Minutes to Meetings

Peru Section Business Meeting
Montreal LASA 2007
8:00 – 9:30 pm / Mckenzie-Fairmount Hotel

Chair (Drinot) called meeting to Order.

1. Quorum:

• Needs to be at least 10% of the paid membership (18 people).  Attendance was 39.

Secretary-Treasurer’s Report (Ewig):
2. Membership update:

• 179 members as of August 9, 2007.  This is up from 149 members at the last LASA meeting in San Juan!  This will afford us to 3 section panels for the next LASA Congress.

3. Budget update:

• Balance as of August 9, 2007:  $3,664.95; $1956.91 from dues, and $1708.04 from travel fund donations.  After expenses related to the meetings and travel grants we have remaining approx. $1864.95
• Expenses:
• $600 for travel 2 grants
• $600 (approx.) for half of the food expenses of the joint reception of the Peru and Ecuadorian Studies Sections.

WE WANT TO EXTEND A REALLY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE FORTY SECTION MEMBERS WHO DONATED TO OUR TRAVEL FUND!!  THIS WAS AN OUTSTANDING TURN-OUT.

4. Report on travel grants:

• Thanks to the generosity of the Section’s members we were able to provide grants of US$600 to all five applicants. The call for applicants for travel grants went out in late June.
• Unfortunately, of the five recipients, three were not able to attend LASA. This was disappointing, especially considering all the work the Peru Section exec put in to raise the funds and the generosity of our members. Two of the three who declined were also from a Peru Section sponsored panel, which consequently led to that panel’s dissolution. This is an issue that we would like to raise for discussion later in the meeting; how can we assure that those we work hard to fund to come don’t back out at the last minute?
• A subcommittee of the Executive Committee served as the selection committee.  The criteria followed were the same as listed in the call for proposals.

The grant recipients were:

Ponciano del Pino Huaman. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently writing his dissertation: “Memory, History, and Politics in Indigenous Communities of Ayacucho, Peru, 1920-2000.”.  Title of his paper for LASA is: “Drawing and Mapping Memories of “the violence” in Rural Communities of Peru”

Publications include Luchas locales, comunidades e identidades, co-compilator with Elizabeth Jelin. Serie Memoria y Represión. Madrid, Siglo XXI – SSRC, 2003; Retorno de comunidades desplazadas por la violencia: evaluación de los procesos de retorno de comunidades desplazadas por la violencia política, co-author with Juan Arrroyo, Carlos Saavedra, Víctor Salazar y Ludwig Huber. Lima: PROMUDEH – Ministerior de Promoción de la Mujer y del Desarrollo Humano, 2001; Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso, co-author with Carlos Iván Degregori, José Coronel y Orin Starn, IEP. Lima, 1996; “Chaca: Entre la indignación del pasado y los conflictos del presente,” with Edith Del Pino, in Revista Retablo, febrero 2007; “Uchuraccay: memoria y representación de la violencia política en los Andes,” in Jamás tan cerca arremetió lo lejos: Memoria y violencia política en el Perú. Edited by Carlos Iván Degregori. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos – SSRC, 2003.

Ralph Willem Hoetmer PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the Universidad Mayor Nacional de San Marcos. Research focuses on contemporary history of Peruvian social movements in a comparative perspective.  His paper is titled “Peruvian Social Movement Formation in Comparative Perspective.”

Member of the Network Institute for Global Democratization Board representing the Latin American Section. Publications include “Resistiendo al Capitalismo Neoliberal en Abya Yala: El caso del movimiento indigena ecuatoriano” in: Rodrigo Montoya (org.), Voces de la Tierra. Reflexiones sobre movimientos políticos indígenas en Bolivia, Ecuador, México y Perú (Lima), 113-159. Forthcoming in september 2007; and “Lo visible, lo posible y lo ausente: movimientos y conflictos socials en el Perú” in: OSAL (Buenos Aires, mayo 2006), 177-185.

The three who did not attend LASA include:

• José Luis Igue (did not attend), PhD Candidate UC-Santa Barbara. Research focus: Andean History in the 19th and 20th centuries, Ayacucho, migration, terrorism and anthropological history.  His paper was to be titled: “La Participación de los morochucos de Cangallo, Ayacucho en las guerras de independencias (1814-1824).”
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• .Publications include “Los silencios del gran relato”. Histórica 29.1 (2005): 151-161.

