October 20-21, 2011
Auditorio de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Universidad de Chile
Portugal, No. 84, Santiago, Chile

“Ciudadanías del Cuerpo: Emplazamientos al Estado y a la Iglesia” (Citizens and Bodies: Interpellating the State and the Church), organized in collaboration with Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Latin America and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Chile, convened a broad range of scholars, advocates, journalists and policy practitioners in a discussion about the key issues around which the Catholic Church and other communities of faith exercise their political power in the public sphere. During our conversations and planning for the event, however, two important very important developments transpired which rather dramatically altered the political circumstances and institutional contexts in which we were working. The first was the Karadima Case—the accusations of sexual abuse brought against the Pastor of the El Bosque Catholic parish in Santiago, which serves the city’s wealthiest power elite—which undermined the institution’s credibility and moral authority in the public sphere. A second development was the irruption of student movement which, beginning in May, held regular and massive street marches numbering in the hundreds of thousands in the streets of Santiago and declared strikes and in many cases occupations of university facilities and high schools throughout the country. The students were and are still demanding free, quality, and secular public education, effectively challenging the market-driven model of education imposed during the dictatorship and sustained during the past 20 years of democratic rule. The widespread anti-clerical (Catholic in this case) sentiment that resulted from Karadima Case, combined with the political effervescence created by the social movement offered a unique opportunity to bring together a range of stakeholders to reflect on the contemporary intersections of religion and politics in Chilean society. Event proceedings are being edited for a special issue of Nomadías, the journal of the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Latin America that will be published in 2013.

SCHEDULE: October 20, 2011

Welcome
Kemy Oyarzún (Director of Gender Studies, Universidad de Chile), Marcial Godoy (NYU)

Opening Presentation
María Olivia Monckeberg (Director, ICEI, Universidad de Chile)

Panel: Estado Laico y Nuevas Ciudadanías: Asedios a la Constitución del 80
Miguel E. Orellana Benado (Universidad de Chile), María Emilia Tijoux (Universidad Católica), Grinor Rojo (Universidad de Chile)
Moderator: Marcial Godoy (NYU)

Panel: Política, Religión y Movimientos Sociales
Manuel Jacques (UAHC), Víctor Hugo Robles (Universidad ARCIS), Margarita Kalfio (Universidad de Temuco)
Moderator: Gloria Maira (Unidad Estudios Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos)

Panel: Feminismos, Derechos y Deseo
Kemy Oyarzún (Universidad de Chile), Nelly Richard (Universidad ARCIS), Carolina Franch (Universidad de Chile)
Moderator: Carmen Torres

Performance
Felipe Rivas

SCHEDULE: October 20, 2011

Panel: Sexualidad, Contrato Civil, Políticas de Igualdad
Pablo Simonetti (Fundación Iguales), Manuel Durán (Universidad de Santiago), Emma de Ramón (Universidad de Chile), Toli Hernández (MOVILH)
Moderator: Iván Smirnow (Universidad de Chile)

Central Presentation
Manuel Antonio Garretón

Panel: Educación Sexual, Educación Pública, Educación para la Libertad
Irma Palma (Universidad de Chile), Silvia Lamadrid (Universidad de Chile, Teachers College), Hija de Perra
Moderator: Olga Grau (Universidad de Chile)

Closing Presentation
Cristián Cuevas (LGBT Activist, President of National Federation of Copper Workers)

Closing Remarks
Pilar Errázuriz (Universidad de Chile)

Performance
Julia Antivilo