Kinship; International Adoption; Religion; conversion to evangelical Christianity; popular religion; indigenous Christianity Sociality; amerindian ethnography

VISITING FELLOWSHIP

Visiting and teaching fellow (Erasmus staff Mobility for Teaching grant) at the Panteio University Of Political And Social Sciences, Athens, Greece (December 2018)
Visiting fellow at CALAS, Maria Sybilla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Universidad de Guadalajara (April/May 2018)
Visiting fellow at DIE, CINVESTAV, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, Ciudad de México (January-June 2016, January-March 2017)

OTHER ACADEMIC ROLES

Investigadora asociada CER (Centro Estudios de la Religion), Pontificia Universidad de Chile

Comité evaluador Becas de Posgrado - Becas Chile (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica CONICYT)

Evaluadora comité Historia, Antropología y Arqueología, Programa Formación de Capital
Humano Avanzado (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica CONICYT)

Docente Diplomado CER UC

Miembro comisión evaluadora del curso Taller Patrimonio y Territorio Magíster en Patrimonio Cultural UC

The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Awards Committee Member, SALSA Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Papers presented at seminars / international conferences

November 2019, Vancouver, Canada, AAA and CASCA: Between Art and Life, constructing knowledge in dialogue with rural schoolchildren of Chiloé (part of the Executive Panel “Changing Climates, Changing Childhoods: Indigenous Children’s Responses to Environmental Transformations)

June 2019, Vienna, XII SALSA: In Dialogue with rural schoolchildren: constructing knowledge between art and life

May 2019, Guayaquil, Ecuador: speaker in round table on Dialogos del Reconocimiento: Territorios en Transito

December 2018, Panteion University Of Political And Social Sciences, Athens, Greece: "Religion, Change and Reciprocity in Apiao, Chile”

December 2018, Panteio University Of Political And Social Sciences, Athens, Greece: ‘Updating The Map Of Desires: Mobile Phones, Satellite Dishes And Abundance As Facets Of Modernity In Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

October 2018, PUC, XVII Seminarios de Investigación Antropológica Contemporánea: Chilenizando el propio entorno. Identidad y objetos en la vida de adoptados chilenos en Cerdeña, Italia

16-20 July 2018, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis (Brasil) 18th IUAES World Congress: ‘Drawing the future. Continuity and rupture in schoolchildren’s visions of their adult life in a rural school of Chiloé, southern Chile’

May 2018, Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro CALAS: ‘Ritualizando lo cotidiano. El peligroso imperativo de la hospitalidad en Apiao, Chiloé’

March 2018, CIEP (II Congreso Internacional sobre Educacion y Pobreza), PUC Villarrica: ‘Dibujando el futuro. Continuidad y ruptura en la visión de su vida adulta en niños escolares de una escuela rural en Apiao, Chiloé’

December 2017, ‘Rezos y miedo: negociando con los muertos en Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)’ RAM XII, Universidad de Misiones, Argentina

October 2017, Ritualising the everyday: the dangerous imperative of hospitality in Apiao, Chiloé. Pontificia Universidad Catolica, workshop ‘What is a relation? Ethnographic perspectives from indigenous South America’. PUC, Santiago de Chile

June 2017, Etnoarts, Ethnographic Explorations Of The Arts And Education Facultade de Letras, Porto: ‘In dialogue with rural schoolchildren, between art and life’

March 2017, LASA 2017, PUCP Lima. 'Where are you from?' Questioning belonging, experiencing difference and sameness in a context of international adoption

March 2017, Seminario Internacional Adopcion, Derechos Humanos e Identidad, Santiago de Chile: Manteniéndose en contacto: rescatando lazos de parentesco entre Cerdeña y Chile a través de las redes sociales

February 2017, IX Congreso Latinoamericano en Ciencia y Religión - Encuentro Internacional de Ciencia y Religión, UPAEP, Puebla, México: “Tía, para que sirve la iglesia?” Las percepciones de los niños entre racionalidad y religión en un contexto indígena rural de Chile

July 2016, EASA 2016, University of Milan-Bicocca: “Keeping In Touch: Recovering Kinship Ties Online”

July 2016, ASA 2016, University of Durham: “Drawing the future. Continuity and rupture in schoolchildren’s visions of their adult life in a rural school of Chiloé, southern Chile”

June 2016, DIE, CINVESTAV, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, Ciudad de México. "Aprendiendo en familia y aprendiendo en la escuela. Diferentes facetas del conocimiento en Chiloé, Chile".

September 2015, Santiago, Universidad de Chile, Núcleo de Teoría Etnográfica, Coloquio: Etnografías del Abandono: “La experiencia del abandono: apuntes desde un contexto de adopción internacional”

June 2015, SIEF 2015, University of Zagreb: “Nourishing hope: the production of the imaginary in transnational adoptees and their natural families”

June 2015, Motherhood and Culture: Identity, Diversity and Values. Interdisciplinary conference, Maynooth University; ‘She did not give birth to me, but she is my mother’. Giving birth, raising children and the intricacies of motherhood in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)

June 2015, LASA 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico: panel Obliged by powerful others: Reciprocity and obligation in Indigenous South-America, and paper “The obligations of life in Apiao, Chiloé”

December 2014, PUC, Santiago de Chile: Seminario Chiloé en la actualidad: trayectorias etnográficas: “Cuando grande, quiero pelar papas”. El conocimiento como imitación: niños en Apiao, comuna de Quinchao