Ruth Iguiniz (did not attend). PhD Candidate, The New School for Management and Urban Policy, New School University and the Universidad Cayetano Heredia. Title of her paper: “El Impacto de la Participación de las ONGs en la formulación de políticas de salud reproductiva en el largo plazo y la gobernabilidad.”  (Peru Section Panel)

Coordinadora del curso Políticas Públicas de Género, Interculturalidad y Derechos Humanos en Salud – Diploma en Interculturalidad, Género y Derechos Humanos en Salud – Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración – UPCH. Publications include Antagonismos y consensos. El lenguaje de los derechos humanos y las esterilizaciones quirúrgicas en el Perú.  Palomino y Salas, eds. Claroscuros. Debates pendientes en sexualidad y reproducción. UPCH, 2007

Nancy Palomino (did not attend). Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración, Univ. Cayetano Heredia. Title of her paper: Políticas Publicas con relación al aborto en el Peru: Los efectos de las Medidas Punitativas.” (Peru Section Panel)

Estudios en el Diploma de Filosofía con mención en Ética y Política, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima. 2005-2006. Magíster en Salud Pública. Área de concentración en Salud Reproductiva y Población. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima. 2004. Coordinadora de la Unidad de Sexualidad y Salud ReproductivA. Docente e investigadora, Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración, FASPA, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. UPCH. 1997 -2007. Publications include Palomino, Nancy y Sala, Mariella (editoras) CLAROSCUROS. Debates pendientes en sexualidad y reproducción. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, 2007; Palomino, Nancy. Cultura, ciudadanía y género en la salud reproductiva. En: Salud reproductiva en la amazonía: perspectivas desde la cultura, el género y la comunicación.  E Neyra y E. Elias, Lima 2004; Palomino, N. Ramos, M, Valverde R. Vásquez, E. Entre el placer y la obligación. Derechos  sexuales y derechos reproductivos de mujeres y varones en Huamanga y Lima, UPCH, Population Concern, DFID, UE, 2003, Lima; Guezmes A, Palomino, N. Ramos, M.  Violencia Sexual y Física contra las Mujeres en el Perú, Estudio Multicéntrico de la OMS sobre la violencia de pareja y la salud de las mujeres, CMP Flora Tristán, UPCH - FASPA, OMS, Lima, 2002; Chávez S., Guezmes, A., Palomino, N., Vargas, l. Yon, C. La investigación en salud para el desarrollo y el enfoque de género en el Perú: tendencias en la década de los 90. M. Manuela Ramos, C MP Flora Tristán, UPCH, RSMLAC, Lima, 2000.

Chair continued with the rest of the Report:
5. Section panels:       
Based on the membership at the time of the San Juan meetings in 2006, the section was able to organize three section panels. These panels were the following:
Contemporary developments in Peruvian politics: the 2006 elections and beyond organized by Maxwell Cameron (University of British Columbia) and with the participation, in addition to Maxwell, of Lewis Taylor (University of Liverpool), Alberto Vergara Paniagua (University of Montreal), Aldo Panfichi (PUCP), John Crabtree (University of Oxford)and Cynthia Sanbornd (Universidad del Pacífico)
Cuerpos alterados y voluntades subversivas: una mirada de las mujeres en el conflicto armado interno del Perú, organized by Laura Balbuena Gonzalez (New School for Social Research), with the participation, in addition to Laura, of Maria Emma Mannarelli (San Marcos), Pascha Bueno Hansed (UC-Santa Cruz), Patricia Balbuena (San Marcos), Carlos Beristain (Universidad del Deusto), Rocío Silva Santisteban (Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya), and Carlos Ivan Degregori (IEP).
Políticas de Salud, Participación Ciudadana y Gobernabilidad en el Peru organized by Christina Ewig (University of Wisconsin-Madison), with the participation, in addition to Christina,of Ruth Iguiñiz (The New School of Management and Urban Policy - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Lisa Laplante (Praxis Institute for Social Justice), Raúl Necochea (McGill University), Nancy Palomino (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), and Patricia García (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia).

