SATURDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am
Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am
719 // CIT015 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 3
Political Participation and Urban Governance
Organizer : Earthea Nance, Massachusetts Inst Technology
Chair(s) : Earthea Nance, Massachusetts Inst Technology
Highways to Democracy?: Urban Infrastructure Planning and the
Institutionalization of Participatory Planning in Chile, 1990-2005:
Enrique Silva Santelices, Univ of California/Berkeley
Participación y Prevención Social: Una perspectiva desde las comunidades
cubanas: María del Carmen Zabala, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
Increased Democratization or Narrowing Representation? Participatory
Governance in Lima, Peru: Lindsay Mayka, UC Berkeley
Brazil’s Transition to Participatory Sanitation, 1980-1995: Earthea Nance,
Massachusetts Inst Technology
Participatory Budgeting Re-Distributive Effects and Urban Exclusion:
Roberto Pires, Univ Federal Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
720 // CSH005 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo A
Rendición de cuentas en América Latina: Esfuerzos por la verdad y la
justicia
Organizer : Marcia Esparza, John Jay College of Criminal Justi
Chair(s) : Marcia Esparza, John Jay College of Criminal Justi
State Apologies for Mass Atrocity: A Normative and Comparative Assessment:
Ernesto Verdeja, Wesleyan University
Chile: Memoria y Justicia: Marcia Esparza, John Jay College of Criminal
Justi
Transición a la democracia en América Latina: Las deudas pendientes:
Renzo Pomi, Amnesty International
"Guatemala: Memoria del Silencio" y el muro de la impunidad: Raul MolinaMejia, Long Island University/NYU
721 // CSH012 Workshop Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal B
The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule
Organizer : Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal, CANADA
Chair(s) : Leigh Payne, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison
*: Victoria Sanford, Lehman College /CUNY
*: Ksenija Bilbija, University of Wisconsin/Madison
*: Louis Bickford, Int'l Ctr for Transitional Justice
*: Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal, CANADA
722 // CUL030 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie
Las paradojas del colonialismo post-nacionalista en Bolivia: Movimientos
sociales, culturales, y movidas intelectuales I
Organizer : Elizabeth Monasterios, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s) : Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Univ Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA
Repensando la nación post: John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
Fisuras nacionales: huellas del siglo XIX: Fernando Unzueta, Ohio State
University
Discussant(s) : Elizabeth Monasterios, University of Pittsburgh
723 // CUL058 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo B
Identity Formation in Puerto Rico
Organizer : José Carlos Arroyo Muñoz, Univ del Turabo
Chair(s) : José Carlos Arroyo Muñoz, Univ del Turabo
Legitimizing the Nation: Politics, Culture and Patron Saint Festivities in
Puerto Rico, 1950-1960: Antonio Sotomayor Carlo, Univ of
Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Los grupos y partidos políticos y la lucha ideológica 1959-1972: José Carlos
Arroyo Muñoz, Univ del Turabo
Banking on Respect: Class and Consumption in Puerto Rico: Patricia Silver,
University of Central Florida
724 // CUL062 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical B
Género y política en la Argentina
Organizer : Valeria Grinberg Pla, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat,
GERMANY
Chair(s) : Valeria Grinberg Pla, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat,
GERMANY
Sex, Kinship, and the Political in the Hegemonic Struggle between Peronism
and Catholicism (Argentina, 1945-1955): Omar Acha, Univ de Buenos
Aires, ARGENTINA
Santa-madre-puta-cenicienta-revolucionaria: Negociando la identidad
argentina a través de Eva Perón: Valeria Grinberg Pla, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, GERMANY
725 // DEM010 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal C
Espacios públicos de concertación local: ¿vías para la profundización
democrática en América Latina?
Organizer : Gonzalo Delamaza, Corporacion Innovacion en Ciudadan, CHILE
Chair(s) : Gonzalo Delamaza, Corporacion Innovacion en Ciudadan, CHILE
El desarrollo de base y los espacios públicos de concertación local en
América Latina: Gonzalo Delamaza, Corporacion Innovacion en
Ciudadan, CHILE, Rodrigo Villar, IAF para RedAmerica
Las políticas públicas participativas, las organizaciones de base y la
construcción de espacios públicos de concertación local: Manuel Canto
Chac, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Xoch, MEXICO
Gestión pública municipal y experiencias de concertación gobierno sociedad: Cristina Filgueiras, Univ Catolica de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
Los espacios públicos de concertación local y sus límites en un municipio
indígena: Guamote, Ecuador: Anthony Bebbington, Univ
Manchester/Ctr Peruano Est So, UNITED KINGDOM
Discussant(s) : Philip Oxhorn, McGill Univ, CANADA
726 // DEM030 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 8
Monitoring Political Finance Systems
Organizer : Shelley McConnell, The Carter Center
Chair(s) : Stephen Randall, University of Calgary, CANADA
Towards a Regional Norm on Campaign Finance: Shelley McConnell, The
Carter Center
Illicit Campaign Finance and the State in Latin America: Rethinking the Role
of Electoral Rules: Daniel Gingerich, Harvard University
Enforcing Political Finance Rules: Marcin Walecki, IFES
Tracking Media Influence Using Geographic Information Systems: A Case
Study of Peru: Nigel Waters, Univ of Calgary, CANADA, Keith Archer,
Univ of Calgary, CANADA
Measuring Disclosure: Bruno Speck, Unicamp Univ, BRAZIL
Discussant(s) : David Samuels, Univ of Minnesota
727 // DEM065 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo D
Democratization and the Rule of Law
Organizer : Silvia Inclan, UNAM, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Silvia Inclan, UNAM, MEXICO
Multilateral and Unilateral Constitutions in Latin America: Andrea PozasLoyo, New York University
Judicial Reform in Mexico in the 1990s: Political Hedging or Political
Juncture: Silvia Inclan, UNAM, MEXICO
Enforcing the Bounds of Presidential Power: The Contribution of the Chilean
Tribunal Constitucional to Democratic Governance: Druscilla Scribner,
Univ of Wisconsin/Oshkosh
728 // EDU013 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo C
U.S. Students at the University of Havana: Five Continuous Years of
Experience by Sarah Lawrence College in Cuba
Sponsor : Sarah Lawrence College, NY
Organizer : Matilde Zimmermann, Sarah Lawrence College
Chair(s) : Matilde Zimmermann, Sarah Lawrence College
El programa "Sarah Lawrence College en Cuba": Una oportunidad para la
educación y el intercambio en el contexto cubano actual: Grisell
Rodríguez Gómez, Ctro de Estudios Demográficos, CUBA
La institución cubana como receptora de estudiantes norteamericanos:
oportunidades y perspectivas: Otilia Barros Díaz, Univ de La Habana,
CUBA
Cuban-American Students in Cuba: Uncovering Truths and Discovering
Identity: Christopher Pastor, Sarah Lawrence College
Views from Abroad: One Student's Experience in Havana: Suzanne Nelson,
Sarah Lawrence College
729 // EDU014 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal D
Investigación en educación superior: nuevos avances, nuevos desafíos
Organizer : Martha Esther Nepomneschi, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
LASA2006 - 78
SATURDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am
Chair(s) : Martha Esther Nepomneschi, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
Los gestores académicos en el desempeño de la Universidad: Análisis de los
puestos de dirección desde la teoría de la cultura organizacional: Omar
García, Univ Autónoma de Morelos, MEXICO
Contrastando los imaginarios sociales de directores, docentes y alumnos de
nuevas carreras de nivel universitario. Indagando acerca de las
aproximaciones y los alejamientos: Martha Esther Nepomneschi,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Formación de profesores para la animación institucional de innovaciones en
una Universidad Argentina: Elisa Angela Lucarelli, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Formación de Postgrado, investigación y extensión universitaria . Un caso
que vincula investigación, especialización posgraduada e intervención
socioinstitucional en una población
isleña rural aislada: Lidia Marta Fernández, Inst Inv Ciencia de la Educación,
ARGENTINA
Pesquisa e qualidade no ensino: Uma política para a educação superior:
Maria Isabel Da Cunha, Univ do Vale do Rio Dos Sinos, BRAZIL
730 // ENV001 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Ceiba
Environments, Developments and Communities: Ambiguous Alliances,
Uneven Outcomes I
Organizer : Kiran Asher, Clark University
Chair(s) : Melissa Johnson, Southwestern University
Conservation in a Creolized World: Ambiguities and Ambivalences of
Protecting the Wild in Belize: Melissa Johnson, Southwestern University
"To Know, to Conserve and to Use": Wedding Biodiversity Conservation and
Economic Development: Kiran Asher, Clark University
Protecting Pleasure Island: Protected Areas, Real Estate Development and
Race and Class Power Relations on a Caribbean Island: Crystal
Fortwangler, University of Michigan
Territorio indígena y recursos naturales en Guatemala: Silvel Elias, Univ de
San Carlos de Guatemala, GUATEMALA
Beyond Biopolitics: Towards a Political Ecology of Bio-Commerce: Michael
Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Nature, Colonial Development, and Mayanism in Southern Belize: Joel
Wainwright, Ohio State University
Discussant(s) : Andrew Mathews, Florida International University
731 // FDS010 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal G
The Industrial Adventure in Latin American Cinemas
Organizer : Victoria Ruetalo, Univ of Alberta, CANADA
Chair(s) : Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios, University of Calgary, CANADA
Nosotros los pobres: diálogo genérico e intelectual: Nayibe Bermúdez
Barrios, University of Calgary, CANADA
Early Cinema in Colombia: The Surviving History of a Novelty: Juana Suárez,
Univ of North Carolina/Greensboro
La ley que olvidaron: Resisting Traditional Female Stereotypes: Stephanie
Hurst, Univ of Alberta, CANADA
732 // GLT017 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo B
Critical Issues in the New U.S.-Mexico Relation
Organizer : Silvia Núñez-García, Ctr de Invest America del Norte, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Manuel Chávez, Michigan State University
Formulas for Accountability and Transparency in U.S.-Mexico Relations: The
role of the News Media: Manuel Chávez, Michigan State University
Mexico’s Political Transition: A Challenge for Bilateral Relations and for
NAFTA: José Valdés-Ugalde, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México,
MEXICO
The Challenge of Understanding, Assessing, and Predicting Cooperation and
Conflict for the Shared Water Resources: The Performance of Mexican
Agricultural Water Users’ Organizations in U.S.-Mexico Border
Regions: Alfonso Cortéz-Lara, Michigan State
Fostering New Elites in U.S.-Mexico Relations: Silvia Núñez-García, Ctr de
Invest America del Norte, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Scott Whiteford, University of Arizona
733 // GLT021 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo C
Rethinking an Interwoven America: Scholarship and Teaching on
Shared Experiences and Interrelations among Latin American and
Caribbean Countries
Organizer : Guadalupe Rodríguez-Gómez, CIESAS, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Susan Paulson, Miami University of Ohio
Disciplining Cuban Studies: Katherine Gordy, The New School Univ
Poor People's Movements in Transnational Networks: Implications for Two
Movements of the Excluded in The United States and Brazil: Dawn
Plummer, The Graduate Center/CUNY
Engaging Latin American Studies and Transnational Lives: Susan Paulson,
Miami University of Ohio
Consideraciones de género y etnicidad en la construcción de la Asamblea
Constituyente boliviana desde una visión latinoamericana: Pamela Calla
Ortega, Universidad de la Coordillera, BOLIVIA
734 // HIS036 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar A
Ecuador, Peru, and the United States: Recent Relations
Organizer : Ronn Pineo, Towson University
Chair(s) : Ronn Pineo, Towson University
Neoliberalism and Democracy Ecuadorian Style: Ronn Pineo, Towson
University
U.S.-Ecuador Relations: Opportunities and Challenges: John Sanbrailo,
PanAmerican Development Foundation
Arms and the Politics of Weapons Sales Between the United States and Peru:
Daniel Masterson, US Naval Academy
U.S. Participation in the Peace Process Between Peru and Ecuador, and Its
Outcome: Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo, Inst Peruano de Econ y Politicas, PERU
Discussant(s) : Lawrence Clayton, University of Alabama
735 // HIS044 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal E
Civilians and Two Centuries of War in Latin America
Organizer : Pedro Santoni, California State Univ
Chair(s) : Pamela Murray, University of Alabama/Birmingham
The Said and the Silenced: Wars Accounts in the Creation of the Chilean
Nation, 1870's-1880's: María Figueroa, SUNY Stony Brook
Women and Caudillo Conflict in Early Republican Spanish America: The
Case of Manuela Saenz's Alliance with General Juan José Flóres (c.
1840-1845): Pamela Murray, University of Alabama/Birmingham
Life on the Brazilian Home Front during the War of the Triple Alliance,18641870: Peter Beattie, Michigan State University, Vitor Izecksohn, Univ
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Life is Hell: Daily Life During the Dirty Wars: Margaret Power, Illinois
Institute of Technology
Discussant(s) : Pedro Santoni, California State Univ
736 // HIS063 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 7
Revisioning the Political History of Twentieth-Century Mexico
Organizer : Elsa Muñiz, Univ Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Elsa Muñiz, Univ Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río: Primeros pasos de un estudio biográfico (1895 –
1915): Olivia Gall Sonabend, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México,
MEXICO
El cuerpo de las mujeres y el Estado de Bienestar en México, 1956-1970: Elsa
Muñiz, Univ Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO
Historiografía de la educación en México, 1995-2005: Antonio Padilla
Arroyo, Univ Autónoma del Est de Morelos, MEXICO
La Oposición Política en el Siglo XX Mexicano: Elisa Servin, INAH,
MEXICO
737 // HSS004 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Boardroom 2
Salud, sexualidad y política en América Latina: Cuerpo, género y
desigualdades en perspectiva interdisciplinaria I
Organizer : Mario Pecheny, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Mario Pecheny, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Salud y ciudadanía: un estudio comparado: Mario Pecheny, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Promoción de la salud: La retórica y las prácticas aquí y allá: Gabriela Wald,
Univ de Buenos Aires, UNITED KINGDOM
Female Negotiation at Sexual Debut: The Politics of Sexual Control in Brazil:
Anne Moore, The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Sexualidad adolescente y control social. El caso de Trelew (Chubut): Daniel
Jones, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
738 // HSS010 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical A
The Politics of the Health Policy: Interests, Agency, Innovations, Impacts
Organizer : Jutta Gutberlet, University of Victoria, CANADA
Chair(s) : Jutta Gutberlet, University of Victoria, CANADA
LASA2006 - 79
SATURDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am
Avaliação do Projeto de Profissionalização dos Trabalhadores na Área de
Enfermagem - PROFAE/Brasil: Maria Fernanda Cardoso de Melo,
NEPP/UNICAMP, BRAZIL
Los Comités de Salud Comunitaria: Apuntes sobre una Intervención
Gubernamental en Comunidades Pobres en Puerto Rico.: Marta Bustillo
Hernández, UPR School of Public Health, Vanessa Velazquez
Rodriguez, UPR
Preparing Dentistry and Public Health Science Students for Oral Health
Prevention and Policy Research in an Andean Nation: Ann Goldman,
Geroge Washington Univ
Occupational Health and Safety of Informal Waste Recyclers in Santo André,
Brazil: Jutta Gutberlet, University of Victoria, CANADA, Angela
Martins Baeder, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL
Consórcios Intermunicipais: Mecanismo de Cooperação Intergovernamental
e de Integração dos Serviços de Saúde: Vanessa Oliveira, Univ de São
Paulo
739 // IND003 Workshop Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo A
The Place of Africa in Latin American Studies
Organizer : Anny Curtius, University of Iowa
Chair(s) : Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, Miami University/Hamilton
*: Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, Miami University/Hamilton
*: Anny Curtius, University of Iowa
740 // IND006 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Boardroom 1
Contact Languages and Social Identity
Organizer : Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas
Chair(s) : Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas, and Haralambos Symeonidis,
WWU/Muenster, GERMANY
Writing Mayas Re-Writing Mayan: The Politics of Native Literacy in
Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula: Paul Worley, UNC/Chapel Hill
El español andino en la dinámica de integración y división social: Juan
Godenzzi, University of Montreal, CANADA
Lenguas en contacto en el Caribe Colombiano: funciones y valores sociales Propuesta de estudio: Nelsy Echávez-Solano, St Jonh's University
741 // LAT006 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal A
Brazilian Immigration to the US: Identity Formation at the Cross-roads
of the Here and There
Organizer : Cileine De Lourenço, Bryant Univ
Chair(s) : Cileine De Lourenço, Bryant Univ
In the Shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival: Brazilian Immigrant
Women in Los Angeles: Bernadete Beserra, Univ Federal do Ceara,
BRAZIL
Brazilian Immigrant Women and the "Cultural Logic" of Hybridity: Cileine
De Lourenço, Bryant Univ, Judith McDonnell, Bryant University
Cross-Cultural Communication in Clinical Settings: Solange De Azambuja
Lira, Lesley University
Discussant(s) : Maxine Margolis, University of Florida
742 // LCO022 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 4
Acercamientos a la representación del subalterno en la novela
latinoamericana contemporánea
Organizer : Kevin Guerrieri, University of San Diego
Chair(s) : Kevin Guerrieri, University of San Diego
Imagen de la mujer centroamericana en dos novelas del siglo XX: Ese que
llaman pueblo y Un día en la vida: Adriana Gordillo, University of
Cincinnati
Voces y memorias en Soy un delincuente (1974): Adlin de Jesús Prieto
Rodríguez, Universidad Simón Bolívar, VENEZUELA
La inversión de los sujetos subalternos en dos contextos: "La milagrosa" de
Carmen Boullosa (México) y "Gods, Graves and Grandmother" de
Namita Gokhale (India): Jasleen Kohli, UNC Charlotte
La configuración del subalterno simbólico en "La multitud errante" de Laura
Restrepo: Kevin Guerrieri, University of San Diego
Surrealist Objectivity and the Symbolic Representation of Subalterns in the
Total Novels of Fernando del Paso: Mark D. Anderson, University of
North Texas
El amor en los tiempos de castas: "Angeles del abismo" de Enrique Serna:
Martín Camps, University of the Pacific
Discussant(s) : Traci Roberts-Camps, University of the Pacific
743 // LCO024 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 5
Breaking City Boundaries: The Process of Self-Examination
Organizer : Ariana Huberman, Alfred University
Chair(s) : Ariana Huberman, Alfred University
Forbidden Zones: Configurations of the Exotic in Jewish Latin American
Literature: Ariana Huberman, Alfred University
Using the City to Map the Social Landscape in La nave de los locos: Kerry
Kautzman, Alfred Univ
Exile at home and abroad in La novela de mi vida by Leonardo Padura
Fuentes: Manuel Martinez, Ohio Dominican University
Erotismo, muerte y juegos de identidad en A obscena senhora D de Hilda
Hilst y El monte de Venus de Mercedes Santos Moray: Monica Ayala
Martinez, Denison University
Discussant(s) : Alejandro Meter, Univ of San Diego
744 // LCO052 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 6
