This page lists recent conference and colloquia presentations, along with abstracts. You are welcome to contact me if you would like to discuss the research presented in one of these papers. On rare occasion–and when available–I can provide you with an audio recording of the presentation.
Society for Cross-Cultural Research and AAA Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group Joint Meetings, February 16-19, 2011
Panel: Politics at Play: Children and the Politics of Everyday Life
Paper: “Cops and Vendors”: Children Negotiating Police in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 2010
Panel: Gendered Economies of Carework: Global and Local Dimensions of Theory and Practice
Panel: Circulations, Children, and Childhood
Paper: Circulating Imagery of Andean Childhood Poverty: Vending Postcards in Cusco, Peru
XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, October 6-9, 2010
Panel: El Qosqo: On Becoming Cosmopolitan
Paper: Continuing Cosmopolitanism: Career Aspirations among Child Vendors in Cusco, Peru
Exploring Childhood Studies: A Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers-Camden, April 9, 2010
Panel: Children and Poverty: Historical Faces and Social Spaces
Paper: Connection and Disillusion: Encounters between Local Children and Volunteer Tourists in Cusco, Peru
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December 2-6, 2009
Panel: Cultural Transmission and the Paradox of Children’s Agency
Paper: Cusco’s Child Vendors: Between Independence, Collaboration, and Coercion
CASCA-AES Meetings, May 13-16, 2009
Panel: Children’s NGOs: Constructing Childhood and Assistance
Paper: Possibilities of Childhood: Visions and Practices in a Peruvian After-School Project
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 22-27, 2009
Panel: Space as Tactic: Neoliberal Governance, Space & Ethnographies of the Everyday
Paper: Cusco’s Child Vendors: Selling Strategies and Official Interference
Tourism Studies Working Group Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, February 20, 2009
Paper: Children’s Selling Strategies and Perceptions of Tourists
University of Texas at Austin XXIX Annual ILASSA Student Conference, February 5-7, 2009
Paper: Entrepreneurialism and Affectivity: Selling Poverty and Childhood in Cusco
Brown Bag Seminar, Instituto del Perú, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru, August 13, 2008
Paper: “¿Amigo, No Quiere Comprar Títeres?” Las Historias de los Niños Vendedores en Cusco