6. Peru Section Prizes

LASA Peru awards a book prize to be known as the LASA Peru Flora Tristán book prize for the best book, on any topic, that advances knowledge of Peru published between the date of the previous LASA and up to the closing date.

There were only two entries but both were excellent if very different monographs from two scholars at very different stages of their careers. In the end, we decided to award the prize to William P. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology and Freed Professor in the Social Sciences at Monmouth University in New Jersey, for his Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in Andes, University of Texas Press, 2006, a beautifully crafted and at times deeply moving window into the lives of various Peruvians and the history of Peru in the last thirty years.

LASA Peru also awards an article prize to be known as the LASA Peru José María Arguedas article prize for the best article, on any topic, that advances the knowledge of Peru published between the date of the previous LASA and up to the closing date.

There were ten entries, from a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, legal studies, history, and literary studies (but, strangely, no political science, geography, or economics), and from a broad range of scholars, with three of the articles (including one co-authored) by scholars based in Peru. Interestingly, about two thirds of the submissions dealt with Peru’s ‘time of fear’. In the end, it was decided to award the prize to Lisa J. Laplante, of the Praxis Institute for Social Justice , for her article entitled “On the Indivisibility of Rights: Truth Commissions, Reparations, and the Right to Development”, published in the YALE Human Rights & Development Law Journal.

7. Election of new officers:
The following section members were nominated and agreed to stand for election. They were elected unopposed:

Co-chairs
Elena Alvarez, Ph.D. Currently associated as mentor and teacher at the Center for Distance Learning of the Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Trained in Economics, (BS and Licenciatura, Catholic University) Agricultural Economics (MS Penn State U.) and Political Economy (Ph.D., New School for Social Research). Taught at Catholic University of Peru and Agrarian University of Peru and the University at Albany. Did research as research faculty with Rockefeller College on illicit drugs in the Andes in the 1990s. Did research on public health issues in Costa Rica and Peru at the University at Albany’s Center for International Health. Consultant on illicit drugs for several United Nations agencies, the US AID, the US State Department , UK Department for International Development, and others . Research conducted in the following countries: Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Canada, US. Former official of the United Nations Special Fund; Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame; Senior Research Associate of the Dante Fascell’s North South Center of the University of Miami; Consultant for Boston University’s International Honors Program. Former research associate of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Professional member of the following organizations: Latin American Studies Association; American Economics Association; International Agricultural Economics Association, Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association, President, Schenectady Rowing Club; Business and Professional Women (Scholarships Chair); Rotary Club International—Chair of Youth Services; secretary of the board of directors of NY state Capital Region’s International Center of the Capital Region. Member of the NY state Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce Diversity Council. Written four books and many articles on agricultural economics in Peru and on illicit drugs in Peru and Bolivia. Married, two children, resides in Schenectady. NY. USA

Carlos Ivan Degregori. Soy antropólogo, director del IEP y profesor en la Univesidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Fui miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de LASA en la década de 1990. He sido profesor visitante en la Universidad Libre de Berlín, en Columbia, Madison-Wisconsin, Utrecht y Princeton. Obtuve mi doctorado en Utrecht recién el 2005. No había realizado antes estudios de postgrado y, para mal y para bien, se nota en mi trabajo. Aparte de publicaciones varias sobre temas diversos, en especial Sendero Luminoso, he editado "No hay país más diverso. Compendio de antropología peruana" (IEP 2000), que sirve mucho en universidades. En inglés, solo he coeditado "The Peru Reader" (Duke University Press), con Orin Starn y Robin Kirk. Fui miembro de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación Peruana y estuve a cargo de coordinar el comité editorial que redactó el Informe Final.

Treasurer
Joanna Drzewieniecki, Ph.D., is a political scientist, human rights activist, and translator, who lived for 16 years in Peru. Her human rights experience includes the Peruvian Section of Amnesty International (1980s, founding member, executive committee member, treasurer); Washington Office on Latin America - WOLA (1987-1988); Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (1997-2000, consultant, staff member); CUSO-Peru (2001-2002, project on discrimination against Afro-Peruvians). Joanna's research interests include the history of Peruvian indigenous communities, political culture, and racism. She is the author of several academic articles, conference papers, and journalistic pieces and occasionally lectures on the current situation in Peru. Currently, she lives in Buffalo, New York, USA, where she takes care of her elderly father, works as a freelance translator, and is on the board of the Western New York Peace Center. She has been a member of LASA since the late 1980s.

