30 Years of Zapatismo. From Rebellion to Renewal

A full day of presentations and debates on the legacy of the Zapatistas.

Highlights include the keynote by scholar Bruno Baronnet (Universidad Veracruciana), as well as presentations by Sara Washbrook (Academic Coordinator, UCPH), Jesper Nielsen (ToRS, KU), Elena Ansótegui (EnGeRom, KU), and an online panel with Márgara Millán and Mariana Mora (Network of Decolonial Feminisms).

Programme

11:15

Jesper Nielsen (Associate professor/Deputy Head of Department – ToRS

 

Elena Ansótegui, PhD fellow/Part-time lecturer (ENGEROM)

 Welcome and introduction

11:30

Bruno Baronnet, Universidad Veracruzana

 Thirty years of Zapatista lessons: battlefields of (mis) information and historical memory

12:30

Elena Ansótegui (University of Copenhagen)

The flower is to blame

13:15

 

Lunch break

14:30

Sara Washbrook (Academic Coordinator, University of Copenhagen)

Insurgency and Cultural Renovation: Native Language Literature in Chiapas 30 years on

15:15

Jesper Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)

The hood and the husk – Mesoamerican concepts and imagery in Zapatista self-representations

16:00

Márgara Millán & Mariana Mora (Network of Decolonial Feminisms) (online)

The Revolution within the revolution: the Zapatista women

About the series

October 12: Celebrating what? - Indigenous perspectives in Latin America today

The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (EnGeRom), and the Iberian and Latin American Studies Forum (ILAS) invite you to participate in a series of unmissable events organized by the University of Copenhagen, where we will explore key topics on the struggles and triumphs of Indigenous communities, as well as the legacy of the Zapatista movement in Mexico.