2018
“Liberation Theology and the Other(s): Contextualizing Catholic Activism in 20th Century Latin America.” International Conference at the University of Bern, October 19-20, 2018
- Müller, Andrea: “Imaginarios y espacios en competición: La misión liberadora y la cooperación internacional al desarrollo en Ecuador (1960 – 1988)”
- Oehri, Noah: “Mobilizations of Faith in Times of Conflict: The Voices and Images of Peace Activism in Puno”
América Latina en la Mira: Poder y Representación en fuentes audiovisuales, Workshop, Universidad de Berna, 21 y 22 Septiembre 2018
- Müller, Andrea: “Dibujar la ‘liberación del pobre’: Cómics entre evangelización y política en el Ecuador”
- Oehri, Noah: “(Trans-)mission and Repercussion: Religious Radio in Times of Conflict (Puno, 1980s)”
56o Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Salamanca, Julio 2018
- Müller, Andrea: “Iglesia pobre, Iglesia indígena: Representaciones del ‘otro’ en el Ecuador”
- Oehri, Noah: “Imagining the ‘Promised Land’: The Catholic Church and Frontier Colonization in the Province of Sandia, Peru (1958 – 1972)”
- Oehri, Noah: “’Don de Dios, Derecho del Pueblo’ – Tierra e identidad en la movilización campesina del Sur Andino (1969 – 1989)
Conferencia del Programa de Doctorado en Historia Latinoamericana, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, 14 de junio
- Müller, Andrea: “Reencuentro con la ‘Revolución del poncho’: Iglesia Católica y políticas de representación en Ecuador (1960s-1980s).”
26th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Centre de Convencions International, Barcelona, May 23-27, 2018
- Müller, Andrea: “Caridad, justicia y representaciones de lo «indígena»: La Iglesia Católica en la constitución del Movimiento Indígena en Ecuador”
- Oehri, Noah: “Pastors on Pastures: The Church, Agrarian Reform and the ‘Liberation’ of the Peruvian Peasantry”
- Panel “Entre lo local y lo global. La teología de liberación revisitada” (organizer: Christian Büschges).
2017
Seminario Interdisciplinario de Estudios Religiosos (SIER), PUCP Lima, August 2017
Paper:
Workshop “Within and Without Writing: Definitions of “Indianness” in Latin America from 1492 to the Present”, Dahlem Humanities Center, FU Berlin, July 2017 (organizer Laura León Llerena, Northwestern University, Evanston)
Paper:
- Büschges, Christian: “Ambiguities of inculturation. Liberation theology and the representation of indigenous religiosity in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from the 1960s to the 1980s”
Retreat of the Center for Global Studies, Graduate School of the Humanities, Thun, May 2017
Papers:
- Müller, Andrea. “Beyond the myth of the ‘Bishop of the Indians’: Assessing the role of progressive clergy in the rise of the indigenous movement in Ecuador.”
- Oehri, Noah. “¿Dónde está tu pueblo? Priests and Peasants in the Southern Andes.”
25th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, April/May 2017
Panel “La Iglesia en salida: la teología de la liberación y su diálogo con los movimientos sociales en América Latina” (organizers: Christian Büschges and Juan Miguel Espinosa, PUCP, Lima).
Paper:
- Büschges, Christian: “Pobreza, cultura y religión: la teología de liberación frente a la población indígena en la región andina (años 1960 a 1980)”
Workshop “Religion and Society” of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS), Bern, March 2017 (organizer: Christian Büschges)
Papers:
- Müller, Andrea. “‘La revolución del poncho’ en el Ecuador: ¿Utopía de un obispo renovador o inicio del movimiento indígena?”
- Oehri, Noah. “¿En el Corazón de Su Pueblo? A critical assessment of Religious Intellectuals and Missionary Practices in the Southern Andean Church”
2016
Doctoral Conference on Latin American History, University of Bielefeld, December 2016
Papers:
- Müller, Andrea. “From Mission to Cooperation. The impact of liberation theology on the emergence and transformation of social movements in Ecuador (1960s-1980s).”
- Oehri, Noah. “From Mission to Cooperation: The impact of liberation theology on the emergence and transformation of social movements in Peru (1960s – 1980s)”
24th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Hilton Hotel Convention Center, New York, May 2016
Panel “Power and Passion” (organizer: Devin Finn, Georgetown University, Washington).
Paper:
- Büschges, Christian: “Religion, Class and Ethnicity: Liberation Theology and the Transformation of Social Movements in Ecuador and Peru (1960s to 1980s)”
