Forthcoming events

  • 31/05/2023: We invite you to our first conference of the series "Feminist Talks in Archaeology: The representation of the past in the present". Are there women in Paleolithic museums? And are these women really Paleolithic women? ​​​​​. By Lucia Diaz, from the National Museum / Altamira Research Center. Conservation/Research Department (Santillana del Mar)

    Date: May 31, 2023
    Place: Sala Casamilglia, Edificio Roger de Llúria, Campus Ciutadella UPF
    Time: 12:30h - 14:00h

Past events

  • 30/11/2022: We invite you to our last conference of the CGM -2022 cycle: "When the action is theirs: ceramics, gender and colonialism in communities of practice in São Paulo, Brazil" by researcher Dr. Marianne Sallum The conference will be held virtually through the Zoom platform, with live broadcast from the Campus UPF Ciutadella.
    Date: November 30, 2022
    Broadcast: Aula 23.103Time: 16:00h - 17:30h (Spain)
    12:00h - 13:30h (Brazil)

  • 8/11/2022: On November 8 will take place the seminar: (Re)Trobades. Una visió arqueològica a la primera circumnavegació mundial (1519-1522). Professors Sandra Montón (UPF) and Natalia Moragas (UB) will participate with the paper: "El 6 de marzo, que era miércoles": Guam i la cultura CHamoru abans i després de Magallanes. The seminar will be held at the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (Pg. Santa Madrona 39) from 17h to 20h.

  • 5-7/10/2022: The interdisciplinary workshop "Crises and Gender Inequalities from the Present to the Past" will be held from October 5 to 7 within the framework of Planetary Wellbeing. Enrique Moral de Eusebio and Sandra Montón will participate with the presentation "Colonial crisis and patriarchal turn: The 'new normality' of Chamoru societies in the Mariana Islands in early modernity" on October 6 during Panel 3 at 17h. The event will be held at the Pompeu Fabra University, Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium Ciutadella Campus - UPF, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27 Barcelona.

  • 15/06/2022: CGM Research Group invites to the second lecture of the CGM 2022 Lecture Series, featuring: "Memoria y patrimonio colonial en la Barcelona intercultural. Elementos para nutrir el debate". Mtr. Camila Opazo Sepúlveda. Universitat de Barcelona.

    11:00h - 12.30h
    Room 20.287 - Jaume I Building
    UPF - Cuitadella Campus
    Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
    Barcelona

  • 18/5/2022: CGM Research Group invites to the opening of its first lecture series 2022 with the presentation of: UNA ARQUEOLOGÍA DE LA PERIFERIA DE LAS PERIFERIAS. BUSCANDO EL SENTIDO A UNA TESIS EN EL CUERNO DE ÁFRICA. Pablo Gutiérrez de León Juberías. CSIC - Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT).
    14:00h - 15:30h
    Room 20.287 - Jaume I Building
    UPF - Cuitadella Campus
    Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
    Barcelona

  • May - Nov 2022: CGM Conferences - 2022. This conferences is proposed by the CGM-Colonialism, Gender and Materialities research group to bring to UPF archaeological and historical voices and perspectives on the interrelationship between these three components in the configuration of modernity. With this, we want to raise new and fruitful debates on the origins and operation of systems of domination that contribute to the creation of a social theory useful for understanding and transforming today's society.

  • Winter 2022 - Course : Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity: Past and Present - Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies (BaPIS) - UPF. This course offers an introduction to critical questions related to gender, sexuality, the body, and diversity in an increasingly globalized world. The course will provide students with theoretical and methodological tools derived from Gender and Feminist Studies so that they become able to analyze a variety of topics from a critical and “engendered” point of view. The topics examined will be diverse, and will include, among others, primate behavior interpretation, the origins of gender inequality, patriarchal violence, beauty canons, assisted reproduction, prostitution, transsexuality, intersexuality, contemporary sexualities, or new family models.

  • 18/11/2021 - 6/3/2022 - Exhibition: “BIBA CHAMORU. Culture and Identity in the Mariana Islands”. As part of the official program of the V Centenary and the cycle “Let's go around the world”, the National Museum of Anthropology in Madrid, presents from November 18, 2021 to March 6, 2022 the temporary exhibition "BIBA CHAMORU. Culture and Identity in the Mariana Islands". The exhibition brings to the public in Spain the history and cultural richness of an enclave so remote and little known among us with which we have very close ties, a past also marked by unequal relations.

