Hemispheric
Religiosities: Media and Performance
Presenter BIOS
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Reverend
Billy
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Davíd Carrasco
is an historian of religions who works on "Cities as Symbols"
and "Borders as Performance Spaces" in Mesoamerican and Mexican
American cultures. Trained at the University of Chicago where he worked
with Mircea Eliade and Victor Turner, he has published Quetzalcoatl and
the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in Aztec Religion, Religions
of Mesoamerica, The City of Sacrifice and is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford
Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. He also does research on the symbols
and rituals of religious and racial hybridity in Latino cultures and is
the Executive Co-Producer of the film, Alambrista: Director's Cut directed
by Robert M. Young. He served as consultant in the production of the book,
film and photo exhibition, Americanos: Latino Life in the US. Presently
he is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at
Harvard University.
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Alyshia Galvez
is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology and the certificate program
in Culture and Media at New York University. She is currently conducting
dissertation research among Mexican devotional and political organizations
in New York City.
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Linda Kintz
is Professor of English at the University of Oregon and is also affiliated
with the Comparative Literature and Theatre Departments. Her books include
The Subject's Tragedy: Political Poetics, Feminist Theory, and Drama (Michigan);
Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America
(Duke); and, with Julia Lesage, Media, Culture, and the Religious Right
(Minnesota).
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Gisela Canepa Koch
Ms. Koch is a Professor of Anthropology in the Social Studies Department
at Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú where she also co-chairs the
Taller de Antropologia Visual (Visual Anthropology Workshop). She received
her Master's in Anthropology at the Pontificia Católica and her
doctorate studies at the University of Chicago, Illinois. She was awarded
with scholarships from Century Fellowship and Consejo Latino Americano
de Ciencias Sociales-CLACSO. She is the author of Máscara, Transformación
e Identidad en los Andes (Mask, Transformation and Identity in the Andes;
Lima: PUC, 1998) and has edited Identidades Representadas: performance,
experiencia y memoria en Los Andes (Acted Identities: performance, experience
and memory in the Andes; Lima:PUC, 2001). She has also directed four documentaries
for the series Video Etnográficos del Centro de Etnomusicologia
Andina de la PUCP (Ethnographic Videos for the Andes Ethnomusicology Center
at PUCP) and the CD-ROM Multimidia, musica y ritual en Los Andes peruanos
(CD-ROM Multimedia, music and ritual in the Peruvian Andes; Lima: PUCP,
2001).
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Zeca Ligiéro
is a Brazilian artist, author, theater director, and professor/scholar
specializing in Afro-Brazilian culture. He teaches at the University of
Rio de Janeiro where he founded the Graduate Theatre Department, and is
currently a visiting fellow at Yale and New York University. He has written
several books, many articles, and produced many plays in Brazil and U.S.,
and lectures widely.
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Elizabeth McAlister
is Assistant Professor of Religion and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan
University. Her research focuses on Afro-Haitian religious culture and
transnational migration. She is author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance
in Haiti and its Diaspora (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press), 2001. She produced the audio CD called "Rhythms of Rapture:
Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou" on Smithsonian Folkways.
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Kristin Norget
is associate professor of anthropology at McGill University. She holds
a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and has
published various writings on popular religion, liberation theology, and
social movements in southern Mexico. She is currently finishing a book,
Days of Death, Days of Life: Death and its ritualization in Oaxacan Popular
Culture.
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Robert Stam
Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His
many books include Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of
Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); Brazilian Cinema, co-authored
with Randal Johnson (1995); Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism
and the Media, with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Catherine Singer
Kovocs "Best Film Book Award"; Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin,
Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992) and Film Theory: An Introduction.
Unthinking Eurocentrism and Film Theory: An Introduction are both forthcoming
in Spanish versions from Paidos Publishers.
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Lourdes
Celina Vázquez Parada
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