December 2014, 113th Annual Meeting AAA, Washington DC: ‘Features of Modernity in an Indigenous Community of Chiloé, Southern Chile’

August 2014, 13th EASA Biennial Conference, University of Tallinn: ‘Connections, reconnections and travels of the imagination in a context of international adoption’

June 2014, IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), University of Gothenburg: ‘Learning vs going to school in Apiao, Chiloé

December 2013, Seminario Internacional ICIIS ¿Qué Sujeto, Cual Conflicto? PUC, Santiago de Chile: ‘Adopción, identidad y objetos en la vida de chilenos adoptados en Sardinia, Italia’

November 2013, AAA 2013. Chicago: ‘Fear and Prayers: Negotiating With the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

November 2013, III Seminario Internacional de Adopcion, Parentalidad e Diversidad. Desafios Actuales En las Distintas Formas de Hacer Familia. Fundacion Mi Casa, Santiago de Chile: ‘Back to the future. Viajes de la imaginación en un contexto de adopción internacional’.

November 2013, VIII Congreso Chileno De Antropologia Fronteras Y Antropología: Sujetos, Contextos, Procesos. Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica. ‘La experiencia del abandono en un contexto de adopción intencional’.

November 2013, IV Seminario Internacional Fundación Chilena de la Adopción: DESAFÍOS DE LA POST-ADOPCIÓN: UN CAMINO POR RECORRER – Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Santiago de Chile: “Quiero que mi casa sea casi una casa chilena”: adopción, objetos y identidad.

August 2013, IUAES 2013, Manchester University: ‘Dogs, guilt and death in Apiao, Chiloé’

April 2013, Instituto de Sociologia, PUC, Santiago de Chile. Seminario “Etnografías de parentalidad: economías y políticas del parentesco”: ‘Poca experiencia y mucha ansiedad: un caso de adopción internacional’

July 2012, University of Vienna, ICA: ‘Changing values: Mobile phones and soft drinks in Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

July 2012, University of Vienna, ICA: “When I grow up, I want to peel potatoes”. Learning as imitation: children in Apiao, Chiloé, Chile

July 2012, Université de Paris Nanterre, EASA: ‘Little expertise, plenty anxiety. A counter case from the international adoption scenario’

June 2012, Museo Regional de Ancud, 4° Seminario Chiloé, Historia Del Contacto: ‘El conocimiento peligroso. Cuestiones de igualdad y diferencia en Apiao, Chiloé’

April 2012, PUC, IV Seminario en Investigacion Antropologica Contemporanea: ‘El conocimiento peligroso. Cuestiones de igualdad y diferencia en dos contextos etnográficos: Chiloé y Cerdeña’

January 2012, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy: ‘Come un trapianto d’organo. Questioni di uguaglianza e diversità in un contesto di adozione internazionale’. Conferenza Percorsi di Mobilità

December 2011, University of St Andrews, UK: ‘Re-building kinship. Perceptions of sameness and difference in a case of international adoption’

June 2011, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy: ‘Di dove sei? Osservazioni e riflessioni su un caso di adozione internazionale: bambini cileni in Sardegna’

April 2010, ASA, Queens University Belfast: ‘The Danger of Knowledge’

October 2009, Stirling University and EASA 2010 National University of Ireland, Maynooth: ‘Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

September 2009, CRESC, University of Manchester: ‘Changing values: mobile phones and soft drinks in Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

April 2009, Bristol University, ASA: “When I grow up, I want to peel potatoes”. Learning as imitation: children in Apiao, Chiloé, Chile

January 2009, St Andrews University, CAS Seminar: ‘From mouse to lion: jokes and their counter-value in Apiao society’

August 2008, Ljubljana, EASA: ‘Holding the saint in one’s arms. Miracles and exchange in Apiao, southern Chile’

June 2008, Oxford University, SALSA (Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America): ‘Changing values: mobile phones and soft drinks in Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’

February 2007, St Andrews University, Department of Divinity, CSRP Seminar: ‘Before we were all Catholics: changing religion in Apiao, southern Chile’

January 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico: ‘From mouse to lion: jokes and their counter-value in Apiao society’ presented at SALSA (Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America).

July 2006, Sevilla, ICA (International Congress of Americanists): ‘Before we were all Catholics: changing religion in Apiao, southern Chile’

March 2006, St Andrews University, Anthropology Department: ‘Reticent Mothers, Motherly Grandmothers and Forgotten fathers: the Making and Unmaking of Kinship in Apiao, southern Chile’

January 2006, Lancaster University, Department of Religious Studies: ‘Reading Spiritualities’ conference. ‘Negotiating with the saint: miracles and exchange in Apiao, Chiloe, southern Chile’

August 2005, Vienna, SOKRATES Exchange Programme, University of Vienna, Anthropology Department: ‘Fear and prayers: Negotiating with the dead in Apiao, southern Chile’

May 2005, Budapest, Hungary, ‘Monsters and the Monstrous: ?Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil’ Conference, ‘Do You Believe in Monsters? Superstition and Fear in a Chiloé Community (Southern Chile)’

September 2004, Vienna, University of Vienna, EASA ‘Getting Tamed to Silent Rules: Experiencing the ‘Other’ in Apiao, southern Chile’

May 2004, St Andrews University, CIASE, and November 2004, LSE, London
‘Reticent Mothers, Motherly Grandmothers and Forgotten fathers: the Making and Unmaking of Kinship in Apiao, southern Chile’

December 2003, University of Oxford, ‘Future Fields’ Conference, ‘Understanding People: Vignettes by a Fieldworker’