Exec members
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (Ph.D. 2000, Brown University) is currently Associate professor of (Post)Colonial Latin American Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Michigan State University. A native Peruvian, her last name “Quispe” derives from Quechua “Qespi” and means “reflection, crystal, and mirror.”  She is affiliated faculty of the American Indian Studies Program (www.aisp.msu.edu/FacultyBios2.html), Core Faculty of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Program of Women and International Development. She has published La fe indígena en la escritura: resistencia e identidad en la obra de Guaman Poma de Ayala (Lima: Universidad de San Marcos Press, 2006). This book has received many engaging reviews and has led her to public presentations/interviews in Peru’s NPR and TV. (http://unmsmnoticiasfondoeditorial.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html). Professor Quispe-Agnoli keeps a very active research agenda with many articles published in diverse journals in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. She has edited a special issue of Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos y Lingüística entitled “Beyond the Convent: Colonial Women’s Voices and Daily Challenges in Spanish America” (2006). With a generous grant of the MSU College of Arts and Letters, she designed and co-led with Kristin Janka-Millar Teaching Hispanic Cultures of the Americas. A Summer Institute for K-12 Educators. In this one-week institute representations of Latin America in the US K-12 curriculum and textbooks were examined and analyzed (www.educ.msu.edu/teachglobal/Americas/index.html). Lately, she has been invited to give lectures on colonizing and postcolonial readings of Latin American nativeness in various institutions (San Francisco State, University of Nevada, San Jose State, Duke University and University of Detroit, Mercy).  As a specialist Professor Quispe-Agnoli's current research explores the indigenous Latin American visual literacies, Anden themes and motifs in cinema, and approaches to teaching Latin American indigenous cultures in the US College and K-12 classroom. For more information visit: www.msu.edu/~quispeag

Iñigo García-Bryce, Associate Professor, History Dept, New Mexico State University. He received a B.A. in Social Studies (magna cum laude) from Harvard, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford, from which he also received his Ph.D. in History. He also attended the Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima for a year. Dr. García’s research and teaching interests include Andean and Latin American history of the 19th and 20th centuries, social and political history, and economic, political and cultural ties between US and Latin America. His book, Crafting the Republic: Lima’s Artisans and Nationbuilding in Peru, 1821-1879 was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2004, and has been translated and will appear in Spanish, published by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. He is currently working on a book on the history of APRA.

Continuing council members (until LASA meeting of Spring 2009):
▪           Mary Beth Tierney Tello, Wheaton College
▪           Laura Balbuena, New School University and La Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Lima
▪           Mark Cox, Presbyterian Collage, Peru Section Webmaster

8. Pending and new initiatives

The following were discussed and actions were recommended.

a. the case of Javier Munarriz, a Peruvian lawyer who was denied a visa by the Canadian consulate in Lima and was therefore unable to attend LASA where he was to present a paper. Action: The new exec to follow up on this case and prepare a letter of protest to be sent to the press in Peru and Canada.

b. the non-attendance of 3 of the 5 travel fund grantees and c. Theidon/Degregori suggestion to use funds to help Peruvian students complete their dissertations and offer mentoring. Action: new exec to follow up on both these points. It was decided that from now on the Section should offer 'full' grants, i.e. grants that will cover the real cost of attending LASA (several people noted that the US$600 that we offered was insufficient). It was decided that the funds donated to the travel fund that are remaining ($508.04) must be used for travel grants.  However, remaining section funds from dues could be used for other proposed initiatives.  It was also decided that the Section should investigate further the dissertation/mentoring initiative.

d. Conference. It was suggested that a LASA Peru sponsored conference be organized in Peru. Action: new exec to investigate further this initiative.

e. It was suggested that LASA Peru sponsor/undertake publications in Peru. Action: new exec to investigate further this initiative.

f. Pisco earthquake: Drinot read out a statement that Chuck Walker had prepared. Action: Statement to be included on webpage and sent to La República and other Peruvian newspapers, etc.

