Colombia Across Disciplines: A Multidisciplinary Conference

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm UTC-05:00

CUNY Graduate Center | New York

Colombian Studies Group (el CSG) - CUNY Graduate Center
Publisher/HostColombian Studies Group (el CSG) - CUNY Graduate Center
Colombia Across Disciplines: A Multidisciplinary Conference
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Critical and Creative Perspectives from and about Colombia, its Territories and Diaspora. This is a hybrid, bilingual conference.
About this Event

Despite being the third-most populous country in Latin America, comparatively few scholars in the United States study Colombia. Since 2010, the Colombian Studies Group (CSG), based in New York City, has brought together academics and researchers from various universities across the U.S. and around the world to create a community of scholars who share an interest in the study of Colombia from an inter-American and interdisciplinary perspective.

For its 2026 conference, the CSG at the CUNY Graduate Center has invited scholars from across the United States and Colombia, and around the world, to critically and creatively engage with the diverse experiences of Colombians, past and present, within the national territory as well as the Colombian diaspora. Presentations span the academic disciplines—including the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.


Day 1

🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Breakfast and Registration
Host: Colombian Studies Group (CSG) - CUNY Graduate Center
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote: Colombia in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Host: Mary Roldan, PhD
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Panel 1: Tradiciones, profesiones y archivos musicales

Info: Papers:
Hansel Mera, Universidad del Valle
José Fernando Sánchez, Universidad del Valle
“Músicos, trabajo y producción cultural en Colombia: el caso de la Sociedad Musical del Valle”

Marcela Joya, CUNY Graduate Center
“Vallenatas: Redefining the Paradigms of a Musical Tradition”

Manuel Antonio Hernández Martínez, CUNY Graduate Center
Silvia Bibiana Ortega Ruiz, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia
Ricardo Alfonso Parra Navarrete, Universidad de Cundinamarca
“Autoetnografía y creación de nuevos archivos sonoros: metodologías para la apropiación del canto y la interpretación de músicas tradicionales colombianas en la educación superior en Colombia”


🕑: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Panel 2A: Resonant Resistances Across Colombia

Info: Papers:
Manuel García-Orozco, Columbia University
“Ancestras: The bullerengue-voice as a politics of resistance crossing symbolic and geopolitical boundaries for Afro-Colombian legend Petrona Martínez”

Beatriz Goubert, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
“Muysca Song and Language: Contemporary Indigenous Resistance in the Colombian Andes”

Diana Rodriguez, Columbia University
“The Unintelligible Critique: Aesthetics and Misreading from Poliks to Abondano”


🕑: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Panel 2B: 19th Century Revolutions and Institutions

Info: Papers:
Daniela Jaime Reyes, Universidad de los Andes
“‘Combatir con la lengua es acción de villanos.’ Cooperación de la colonia cubana en Barranquilla durante la guerra de independencia de Cuba (1895-1898)”

Juan David Osorio Vargas, the University of Texas at Austin
“Discapacidad, Estado y legitimidad: los depósitos de inválidos en la Guerra de los Mil Días (1899-1902)”

Ben Gilvar-Parke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Public or Private? The Function of Merchant Money in Wartime Colombia (1899-1902)”


🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Panel 3A: Environment and Borderlands

Info: Kristina Lyons, University of Pennsylvania
“The Ghosts of Other Hydrogeologies in Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian Transition”

Daniel Ospina Perez, Northwestern University
“The Túquerres Earthquake: Modern Architecture and Statecraft on Colombia’s Andean Borderlands (1935-1940)”

Zannah Matson, University of Colorado Boulder
“La Amazonia Agoniza: Histories of Infrastructure, Speculation, and Deforestation Along the Marginal de la Selva”


🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Panel 3B: Funciones y prácticas de la enseñanza pública de la historia

Info: Papers:
Brenda Escobar Guzmán, Universidad Industrial de Santander
“El acervo fotográfico de Carlos Eslava y la ‘comunidad de aprendizaje’”

Andrés Ruiz Olaya, University of Mary
“La literature y la construcción de la memoria histórica en Colombia”

Marlon Londoño, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“De la historia local a la historia nacional: conmemorar el pasado en Lebrija, Santander”


🕑: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Panel 4A: Stories of Migration and Colombian Borderlands

Info: Papers:
Laura de Moya-Guerra, Rutgers University
“From ‘Chinese Capitalists’ to ‘Leprous Beasts’: The Chinese and Immigration Laws in the Colombian Pacific, 1903-1931”

Gloria D’Alessio, Rutgers University
“The Making and Unmaking of a Migration Corridor: Migration, Labor, and Reconfigurations of Border Life in the Darién Borderland”

Sol Cristina Escobar, Rutgers University Camden
“Return”


🕑: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Panel 4B: Digital History: New Archival and Didactic Methods

Info: Papers:
María F. Buitrago, CUNY Graduate Center
“Guaqueras and Campesinas in Western Boyacá, Colombia”

