Feb 2017 Curriculum Vitae Carlos Mondragón Associate Professor of Anthropology Centre for African and Asian Studies (CEAA), El Colegio de México Camino al Ajusco 20, México City 10740 ++52(55)54493000 ext.4308 cmondragon@colmex.mx Education 2003 Ph.D. SocialAnthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Thesis: “Las ples, las aelan, las tingting. Living Respect and Knowledge in the Torres Islands, Vanuatu.” 1997 M.A. Social Anthropology, with Distinctions, School of Oriental and African Studies, The University of London. Thesis: “Ethnographic Representations of Time in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia.” 1996 B.A. History, with Distinctions, National University of Mexico (UNAM). Thesis: “Arqueoastronomía en el Área Maya. Un estudio historiográfico.” Field Research Vanuatu 1998-2000 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2017 Oceania 1998-2014 19 months fieldwork, Malekula and the Torres Islands 6 months fieldwork, Torres Islands 2 months fieldwork, Torres Islands and North Santo (Espíritu Santo) 3 months fieldwork, Torres Islands and North Santo 2 months fieldwork, Torres Islands and North Santo 2 months fieldwork, Torres Islands and North Santo 3 months fieldwork (forthcoming, March to May), North Santo Numerous research visits to archives and institutions in different countries/regions of Oceania, including Rapa Nui, Pape’ete (Tahiti), Fiji (Viti Levu), Hawai‘i, Kanaky/New Caledonia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia. Tibet Autonomous Region (PRC) 2002 10 months language study and fieldwork, Lhasa and Nyalam County 2002-20033 4 months residence as consultant for various NGOs in Lhasa and several rural communities. Central and Southern Mexico 1994-2017 Numerous field excursions, in the company of archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists, across Central and Southern Mexico Language skills Fluent: Spanish, English, Bislama (Vanuatu Pidgin); Intermediate: Lo-Toga (Austronesian language from Vanuatu), Tibetan, French, Portuguese, Catalan. 1 Research Interests (in order of precedence) • • • • Environmental anthropology in Oceania and Inner Asia; human-environmental relations; the intersection between local (indigenous) and scientific knowledge and climate policy; seasonal calendars and time; production systems and ritual cycles; climate change in small islands societies; humanized landscapes. Historical anthropology of Oceania; first contact in the Early Modern era between Iberians and Pacific Islanders; environmental histories. Material culture of Pacific Islands; with a focus on Melanesian museum collections and curatorial strategies. Ritual and religion in anthropology, comparative perspectives on approaches to ritual and religion across culture regions and scholarly traditions. Academic positions/appointments Current Since 2013 Previous 2014-2015 Associate Professor, Center for African and Asian Studies, El Colegio de México. Board Member and Chair of the Pacific Islanders’ Scholarship Fund (PISF) at the Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO) 2014 Visiting Researcher (Fall), Australian National University 2011-2013 Member, Groupe de Recherche et Investigation (GDRI), Musée de Quai Branly and the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Social, CNRS, France. 2012 Visiting Researcher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 2008-2013 Assistant Professor, Center for African and Asian Studies, El Colegio de México. 2006-2008 Adjunct Professor, Center for African and Asian Studies (CEAA), El Colegio de México 2006-2008 Editor, Estudios de Asia y África, peer-reviewed journal of the CEAA; and Publications Director for CEAA, in overall charge of editorial activity. 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge. Larger Research Grant recipient, British Academy, for Postdoctoral research on environmental knowledge in rural Tibet. 2 2001-2002 Supervisor for undergrad students, and Assistant Lecturer for Anthropology and Development in Asia and Africa (Dr. David Sneath) and Ethnography of the Pacific (Prof. Marilyn Strathern and Dr. James Leach), University of Cambridge. 1994-96 Teaching Assistant, Modern History courses. