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Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am 217 // AGR005 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo C The Brazilian Countryside I: Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs Organizer : Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside; Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina O Programa Fome Zero dois anos depois: José Graziano Da Silva, Univ Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP, BRAZIL A Geographic Analysis of Brazilian Agrarian Policy Programs: Gerd Sparovek, Univ de São Paulo/ESALQ, BRAZIL Agrarian Reform and Poverty Reduction: Lessons From Brazil: Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, Rural Federal Univ of Rio Janeiro, BRAZIL Changes in Brazilian Rural Poverty From 1991 to 2000: The Role of Migration: Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside, Edward Levine, Univ of California/Riverside 218 // AGR016 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 4 Inside the Polygon: The Efficacy of Community Tenure in the Western Property Paradigm (The Results of a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant) Organizer : Grenville Barnes, Univ of Florida Chair(s) : Grenville Barnes, Univ of Florida The Evolution of Ejidal Tenure in Rural Mexico: Challenging the Dominant Property Paradigm: Grenville Barnes, Univ of Florida Kuna Land Tenure: Cultural Base or Commodity: Thomas Ruppert, Univ of Flordia The Persistence of Family Lands in the Caribbean: Charisse Griffith Charles, University of the West Indies, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Discussant(s) : Thomas Ankersen, University of Florida 219 // CIT011 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal G Reshaping the City: Public Policy Reform Organizer : Kenneth Mitchell, St. Peter's College Chair(s) : Kenneth Mitchell, St. Peter's College Asentamientos precarios del Gran Buenos Aires. Incidencia en comportamientos de riesgo de sus habitantes: Ana Lourdes Suárez, Univ Nacional de General Sarmiento, ARGENTINA Prácticas y representaciones sociales del agua en la ciudad de México: María Concepción Martínez Omaña, Instituto Mora, MEXICO Sector Reform, Neoliberalism and the Power of National Capitals: Lessons from Mexico and the Dominican Republic: Kenneth Mitchell, St. Peter's College Los corredores de transporte público confinado en las metrópolis latinoamericanas: Clara Salazar, El Colegio de México, MEXICO Automobilization and private roads: (re)segregating Santiago, Chile: Ricardo Trumper, Univ of British Columbia/Okanagan, CANADA Urban Land Expropriation, and Urban Politics in Mexico City: The Case of El Encino: Maria Teresa Vazquez Castillo, Cal State Northridge Discussant(s) : Zachary Elkins, University of Illinois 220 // CSH013 Workshop Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical A Just Another Third World Country? Research in 'Post-Post-War' Guatemala Organizer : Diane Nelson, Duke University Chair(s) : Elizabeth Oglesby, Univ of Arizona *: Elizabeth Oglesby, Univ of Arizona *: Gregory Grandin, New York University *: Charles Hale, University of Texas/Austin *: Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Boston College *: Paula Worby, University of California/ Berkeley *: Deborah Yashar, Princeton University 221 // CUL013 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 10 Interpretation and the Dilemmas of Representation: Interventions in Latin American and Caribbean Fields and Histories Sponsor : University of Puerto Rico/ Arecibo Organizer : Mónica Espinosa Arango, Universidad de Puerto Rico/Arecibo Chair(s) : Nick Xenos, Univ of Massachusetts

Rethinking Ethnohistorical Futures: Notes on the Possibility of a Critical Historical Anthropology in the Caribbean: Gabriel De la Luz Rodríguez, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras Reassessing Latin America Post-colonialism: A Critique: Antonio Vasquez Arroyo, Virginia Tech University Gaze, Pain and Photography: Representing Indian Insurgency in Colombia: Mónica Espinosa Arango, Universidad de Puerto Rico/Arecibo Discussant(s) : Nick Xenos, Univ of Massachusetts 222 // CUL024 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 8 Cultural Production, Authoritarianism and Crises of Representation Organizer : Ryan Long, University of Oklahoma Chair(s) : Tracy Devine Guzmán, University of Miami Reviving "O Pasquim": On Subjectivity and the Illustration of Political Life in Brazil: Tracy Devine Guzmán, University of Miami Workers of the Pen"?: Redefining Journalism Practice in Argentina, 19301945: James Cane Carrasco, University of Oklahoma The Mexican State and the Critical Press: Excelsior and the Dirty War: Ryan Long, University of Oklahoma Controlled Chaos: A Portrayal of Military Dictatorship in Osvaldo Soriano’s Cuarteles de Invierno: Brent Carbajal, Western Washington University Art, Subsumption, and Speculation: A View from the Neoliberal Transitions: Alessandro Fornazzari, University of California/Riverside Discussant(s) : John Kraniauskas, Birkbeck College, UNITED KINGDOM 223 // CUL046 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical C Contemporary Cuba Through Interdisciplinary Lens Organizer : Renee Scherlen, Appalachian State University Chair(s) : Renee Scherlen, Appalachian State University "There is No Model": The Politics of Cuban Economic Liberalization: Renee Scherlen, Appalachian State University The Unraveling of a Relationship: Cuba and Mexico: David Dávila Villers, Univ de las Américas/Puebla, MEXICO "Want to hear a story about a time I lost something?” Criminal Justice in Cuba: A Comparative Examination of Cuban Socialist Legality in the Shadow of The United States: Nelson Bass, Univ of Miami “Se contiuará la revolución?”: Civil Society and State Discourse in Cuba: Cortland Bosc, Univ of Texas/Austin Pariah States and Double Standards: A Comparison of Syria and Cuba: Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State Univ Discussant(s) : Cynthia Wood, Appalachian State University 224 // CYC004 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 3 Parent / Child Relationships in Mexican and Mexican American Families Organizer : Rosario Esteinou, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO Chair(s) : Gary Peterson, Miami Univ Familia y transición residencial en México: Experiencias y riesgos: Gonzalo Saravi, CIESAS, MEXICO Parental Influences on Adolescent Social Competence in Two Cultures: Conceptual Comparisons Between the United States and Mexico: Gary Peterson, Miami Univ Styles of Parenting in Mexico: Rosario Esteinou, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO Individualism versus Collectivism in the Mexican Parent-Adolescent Relationship: Predictors of Youthful Autonomy and Conformity: Stephan Wilson, Univ of Nevada/Reno Mexican Heritage Families in the United States: Sources of Parental Stress and Some Interventions: Charles Hennon, Miami Univ Making a Difference: Cultural Constructions of Generational Changes in Parenting and Couple Relationships Among Young Professionals and Academics in Mexico City: Daniel Nehring, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM 225 // DEM005 Workshop Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal B Violence, State Formation and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America Organizer : Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University Chair(s) : Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University *: Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University *: Ariel Armony, Colby College *: J. Patrice McSherry, Long Island University *: Philip Mauceri, Univ of Northern Iowa 226 // DEM020 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar A

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THURSDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am Los límites de la democracia minimalista en América Latina: obstáculos para la consolidación Organizer : Ernesto Isunza Vera, CIESAS, MEXICO Chair(s) : Alberto Aziz, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO The Democratic Paradox of the Latin American Political Culture: An Education that (Des)politizes and Politics that (Des)educate: Marcello Baquero, Federal University/Rio Grande, BRAZIL Vote Buying in Mexico: Party Competition: Salvador Vazquez del Mercado, Northwestern University Campo electoral, espacios autónomos y redes: El Consejo General del IFE (1996-2005): Alberto Aziz, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO Leyes de participación ciudadana en América Latina y Chile: cuando las normas no bastan: Felipe Hevia, Ctro Estudio Municipales Cordill, CHILE Árbitros ciudadanos de las disputas partidarias. Una mirada sobre los consejos electorales federales en la contienda de 2000 en México: Ernesto Isunza Vera, CIESAS, MEXICO Pedras no Caminho. Trajetórias individuais, relaçoes entre Sociedade civil e Estado no Brasil: Gabriel Feltran, Univ Estatal de Campinas, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Alberto Olvera, Universidad Veracruzana, MEXICO 227 // ECO008 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo A A New Agenda for Latin American Economic Development Organizer : Eva Paus, Mount Holyoke College Chair(s) : Eva Paus, Mount Holyoke College FDI, Spillovers, and the Need for New Industrial Policies: Lessons from Mexico and Costa Rica: Eva Paus, Mount Holyoke College Industrial Policy in Latin America: A la recherche du temps perdu?: Helen Shapiro, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Reforming Latin American Economies under Globalization: Ricardo FfrenchDavis, CEPAL, CHILE Export Oriented Industrialization: State Policies and Contemporary National Production Systems; Initiatives and Perspectives from Mexico, Chile and Argentina: James Cypher, Univ Autonoma de Zacatecas FTAs and Development Policies in Latin America: Opportunities and Constraints: Luis Abugattas Majluf, UNCTAD, SWITZERLAND Inversión extranjera directa y estrategias de desarrollo en una economía pequeña: Costa Rica: Jose Cordero, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA 228 // EDU010 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Ceiba Educación universitaria y empleo Organizer : María de los A. Valle Flores, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Chair(s) : María de los A. Valle Flores, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Relación entre el trabajo docente y el nivel de escolaridad en México: María Concepción Barrón Tirado, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO La inserción y el posicionamiento laboral de un grupo de administradores y físicos egresados de la UNAM: María de los A. Valle Flores, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Educación y trabajo de jóvenes universitarios: perspectivas educativas y laborales: Leticia Fernández Berdaguer, Univ Nacional de La Plata, ARGENTINA Trayectorias laborales de biólogos agropecuarios de la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala: Mariela Sonia Jiménez Vásquez, Univ Autonoma de Tlaxacala, MEXICO A reforma da educação superior do Brasil: Celia Regina Otranto, Univ Fed Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Desempeño y reconocimiento laboral del técnico con elevada formación escolarizada. El caso del Técnico Superior Universitario: Estela Ruiz, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO 229 // ENV008 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie Controlling Nature, Controlling Knowledge: Landscapes of Bioprospecting Organizer : Coral Wayland, UNC Charlotte Chair(s) : Coral Wayland, UNC Charlotte Encountering Eden: Ethnobotanical Images of Bioprospecting in the Amazon: Coral Wayland, UNC Charlotte