De-centering Latin American Criticism: The Centrifugal Nation in
Caribbean and Central American Poetry
Organizer : John Waldron, Univ of Vermont
Chair(s) : John Waldron, Univ of Vermont
El mar y los regresos. Notas sobre el viaje en la poesía cubana: Norberto
Codina Boeras, Union Escritores y Artistas Cuba, CUBA
Invisible Eccentrics: Puerto Rican Poetry and La Ley de Mordaza: John
Waldron, Univ of Vermont
“País mío no existes”: The Poetic Displacement of Central America in the
Search for New National Identities: Yvette Aparicio, Grinnell College
Esu's Third Way in Nicolás Guillén's El diario que a diario: Frances Jaeger,
Northern Illinois University
Endometrial Eroticism: The Special Period Poetics of Reina María
Rodríguez: Erin Finzer, University of Kansas
745 // LIA002 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie
La crónica: descentramientos y violencias de/en el género
Organizer : Anadeli Bencomo, University of Houston
Chair(s) : Anadeli Bencomo, University of Houston
Historias mínimas: el cruce del discurso histórico y relatos "insignificantes"
en Falsas crónicas del Sur de Ana Lydia Vega: Magdalena PerkowskaAlvarez, Hunter College
Cuerpos urbanos, museo y memoria en Diamela Eltit: Claudine Potvin, Univ
of Alberta, CANADA
De las páginas rojas a las crónicas de sucesos: José Duque y Rossana
Reguillo: Anadeli Bencomo, University of Houston
Tropological Displacements and the Meanings of Killing along the U.S.Mexico Border: Ignacio Corona, Ohio State University
El oficio terrenal de narrar la violencia en Rodolfo Walsh y Carlos
Monsiváis: Claudia Caisso, Universidad Nacional de Rosario,
ARGENTINA
Feminismo hispano en Nueva York: de lo que hablaban las crónicas
feministas de "Gráfico": Maria Teresa Vera Rojas, University of
Houston
Discussant(s) : Rossana Reguillo, Inst de Est Sup de México, MEXICO
746 // LIA053 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie
Transcending Narratives: Contestation and Accomodation in Colonial
Mesoamerican Texts
Organizer : Nestor Quiroa, Wheaton College
Chair(s) : Nestor Quiroa, Wheaton College
Reading the "Títulos": Indigenous Self-perception and Re-definition in
Colonial Guatemala: Nestor Quiroa, Wheaton College
The Tragic and the Comic: The Annals of Cuauhtitlán and the Historia de la
Nación Chichimeca as Historic Responses to Colonialism: Leisa
Kauffmann, Monmouth College
Pre-Colonial Image-Post-Colonial Text: Accommodating Native Voices:
Victor Martinez, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Reading Testimonies and Petitions as Quotidian Native Narratives: Jovita
Baber, Texas A&M University
Discussant(s) : Stephanie Wood, University of Oregon
747 // LIA061 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 10
Humanism after Cultural Studies
Organizer : Ignacio Sánchez Prado, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s) : Santiago Castro Gómez, Univ Javeriana, COLOMBIA
LASA2006 - 80
SATURDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am
El diablo en el clasicismo: Jorge Cuesta, Edward Said, Alfonso Reyes:
Ignacio Sánchez Prado, University of Pittsburgh
Cultural Studies, Reification and Periphery: Neil Larsen, University of
California/ Davis
The Humanities at the Crossroads of Globalization: Abril Trigo, Ohio State
University
The Ethics of Independence: Ricardo Palma on Bolívar and ther Male
Heroes: Robert Conn, Wesleyan University
La historia interna y la unidad espiritual originaria: correspondencias
mistralianas desde la criollidad: Raúl Ianes, Miami Univ
748 // LIA069 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie
Antonio José Ponte and Contemporary Cuban Culture
Organizer : Esther Whitfield, Brown University
Chair(s) : Esther Whitfield, Brown University
Ponte's Urban Poetry: Rereading Asiento en las ruinas: Daniel Balderston,
University of Iowa
El ojo testador: Antonio José Ponte y sus andares por La Habana
postsoviética: Nestor Rodriguez, Univ of Toronto, CANADA
La poética sustitutiva de Antonio José Ponte: Carlos Alonso, Columbia
University
Cortar sin cortar: Antonio José Ponte's Deconstructivist Political Critique:
Dierdra Reber, Emory University
Traces of a Defunct Empire: Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
Havana as Beirut: Ideological Geographies of the Ruin: Esther Whitfield,
Brown University
Discussant(s) : Antonio José Ponte, , CUBA, Marta Hernández Salván,
University of Maine
749 // MCB029 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie
Vulnerabilidad y políticas sociales
Organizer : Sofia Quintero-Espinosa, Universidad de las Americas, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Sofia Quintero-Espinosa, Universidad de las Americas, MEXICO
Criminalizing and Deporting Undocumented Migrants under the New
National Security Regime: Implications for Central America: Linda
Allegro, Rollins College
The Media and Citizen Diplomacy: Constructing a Culture of Peace and
Development in the Ecuador-Peru Border Region: Raúl Saba, University
of Arizona
Mexican Migrant Youth: Crossing the Border from Guanajuato to Alabama:
Alicia Tinley, Ford Fundation, MEXICO
750 // POL007 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 9
Party Organizations in Argentina
Organizer : Alberto Föhrig, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Alberto Föhrig, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA
Liderazgos y Partidos Políticos: Las transformaciones en el Peronismo a la
luz del proceso electoral 2005: Darío Andrés Rodríguez, ,
ARGENTINA
It’s the Economy, Stupid: the Provincialization of Electoral Politics in
Argentina: Julieta Suarez-Cao, Northestern Univ
The Candidate Selection of the Argentine Party: Causes and Consequence:
Hideki Shinozaki, Grad School of Inter Coop St, COLOMBIA
Factions in Argentine Politics: Alberto Föhrig, Universidad de San Andres,
ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Mark Jones, Rice University
751 // POL016 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar B
Nonstate Security Communities
Organizer : Kristina Mani, Oberlin College
Chair(s) : Kristina Mani, Oberlin College
Rethinking Security Communities: Bringing Nonstate Actors In: Kristina
Mani, Oberlin College
Colombia: Active Neutrality at the Margins: Aldo Civico, Columbia
Univ/Teachers College
Public Insecurity: Everyday Life, Urban Violence, and Uncertainty in a
Brazilian Favela: Ben Penglase, Texas Christian Univ
Discussant(s) : Pablo Policzer, Univ of Calgary, CANADA
752 // POL029 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical C
Actividad de inteligencia y su control en América Latina: El desafío de
aunar eficacia con legitimidad democrática
Organizer : José Manuel Ugarte, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : José Manuel Ugarte, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
El control de la actividad de inteligencia: Bases jurídicas, objetivos, medios,
formas, desafíos, y desarrollo legislativo en América Latina: José
Manuel Ugarte, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
O impacto do processo de transição e democratização na determinação do
Controle Público sobre as agências nacionais de inteligencia argentina,
brasileira e chilena: Priscila Antunes, Univ Estadual de Campinas,
BRAZIL
La inteligencia estratégica en países emergentes: Notas para una propuesta:
Guillermo Holzmann, Universidad de Chile, CHILE
Discussant(s) : Thomas Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School
753 // RRS001 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamboyan
The Catholic Church Faces Its Future: CELAM V
Organizer : Edward Cleary, Providence College
Chair(s) : Edward Cleary, Providence College
Liberation Theology: The Movement that Fell from the Sky?: Robert Mackin,
Texas A&M Univ
Challenging Catholicism: Are Pentecostals Overtaking Catholics? and Other
Stereotypes: Edward Cleary, Providence College
Christian Communities: Sustaining Force of the Church's Future ?: Robert
Pelton, Univ of Notre Dame
Discussant(s) : Bruce Calder, University of Illinois/Chicago
754 // SMO005 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal F
Counter- Hegemony, Racism and Violence in the Americas
Organizer : David Howard, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
Chair(s) : David Howard, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
Geographies of Racialized Violence in the Americas: David Howard,
University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
Resisting Terror: Black Communities on Colombia’s Pacific Coast Against
Forced Displacement: Ulrich Oslender, UCLA
‘Resistance as Creation’: A New Sociability in Argentina: Dina Khorasanee,
MTD Solano, ARGENTINA
“A Heavy Hand”; Central America Responds to Gangs: Mo Hume, Univ of
Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
Discussant(s) : Judith Adler Hellman, York University, CANADA
755 // SMO015 Panel Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 am Las Olas
Levels of Resistance: Social Movements from Below, Venezuela's ALBA
from Above
Organizer : Harry Vanden, University of South Florida
Chair(s) : Harry Vanden, University of South Florida
IMF Protest and Political Outcomes in Latin America: Jonathan Shefner,
University of Tennessee
New Social Movements: Transnational Social Movements and the Struggle for
Human Rights in Afro Latin America: David Kwame Dixon, DePauw
University, SPAIN
The Canary's Dead: Implications for Latin American Resistance: Glen David
Kuecker, DePauw University
Effective Mobilization of Brazil's Sem-Terra (MST): Origins, Organization,
and Mística: Daniela Issa, Univ of Tampa
La nueva geoeconomía sudamericana: la alternativa de la resistencia al
neoliberalismo y la globalización.: Carlos Oliva Campos, Asoc Unidad
de Nuestra America, CUBA
Discussant(s) : Gary Prevost, St. John's University, Richard Stahler-Sholk,
Eastern Michigan University, MEXICO
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Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am
756 // AGR015 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal D
Agribusiness in the Americas: 25 Years Later
Organizer : Cliff Welch, Grand Valley State University, BRAZIL
Chair(s) : Cliff Welch, Grand Valley State University, BRAZIL
A Quarter Century of Agribusiness in Mesoamerica: Charles Brockett,
University of the South
"Participatory Development" in a Nontraditional Agricultural Export Market:
Sarah Hamilton, Univ of Denver
Agribusiness in Mexico since the Reform of Article 27 in 1992: Horacio
Mackinlay, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Ixtapalapa, MEXICO
Behind the Numbers: Agribusiness in Political Context in Mato Grosso,
Brazil: Emilie Peine, Cornell University
Understanding the Agribusiness and Peasant Movements in Brazil: Bernardo
Mançano Fernandes, São Paulo State University, BRAZIL
Discussant(s) : Roger Burbach, Univ of California/Berkeley
757 // ART005 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 3
Re-Visiting Three Artists
Organizer : María del Mar González González, Univ of Illinois/UrbanaChampaign
Chair(s) : María del Mar González González, Univ of Illinois/UrbanaChampaign
Revisiting Jack Delano’s Puerto Rico: A Critical Evaluation of the
Construction of Puerto Rico’s Imag(in)ing: María del Mar González
González, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Women on the Wire: María Izquierdo's Images of Circus Performers: Nancy
Deffebach, San Diego State University
Biography and Interpretation in Outsider Art:The Enigma of Martín Ramírez
and the Cristero Rebellion: Victor Espinosa, Northwestern University
Discussant(s) : Oscar Vazquez, Univ of Illinios/Urbana-Champaign
758 // CIT002 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 8
Pumas, Hippies, And Thugs: Urban Narratives of Mexico City
Organizer : Elaine Carey, St. John's University
Chair(s) : Elaine Carey, St. John's University
Desigualdades socioespaciales en la Ciudad de México en los albores del
siglo veintiuno: Sonia Bass, El Colegio de México, MEXICO
La ciudad caótica de Carlos Monsiváis: Bridget Franco, Univ of
California/Irvine
Los gorilas y los halcones: Imagery and Representation in 1968 and 1971:
Elaine Carey, St. John's University
Rethinking Clandestine Networking: An Ethnographic Study of Networking
and Secrecy among Devotees of the Death Saint Cult in Mexico City:
Regnar Kristensen, , MEXICO
“Puros Jóvenes”: Youth, Corruption and Romanticism among a Group of
Soccer Fans in Mexico City: Roger Magazine, Universidad
Iberoamericana, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University, CANADA
759 // CSH009 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal F
Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality
Organizer : Juan Marsiaj, Univ of Toronto, CANADA
Chair(s) : Juan Marsiaj, Univ of Toronto, CANADA
Women's Rights are Labour Rights: The Importance of Union Democracy to
the Stuggle for Women's Citizenship in Mexico: Rachel Brickner, McGill
University, CANADA
Expanding Human Rights: the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian and Travesti Movement
and the Struggle Against Homophobic Discrimination: Juan Marsiaj,
Univ of Toronto, CANADA
Framing Human Rights: Comparing the Use of Gender by Argentine and
Chilean Human Rights Organizations: Michelle Bonner, University of
Ottawa, CANADA
Making Gender Rights Reality: National and Regional Mediation of
International Human Rights Norms in Latin America: Elisabeth Jay
Friedman, Univ of San Francisco
Reflections on the Women's Movement, the State and Feminism: The Case of
Reproductive Rights in Peru and Bolivia: Stephanie Rousseau, Laval
University, CANADA
Discussant(s) : Cecilia MacDowell Santos, University of San Francisco
760 // CUL009 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal C
Latin American Countercultures in Comparative Perspective
Organizer : Christopher Dunn, Tulane University
Chair(s) : Christopher Dunn, Tulane University
Rockdrigo Gonza'lez: Musical Landscapes of Mexico City: Mark Hernandez,
Tufts University
"Hippie Paradise": Bahia and the Brazilian Counterculture: Christopher
Dunn, Tulane University
Arte Postal em Recife: Transnational Networks of Art and Activism in the
Early 1970s: Simone Osthoff, Penn State Univ
Re-Examining the Mexican Counterculture: A Proposal for Future Research:
Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College
Discussant(s) : Robin Moore, University of Texas/Austin
761 // CUL031 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie
Las paradojas del colonialismo post-nacionalista en Bolivia: Movimientos
sociales, culturales, y movidas intelectuales II
Organizer : Elizabeth Monasterios, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s) : Felix Patzi, Univ Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA
Indios, Letrados, Bilingualism and Education Reform in Bolivia: Andean
Talibans or Neoliberal Puppets?: Bret Gustafson, Washington
University/St Louis
La insoportable locución plebeya: Gamaliel Churata y Fausto Reinaga en el
horizonte epistemológico boliviano: Elizabeth Monasterios, University
of Pittsburgh
La demoledora emancipación del esclavismo de la escritura: Arturo Borda en
el horizonte.: Rosario Rodríguez, Univ Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA
Discussant(s) : Javier Sanjines, Univ of Michigan/Ann Arbor
762 // CUL055 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie
Cities, Culture, Space
Organizer : Yanet Toirac Garcia, City University/London, UNITED
KINGDOM
Hegemonía gubernamental y transporte urbano: De Transmilenio cual
potenciador institucional de una versión identitaria nacional: Héctor
Fernández L'Hoeste, Georgia State University
"Vivir afuera": Dislocación, subjetividad y relato en la Buenos Aires de los
90: Judith Filc, Independent Scholar
'Para que nunca más...': construcción de memoria y espacio en el Chile de la
Transición: Juan Hernández García, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor
763 // DEM015 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 10
Democracy and Citizenship Rights: States, Social Movements and Social
Imaginaries of Citizenship
Organizer : Carmenza Gallo, City Univ of New York/Queens
Chair(s) : Carmenza Gallo, City Univ of New York/Queens
Democracia Electoral vs. Democracia de Ciudadanía: Emergencia de este
debate en América Latina.: Juan Angel Cordero Martínez, Centro de
Estudios sobre América, CUBA
State Capacity and Citizenship Rights: Stunted Democracy in Colombia:
Carmenza Gallo, City Univ of New York/Queens
Narratives of Citizenship and the Social Question in Latin America: Cristina
Rojas, Carleton University, CANADA
New Forms of Citizenship and Participation in the Andes: Understanding the
Electoral Success of Indigenous Parties in Bolivia and Ecuador in 2002:
Judy Meltzer, Carleton Univ, CANADA
Discussant(s) : Catherine LeGrand, McGill University, CANADA
764 // DEM032 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar B
Democracy and Trust in Latin America
Organizer : Rachel Meneguello, Universidade de Campinas, BRAZIL
Chair(s) : Rachel Meneguello, Universidade de Campinas, BRAZIL
Why do We Trust in Institutions? Exploring the Bolivian Case: Vivian
Schwarz Blum, Vanderbilt University
Government Performance, Social Activism and Democratic Trust in the
Dominican Republic, 1994-2004: Jonathan Hartlyn, Univ of North
Carolina, Rosario Espinal, Temple University
The Democratic Paradox: Public Perceptions of Representative Institutions
in Brazil: Rachel Meneguello, Universidade de Campinas, BRAZIL
LASA2006 - 82
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Institutional Trust and Democracy in South America: José Alvaro Moisés,
Univ de São Paulo, BRAZIL
Confianza y desempeño institucional democrático en México: René Millán,
Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO
Confianza en las instituciones públicas, eficacia ciudadana y democracia:
Manuel Durand, UNAM, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Lucio Renno, SUNY and University of Arizona
765 // DEM044 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical C
Internal Party Rules, Candidate Selection, and Party Politics in
Democratizing Countries
Organizer : Peter Siavelis, Wake Forest University
Chair(s) : Bonnie Field, Bentley College
Internal Party Rules and Candidate Selection in Democratizing Countries:
Bonnie Field, Bentley College, Peter Siavelis, Wake Forest University
Engineering Internal Party Democracy? The Peruvian Ley de Partidos and
the 2006 Election: Gregory Schmidt, Northern Illinois University
Democratization and Candidate Selection in Mexico's Political Parties:
Steven Wuhs, Univ of Redlands, UNITED KINGDOM
The Limits of Decentralization: Legislative Careers and Territorial
Representation in Democratic Spain: Alfred Montero, Carleton College
Discussant(s) : Mark Jones, Rice University
766 // EDU011 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 7
La reforma educativa de los 90 en la Argentina: evaluación de resultados
Organizer : Catalina Wainerman, Universidad de San Andrés, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Catalina Wainerman, Universidad de San Andrés, ARGENTINA
Inserción laboral segmentada y distribución de la educación entre los jóvenes
urbanos argentinos: Un análisis de los últimos veinte años: Ana
Miranda, FLACSO, ARGENTINA
Las reformas educativas de Argentina en los noventa: Alcances y
perspectivas: Silvina Gvirtz, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA
El Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad de la educación (SINEC) de
la República Argentina: Problemas técnicos y usos no declarados de su
implementación en el marco de la reforma educativa de los años 90:
Veronica Oelsner, Humboldt University Berlin, GERMANY, Silvina
Larripa, , ARGENTINA
Estado, mercado y universidad en la génesis de la política de evaluación y
acreditación universitaria Argentina: Angela Corengia, Universidad
Austral, ARGENTINA
La formación de los futuros docentes en el marco de la reforma educativa de
los 90: Significaciones atribuidas al "constructivismo": Marta Tenutto,
Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA
*: Jason Beech, Univ de San Andres, ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Silvina Gvirtz, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA
767 // ENV009 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Ceiba
Environments, Developments and Communities: Ambiguous Alliances,
Uneven Outcomes II
Organizer : Hannah Wittman, Simon Fraser Univ, CANADA
Chair(s) : Alicia Swords, Cornell University
Envisioning/Enacting Autonomous Landscapes: Mapuche Autonomists and
the Neoliberal Property Regime in Chile: Alicia Swords, Cornell
University
Lógicas indígenas de acción colectiva en contra de la globalización: Sistemas
comunitarios de agua y bosque en Totonicapán, Guatemala: Violeta
Reyna Contreras, Univ de Toulouse Le Mirail, GUATEMALA