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Mexico. Professional Membership Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute American Anthropological Association Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania European Society for Oceanists Fellow, Cambridge Overseas Society Teaching At El Colegio de México Graduate (MA and PhD) seminars, taught courses, lectures 2016 Political Ecology in South Eaast Asia Early Modern History of South East Asia 2015 Political Ecology in South East Asia 2014 Historical Anthropology of Asia and the Pacific Early Modern History of South East Asia 2013 Historical Anthropology of Asia and the Pacific 2012 Anthropological Approaches to Kinship and the Environment in the Pacific Historical Anthropology of the Pacific Islands History of Island South East Asia II: the Early Modern Era. Co-taught with Dr. Richard Gordon Kraince 2011 Material, Oral and Visual Culture in Asia and Africa (Methodology lectures) Co-taught with Dr. Aaron Rosenberg History of Island South East Asia IV: 1930s to the present day. Co-taught with Dr. Richard Gordon Kraince 2010 Research Traditions in the Anthropology of Island South East Asia Co-taught with Dr. Richard Godron Kraince Material, oral, and visual culture in Asia and Africa (Methodology lectures) Co-taught with Dr. Amaury García Martínez 2009 Research Methods in Asia and the Pacific (Methdology lectures) 2008 Ethnic Minorities in the Asia-Pacific. History of Island South East Asia II: the Early Modern Era. History, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology (Methodology lectures) Co-taught with Prof. Saurabh Dube and Dr. Ishita Banerjee 2007 Introduction to South East Asian Societies and Cultures Indigenous Peoples and the State in East Asia 3 At other institutions: Graduate seminars, guest lectures (most titles translated from Spanish) 2016 Indigenous environmental knowledge and adaptation, MA taught seminar for the Institute of Ecology, National University of Mexico (UNAM) Ethnographic theory, Graduate seminar, co-taught with Prof. Johannes Neurath, Mesoamerican Studies Program, UNAM. 2014 Anthropology of Ritual: Comparative perspectives. MA seminar for Mesoamerican Studies at UNAM 2013 Anthropology of Ritual: Amazonia, Mesoamerica, Melanesia, MA seminar for Mesoamerican Studies at the National University of Mexico. 2012 'Economy and Society in Island South East Asia', Undergraduate lecture (3hrs), International Relations Department, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México 'The Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet: from South Asia to the Tibetan plateau', two-session graduate lecture (8 hrs) School of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM 'An Introduction to Contemporary Asian Arts', set of three docent lectures for the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), at the National University of Mexico. Special focus on Chinese and Indonesian artists. 2011 'The Study of Kinship in Oceania', Undergraduate lecture (4 hrs), Division of Social Anthropology, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico 2010 'Oceania and the Pacific Islands', graduate lecture (3hrs), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico City 2009 'South East Asia and the Pacific Islands', Undergraduate lecture (4hrs), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNAM. 'Cosmos, life and death rituals in Oceania', Graduate lecture (4 hrs), Postgraduate Division, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico. 2008 'Fieldwork methods in anthropology' doctoral seminar session (3 hrs), School of Humanities, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. 'Asia-Pacific in the Global Framework', Graduate lecture (4hrs) Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Asia-Pacific, El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca 2008 'Modern South East Asia', Undergraduate lecture (3 hrs), International Relations Department, ITAM. 2007 'The Contemporary Pacific', Undegraduate lecture (3hrs), School of International Relations, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM. 'International Development and Regional Policies in the Contemporary Pacific', Undergraduate lecture (3 hrs), Universidad de las Américas, México City. 4 Publications Books of Original Scholarship 2015. Un Entramado de Islas. Persona, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático en el Pacífico Occidental, México: El Colegio de México.* ISBN 978-607-462-690-2 *Title in English: Personhood, Environment and Climate Change in the Western Pacific. Note: This book won the National Award for Best Anthropological Research of 2016, competitively awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH). This prize is the most relevant award for anthropology, as a discipline, in Mexico. It is known, shorthand, as the ‘Premio Nacional INAH’ in Spanish. Edited Volumes (with multiple editors cited in order of precedence) forthcoming El cristianismo en perspectiva global: impacto y presencia en Asia, Oceanía y las Américas (Arqueología y antropología de las religiones, vol. 6), México: El Colegio de México. *Title in English: Christianity in Global Perspective: Impact and Presence in Asia, Oceania and the Americas (Archaeology and Anthropology of Religion, Vol. 5) 2011 Mondragón, Carlos, Patricia Fournier and Walburga Wiesheu, eds., Peregrinaciones Ayer y Hoy (Arqueología y Antropología de las Religiones Vol. 4), México: El Colegio de México. ISBN 978-607-462-392-5 *Title in English: Pilgrimages. Yesterday and Today (Archaeology and Anthropology of Religion, Vol. 4). 