Rafael David Nieto, the University of Texas at Austin
“ArchCTF: Archiving Colonial Tierra Firme through a Digital Humanities Initiative”


Day 2

🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Breakfast and Sign in
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Panel 5A: Depictions of Race and Gender

Info: Papers:
Camille C. Carr, University of Pennsylvania
“Esperando el motor: The Modern-Juridical Intrusion of Black Women’s Cartographies of Care in the Colombian Pacific”

Lina del Castillo, the University of Texas at Austin
“From Wheately to Bolívar: Poetry, Hemispheric Geopolitics, and Free People of Color Conjure Columbian/Colombian Visions”

Emilia Tamayo, Northwestern University
“Labors of Beauty, Beautiful Labor: Holding a Mirror to Marta Rodríguez’ Chircales (1966) and Amor, mujeres y flores (1988)”


🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Panel 5B: Paro nacional 2021

Info: Papers:
Natalie Erazo, CUNY Graduate Center
“Ollas y Memoria: Feminist Commoning During the 2021 Colombian National Strike”

Diana Torres, Duke University
“Artefactos mnemo-críticos en el Estallido social colombiano: El caso de la ‘Marcha de los 6402’”


🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Panel 6A: Rutas para la construcción de paz en Colombia

Info: Paula Andrea Valencia Londoño, Universidad de Medellín
“El cooperativismo como elemento estructurante del proceso de reincorporación económica de los y las firmantes del Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia”

Natalia Posada Pérez, Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia
“Mujeres que resisten: Estrategias de construcción de paz de las firmantes del Acuerdo entre las antiguas FARC-EP y el Estado colombiano. Caso Anorí (Antioquia) 2016 – 2023”

María Camila Rojas López, Universidad de Medellín
“Aprendizajes de la guerra y caminos hacia la paz: el potencial transformador de las habilidades de los excombatientes de las FARC en procesos de reincorporación y reconciliación”

Érica Yaneth Guisado Giraldo, Universidad de Medellín
“Recomendaciones para política pública de reincorporación, mujeres firmantes del acuerdo de paz en la NAR de San José de León, Mutatá, para fortalecer los emprendimientos de esta comunidad”


🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Panel 6B: Popular Film and Theater against Ocular Mutilation by Police Forces

Info: Panel Format: Documentary Screening

Presenters:
Adelaida Tamayo, Brown University
Gabriel Barrios, Independent Film Director


🕑: 12:15 PM - 11:15 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Panel 7: Political Parties and Transitional Justice

Info: Papers:
Manuela Mahecha Alzate, Université de Genève
“El bloque social dominante en Colombia desde 2002: entre la represión y el clientelismo”

Ivanna Calvete León, Institución Universitaria de Envigado
“Igorancia epistémica y malestar en la memoria histórica en Colombia: desafíos para la justicia transicional”

Isabella Randle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Party Positioning in Colombia: Continuity, Change, and Emerging Issues”

María Mercedes Gómez Latorre, Northwestern University
“Victims as Victors: An Approximation to the Relationship Between Victims of the Armed Conflict and the State in Colombia”


🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Panel 8A: Memoria, resistencias y resiliencias en el Magdalena Medio

Info: Papers:
Dayán Ospino Larrotta, Universidad Industrial de Santander
“El Magdalena Medio: la historia de un territorio en conflicto”

Lizeth Viviana Torres Rodríguez, Universidad Industrial de Santander
“Promoción la Paz y Derechos Humanos: El Rol Humanitario del PDPMM y la Iglesia Católica en el Magdalena Medio”

Angélica Villamizar Beltrán, Universidad Industrial de Santander
“La organización femenina popular y la acción social de la Iglesia católica en el Magdalena Medio”

María Alejandra Alvarado Navarrete, Universidad Industrial de Santander
“Las olvidadas de la guerra contra las drogas: Una mirada crítica al cuidado, la fe y la codependencia en el Magdalena Medio colombiano”


🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Panel 8B: Laughing, Living, Crossing: Colombianx Diasporas in Motion

Info: Papers:
J. Andrea Carrillo, Indiana University-Bloomington
“A Transnational Mail-Order Bride as Cinderella: An Unlikely Love Story in ‘The Book of Saints’ by Patricia Engel”

Ariana Ochoa Camacho, University of Washington
“Diasporic Colombian Everyday Practices in New York City of the Naughts”

Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
“Mamá Laughs Best: Los Chicaneros and the Diasporic Drama of Motherhood”

Angela Pico, University of Maryland
“Feeling the Ocean in ‘The Veins of the Ocean’ by Patricia Engel”


🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:45 PM
Panel 9: Una década de paz en disputa (Round Table)

Info: Moderator: Sofía Sánchez, Northwestern University

Discussants:
María del Rosario Acosta, University of California, Riverside
Lina Britto, Northwestern University
Alejandra Azuero Quijano, Swarthmore College
María Camila Palacio, Brown University


🕑: 05:45 PM - 06:15 PM
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