Controlling Traditional Medicines in Bolivia: A Case for the Preservation of Cultural Patrimony: Lynn Sikkink, San Jose State University Biodiversity Prospecting, Nature Conservation and Local Livelihoods: Is There a Common Ground?: Ronald Nigh, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO Cultural Survival or Cultural Entrepreneuralism? The Cultural-Economy Angle on Indigenous Knowledge and International Bioprospecting: Shane Greene, Indiana University Fatal Attractions: Curare-Based Arrow Poisons, Strategic Knowledge, and Industrial -Pharmaceutical Interest in the Amazon: Daniel Hoffman, Univ of California/Berkeley Discussant(s) : Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Univ of California/Santa Barbara 230 // FDS001 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Boardroom 1 The Region Ahead: The Place of Media and the Transformation of Subjectivities Organizer : Luisela Alvaray, Universidad Central de Venezuela Chair(s) : Luisela Alvaray, Universidad Central de Venezuela Cyber-Republic: Representations of Latin America in Videogames: Daniel Chávez, University of Kentucky Globalization and the National in Latin American Cinemas: Luisela Alvaray, Universidad Central de Venezuela The Film Industries of Argentina and Mexico: A Comparative Study of Current Industrial Practices: Tamara Falicov, Univ of Kansas "Caminos que se bifurcan": Latin American Road Movies: Gilberto BlasiniCaceres, Univ of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Going Places: Puerto Rican and Dominican Films at Home and Abroad: Yeidy Rivero, Indiana University/Bloomington 231 // GEN009 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo A Una aproximación híbrida a la masculinidad: literatura, cine y artes plásticas Organizer : Zenaida Madurka, SUNY/Old Westbury Chair(s) : Jorge Rosario-Vélez, Long Island University Oh Men!: Body, Desires and Masculinity in Arras de Cristal by Clara Lair: Jorge Rosario-Vélez, Long Island University La sexualidad masculina como continuo en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación: Antonio Medina-Rivera, Cleveland State Univ El cuerpo masculino como artificio nacional en las artes plásticas: Zenaida Madurka, SUNY/Old Westbury Masculinity on the Other Side: Amy Alexander, Stanford University Negando su hombría: Ansiedad masculina en "El huracán lleva tu nombre" de Jaime Bayly: Pedro Koo, Missouri State University Discussant(s) : Antonio Medina-Rivera, Cleveland State Univ 232 // GLT009 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie Globalización y transnacionalización: Aproximaciones teóricas y performativas al Calibán caribeño. Organizer : Heidi Garcia, Arizona State University Chair(s) : Heidi Garcia, Arizona State University Reflexiones sobre el Calibán transnacional, global y poscolonial desde una perspectiva caribeña: Heidi Garcia, Arizona State University Calibán va a Transnaciolandia en la Guagua Aérea: Carlos Manuel Rivera, Davidson College 233 // HIS025 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal C Cuba and Puerto Rico in Comparative Perspective, 19th and 20th Centuries (Part I) Organizer : Marc McLeod, Seattle University Chair(s) : Marc McLeod, Seattle University Salvador Ternero (1768-1812): A Free Black Militiaman and Leader of the Mina Guagni African Society in Havana, Cuba: Matt Childs, Florida State University “De un pájaro las dos alas”: Understanding the Place of Cuba in Puerto Rico’s Politics of Race and Colonialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ileana Rodriguez Silva, Univ of Washington Race, Place, and Politics: Free Cubans of Color in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Michele Reid, Georgia State University Gender and Abolition in Comparative Perspective: Women of Colour and Legal Freedom in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1888: Camillia Cowling, Univ of Nottingham/UK Gender, Color, and Violence in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico, 1873-1895: Astrid Cubano Iguina, Universidad de Puerto Rico

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THURSDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am Discussant(s) : Marc McLeod, Seattle University 234 // HIS060 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical B The Politics of Social Change: Post/Colonial Institutions in the Atlantic World Organizer : Águeda Jiménez-Pelayo, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO Chair(s) : Águeda Jiménez-Pelayo, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO Magisterio, escuela pública y familia en Cuba, 1899-1916: Yoel Cordovi Nuñez, Inst de Hist de Cuba, CUBA The Looking Glass: The School of Tlatelolco as Mirror of Colonial Mexico's Relationships: Silver Moon, Duke University Estudios sobre la justicia local en la monarquia hispana: alcaldes mayores y alcaldes ordinarios. Una revisión crítica: Celina Becerra Jiménez, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO Other People's Money: Representation and Financial Accountability in early Republican Mexican Municipalities (1821-1846): Daniel Gutierrez, Harvard Univ El Juicio de residencia en la Nueva Galicia. Alcaldes mayores y corregidores: Águeda Jiménez-Pelayo, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO 235 // IND016 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Boardroom 2 Shifting Racial/Ethnic Identities: The Politics of Language, Religion, Environment and Gender Organizer : Pilar Valenzuela, Chapman University Chair(s) : Pilar Valenzuela, Chapman University Changing Times and Local Terms on the Rio Negro: Simeon Floyd, Univ of Texas/Austin Identidades frente al cambio en el testimonio de una mujer shipiba: Pilar Valenzuela, Chapman University "Too Much Land for Few Indians": Environmental Values, Racialization and the Brazilian National Space: Leda Leitão Martins, Pitzer College 236 // IND017 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal F State Mediations: Indigeneity, Identity, and Migration Organizer : Marina Weinberg, CONICET, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Marina Weinberg, CONICET, ARGENTINA "Soy y no soy": ensayo sobre la licuefacción de la(s) identidad(es): Sabine Kradolfer, Univ of Lausanne, SWTIZERLAND The Imaginary Inca: Public Representation of the Peruvian Indigenous People: Anna Saroli, Acadia University, CANADA 237 // LAT002 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo B Constructing Cross-Bordered Identities Organizer : Jeremy Cass, Furman University Chair(s) : Jeremy Cass, Furman University Race, Identity, and Differentiation in Cristina García's "The Agüero Sisters": Jeremy Cass, Furman University A Voice from Oblivion: Conceiving a Place for Richard Rodriguez in Chicana/o Literature: Bryan Pearce-Gonzales, Shenandoah Univ “Subtitles”: Performing Chicana Identity through Film Metaphors: Angelica Lozano Alonso, Furman University Miradas que matan: Internet, Femicides and the Gaze of Globalization in Gaspar de Alva's "Desert Blood": Miguel Lopez Lozano, University of New Mexico 238 // LAW005 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo B Local Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Historical Findings 3 Local and Informal Justices I: Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantism. Organizer : Victor Uribe-Uran, Florida International University Chair(s) : Amy Chazkel, City Univ of NY/Queens College "A lei de Lynch": Race, the Law, and Coverage of U.S. Lynching in the Brazilian Daily Press, 1886-1910: Amy Chazkel, City Univ of NY/Queens College Politics by Other Means? Lynching and Crisis in Post-Peace Accords Guatemala: Jennifer Burrell, University at Albany, SUNY Fundamentos Ancestrales de la Administración de Justicia Comunal: El caso del Altiplano Peruano-Boliviano: Hector Noejovich, Pontificia Univ Católica del Peru, PERU "For My Enemies, The Law": Local Uses of Police Authority in Rio's Favelas, 1950-1970: Brodwyn Fischer, Northwestern University Discussant(s) : Rodrigo Uprimny, Univ Nal de Colombia, COLOMBIA

