Past Keynote Speakers
Dr. Juan Carlos Galeano (2015)
Juan Carlos Galeano is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. He is the author of Baraja Inicial (1986), Pollen and Rifles (1997), Amazonia (2003), Sobre las cosas (2010), Historias del viento (2013), and Yakumama and Other Mythical Beings (2014). His poetry, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world, has been published internationally and translated into French, English, Portuguese, and German. Poems from Amazonia have been published in magazines and international journals such as RevistAtlántica, Casa de las Américas, The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Antioch Review, The Drunken Boat, and Review: Literature and the Arts of the Americas. His poems and folktales have also appeared in college textbooks, collections and international anthologies such as Literary Amazonia (Florida UP, 2004), The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Continuum 2005), Ecopoetry: A contemporary American Anthology (Trinity UP, 2013), ¡Más aplausos para la lluvia! Antología de poesía amazónica (Tierra Nueva Editores, 2014), and in the anthology of contemporary hispanic ecopoetry El consumo de lo que somos (Amargord Ediciones, Spain, 2014). Dr. Galeano presented the keynote address at the 18th Annual Conference on the Americas in 2015: "Poetry as Natural History for the Anthropocene and Beyond"
Dr. Rebecca Stone (2014)
The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art. Universithy of Texas Press, July 2011. (Under the name Rebecca Stone).
Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas. Michael C. Carlos Museum/University of Washington Press. 2002.
Winner of the Association for Latin American Art, 2002 International Book of the Year Award, awarded February 2003, New York City.
Winner of first prize by the Printing Association of Georgia, 2002.
Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992. (Reprinted by Thames and Hudson, London and New York, under the title To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles, 1994). (Under the name Rebecca Stone-Miller).
Articles on Chavin and Wari textiles, periodization, and camelid imagery
Dr. Stone presented the keynote address at the 17th Annual Conference on the Americas in 2014: "From Reciprocity to Revolt: Six Key Quechua Concepts Embodied in Ancient Andean Art and Culture"
Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas. Michael C. Carlos Museum/University of Washington Press. 2002.
Winner of the Association for Latin American Art, 2002 International Book of the Year Award, awarded February 2003, New York City.
Winner of first prize by the Printing Association of Georgia, 2002.
Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992. (Reprinted by Thames and Hudson, London and New York, under the title To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles, 1994). (Under the name Rebecca Stone-Miller).
Articles on Chavin and Wari textiles, periodization, and camelid imagery
Dr. Stone presented the keynote address at the 17th Annual Conference on the Americas in 2014: "From Reciprocity to Revolt: Six Key Quechua Concepts Embodied in Ancient Andean Art and Culture"
Dr. Bridget Chesterton (2013)
Dr. Bridget Chesterton is a professor of history at Buffalo State University where her research interests include Paraguay and Argentina. Her current focus is on ideas of frontier and nation in the southern cone of Latin America. Her research can be found in numerous articles and the forthcoming, The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay 1904-1935. She holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York Stony Brook.
Selected publications (Books and articles): The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay 1904-1936. University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Transformations of Populism in Europe, the United States and Latin America: Histories Theories and Recent Tendencies. Co-edited with John Abromeit, Gary Marotta, and York Norman. (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.). Editor, The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.).
Selected publications (Books and articles): The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay 1904-1936. University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Transformations of Populism in Europe, the United States and Latin America: Histories Theories and Recent Tendencies. Co-edited with John Abromeit, Gary Marotta, and York Norman. (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.). Editor, The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.).