Blockading Extraction: Ecological Sovereignty Meets the International Firm
in the Mexican Petroleum Zone: Anna Zalik, Univ of
California/Berkeley
ALCA y agricultura: conflictos sobre el uso de semillas transgénicas y los
derechos del agricultor: Pablo Lapegna, SUNY Stony Brook
Constructing a Web of Silence: How International Institutions End Up
Funding Projects in War Zones: Barbara Deutsch Lynch, Cornell
University
Discussant(s) : Hannah Wittman, Simon Fraser Univ, CANADA
768 // FDS009 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical A
The Industrial Adventure in Argentine Cinema
Organizer : Victoria Ruetalo, Univ of Alberta, CANADA
Chair(s) : Victoria Ruetalo, Univ of Alberta, CANADA
The Marginalization of Afro-Argentines in the National Cinema, 1933-1955:
Currie Thompson, Gettysburg College
Foreign 'Others' in Argentine Noir: Victoria Ruetalo, Univ of Alberta,
CANADA
Feverish Masculinity and the Transition to Sound in Argentina: La
borrachera del tango (1928) and Tango (1933): Kathleen Newman,
Univ of Iowa
769 // FDS020 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Boardroom 1
Visioning Trauma and Post-Trauma in Recent Latin American Cinema
Organizer : Martin Sorbille, University of Florida
Chair(s) : Martin Sorbille, University of Florida
Consumo y Narcotráfico: La droga como detonante en el cine
latinoamericano: Jorge Gonzalez del Pozo, University of Kentucky
Hombre mirando al Sudeste: Eliseo Subiela's Fantastic Messiahs: Everett
Hamner, Univ of Iowa
Buenos Aires Viceversa: Military Castration, Disappearances, and the
Traumatic Gaze in the Visual Field: Martin Sorbille, University of
Florida
770 // FEA014 Workshop Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal A
100 Years of Feminist Internationalism in Latin America
Organizer : Virginia Vargas, Flora Tristan -Peru, PERU
Chair(s) : Virginia Vargas, Flora Tristan -Peru, PERU
*: Virginia Vargas, Flora Tristan -Peru, PERU
*: María del Carmen Feijoo, UNFPA, ARGENTINA
*: Maxine Molyneux, Univ of London, UNITED KINGDOM
*: Francesca Miller, University of California/Davis
771 // FST011 Workshop Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal B
Luisa Capetillo: A 19th Century Puerto Rican Revolutionary for the 21st
Century
Organizer : Gloria Waldman, York College
Chair(s) : Gloria Waldman, York College
*: Gloria Waldman, York College
*: Norma Valle Ferrer, Univ of Puerto Rico
*: Carmen Romeu, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de PR
*: Geraldine Casey, CUNY/John Jay College
Discussant(s) : Felix Matos Rodriguez, City Univ of New York/Hunter
772 // FST013 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal E
Cultural Politics, Representation and Women's Bodies
Organizer : Ofelia Schutte, University of South Florida
Chair(s) : Ofelia Schutte, University of South Florida
Religión, espiritualidad y cuerpos femeninos: La insurgente Virgen de
Guadalupe: Clara Roman-Odio, Kenyon College
The Aesthetics of Overflow in Recent Cuban Women's Writing: Ofelia Schutte,
University of South Florida
La Bella Cubana: Crisis, Consumption and Femininity in Contemporary
Cuba: Heather Settle, Duke University
A Trained Christian Womanhood: Women and Imperialism in Early
Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico: Ellen Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant(s) : Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
773 // GLT016 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 4
Miradas locales y multilocales en comunidades transnacionales: las
contiendas por la representación
Organizer : Gustavo López Angel, Benemérita Univ Autónoma de Puebla,
MEXICO
Chair(s) : Federico Besserer, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO
Etnografía transnacional comparada: Federico Besserer, Univ Autonoma
Metropolitana, MEXICO
Comunidades transnacionales: Del territorio a la ciudadanía: Rocío Gil
Martínez de Escobar, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Iztapa, MEXICO
Economía política de la nostalgia en Jalisco y California: Diferencia cultural
y conexiones transnacionales: Hirai Shinji, Univ Autonoma
Metropolitana, MEXICO
Mercado de la Nostalgia: Karina Pizarro, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana,
MEXICO
Asociaciones de transmigrantes, membresía y ciudadanía en las comunidades
transnacionales: Gustavo López Angel, Benemérita Univ Autónoma de
Puebla, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Ernesto Hernández Sánchez, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana,
MEXICO
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774 // GLT030 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar A
Social Movement Challenges to Neoliberalism
Organizer : Benjamin Kohl, Temple University
Chair(s) : Benjamin Kohl, Temple University
Contesting the Disciplines of Free Trade in Central America: Theory and
Practice: Marion Traub-Werner, Univ of Minnesota
The Decline of Neoliberalism and the Role of Social Movements in Latin
America: Paul Cooney, Universidade Federal do Pará, BRAZIL
Women Organizing against Restructuring and Free Trade: From Mar del
Plata to Quito via Beijing: Edmé Domínguez Reyes, Iberoamerican
Institute, SWEDEN, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Goteborgs Universitet,
SWEDEN
The Neoliberal Wars in Bolivia: Transnational Conditionality and National
Actors: Benjamin Kohl, Temple University
Discussant(s) : Millicent Thayer, Univ of Massachusetts
775 // HIS003 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo D
Ethnicity, States, and Nations in the Long Nineteenth-Century
Organizer : Karen Caplan, Rutgers University/Newark
Chair(s) : Ben Vinson III, Penn State Univ
Contesting Patriarchy: Women and the Construction of Gender in 19th
Century Colombia: Guiomar Dueñas Vargas, University of Memphis
From "Persuasion" to "Strict Methods": Indigenous Resguardos and State
Education in Colombia, 1820-1840: Meri Clark, Western New England
College
Indigenous Citizenship and the Politics of Reform in Mexico: Oaxaca and
Yucatán before 1857: Karen Caplan, Rutgers University/Newark
Race, Commercial Transformation, and the Black Worker in NineteenthCentury Colombia: Jason McGraw, Rutgers University
Arson and Black Identity in Chocó, Colombia: Claudia Leal, Universidad de
los Andes, COLOMBIA
Discussant(s) : Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton Univ
776 // HIS006 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 6
La construcción de la realidad comentada: Intelectuales y periodismo en
América Latina, siglos XIX y XX
Sponsor : Conacyt-Universidad de Guadalajara
Organizer : Celia Del Palacio Montiel, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Celia Del Palacio Montiel, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO
El desarrollo de la prensa regional en México. Siglos XIX y XX: Celia Del
Palacio Montiel, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO
El campo periodístico de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca y la "década infame". La
elección del 5 de abril de 1931 en la provincia de Buenos Aires: Laura
Llull, Universidad Nacional del Sur, ARGENTINA
La prensa en Chiapaneca, después del levantamiento armado Zapatista:
Sarelly Martínez Mendoza, Univ Autonoma de Chiapas, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Dennis Ruellan, Université de Rennes, FRANCE
777 // HIS010 Workshop Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo A
Documentos o Muerte: Declassified Records and the Pursuit of Justice in
Latin America
Organizer : Michael Evans, National Security Archive
Chair(s) : Kate Doyle, National Security Archive
*: Kate Doyle, National Security Archive
*: Michael Evans, National Security Archive
*: Tamara Feinstein, National Security Archive
*: Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive
*: Carlos Osorio, The National Security Archive
778 // HSS008 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Boardroom 2
Salud, sexualidad y política en América Latina: cuerpo, género y
desigualdades en perspectiva interdisciplinaria II
Organizer : Mario Pecheny, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Maria Epele, Conicet - UBA, ARGENTINA
Gendered Suffering: Domestic Violence and Women's Health in Santiago,
Chile during the Neoliberal Post-Dictatorship Era: Nia Parson, Rutgers
University
Memoria, Olvido y Crisis: Fragmentación Social y Uso de Drogas en
Argentina: Maria Epele, Conicet - UBA, ARGENTINA
Mujeres trabajadoras de la maquila y VIH/SIDA: Construcción social de su
vulnerabilidad: Blanca Estela Pelcastre, Inst Nal de Salud Publica,
MEXICO
La promoción de la salud en la escuela: Críticas y posibilidades: Ana Lía
Kornblit, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
779 // LAT007 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo A
(Un)Bound Latina Bodies: Reproduction, Sexuality and Power
Organizer : Lorena García, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Chair(s) : Gloria González-López, University of Texas/ Austin
Latina Organizing Against Sterilization Abuse: Los Angeles and New York:
Elena Gutierrez, Univ of Illionois/Chicago
The Management of Migrant Reproduction: Jonathan Xavier Inda, Univ of
California/Sta Barbara
The Negotiation of Latina Sexual Constructions within Marginal SocioEconomic Circumstances and its Influence on their Health: Francisca
Angulo Olaiz, Univ of California/Los Angeles
"Taking Care of Myself": Latina Youth and Safe Sex: Lorena García, Univ of
California/Santa Barbara
Discussant(s) : Gloria González-López, University of Texas/ Austin
780 // LCN001 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 9
El hallazgo reciente del "Diario íntimo" (1853-1855) de Soledad Acosta de
Samper y el escenario actual de los estudios latinoamericanos
Organizer : Carolina Alzate Cadavid, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA
Chair(s) : Carolina Alzate Cadavid, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA
El Diario íntimo de Soledad Acosta de Samper: Una voz femenina en el siglo
XIX latinoamericano: Carolina Alzate Cadavid, Universidad de los
Andes, COLOMBIA
Soledad: Huellas y deseo: Liliana Ramírez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,
COLOMBIA
El diario íntimo (1853-1855), una forma de ingresar al mundo de lo público.
La escritura de Soledad Acosta: Carmen Elisa Acosta Peñaloza, Univ
Nal de Colombia/Bogotá, COLOMBIA
Los silencios del Diario: Autobiografía, ficción y escrituras: Catharina
Vallejo, Concordia University, CANADA
Autobiography as Literary Training Ground for Gertrudis Gómez de
Avellaneda and Soledad Acosta de Samper: Nina Scott, U
Massachusetts- Mt Holyoke Colleg
781 // LCN005 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 5
Livros e Práticas de Leitura na América Portuguesa: Seculos XVIII e
XIX
Organizer : Junia Ferreira Furtado, UFMG/Brazil, BRAZIL
Chair(s) : Marcia Abreu, Univ Estadual de Campinas, BRAZIL
Letra y canon: Reconocimiento literario de la Madre Castillo en la Colombia
decimonónica: Alexander Steffanell, University of Florida
Antologías del silencio: los poetas coloniales y las antologías
hispanoamericanas decimonónicas: Marcos Campillo Fenoll, Univ of
Illionois/Urbana
Uma biblioteca, um estado d’alma: Posse de livros em Vila Rica, Minas
Gerais. (1750-1808): Alvaro Antunes, Univ Estadual de Campinas,
BRAZIL
782 // LCO054 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal G
Narrativa e historia
Organizer : Clara Albertengo
Chair(s) : Clara Albertengo
A la caza de la liebre legibreriana: César Aira y la desmitificación de la
historia argentina: Clara Albertengo
Narrar el lugar: Juan José Saer y Juan L. Ortiz en diálogo: Laura Demaria,
Univ of Maryland/ College Park
Cesar Aira y un nuevo realismo en La costurera y el viento: Dolores Lima,
Univ of Maryland
De ángeles y demonios: literatura y secularización en el cuento
latinoamericano: José Martinez, University of Texas
"El Perseguidor" de Julio Cortázar: embriaguez y sobriedad en el
pensamiento occidental: Maria Verónica Muñoz, Univ of Maryland
783 // LCO055 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo B
Poesia y la otredad
Organizer : Jorge Luis Castillo, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Chair(s) : Jorge Luis Castillo, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Vigencia del Modernismo Martiano en el Grupo Orígenes: Luis Rafael
Hernández Quiñones, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
Imágenes del mal en la Literatura Latinoamericana: Esteban Ponce,
University of Maryland
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El cisne y el sátiro: Rubén Darío en el imaginario poético de J. I. de Diego
Padró: Jorge Luis Castillo, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Borges and ‘El Oriente’: Robin Fiddian, University of Oxford, UNITED
KINGDOM
El Antiorientalismo en Pablo Neruda: Consuelo Hernandez, American
University
Postodernism and Exile; Juan Ramón Jiménez in Puerto Rico: Virginia
Santos, Hunter College, CUNY
784 // LIA042 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie
Trans/nationalities and Trans/discursitivies: De-centering the nation
through epistemological displacement
Organizer : Lucy Morris, University of California/Irvine
Chair(s) : Brian Cope, College of Wooster
La cabeza del Estado y el cuerpo de un civil: poder vs. saber re-escribir en
"Sueños digitales" de Edmundo Paz Soldán: Patricia Tovar, Univ of
California/Irvine
La de-centralización del discurso histórico/nacional: En búsqueda de una
nueva identidad latinomericana en "El Naranjo" de Carlos Fuentes:
Lucy Morris, University of California/Irvine
785 // LIA058 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie
De-centering the Exotic in the Caribbean
Organizer : Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Marist College
Chair(s) : Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Marist College
The Exotic of the Exotic: Caribbean Orientalism in Puerto Rican Women's
Writing: Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Marist College
Biota and National Identity in Mayra Montero's Caribbean Archipelago:
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín, Florida Atlantic Univ
Dancers, Drummers, and Rehearsed Rituals: Representations of Possession
for Tourist Consumption: Ian Bethel Bennett, Univ of Puerto Rico/ Rio
Piedras
Caballeros, Vejigantes, Viejos, and Locas: (Un)Masking the Exotic in
Caribbean Performances: Lowell Fiet, Universidad de Puerto Rico
786 // LIA059 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie
Imaginarios femeninos en América Latina
Organizer : Susana Rosano, Univ Nal del Rosario, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Susana Rosano, Univ Nal del Rosario, ARGENTINA
Ser Evita: Madonna y la seducción de la máquina cinematográfica: Susana
Rosano, Univ Nal del Rosario, ARGENTINA
Memoria de la madre: Rulfo y Molloy: Diana Sorensen, Harvard University
Identidad femenina y conflicto autorial: Margherita Russotto, Univ of
Massachusetts/Amherst
Fashionable Desires: Consumption and Gender in Post-Caseros Argentina:
Susan Hallstead, Univ of Colorado/Boulder
Una belleza inaceptable. Acerca de "La condesa sangrienta", de Alejandra
Pizarnik: Samuel Monder, University of North Carolina
Adelaide Carraro e a invenção de autobiografia: Susan Quinlan, University
of Georgia
Discussant(s) : Juan Dabove, Univ of Colorado/Boulder
787 // MCB008 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo C
Comparative Perspectives on Latin American Emigration Policies
Organizer : David Fitzgerald, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Chair(s) : David Fitzgerald, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Emigration’s Challenge to the Nation-State and the “Nation-Church”:
Mexican Catholic and Government Emigration Policies, 1920-2004:
David Fitzgerald, Univ of California/Los Angeles
The Weight of the Past: How Historical Nationality Policy Frameworks
Continue to Matter in Argentina, Italy, and Spain: David Cook-Martin,
University of California/Irvine
Discussant(s) : Gustavo Cano, Mexico-North Research Network
*: Michiel Baud, CEDLA-Univ of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
*: Shuhei Hosokawa, In'tl Center Japanese Stds, JAPAN
789 // POL034 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical B
Democracia y Crisis en los Andes: partidos políticos y nuevos actores
sociales en Bolivia y Ecuador
Organizer : Flavia Freidenberg, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN
Chair(s) : Pilar Domingo, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN
¿Por qué se mueve esa gente? Movimientos indígenas y nuevas formas de
representación política en Bolivia y Ecuador: Pilar Domingo,
Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN, Flavia Freidenberg, Universidad de
Salamanca, SPAIN
Crisis política y gobernabilidad democrática en Bolivia: Antonio Aranibar,
UNDP, BOLIVIA
The Rural Poor After Two Decades of Neo-Liberalism: Development Agendas
and Political Articulation: Kevin Healy, Inter-American Foundation
Mayorías ilusorias. La doble vuelta en sistemas fragmentados: Simón
Pachano, FLACSO/Ecuador, ECUADOR
HALF MOON OVER BOLIVIA: NATION, REGION, ETHNICITIY, AND
CLASS: Willem Assies, Univ de Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS
Discussant(s) : Manuel Alcantara, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN
790 // POL041 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo C
Economy: Investments and Trade
Organizer : Ricardo Grinspun, York University, CANADA
Chair(s) : Ricardo Grinspun, York University, CANADA
Free Trade and "Deep Integration" in North America: Ricardo Grinspun,
York University, CANADA
The Non-Implementation of the Economic Accords in Guatemala (19962004): Omar Sanchez, Iowa State University
791 // RRR015 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo B
Critical Race Theory and Latin America I
Organizer : Mark Anderson, Univ of California/Santa Cruz
Chair(s) : Charles Hale, University of Texas/Austin
Racial Eruptions: The Awkward Place of Blackness in Indian-Centered
Spaces of Mestizaje: Charles Hale, University of Texas/Austin
Dangerous Spaces: Race, Criminality, and Drug Trafficking on the Atlantic
Coast of Nicaragua: Jennifer Goett, University of Texas/Austin
Transnationalism and the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity: Insights
from the Politics of Race and Culture among Garifuna in Honduras:
Mark Anderson, Univ of California/Santa Cruz
Rage and Representation: The New Politics of Indianismo in the Andes: José
Antonio Lucero, Temple University
Going Ethnic: Afro-Latins and Collective Land Rights: Eva Thorne, Brandeis
University
Discussant(s) : Carol Smith, University of California/Davis
792 // SMO016 Panel Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Las Olas
Levels of Resistance: Social Movements from Below II
Organizer : Tyler Duchacek, Colgate Univ
Chair(s) : Tyler Duchacek, Colgate Univ
Community Action: Politics of National Regeneration in Panama: William
Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University
World Bank and the Regulation of Indigenous Rights Under Oil Development
in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Teresa Velasquez, Univ of Texas
Social Climbers and Those Left Behind: Neoliberalism and Grassroots
Mobilization in Nicaragua: Lynn Horton, Chapman University
A Workers' Agenda for Social Change in Mexico's Maquiladoras: Robert
Huesca, Trinity University
Los Nuevos Movimientos Sociales en Bolivia y la Defensa de los Recursos
Naturales: la Guerra del Agua y del Gas: Magda Von der Heydt, Johns
Hopkins University
788 // PLE005 Workshop Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamboyan
Recentering the Periphery: Non-Latin Latin Americanism
Organizer : Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
Chair(s) : Raanan Rein, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL
*: Raanan Rein, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL
*: Barbara Potthast, Univ of Cologne, GERMANY
LASA2006 - 85
SATURDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm
793 // AGR002 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical B
Transformaciones rurales en ámbitos locales en el México actual: efectos
y respuestas
Organizer : María del Carmen Paula Cebada Contreras, Universidad de
Guanajuato, MEXICO
Chair(s) : María del Carmen Paula Cebada Contreras, Universidad de
Guanajuato, MEXICO
Los programas gubernamentales de apoyo al agro y las nuevas formas de
interacción y participación social: ¿efectos o respuestas?: María del
Carmen Paula Cebada Contreras, Universidad de Guanajuato, MEXICO
Desarrollo regional y política hidroagrícola en Guanajuato: Susana Suárez
Paniagua, Univ de Guanajato, MEXICO
Migración interna, espacio urbano en el estado de Guanajuato, México.