2010 Mondragón, Carlos (ed.), (2010) Moana: Culturas de las Islas del Pacífico (museum catalogue) México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 244 pgs. ISBN 978-607-484-072-8 2009 Patricia Fournier, Carlos Mondragón and Walburga Wiesheu, eds.(2009), Los Ritos de Paso (Arqueología y Antropología de las Religiones Vol. 3), México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. ISBN 978-607-484-004-9 *Title in English: Rites of Passage (Archaeology and Anthropology of Religion, Vol. 3) Articles in International Refereed Journals forthcoming ‘Notes on (the Anglican history of) the Torres Islands: The revival of customary authority and spiritual agency in North Vanuatu’, Journal of Pacific History. Special Issue on the History of the Melanesian Mission , Thorgeir Kolshus and Michael Scott, eds. 5 2016 ‘El Tibet chino: crecimiento económico con exclusión social’, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, July 2016. 2016 'Concealment, revelation and cosmological dualism: Visibility, materiality and the spiritscape of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu', Cahiers d’Anthropologie Sociale, Paris: Éditions l’Herne/Collège de France. 2008 'Los disturbios de 2008 en Lhasa y las regiones tibetanas de China', Estudios de Asia y África (Current Affairs section), Vol. 43, No. 136, pp. 455-476. 2006 Luque Talaván, Miguel and Carlos Mondragón 'Et in Arcadia Ego: La Terra Australis y la visión utópica de Pedro Fernández de Quirós', Anales del Museo de América, no. 24. Madrid: Museo de América, 2006, pp. 351-380. 2006 ‘Time and the expression of temporality in the Torres Islands, Vanuatu’, Revista Etnològic de Catalunya (Dossier especial: Cultures de la temporalitat), Guest editor Eliseu Carbonell, Vol. 28, Barcelona: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, pp. 8-19. 2005 Luque Talaván, Miguel and Carlos Mondragón 'Faith, Fidelity and Fantasy. Don Pedro Fernández de Quirós and the "foundation, government and sustenance" of La Nueba Hierusalem in 1606', Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 133-148. 2004 'Of Winds, Worms and Mana: the Traditional Calendar of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu', Oceania, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 289-308. In preparation for submission ' The Meanings of Mana in North Vanuatu: Cosmological dualism, Christianity and shifting forms of efficacious potency in the Torres Islands', for submission to the journal Oceania Chapters in Edited Volumes forthcoming ‘The troubled image of a biodiversity "hotspot": conservation, Christianity and history in Santo, Vanuatu.’ J. Bell and J. Halvakzs, eds., Naturalist Histories. In press 'Seasonal practices and climate fluctuations in Melanesia. An assessment from a small island society in North Vanuatu' in D. Nakashima, et al. (eds.), Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation, UNESCO and Cambridge University Press. 2017 'El estudio de los contactos culturales en Mesoamérica y Oceanía. Alteridad y ritual en la obra de Inga Clendinnen', in Gustavo Marín y Gabriela Torres Mazuera (eds.), Antropología e historia en México. Las fronteras construidas de un territorio compartido, Mérida, CIESAS Peninsula. 2017 ‘A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: the Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu’, J. Jacka and J. Wagner, eds., Island Rivers, ANU EPress. 6 2017 ‘Ocultamiento y revelación en un cosmos especular. Incertidumbre, materialidad y el mundo de los espíritus en las Islas Torres, Vanuatu’, J. Neurath and G. Olivier (eds.), Mostrar-ocultar, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas/UNAM, México, pp. 437-452. 2014 ‘Seasonal environmental practices and climate fluctuations in Island Melanesia. Agroforestry, marine tenure and sea level rise in Vanuatu’, F. Angléviel and M. Abong, eds., La Mélanésie Actualités et Études Foncier et développement durable, Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris, pgs. 131-152. (Collection Portes Océanes) 2014 'Autoridad bautismal, autoridad tradicional: Religión, parentesco y prácticas sexuales en el norte de Vanuatu (Oceanía)', in Dimitri Karadimas and Karine Tinat (eds.), Sexo y Fe. Lecturas antropológicas de creencias sexuales y de prácticas religiosas, México: El Colegio de México, pp. 127-142. 2012 Mondragón, Carlos, Patricia Fournier and Walburga Wiesheu, 'Introducción', in P. Fournier, C. Mondragón, and W. Wiesheu (eds.), Peregrinaciones Ayer y Hoy (Antropología y Arqueología de las Religiones, Vol. 4), México: El Colegio de México, pp. 1126. 2012 'Entre Islas y Montañas: Movimiento y geografía cultural en Melanesia y el Tibet', in C. Mondragón, P. Fournier, and W. Wiesheu (eds.), Peregrinaciones Ayer y Hoy (Antropología y Arqueología de las Religiones, Vol. 4), México: El Colegio de México, 2012, pgs. 427-463 2012 Frederick Damon and Carlos Mondragón 'Seasonal environmental practices and climate fluctuations in Melanesia. An assessment of small island societies in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu' in Nakashima, D.J., Galloway McLean, K., Thulstrup, H.D., Ramos Castillo, A. and Rubis, J.T. (eds.), 2012. Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Paris, UNESCO, and Darwin, UNU, 120 pp. Available as ebook in, http://www.climatefrontlines.org/ 2012 'Powerful Torres Islands Artefacts'. in Lissant Bolton and Nicholas Thomas eds., The Melanesian Collections at the British Museum, London: The British Museum Press, pp. 263265. 2012 ''The Demon of Multiplicity: South East Asia and Contemporary Asian Art in the World/El demonio de las multiplicidades: el sureste asiático y el arte contemporáneo de Asia en el mundo', in Gridthiya Gaweewong (ed.), Between Utopia and Dystopia. Asian Palestra/Entre Utopía y Distopía. Palestra Asia, (billingual English-Spanish museum exhibition catalogue), Mexico City: Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, pp. 34-47. 2011 Mondragón, Carlos and Federico Navarrete 'Cai Guo-Qiang, The Alchemy of the Local/ Cai Guo-Qiang, la alquimia de lo local ', in Cai Guo-Qiang, Sunshine and Solitude/Cai Guo Qiang, Resplandor y Soledad (bilingual museum exhibition catalogue), Mexico: Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, pp. 26-45. 7 2011 ‘Personas partibles, sociedades fractales. Reflexiones sobre escala y complejidad en Vanuatu’, in B. Alcántara and F. Navarrete (eds.), Sociedades Amerindias: Más allás del Estado, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, pp. 145-168 2010 'Oceanía, el mar de islas: una aproximación a su cultura material', in C. Mondragón (ed.), Moana: Culturas de las Islas del Pacífico, México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, pp. 19-28. 2009 Mondragón, Carlos, Patricia Fournier and Walburga Wiesheu, 'Presentación', in P. Fournier, C. Mondragón and W. Wiesheu (eds.), Los Ritos de Paso (Arqueología y Antropología de las Religiones, Vol. 3), México: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, pp. 7-18. 2009 'Encarnando a los espíritus en la Melanesia: La innovación como continuidad en el norte de Vanuatu', in P. Fournier, C. Mondragón y W. Wiesheu (eds.), Ritos de Paso (Antropología y Arqueología de las Religiones, Vol. 3), México; Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, pp. 121-149 2009 ‘A Weft of Nexus: Geographical identity and changing notions of space in Vanuatu, Oceania.’ in Peter Wynn Kirby (ed), Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 115-134 2008 Mondragón, Carlos and Miguel Luque Talaván 'Early European Descriptions of Oceanic Watercraft: Iberian Sources and Contexts', in Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree (eds.), Canoes of the Grand Ocean. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (BAR International Series No. 1802), pp. 9-22. 2008 'Reflexiones historiográficas en torno a las percepciones oceánicas durante los primeros encuentros entre europeos y melanesios en el Pacífico', in Miguel Luque Talaván and Marta Ma. Manchado López (eds.), Un océano de intercambios: Hispanoasia (1521-1898). Homenaje al profesor Leoncio Cabrero Fernández Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, pp. 81-99. 2008 ‘La Iniciativa de Desarrollo Occidental (2000-2005) y el combate a la pobreza en China.” in Romer Cornejo (ed), China: Radiografía de una potencia en ascenso, México: El Colegio de México, pp. 443-526. 2008 'Japón: Primeros contactos culturales con Europa, 1540-1650', in Leoncio Cabrero and Miguel Luque Talaván (eds.), Diccionario Histórico Geográfico y Cultural de Hispanoasia. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, pp. 491-503. 2007 ‘Ethnological origins of the ni-Vanuatu other: Quirós and the early Spanish Historiography of Asia and the Pacific’, Frédéric Angleviel (ed.), Pedro Fernández de Quirós et le Vanuatu 1606-2006, Port Vila: Vanuatu Cultural Centre/European Union/Ambassade de France au Vanuatu, pp. 145-168 8 2007 'Visiones autóctonas y occidentales en las expediciones españolas a la Melanesia insular (1595-1606)', in Gustavo Curiel (ed.), Orientes-Occidentes: El arte y la mirada del otro. México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, pp. 119-149 2007 Luque Talaván, Miguel and Carlos Mondragón 'El Capitán Cook en los Mares del Sur a través de tres cartas reservadas", in Francisco Mellén Blanco y Annie Baert (eds.), Memorias del Congreso 2006 de la Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico. Madrid. Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico, pp. Book Reviews 2013 Review of 'Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian contacts with the New World', The Contemporary Pacific, 25(1). 