239 // LCO014 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar B Literature, History and Latin America Organizer : Patrick Dove, Indiana Univ Chair(s) : Patrick Dove, Indiana Univ Language, Exile, and the Experience of History: Patrick Dove, Indiana Univ El tiempo geológico y el porvenir: leyendo los límites del presente en las últimas novelas de Sergio Chejfec: Kate Jenckes, Univ of Michigan The People of the Postcolonial: Brett Levinson, SUNY-Binghamton ¿Por qué la historia del golpe militar en Chile no fue un acontecimiento?: Oscar Cabezas, Duke University Making Events Historical: The Malaise of Tlatelolco: Stephenie Young, Central Michigan Univ Discussant(s) : Gareth Williams, University of Michigan 240 // LCO056 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo D Narrativa mexicana Organizer : Sandra Alzate, Univ of Cincinnati Chair(s) : Sandra Alzate, Univ of Cincinnati Aproximaciones hacia los espacios físicos en Recuerdos del Porvenir de Elena Garro: Sandra Alzate, Univ of Cincinnati Projected Mimesis as Political Strategy in the Chronicles of Carlos Monsiváis: Tania Gentic-Valencia, Univ of Pennsylvania Octavio Paz and the Circle of Magazine Vuelta: Jaime Perales, Georgetown University Detective Politics: Engagement and Exhaustion: Glen Close, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Construcción mexicana del sujeto americano en "Diablo Guardián" de Xavier Velasco: Oswaldo Estrada, Univ of Puget Sound Juan Rulfo: Photographer and Short Story Writer: Lucienne Muller, CUNY Graduate School/Univ Ctr 241 // LIA044 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie Polifonías postdictatoriales en el cono sur Organizer : Zulema Moret, Grand Valley State Univ Chair(s) : Jorgelina Corbatta, Wayne State University Recuperación de la memoria personal y colectiva en 'La Travesía' y 'Los deseos oscuros y los otros' de Luisa Valenzuela: Jorgelina Corbatta, Wayne State University "Los vigilantes" de Diamela Eltit: la porosidad de la violencia: Cecilia Ojeda, Northern Arizona University Discussant(s) : Magdalena Garcia Pinto, Univ of Missouri 242 // LIA066 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie Latina Literary and Cultural Studies: A View from Brazil Organizer : Sônia Regina Torres da Cruz, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Sônia Regina Torres da Cruz, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL Víctor Gaviria: Poética de la calle para expulsar de la República: Oscar Lopez, Saint Louis University 243 // LIA067 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 6 Marketing the Margins: Narrating the Argentine Provinces and the Construction of a Nation Organizer : Jennifer Valko, East Carolina Univ Chair(s) : Jennifer Valko, East Carolina Univ Frontera cultural en la Argentina: El tango: Fernando Opere, University of Virginia Immigration and Advertising in the Early Twentieth Century. Swiss Immigrants Market the Argentine Patagonia: Jennifer Valko, East Carolina Univ Marketing from the Margins: The Province of Misiones in the Late XIX Century: Rebecca Stephanis, Princeton University Folclor, filología y subjetividad: la etnografía de comienzos de siglo XX: Alvaro Fernández-Bravo, Universidad de San Andrés, ARGENTINA Discussant(s) : Monica Szurmuk, University of Oregon, MEXICO 244 // LIA070 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie Texto e imagen: espacios y perspectivas "confusas"

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THURSDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am Organizer : Karina Wigozki, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Chair(s) : Luis Miguel Isava, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA "Gorda, gorda, muy gorda… voy a reventar como una bomba": Imágenes histéricas del fin de siglo XIX: Nathalie Bouzaglo, New York University El narrar heterogéneo de Mario Bellatín: Marcela Reyes, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Gestos en la traducción de la nostalgia: la fotografía en "La laguna sagrada de San Joaquín" de Lydia Cabrera: Emily Maguire, Indiana Univ 245 // MAS005 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 7 30 anos de obrigatoriedade de diploma superior para o exercício do jornalismo Organizer : José Luiz Proença, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL Chair(s) : José Luiz Proença, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL Ensino superior para o exercício do jornalismo no Brasil: José Luiz Proença, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL O ensino de história da comunicação e seu papel na formação crítica e cultural do jornalista brasileiro: Andre Silva, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL A importância da atuação dos estudantes de jornalismo nas mídias da USP: Leandra Martins, Univ de São Paulo, BRAZIL Jornalismo na era digital: Em busca de uma filosofia de ensino: Nancy Nuyen Ali Ramadan, Univ de São Paulo, BRAZIL Cursos brasileiros de jornalismo superam desafio da interação teóricoprática: Dirceu Lopes, Universidade de Sao Paul, BRAZIL 246 // MCB009 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal D The Politics of the "Mexican Diaspora" Organizer : Manuel García y Griego, University of New Mexico Chair(s) : Katrina Burgess, Tufts University Squaring the Circle: Immigration Policy Preferences and Latino and Mexican Immigrant Leadership Networks: Manuel García y Griego, University of New Mexico Latino and Mexican Leadership Networks in the United States and the Role of the Mexican State: David Ayon, Ctr for the Study of Los Angeles From Mexicano to Latino: Allert Brown-Gort, University of Notre Dame Discussant(s) : Carlos González Gutiérrez, Inst de los Mexicanos Exterior, MEXICO, Rafael Fernández de Castro, Inst Tec Autónomo de México, MEXICO 247 // MCB022 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal A Migrantes, participación política y ciudadanía Organizer : Bárbara Miranda Salvaterra, Unv Federal of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Bárbara Miranda Salvaterra, Unv Federal of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Nuevas tendencias en la derecha cubana-americana: Maura Isabel Juampere Pérez, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA The Consulate of Brazil in Boston and Brazilian Immigrant Communities: Bárbara Miranda Salvaterra, Unv Federal of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Migration Impacts on Usos y Costumbres: Changing Political Dynamics in the State of Oaxaca: Vincent Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College 248 // MCB024 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal E La "ilegalidad" y sus efectos Organizer : Dereka Rushbrook, University of Arizona Chair(s) : Dereka Rushbrook, University of Arizona Sonoran Cartographies: Death in the Desert: Dereka Rushbrook, University of Arizona 249 // POL023 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 5 Politics of Innovation and Diffusion: The Spread of Health, Security, and Education Policies in Brazil and Latin America. Organizer : Benjamin Reames, Columbia University Chair(s) : Natasha Sugiyama, University of Texas/Austin How Social Networks Promote Policy Diffusion in Brazil: The Cases of Bolsa Escola and Programa Saúde da Família: Natasha Sugiyama, University of Texas/Austin Dissemination of Local Governments Policies and Programs in Brazil – The Contribution of Public Management and Citizenship Programs: Marta Farah, Fundação Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL Obstacles to the Provision of Citizen Security Policy: Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College/CUNY