  • Thursday, March 3, 2022 - Round Table: Round Table on the occasion of Pacific Day and the closing of the exhibition BIBA CHAMORU: Culture and Identity in the Mariana Islands. Pacific Day! Next Thursday, March 3 will take place the Round Table organized by the Spanish Association of Pacific Studies, Casa Asia and the National Museum of Anthropology on the occasion of Pacific Day and the closing of the exhibition "BIBA CHAMORU: Culture and Identity in the Mariana Islands", with the aim of reflecting on the 501 years of the arrival of the Magellan-Elcano expedition to Guam on March 6, 1521. The roundtable will include the participation of Sandra Montón, director of the Aberigua project.
    National Museum of Anthropology (Madrid).
    From 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
    Auditorium of the MNA.

  • Novembre – December 2021 - Campaign for the organization and study of archaeological materials - Guam 2021. During the months of November and December, the Aberigua project team and members of the CGM Research Group (Colonialism, gender and materialities) developed a campaign of organization and study of the archaeological materials from the excavations carried out at the "San Dionisio" site, located in the town of Humåtak, south of the island of Guam.

  • 19/11/2021 - Seminar: El patrimonio arqueológico y su socialización. Nuevos retos y propuestas para la educación en igualdad en el ámbito museístico.  The project ABERIGUA Participates in Mesa 2: 

  • La necesidad de incorporar nuevos enfoques y otras identidades al relato histórico (12.30 – 13.40), with the following interventions:

  • Reinterpretando los géneros: la proyección eurocéntrica sobre la identificación de lo femenino en las culturas precolombinas by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillo.

  • ¿Se puede descolonizar la historia? ¿Es posible? Algunas reflexiones desde el feminismo by Sandra Montón Subías.

  • ¿Incluir o integrar? Los peligros de añadir nuevos sujetos de forma acrítica al relato (pre)histórico by Enrique Moral de Eusebio

    Organiced by PastWomen, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

  • 30/9/2021 - Conference: Colonialism, Resistance, and In-Between Things in the “Spanish” Pacific. Presentation by Sandra Montón Subías in the conference Materialising Frontiers. Colonialism, Slavery, and in-Betweeners. University of Cambridge.

  • Summer 2020 - Archaeological Fieldwork in Guam

  • 05/03/2020 - Seminar: Considerando a las mujeres en la (Pre)Historia. Cuestionando los discursos sobre el pasado, by Margarita Sánchez Romero. Co-organized by IUHJVV, GRACME and CGM. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

  • 14/02/2020 - Workshop: Epistemologies y metodologies de recerca feministes. Una aproximació interdisciplinària. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Carmen Á. Granell, Enrique Moral de Eusebio & Sandra Montón Subías will be participating in this event. 

  • 13/02/2020 - Matrices de dominación, colonialismos y espacios engenerados: Una reflexión sobre la interrelación de las “diferentes diferencias” desde la arqueología. Session of the TAG IBÉRICO, Lisbon. Co-organized by Beatriz Marín-Aguilera and Enrique Moral de Eusebio.​​

  • 14/01/2020 - Seminar:  Arqueologías del Colonialismo Español en Guam: El Proyecto ABERIGUA by Sandra Montón-Subías & Natàlia Moragas. Departamento de Historia de América, Universidad de Sevilla.

  • 10/12/2019 - Seminar: Debats Transcolonials. Mirades des del cos by Mireia López-Bertran and Diana DiPaolo Loren. Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

  • 31/05/2019 - Seminar:  Going Colonial, Going Global. Gender and Material Culture in Early Modernity by Sandra Montón-Subías. Archaeology Seminar Series, University of Sydney.

  • 28/05/2019 - Archaeologies of Cultural Contact and Colonialism in Micronesia. The ABERIGUA project by Sandra Montón-Subías. Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA), Sydney.

  • 21/05/2019 - Seminar: Craving for Wheat and Meat: Colonial Foodways and Material Culture in the Mariana Islands, 1668-1674 by Veronica Peña Filiu. Leibniz Institut of European History (IEG).

  • 15/03/19 -La Arqueología Histórica: Zona de Contacto, VII Jornadas de Arqueología IUHJVV. Organized by Enrique Moral de Eusebio, Verónica Peña Filiu and Sandra Montón-Subías. CGM. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 

  • 05/03/19 - Patrimonio y Primera Globalización. La Presencia Ibérica en Guam y las Islas Marianas,  by Sandra Montón-Subías. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

  • 07/03/19 - Seminar IUHJVV: Género e invisibilidad en los museos de arqueología, by Lourdes Prados. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.​

  • 05-08/09/18 - Gender and Colonialism, AGE (www.archaeology-gender-europe.org) Session of the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona. Co-organized by Sandra Montón-Subías, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, and Leila Papoli-Yazdi.