2009 Review of 'Une pirogue pour le Paradis: Le culte de John Frum a Tanna' (Marc Tabani), The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 389-392 2008 Review of Documentary video 'Grassroots (Ceux qui votent)', The Contemporary Pacific pp. 497-500 Non-Refereed Articles 2007 'Un país, dos sistemas de pobreza: Los problemas de la medición y el combate a la pobreza en China', Configuraciones, Vol. 1, No. 23, pp. 51-60. Working Papers 2007 'Encarnando a los ancestros en la Melanesia: La innovación como mecanismo de continuidad en el norte de Vanuatu', Cuadernos de Trabajo del Centro de Estudios de Asia y África No. 14, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África/El Colegio de México, 10 pgs. 2006 'Las percepciones oceánicas durante los primeros encuentros entre europeos y melanesios", Cuadernos de Trabajo del Centro de Estudios de Asia y África No. 7, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África/El Colegio de México, 12 pgs. Unpublished Reports (commissioned) (2003) Rehabilitation and Training Centre for the Blind in Tibet (2001-2003). (Evaluation and Social Impact Report prepared for Braille Without Borders, Tibet and the Tibet Disabled Person’s Federation, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC.) Lhasa, Tibet: Braille Without Borders, 30pgs. (2002) Tradition and Modernity in Tibet and the Himalaya, Report prepared for the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, England. 22pgs. 9 Full List of Scholarly Presentations ** papers marked with double asterisk were subsequently published and/or are in preparation for publication, in whole or in part, but not always with the same title Papers presented at Colloquia/Meetings/Workshops “Co-Prodcution of climate knowledge in Vanuatu and beyond”, Paper presented at the Informal Session: Climate change: Experience and Action in the Pacific Islands, Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania, Lihue, Kaua’i, February 2017. Keynote Speech: “Nuevos horizontes de la Antropología Ambiental”, Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Ciencias Antropólogicas XXIV, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 13 October 2014. “Indigenous knowledge as possibility and subversion: cross-cultural exchanges and the global climate crisis from a different point of view”, Os mil Nomes de Gaia: Do Antropoceno à Idade da Terra, Río de Janeiro, Departamento de Filosofia da PUC-Rio, Brasil, 16 to 19 September 2014. **“Conocimiento ecológico, prácticas estacionales y cambio climático en Melanesia insular”, en el Simposio Nuevos horizontes para la antropología ambiental en la época del cambio climático de la XXX Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, “El Bajío y sus regiones vecinas. Acercamientos históricos y antropológicos, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Universidad Marista de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, 3 to 8 August 2014. “Memoria y arraigo en un contexto fluido: primordialismo y movilidad topogénica en el Pacifíco occidental”, Experiencias temporales y formas de la memoria. Una perspectiva comparativa, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF, 22 May 2014. “Aportaciones a la historia antropológica y el estudio de la alteridad en Asia-Pacífico”, Jornadas Históricas 2014, África y Asia: Alteridades políticas y sociales, Universidad Iberoamerica, Ciudad de México, 23 April 2014. “Local environmental knowledge and climate policy in Vanuatu”, Rethinking Environmental Futures in Asia and the Pacific, Research School of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 15 November 2013. “Descubrimientos ambivalentes: Historias austronesias sobre los primeros intrusos ibéricos y los usos actuales del pasado en las Islas del Pacífico”, Congreso Internacional. A 500 años del hallazgo del Pacífico (1513-2013). La presencia novohispana en el Mar del Sur, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 2013. “Te hurihuri o te Ao: Cycles of change. Traditional calendars for informing climate change policies”, for the international workshop Te hurihuri o te Ao: Cycles of change. Traditional calendars for informing climate change policies, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 June 2013 **“Notes from a Floating Island: Long term experiences of climate change in the Pacific”, Understanding Ecological and Social Resilience in Island Systems: Informing Policy and Sharing Lessons for 10 Management, New York, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, 9 to 11 April 2013. “Las trampas del multiculturalismo: Sociedades, naciones y relaciones interétnicas desde las cosmópolis pluriculturales del sureste asiático”, Coloquio de Antropología: Multiculturalidad Urbana, Departamento de Antropología, Colegio de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de las Américas – Puebla, 1 March 2013. **“A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: the Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu”, en la session The Social Life of Rivers in the Asia-Pacific, Annual