The Pros and Cons of Learning from Innovation: Educational Policies Seen Through the Public Management and Citizenship Program: Peter Spink, Fundação Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL The Diffusion of Democratic Policing Reforms in Brazil: Benjamin Reames, Columbia University Discussant(s) : Peter Spink, Fundação Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL 250 // POL030 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 9 Taiwan and Latin America: Cooperation Links References Sponsor : Grad Inst of Latin American Studies Organizer : Hsiu-Chi Wang, Tamkang University/Taiwan, TAIWAN Chair(s) : Hsiu-Chi Wang, Tamkang University/Taiwan, TAIWAN La estrategia de Taiwan frente al desarrollo del FOCALAE: Hsiu-Chi Wang, Tamkang University/Taiwan, TAIWAN Chinese Economic Emergence in Latin America and its Implications for Taiwan’s Foreign Relations (2001-2005): Francisco Luis Pérez Expósito, Tamkang University, TAIWAN La cooperación estratégica Sur-Sur de China popular en América Latina: Ren-Rang Chyou, National Cheng-Chi University, TAIWAN El caso de la ley anti-secesión en las relaciones entre Taiwán y Latinoamérica: Susana Vittadini Andrés, Tamkang University, TAIWAN La política económica de Taiwan y de Latinoamérica en el proceso de desarrollo: Yea-Hong Chen, Tamkang University, TAIWAN Un anáisis sobre la estrategia diplomática de la RPCh en América Latina al comienzo del siglo XXI: Kwo-Wei Kung, Tamkang University, TAIWAN Discussant(s) : Juan Hung-Hui, Tamkang University, TAIWAN 251 // POL032 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo C Latin American Economics: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future Organizer : Sarah Babb, Boston College Chair(s) : Veronica Montecinos, Penn State University The Politics of Security Policy: Lessons from the Literature on Economic Reform: Kent Eaton, Naval Postgraduate School The Internationalization of Ideas in Argentina's Economics Profession: Glen Biglaiser, Texas Tech Univ The Education of Economists in Latin America: Florencia Tateossian, University of Pittsburgh, John Markoff, University of Pittsbsurgh 252 // RRR018 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Las Olas Race, Mestizaje and Indigeneities Organizer : S. Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM Chair(s) : S. Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM Autonomy without Permission: Consolidation and Conflict in Zapatista Territory: Melissa Forbis, University of Texas/Austin Selling Ecuador: Representations of Race in the Discourse of Tourism: Erynn Masi de Casanova, The Graduate Ctr/CUNY "I Speak for My Race": Contesting the Ladino's Indian in Guatemala, 19701980: Betsy Konefal, College of Wiliam and Mary Mestizaje as Lived Experience: S. Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM 253 // RRS013 Panel Thursday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamboyan Religion, the State and Democratization Organizer : Michael Fleet, Marquette University Chair(s) : Michael Fleet, Marquette University Do Religious Beliefs Affect Political Choices in Present-Day Chile?: Timothy Scully, University of Notre Dame, J. Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame Religión, espiritualidad y vida cotidiana en la actualidad cubana: Ana Celia Perera Pintado, Crtro Inv Psicologicas y Sociolog, CUBA Catholic Church Influence in Secularizing, Post-Authoritarian Societies: Michael Fleet, Marquette University Has Chávez Lost His Mandate from Heaven? Politics, Nationalist Mythology, and Religious Pluralism in Venezuela: Wade Glenn, Tulane University

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THURSDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am La tristeza del nómada: Deleuze, Zapata y la ciudad latinoamericana: Alberto Medina, Boston University Discussant(s) : Dara Goldman, University of Illinois/Urbana

Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am 254 // AGR009 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal F The Rise of Fair Trade and Alternative Trade Initiatives in North and South: Socio-Ecological Impacts and Responses Organizer : Daniel Jaffee, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Chair(s) : Christopher Bacon, Univ of California/Santa Cruz The Impact and Limits of Fair Trade Coffee in Costa Rica: Hector SaezNúñez, University of Vermont The Application of an “Impact Assessment Framework” for Fair Trade and Ethical Trade Initiatives: Karla Utting, Sustainability Research Institute, NICARAGUA From Coffee Crisis Toward Gendered Empowerment?: Nicaraguan Smallholders Use Cooperative, Fair Trade and Organic Coffee Networks to Negotiate Crisis and Sustainability: Christopher Bacon, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Sustainable Coffee From the Bottom-up: Impacts of Certification on Smallscale Farmer Households and Cooperatives of Central America and Mexico: Víctor Ernesto Méndez, Univ of California/Santa Cruz, EL SALVADOR Otra Economía es Posible: La Economía Solidaria y el Comercio Justo en el Contexto Mexicano: Mario Monroy Gómez, Agromercados, A.C., MEXICO Producing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Livelihoods and Environment in Oaxaca, México: Daniel Jaffee, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison 255 // AGR017 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo C The Brazilian Countryside II: The Many Faces of Agrarian Reform Organizer : Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside; Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside Analysis of Regional Impacts of Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Sergio Pereira Leite, Rural Federal Univ of Rio Janeiro, BRAZIL Rewards of Resistance and the Desire for Development in the Brazilian Northeast: Jan Hoffman French, Duke University The Politics of Land and Labor in Black Brazilian Communities: Merle Bowen, University of Illinois Land Reform as Industrial Modernization in the Sugarcane Industry of Northeastern Brazil: Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina The Dynamics of Change: Gender and Recognition Within a Small Rural Environmental Organization: Valerie Singer, Oxford College/ Emory University 256 // ART001 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical B Reconstituting the Politics of Art in Latin America: 1900- now Organizer : Esther Gabara, Duke University Chair(s) : Esther Gabara, Duke University Obscuring Vision: Puerto Rican Marginality and Visual Culture: Esther Gabara, Duke University Mural Gambits at the Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (1940) Exhibition: “Explaining” Mexican Muralism to U.S. Audiences: Anna Indych López, The City College of NY/CUNY “Freedom” Above All Else: Exhibiting Indigenism in the United States During and After World War II: Michele Greet, George Mason University Mexican and Chicana/o Muralism: Continuity and Disruption: Guisela Latorre, Univ of California/Sta Barbara Everyday Art and the Globalization of Youth Gangs and Zero Tolerance Policing Strategies Between the Americas: Elana Zilberg, UCSD Discussant(s) : Roberto Tejada, Univ of California/San Diego 257 // CIT003 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Ceiba Sex and the Latin American City Organizer : Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University Chair(s) : Luz Lenis, Fordham University En una ciudad llamada San Juan: Narrativa citadina y sexualidad: Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University Sexualizando el espacio urbano: la trampa metafórica de Lima la horrible: Cynthia Vich, Fordham University De China Hereje a Melao Sensual y Bandolera: Luis Rafael Sánchez y la performatividad urbana: Eva Vasquez, City Univ of NY/York College

258 // CIT005 Workshop Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical A Participatory Budgeting in Brazil and Beyond: Diffusion, Stagnation, or Retreat? Organizer : Benjamin Goldfrank, Univ of New Mexico Chair(s) : Benjamin Goldfrank, Univ of New Mexico *: Benjamin Goldfrank, Univ of New Mexico Discussant(s) : Brian Wampler, Boise State Univ 259 // CSH002 Workshop Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal A Enfrentando los poderes ocultos en Latinoamérica: una visión comparativa de la penetración de grupos clandestinos dentro del estado, la impunidad de sus prácticas, y su impacto en la consolidación de la democracia Sponsor : Washington Office on Latin America Organizer : Adriana Beltran, Washington Office on Latin America Chair(s) : Rodolfo Robles Espinoza, Fundacion Myrna Mack, GUATEMALA *: Gino Costa, Inst de Defensa Legal, PERU *: Geoffrey Thale, Washington Office on Latin America 260 // CSH018 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 3 New Perspectives on Human Rights Activism and Truth Telling Organizer : Rosemary Barbera, Monmouth University Chair(s) : Rosemary Barbera, Monmouth University Healing Images of Terror: Post-Genocide Human Rights: Heather Teague, University of Texas/Austin Construyendo la vida digna: Las luchadoras de la Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (en inglés o castellano): Rosemary Barbera, Monmouth University Counting Casualties, Constructing Histories: A Comparative Study of Reporting and Documenting Casualties of the Armed Conflict in Peru: Jemima García Godos, Ctr for Dev and the Envi, NORWAY Making Solidarity More Liberatory: Moving Beyond Colonial Patterns in the Movement to Close the School of the Americas: Sara Koopman, University of British Colombia, CANADA 261 // CUL041 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie Genealogía del narcotraficante. El ángel caido del neoliberalismo Organizer : Gabriela Polit, Stony Brook Univ/ SUNY Chair(s) : Oscar Montoya, SUNY Stony Brook Ciudad mafiosa: narcotráfico y cultura urbana en la reciente narrativa Colombiana: Oscar Montoya, SUNY Stony Brook Prestige and Development: The Criminalization of Drugs Policies in Mexico (1917-1948): Maria del Pilar Zazueta, Columbia Univ Mito, noticia y ficción. Diálogo entre arte y periodismo en la era del narcotráfico: Gabriela Polit, Stony Brook Univ/ SUNY Discussant(s) : Luis Astorga Almanza, Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO 262 // CUL053 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 6 De los hijos de la patria a los clubes de madres: Gendering the Body Politic in Latin America Organizer : Caroline Yezer, School of American Research Chair(s) : Marisol De La Cadena, University of California/Davis Mothers and Widows of the Disappeared and Political Activism: Limitations to Female Participation and Empowerment: Wendy Coxshall, University of Bath, UNITED KINGDOM “The Right to Beauty”: Cosmetic Citizenship and Medical Modernity in Brazil: Alvaro Jarrin, Duke University Women, Political Participation and the Body Politic in Post-Fujimori Peru: Amy Mortensen, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Participación, proyectos y la politica: "Sustainable Development" and the New Women of Calakmul Mexico: Julia Murphy, University of Calgary, CANADA Militarized Cholos and Peaceful Machu Qaris: Peasant Soldiers to Citizens and Back Again: Caroline Yezer, School of American Research Discussant(s) : Diane Nelson, Duke University

