I've been active in professional conferences,
both in organizing sessions and presenting papers.
2009: Discussant for panel "Nuevos movimientos y actores sociales: desafíos en el internacionalismo y el interculturalismo," XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-14, 2009.
2009: "Increasing Student Commitment By Making a Print-On-Demand Book as a Class Project," presentation to CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Making the Most of Media in Teaching Latin American History," Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), New York City, January 2–5, 2009.
2008: Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-22, 2008.
2008: Discussant for panel on gender and Ecuadorian history, Southeastern Conference of Andean and Amazonian Studies, Florida, September 19-20, 2008.
2008: "Nacionalidades indígenas en el pensamiento marxista ecuatoriano," paper presented to the Cuarto Encuentro de la Sección de Estudios Ecuatorianos de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA), FLACSO, Quito, July 17-19, 2008.
2008: “Indigenous movements from oppressed nationalities to an ethno-nationalist discourse,” paper presented to First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of California, San Diego, May 22-23, 2008.
2008: Facilitator for roundtable “Teaching about Empire and War in World History Survey Courses,” War And Its Discontents: Understanding Iraq And The U.S. Empire, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-13, 2008.
2008: Participant on roundtable “Indians Between Multiculturality, Transnationalism, Post-Colonialism and Memory: Where Does Latin American Ethnohistory Go From Here?” Third Annual Midwest Workshop on Latin American History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 4-5, 2008.
2008: "Pachakutik and Indigenous Political Party Politics in Ecuador," paper presented on panel “Politics of Inclusion in the Andes,” Changes in the Andes: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Inter-American Relations, Brown University, February 12-13, 2008.
2008: "Indigenous movements from oppressed nationalities to an ethno-nationalist discourse," paper presented on joint American Historical Society / Conference on Latin American History panel "Raising the Wiphala: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Andean Nationalism," Washington, D.C., January 3-6, 2008.
2007: "Construcciones de ciudadanía y sufragio en la Asamblea Constituyente de 1944-1945," paper on the panel "Episodios constituyentes y lucha política en Ecuador: una perspectiva histórica" presented to the Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO-Ecuador, October 29-31, 2007.
2007: "Constructing Women's Suffrage in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Constituent Assembly," paper presented to the Peace History Society conference "Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice," Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ, October 19-20, 2007.
2007: "Requirements to be a citizen in 1944 Ecuador," paper presented to the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007.
2007: Moderator for panel "The Future of the Forum," United State Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27 - July 1, 2007.
2007: Participant on roundtable "Indigenous Self-Determination: Iris Young's Vision and Global Realities," 48th Annual International Studies Association Convention, Chicago, IL, February 28 - March 3, 2007.
2007: Chair for panel "Scholars-Activists and the World Social Forum Process," World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, January 20-25, 2007.
2007: Chair of joint CLAH Colonial Studies/Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Putting Gender into Practice: Primary Sources for Researching and Teaching Colonial Latin American History," Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, Georgia January 4–7, 2007.
2007: Participant on Andean Studies panel "The Return of the Andean Left in Historical Perspective: A Roundtable," Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, Georgia January 4–7, 2007.
2006: Participant in Research Workshop on the North American World Social Forum Project, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, November 9-11, 2006.
2006: "Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ecuador’s Indigenous Movements," paper presented to Rethinking Marxism 2006, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26-28, 2006.
2006: "Communists, indigenistas and indigenous people in the making of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios and the Instituto Indigenista Ecuatoriano," paper presented to the Tercer Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, Quito, Ecuador, June 29 - July 1, 2006.
2006: "Indigenous Movements in Ecuador," 12th Annual Latino Issues Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, April 27, 2006.
2006: “Beauty Queens and Empire at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela,” paper presented to the Gender And Empire: A Truman Conference in honor of Women’s History Month, Truman State University, March 30-31-April 1, 2006.
2006: "Communists, Indigenistas and Indigenous peoples in the making of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios and the Instituto Indigenista Ecuatoriano," paper presented to the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, on the panel La Cuestión agraria en el Norte de los Andes siglo XX: campesinos, intelectuales y paradigmas teóricos sobre los movimientos agrarios en Ecuador y Colombia (which I organized and co-chaired), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
2006: "Remaking Leftist Politics in the Andes for the Twenty-First Century," paper presented to The Andean World: Environment, Identity and Nation Building, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, February 23-25, 2006.