            The devastation and suffering caused by the massive earthquake in Peru on August 15th have not ended.  In fact, they are far from over.  Tens of thousands of people struggle everyday to assure food, water, and shelter.  The official figures estimate 514 dead, 1.090 injured, and 39,741 homeless; the catastrophe afflicted at least 200,000 people. Some worry that even more death and destruction will be found as officials reach the more distant Andean hamlets in Huancavelica.  While news stories have focused on coastal towns such as Ica and Pisco, the earthquake wreaked havoc in Andean areas as well.
Aid workers are desperately trying to get water and food to survivors and to set up basic sanitation.  The threat of epidemics is real. Even those who count on the basic necessities are having difficulties making ends meet. Jobs in the informal economy—so prevalent even in the relatively developed areas south of Lima—disappeared almost as suddenly as the earthquake itself.  The people of Peru need help to survive and rebuild their communities and lives.     
The task of rebuilding is daunting.  Houses, schools, basic infrastructure, roads, telecommunications all require massive investment.  President Alan García calculates that the cost of rebuilding could reach $220 million; international aid is now nearing $10 million. At this time, however, LASA-Peru stresses the need to do all that we can to help the survivors.  We urge everyone to donate to Oxfam, Doctors without Borders, or other groups that already in Peru working hard to help. The people of Peru need your support and solidarity now. 

Doctors without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/2007/08-28-2007_2.cfm
Oxfam: https://donate.oxfamamerica.org/02/peru_earthquake
Aid to date: http://www.coha.org/2007/08/31/grade-b-for-compassion-for-peru/
Pictures: http://s20133.gridserver.com/peruenemergencia/index.html

(Chuck Walker was in Lima at the time of the earthquake.  His book on the massive 1746 earthquake/tsunami that devastated Lima & Callao will be published by Duke University Press in February 2008.  He teaches history at UC Davis.)

9. New business
There was no more new business.

Joint reception of the Peru and Ecuadorian Sections, immediately following, starting at 9:30 pm

Peru Section Business Meeting
San Juan, Thursday, March 16, 2006
8:00 – 9:30 pm / Tropical A

1. Quorum
According to the LASA Section Manual, at least 10% of the paid membership is needed for
quorum. Only current members may vote.

2. Membership update

3. Budget update

4. Section panels:
Based on the membership at the time of the Las Vegas meetings in October of 2004, the section
is organizing three section panels. These will take place March 15, please mark your agendas to
attend!

The 2006 Peru Election, organized by Charles Kenney (U. of Oklahoma) with the
participation(in addition to Charles) of Cynthia McClintock (George Washington
University), Gregory Schmidt (Northern Illinois University), Julio Carrión (U of
Delaware), David Palmer (BU), Catherine Conaghan (Queen’s University)

Practicas políticas en el Perú en los siglos XIX y XX, organizad by Natalia Sobrevilla
(Yale U), and with the participation (in addition to Natalia) of Grover Antonio Espinoza
(Columbia U), Christine Hünefeldt (UCSD), Juan Fonseca (PUCP), Roisida Aguilar
(PUCP), Humberto Rodríguez (PUCP), and Iñigo García Bryce (New Mexico State)

El arte de recordar: representaciones de la memoria en la cultura peruana del Siglo XX,
organized by Mary Beth Tierney Tello (Wheaton Collage), with the participation (in
addition to Mary Beth) of Margarita Saona (UIC), Rocío Silva-Santisteban (Universidad
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya), Gonzalo Portocarrero (PUCP), Mariela Dreyfus (NYU), and
Rodrigo Quijano (independent acholar).

5. Report on travel grants:
The winners were Humberto Rodríguez Sequeiros and María Eugenia Ulfe. Rodrigo
Quijano, with an honorable mention, was the alternate grant recipient. All three authors
are willing to make their papers available to the section members who wish to read them.

Humberto Rodríguez Sequeiros did his undergraduate work in history in San Marcos and
is working on his master's thesis in anthropology from the Catholic University. He
currently works in the Colegio San Andrés. The work he will present on the 15th, "La
Educación Pre-Militar en el Perú 1939-1956", is part of his master's thesis. In it,
Humberto examines de development and goals of pre-military education in Peru in a
context of internal conflict between APRA, the communist part, the oligarchy and the
military. At the same time, the global context was one that promoted both democratic
ideas as well as militaristic doctrines. His paper will be delivered as part of the section
panel "Prácticas políticas en el Perú en los siglos XIX y XX", organized by Natalia
Sobrevilla.