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263 // DEM014 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie Calidad de la democracia y responsabilidad ciudadana: reformas de segunda generación en América Latina Organizer : Claudio Fuentes, FLACSO/Chile, CHILE Chair(s) : Claudio Fuentes, FLACSO/Chile, CHILE Agenda de reformas políticas en Chile: Claudio Fuentes, FLACSO/Chile, CHILE Participation, Accountability and the Rule of Law: Challenges for Democracy in Ecuador: Viviana Giacaman, Georgetwon University Financiamiento político en Chile: Una batalla incierta: Andrés Villar, FLACSO-Chile, CHILE Desafíos pendientes de la Democracia en América Latina: Un análisis feminista: Marcela Rios Tobar, FLACSO- Chile, CHILE From Crisis of Governance to Crisis of the Model Explaining the Crisis in Ecuador: The Emergence of a New Power Contender: Karen Bozicovich, Georgetown University Discussant(s) : Jonathan Hartlyn, Univ of North Carolina 264 // DEM029 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo C Nuevas formas colectivas de participación: Promesas y esperanzas de transformación en América Latina. Organizer : Susana Mallo Reynal, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY Chair(s) : Jacqueline Peschard, National University of Mexico, MEXICO La transparencia como mecanismo de articulación en los partidos en México: Jacqueline Peschard, National University of Mexico, MEXICO Partidos, elecciones y gobierno en el Cono Sur (Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay): Constanza Moreira, Univ de la Repub Orient de Uruguay, URUGUAY Partidos y gobiernos de izquierda en el Cono Sur: Uruguay y Brasil: Hugo Borsani Cardozo, Univ Estadual del Norte Fluminense, BRAZIL El inquietante despliegue de la izquierda en el Cono Sur Latinoamericano Análisis comparado: Argentina y Uruguay 2000/2005: Susana Mallo Reynal, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY Ciudadanía y representación política en el contexto de un proceso de integración regional como el del Mercosur. Nuevos temas y desafíos: Gerardo Caetano, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY Discussant(s) : Andrew Selee, Woodrow Wilson Center 265 // DEM037 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo B Democratic Brazil Revisited: Citizens Organizer : Timothy Power, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Chair(s) : Timothy Power, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Organized Civil Society in Lula's Brazil: Kathryn Hochstetler, Colorado State Univ Public Security, Private Interests, and Police Reform in Brazil: Anthony Pereira, Tulane Univ, BRAZIL Re-democratization in Brazil: A View From Below. The Case of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1969-2003: Janice Perlman, Columbia Univ Election "Quality" in Brazil: Policy, Pageantry, or Patron-Client Exchange?: Andy Baker, Northeastern University, Barry Ames, University of Pittsburgh No Turning Back? How Democratic are Brazilian Voters?: Scott Desposato, University of California/San Diego Discussant(s) : William Smith, University of Miami 266 // DEM053 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo A El Acuerdo de Paz Firme y Duradera en Guatemala de 1996 a los diez años de su firma e inicio de su implementación Organizer : Raul Molina-Mejia, Long Island University/NYU Chair(s) : Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, Arzobispado Metrop de Guatemala, GUATEMALA La estrategia de paz de la URNG y los desafios de la implementacion del Acuerdo de Paz Firme y Duradera de 1996: Sandino Rodrigo Asturias Discussant(s) : Raul Molina-Mejia, Long Island University/NYU, Jared Kotler, United Nations 267 // ECO015 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 5 Trajectories of Subnational and Regional Development Organizer : Ryan Scott Isakson, University of Massachusetts Chair(s) : Ryan Scott Isakson, University of Massachusetts

Las transferencias intergubernamentales, el esfuerzo fiscal y el nivel de actividad: Gladys Giovanna Aguilar Andía, Pontif Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU, Rosa Morales Saraviae, Pontif Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU Regional Integration in the Americas and Spatial Asymmetries in Peripheral Areas: The Brazilian Nordeste in Question: Edison Jr Barreto, Laval University, BRAZIL The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Lessons from the Argentine Wine Industry: Gerald McDermott, University of Pennsylvania 268 // EDU016 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo A Examining the Puerto Rican Experience in Schools: From the Diaspora to the Island Organizer : Marco Antonio Martínez, Univ of Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Marco Antonio Martínez, Univ of Puerto Rico La música autóctona de Puerto Rico: una omisión en el currículo de música a nivel universitario: Miguel Cubano, Interamerican University Exploring How to Expand Bi-national Educational Opportunities for Puerto Ricans: Randall Lambert, West Chester Univ Construyendo comunidades de investigadoras en educación: Una década de vivencias: Marco Antonio Martínez, Univ of Puerto Rico 269 // ENV013 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo D Environmental and Social Impacts of Transgenic Crops and Other Biotechnologies Organizer : José Anazagasty, Univ of Puerto Rico/ Mayaguez Chair(s) : José Anazagasty, Univ of Puerto Rico/ Mayaguez Agricultural Biotechnologies and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Latin America: José Anazagasty, Univ of Puerto Rico/ Mayaguez, Marta Maldonado, Iowa State University GMOs Regulation in Mexico from a North American Perspective: Edit Antal, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO The Dilema of Decontamination: Gene Flow From Transgenic Maize to Landraces in Southern Mexico: Kristin Mercer, Ohio State University Derechos de Propiedad Genética en Mexico Post-TLC/NAFTA: ¿Neocolonialismo Científico?: Pedro Morán-Palma 270 // EXC009 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Boardroom 2 Caribbean Rhythms Organizer : Gema Guevara, Univ of Utah Chair(s) : Gema Guevara, Univ of Utah Canción cubana contemporánea: La luz, bróder, la luz: Joaquín Borges Triana, , CUBA Lyrical Subversion in Cuban Reggae: Porfirio Samuel Furé Davis, Univ of Havana, CUBA The Guarija's Crossings: From the National to the Transnational Music Scene: Gema Guevara, Univ of Utah 271 // FEA011 Workshop Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Las Olas The Never-Ending Cold War:The United States, Cuba, and LASA's Battle for Academic Freedom Organizer : Susan Eckstein, Boston University – Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Susan Eckstein, Boston University *: Susan Eckstein, Boston University *: Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ *: Soraya Castro, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA *: John Coatsworth, Harvard University *: Sandra Levinson, Center for Cuban Stds *: Wayne Smith, Johns Hopkins University 272 // GEN007 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie L-G-B-Transculturation: Decentered Sexualities and Texts of the Transculture in Latin America and Spain Organizer : Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota Chair(s) : Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota New Cartographies of Sex: A Spanish/Argentine Co-Production: Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota Reproducing Homosexuals: Queer Errancia and Kinship in Latin American Literature: Gabriel Giorgi, University of Southern California

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THURSDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am Let me out! : Exile and Sexual Alternatives in Fantasías Eróticas: Parissa Tadrissi, UC Santa Barbara Crossing Through Chueca: Latin American/Latina Lesbian Identities in the Gay Book Business: Jill Robbins, University of California/Irvine 273 // HIS024 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal G Identity, Politics and the State in Latin America Organizer : Efrain Martinez, Independent Scholar Chair(s) : Enrique Ochoa, California State University Spaces of Distinction: The Haunted Housing Boom in Santiago, Chile: Edward Murphy, University of Michigan Urban Guajiros: Changing Notions of Habanero Identity in Republican Cuba: Lupe García, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Evil Women and Noble Soldiers: World War II and the Ciudad Juárez Moralization Campaign: Marlene Medrano, Indiana Univ Tracing Muñocismo, 1938-1959: Efrain Martinez, Independent Scholar Nicaraguan Nationhood: Fluidity and Stability Through Regimes: Juanita del Toro, Univ of Illinois/Chicago The Cuban Woman's Revolutionary Experience: Patriarchal Culture, Revolutionary Gender Ideology, and Women's Political Affiliations, 1950-1976: Johanna Moya Fabregas, Indiana University Discussant(s) : Enrique Ochoa, California State University 274 // HIS026 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal C Cuba and Puerto Rico in Comparative Perspective, 19th and 20th Centuries (Part II) Organizer : Marc McLeod, Seattle University Chair(s) : Gillian McGillivray, Brock Univ, CANADA Transnational Migration and National Identities: Chinese In and Between Cuba and Puerto Rico at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Kathleen López, Hamilton College The 1917 Jobabo Killings: The Sociology of Race, Ethnicity and Nation in Early-Twentieth Century Cuba: Jorge Giovannetti, University of Puerto Rico Mítines and Spirits: Spiritism and Politics in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 19001930s: Reinaldo Roman, University of Georgia Challenging the Myth of U.S. Americanization Policies in Puerto Rican Public Schools, 1917-1938: The Puerto Rican Teachers’ National Project for the Regeneration of the Citizenry: Solsiree Del Moral, University of Wisconsin/Madison Image and the Making of Revolution in Cuba: Lillian Guerra, Yale University Discussant(s) : Gillian McGillivray, Brock Univ, CANADA 275 // HIS054 Workshop Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal B Catholicizing Modernity/Modernizing Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Organizer : Derek Williams, University of Toronto, CANADA Chair(s) : Derek Williams, University of Toronto, CANADA *: Silvia Arrom, Brandeis University *: Dain Borges, University of Chicago *: Brian Connaughton, Univ Autónoma Mtrp/Iztapalapa, MEXICO *: Valeria Coronel, New York University *: Roberto Blancarte, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia 276 // HSS011 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Boardroom 1 Health and Health Knowledge: Cultural Views, Analysis Models Organizer : Brian Johnson, Columbia University, BOLIVIA Chair(s) : Brian Johnson, Columbia University, BOLIVIA Prevalence and Determinants of Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Persons Living with HIV-AIDS: A Hierarchical Analysis of Jamaicans: Lisa Norman, Ponce School of Medicine The Global Politics of Health Care: An Examination of Health Care Policy in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and Postville, Iowa: Lea Pickard, Luther College Operating in Eden: A Cultural Analysis of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Costa Rica: Sara Ackerman, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Modelos de explicación de la tuberculosis en seis carceles del Perú desde las interpretaciones de internos, sus familiares y los proveedores de salud: Julio Portocarrero, Pontifica Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU We Want to Raise Natural Llamas: Andean and Scientific Views on Animal Health, Sickness and Medical Intervention: Margaret Bolton, Univ of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM

Politics of Fertility, Politics of Mortality: State Control, Interculturality and Maternal Death in Bolivia: Brian Johnson, Columbia University, BOLIVIA 277 // IND012 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 4 Indigenous Women Negotiating Participation and Autonomy Organizer : Gloria Alicia Caudillo Félix, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO Chair(s) : Gloria Alicia Caudillo Félix, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO El campo femenino de la autonomía del Pueblo P'urhépecha: María Barón, Univ Autonoma Chapingo, MEXICO El Discurso de las mujeres en los movimientos indígenas: Gloria Alicia Caudillo Félix, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO 278 // LAT003 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 8 Marketing the Sound and Shape of Latinidad: Gender, the Body, and the (Trans)National Trajectory of Latino Media Organizer : María Elena Cepeda, Williams College Chair(s) : María Elena Cepeda, Williams College Our Oral Fixations: Shakira's Bilingual, Bicultural Subjectivities in/as "La Tortura": María Elena Cepeda, Williams College The Latina Body as Icon: Jennifer Lopez and Everyday Life among Latinas in Chicago: Jillian Baez, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Remapping Spanish-language Media in the United States: Mari Castañeda Paredes, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst Crossing over the Latina Body: Deborah Páredez, Univ of Texas Discussant(s) : Angharad Valdivia, Univ of Illinois 279 // LAT022 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 7 Autoethnography: Literature, Theatre, and Community Studies Organizer : Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Northwestern University Chair(s) : Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Northwestern University Dislocation, Conflict and Unity: Representations of the Irish in New York Puerto Rican Literature: Eileen Anderson, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Straight as a line de Luis Alfaro: Los recursos dramáticos que le incluyen en la “nueva” ola de Teatro Latino en Estados Unidos: M. Begoña Caballero-Garcia, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Decolonizing Latina/o Ethnography: Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Northwestern University Loida Maritza Pérez’s "Geographies of Home": The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: Nereida Segura-Rico, The College of New Rochelle 280 // LAW006 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo B Local Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Historical Findings 4 Local and Informal Justices II: Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and Injustice Organizer : Victor Uribe-Uran, Florida International University Chair(s) : Rodrigo Uprimny, Univ Nal de Colombia, COLOMBIA Internacionalização da expertise jurídica na justiça formal e informal: Maria da Gloria Bonelli, Univ Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL Latino Civil Rights in Transnational Context: David Badillo, Lehman College Violence Against Women in Northern Mexico: The Ciudad Juárez Murders: Sandra Lara Sanchez, Univ of New Mexico Building a New Jerusalem for a “New” Mexico: Religion, Rights and Local Justice in Mexican Intentional Communities, 1920-1964: Jason Dormady, Univ of California/Santa Barbara Usufruct Law and Popular Politics in the "Cradle of Brazil": Contesting Law, Property and National History in Salvador, Bahia’s Pelourinho Historical Center, 1990-2000: John Collins, Queens College/CUNY Discussant(s) : Victor Uribe-Uran, Florida International University 281 // LCO040 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal D Fantasmas de la Revolución Mexicana Organizer : Ignacio Sánchez Prado, University of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh Critique of Hauntology: Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh "Villistas para todo lo que se ofrezca”: violencia campesina y política subalterna en "¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!", de Rafael F. Muñoz y Fernando de Fuentes: Juan Dabove, Univ of Colorado/Boulder Espectralidad y eficacia de la Revolución en "Dama de Corazones" de Xavier Villaurrutia: Evodio Escalante, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO

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THURSDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am Pinches muertos: "El complot mongol" (entre otros): John Kraniauskas, Birkbeck College, UNITED KINGDOM Rebels With A Cause Célèbre: la revolución literaria del subcomandante Marcos: Brian Gollnick, University of Iowa 282 // LIA038 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie Fiction and History in the Feminine: Argentine Women's Writing 18901930 Organizer : Kathryn Lehman, University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Chair(s) : Mary Berg, Harvard University Clorinda Matto de Turner in Buenos Aires 1895-1909: Mary Berg, Harvard University 283 // LIA057 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 10 La edición crítica de las obras completas de José Martí Organizer : Pedro Pablo Rodríguez López, Ctro Estudios Martianos, CUBA Chair(s) : Pedro Pablo Rodríguez López, Ctro Estudios Martianos, CUBA Concepto y método para la edición crítica de las "Obras completas" de José Martí: Pedro Pablo Rodríguez López, Ctro Estudios Martianos, CUBA El General Grant: Una muestra del taller escritural de José Martí: Maria Marlene Vázquez Pérez, Ctro de Estudios Martianos, CUBA Establecer el texto del manuscrito e inscribirlo en el hipertexto: Hilaria del Carmen Suárez León, Centro de Estudios Martianos, CUBA La extensión de los discursos: Mayra Beatriz Martínez Díaz, Ctro de Estudios Martianos, CUBA Discussant(s) : Ivan Schulman, Florida Int'l University 284 // LIA074 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar A Latinidades y discursividades Organizer : Susana Chávez Silverman, Pomona College Chair(s) : Susana Chávez Silverman, Pomona College La globalización y otras violencias: Poder y muerte en la novela mexicanasinaloense contemporánea: Miguel Cabañas, Michigan State University TransOcean(t)ics: Writing Latinidad Globally: Susana Chávez Silverman, Pomona College Posthaste?: Autobiogeography in Recent Latina Narratives: Louise Detwiler, Salisbury Univ Declamando y Traduciendo: Norma Cantú’s Extra-lingual Aesthetics: Desirée Martín, Univ of California/ Davis 285 // LIA081 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie Music, Fashion, and the Aesthetics of Poverty Organizer : Yolanda Fabiola Orquera, CONICET, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Yolanda Fabiola Orquera, CONICET, ARGENTINA La política en el guardarropas. Las crónicas de Moda de Francisco Zarco y el proyecto liberal: Cecilia Rodríguez, Universidad Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Reading Music to Locate Culture: The Negotiation of Identity in Indo-Latin America: Robert Neustadt, Northern Arizona University, COSTA RICA