Meeting de la Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania, San Antonio, Texas, 7-9 February 2013. ** 'The Meanings of Mana in North Vanuatu: Cosmological dualism, Christianity and shifting forms of efficacious potency in the Torres Islands', paper presented at the 111th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 16 November 2012. ** 'Primordial Beings and Dual Realities. Negotiating uncertainty in North Vanuatu' for the panel Shifting Ontologies and Contingent Agencies co-organized by Paul Liffman (El Colegio de Michoacán) and Carlos Mondragón (El Colegio de México), 2012 Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), University of Nanterre, Paris, 12 July 2012. ** 'Las transformaciones del 'ser' en Melanesia y sus posibles implicaciones para los rituales de ocultamiento y revelación en Mesoamérica', paper presented at the International Colloquium Mostrar y ocultar en el arte y en los rituales: perspectivas comparadas, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, 29 May 2012. ** 'Local knowledge and environmental fluctuations in the Western Pacific: rethinking sustainability and adaptation in Melanesia', paper for the panel Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Futures at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 meeting, by invitation of the Natural Sciences Sector/Division for Science Policy and Capacity-Building UNESCO, London, England 25 March 2012. ** 'Ecological Fluctuations, Ceremonial Flows and Humanized Seascapes: Synthesizing Patterns of Temporality and Transformation across North Vanuatu' paper presented at the Second International Workshop Ecology and Time Systems in Australasia and the Americas: New approaches to climate change, seasonal calendars and value systems across the Pacific Rim, Co-organizers: Prof. Frederick H. Damon and Carlos Mondragón Beijing, January 2012. 'Representing the Pacific in Mexico: the curatorship of Moana: Cultura de las Islas del Pacífico', Western Museums Association and Pacific Islands Museums Association Annual Meeting 2011: Contemporary Pacific Arts in International Institutions: Regional Views and Critiques, Honolulu, Hawai’i, September 2011. ** 'Seasonal environmental practices and climate fluctuations in Melanesia. An assessment of small island societies in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu', paper in co-authorship with Prof. Frederick H. Damon for the International Conference Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge, organized by the United 11 Nations University, UNESCO, and United Nations Environment Program, Mexico City, August 2011. 'La muerte del “ser” en Melanesia y sus implicaciones para la antropología en Mesoamérica' paper presented at the International Workshop Montrer/oculter. Les dispositifs de modifications de la visibilité dans des contextes rituels. Approches comparatives, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, February 2011. ** ' "Without kava, there is no kastom": Long term seasonal variability and cultural linkages across a Melanesia/Polynesia borderland', paper presented at the International Workshop Ecology and Time Systems in Australasia and the Americas: New approaches to climate change, seasonal calendars and value systems across the Pacific Rim, Co-organizers: Prof. Frederick H. Damon and Carlos Mondragón, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, January 2009. ** 'Portuguese and Spanish constructions of the Pacific (1500-1600)', presentation of work in progress for the Intensive Writer's Workshop, co-organizers Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, November 2008. ** 'Personas partibles, sociedades fractales: reflexiones en torno a la complejidad en la Melanesia', paper presented at the International Colloquium Los pueblos amerindios más allá del Estado,Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, October 2008. 'Intercambio académico entre México-Australia y Malasia', UMAP Vice Presidents Forum, 2008. "Higher Education for Sustainable Development". Manzanillo, Colima (Mexico), March 2008. ** 'Encarnando a los Ancestros en la Melanesia: La inovación como mecanismo de continuidad en el norte de Vanuatu', paper presented at the 3er Coloquio Internacional de Antropología e Arqueología de las Religiones: Ritos de Paso, Posgraduate Archaeology Program, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, 2007. 'Commemorating the Fourth Centenary of First Contact in Vanuatu, 1606-2006', Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), University of Virginia, Charlotesville, February 2007. 