¿Migración campo-ciudad o urbana-urbana?: Brigitte Lamy, Univ de
Guanajato, MEXICO
794 // CUL038 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 9
Labors of the dead: The Uses of the Past in Latin American Cultural
Activism
Organizer : Brandt Peterson, University of Texas/Austin
Chair(s) : Brandt Peterson, University of Texas/Austin
Keeping the Dead Safe: Postrevolutionary Melancholy and Identity Politics in
El Salvador: Brandt Peterson, University of Texas/Austin
Archaeologies of the Nation: Eulalia Guzmán and the Impossibility of
Digging Up the Nation: Apen Ruiz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SPAIN
Cleopatra in the Andes: The Rule of Women in Popular Imaginaries of PreConquest Ecuador: Elizabeth Lilliott, BHRCS
History of Politics in San Pedro 1944-1982: Nicholas Copeland, Univ of
Texas/Austin
Performing the Roots of Pop Music: Cultural Policy, the Music Industry, and
Tourism in Pernambuco, Brazil: Dan Sharp, Univ of Texas/Austin
Toppling la historia de bronces: Learning History Anew in the Museo
Nacional de Antropología in Mexico: Melissa Biggs, Univ of
Texas/Austin
Discussant(s) : Shannon Speed, University of Texas/Austin
795 // CUL045 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 3
Nación, memoria y representación
Organizer : Maria Helena Rueda, Smith College
Chair(s) : Maria Helena Rueda, Smith College
Relatos testimoniales: Imaginar la nación en sus fisuras: Maria Helena
Rueda, Smith College
Nacionalismos banales: algunas representaciones recientes del Libertador
Simón Bolívar: Alicia Rios, Syracuse University
Spaces of Memory in Lima Barreto’s Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá:
Lucia de Sa, Stanford Univ
Cultura de masas y marxismo: El intelectual y la memoria nacional: Vicente
Lecuna, Univ Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA
Representaciones ficcionales a la vuelta del periplo transnacional (novelas,
premios y películas): Alejandra Laera, Univ de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Abril Trigo, Ohio State University
796 // CUL050 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical C
Disciplining Citizenship
Organizer : M. Gabriela Torres, University of Windsor, CANADA
Chair(s) : M. Gabriela Torres, University of Windsor, CANADA
Militares, Machos, y Guerrilleras: Masculinity and Femininity at the Service
of the State: M. Gabriela Torres, University of Windsor, CANADA
Cuban Agricultural Developments: Shifting Images of Nature: Adriana
Premat, New York University, CANADA
Mexican Women and Market Citizenship: Lucy Luccisano, Wilfrid Laurier
University, CANADA
Indigenous Citizenship and the Reconstruction of the Nation: Ecuador 19411950: Mercedes Prieto, FLACSO-Ecuador, ECUADOR
797 // CYC010 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 8
Kid Citizens / Jóvenes Como Ciudadanos
Organizer : Anne-Marie Smith, University of Liverpool, UNITED
KINGDOM
Chair(s) : Anne-Marie Smith, University of Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM
Educación crítica para los medios audiovisuales: Emperatriz ArreazaCamero, Universidad de Zulia, VENEZUELA
Subjetividades juveniles en Ecuador: Actoría social e incidencia política:
Mauro Cerbino, Fac Latinoamericana Ciencias Soc, ECUADOR
Children as Political Actors in Post-Dictatorship Brazilian Democracy:
Benedito Dos Santos, Univ Catolica de Goias State/Braz
The Morality and Materiality of Child Abandonment in Peru: Jessaca
Leinaweaver, Univ of Manitoba, CANADA
798 // DEM041 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar B
Democracy, What is it Good For? Twenty-five Years of Competitive
Politics in Latin America
Organizer : Peter Sanchez, Loyola University/Chicago
Chair(s) : Peter Sanchez, Loyola University/Chicago
Democracy and Material Well-being in Latin America: Twenty-five years of
post-authoritarian rule: Peter Sanchez, Loyola University/Chicago
Distrusting Democrats in Latin America: Ryan Carlin, Univ of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill
International Democracy Assistance and Domestic Policy Priorities in Latin
America: Sharon Lean, Wayne State University
The Persistence of Cacicazgos in Mexico: Authoritarian Islands in a
Democratic Context: Marco Antonio Fernández, Duke University
Democracy and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: Elda Becerra Mizuno,
Duke University
Discussant(s) : Dexter Boniface, Rollins College
799 // DEM057 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo A
Rethinking Democratic Breakdown
Organizer : John Peeler, Bucknell Univ
Chair(s) : John Peeler, Bucknell Univ
Zonas “claras”, zonas “oscuras”. Democracia y Competencia Armada en
Colombia: Fernando Chinchilla, University of Montreal, CANADA
Social Cleavages, Political Polarization and Democratic Breakdown in
Venezuela: Angel Alvarez Díaz, University of Notre Dame
The New Coups? Democratic Breakdown and Restoration in the Post-Cold
War Era: Steven Barracca, Eastern Kentucky Univ
The Argentine Crisis of 2001-2002: Some Implications for Theories on
Regime Breakdown and the Instability of Presidential Regimes: Lucas
Gonzalez, Univ of Notre Dame
Democratic Consolidation and the Changing Significance of Corruption:
Costa Rica: John Peeler, Bucknell Univ
800 // ECO002 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo C
The Latin American Economies after 20 Years of Neo-Liberal Reforms
Organizer : Melissa Birch
Chair(s) : Werner Baer, University of Illinois
The Politics of Energy Policy in Latin America: Electoral Cycles, Political
Institutions, and Energy Production: Allyson Benton, Ctro de Invst y
Docencia Econ, MEXICO
Neo-Liberalism and Market Concentration in Brazil: The Emergence of a
Contradiction?: Werner Baer, University of Illinois, Edmund Amann,
University of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM
Small Enterprise Credit Access in Brazil: Embedded Duality and
Discrimination?: Harry Makler, Stanford University
Income Inequality in Brazil: Structural Characteristics or Economic
Performance?: Russell Smith, Washburn University
The Impact of Neo-Liberal Reforms on Tax Burden and Revenue Structure:
Melissa Birch
Neo-Liberal Reforms, External Debt and Real Growth in the Andean
Economies: 1980-2004: Paul Beckerman
Discussant(s) : Daniel Arce M., Rhodes College
801 // ECO012 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo A
Economic Integration in the Americas: Common Purposes and Distinct
Perspectives
Organizer : Jan Peter Wogart, German Overseas Inst, GERMANY
Chair(s) : William Tyler, Univ do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
LASA2006 - 86
SATURDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Trade Integration for the Americas: What does Economic Analysis Tell Us?:
William Tyler, Univ do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Economic Integration and the Access to Low Cost Medicines in the Americas:
Jan Peter Wogart, German Overseas Inst, GERMANY
So Far from God and So Close to the U.S. Dollar: Contrasting Approaches of
Monetary Coordination
in Latin America: Barbara Fritz, Free University of Berlin, GERMANY
Discussant(s) : Frederick Jaspersen, Inst for Int'l Finance
802 // FDS004 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical A
Aportes del nuevo cine argentino
Organizer : Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State College/Denver
Chair(s) : Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State College/Denver
La búsqueda del espectador activo (en femenino): El cine de Lucrecia
Martel: Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State College/Denver
Otro punto de vista: Mujer y cine en Argentina: Viviana Rangil, Skidmore
College
El lazo vocal. Políticas de la lengua en el cine argentino de los noventa:
Emilio Diaz, Univ de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Hace 30 años: violencia, género y memoria en el cine argentino reciente:
Betina Kaplan, University of Georgia
Discussant(s) : Gabriela Copertari, Case Western Reserve Univ
803 // FDS016 Workshop Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal A
Indigenous Video in Mexico
Organizer : Alexandra Halkin, Chiapas Media Project
Chair(s) : Freya Schiwy, Univ of California/Riverside
*: Freya Schiwy, Univ of California/Riverside
*: Alexandra Halkin, Chiapas Media Project
*: Ana Rosa Duarte Duarte, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Iztapa, MEXICO,
Byrt Wammack Weber, Yoochel Kaaj, MEXICO
804 // FDS018 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Boardroom 2
Cinematic and Geographic Space in New South American Cinema
Organizer : James Cisneros, Université de Montreal, CANADA
Chair(s) : James Cisneros, Université de Montreal, CANADA
¿Foreign Land, Familiar Country: Representations of Cinematically
Unmapped Spaces of South America?: Joseph Palis, Univ of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill
From the Coast to the Sierra: Sebastián Cordero’s Microcosmic
Representation of Ecuador in Ratas, ratones, rateros: Juan Ramos, Univ
of Massachusetts/Amherst
The Neo-Liberal City in the Brazilian Retomada: James Cisneros, Université
de Montreal, CANADA
Discussant(s) : Marcelo Paz, Cal State Univ/East Bay
805 // GEN012 Workshop Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal F
Latin American Feminist and Women's Health Networks: Caribbean
and U.S. Latina Perspectives
Sponsor : LA and Caribbean Women's Health Network
Organizer : Ester Shapiro, University of Massachusetts/Boston
Chair(s) : Ester Shapiro, University of Massachusetts/Boston
*: Ester Shapiro, University of Massachusetts/Boston
*: Nirvana Gonzalez, RSMLAC
*: Olga Orraca, Red Salud Integral de la Mujer PR
*: Ana Rivera-Lassén, Univ of Puerto Rico/CLADEM
Discussant(s) : Ramona Hernandez, City University of New York
806 // GEN016 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal B
Migración y relaciones de género
Organizer : Emma Zapata-Martelo, Colegio de Postgraduados/Chapingo,
MEXICO
Chair(s) : Blanca Suárez, GIMTRAP, MEXICO
Migration to Rural Communities in the Midwest: Economic Wellbeing and
Women at the Household Level: Corinne Valdivia, University of
Missouri/Columbia
Changing Gender Relations among Hispanic Immigrants: The Family
Planning Context: Anne Dannerbeck, University of Missouri
El papel de las mujeres en los mercados locales de trabajo de alta migración
internacional en México: Jorge Horbath Corredor, Fac Latinoamericana
de Ciencia, MEXICO
La reasignación de roles y la migración: En los espacios locales y
transnacionales: Emma Zapata-Martelo, Colegio de
Postgraduados/Chapingo, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Emma Zapata-Martelo, Colegio de Postgraduados/Chapingo,
MEXICO
807 // GLT020 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamboyan
Queer Economies of Affect and Affiliation in Latin/o America
Organizer : Juana Maria Rodriguez, Univ of California/Davis
Chair(s) : Juana Maria Rodriguez, Univ of California/Davis
Affective Anxieties: Adoption, Racialization and Narratives of Latinidad:
Juana Maria Rodriguez, Univ of California/Davis
"Allá estas en lo bello": Transformista Fantasies of Migration: Marcia Ochoa,
University of California/Sta Cruz
Discussant(s) : Jose Esteban Muñoz, New York Univ
808 // GLT031 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 6
Global Markets, Transnational Actors and Latin American Politics
Organizer : Daniela Campello, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Chair(s) : Daniela Campello, Univ of California/Los Angeles
The Transnational Elite and Civil-Military Relations in the Andes: The Role of
Capitalist Globalization: William Aviles, University of Nebraska/
Kearney
Os intelectuais de esquerda na oposição ao Governo Lula: Roseli Coelho,
Escola Sociologia e Polirica São P, BRAZIL
Los costos sociales de la globalización en América Latina: Luz Araceli
González Uresti, ITESM, MEXICO
809 // HIS015 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo D
Negotiating Nation: Rethinking Colonial and Post-Colonial Collaboration
and Resistance
Organizer : Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College
Chair(s) : Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College
Defining Empire through Slavery and Freedom: Afro-Iberian Incorporation
and Movement in the Early Ibero-American World: Leo Garofalo,
Connecticut College
Ladino Indians and the Construction of Indian Identity, Lima 1640-1770:
Teresa Vergara Ormeño, Univ Nal Mayor de San Marcos, PERU
Labor Identities in Coastal Peru, 1650-1820: Francisco Quiroz, Univ Nal
Mayor de San Marcos, PERU
Peasants, Peons, and Politics: Indigenous Peoples and the Nation in
Nineteenth-Century Ecuador: Erin O'Connor, Bridgewater State College
Acting Inca: Race, Citizenship and Ethnicity in Early Twentieth-Century
Bolivia: E Gabrielle Kuenzli, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison
Discussant(s) : Charles Beatty Medina, University of Toledo
810 // HIS051 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal G
Negotiating Cubanidad: New Approaches to Cuban National Identity
Organizer : Tiffany Thomas-Woodard, University of New Mexico
Chair(s) : K. Lynn Stoner, Arizona State University
La sociedad económica de amigos del país de Cuba: Historia y presente:
Daisy Rivero-Alvisa, , CUBA
"Black Arm and Cuban Heart": War and the Erosion of Slavery in
Guantánamo, 1871-1878: David Carlson, Univ of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill
"We the Horizontals": Negotiating Prostitution Regulation in Havana, 18861889: Tiffany Thomas-Woodard, University of New Mexico
Portability, or the Remaking of Havana's Urban Frontier: Stephanie
Schwartz, Columbia University
Conferencing the Constitution: Racial Politics, State Politics, and the
Conferencia de orientación ciudadana of 1939: Lawrence Gutman,
University of Texas/Austin
Vamos a la Playa: Cuban Nationalism and the Transformation of Varadero,
1955-2000: Blair Woodard, University of New Mexico
Discussant(s) : K. Lynn Stoner, Arizona State University
811 // IND004 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Boardroom 1
Indigenous Cultural Self-Determination in a Globalized World
Organizer : Sylvia Escarcega, DePaul University
Chair(s) : Sylvia Escarcega, DePaul University
The Process of Collective Ethnography: Writing History with the Mapuche
Indigenous Community of Nicolás Ailío: Florencia Mallon, University of
Wisconsin
LASA2006 - 87
SATURDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Interrogating the Paradigm of "interculturalidad" in Andean Discourses:
Emancipation, Resistance or Consent?: Rosaleen Howard, Univ of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM
Civil Disobedient Experiences in Indigenous Political Action: The Mexican
EZLN and the Colombian Wayuu: Luisa Ortiz Pérez, Inst Tecnologico
Autonomo/Mexico, COLOMBIA
The Nationalist Indian in Contemporary Mexico: Rebecca OvermyerVelazquez, Whittier College
Indigeneity and the Restructuring of "Institutionalized" Indigenous
Communities in Mexico: Rosaria Pisa, University of Rhode Island
Discussant(s) : Guillermo Delgado P, Univ of California/Santa Cruz, Stefano
Varese, University of California/Davis
812 // IND007 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Las Olas
De-essentializing Amazonian Social and Political Space
Organizer : Frank Hutchins, Spalding University
Chair(s) : Patrick Wilson, Univ of Lethbridge, CANADA
Indigenous Leadership and the Shifting Politics of Development in Ecuador's
Amazon: Patrick Wilson, Univ of Lethbridge, CANADA
The Evolution of Colombian National Media Portrayals of Amazon
Indigenous Development and Organizing, 1980-2002: Jean Jackson,
MIT
Ecotourism and Identity in Ecuador's Upper Amazon: Frank Hutchins,
Spalding University
Writing and Power among Amazonian Quichua Speakers of Ecuador: Michael
Uzendoski, Florida State University
Brazilian Indigenous Movements: Contradictions and Creativity in
Negotiating Global Leverage in Nationalist Politics: Beth Conklin,
Vanderbilt University
Politicas étnicas y territorialidades: casos emblemáticos de organizaciones
indígenas Amazónicas: Ivette Rossana Vallejo Real, Univ de Brasilia,
ECUADOR
Discussant(s) : Neil Whitehead, Univ of Wisconsin
813 // LAT005 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal C
Latino Community in North Carolina: The Browning of a Black and
White Dichotomy
Organizer : Regina Cortina, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Chair(s) : Regina Cortina, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Disconnect and Southern Drawl: Latino Experiences in a Rural Elementary
School in the New South: Janet López, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel
Hill
Transitioning Through Life With Grace: From Mexico to the American South
and from Elementary to Middle School: Courtney George, Univ of North
Carolina
Latino/a Parental Involvement and Student Achievement in Rural North
Carolina: Keren Zuniga, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
School Involvement of Mexican Parents: Crossing Borders, Changing
Paradigms: Eleanor Petrone, Univ of North Carolina
Navigating a New Linguistic Landscape: Latinos in North Carolina
Classrooms: Kerry Villalva, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Discussant(s) : Regina Cortina, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
814 // LAW008 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 4
Justice and Legal Culture in Contemporary Chile
Organizer : Cath Collins, Research Fellow, Latin America, UNITED
KINGDOM
Chair(s) : Cath Collins, Research Fellow, Latin America, UNITED
KINGDOM
Grounding "Globalised Justice" - Domestic Cause Lawyering and the
Pinochet Case: Cath Collins, Research Fellow, Latin America, UNITED
KINGDOM
There She Is: Gloria Ana Chevesich and the Transformation of Judicial and
Legal Culture in Chile: Stephanie Golob, Baruch College CUNY
Consolidating Democracy: Judicial Access for Social Movements in Argentina
and Chile: Mariah Dawn King, Colorado State Univ
815 // LCO009 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 7
Nuevas tendencias en la literatura guatemalteca y centroamericana
Organizer : Ana Contreras, University of North Florida
Chair(s) : Ana Contreras, University of North Florida
Por los senderos marginales de la ciudad de Guatemala: Prostitución y
violencia en la obra de Mardo Escobar: Ana Contreras, University of
North Florida
Estrategias de reconstrucción de la historia no oficial: Ceremonia del
mapache de Otoniel Martínez: Aída Toledo, University of Alabama
Discussant(s) : Arturo Arias, University of Redlands
816 // LCO041 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal E
Retextualizando la nación I: Narrativas de cuestionamiento y redefinición
de la nación
Sponsor : University of California / Berkeley
Organizer : Sarah Schoellkopf, UC Berkeley
Chair(s) : Sarah Schoellkopf, UC Berkeley
Sex, Drugs, and Torture-devices: An Exploration of Women's Narrative
Discourse in Post-dictatorial Argentina: Sarah Schoellkopf, UC
Berkeley
Opera Buffa and the Debunking of U.S. Hegemony in Neruda's "La United
Fruit Co.": Carlos Fernandez, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Euclides da Cunha's Esthetic of Violence and Nostalgia: Sarah Moody, Univ
of California/Berkeley
Literatura de la posguerra de Malvinas: de cómo no se cuenta una épica:
Julieta Vitullo, Rutgers University
817 // LIA014 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie
Memoria andina e iconos culturales: el Cusco como paradigma
Organizer : Jesus Diaz-Caballero, California State Univ East Bay
Chair(s) : Jesus Diaz-Caballero, California State Univ East Bay
Usos y abusos del Inca Garcilaso, cusqueño ejemplar: Jose Antonio Mazzotti,
Tufts University
El Cusco y su modernidad en las "Memorias" de Luis E. Valcárcel: Paul
Firbas, Princeton University
"Los ríos profundos" y la reterritorialización poscolonial del Cusco: Sergio
Ramírez-Franco, University of Scranton
"Kukuli" y la Escuela de Cine Cusqueño: Gabriela Martinez-Escobar,
University of Oregon
Discussant(s) : Jesus Diaz-Caballero, California State Univ East Bay
818 // LIA037 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie
In Search of the Past: Nation, Literature and Memory in Latin America
Organizer : José Jouve Martin, McGill University, CANADA
Chair(s) : José Jouve Martin, McGill University, CANADA
Ensayos de la memoria: La construcción intelectual de la historia
latinoamericana: José Jouve Martin, McGill University, CANADA
En busca de una memoria futura: Etnicidad y nación en los Andes Centrales:
Veronica Salles-Reese, Georgetown University
Una América poética: Maria Fernanda Macchi, McGill University
Memoria, Nostalgia y Nación en Pedro Páramo: Laura García-Moreno, San
Francisco State University
Las Casas, Saco and Ortiz: Hispanism and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Eyda
Merediz, University of Maryland
819 // MAS003 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal D
Music and the Culture Industry in Contemporary Peru
Organizer : Javier León, Tulane Univ
Chair(s) : Javier León, Tulane Univ
El Señor de los Milagros: An Invented Peruvian Tradition in the Americas:
Luis Gomez, State Univ of New York, PERU
Andean Stylistics and Cosmopolitan Audiences: Mediating Tradition and
Transnationalism in the Ayacuchano Record Studio: Joshua Tucker,
Univ of Chicago
The Keepers of Tradition: Afroperuvian Musicians, Folklorization and the
Struggle for Cultural Recognition: Javier León, Tulane Univ
The Maestro Carlos Hayre: Repetition and Difference in the Marinera
Limeña: Cristian Amigo, New York Univ
820 // MCB001 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo C
Public Performances in Contexts of Migration
Organizer : Ulla Dalum Berg, New York University
Chair(s) : Ulla Dalum Berg, New York University
Carnival: The Revolutionary Difference: Sean Hays, Arizona State Univ
Returning "Home": Re-Indianization and the Objectification of Culture: Ulla
