsbury Room)
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

To register please go to
https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15174
or telephone 020 7862 8871

£20 standard fee
£15 for A-BS members
£10 for students, the unwaged and the retired
(fee includes lunch refreshments)

Programme

9:30 – Welcome and Registration

10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1: Revolutionary Nationalism, Change and Continuity

Dr. John Crabtree – ‘Essays in ‘Populism?’: the governments of the MNR and the MAS compared’– (Oxford University)
Manuel Bueno del Carpio BA Open – Continuity and differences between the 1952 revolution and the Evo Morales government – (Engineer and Bolivian trade union activist)
Dr. Winston Moore – Revolution to Pachachuti: vision of “Filippo” Filemón Escóbar – (Anglo-Bolivian Society)

11:30-11:45 Coffee

11:45- 13:15 Panel 2: Autonomies, Plurinational Projects, Constitutionality

Jonathan Alderman – Whose autonomy is it anyway? Class, Ethnicity and the Legacy of the Bolivian Revolution in the Plurinational State – (University of St Andrews)
Britta Katharina Matthes – Whose autonomy and autonomy from what/whom? Insights into nationalist revolution and pluri-national refoundation through demands for autonomy and their translation into state matter – (University of Bath)
Pamela Vargas Gorena – Power and Governance – (Lecturer in Law and public policy consultant- Bolivia)

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 -16:00 Panel 3: Identities

Dr. Into A. Goudsmit – Aspiring to the Anti-Nation: From National to Plurinational Revolution – (Goldsmiths College/Institute of Latin American Studies, London)
Amaru Villanueva Rance – “Clases a medias” – the changing contours of Bolivian middle classes – (University of Essex)
Dr. Radosław Powęska – New Bolivia: state of many nations or indianised nation-state? – (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Dr. Soledad Stoessel – The “steering wheel class” during the process of political change in Bolivia – (National University of La Plata, Argentina)

16:00 -16:15 Coffee

16:15 -17:45 Panel 4: Social Movements, Media and Control

Anna Krausova – Strategic claims and frames: Explaining continuity and change for Bolivia’s indigenous movement(s) – (Visiting Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, London)
Alberto Souviron – Revolution and Communication: who controls the narrative? – (Anglo-Bolivian Society)
Dr. Olivia Saunders – ‘Navigating the mines: alliances, conflict, and compromise in comparative perspective’ – (Liverpool John Moores University)

17:45 -18:00 Break

18:00 – 18:45 Key note

Prof. Tristan Platt – “The Monies of the State”. Ayllu versus Syndical organization in Northern Potosí (1930-2000) – (University of St. Andrews)