María Eugenia Ulfe has recently returned to the Catholic University in Lima as faculty
after finishing her doctorate in Social Sciences in George Washington University. The
work she will present in LASA is, "'No me destruyas': Contested Memories in Peruvian
Crosses and Retablos". In this paper, María Eugenia used a cross by artist Claudio
Jiménez to analyze how the activities of Shining Path were perceived as a new
colonization, while military repression was seen as a catastrophe. The paper will be
delivered as part of "National Memory and Visual Culture" panel.

Rodrigo Quijano (alternate grant recipient) studied literature in the Catholic University
and San Marcos. He is currently a free lance critic and writer, as well as an independent
contemporary art curator. In the work he will present in LASA, "Espacios de identidad:
una mirada a los espacios públicos, los nuevos medios y las nuevas imágenes del Perú
contemporáneo", Rodrigo analyzed images and memories that fill public spaces in a
context of privatization, real or virtual. He will deliver the paper as part of the section
panel "El arte de recordar: representaciones de la memoria en la cultura peruana del Siglo
XX".

6. Other activities

7. Election of new officers:
The following section members have been nominated and agreed to stand for election. We also
invite others to be nominated from the floor at the meeting. Election will take place at the
meeting, provided we have a quorum.

For Section co-chair to serve until the LASA meeting of October 2007: Paulo Drinot (in
absentia), Historian, University of Manchester. Paulo Drinot was born in 1973 in the Clínica
Italiana, Lima, where the nuns reluctantly registered his religion as “agnóstica” (his parents
had insisted on “atea” but, uncharacteristically, gave in). He has lived in the UK for much of
his life, but remains attached to Peru by an emotive umbilical cord that has led him to try to
carve out a career as a historian of modern Peru. He studied at the London School of
Economics as an undergraduate and, as a graduate student, at the University of Oxford,
where he wrote his dissertation (2000) under the supervision of Alan Knight. He has been
Hewlett Research Fellow (2001-2002) at Oxford and London universities (joint post), Junior
Lecturer in Latin American History at Oxford (2002-2004), Lecturer in Latin American
Studies at the University of Leeds (2001-2004) and is now Lecturer in History at the
University of Manchester. He has published articles in various academic journals and in
Peruvian publications such as Márgenes, Hueso Humero and the Revista of the Archivo
General de la Nación. He recently co-edited a book entitled Más allá de la dominación y la
resistencia: estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI-XX which provoked a discussion that,
thankfully, raised the room temperature by several degrees when the book was presented in
the freezing Limeño winter at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. He is engaged in several
research projects that will result in published monographs, including a history of collective
bargaining in early twentieth-century Lima, a history of prostitution in Lima, c.1850-1950,
and, more tentatively, a “pre-history” of Peru’s “time of fear” that focuses on military
conscription and public education in Ayacucho since the War of the Pacific.

For Section co-chair to serve until the LASA meeting of October 2007: Nicolás Lynch (in
absentia), Sociologist, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Doctor en Sociología en
el New School for Social Research de Nueva York y Magíster en Ciencias Sociales en
FLACSO-México. Profesor Principal de Sociología en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de
San Marcos. Coordinador del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de dicha Universidad y Premio
al Mérito Científico de la misma el año 2004. Columnista político del diario “La República”.
Profesor invitado en Johns Hopkins University y el New School, Fellow del Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. Ha publicado numerosos artículos académicos y
varios libros, entre ellos “Los jóvenes rojos de San Marcos” (1990) , “La transición
conservadora” (1992), “Una tragedia sin héroes” (1999) y “Los últimos de la clase” (2006).
Ha sido Decano del Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú, Director de la Escuela de Sociología de
la Universidad de San Marcos, Ministro de Estado en el despacho de Educación y Consejero
Político del Presidente de la República.