2006: "Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America," Andean and Amazonian Seminar, Hall Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, February 9, 2006.
2006: Chair for panel "What Activists and Historians Can Learn from Each Other," Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq A Conference for Historians and Activists, University of Texas, Austin February 17-19, 2006.
2006: Chair for panel "U.S. Left and U.S. Social Forum," World Social Forum, Caracas, Venezuela, January 24-29, 2006.
2006: "Gender in Ecuador's Indigenous Movements," Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-8, 2006.
2006: Chair of CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Primary Sources in the Classroom," Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-8, 2006.
2005: "World Social Forum," paper prepared for the Peace History Society, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, November 3-5, 2005.
2005: "Estado y etnicidad en la Asamblea Constituyente de 1944-1945," paper prepared for the coloquio "El reto de la etnicidad en el espacio político," Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, October 13-14, 2005.
2005: "World Social Forum," paper prepared for the North Central Conference of Latin Americanists (NCCLA), Marian College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, October 7-8, 2005.
2005: Organized and participated on panel “The Latin American Left: From the Jungles to the Presidential Palace," RadFest 2005, Midwest Social Forum, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, June 3-5, 2005.
2005: "The World Social Forum: Women and Civil Society," paper prepared for Renewing the Movement: A Truman Conference in Honor of Women's History Month (Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Committee), Kirksville, Missouri, March 3-5, 2005.
2005: Chair for panel "Towards U.S. and North American Social Forums," World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 26-31, 2005.
2005: Chair of CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Teaching about Africans and their Descendants: Henry Louis Gates on Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, Washington, January 6-9, 2005.
2004: "Writing the history of the twentieth-century Indigenous movement in Ecuador through Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented to the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, on the panel Hidden Dialogues with Power in the Andes (which I organized), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004.
2004: "Escribiendo la historia del movimiento indígena por las paginas de Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented at the Congreso Ecuatoriano de Historia, Cuenca, Ecuador, July 8-10, 2004.
2004: "Escribiendo la historia del movimiento indígena por las paginas de Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented at the Segundo Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, on the panel Diálogos Ocultos de Poder en los Andes (which I organized), Quito, Ecuador, June 24-26, 2004.
2004: Organized and participated on panels “Another World is Possible: The Social Forum Movement” and "The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory," RadFest 2004, Midwest Social Forum, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, June 4-6, 2004.
2004: "Indigenous struggles for land rights on the Zumbahua hacienda in twentieth-century Ecuador," paper prepared for New Directions in the History of Rural Society, April 23-25, 2004, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
2004: "Indian Women Struggles for Land and Wages in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper prepared for Women and Food: A Truman Conference in Honor of Women's History Month (Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Committee), Kirksville, Missouri, March 25-26-27, 2004.
2004: Chair for panel "Past as Prologue: Teaching about Empire and Resistance in Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., January 8-11, 2004.
2003: "Peasants and Citizens: Struggles for Land Rights on the Tolontag Hacienda in 20th-century Ecuador," paper presented at the 2003 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS), Charleston, Illinois, November 6-8, 2003.
2003: "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," paper presented to the 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14-18, 2003.
2003: Organized panel on "Social Movements in Latin America," RadFest 2003, Midwest Social Forum, 20th Anniversary, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, May 30-June 1, 2003.
2003: "Nonviolent Insurrection in Ecuador: The 1944 Glorious May Revolution," paper presented to the Peace History Society, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, April 25-27, 2003.
2003: "Ecuadorian Studies and New Electronic Ethnic Frontiers," paper presented to the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, March 25-27, 2003. [also available in PDF format]
2003: "Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights on the Zumbahua Hacienda in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper presented to the 2003 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tempe, Arizon, February 19-22, 2003.
2002 "Movimientos campesinos en Cayambe," paper presented at the Primer Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, on the panel Relaciones Inter-étnicas y Inter-culturales en la Sierra Norte (which I organized), Quito, Ecuador, July 18-20, 2002.
2002 "Extending Technological Resources to Indigenous Peoples around the World: NativeWeb," paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 2002.
2001: Co-chair with A. Kim Clark for the panel "Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador" for the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001. Presented paper "State Building and Ethnic Discourse in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Asamblea Constituyente" on this panel, and commented on the panel "Entre la dolarización y la plurinacinoalidad: Ecuador visto desde la globalización."
