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Global Seminar 2019 Dr. Carol Conzelman Daily Schedule: ANTH 4020 Democracy & Development in Bolivia

Day/Date Morning Activity Afternoon Activity Evening Activity Departure Flights to Miami or Houston – Overnight flights Write in Field Journal coordinate with other students during flight Day 1 Arrive , van to Hostal Naira, Welcome Lunch at Angelo Rest and downtime, Wed 6/12 rest until noon; city orientation, Colonial; visit Museo de la write your arrival story in Bolivian greetings, manners and Coca, Artesania your Field Journal customs, emergency evacuation plan; textile shop, witches market health and safety orientation Day 2 Establish Morning Meeting format Coca Policy Panel Evening discussion: Thu 6/13 and schedule; share arrival stories; at Hotel Torino (pizza after) What is critical thinking? meet in ethnographic research * Guest Speakers: Kathryn What is ethnography? teams; visit Plaza Murillo and Calle Ledebur, AIN; Silvia Rivera, Jaen historical district and museums THOA; Ely Peredo, reporter Day 3 U.S. Embassy meeting with Deputy Visit , urban Visit El Ceibo, fair trade Fri 6/14 Chief of Mission and other Foreign community centers, and organic chocolate Service staff; lunch near Plaza Andean Architecture cooperative; ride gondola Abaroa; fair trade organic Yungas * Guest Speaker: Marco back to La Paz; debrief in coffee shop; ride urban gondola! Quispe, METRO director research teams Day 4 FIESTA del GRAN PODER Write in Field Journal; Sat 6/15 Folkloric parade to honor Catholic religion and Bolivia’s cultural rest and pack up heritage with traditional dancers and musicians * participant observation exercise #1 Day 5 Visit legal coca market in Villa Fatima walking tour, central Welcome Dinner: Sun 6/16 * Guest Speaker: Marlene Quisbert plaza, Sunday market, El Cafetal restaurant Van to Coroico, 3 hours, ch’alla at La soccer game (trucha, llama steaks, Cumbre and view of the Death Road; * participant observation spaetzle, palta, mate de arrive Hotel Esmeralda, unpack, rest exercise #2 coca, etc.) Day 6 Presentation at Radio Uchumachi, Visit Tocaña for lunch and Evening discussion: Mon 6/17 La Voz del Pueblo program, individual Afro-Bolivian dance/music Rural development, introductions and group song performance, talk with coffee economy, community members sustainability, USAID Day 7 Experiential Day on COFFEE Hand-grind and depulp Write in Field Journal, Tue 6/18 Pick coffee cherries in Capellanía, coffee cherries, sample a debrief in research teams visit CENCOOP cooperative and homemade cappuccino processing plant, lunch at Don * optional activity: walk Marcelino and Doña Remi’s house back to Coroico Day 8 Experiential Day on COCA LEAF Visit elementary and high Evening discussion: Wed 6/19 Pick coca outside of Cruz Loma and schools, local coca markets “Cocaine Unwrapped” talk with cocaleros and merchants all * optional activity: swim in film on coca, cocaine, morning, lunch in cocal San Jacinto waterfalls and U.S. war on drugs Day 9 Visit Caritas offices to learn about Coroico and Yungas history, Write in Field Journal, Thu 6/20 rural development and the social relationship between city debrief in research teams justice arm of the Catholic Church and campo, modernization * Guest Speakers: Caritas civil * Guest Speaker: Natalio engineers, nurses, and social workers Rossel at Lluvia de Oro Bolivia Global Seminar 2019 Dr. Carol Conzelman

Day 10 AYMARA NEW YEAR (Solstice)— Afternoon free time Evening discussion: Fri 6/21 Sunrise hike up Cerro Uchumachi, * optional activity: music “Ausangate” film on the Pachamama and coca leaf ceremony and dancing at the Calvario concepts of ayni with guide Lucio Mendoza and an (old church grounds on the (reciprocity), coca leaf, Aymara yatiri (shaman) hill above town) and modernity in Peru Day 11 Coca leaf: culture, history, markets, Research team meetings Evaluate your team’s Sat 6/22 policies, ecology, economics with instructor; Coroico research progress, plan * Guest Speaker: Juan Angola visits; Catholic mass for coming week; submit Maconde, Afro-Bolivian ethnographic * participant observation Field Journal economist from Sud Yungas exercise #3 Day 12 Excursion to the Museum of Jewish Walk to El Jiri ecological Evening discussion: Sun 6/23 Migration in Charobamba to study refuge for lunch and class “South of the Border” WWII and Jewish refugees, Klaus meeting, hike by ancient film on New Left and Barbie and dictatorships, and U.S. cocales & across foot bridge Oliver Stone’s talk in my foreign policy and the “war on drugs” * Guest Speaker: Ron Davis, class at CU in 2011, plus * Guest Speaker: Mario Hamburger, civil engineer, weaving other topics museum founder and guide cooperative co-owner, U.S. ex-patriot since the 1970s Day 13 Visit Coca Wasi, coca leaf research Senda Verde Ecological Write in Field Journal, Mon 6/24 center along the Death Road Reserve, lunch and tour of debrief in research teams * Guest Speaker: Dr. Jorge Hurtado, animal refuge sociologist, museum director * optional activity: zip line (see cocawasi.com) over river gorges Day 14 UAC in Day 1 Lunch with students, tour Evening discussion: Tue 6/25 Meet school administrators, campus, coffee processing Compare the UAC with students, and U.S. volunteers on plant, co-op garden CU, and discuss rural upper campus; pedagogy and * Guest Speaker: Padre “integrated” vs. agronomy thesis presentations Alejandro Mamani, UAC “alternative” director development Day 15 UAC in Carmen Pampa Day 2 Lunch with students, tour Write in Field Journal, Wed 6/26 Meet school administrators, pig raising facility, hike to debrief in research teams students, and U.S. volunteers on valley overlook toward lower campus; veterinary science and municipality ecotourism thesis presentations Day 16 DAY of SERVICE/DIA del AYNI Meet in research teams, do Evening discussion: Thu 6/27 Collaborate with municipal officials, follow-up interviews, Film TBA, depending on UAC students, and Caritas engineers analyze data, instructor group interest to serve the Coroico community check-ins, presentation plan * Guest Speakers: Mayor and town * optional activity: hike and council members in alcaldía canyoning at El Vagante Day 17 Final Morning Meeting; meet in Use afternoon to read, rest, Plan presentations using Fri 6/28 research teams on final presentations plan, write, hike, shop, etc. the Final Paper outline Day 18 Finalize and practice presentations; Final Presentations as a AAA Despedida Barbeque Sat 6/29 lunch buffet or pizza at hotel conference session at hotel with local collaborators 1-4pm; final sauna 4-6pm at Hotel Esmeralda 7pm Day 19 End of Program—submit final Afternoon travel – do not Write in Field Journal – Sun 6/30 presentations and course evaluations plan to fly out before 7/1! program reflections