'The (ir)relevance of commemorating imagined pasts: The meanings of 1606 in Vanuatu and Spain', Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania (ASAO), San Diego, California, 2006. Seminar papers “Debatir la Megadiversidad: problemas con la equivalencia entre cultura y naturaleza”, Seminario Permanente Identidades en Perspectiva Multidisciplinaria, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, 25 February 2016. “Notas de uma ilha flutuante: o conhecimento indígena para informar as políticas climáticas”, Museo Nacional de la Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pósgraduação em 12 Antropologia social, 22 September 2014. 'Hacer trabajo de campo en Asia y el Pacífico. Experiencias y claves de la investigación etnográfica en el Tibet y Melanesia', Seminar lecture Metodología del trabajo de campo y escritura etnográfica, Dirección de Estudios en Antropología Social, INAH, Mexico City, 20 June 2012. ** 'Climate Change and Catastrophism in Vanuatu: Senses of place and climate policy in the Torres Islands', paper presented at the Staff Seminar, Departament of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 20 April 2012. ‘ "No lo pudo tragar. Por ser portugués" Relatos confrontados. Abolengo, poder y lectores de los memoriales de Pedro Fernández de Quirós y la bitácora de don Diego de Prado y Tovar sobre los Mares del Sur (1606-1614)', VI Seminario Internacional. Rindiendo Cuentas: las autoridades americanas ante el poder central, Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Departamento de Historia de América I, 6 December 2011. ** 'El estudio de los encuentros culturales en Mesoamérica y Oceanía: La alteridad y el ritual en la obra de Inga Clendinnen', paper presented at the seminar Antropología e historia en México. Las fronteras construidas de un territorio compartido, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mérida, Yucatán, November 2011. 'Perspectivas críticas en torno a la exposición Moana: culturas de las islas del Pacífico', México, El Colegio de México, 2 June 2010. 'Shifting Ontologies in Melanesia and Mesoamerica', Magic Circle Seminar, paper presented in co-authorship with Johannes Neurath, at the Scott Polar Research Institute/University of Cambridge, England, March 2011. 'Rituals of Transformation: Rethinking sacrifice and reciprocity in Mesoamerica and Melanesia', paper presented in English at the Seminario de Posgrado: Mito e Historia en Mesoamérica, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, April 2009. 'Cultura material y valores estéticos en la Melanesia insular', Simposio - Estudios Culturales en el Ámbito Disciplinario, Vicerectoria, Universidad Cristóbal Colón, Veracruz, Mexico, April 2009. ** 'Dancing with Primordial Spirits: New Approaches to Rituals of Status Alteration in North Vanuatu', seminar paper presented at the Division of Pacific and Asian History Seminar Series, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, November 2008. 'Presencia portuguesa y española en el Océano Pacífico (SS. XVI y XVII): historiografía de viaje y expansión colonial temprana en el Lejano Oriente y las islas del Pacífico', XI Seminario Internacional sobre América Latina y China. Globalización y nacionalismo en Asia Oriental y América Latina, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe (CIALC), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, June 2008. 'Hacia una nueva antropología del ritual: Aportaciones desde la Melanesia Insular', Seminario Nuevos Enfoques para el Estudio de la Expresión Ritual. Coordinación Nacional de Antropología13 INAH, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, 2008. ** 'The historiography of hispanic travel accounts in the XVIth Century Asia-Pacific', Staff Seminar, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, 2007. 'Stone Ovens in Vanuatu: Theorizing kinship and material culture in Melanesia', SPRI- Magic Circle Seminar, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England, 2007. ** 'Les rencontres culturelles dans le voyage Quiros-Torres', paper presented at the Séminaire CREDO, Centre de Recherche et Études de l'Océanie, Université de Provence, Marseille, 2007. 'Nouvelles rapproches sur les premieres contacts culturelles dans la Mélanésie', Séminaire d'études océannienes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 2007. 'Religious Studies, Historicity and the Profane: Some problems with the anthropological study of Buddhism in the Tibetan world', paper presented for the Workshop The Practice of History in Asian Religions, University of Stanford, Stanford, 2006. Organization of panels/sessions/workshops Co-Organizer, with Paul Liffman (El Colegio de Michoacán), of the panel Shifting Ontologies and Contingent Agencies, for the 2012 Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), University of Nanterre, Paris, 12 July 2012. Participants: Diana Espírito Santo, Martin Holbraad, Paul Liffman, Carlos Mondragón, Johannes Neurath, Guilherme Orlandini, Knut Rio, Michael Scott. Co-organizer, with Prof. Frederick Damon (U of Virginia) and Prof. Wang Mingming (U. of Beijing), of two international workshops, held in in Charlottesville (2009) and Beijing (2011), with a collective volume currently in