For council member to serve until the LASA meeting of March 2009: Laura Balbuena
González, New School for Social Research. Candidata al doctorado en Ciencias Políticas por
la New School for Social Research de Nueva York, Magíster en Ciencias Políticas por la
misma universidad y bachiller en Filosofía por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Fellow de la International Peace Research Association. Profesora contratada del Ramapo
College de Nueva Jersey. Ex becaria del Banco Mundial, la AAUW y la Fundación para la
Educación por la Paz (PEO). Actualmente se encuentra en Lima en el proceso de
investigación y preparación de la tesis doctoral. Su principal interés académico son las
mujeres líderes de movimientos subversivos y terroristas. Ha presentado su trabajo en
diversas universidades como Fordham University de Nueva York, Illinois State University en
Normal y en la Universidad de Derby, Inglaterra. Colaboró en la enciclopedia Women and
War: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, Santa Bárbara, 2006) con las entradas: “Women and the
Shining Path” y “Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Women and Political
Violence”.

For council member to serve until the LASA meeting of March 2009: Mary Beth Tierney
Tello, Wheaton College: Mary Beth Tierney-Tello se doctoró en letras hispánicas en Brown
University y ahora es profesora asociada de lengua y literatura latinoamericana y chair del
Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos e Italianos en Wheaton College en Massachusetts,
USA. Sus publicaciones incluyen un libro, Allegories of Transgression and Transformation:
Experimental Fiction by Women Writing Under Dictatorship (SUNY Press, 1996), y varios
artículos sobre la literatura latinoamericana. Es co-editora con Marcy Schwartz de
Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures (University of New Mexico
Press, 2006). En este momento está preparando un libro sobre la memoria y la
representación de la niñez en la narrativa peruana.

For ex oficio council member to serve until the LASA meeting of October 2007: Patricia
Ledesma, Northwestern University: Section outgoing chair

Nota bene:

Continuing council members (until LASA meeting of October 2007):
Teivo Teivainen, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
César Ferreira, University of Oklahoma

Continuing ex oficio members
Mark Cox, Presbyterian College, Peru Section Webmaster

8. Pending initiatives
Books by section members for donation to Peru’s Biblioteca Nacional
Special travel grant fund

9. New business
Discussion of suggested new best-practice –co-chairs: In an effort to address some of the
concerns expressed over the section listserv prior to the LASA meeting regarding the
difficulties faced by Latin Americans in fully participating in LASA, and the ways in which
LASA may reinforce Northern hegemony over the South, we would like to propose a new
system of co-chairs as a best-practice. Under the new practice, at least one section co-chair
would always be a resident of Latin America. We raise this for discussion and general
approval by the section.

Discussion of suggested new best-practice – section panel chair mentoring responsibilities,
visa issues: Section panels are guaranteed acceptance. Should we, as a section, require some
accountability from the section panel chairs, in terms of mentoring and shepherding the
papers to be delivered in these panels? In light of the visa issues, should we distribute a tip
sheet to all section members as to how to best prepare for a US visa application?

Discussion of travel grants process. Do we want to continue with travel grants?
Alternatively, we could spend our limited funds on a conference in Peru instead (see next
agenda point). A conference may have a greater impact in reaching more Peruvian scholars
and eliminates visa and long-distance travel barriers. If we continue with travel grants, do
we want to fund individuals, or a portion of a section panel? Funding members of a section
panel may allow us to draw-in younger scholars or scholars who do not usually attend LASA.
If we stay with individual grants, what shall the criteria be? (Peru resident? Latin America
Resident? How de we define Latin America resident? Junior Scholar? How do we define
junior? What about US Junior scholars? Economic need? Peru section member? Paper
presenters rather than chair or commentators?)

Ayacucho conference on political violence. Mark Cox, literature professor at Presbyterian
College, South Carolina, and long time section web master, has proposed the idea of
organizing a conference in Ayacucho on political violence, including retablistas and other
artesanos.

Issues for the Section Chairs Meeting on Saturday, March 18, 4:00 pm, in San Gerónimo A.
Joint reception of the Peru and Ecuadorian Sections is in Tropical B, starting at 9:30 pm

PERU SECTION REPORT AFTER LASA 2004 LAS VEGAS


Submitted by Co-Chair Gregory D. Schmidt
Published in "LASA Forum", Vol. XXXV, Nº 4, Winter 2005, p31.