2001: "Using NativeWeb to Create a Space on the Web for the World's Indigenous Peoples," presentation to the panel "Social Movements, Marginalized Groups and the Internet: Issues for Librarians and Researchers" at the American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 17, 2001.
2001: "Mariátegui and the Problem of the Races in Latin America," paper presented to the 2001 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tucson, Arizon, March 1-4, 2001 (read the abstract for this paper).
2001: "Pedagogical Implications of Using Web Page Construction as a Classroom Assignment," presentation on the panel "Using the Internet in Teaching and Research on Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 4-7, 2001.
2000: "Class and Ethnic Discourse in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Asamblea Constituyente," paper presented at the 2000 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS), Huatusco, Verazcruz, Mexico, November 18-20, 2000.
2000: Chair of the panel "Discourses in Latin American Politics: Class, Ethnic, Progressive, Revolutionary" and presenter of the paper "Class and Ethnic Discourses in Ecuador's 1944 Glorious May Revolution" at the Marxism 2000 conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 21-24, 2000.
2000: The Politics of Exclusion: Ecuador's Glorious May Revolution of 1944," paper presented on a panel "State Formation in Ecuador" which I co-chaired with A. Kim Clark at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.
1999: Panel organizer, chair and discussant, "Rural Latin American Responses to Modernization and Change," Rural Network of the Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.
1999: "Citizens, Indians and Women: The Politics of Exclusion in Ecuador," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., January 7-10, 1999.
1998: "Land Tenure Patterns and the Huasipungo in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-22, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper). Also chaired the Rural Network panel "Transforming Agriculture and Agriculturalists: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Latin America and India."
1998: "Inter-ethnic Coalition Building in the 1930s: Indigenous Protest Movements in Cayambe," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.
1998: "The Caranqui Roots of Twentieth-Century Cayambe Identity in Highland Ecuador," paper presented to the 26th Annual Midwest Andean and Amazonian Conference, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, February 28-March 1, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper).
1998: "White Women, Indian Women: Race, Class, and Gender in Ecuador's Indian Movement," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, Washington, January 9-11, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Comunas and Rural Community Organizations in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the 1997 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, October 30-November 1, 1997 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Peasant Identity, Worker Identity: Conflicting Modes of Rural Consciousness in Highland Ecuador," paper presented at the panel "Peasantries By Any Other Name: Rethinking Social Transformations and Struggles in Rural Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries" (which I organized) at the Twenty-second Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, DC, October 16-19, 1997.
1997: "Organizaciones campesinas y indígenas en Cayambe, Ecuador (1925-1944)" (Peasant and Indian Organizations in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944), paper presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 7-11, 1997.
1997: "Class and Ethnicity in Rural Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the panel "The Politics of Ethnicity and Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Colombia" at the 1997 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997 (also available in PDF format on the LASA97 Papers Online page).
1997: "Pan-Indianism and Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador," paper prepared for the panel "Strategies for Empowerment: Indigenous Rights & Resources in Latin America" at "Indigenous Peoples: An International Symposium," sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in conjunction with the E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, April 8-9, 1997 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Ethnicity, Legitimacy and the State: Understanding Ethnic Movements in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru," paper presented on a panel "Constructing a National Identity: Ethnicity, Political Protest and Social Policy" at the 1997 Update on Latin American Conference, University of Kansas, March 15, 1997.
1996: "Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944," paper presented at the conference Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 5-8, 1996.
1996: "Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios: Ethnicity in a Peasant Movement," paper presented at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10-13, 1996.
1995: "Indigenismo and Indian Movements in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper presented at the 1995 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 28-30.
1995: "Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios: Class and Ethnicity in a Twentieth-Century Peasant Movement," paper presented at the First Joint Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) and Pacific Coast Council for Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5-9, 1995.
1994: "La presencia intelectual de Mariátegui en los Estados Unidos en los años veinte" (The Intellectual Presence of Mariátegui in the United States in the 1920s), paper presented at the Simposium Internacional: "Mariátegui y el Perú" (International Symposium: "Mariátegui and Peru"), Cuzco, Peru, June 10, 1994.
1993: "The Construction of Ethnic Identity and Nationalist Ideology in the Ecuadorian Amazon," paper presented to the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 7, 1993.
1992: "Nationalism and Pluri-Nationalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon," paper presented to the Fifteenth National Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 9, 1992.
1992: "Nationalism and Pluri-Nationalism in a Multi-Ethnic State: Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador," paper presented to the Fourteenth Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas, September 17, 1992.