Warmikuna (Women). Orality, memory and autochthony

Conference as part of the "Warmikuna - Voix, visages et mémoires" project supported by MSH Paris Nord (AAP 2024-2025) and subsidized by Inalco's Scientific Council.

This symposium proposes to think about autochthony, orality and memory in the Americas from the νοίχ of indigenous women. Often presented as "guardians of territories" ου "bearers of memory", they nonetheless remain marginalized in spaces of knowledge, in linguistic policies as well as in the institutional conservation arrangements for archives and narratives. This colloquium intends to shift this gaze in order to analyze their epistemological contributions, their linguistic circulations and their modes of political action.

At the crossroads of territorial struggles, colonial history and contemporary violence (feminicide, forced sterilization, disappearances), indigenous women have founded pioneering collectives and driven major mobilizations. Their presence, in both rural and urban environments, and the central rόle they occupy in oral linguistic transmission, make them key players in understanding national memories and the processes of revitalizing indigenous languages. The recent rise of digital activism, music in indigenous languages ου visual creations also reveal a renewal of forms of enunciation and transmission.

Α Starting from orality - while dialoguing with writing, image, performance ου translation - this symposium will highlight non-hegemonic narratives, living archives and emerging productions. Developed as part of the Warmikuna (Women) - Voices, Faces and Memories project, this colloquium broadens the reflection to a trans-American scale and will bring together researchers, artists and activists around papers, workshops, screenings and performances, in order to create a space for sustainable research and transmission on issues of gender, memory and indigenous languages.

 

Organizing committee 
Laura Cahier (Aix-Marseille Universite, CERIC) 
Salome Cardenas Munoz (EHESS, CESPRA- Universite Paris Cite)

Ana Doldan (Sorbonne Nouvelle-lHEAL, CREDA) 
Morgana Herrera (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CRΙAL) 
Cesar ltier (INALCO, CERLOM) 
Laura Lema Silva (UPEC/lnstitut Pour la Ρaίχ, IMAGER ) 
Ophelie Parent (EHESS, CEMS) 
Alejandra Pena Morales (Unίversite Paris 8, LEGS) 
Tania Romero Barrios (Unίversite Paris 8, LER/CERLOM/IFEA)


Scientific Committee 
Camille Riverti (CNRS, CREDA) 
Capucine Boidin (Sorbonne Nouvelle-lHEAL, CREDA) 
Jules Falquet (Unίversite Paris 8, LLCP) 
Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS/EPHE/LESC) 
Maria Elvira Alvarez (CY, AGORA) 
Lissell Quiroz (CY, AGORA) 
Luc Villancourt (UQAC) 
Brigitte Thierion (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREPAL) 
Dorothee Delacroix (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREDA) 
Fernanda Azeredo (ΕΗ ESS, Mondes Americains)

 

Support for Ι' organization 
Anaϊs Vidal-Jaumary (Sorbonne Nouvelle-lHEAL, CREDA) Nohora Blanco Carrillo (Unίversite Paris 8) 
Lucie Guittonneau (Unίversite Paris 8) 
Maribelle Romero (lnalco)

 

Program and more information on the symposium website: https://warmikuna.hypotheses.org/actividades-activites/colloque-warmikuna-oralite-memoire-et-autochtonie

The colloquium is preceded by the evening event: Languages and Cultures of the Americas. Écritures andines au féminin : présentation d'ouvrages et lectures