Thirty-one members attended the business meeting in Las Vegas. The main order of business was the election of new officers. The new chair is Patricia Ledesma Liébana of Northwestern University. Christina Ewig of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will serve as secretary-treasurer. Teivo Teivainen of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the University of Helsinki was elected to the Section Council. The continuing members of the Council are César Ferreira of the University of Oklahoma, Juan Carlos Galdo of Texas A&M University, and Carlos Parodi of Illinois State University. The Council's ex officio members are Moisés Arce of Lousiana State University (former co-chair), Mark Cox of Presbyterian College (webmaster), and Gregory Schmidt of Northern Illinois University (former co-chair).

Most of the business meeting was devoted to a review of Section activities during the preceding term. The highlight was a three-day conference in Lima co-sponsored with the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (www.iep.org.pe ) held in July 2004 to commemorate the latter's fortieth anniversary. For the Las Vegas Congress the Section organized three panels, awarded two partial grants, and co-sponsored a joint receptions with the Ecuadorian Studies Section. Julio Carrión of the University of Delaware made the Section's list-serv more accessible while implementing measures to curtail spam. Mark Cox has graciously maintained the Section's web page.

The Section agreed to consider how it might facilitate the dissemination of scholarship to the new Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (www.bnp.gob.pe). Other initiatives will be forthcoming from the new leadership.

The Peru Section held its business meeting, chaired by Catherine Conaghan and Julio Carrión,
on September 6, with 44 members in attendance.

Section activities over the last period included the participation of a delegation of Section
members in election observation during the first round of the 2000 elections in Peru. In July
2000, 78 members of the Section signed a public statement of support for the "Marcha de los
Cuatro Suyos" that was distributed to the Peruvian media.

The new executive officers elected at the Washington meeting are Charles Kenney (Chair, 
University of Oklahoma), Patricia Ledesma (Secretary-Treasurer, Northwestern University).
The council members are Lydia Fossa (University of Arizona), Kimberly Theidon (Stanford 
University), Moisés Arce (Louisiana State University) and Gregory Schmidt (Northern Illinois
University). In addition, the membership voted to expand the council by including the Section
webmasters and outgoing chairs as ex oficio members.

Webmasters Mark Cox and Stephanie McNulty briefed members on the latest developments in the
Section's web site (http://web.presby.edu/lasaperu/). The site currently contains an extensive
Section on Peruvian literature. Future plans include an expansion of the links resources and
further development of the op-ed Section on Peruvian politics and contemporary issues.

The membership voted to make a contribution of $500.00 to the fund raising drive of the
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos to expand and refurbish its library in Lima. The IEP houses
an extensive collection on the social sciences and history.

The formation of a working group to inform members about the efforts of the Peruvian government
to seek extradition of Alberto Fujimoru from Japan was also approved.

The Section continues to maintain an active listerv. Instructions on how to join the listserv
can be found on the web site. web.presby.edu/lasaperu/

PERU SECTION REPORT AFTER LASA 2000 MIAMI

Submitted by Section Co-Chairs Julio Carrión and Catherine Conaghan
Published in LASA Forum, Volume XXXI, Nº 2, Summer 2000, pp. 24-25.

During the year 1999-2000 the Section was involved in a number of activities related to the electoral process in Peru, and the LASA Congress held in Miami. The Section co-sponsored with Transparencia (a Peruvian NGO) a two-day seminar on free and fair elections, held in Lima in February of this year. Members of the Section, international exports on elections, and Peruvian academics participated in this seminar. For the first round of the Peruvian elections, held on April 9, 2000, the Section accredited a team of electorial observers, which worked in close coordination with Transparencia. This mission issued a statement on site evaluating the conditions under which the first round was held.

The Section sponsored three panels at LASA 2000, all of them related to the future of democracy in Peru and the conditions of the 2000 electoral process. The Section elected new officers during its business meeting in Miami:

Co-chairs: Catherine Conaghan and Julio Carrión
Web site manager: Mark Cox
Newsletter: Kimberly Theidon and Lydia Fossa
Special Events: Cecilia Blondet and David Scott Palmer
Congress: Charlie Kenney and Elena Alvarez

Immediate plans include the creation of a web page and an electronic newsletter for the Section.