Dalum Berg, New York University
LASA2006 - 88
SATURDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Performing Citizenship: Migration, Public Culture and the Struggle over
Public Space: Gisela Cánepa-Koch, Pontificia Univ Catolica del Peru,
PERU
Performances, teatralidad y corporalidades en disputa: Santiago Canevaro,
IDES, ARGENTINA
El primer movimiento gay peruano y la parada gay de Nueva York: Alex
Huerta-Mercado Tenorio, New York Univ
Discussant(s) : Zoila Mendoza, University of California/Davis
821 // MCB020 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo B
Migraciones y procesos identitarios I
Organizer : María De la Torre Ruiz, University of Oregon
Chair(s) : María De la Torre Ruiz, University of Oregon
Hispanic or Mexican?: Race and Ethnicity Among Mexican Migrants in
Chicago, IL and Racine, WI: María De la Torre Ruiz, University of
Oregon
Migración y políticas culturales en Buenos Aires. Consideraciones teóricometodológicas para el estudio de las identidades bolivianas: Natalia
Gavazzo, UNSAM/UBA, ARGENTINA
Becoming and Emigration Country: Brazilian Press and the Image of
Brazilians Abroad: Helion Povoa-Neto, State Univ of Rio de Janeiro,
BRAZIL
Las migraciones y la desterritorialización: El caso del Ecuador: Michael
Handelsman, University of Tennessee
Japanese Immigration, Newspapers and the Quest for National Identity:
Eloisa Elena Lopez-Gomez Celis, Florida Int'l Uiniversity
Can a Homepage Cure Homesickness? Immigrants and Nostalgia in Digital
Times: Silvia Mejia, Univ of Maryland
822 // POL027 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 10
Latin American Comparative Foreign Policy
Organizer : Arturo Sotomayor, CIDE, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Arturo Sotomayor, CIDE, MEXICO
La diplomacia de las drogas en las relaciones Estados Unidos - América
Latina: Consecuencias para el Mundo Andino: Belen Boville, Univ
Autónoma de Tamaulipas, MEXICO
Sources of Argentine Policy Towards Cuba: Kezia McKeague, Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella, ARGENTINA
Economic Politics in Latin America: Rethinking Democracy and
Dictatorship: William Keech, Carnegie Mellon University
Latin America’s Middle Powers in the United Nations: Brazil and Mexico in
Comparative Perspective: Arturo Sotomayor, CIDE, MEXICO
The Influence of Domestic Issues in Chilean Foreign Policy: Study Cases in
the 90s: Roberto Durán, Catholic University of Chile, CHILE
Discussant(s) : John Bailey, Georgetown University
823 // POL043 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie
Armed Forces, Security Forces and Public Policy
Organizer : Troy Foote, Tulane University
Chair(s) : Troy Foote, Tulane University
Torture and Ideology: The Brazilian Military and the Doctrine of Guerre
Revolutionnaire (1959-1974): João Roberto Martins Filho, Universidade
Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL
Armas e política: O exército e a constituição da Força Expedicionária
Brasileira (FEB): Vágner Alves, PUC-RJ, BRAZIL
Soldados, Policías y Políticos: The Impact of the Institutional Design of
Security Forces on Regime Dynamics in Latin America: Christopher
Cardona, University of California/Berkeley
The Political Economy of Violence in Post-Conflict Situations: Nazih Richani,
Kean University
States of Difference: Competing Representations of Indianness and Blackness
in Contemporary Peru: Maria Elena García, Sarah Lawrence College
The Indigenous Origins of the Black Movement in Brazil: Jonathan Warren,
University of Washington
Discussant(s) : Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University
825 // SEC042 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie
China’s Emerging Role in Relations between Asia and Latin America
Sponsor : LA and the Pacific Rim Section
Organizer : Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
Chair(s) : Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
Chinese Investments in Latin America: Following the Japanese Path?:
Barbara Stallings, Brown University
The Impact of the 2004-5 Chinese Offensive in Latin America: Gonzalo Paz,
George Washingon Univ
Macao: An Old/New Bridge between China and Latin America? Past, Present
and Immediate Future: Rubén de Hoyos, University of
Wisconsin/Oshkosh
Discussant(s) : Won-Ho Kim, Korea Inst For Int'l Econ Policy, KOREA
826 // SMO019 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Ceiba
Mobilization and Movement Framing
Organizer : Sylvia Tesh, Univ of Arizona
Chair(s) : Sylvia Tesh, Univ of Arizona
From Pachamama to Evo Morales: The Framing of the Cocaleros' Movement:
Meghan Giulino, Georgetown University
Media as the Site of Struggle: Salvadorean News Coverage of the Movement
against Healthcare Privatization: Lisa Kowalchuk, Univ of Guelph,
CANADA
Coca Growers and Contentious Politics: Identities, Demands and
Interactions: Maria Teresa Pinto Ocampo, , COLOMBIA
The Power of Persuasion: How Civil Society Organizations Frame Policy
Issues: Amy Risley, Rhodes College
Resisting the Expansion of the Panama Canal: Why No Environmental
Alliances: Sylvia Tesh, Univ of Arizona
827 // SMO026 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar A
Working toward Social Justice: Case Studies in Latin America
Organizer : Richard Harris, California State Univ/Monterey Bay
Chair(s) : Richard Harris, California State Univ/Monterey Bay
Working toward Social Peace? Salvadoran NGOs and the Human Rights
Protection of Youth Gangs: Sonja Wolf, University of Wales/
Aberystwyth, UNITED KINGDOM
The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Knowledge Contestation as
Communicative Action: Sabrina McCormick, Michigan State University
Discussant(s) : Mary Fran Malone, University of New Hampshire
824 // RRR009 Panel Saturday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo B
Critical Race Theory and Latin America II
Organizer : Juliet Hooker, University of Texas/Austin
Chair(s) : Edmund Gordon, University of Texas/Austin
What Does it Mean to be Mixed? Racial Ideologies and the Dougla
Experience in Trinidad and Tobago: Sarah England, Soka University of
America
Momentary Essentialism: Nicaraguan Racial Identity and Politics: Edmund
Gordon, University of Texas/Austin
Indigenous Rights, Black Rights, or Group Rights? Race and Citizenship in
Contemporary Latin America: Juliet Hooker, University of Texas/Austin
LASA2006 - 89
SATURDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm
Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm
828 // AGR008 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 8
Collective Action in a Global World: Local Cooperative Processes
Sponsor : University of Arizona
Organizer : Molly Luna Iris, University of Arizona
Chair(s) : Leslie Ison, University of Arizona
El Cooperativismo Agricola: Vía de desarrollo económico social
comunitario. La experiencia Cubana 1993-2004: Armando Nova, Ctro
de Estudios de la Econ Cubana, CUBA
UBPC y Sostenibilidad Agrícola: Angel Mario Suero Rodríguez, Univ Agraria
de la Habana, CUBA
Coffee, Campesinos and Conservation in Chiapas, Mexico: Pluralistic
Organization and Ecological Resilience: Tatiana Schreiber, Vermont
College
Land Reform, Identity, and Development in an Ecuadorian Indigenous
Community: Rebecca Steinberger, University of Arizona
Bittersweet Governance: Cacao Commodities in Coastal Ecuador: Molly
Luna Iris, University of Arizona
Vintage Matters: The Political Economy of Wine Cooperatives in San Rafael,
Argentina: Julia Kentnor, University of Arizona
Discussant(s) : Margaret Wilder, University of Arizona
829 // CUL005 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 10
Empowerment and Culture: Social Actors in Contemporary Mexico
Organizer : Alejandra Castañeda, Inst Nacional de Antrop y Historia,
MEXICO
Chair(s) : Fernando Salmeron Castro, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc,
MEXICO
¿Nuevos Actores en la Política Local?: Fernando Salmeron Castro, Ctro Invst
y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO
De Urnas y Anforas. Poder e Interculturalidad entre los Mayas de Quintana
Roo: Xóchitl Ballesteros Pérez, Univ de Quintana Roo, MEXICO
COCA-COLIMA. Poder organizacional: Estrategias de los productores
rurales: Alejandro González Villaruel, Inst Nal de Atropologia e
Historia, MEXICO
De clubes, comunidades transnacionales y ciudadanos extraterritoriales:
Pablo Castro Domingo, El Colegio Mexiquense, MEXICO
Ser o No Ser: ¿Ciudadanía Truncada?: Alejandra Castañeda, Inst Nacional de
Antrop y Historia, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Héctor Tejera Gaona, UAM-Iztapalapa, MEXICO
830 // DEM056 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo A
Protest and Participation: Popular Democracy and its Dilemmas
Organizer : Kathleen Bruhn, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Chair(s) : Kathleen Bruhn, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Os dilemas da democracia participativa no Brasil: Reflexões a partir de três
experiências: Carlos A. de Vaconcelos Rocha, , BRAZIL
Corruption Scandals in Costa Rica: Evelyn Villarreal-Fernández, , UNITED
KINGDOM
Partisanship and Protest in Fragile Democracies: Lessons from Mexico and
Brazil: Kathleen Bruhn, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Bolivia: Resistance, Democracy, and Governing Stability: Dwight Hahn,
John Carroll University
Citizen Participation, Social Capital and Democracy in Neoliberal Latin
America: Argentina, Chile and Mexico in Comparative Perspective:
Paul Posner, Clark University
Between Deepening and Endangering Real-Existing Democracy: Piqueteros,
Indígenas and the Recent Crises of Democracy in Argentina and
Ecuador: Jonas Wolff, Peace Research Inst Frankfurt PRIF, GERMANY
831 // DEM059 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 3
What the Publics Have to Say: Public Opinion on Politics
Organizer : James McCann, Purdue University
Chair(s) : James McCann, Purdue University
Entonces, ¿Qué es la democracia? Las interpretaciones de la clase
trabajadora de Buenos Aires: Pablo Martín Dalle, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA, Carolina Najmias
Class Voting: Latin America and Western Europe in the 1990s: Scott
Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame, Mariano Torcal, Univ Pompeu
Fabra, SPAIN
Engagement in Politics – An Enduring Disposition or a Passing Fancy?
Evidence from Mexico, 2000-2002: James McCann, Purdue University
Does the Institutional Organization of the Electoral Authority Explain Lack of
Trust in Democracy? Evidence from Latin America: Guillermo Rosas,
Washington University/ Saint Louis
832 // ECO001 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 6
Privatization: Recent Experience and Current Trajectories
Organizer : Amy Bellone Hite, Xavier University of Louisiana
Chair(s) : Paul Ciccantell, Western Michigan University
Privatization and Partnership Between the Amazon and Shanghai: Brazil's
CVRD and China's Baosteel: Paul Ciccantell, Western Michigan
University
Privatizing the Patrimony: How Local Struggles and Global Markets
Mediated the Privatization of Venezuelan Steel and Aluminum
Industries: Amy Bellone Hite, Xavier University of Louisiana
Privatizing the Revolution: The Dynamics of Capitalist Market Mechanisms
in Cuba's Energy Sector: Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, University of
Nebraska/Omaha
Aguas Turbias: The Privatization of Water and Sewage Services in Argentina:
Leopoldo Rodriguez, Portland State University
Decentralized Interdependence: Possibilities for Integrated Water
Management under Neo-liberal Reform: LaDawn Haglund, Arizona
State Univ
833 // ECO014 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal F
Patterns of Development in Theoretical, Historical and Comparative
Perspective
Organizer : Leslie Elliott Armijo, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Chair(s) : Leslie Elliott Armijo, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Colonial Legacies and Divergent Development in Spanish America: A
Comparative Study of Mexico and Peru: Matthew Lieber, Brown
University
Ideology or Rationality? Explaining State-Firm Cooperation in the Latin
American Energy Sector: Gustavo De las Casas, Columbia University
Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of ECLAC's PostNeoliberal Development Paradigm: Fernando Leiva, University at
Albany
Developing a Knowledge-Based Economy: Does Singapore Offer Lessons for
Latin America?: Roy Nelson, Thunderbird
Adapting to Globalization: Models of Capitalism in Costa Rica and the
Dominican Republic: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, University of London,
UNITED KINGDOM
Discussant(s) : Ruben Berrios, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
834 // EDU021 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo C
The Power of Language in Latin American Education
Organizer : Kayla Price, Univ of Texas/Austin
Chair(s) : Kayla Price, Univ of Texas/Austin
Writing Kuna: The Implications of Developing a Standard Writing System for
an Indigenous Language: Kayla Price, Univ of Texas/Austin
La Enseñanza del Español como Segunda Lengua en los Programas de
Educación Indígena en Yucatán, México: Miguel Guémez-Pineda, Univ
Autonoma de Yucatan, MEXICO
"The more they go to school, the more they get pregnant": The Gendered
Construction of Youth, Schooling and Sexuality in a Venezuelan Town:
Janise Hurtig, Univ of Illinois/Chicago
835 // EXC006 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal D
Visual Arts in Latin America
Organizer : Teresa Stojkov, Univ of California/Berkeley
Chair(s) : Teresa Stojkov, Univ of California/Berkeley
La poética del color y el espacio en la pintura abstracta: Conexiones
transatlánticas: Aurora Alcaide Ramírez, Univ de Granada, SPAIN
Teresa Margolles: Réquiem a la mexicana: Cecilia Palmeiro, Princeton
University
El SIDA y rituales de muerte: La pintura de Carlos Collazo: Alberto Galindo,
Princeton Univ
Paz Errázuriz and the Nomads of the Sea: Andrea Parra, Univ of Southern
California
Painting and Writing: The Representational Strategies of Zapatista Landscape
and Artemio Cruz: Teresa Stojkov, Univ of California/Berkeley
The Role of Local Museums in Expanding the World View: Alexis Del Rio
Cumba, Univ de Puerto Rico
LASA2006 - 90
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836 // FDS015 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal B
Filmmakers Without Borders
Organizer : Dolores Tierney, Sussex University
Chair(s) : Dolores Tierney, Sussex University
"Strand in Mexico" 1932-34: James Krippner, Haverford College
"The Pearl of the World": John Steinbeck and Emilio Fernandez's "The
Pearl": Dolores Tierney, Sussex University
Lation Directors Meet Stars without Borders: Robert Rodriguez & Antonio
Banderas, Partners in Action: Christine Holmlund, Univ of Tennessee
Transnational Exile: Allegory in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe: Ernesto
Acevedo-Muñoz, University of Colorado/Boulder
Cinema’s Transnational Lens: Director of Photography Gabriel Figueroa and
the Construction: Kerry Hegarty, Emory University
Between "Indie" and "Independiente" in Recent Mexican Cinema: Misha
Maclaird, Tulane University
Discussant(s) : Catherine Grant, Univ of Kent, UNITED KINGDOM
837 // FEA008 Other Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Las Olas
LASA/ Oxfam America Martin Diskin Lectureship
Organizer : Sonia Alvarez, Univ of Massachussetts/Amherst
838 // GLT002 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical C
Globalización y fronteras fluctuantes
Organizer : Marcos Aguila, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Xochimilco, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Marcos Aguila, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Xochimilco, MEXICO
Fronteras itinerantes, trabajadores con identidadades fluctuantes: Marcos
Aguila, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Xochimilco, MEXICO
Globalización y nuevas fronteras económicas: Jeffrey Bortz, Appalachian
State Univ
Maquila y desarrollo regional en la frontera norte de México: María Antonia
Correa, UAM /Xochimilco, MEXICO
Globalización, cambio demográfico y fronteras en América Latina: Fortino
Vela, UAM /Xochimilco, MEXICO
Flujos internacionales de capital a América Latina: El caso de México en el
marco del TLCAN: Roberto Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, UAM-Xochimilco,
MEXICO
839 // HIS038 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie
Agrarian Expansion and Social Conflicts in Latin America, 1850-1930
Organizer : Claudio Robles, Whitworth College
Chair(s) : Claudio Robles, Whitworth College
De las formas cotidianas de resistencia a la política nacional. Los
trabajadores rurales y la transformación del sistema de hacienda en
Chile, 1870-1930: Claudio Robles, Whitworth College
Life after the Triple Alliance War: Emerging Market Capitalism and Peasant
Response in Rural Paraguay, 1870-1936: Kevin Chambers, Gonzaga
University
Estado e meios de transporte no sertão brasileiro (1905-1968): Estrada de
Ferro Tocantins – frágil elo vital na rota Goiás-Belém do Pará: Dulce
Portilho Maciel, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, BRAZIL
Tobacco Growers, Agricultural Organizations, and State Involvement in
Puerto Rico, 1913-1935: Teresita Levy, Graduate Center/CUNY
Peasant Coffee Production, Ethnic Identity and Land Tenure in Puebla and
Veracruz, 1830-1910: Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Rutgers University
Discussant(s) : Kevin Chambers, Gonzaga University
840 // HIS052 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical B
Prácticas populares en la construcción de la nacionalidad argentina
Organizer : Gardenia Vidal, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Gardenia Vidal, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA
La sociabilidad impulsada por las élites: El círculo obrero de Córdoba,
1897-1912: Gardenia Vidal, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,
ARGENTINA
Writing to the Governor: Deference and Political Claims in Popular
Petitions, Córdoba, 1810-1853: Seth Meisel, University of
Wisconsin/Whitewater
"Empleomanía": prácticas políticas y denuncias de corrupción en Buenos
Aires, Argentina, 1880-1916.: Ariel Yablon, University of New England
The Sounds of the Nation: Authenticity and Nostalgia in Argentine Popular
Music of the 1930s: Matthew Karush, George Mason University
Argentine Workers as Citizens: Claiming Rights in the Courts, 1900-1943:
Line Schjolden, University of Bergen, Norway, NORWAY
Discussant(s) : Joel Horowitz, St Bonaventure University
841 // HSS007 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 1
Critical Perspectives on the Latino Health Paradox in the United States
Organizer : Reanne Frank, Harvard University
Chair(s) : Edna Viruell-Fuentes, Harvard Univ
A Critical Analysis of the “Latino Health Paradox” through the Narratives of
Mexican Immigrant Women: Edna Viruell-Fuentes, Harvard Univ
Reproductive Health of the Mexican-Origin Population in the United States:
Reanne Frank, Harvard University
Disentangling the Role of Acculturation and Duration in the Maternal and
Infant Health of the Mexican-origin Population in the United States:
Miguel Ceballos, Univ of Nebraska/Lincoln
Discussant(s) : Robert Hummer, Univ of Texas
842 // HSS009 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 2
Health and Health Policy in the Socioeconomic Contex of the Liberal
Reforms
Organizer : Christina Ewig, Stony Brook Univ
Chair(s) : Christina Ewig, Stony Brook Univ
Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) in Seven Cities of Latin America and
the Caribbean. Methodology for the Calculation of the Standard Error
of the DFLE: Esther María León Díaz, Oficina Nacional Estadísticas,
CUBA, Madelin Gómez León, , CUBA
Oferta e demanda por planos privados de assistência à saúde no Brasil:
Considerações sobre a organização do sistema de saúde e a eqüidade no
acesso aos serviços: Hudson Silva, Faculdade de Medicina da Univ,
BRAZIL
Impacto social de las enfermedades crónico-degenerativas a través del
Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México: Gabriela
Castañeda, Inst Nal de Neurologia y Neurociru, MEXICO, Ana Cecilia
Rodríguez de Romo, UNAM, MEXICO
Gender Equity and the "Model" Health Reform of Colombia: Christina Ewig,
Stony Brook Univ
The Island as Borderlands: Social Networks Intra-Island and Across-the-sea
and the Impact on the HIV/AIDS: Tamara Oyola Santiago, Columbia
Univ
Socioeconomic Transformation and Epidemiologic Overlap in Ecuador:
William Waters, Univ San Fco de Quito, ECUADOR
843 // IND001 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical A
(Re)articulations of Genre and Gender in Contemporary Mesoamerican
Textual Productions
Organizer : Gloria Chacón, UCSC
Chair(s) : Inés Hernández-Avila, Univ of Califronia/Davis
Writing Against Assimilation: An Analysis of "Hayukarita/ Nos humillan" by
Iritemai Gabriel Pacheco Salvador: Abbey Poffenberger, Eastern
Kentucky University
The Power of Native Languages and the Making of Literature: The Case of
Mexico: Inés Hernández-Avila, Univ of Califronia/Davis
Reinscriptions of the Dilla Gora: Indigenizing the Novel: Anna BrigidoCorachan, New York Univ
Working Gender through Genre in Contemporary Mayan Cultural
Productions: Karen Ogulnik, University of Long Island
Contemporary Maya Women: Subject Making and the Making of Subjects
through Poetry: Gloria Chacón, UCSC
La Revolución en la Sierra Juárez desde un punto de vista indígena en la
novela zapoteca de Javier Castellanos: Dolores Miralles Alberola, Univ
of California/Davis, SPAIN
844 // IND010 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo D
Aportes del movimiento indígena a los procesos de democratización en
América Latina
Organizer : Laura Valladares, Univ Auto Metropolitana/Iztapalapa, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Laura Valladares, Univ Auto Metropolitana/Iztapalapa, MEXICO