Organizer : Amanda Wolfe, University of New Mexico 288 // PLE002 Workshop Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamboyan European Perspectives on the Field of Latin American Studies Organizer : Sérgio Costa, CEBRAP, GERMANY Chair(s) : Sérgio Costa, CEBRAP, GERMANY *: Sérgio Costa, CEBRAP, GERMANY *: Maxine Molyneux, Univ of London, UNITED KINGDOM *: Marianne Braig, Lat Institut der FU Berlin, GERMANY *: Marjo De Theije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Discussant(s) : Anne Huffschmid, Institut der FU Berlin, GERMANY 289 // POL035 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 9 Diversity and Public Policy in Latin America Organizer : Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston Chair(s) : Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston Will an Extra Seat Get this Bill Approved? Gender Quota and Bill Productivity in the Argentine Congress: Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston Institutions and Indigenous Movements: The Changing Nature of Ethnically Targeted Policy in Ecuador: Sarah Chartock, Princeton University Addressing Microcredit as a Policy to Reduce Inequality in Slums of Rio de Janeiro: Juliana Estrella Valladares, Inst Univ Pesquisas Rio Janeiro, BRAZIL The Effect of Regional Cleavages within Racial Inclusionary Polities on Taxation Outcomes: The Cases of Argentina and Brazil: Hiram Irizarry Osorio, Kirwan Inst of Race & Ethnicity Comparative Political Economy of Family Policy in Southern Europe and the Southern Cone: Merike Blofield, Grand Valley State University, Priscilla Lambert, Western Michigan University 290 // TEC007 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar B New Technologies in the Classroom Organizer : Liza Bakewell, Brown University Chair(s) : Liza Bakewell, Brown University, and Javier Jasso La enseñanza y el aprendizaje en la educación a distancia contemporánea: Alejandra Fernández, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Usos y penetración de Internet entre estudiantes universitarios venezolanos (El caso de los estudiantes universitarios barineses): Carlos Godoy, Univ Ezequiel Zamora, VENEZUELA Uso e integración de Internet en el aula: propuestas metodológicas para la creación de nuevos entornos: Nayesia Hernández, Proposer, VENEZUELA La integración de la tecnología en la enseñanza de la historia puertorriqueña en el salón de clase: Pedro Torres Navarro Discussant(s) : Javier Jasso

286 // MAS011 Panel Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal E Rethinking the Nation through Popular Culture and Media Organizer : Diana Agosta, City University of New York Chair(s) : Diana Agosta, City University of New York Un lugar donde "encontrarnos". Perspectivas teóricas para pensar cuestiones de identidad, cultura y nación: Belén Alonso, CONICET/UBA, ARGENTINA Defining the Nation: Narratives of Immigrant Women in California Newspapers between 1985-1995: Erin Moran, Univ of California/Irvine Looking Forward, Looking Back:Redefining National Identity through Community Radio in El Salvador: Diana Agosta, City University of New York The Construction of Brazilian and American Identities by American Art Reviews and Newspapers: Paula Botelho, University of Maryland/Baltimore 287 // MTG040 non-LASA Board/Committee Meeting Thursday 10:00 11:45 am Tropical C Outreach and K-12 Standardized Testing: How to Make Room for Latin American Studies Sponsor : CLASP

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THURSDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm Dentro de la Revolución: The True Story of the Cuban Nueva Trova: Robert Nasatir, Fisk University Reinaldo Arenas's Political Dissidence and Sexual Activism: Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College

Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm 291 // CIT009 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar A Cities, Real and Imagined: An Interdiscplinary Discussion of Latin American Urbanization Organizer : Justin Read, University of Buffalo Chair(s) : Justin Read, University of Buffalo Embodying the City: Cosmopolitanism and the Female Grotesque: Priscilla Archibald, Roosevelt University Absent Bodies, Present Space; the Significance of Absence as a Historical Marker in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Prisca Bermúdez, San Diego State University The Poetics of Urbanization: At the Crossroads of Literary/Cultural and Social Sciences.: Justin Read, University of Buffalo O mito da cidade-global: O papel da ideologia na produção do espaço terciário em São Paulo: João Sette Whitaker Ferreira, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL César Aira, Buenos Aires, and the Construction of Urban Spaces: Richard Young, University of Alberta, CANADA Discussant(s) : Jose Buscaglia-Salgado, University at Buffalo 292 // CSH001 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo A Derechos humanos y derechos indígenas a cinco años de las reformas constitucionales de 2001; una mirada desde el Sur de México Organizer : Moisés Bailón-Corres, Cto Nal de Derechos Humanos, MEXICO Chair(s) : Moisés Bailón-Corres, Cto Nal de Derechos Humanos, MEXICO Los derechos humanos en México a principios del nuevo milenio: Víctor Martínez Bullé-Goiry, CNDH, MEXICO Costumbres comunitarias y derechos del ciudadano en Oaxaca : falsos dilemas, verdaderos conflictos: David Recondo, CERI-Sciences, FRANCE Costumbres indígenas en los espacios judiciales en México. Una visión desde el campo jurídico de Oaxaca: Raul Avila, Academia Mexicana para el Derecho, MEXICO, Cecile Lachenal, IHEAL-CREDAL, MEXICO Derechos indígenas en la Legislación de Oaxaca, México. Alcances, límites y pendientes: Víctor Leonel Juan Martínez, Univ Autonoma Benito Juarez/Oaxa, MEXICO Derechos indígenas en las entidades federativas; un balance después de las reformas constitucionales de 2001: Moisés Bailón-Corres, Cto Nal de Derechos Humanos, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Lourdes Morales Canales, IHEAL/Paris 3, MEXICO, Todd Eisenstadt, American University 293 // CUL023 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Ceiba Dominations and Evasions in Latino and Latin America Organizer : Gregory Lobo, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA Chair(s) : Gregory Lobo, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA Dominación a la criolla: The Terror of Political Economy in Colombia: Gregory Lobo, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA Producing Masculinity: Queer in Colombia: Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Univ de los Andes, COLOMBIA “Negrito” en Puerto Rico and “Negro” in New York: narratives of reracialization: Tania Triana, University of Oregon Uribe, Chávez y los límites de la hegemonía: Nick Morgan, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA 294 // CUL054 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Cuba's Cultural Underground and Subtexts Organizer : Luz Mena, Univ of California/Davis Chair(s) : Luz Mena, Univ of California/Davis Discursive Constructions, Reflexivity and Political Culture in Revolutionary Cuba: David Penny, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM La fábrica de la fé. Propaganda política en los medios de comunicación cubanos. El caso de los cinco héroes: Juan Orlando Pérez González, Univ of Westminster, UNITED KINGDOM Controversia Cubana: Expressive Culture, Politics, and Contemporary Performance of Punto Guajiro: William Hope, Univ of Illinois/UrbanaChampaign Emerging Political Actors: Black and Mulatto Women in the 1840s Black Uprisings: Luz Mena, Univ of California/Davis

295 // CYC002 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical B In Cradle, Court, Conflict and Across Borders: Historical Approaches to Gendering Childhood Organizer : Ann Blum, University of Massachusetts/Boston Chair(s) : Ann Blum, University of Massachusetts/Boston Death and Eros in the Cradle: Gendering Infancy in Late 19th-Century Mexico: Ann Blum, University of Massachusetts/Boston Merceditas and Secundino: The Gendered Dynamics of Illegitimacy in 19thCentury Chile: Nara Milanich, Columbia Univ/Barnard College Organ Theft, Neoliberalism, and Mothering: Conflicts over U.S. Adoption of Mexican and Guatemalan Children: Laura Briggs, University of Arizona Opened Veins: Living Death and Masculinity in Guatemala's Youth Gangs (Maras): Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Boston College Discussant(s) : Donna Guy, Ohio State University 296 // DEM022 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo B Democratic Brazil Revisited: Institutions Organizer : Peter Kingstone, Univ of Connecticut Chair(s) : Timothy Power, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM E pluribus duo? Assessing the PT-PSDB Realignment in Brazilian Party Politics: Timothy Power, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM From FHC to Lula: Changes and Continuity in Political Institutions and Its Impacts Upon the Political Reform Debate: Fabiano G. M. Santos, IUPERJ, BRAZIL, Marcio Grijo Vilarouca, IUPERJ, BRAZIL Is the PT Still a Left Party?: Wendy Hunter, University of Texas/Austin Social Policy in Brazil from Cardoso to Lula: Marcus André Melo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BRAZIL Pilgrims' Progress: Why Lula Won the 2002 Election – A Political Trajectory from 1980: David Fleischer, Universidad de Brasilia, BRAZIL Evolution of U.S.-Brazilian Relations Under the Lula Government: Carlos Pio, Universidade de Brasilia, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Peter Kingstone, Univ of Connecticut 297 // DEM031 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal C Calidad de la democracia en américa latina: re-evaluando conceptos y casos I Organizer : Emiro Molina, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Chair(s) : Daniel Levine, Unive of Michigan Calidad de los políticos y calidad de la política: Manuel Alcantara, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN Voice and Equality: Political Participation, Poverty and Democracy in Latin America: Claudio Holzner, University of Utah Sistema judicial y democracia en Centroamérica: la perspectiva de los jueces: Marisa Ramos-Rollón, Agenia Española Cooperacion Int'l, SPAIN Una mirada evaluativa a la democracia en América Latina: ¿Éxito o Fracaso?: Valia Pereira Almao, Univ del Zulia, VENEZUELA Calidad de la democracia en América Latina: elementos para su evaluación: Daniel Levine, Unive of Michigan, José Molina, Univ del Zulia, VENEZUELA Discussant(s) : Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame 298 // DEM040 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 4 Calidad democrática: límites, debates y perspectivas Organizer : Juan Russo Foresto, Univ de Guanajato, MEXICO Chair(s) : Juan Russo Foresto, Univ de Guanajato, MEXICO Las teorías de la democratización frente a las democracias latinoamericanas “realmente existentes”: Gabriel Vitullo, , BRAZIL Capital social y calidad democrática: Un diálogo pendiente: Juan Russo Foresto, Univ de Guanajato, MEXICO Perspectivas desde los estudios sobre “calidad de la democracia”: Ana Elisa Díaz Aldret, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, MEXICO Metodología y conceptos normativos: Angeles Guzmán, Univ Autonoma de Querétaro, MEXICO Cultura política y calidad democrática: Dificultades y promesas: Jorge Sánchez Ortega, Univ Autonoma de Guerrero, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Francisco Delich, FLACSO, ARGENTINA