preparation. The workshops are part of a major research project titled Ecology and Time Systems in Australasia and the Americas: New approaches to climate change, seasonal calendars and value systems across the Pacific Rim, that was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) between 2009 and 2011. Participants have included: Stephen Lansing (Santa Fe Institute), Sole organizer for the seminar Beyond Religiosity: Global Comparisons on Christianity in History and Anthropology/Más Allá de la Religiosidad: Comparaciones globales del cristianismo en la historia y la antropología, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, México City, 2006. Participants: Lissant Bolton, Frederick H. Damon, Annelin Eriksen, Thorgeir Kolshus, Mark Mosko, Federico Navarrete, Knut Rio, Joel Robbins. Book Presentations Perspectivas del Norte: cinco textos sobre la lengua y la cultura de los Samis by Hakan Rydving, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas-UNAM, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, 21 June 2012. El control de la estampa erótica japonesa shunga, by Amaury García Rodríguez. Comentarista invitado. México, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 15 August 2011. 14 Festines y Ritualidades (Arqueología y Antropología de las Religiones. Vol. 2), by Patricia Fournier and Walburga Wiesheu (eds.), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, 2008. Arte Islámico, evocación del paraíso by León Rodríguez Zahar, El Colegio de México, México, 2008. Sri Sumarah. Libro de Umar Kayam, translated by Evi Yuliana Siregar and Atzimba Luna Becerril, El Colegio de México, México City, 2008. Peer Review and Other Service Scholarly 2012 External Reviewer of Research Proposals for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France 1998 External Reviewer for the Pacific Editorial Board, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National Univesity. Applied Sept - Nov 2003 External reviewer of projects for the Dutch-German NGO Braille Without Borders, Tibet and the Tibet Disabled Persons Federation (TAR regional government). Commissioned to carry out social impact assessment of BWB and TDPF proyects in Lhasa and nearby counties. Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC. Sept 2002 Nov 2003 Project Consultant for the Spanish NGO Comunidad Humana, in Lhasa, and Consultant for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), in Tsedang, Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC. Mar 2002 Feb 2003 Project Officer for the NGO Eco-Himal, in Lhasa. Eco-Himal has offices in Italy, Austria, Sweden, the UK and Nepal. As project officer I was in charge of supervising the implementation of education and health-related initiatives, as well as some exploratory environmental conservation work, in various different rural areas of the TAR. Activities in relation to Pacific Arts and Museum Studies 2012 Publication of a brief chapter on North Vanuatu artefacts for The Melanesian Collections and the British Museum, edited by Lissant Bolton and Nicholas Thomas. Sept 2012 Docent lecturer for the De Young Gallery, San Francisco, in relation to their Melanesian collection. Sept 2011 'Representing the Pacific in Mexico: the curatorship of Moana: Cultura de las Islas del Pacífico', paper presented at the Western Museums Association and Pacific 15 Islands Museums Association Annual Meeting 2011: Contemporary Pacific Arts in International Institutions: Regional Views and Critiques, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. 2011 Docent lecturer for the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), in relation to recent exhibits of contemporary Chinese and South East Asian art, including the work of Cai Quo-Qiang (See publications for participation in catalogues from MUAC) 2009-2011 Co-curator of the Pacific Hall at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC), in downtown Mexico City. The MNC holds the largest collection of Pacific Islands' artefacts in Latin America; the Pacific Hall showcases this collection together with artefacts from South East Asia, East Asia, Pacific North West Coast (First Nations), Arctic and South American societies. 2008-2010 Curator of the international exhibit Moana: Culturas de las Islas del Pacífico at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City (see also publications). This exhibit was carried out in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico), the Field Museum (Chicago), the Peabody Essex Museum (Massachussetts), the De Young Gallery (San Francisco), and with advice from Joshua Bell (Smithsonian Institution) and Sean Mallon from Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, NZ). This exhibit included over 220 objects from collections belonging to the above institutions, except Te Papa, and also included a catalogue with contributions from world authorities on Oceanic material culture. 16