Cosecha amarga: Las autonomías indígenas en el marco del neoliberalismo y
la nueva democracia en México: Laura Valladares, Univ Auto
Metropolitana/Iztapalapa, MEXICO
¿Será que tienen la clave? La política de la diferencia y la política hacia la
igualdad en el Movimiento indígena Nasa (Páez) de Colombia: Juan
Guillermo Ferro M., Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO
LASA2006 - 91
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Discussant(s) : Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, CIESAS, MEXICO, Maria de los
Angeles Uriega Ponce de León, Escuela Nal de Antropologia e Hist,
MEXICO
845 // LAT011 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal G
Currents in Boricua Literary Criticism
Organizer : Marisel Moreno Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Chair(s) : Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke College
Violence and the Fragmented Self in the Narrative of Alba Ambert: Marisel
Moreno Anderson, University of Notre Dame
A Puerto Rican in Moscow: Jesús Colón and the COMINTERN: Lisa Sánchez
Gonzalez, Univ of Connecticut
Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón's Black Radicalism Unmasks Populism's
Racial Harmonizing and Uplift Discourses: Maritza Stanchich,
University of Puerto Rico/Rio Pied
Colonizing the Body: Allegories of Liberation in the Work of Esmeralda
Santiago: Evelyn Boria Rivera, University of Notre Dame
846 // LCN009 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 5
Sujeto decadente y proyecto político en De Sobremesa de José Asunción
Silva
Organizer : Erin Graff Zivin, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s) : Sebastian Reyes, Univ of Pittsburgh
El artista decadente en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva: Autocrítica del
modernismo en el contexto político de finales del siglo XIX: Gerardo
Gomez Michel, Univ of Pittsburgh
El 10 de julio en el diario de José Fernández: una aproximación al proyecto
político de Silva: Rafael Ponce-Cordero, Univ of Pittsburgh
Proyecto político, tratamientos médicos y búsqueda amorosa: el
cuestionamiento de la figura del intelectual en De sobremesa 1887-1896
de José Asunción Silva: Ruben Sanchez Godoy, Univ of Pittsburgh
Discussant(s) : Gabriel Giorgi, University of Southern California
847 // LCO007 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 9
Discursos múltiples y su relación con la Historia en la Nicaragua
contemporánea
Organizer : William Clary, University of Missouri
Chair(s) : William Clary, University of Missouri
Nicaragua: un punto estratégico en el entrecruce internacional del siglo
diecinueve: Una lectura de Mil y una muertes de Sergio Ramírez:
William Clary, University of Missouri
Anecdotario de la revolución sandinista en “Juego perfecto” de Sergio
Ramírez: Jose Juan Colin, Univ of Oklahoma
“Autorretrato con pintor” de Coronel Urtecho: vanguardismos, excusas,
autobiografías: Leonel Delgado-Aburto, Inst Histoira Nicaragua y
Centroam
De la nación mítica al mito desnacionalizado. Magia y realidad en la
novelística Nicaragüense contemporánea: Werner Mackenbach,
Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA
848 // LCO033 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal E
Retextualizando la nación II: La nación y sus "otros"
Sponsor : University of California / Berkeley
Organizer : Sonia Montes Romanillos, University of California/Berkeley
Chair(s) : Sonia Montes Romanillos, University of California/Berkeley
Desenmascarando al "hablador" de Vargas Llosa: Sonia Montes Romanillos,
University of California/Berkeley
Between Night and Day: Metaphors of Aymara Resistance before the Bolivian
State in the Critical Work of Carlos Mamani: Luis Ramos, Univ of
California/Berkeley
Tensión de género y nación en la oralitura de Elicura Chihuailaf: Monica
Gonzalez, Univ of California/Berkeley
The Soldaderas in Mexican Cultural Production: Troping the Female Body:
Bridget Arce, University of California/Berkeley
El corrido y su narrativa actual: Recapturando la voz popular en México:
Felicitas Ibarra, UCLA
849 // LIA011 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie
La crítica después de la utopía?: repensando las genealogías /redibujando
los mapas en la crítica cultural latinoamericana
Organizer : María Inés De Torres Carballal, Universidad de la República,
URUGUAY
Chair(s) : Silvia Lopez, Carleton College
Modernidad y experiencia: a propósito de Walter Benjamin y Jesús Martín
Barbero: Silvia Lopez, Carleton College
Políticas de la crítica: ¿qué hay más allá de los estudios culturales?: Ana Del
Sarto, Ohio State University
Discussant(s) : John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
850 // LIA022 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie
Redes socioculturales en América Latina
Organizer : Alvaro Fernández-Bravo, Universidad de San Andrés,
ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Claudio Maiz, Univ de Cuyo/CONICET, ARGENTINA
La escritura de la ciudad para el establecimiento de la nación y la reestructuración del Estado en los Encuentros de Escritores de la
Universidad de Concepción: Ana Figueroa, Princeton University
La disputa por la formación del espacio literario periférico. Lectura de los
epistolarios de Ugarte, Darío y Unamuno: Claudio Maiz, Univ de
Cuyo/CONICET, ARGENTINA
La red de los escritores intelectuales en la década del sesenta: el caso de Cien
años de soledad: Claudia Gilman, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Jorge Eduardo Myers, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes,
ARGENTINA
851 // LIA051 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie
Inter-American Soundings
Organizer : Charles Perrone, University of Florida
Chair(s) : Charles Perrone, University of Florida
Desde el manglar: Mangue Beat, Marronage and the Formation of Mangrove
Cultures: Kirsten Ernst, Middlebury College
The Mullah Banging on the Master's Door: Gilberto Freyre in the Intersection
Between Slavery Studies and Orientalism: Alexandra Isfahani
Hammond, University of Southern California
Gilberto Freyre in Company: Odile Cisneros, MLCS/Univ of Alberta,
CANADA
Jazz and Latin American Vanguards: Jason Borge, Vanderbilt Univ
Brazil in Manuel Puig: Rio de Janeiro vs. Hollywood: Diane Marting, Univ of
Mississippi
Discussant(s) : Charles Perrone, University of Florida
852 // MCB019 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 7
Migraciones y Relaciones Internacionales en el Gran Caribe
Organizer : Antonio Aja Díaz, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
Chair(s) : Antonio Gaztambide-Géigel, University of Puerto Rico/Rio Pied
Migraciones externas y relaciones internacionales: Un proyecto de
investigación desde el Caribe: Antonio Gaztambide-Géigel, University
of Puerto Rico/Rio Pied
Migraciones y relaciones internacionales: Perspectivas desde la cooperación
e integración regional: Mirna Josefina Yonis Lombano, Universidad
Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA
Migraciones y políticas migratorias en el Caribe: Antonio Aja Díaz,
Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
La huella de la migración en la literatura del Caribe insular en los Estados
Unidos.: Mireya Fernández Merino, Universidad Central de Venezuela,
VENEZUELA
Discussant(s) : Pedro Rivera-Guzmán, Universid de Puerto Rico
853 // MCB031 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo B
Migraciones y procesos identitarios II
Organizer : Marc Berthod, City University of New York
Chair(s) : Marc Berthod, City University of New York
Emigrados españoles e hispanoamericanos a principios del siglo XIX. Otro
ángulo en la historia emancipadora.: María Elena Capriles, Universidad
Metropolitana, VENEZUELA
The Gendered and Ethnic Politics of Security in Tijuana, Mexico: Rebecca
Meyers, Brown Univ
Burial Place and Transnational Memories among Second Generation Puerto
Ricans in the United States: Marc Berthod, City University of New York
LASA2006 - 92
SATURDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm
¿Patriotas por identidad nacional o por contagio?: En torno al patriotismo y
nacionalismo de las élites de emigrantes españoles en la Argentina
(1898-1923): Marcela García Sebastiani, UCM, SPAIN
Cartas de Osvaldo “Gitano” Rodríguez: Una experiencia del exilio chileno:
Nancy Morris, Temple University
Migration, Nation, and Empire: A History of Mexican Migration in the
Twentieth Century: Mark Overmyer Velázquez, Univ of Connecticut
854 // PLE003 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamboyan
Recentrar los márgenes: El lugar de Puerto Rico en los estudios
latinoamericanos y latinos
Organizer : Jorge Duany, Univ of Puerto Rico
Chair(s) : Jorge Duany, Univ of Puerto Rico
Repensar el transnacionalismo: La migración puertorriqueña en el contexto
del Caribe hispánico: Jorge Duany, Univ of Puerto Rico
En la búsqueda de Ulises: Tránsito y permanencia en el Caribeantropológico: Manuel Valdés-Pizzini, Univ de Puerto Rico/Mayaguez
Exception No More: Puerto Ricans and the Logic of Globalized Capital:
Frances Negrón Montaner, Columbia University
Beyond Commonwealth and Operation Bootstrap: Puerto Rico in the Age of
Globalization: Emilio Pantojas-García, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Discussant(s) : Felix Matos Rodriguez, City Univ of New York/Hunter
855 // PLE004 Workshop Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal A
The Relationship of Brazilian Studies to Latin American Studies
Organizer : James Green, Brown University
Chair(s) : James Green, Brown University
*: James Green, Brown University
*: Kenneth Serbin, University of San Diego
*: Maxine Margolis, University of Florida
*: Nelson Vieira, Brown University
*: Rosa María Pegueros, Univ of Rhode Island
*: Jessie Jane Vieira de Sousa, Univ Federal Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Estado autoritario, desobediencia civil y democracia disputatoria: Oscar
Mejía Quintana, Univ Nacional de Colombia, COLOMBIA
859 // SEC028 Workshop Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Ceiba
The Conundrum Challenging Conservationists: Are NGOs Successfully
Engaging in Community-Based Natural Resource Management?
Sponsor : Environment Section
Organizer : Peter Wilshusen, Bucknell University
Chair(s) : Mac Chapin, Ctr for Support of Native Lands
*: Mac Chapin, Ctr for Support of Native Lands
*: David Bray, Florida International Univ
*: Colleen Scanlan Lyons, Univ of Colorado
*: David Cleary, The anture Conservancy, BRAZIL
860 // SMO020 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal C
Social Capital and New Social Movements
Organizer : Norma Giarracca, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Acción colectiva e identidad en un contexto de crisis. El complejo agrolácteo
en Argentina: Leonardo Bruera, Univ Nal de Villa María, ARGENTINA
“Recuperación de Estado” ¿qué Estado? : Mosconi, Argentina después de
ocho años de lucha: Norma Giarracca, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA, Juan Wahren, Univ de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Constructive Riots. Ruptures and Continuities in the December 2001 Uprising
in Argentina: Cora Fernández Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Civil Society and Democracy in Urban Colombia: Alexandra García-Iragorri,
Universidad del Norte, COLOMBIA
"Jongo da Serrinha": Culture and Social Movement in Brazil: Alvaro
Nascimento, Northwest University, BRAZIL
Grassroots Organization and Markets: Two Case Studies in the Amazon
Region: Rafael Rojas, Univ of Florida
856 // POL033 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 4
Nuevos paradigmas de gestión y formación en el sector público
Organizer : Antonio Iglesias Morell, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
Chair(s) : Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Rutgers University
Ciudadanía, derechos e institucionalidad en Venezuela: Thais Maingon,
Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA
Addressing the Emerging Needs for School Leadership –Challenges and
Opportunities for Public Administration: Gloria Bonilla-Santiago,
Rutgers University
Legitimidad, eficacia y participación: La gestión pública en procesos de
cambio: Antonio Iglesias Morell, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA,
Lourdes Tabares Neyra, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. MPA Programs: Current Trends: Maria-Eleni
Pahigiannis, Rutgers University/Camden
Discussant(s) : Lourdes Tabares Neyra, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA
857 // POL044 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar B
Political Economy, Poverty and Development in Latin America
Organizer : Irma Sandoval Ballesteros, UNAM, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Irma Sandoval Ballesteros, UNAM, MEXICO
Economic Growth and Human Development: An overview of the
municipalities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil: Ana Paula Karruz,
George Washington Univ
Políticas Financieras y Pobreza. Un Enfoque Alternativo para América
Latina: Edgardo Demaestri, IDB
The Politics of Economic Elites and Tax Reform in Chile: Tasha Fairfield,
Univ of Cali/Berkeley
The Political Economy of "New Federalism": Argentina and Mexico in
Comparative Perspective: Juan Olmeda, Northwestern Univ
Money, Power and Corruption: The Political Economy of the Mexican Bank
Bailout of 1995: Irma Sandoval Ballesteros, UNAM, MEXICO
858 // POL046 Panel Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar A
Elites, Elections and Democracy in Latin America
Organizer : Igor Gastal Grill, , BRAZIL
Chair(s) : Igor Gastal Grill, , BRAZIL
Investigating Electoral Accountability and Government Economic
Performance in Latin America: Alex Chuan-Hsien Chang, University of
Iowa
LASA2006 - 93
SATURDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm
Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm
861 // AGR010 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 5
Transformaciones rurales en América Latina
Organizer : Horacio Mackinlay, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Ixtapalapa, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Horacio Mackinlay, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Ixtapalapa, MEXICO
La década infame: Diez años de transformaciones en el complejo
agroindustrial azucarero tucumano. Una retrospectiva desde la
organización gremial de los productores cañeros: Daniela Mariotti,
Univ de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Ajustes estructurales y TLC en México: Un modelo de desastre RURAL y de
deterioro de los recursos naturales en el noroeste de Michoacán,
México: Martha Perales, Univ Autonoma Chapingo, MEXICO
Irrupción de la soja transgénica en Argentina: Miguel Teubal, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Uno de los rostros de la migración interna. Marginación y pobreza en la
sierra hidalguense: Ruth Madueño, Univ Autonoma Metro
Azcapotzalco, MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Norma Giarracca, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
862 // CSH007 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamboyan
Police - Public Relationships in Latin America
Organizer : Marie-Louise Glebbeek, University of Utrecht, THE
NETHERLANDS
Chair(s) : Marie-Louise Glebbeek, University of Utrecht, THE
NETHERLANDS
When Images Rule: Media, the National Congress, and the Politics of Public
Safety Policy in Brazil: Ronald Ahnen, St Mary's College of California
Policing the Public: A Decade of Police Reform in Guatemala: Marie-Louise
Glebbeek, University of Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Improving Mexican Police-Public Relations and Legitimacy: Towards a
Personalized Security Web: Niels Uildriks, School of Human Rights
Research, THE NETHERLANDS
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts: Citizen-Police Cooperation
in the Implementation of Community-Orientated Policing in Brazil:
Saima Husain, School of Human Rights Research, THE
NETHERLANDS
The Long Road Towards Community Policing: Citizen Perspectives and
Police Officers' Experiences with the Implementation of a Police Human
Rights Strategy in Costa Rica: Quirine Eijkman, Neth School Human
Rights Research, THE NETHERLANDS
Discussant(s) : Martha Huggins, Tulane University
863 // CUL059 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 8
Language and Diasporas in Caribbean identity
Organizer : Nicholas Faraclas, Univ of Puerto Rico
Chair(s) : Nicholas Faraclas, Univ of Puerto Rico
Entre la identidad y la filosofía en el Caribe hispánico: Felix Valdés García, ,
CUBA
The Role of Political Economy in Creole Genesis: Nicholas Faraclas, Univ of
Puerto Rico, Don Walicek, Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
Conversos of the Caribbean: Jonathan Golden, Drew University
Diasporic Discourses: Figurative Language and the Language of
Marginality: Inés Gómez, National University/San Jose
864 // DEM006 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo B
Los dilemas político-económicos de la izquierda en el Cono Sur
Organizer : Marcelo Cavarozzi, Universidad Nacional de San Martin,
ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
Tensiones y desafíos del sistema partidario Argentino: Juan Manuel Abal
Medina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA, María Celeste
Ratto, CONICET, ARGENTINA
The Economic Strategies of Lagos, Lula, Kirchner and Tabaré: Trade-offs in
Policy Choices: Marcelo Cavarozzi, Universidad Nacional de San
Martin, ARGENTINA
Latinoamerica y los desafíos de la Izquierda en el Gobierno: ¿nuevos o viejos
paradigmas?: Facundo Nejamkis, CONICET, ARGENTINA
Una mirada desde México: La experiencia del PRD y López Obrador en la
configuración de un proyecto político nacional: Horacio Crespo, Univ
Autonoma del Estado Morelos, MEXICO
Los partidos de izquierda en el Cono Sur: El Partido de los Trabajadores, el
Frente Amplio y el Partido Socialista de Chile en perspectiva
comparada: Matias Triguboff, Univ Buenos Aires/CONICET,
ARGENTINA, Martin Alessandro, Univ of Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA, María Laura Eberhardt, CONICET, ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Marcelo Cavarozzi, Universidad Nacional de San Martin,
ARGENTINA
865 // DEM027 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie
Institutional Weakness in Latin America
Organizer : Steven Levitsky, Harvard Univ
Chair(s) : Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
Variation in Institutional Strength in Latin America: Causes and
Implications: Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, Steven
Levitsky, Harvard Univ
The Conservative Party Deficit in Latin America: Kenneth Roberts, Cornell
University
Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic Countries:
Edward Gibson, Northwestern University
Discussant(s) : Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame
866 // EDU015 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo C
Racial Dynamics in Latin American Schooling
Organizer : Ethan Johnson, Portland State Univ
Chair(s) : Ethan Johnson, Portland State Univ
The Unfulfilled Promise of Equality: Blackness, Identity and Schooling:
Ethan Johnson, Portland State Univ
Strengthening Community through Organization and Education: An Analysis
of the Social Capital and Cultural Implications of the World Bank’s
PRODEPINE Program in the Sierra and Costal Regions of Ecuador:
Peter Redvers-Lee, Vanderbilt University
867 // EXC001 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 6
Warnings from Within: The Cultural Construct of Mexico from the
Margins to the Center and Abroad
Organizer : Aura Estrada, Columbia Universiy
Chair(s) : Aura Estrada, Columbia Universiy
Acts of Resistance, or Resistance as an Act?: Aura Estrada, Columbia
Universiy
Maruch Santiz Gómez. Creencias: Márgenes de la fotografía: Perla Masi,
Princenton University
The Anti-Cultural Turn: Yoshua Okon Makes Money Talk: Samuel Steinberg,
Univ of Pennsylvania
868 // FDS013 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal B
Filmakers Without Borders II
Organizer : Meg Stalcup, University of California/ Berkeley
Chair(s) : Meg Stalcup, University of California/ Berkeley
Latin Hitchcock: Guillermo Del Toro: Dona Kercher, Assumption
College/Worcester
Life, Death, and Melodrama Through the Lens of Lourdes Portillo: Cynthia
Stone, College of the Holy Cross
The Borders of/in John Sayles’ U.S.-Mexico Films: Lori Hopkins, Univ of
New Hampshire
869 // HIS019 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal E
Momentous Changes: Identity, Experience, and Historical Memory in
Bolivia, 18th to 21st Centuries
Organizer : Laura Gotkowitz, Univ of Iowa
Chair(s) : Seemin Qayum, Independent Scholar
El Frágil Mundo de las Mujeres: amor y matrimonio en La Paz en los años
1920-30: Eugenia Bridikhina, Univ Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA
What difference does a revolution make?: Servitude in Bolivia Before and
After 1952: Seemin Qayum, Independent Scholar
La gran insurrección andina en la mirada de contemporáneos: Sinclair
Thomson, New York Univ
The July 1946 Uprising and the Legacies of President Villarroel's Death:
Laura Gotkowitz, Univ of Iowa
LASA2006 - 94
SATURDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm
Memories of Organization and Struggle: The Housewives Committee of Siglo
XX, 1961-1986: Maria Lagos, CUNY/Lehman College
Representaciones de la igualdad y las diferencias entre mujeres del comercio
de la ciudad de La Paz en la actualidad (2004): Rossana Barragan,
Universidad Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA
Discussant(s) : Brooke Larson, Stony Brook University/SUNY
870 // IND009 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar A
Re-inventing Community Justice in the C21: State Reform, Gender and