  • 05-08/09/18 - Iberian Cultural Contact and Colonialism in the island of Guam: the ABERIGUA project, by Sandra Montón-Subías. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona.

  • 05-08/09/18 - Food and Cuisine in Spanish Colonial Guam (17th and 18th centuries), by Verónica Peña-Filiu and Sandra Montón-Subías. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona.

  • 05-08/09/18 - Fire with fire: Ethnosexual conflicts and resistances at the early colonisation of the Mariana Islands, by Enrique Moral de Eusebio. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona.

  • 18-20/06/18 - Colonising Taste and Desire: Eating and Sexual Practices in the Mariana Islands at the Beginning of the Spanish Colonial Period (17th Century), by Verónica Peña Filiu and Enrique Moral de Eusebio. Workshop: Gender and Empire: A Transimperial Approach to Gender Politics and the Colonial State, 1848-1945, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

  • 04-08/06/18 - Cuerpos "reducidos": Chamorros, jesuitas y corporalidad durante la colonización temprana de las Islas Marianas, by Sandra Montón-Subías and Enrique Moral de Eusebio. IX Reunión de Teoría Arqueológica de América del Sur (TAAS), Ibarra (Ecuador).

  • 04-08/06/18 - "Arderán sus colegios": Prácticas de resistencia etnosexual durante la colonización temprana de las Islas Marianas, by Enrique Moral de Eusebio. IX Reunión de Teoría Arqueológica de América del Sur (TAAS), Ibarra (Ecuador).

  • 15/02/18 - Género y cultura material entre los Gumuz y Dats'in de Etiopía. Una aproximación etnoarqueológica, by Almudena Hernando. Seminari IUHJVV, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

  • 25/10/17 - La “Reducción” del Paisaje: Jesuitas, Chamorros y “Paisajicidio” durante el Siglo XVII en las Islas Marianas, by Enrique Moral de Eusebio. CotArq, Congreso Internacional sobre Otras Arqueologías, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2017.

  • 20/10/17 - Gender, change, and continuity in colonial Guam (1668-1700 AD), by Enrique Moral de Eusebio and Sandra Montón-Subías. AGE (Archaeology and Gender in Europe) Workshop 2017, "Gender and Change in Archaeology", Lisbon, 19th and 20th October 2017.

  • 07/10/17 - Food Politics and Ethnic Identity in the Mariana Islands during the Nineteenth Century, by Verónica Peña Filiu. Workshop "The Spanish Atlantic and Global Europe: Connections, Encounters, Entanglements in the Long 19th Century", Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 6-7 October 2017.

  • 29/09/17 - Taller: "Arqueología del pudor: mujeres, vestido y reducciones durante el colonialismo español en las Islas Marianas", by Enrique Moral de Eusebio. VII Seminario de la AEHIM (Asociación Española de Historia de las Mujeres). Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  • 28/09/17 - Subordinación de género y cultura material. El caso de los Gumuz y Dats’in de Etiopía, by Almudena Hernando (guest lecturer). VII Seminario de la AEHIM (Asociación Española de Historia de las Mujeres). Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  • 31/08/17 - Beauty, gender, body and material culture among the Gumuz and Dats’in. An ethnoarchaeology of two oral societies of Ethiopia, by Almudena Hernando. 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht, 29 August- 3 September 2017.

  • 31/08/17 - Bodies of Colonialism. Identity and bodily care in the Mariana Islands, by Sandra Montón Subías, Enrique Moral de Eusebio and Verónica Peña Filiu. 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht, 29 August- 3 September 2017.

  • 20/02/17 - Descolonizando la arqueología (del colonialismo), by Sandra Montón-Subías. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia.

  • 20/02/17 - Cultura Material, Colonialismo y Género en el Pacífico. Una Aproximación desde la Arqueología Histórica, by Sandra Montón-Subías. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia.

  • 21/02/17 - Arqueología del contacto cultural y del colonialismo español en las Islas Marianas (Pacífico Occidental), by Sandra Montón-Subías, James M. Bayman, Natalia Moragas Segura, Verónica Peña Filiu, Enrique Moral de Eusebio, Omaira Brunal-Perry, Andrea Jalandoni and Jacy Moore. Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN, Madrid).