Indigenous Rights
Organizer : Rachel Sieder, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM
Chair(s) : Rachel Sieder, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM
Derechos indígenas, descentralización y globalización legal: Guatemala en la
posguerra: Rachel Sieder, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM
Corazón Céntrico de los Zapatistas delante del Mundo: reconceptualizando
derechos y ejercitando poder en las Juntas de Buen Gobierno
Zapatistas: Shannon Speed, University of Texas/Austin
Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and their Struggles for Rights: Rosalva Aida
Hernández-Castillo, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO
Engendering the "Right to Have Rights": The Indigenous Women's Movement
in Mexico and its Transnational Implications: Maylei Blackwell, Univ
of California/Los Angeles
Discussant(s) : María Teresa Sierra, CIESAS, MEXICO
871 // LAB009 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Las Olas
Employment, Poverty and Income Distribution
Organizer : Luis Beccaria, Universidad Nal de Gral. Sarmiento, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Luis Beccaria, Universidad Nal de Gral. Sarmiento, ARGENTINA
Empleo, desigualdad y pobreza luego de la salida de la Convertibilidad en
Argentina: Luis Beccaria, Universidad Nal de Gral. Sarmiento,
ARGENTINA
Análisis de los patrones de segregación ocupacional por género en las áreas
metropolitanas de Puerto Rico: 1990 y 2000: Olgamarien Castillo,
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Pobreza y trabajo: perfil sociodemográfico y factores determinantes de la
pobreza de los hogares en México: María Cristina Gomes da Conceicão,
FLACSO Mexico, MEXICO
872 // LAB013 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 4
Sector público y privado, cambio e incertidumbre
Organizer : Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Chair(s) : Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Participation in the Modernization Process of Cuban Governmental
Enterprises: Arnaldo Jaime Pérez García, Ctr Investig Psico y Soc/Cuba,
CUBA
Trabajar en el sector no estatal en Cuba: Significados, valores y culturas del
trabajo en cambio: Elena Sacchetti, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN,
Pablo Palenzuela, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
Digitalizing and De-digitalizing Television Set Production in Brazil: Vicki
Mayer, Tulane University
Retail Jobs in Mexico: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Chris Tilly,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
873 // LCN010 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 3
Teaching Colonial Indigenous Literatures: Reformulating the Dialogue
with Foundational Texts
Organizer : Gladys Ilarregui, Univ of Delaware
Chair(s) : Gladys Ilarregui, Univ of Delaware
Ansiedad en el espacio transculturador del “Tambo” colonial: Genocidio
cultural y racial en El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) de
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: Mónica Morales, Gettysburg College
Enseñando voces indígenas coloniales: Agentes reales o construcciones del
decir?: Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State Univ
De silencios y exclusiones: Voces indígenas en la épica colonial: Raul
Marrero-Fente, University of Richmond
El diálogo de los sacerdotes de Tezcatlipoca con el cristianismo:
Reformulando una conversación con textos fundacionales amerindios:
Viviana Díaz Balsera, University of Miami
Acercamiento a la enseñanza de las crónicas indígenas coloniales siglos XVI
y XVII. Intersecciones, yuxtaposiciones y divergencias: Rocío Cortés,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Discussant(s) : José Rabasa, Univ of California/Berkeley
874 // LCN014 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 10
Indigenismo colonial revisitado
Organizer : Anna More, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Chair(s) : Anna More, Univ of California/Los Angeles
Creole-Indigenous Alliance: Sigüenza and Ixtlilxochitl: Anna More, Univ of
California/Los Angeles
When Christians and Indians Blur into Each Other: Mimesis and Mimicry in
Early 16th Century Peru: Gonzalo Lamana, University of Pittsburgh
Etnografía como tragedia europea: Relaciones entre indígenas y jesuitas en
el siglo XVIII: Ivonne Del Valle, Univ of Michigan
Revolución y repetición histórica: 1781 hoy: Orlando Nelson Bentancor
Trebino, University of Southern California
Discussant(s) : Martin Lienhard, Universität Zurich, SWITZERLAND
875 // LCN018 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 9
Whose Imagined Nation? Un/Re/Writing the 19th Century Latin
American Nation from the Margins
Organizer : Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Utah State University
Chair(s) : Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Utah State University
Múltiples Manzanos: Adaptation and Revision of the Slave's Voice: Virginia
Benítez, Univ of California/Sta Cruz
Raza, lengua y mestizaje en el poema "La Virgen del Sol" de Juan León Mera:
Juan Grijalva, Assumption College
(Pre)Textos Nacionales: Las "ficciones fundacionales" liberales y el ideario
nacional de Juan Manuel de Rosas: Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Utah
State University
Sofía and Morúa Delgado: The Politics of Re-Presentation: Christina
Civantos, University of Miami
Discussant(s) : Fernando Unzueta, Ohio State University
876 // LCO012 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Ceiba
Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Globalization
Organizer : Catherine Den Tandt, University of Montreal, CANADA
Chair(s) : Patricia Valladares Ruiz, Concordia Univ, SPAIN
La literatura como metatexto de la globalización: Catherine Den Tandt,
University of Montreal, CANADA
Urban Performance Pieces in Fragmented Form: The Short Stories of Pedro
Juan Gutiérrez and Antonio José Ponte: Cecilia Lawless, Cornell
University
Interculturalidad y construcciones identitarias en la narrativa de Mayra
Santos Febres.: Lise Sauriol, Univ de Montreal, CANADA
Discussant(s) : Line Valois, Univ of Montreal, CANADA
877 // LCO059 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal G
Poesía Hispanoamericana
Organizer : Steven White, St Lawrence Univ
Chair(s) : Steven White, St Lawrence Univ
El surrealismo y la primera época de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura
(1955-1957): Ivan Pérez-Daniel, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO
Central American Immigrants and Cultural Identity in Contemporary U.S.Central American Literature: Yajaira Padilla, The University of Kansas
Los Ríos en la Poesía Chilena: Nuevas Definiciones Ecocéntricas de la
Poesía Épica y Lírica: Steven White, St Lawrence Univ
Notas sobre reducción del infinito de Ida Vitale: Alberto Villanueva,
University of Central Florida
878 // LIA029 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie
Narrativas "marginalia" en América Latina
Organizer : Aurelia Gomez Unamuno, University of Pittsburgh, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Hermann Herlinghaus, Univ of Pittsburgh
Narcocorridos-narraciones atávicas, retóricas espaciales, afectos
terapéuticos: Hermann Herlinghaus, Univ of Pittsburgh
Narrativas delincuenciales en el cine venezolano frente a la ciudad letrada:
Entre la autoridad y la popularidad: Magdalena Lopez, University of
Pittsburgh
Chava Flores, la oralidad popular de las culturas internas y la urbanización
en la ciudad de México: Maribel Alemán de la Vega, Univ
Iberoamericana Golfo-Centro, MEXICO
Las geometrías del tiempo: literatura carcelaria en México: Aurelia Gomez
Unamuno, University of Pittsburgh, MEXICO
Filmografía del Ché Guevara: Imagen dura o abandono de sentido:
Alejandro Bruzual, Univ of Pittsburgh
Discussant(s) : Ignacio Lopez-Vicuña, Univ of Vermont
LASA2006 - 95
SATURDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm
879 // LIA041 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie
Informal Forms: Autobiography, Orality, Music and Film in
Representations of Caribbean History
Organizer : Julia Medina, Univ of California/ Davis
Chair(s) : Elizabeth Wing-Paz, Univ of California/Davis
Orality in Carpentier’s Rewriting of Caribbean History: Elizabeth Wing-Paz,
Univ of California/Davis
Oral and Filmic Language in the Cuban Post-revolutionary Documentary:
Santiago Álvarez and the “documentalurgia” of the Revolutionary
Message: Kristi Wilson, Stanford Univ
Autobiography and Autoportrait: Daniel Maximin's Imaginary Voyages in
Oral Tradition and Music: Luis Navarro-Ayala, UCLA
Regeaton and the Politics of Crisis: Post-National, Urban, and Gender
Representations in the Mix: Julia Medina, Univ of California/ Davis
Discussant(s) : Marc Blanchard, Univ of California/Davs
880 // LIA050 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie
Panoramas, Sonoramas y Letras: La descomposición de las
representaciones de la puertorriqueñidad desde medios dialogantes
Organizer : Melanie Perez Ortiz, Univ of Puerto Rico
Chair(s) : Juan Otero-Garabis, Univ of Puerto Rico
"Un jíbaro termina'o": Folklorización de la identidad puertorriqueña en la
literatura, las artes y la música: Juan Otero-Garabis, Univ of Puerto
Rico
Indecibles de la imágen y la letra: Política y representación en Julio Tomás
Martínez y José Antonio Daubón: Nathan Budoff, Univ of Puerto Rico
Caricaturas de letra y lápiz: Carmelo Filardi y la escritura puertorriqueña
de los años 30: Melanie Perez Ortiz, Univ of Puerto Rico
Sonoramas: La voz que grita en el performance: Teresa Hernández e Ivette
Román: Lydia Platon, Univ of Puerto Rico
881 // MAS001 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical B
Imago Mundi: escritura, reinvención y cultura popular en América
Latina
Organizer : Gustavo Faverón Patriau, Cornell University
Chair(s) : Gustavo Faverón Patriau, Cornell University
Borges en Ciudad Gótica: los laberintos de Mario Levrero: Gustavo Faverón
Patriau, Cornell University
El historietista argentino y la tradición: La adaptación al cómic de textos
literarios en la Argentina de los 80s y 90s: Pedro Pérez del Solar, Univ
of Texas/ El Paso
Salvadoreñidad sin El Salvador: Construyendo el sujeto post-nacional en El
Asco: Claudia Milian, Brown Univ
La escritura y la imagen fotográfica hoy: los casos de Alberto Fuguet y Sergio
Ramírez: José Paz-Soldán, Cornell University
Rethinking Cultural Icons in Mexico through Jis and Trino: Ana Merino,
Dartmouth College
Discussant(s) : Peter Elmore, University of Colorado/Boulder
882 // MCB015 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 7
Migration and Globalization
Organizer : Marie Price, George Washington University
Chair(s) : Marie Price, George Washington University
Migration, Family and Sexuality among new perceptions of gender identities
in the Ecuadorian Andes: Corrie Drummond, Pan American
Development Found
Globalization and Internal and International Migration Patterns in Colombia
and Mexico, 1960-2000: Allison Goodman, Tulane University
Globalization as Emigration: The Rise of Transnational Livelihoods in Latin
America: Marie Price, George Washington University
Ten Years Down the Road: A longitudinal Study of “Transnational”
Communities in the Ecuadorian Andes: Brad Jokisch, Ohio University
883 // MCB026 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo A
Redes y conexiones translocales 1
Organizer : Abel Losada, Universidad de Vigo, SPAIN
Chair(s) : Abel Losada, Universidad de Vigo, SPAIN
Red Shirts, Fenians and Anarchists: Returning Immigrants and the
Transformation of Europe,
1848-1936: James Baer, Northern VA Community College
Gallegos en México: Redes migratorias y redes económicas: Abel Losada,
Universidad de Vigo, SPAIN
Migrantes y Casa: Relaciones e historias EEUU/Oaxaca: Martha Rees,
University of Cincinnati, Sheli Delaney, Univ of Cincinnati
884 // MTG002 LASA Committee Meeting Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm
San Cristóbal C
Section Chairs Meeting
Sponsor : LASA
Organizer : Sonia Alvarez, Univ of Massachussetts/Amherst
885 // POL013 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal D
Left or Center Left Governments in Latin America: Between
Socialdemocracy and Populism?
Organizer : Jorge Lanzaro, Univ de la Republica, URUGUAY
Chair(s) : Jorge Lanzaro, Univ de la Republica, URUGUAY
The Uruguayan Left (Frente Amplio): Political Development and Debut at
Government: Jorge Lanzaro, Univ de la Republica, URUGUAY
Lula's Administration: The Limits of Change: Cláudio Couto, Pont Univ
Catolica de São Paulo, Paulo Fernandes Baia, Univ Catolica de São
Paulo, BRAZIL
The Political Management of Financial Crisis. Argentina and Brazil CentreLeft Governments in Comparative Perspective: Nicolas Cherny, Inst
Univ Ortega y Gasset/FLACSO, SPAIN, Marcelo Gabriel Nazareno,
Univ Nal de Cordoba/Catolica Cord, ARGENTINA
Discussant(s) : Francisco Panizza, The London Schl of Economics, UNITED
KINGDOM
886 // POL042 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar B
Executives and Legislative: Problems and Cooperation
Organizer : Mona Lyne, University of South Carolina
Chair(s) : Mona Lyne, University of South Carolina
Regulating the Exception: Latin America and the Rule of Law in Times of
Crisis: Claudia Heiss, New School University, CHILE
How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Decline of Presidential Agenda-Setting
Power in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, 1994-2005: Christopher
Diaz, Morehead State Univ
How Latin American Democracies Cope with External Crises: Policymaking
Styles in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela: Philippe Faucher,
University of Montreal, CANADA
Legislative Delegation to Executives in Latin America: Valeria Palanza,
Princeton University
887 // PST008 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 1
Latin/o American Theatre Studies for the 21st Century: Critical Gaps,
Political Geographies, and Pedagogical Praxis
Organizer : Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University
Chair(s) : Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University
De-Centering Latin American Theater Studies: Stuart Day, Univ of Kentucky
Professing Latin American(ist) Performance: Jean Graham-Jones, CUNY
Graduate Ctr
The Political Geography of Latina/o Theater: Jon Rossini, Univ of
California/Davis
In Medea Res: "Hungry Woman" as Americas Text: Patricia Ybarra, Brown
University
Discussant(s) : Ramon Rivera Servera, Arizona State University
888 // RRR011 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo D
Race, Collective Identities and New Political Imaginations in the
Americas
Organizer : Mariana Mora, University of Texas / Austin
Chair(s) : Mariana Mora, University of Texas / Austin
Zapatismo Imaginaries: Autonomy and Political Identities in an Era of
Neoliberal State Formation: Mariana Mora, University of Texas / Austin
Neoliberal Multiculturalism and New Economies of Race in Late Socialist
Cuba: Marc Perry, University of Illinois
Who is Subject to Indigenous Politics and Who is Subject to Gender Politics?
A Multi-sited Analysis of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in the Highlands
of Puebla, Mexico: Korinta Maldonado, University of Texas/Austin
"Los Irregular Gringos”: Probing Chicana/o Radical Transnationalism,
Indigenismo, and Zapatismo in the Construction of New Autonomies and
Political Imaginaries: Pablo González, Univ of Texas/Austin
LASA2006 - 96
SATURDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm
O Bairro as a Site of Black Women’s Politics in Urban Brazil: Keisha-Khan
Perry, Smith College
Resisting State Violence: Third World Coalitions and the Prison Rebellion
Years: Alan Gomez, Univ of Texas/Austin
Discussant(s) : João Vargas, University of Texas, Jafari Allen, Univ of
Texas/Austin
889 // RRS002 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 2
Spiritual Capital in Latin America's New Religious Economy: Catholic
and Protestant Case Studies
Organizer : Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas
Chair(s) : Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas
New Religious Movements in Honduras: Ethnographic Perspectives: Daniel
Reichman, Brandeis University
Cristianos y rockeros: Testimonio videográfico de sujetividades emergentes:
James Seale Collazo, Harvard Graduate School of Edu.
Casas Cultos and Idiosyncratic Protestantism in Cuba: Virginia GarrardBurnett, University of Texas
Guerras religiosas transnacionales: La IURD contra la Umbanda en
Argentina y Uruguay: Alejandro Frigerio, FLACSO, ARGENTINA,
Maria Carozzi, University of San Martin, ARGENTINA
Different Vews on Development among Catholics and Pentecostals in
Guatemala: Leonor Blum, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
893 // SMO027 Workshop Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal F
Partnering for Power: Perspectives from Community-based Recycling
Initiatives in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela
Organizer : M. Gabriela Boyer, Inter American Foundation
Chair(s) : M. Gabriela Boyer, Inter American Foundation
*: M. Gabriela Boyer, Inter American Foundation
*: Meredith Sanderson, Inter-Amer Found./GeorgeTown Univ
*: Beatriz Febres-Cordero, Fundacion Papyrus, VENEZUELA
*: Nohra Padilla Herrera, Asoc Cooperativa Recicladores Bta (ARB),
COLOMBIA
*: Adriana Mota, Nova Pesquisa e Assesoria em Educação (NOVA), BRAZIL
890 // RRS008 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical C
Progressive Catholicism Present and Future
Organizer : Anna Peterson, Univ of Florida
Chair(s) : Anna Peterson, Univ of Florida
Promised Land: The Peasant Catholic Left in El Salvador: Anna Peterson,
Univ of Florida
Liberation Theology and the "Pastoral indígena" in Oaxaca: Kristin Norget,
McGill University, CANADA
Resisting De-mobilization: Grassroots Catholics in Chile: Hannah StewartGambino, Lehigh University
The Present and Future of Latin American Liberation Theology: An Eight Part Reflection: Ivan Petrella, Univ of Miami
Liberation Theology and the Afro Mass in Brazil: John Burdick, Syracuse
University
Discussant(s) : Goetz Ottmann, La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA
891 // SEC039 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical A
Medical and Social Constructions of Inequality: Disease in Latin America
Sponsor : Health, Science and Society Section
Organizer : Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
Chair(s) : Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Univ of California/Santa Barbara
De política, salud y otros males. El Partido Popular Democrático y los
servicios de salud bajo el diagnóstico de la intromisión política en el
sistema de sanidad pública, 1938-52: Rafael Lebrón-Rivera,
Fideicomiso de Conservación de PR
Hygiene, Patriotism and Ethnicity in Bolivia during the Chaco War (19321935): Ann Zulawski, Smith College
¿Enfermedades comunicables o inequidades comunicativas de salud? Un
diálogo con la epidemiología crítica y la medicina social: Charles
Briggs, Univ of California /Berkeley
SIDA y Desigualdad en el Caribe: Arachu Castro, Harvard Medical School
Sexualidad, Salud y Identidad Nacional en Brasil: Sergio Carrara, Univ do
Estado do Rio Janeiro, BRAZIL
Discussant(s) : Diego Armus, Swarthmore College
892 // SMO025 Panel Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie
Private Capital, the State, and NGOs: Evidence from the Field
Organizer : Paul Haslam, Laval University, CANADA
Chair(s) : Paul Haslam, Laval University, CANADA
Incorporating Community: Corporate Social Responsibility and Civil Society
Responses in Latin America: Paul Haslam, Laval University, CANADA
Shortcuts and Signals: An Organizational Analysis of Brazilian NGOs as
Foreign Aid Recipients: Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Texas A&M
University
LASA2006 - 97
SATURDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm
Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm
894 // AGR019 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical B
Changing Patterns of Social Relations in Rural Americas
Organizer : Kerry Preibisch, University of Guelph, CANADA
Chair(s) : Kerry Preibisch, University of Guelph, CANADA
Mujeres y propiedad de la tierra en el Bajo Piura rural: Gina Alvarado,
Consorcio de Invest Econ y Social, PERU
Risk and the Persistence of Informal Credit in Peru: Catherine Guirkinger,
Univ of California/Davis
The Constructions of Ruralities among “caseiros” in Brazil: André Pires,
PUC - Campinas, BRAZIL
Canadian Produce, Latin American Labour: Exploring the Competitive Edge
of Canadian Horticulture Within Global Relations of Power: Kerry
Preibisch, University of Guelph, CANADA
Microcredit in the Dominican Republic: Bringing Culture Back In: Claudia
Scholz, Univ of Texas San Antonio
The Effect of Infrastructure Development on Compadrazgo Choice Patterns in
Rural Paraguay: Christina Turner, Virginia Commonwealth University
895 // CUL022 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal D
Achievements, Limits, and Promises of Transnational Alliances between
Puerto Rico and Holyoke, Massachusetts: Models of
Community/University Partnerships for Social Justice
Organizer : Agustín Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts
Chair(s) : Joseph Krupczynski, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst
Approaching South Holyoke: Reflections on a Critically Engaged Communitybased Architecture in a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts.:
Joseph Krupczynski, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst
University and Society: Innovative University Projects: Liliana CottoMorales, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Oppositional Architecture and the Construction of Alternative Spatialities in
the Caribbean: Edwin Quiles, University of Puerto Rico
Community/University Partnerships as Resources for Social Justice?
Reflections on the Holyoke Planning Network and Puerto Rican Studies
Seminar (Holyoke, Massachusetts): Jennifer Cannon, Univ of
Massachusetts
Radical Envisionings of South Holyoke: Assessing Progressive Planning and
Participatory Action Research in a Puerto Rican Community: Juan
Camilo Osorio, University of Massachusetts
Discussant(s) : Mari Castañeda Paredes, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst
896 // DEM021 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 3
How Democratization is - and Is Not - Changing the Role of the Mass
Media in Latin America
Organizer : Diane Johnson, Lebanon Valley College
Chair(s) : Manuel Chávez, Michigan State University
Acceso a la información pública y participación ciudadana: Diego Marcelo
Sánchez Montenegro, Universidad del Pacifico, ECUADOR
TV News and Political Change in Brazil: The Impact of Democratization on
TV Globo's Journalism: Mauro Pereira Porto, Tulane University
Authoritarian Legacies in New Democracies? Freedom of Information in
MERCOSUR Nation-States: Juliet Gill, University of Miami
The Mass Media's Influence on Public Policy in the Southern Cone: Diane
Johnson, Lebanon Valley College
Political Alienation and Media Coverage in Mexico: Sallie Hughes,
University of Miami, Manuel Martínez Guerrero, Univ Iberoamericana,
MEXICO
Discussant(s) : Chappell Lawson, Mass Inst of Technology
897 // DEM035 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo C
Bridging the Democratic Deficit: Research and Policy in the Promotion
of Democracy
Organizer : Pablo Policzer, Univ of Calgary, CANADA
Chair(s) : Viviana Patroni, York University, CANADA
The Democratic Citizenship Deficit in Latin America: Maxwell Cameron,
University of British Columbia, CANADA
Democratic Deficits and Hemispheric Responses: Jennifer McCoy, Georgia
State Univ
Democracy Promotion Beyond the State in Latin America: Pablo Policzer,
Univ of Calgary, CANADA
Liberal and Illiberal Democracy in Latin America: Peter Smith, Univ of
California/San Diego, SPAIN, Melissa Ziegler, University of
California/San Diego
Learning about Democracy in Nicaragua: Reflections on Learning
Democracy in Anticipation of the 2006 Nicaraguan Elections: Lawrence
Dodd, University of Florida
Discussant(s) : Terry Karl, Stanford University
898 // GLT024 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 8
New Directions in Caribbean International Relations
Organizer : Diana Thorburn, University of the West Indies, JAMAICA
Chair(s) : Diana Thorburn, University of the West Indies, JAMAICA
The Measure of Friendship: the United States and the Mexican-Cuban
Connection during the Castro Era: Christopher White, University of
Kansas
The Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Caribbean Basin, and the Entry of New
Powers: Diana Thorburn, University of the West Indies, JAMAICA
Trading Places: Trinidad and Tobago’s Drive for Developed-Nation Status,
1974-2004: Wendy Theodore, Univ of Arizona
New Diplomacy for a Globalized World: The Foreign Policy of Barbados,
Trinidad and the Dominican Republic in the 1990s: Jessica Byron-Reid,
University of the West Indies, JAMAICA
Movements Beneath the Iceberg: Alternative Voices and U.S. Foreign Policy
toward Cuba in the Post-Cold War Era: Indira Rampersad, Univ of
Florida
Diaspora and Development in the Caribbean: Keith Nurse, Inst of
International Relations, UNITED KINGDOM
899 // HIS018 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar A
Contrapuntos Latinoamericanos en la historiografía de América
Organizer : Ana Margarita Gómez, William Paterson Univ
Chair(s) : Ana Margarita Gómez, William Paterson Univ
Latin American Anarchists in New York and their Critique of the Nascent
U.S. Industrial Society: Ilia Rodriguez, Univerisy of New Mexico
Alegorías de una modernidad periférica: el caso de los boricuas en los
Estados Unidos: Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz, Univ of New Mexico
Valoraciones de la influencia de Estados Unidos en la guerra de El Salvador
en los años 80: la perspectiva de Ignacio Ellacuría: Sajid Herrera
Mena, Univ Centroamericana "Jose Simeon", EL SALVADOR
The U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915-34): A Paradigmatic Instance of
Paternalism: Claude-Rhéal Malary, St Mary's College of California
Variaciones y estrategias: nacionalismo, nación y transnacionalidad en la
narrativa puertorriqueña: Grisel Maduro, William Paterson University
Discussant(s) : Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Fordham University
900 // HIS029 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo B
Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Diaspora and Beyond
Organizer : Mieko Nishida, Hartwick College
Chair(s) : Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
The Road to Freedom: Manumission and Blacks in Colonial Mexico: Danielle
Terrazas, Duke University
The Abolition of Slavery (May13th) in Brazilian Social Memory: Luis
González, Indiana University
Remembering Slavery in the French Caribbean: Laurent Dubois, Michigan
State University
From Sojourners To Citizens: The Emergence of A Chinese- Jamaican
Identity: Howard Johnson, University of Delaware
Black Politics in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis: Ollie Johnson,
Wayne State University
Race, Ethnicity, and Collective Identity: Afro-Brazilians and Japanese
Brazilians in São Paulo: Mieko Nishida, Hartwick College
Discussant(s) : Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
901 // HIS030 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal F
Mapping Latin America
Organizer : Karl Offen, Univ of Oklahoma
Chair(s) : Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
“More Calculated to Mislead than Inform”: Travel Writers and the Mapping
of Central America, 1821-1945: Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
Mapping Mosquitia: Mosquito Spatial Practices and European Spatial
Construction in Eastern Central America, 1600-1778: Karl Offen, Univ
of Oklahoma
Mapping Mexico into Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Antonio García
Cubas' Atlas geográfico: Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts
LASA2006 - 98
SATURDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm
José Joaquim da Rocha: A Mapmaker in the Eye of the Brazilian
Independence Rebellions: Junia Ferreira Furtado, UFMG/Brazil,
BRAZIL
Everyday Acts of Agrimensura: Surveying Conflicts forge 19th Century
Colombian Territories: Lina Del Castillo, University of Miami
Discussant(s) : Matthew Edney, Univ of Wisconsin
902 // HIS050 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal G
"Community": Created, Contested, Deployed
Organizer : Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University
Chair(s) : Andrew Canessa, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM
Remembering the past and creating a future: memory and violence in
highland Bolivia: Andrew Canessa, University of Essex, UNITED
KINGDOM
States, Intellectuals and Communities: How Rio de Janeiro Addresses Crime,
Violence and Police Corruption: Donna Goldstein, University of
Colorado
States of Concern: Coca, Conflict and Control: Kimberly Theidon, Harvard
University
Discussant(s) : Jean Jackson, MIT
903 // LAB003 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 9
Unionization: Characteristics, Trends, and Determinants
Organizer : Adriana Marshall, CONICET-IDES, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Adriana Marshall, CONICET-IDES, ARGENTINA
Comparative Labor Regulations and Unionization Trends: Argentina, Chile
and Mexico: Adriana Marshall, CONICET-IDES, ARGENTINA
Reforma econômica e seus impactos sobre as bases sindicais no Brasil:
Adalberto Cardoso, IUPERJ/UCAM, BRAZIL
Afiliación y estrategias sindicales en la Argentina: Laura Perelman, Inst
Desarrollo Economico/Social, ARGENTINA
Los constreñimientos institucionales de la renovación sindical en México:
Graciela Bensusan Areous, Univ Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO
The Silent Change: Reflections on Chilean Unionization: Intended and
Unintended Consequences: Volker Frank, Univ of North
Carolina/Asheville
Discussant(s) : Maria Lorena Cook, Cornell University
904 // LAT024 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical C
Issues in Latina/o Social Incorporation: Citizenship and Discrimination
Organizer : Antonio Menendez, Butler University
Chair(s) : Antonio Menendez, Butler University
Latina/o Cultural Citizenship, the State, and the War on Terror: Donald
Kingsbury, UC Santa Cruz
Domestic Violence in the Context of Social and Economic Marginalization:
The Case of "Undocumented" Latin American Women in Chicago:
Gloria Ortiz, Northwestern University
Latin American Immigrants to the Midwest: A Case Study: Antonio
Menendez, Butler University
Becoming Latina/o: Latin American Immigrants and the Politics of Identity
and Resistance: Margot Olavarria, NYU Wagner
Beyond the Public/Private: Salvadoran Women Engendering Citizenship:
Arely Zimmerman, UCLA
Discussant(s) : Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Univ of Illinois/Chicago
905 // LAW003 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal B
Transnational Law and Development: The Paradox of Neoliberalism
Organizer : Susan Bibler Coutin, University of California/Irvine
Chair(s) : Scott Cummings, UCLA
Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Homicide Rates in Latin America: An
Institutional Anomie Approach: Gerhard Daday, Western Kentucky
Univ, Lisa Broidy, Univ of New Mexico
The Train Wreck: Economic and Political Liberalization on a Collision
Course in Central America: Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, University of
Washington/Seattle
“All this Could Be Zona Franca”: Foreign Investment Promotion and Legal
Re-Makings of Nicaragua: Justine Hanson, Univ of California/Irvine
Discussant(s) : Jan Hoffman French, Duke University
Organizer : Mercedes Hinton, London School of Economics
Chair(s) : Mercedes Hinton, London School of Economics
“Por bien o por la fuerza”: Law, Social Order and Unruly Women in a
Military Dictatorship, El Salvador 1930-1960: Aldo Garcia Guevara,
University of Texas/Austin
Paradoxes of Norms and Laws: Torture and Summary Execution in Brazil:
Ana Lemos-Nelson, Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Nort, BRAZIL
La Mara Sálvanos: Mano Dura Repression and the Rule of Law in Central
America: Paul Angelo, US Naval Academy, Rebecca Bill Chávez, US
Naval Academy
International Courts and Human Rights: The Inter-American Court of Human
Rights and the Struggle for Justice in the Americas: Jeffrey Davis, Univ
of Maryland/Baltimore County, Edward Warner, University of Maryland
Judicial Role Orientations and Attitudes toward Democracy in Five Latin
American Countries: Joseph Staats, Texas Tech University
907 // LCN019 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 7
Con (testing) Notions of Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century
Spanish American Literature
Organizer : Maria Zalduondo, University of Louisiana/Lafayette
Chair(s) : Maria Zalduondo, University of Louisiana/Lafayette
Madness as Metaphor in 19th Century Argentinian Literature: Irene
Coromina, Rochester Institute of Technology
Historia y género en La hija del bandido (1887) de Refugio Barragán de
Toscano: Maria Zalduondo, University of Louisiana/Lafayette
Coming of Age(ncy): Refugio Barragán de Toscano's La hija del bandido
(1887): Nancy LaGreca, University of Oklahoma
Romantic Death and the Death of Romanticism in Juana Manuela Gorriti:
Lee Skinner, Univ of Kansas
Discussant(s) : Naomi Lindstrom, Univ of Texas/Austin
908 // LCO020 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal E
Las voces que importan: Poetas latinoamericanas y caribeñas
Organizer : Patricia Gonzalez-Lustig, Smith College
Chair(s) : Monica Gontovnik Hobrecht, Universidad del Norte, COLOMBIA
Seducción y destrucción: La poeta colombiana contemporánea estudio al azar
de 21 poemas en busca de la coincidencia: Monica Gontovnik Hobrecht,
Universidad del Norte, COLOMBIA
¿Hay yoruba en la poesía de Nancy Morejón?: Patricia Gonzalez-Lustig,
Smith College
Poetas chilenas: "encontrar la palabra escondida": Eliana Ortega González,
Univ Metropolitana de Ciencias, CHILE
909 // LCO039 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal C
Re/com/posiciones: Asedios a la poesía de Juan Gelman
Organizer : Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, Kenyon College
Chair(s) : Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, Kenyon College
La narratividad en Los poemas de Sidney West, de Gelman: Víctor
Rodríguez-Núñez, Kenyon College
La des/construcción de género en las cartas de Gelman: Katherine Hedeen,
Kenyon College
Gelman and the Poetics of Surrealism: Melanie Nicholson, Bard College
La verdad de la memoria en Valer la pena, de Gelman: María del Carmen
Sillato, University of Waterloo, CANADA
910 // LCO043 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 6
Medios y cultura literaria en la transición democrática de Argentina y
Chile (1980-2000)
Organizer : Marta Sierra, Kenyon College
Chair(s) : Boris Muñoz, , VENEZUELA
"Tu voz existe": Percepción mediática, cultura nacional y transiciones
democráticas en Pedro Lemebel: Marta Sierra, Kenyon College
La Revista Literaria como configuradora de la voz colectiva durante el
proceso de recuperación democrática en Argentina. El caso de Puro
Cuento: Graciela Falbo, Univ Nal de La Plata, ARGENTINA
Alberto Fuguet y la intertextualidad transcultural: Cuando la razón de ser se
encuentra con el Homo-zapping: Claudia Aburto Guzman, Bates
College
Discussant(s) : Juan Poblete, Univ of California/Santa Cruz
906 // LAW009 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Las Olas
Urban Violence, Policing, Justice and Democracy in Latin America
LASA2006 - 99
SATURDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm
911 // LIA004 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie
El arte de lo fuereño: trayectoria literaria de María Luisa Puga (19442004)
Organizer : Rosana Blanco-Cano, Tulane University
Chair(s) : Rosana Blanco-Cano, Tulane University
María Luisa Puga, una conciencia decentralizada: Erna Pfeiffer, Universitat
Graz, AUSTRIA
(Re)composición del cuerpo/texto en Diario del dolor: Irma Lopez, Western
Michigan University
El deterioro corporal y el künstlerroman en Antonia de María Luisa Puga:
Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary, CANADA
Discussant(s) : Debra Castillo, Cornell University
912 // LIA024 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie
Escribir la ciudad
Organizer : Ada Fuentes-Rivera, Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
Chair(s) : Ada Fuentes-Rivera, Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
Collages urbanos: la ciudad en fragmentos en dos novelas de Emilio Díaz
Valcárcel: Claudia Fezzardi, Vassar College
Nocturnal Maps, Imagined Cities, Argentine Narratives: Marcelo Cohen,
Fogwill: Roy Ketchum, University of Minnesota
La Habana, San Juan, Santo Domingo: el pájaro tenía tres alas, Lola:
Yolanda Izquierdo Collar, UPR/Rio Piedras
Ruinas de la ciudad: atisbos a la ciudad en ruinas: Maribel Ortiz-Márquez,
University of Puerto Rico
Casas entrañables: De José Luis González a Manuel Ramos Otero: Maria
Rodríguez-Castro, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
La ciudad en Los pies de San Juan (de Eduardo Lalo): Ada Fuentes-Rivera,
Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
Discussant(s) : Vanessa Vilches-Norat, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras
913 // LIA028 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie
Lo "primitivo" y lo "arcaico": Narrativa de viajes y estado nacional en
Latinoamérica en los siglo XIX y XX
Organizer : Leila Gómez, Univ of Colorado/Boulder
Chair(s) : Rosana Diaz Zambrana, Rollings College
Alegorías viandantes: la crisis del viaje y el proyecto nacional en la literatura
contemporánea latinoamericana.: Rosana Diaz Zambrana, Rollings
College
“En la boca del león”: la parodia como posibilidad de escribir el
desplazamiento en Fray Servando Teresa de Mier: Angela Pérez-Mejía,
Brandeis Univ
La nación "prehistórica": Arqueología e imperio en las descripciones de
Machu Picchu de Hiram Bingham y Luis E. Valcárcel: Leila Gómez,
Univ of Colorado/Boulder
Discussant(s) : Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers University
914 // MCB017 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 2
Colombian Transnationalism
Organizer : Fatimah Williams Castro, Rutgers University
Chair(s) : Ana Maria Jaramillo, Corporacion Region, COLOMBIA
El desplazamiento forzado en Colombia, continuidades y discontinuidades
(1950-2005): Ana Maria Jaramillo, Corporacion Region, COLOMBIA
Social Fears, Trails of Memory and Forced Migration: Colombian Refugees
in Canada: Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, University of British Columbia,
CANADA
Transnational Social Movements: Afro-Colombians’ Struggle with Political
and Social Change: Fatimah Williams Castro, Rutgers University
Transmigrant Identities: The Closet and Other Tales by Colombian Gay
Immigrants in New York: Erika Márquez, Univ of Massachusetts
Discussant(s) : Kiran Asher, Clark University
915 // MCB030 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo A
Redes y conexiones translocales 2
Organizer : Carolina Sancholuz, Universidad Nal de La Plata, ARGENTINA
Chair(s) : Carolina Sancholuz, Universidad Nal de La Plata, ARGENTINA
Memoria y desplazamiento. Dos momentos de la emigración puertorriqueña
a los Estados Unidos: Bernardo Vega y Esmeralda Santiago: Carolina
Sancholuz, Universidad Nal de La Plata, ARGENTINA
Caribbean Connections: British West Indians, Cuba, and the Hispanic
Caribbean, 1900 to 1959: Robert Whitney, University of New
Brunswick, CANADA, Graciela Chailloux, Univ de Costa Rica, CUBA
Social Capital in War-Torn Peruvian Communities: Henrik Wiig, , NORWAY
Tourism Along the "Ruta Gringa" in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes: Is
Inca Tourism Beneficial for Local Populations?: Elisabeth Zoomers,
Center for Latin American Research, THE NETHERLANDS
916 // POL011 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo D
Perspectives on the Colombian Conflict
Organizer : Victor Hinojosa, Baylor University
Chair(s) : Victor Hinojosa, Baylor University
Non-State Terrorism in Colombia: Terror Strategies of Paramilitaries and
Narcotics Traffickers: Victor Hinojosa, Baylor University
Challenging the State from Within: The Defensoria del Pueblo and the Abuse
of Human Rights in Colombia: John Dugas, Kalamazoo College
Discussant(s) : Carlos Guevara-Mann, University of Nevada/Reno
917 // POL038 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar B
Electoral System and Democracy in Latin America
Organizer : Daniel Buquet Corleto, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY
Chair(s) : Daniel Buquet Corleto, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY
Electoral Reform in Uruguay: Incentives, Process and Outcomes: Daniel
Buquet Corleto, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY
Voting Left: Ideology or Economic Voting?: María del Rosario Queirolo,
University of Pittsburgh, URUGUAY
Kirchner and Left-Peronism in Power: Electoral Political Space and Electoral
Social Bases: Pierre Ostiguy, Bard College
918 // PST004 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 1
Trangressive Performances: Crossing the Lines in Latin American
Carnival and Popular Music
Organizer : Marilyn Miller, Tulane University
Chair(s) : Marilyn Miller, Tulane University
Closing the Breach: Fernando Calzadilla, New York University
When War Meant Peace Between Latinos and African-Americans: Salsoul and
the Barrio Nuevo: Marilyn Miller, Tulane University
Transgresiones carnavalescas y mestizaje: Un fenómeno latinoamericano:
John Chasteen, University of North Carolina
Pedro Izquierdo and Transgressive Drumming in Revolutionary Cuba: Robin
Moore, University of Texas/Austin
Discussant(s) : Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona College
919 // REC002 Reception (sponsored) Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San
Gerónimo A
Special Recognition Reception – By invitation only
Sponsor : LASA
Organizer : Sonia Alvarez, Univ of Massachussetts/Amherst
920 // RRR001 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal A
Afro- Cuban Literature
Organizer : Mark Sanders, Emory University
Chair(s) : Mark Sanders, Emory University
"Para la historia": The Autobiography of Ricardo Batrell Oviedo and the
Afro-Cuban Struggle for Racial Democracy: Mark Sanders, Emory
University
El negro y las concepciones de la nación en la Cuba actual: Odette
Casamayor, Stonybrook University/SUNY
Black Dissident Voices: Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal, Univ of
California/Santa Cruz
¿Mercado negro en la academia? Escritores negros en cuba o el tráfico de la
identidad: Roberto Zurbano Torres, Unión Escritores y Artistas, CUBA
Poesía negra de color: Jesus Cos Causse and Eloy Machado Pérez: Conrad
James, Univ of Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM
921 // RRR004 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical A
Genealogías de la diferencia "racial": Formas de dominación y
estrategias de resistencia desde la experiencia de la Diaspora
Africana en Latinoamérica
Organizer : María Eugenia Cháves, Stockholm Univ, ECUADOR
Chair(s) : Hebe Maria Mattos, Univ Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL
Cidadania, racialização e memória do cativeiro na história do Brasil: Hebe
Maria Mattos, Univ Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL
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SATURDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm
Writing Royal Slavery and Conjuring Freedom in Colonial Text: The Case of
El Cobre, Cuba: María Elena Díaz, Univ of California/Santa Cruz
Historicidad de las alteridades de la "diáspora africana": Hacia una
eventualización de "casta", "raza" y "etnicidad" en Colombia: Eduardo
Restrepo, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Del color, el calor y la barbarie: La construcción de la inferioridad de los
Africanos en los discursos españoles coloniales: María Eugenia Cháves,
Stockholm Univ, ECUADOR
Contrastar las discriminaciones: Percepciones, identidades y estrategias de
resistencia entre negros y mulatos en Cuba a principios del siglo XX:
Loredana Giolitto, Univ Degli Studi di Genova/Italy, ITALY
Discussant(s) : Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
922 // RRS007 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 10
Colonial Church and Religion across Disciplines
Organizer : Karen Melvin, Bates College
Chair(s) : Karen Melvin, Bates College
"Sin temor de Dios": Sexuality, Violence, and Marriage Cases in Local
Ecclesiastical Courts in New Spain: Jessica Delgado, Univ of California/
Berkeley
El sueño y los soñadores en México colonial: María Jordán, Yale University
Imitating the Sacred Religions: Official Religion and Popular Practice: Karen
Melvin, Bates College
Changes in the Social Functions of New Spain's Frontier Missions. A Critique
of the "Mission System Crisis" Paradigm: Jose De la Torre Curiel, Univ
of California/Berkeley, MEXICO
Visualizing Corporate Piety: The Art of Religious Brotherhoods: Cristina
Gonzalez, Univ of Chicago
Materiality, Spanish Values, and the Church in Colonial Latin America: An
Archaelogical Perspective: Kira Blaisdell-Sloan, Univ of
California/Berkeley
Discussant(s) : Kenneth Mills, Univ of Toronto, CANADA
923 // SMO007 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie
The State-Society Matrix Reloaded? Corporatism, Clientelism and
Pluralism in Post-Transition Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
Organizer : Jean Mayer, Concordia Univ, CANADA
Chair(s) : Jean Mayer, Concordia Univ, CANADA
Still Corporatism? State-Labor Relations in Mexico after the Democratic
Transition: Jean Mayer, Concordia Univ, CANADA
From “Movement Societies” to “Mobilized States”: Ariel Armony, Colby
College, Victor Armony, Université du Québec/ Montréal, CANADA
Mobilización o Neoclientelismo? Estrategias y representaciones en torno de
las demandas sociales en el noroeste argentino: Jorge Pantaleón,
Université du Montréal, CANADA
The Future of Unions: Crisis or new strategies?: Sonia Larangeira, Univ
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL
Discussant(s) : Tulia Falleti, Univ of Pennsylvania
924 // SMO013 Panel Saturday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie
Transnational Networks in the Americas: Examples from the Hurricane
Basin Region
Organizer : Natalia Saltalamacchia Ziccardi, ITAM, MEXICO
Chair(s) : Cristina Eguizabal, The Ford Foundation
Between "Pos" and "NGOs": The Boundaries of Organization and
Community: Angela Stach, University of Maryland
Stufying Networks in the Hurricane Basin: Francis Pisani, Inst Tecnológico
Auto de México
El hip-hop como red transnacional cultural: Arlene Tickner, Universidad de
los Andes, COLOMBIA
Transnational Networks and Community-Based Organizations: The
Dynamics of Health Activism in the U.S.-Mexico Border and Central
Mexico: Nielan Barnes, California State Univ/Long Beach
Discussant(s) : Natalia Saltalamacchia Ziccardi, ITAM, MEXICO
LASA2006 - 101