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THURSDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm 299 // EDU018 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie From the Periphery to the Center: Feminist Issues in Latin American Education Organizer : Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, BRAZIL Evaluating Educational Concepts of Adult Brazilian Poor Women: Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, BRAZIL From Text to Textile to Text: The Literacy Project of the Grupo de Mujeres por la paz: Maria Luz García, Univ of Texas/Austin Women’s Literacy Nicaragua: Moving Toward a Gender-Sensitive Participatory Model: Elizabeth Turnbull, Florida Int'l University 300 // EDU019 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 8 History, Politics, and Space in Chilean Education Organizer : Inés Picazo Verdejo, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE Chair(s) : Inés Picazo Verdejo, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE Una Nueva Arquitectura Educativa en Chile: Hacia un Modelo Postneoliberal: Inés Picazo Verdejo, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE Educational Reform, Achievement Tests and Fourth Grade Student Vulnerability in Araucania Region in Chile: Using a GIS and Spatial Statistics for Evaluating its Impact: Leoncio Flavio Rojas, University of North Carolina 301 // ENV011 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Boardroom 2 Ecocriticism in Theory and Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean Organizer : Joseph Vogel, Univ de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Joseph Vogel, Univ de Puerto Rico Bye-Bye Brasil: Una alegoría ecocrítica: Camilo Gomides, Univ de Puerto Rico Interpreting Paulo Freire in the Light of Ecocriticism: Carlos Muñiz, Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras The Amazon Overflows: Revisiting Nature and the Role of Humanism: Jorge Marcone Flores, Rutgers University An Ecocritical Framework for the Andean Context: Challenging Dogmas in Environmental Management: Gustavo Chacón-Vintimilla, University of Azuay, ECUADOR The Economic Justification for Ecocritical Certification of Big-Budget Movies (A Means to Finance a Center for Ecocriticism?): Joseph Vogel, Univ de Puerto Rico Place in Martin Fierro: Through the Lens of Ecocriticism: Miguel Fernandez, Middlebury College Discussant(s) : Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State College/Denver 302 // EXC004 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 5 Texts and Contexts in Latin American Theatre Organizer : Elaine Miller, Christopher Newport University Chair(s) : Elaine Miller, Christopher Newport University Los efectos del Neoliberalismo en el teatro latinoamericano: Beatriz Rizk, Int'l Hisp Theatre Festival/Miami Looking beyond Costa Rica’s Borders to Create a Theatrical Text: Ana Istarú’s Hombres en escabeche: Elaine Miller, Christopher Newport University Representing National Identity in Contemporary Costa Rican Theatre: Deb Cohen, Slippery Rock University Information for Foreigners: I too speak of Theatre: Sandra Cypess, University of Maryland Mexican Theatre as Performance in the Hypertextual Environment of the WWW: Georgina Whittingham, SUNY-Oswego Archivo teatral cubano: A Digital Cultural Heritage Initiative: Lillian Manzor, Univ of Miami Discussant(s) : Gloria Waldman, York College, Luis Ramos, Univ of California/Berkeley 303 // FDS006 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 9 Without a Center? Strategies of Decentering in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Organizer : Richard Gordon, Ohio State Univ Chair(s) : Dario Borim Jr, University of Massachusetts Cinema e Televisão no Brasil: Uma análise econômica e política: Anita Simis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BRAZIL Me You Them: Tolerance and Pragmatism Under the Sun: Dario Borim Jr, University of Massachusetts

Mulheres Alternativas: Brazilian Women in Recent Cinema: Raul Rubio, Wellesley College Two Brazilian Films in Search of an International Market: Else Vieira, Univ of London/Queen Mary College, UNITED KINGDOM Madame Satã (2002): Reclaiming a History, Queering the Archive: Jeremy Lehnen, Univ of New Mexico Discussant(s) : Antonio Luciano Tosta, Univ of Illinois, Kimberle Lopez, Univ of New Mexico 304 // FDS012 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal A TV, globalización y Latinoamérica Organizer : Freya Schiwy, Univ of California/Riverside Chair(s) : Francisco Hernández Lomeli, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO La televisión mexicana y el mercado hispano: Francisco Hernández Lomeli, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO Las turbas sobre ruedas: representaciones de la movilización política e imaginarios del motorizado en Venezuela: Luis Duno-Gottberg, Florida Atlantic Univ Vender noticias en América Latina: el caso de CNN en español: Sabine Hofmann, JW Goethe Universitat, GERMANY Discussant(s) : Toby Miller, University of California/Riverside 305 // FST002 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Boardroom 1 Iconos femeninos latinoamericanos y su significación en el imaginario popular Organizer : Maria Claudia Andre, Hope College Chair(s) : Maria Claudia Andre, Hope College Malinche en el teatro femenino latinoamericano al filo del siglo XXI. Análisis de la obra Malinche de Inés M. Stranger: Teresa Mesa Adamuz, University of Minnesota De/construyendo el mito latino: Carmen Miranda en Banana is my business y Las últimas noches de Carmen Miranda: Zulema Moret, Grand Valley State Univ Malinche: ser mujer, ser bilingüe y ser indígena, razones para un icono: Gladys Ilarregui, Univ of Delaware De la construcción cultural de los íconos religiosos y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Maria Alvarez, Miami University Discussant(s) : Viviana Rangil, Skidmore College 306 // GEN005 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo D Queering the Cosmic Race: Sexualities and Spiritualisms in Latin American, Latina and Chicana Writers Organizer : Tace Hedrick, University of Florida/Gainesville Chair(s) : Tace Hedrick, University of Florida/Gainesville Conjuring Histories: Gender, Race and Class Issues and Witchcraft in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Autumn Grant, University of Mississippi Conserving the “Spiritual Body of the World”: Spiritualism, Mestizaje, and Queerness in Gabriela Mistral and Gloria Anzaldúa: Tace Hedrick, University of Florida/Gainesville Sexualized Bodies, Santería and Nationalist Discourses in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters: Jessica Magnani, Univ of Florida Penitentes, Curanderas, and Psychic Surgeons: Ana Castillo's Mystical Feminist Forms: Suzanne Bost, Southern Methodist Univ Spirituality, Sexuality and Race in the Fictional Works and Personal Correspondence of Teresa de la Parra and Lydia Cabrera: Elizabeth Russ, Southern Methodist Univ 307 // GEN017 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo A Genero y políticas gubernamentales Organizer : Elizabeth Crespo Kebler, Univ of Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Elizabeth Crespo Kebler, Univ of Puerto Rico State Feminism and the Feminist Movements: The Brazilian Abortion Debate in an Institutional Context: Torunn Eskedal, University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM “El freno suave”: Gender, Politics and Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, 1928 - 1942: Elizabeth Manley, Tulane University El feminismo de estado y los desafíos al poder contestario de las agendas feministas: balance de tres décadas en Puerto Rico: Elizabeth Crespo Kebler, Univ of Puerto Rico Mothers of Their Own Destiny: Gender and Activism in Urban Peru: Blenda Femenias, University of Pittsburgh

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THURSDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm Políticas de cuotas electorales y participación femenina en la experiencia peruana: Lupe Rodríguez-Siu, Universidad Carlos II/Getafe-Spain, PERU Does Institutionalization Matter? Gender Policies and Feminist Politics in Ecuador, 1990-2005: Amy Lind, Arizona State Univ 308 // GLT004 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Las Olas Globalizad Chile: The Consequences of Globalization for Chilean Society, Culture and Economy Organizer : Silvia Borzutzky, Carnegie Mellon University Chair(s) : Lois Hecht Oppenheim, University of Judaism Wine snobbery: re-scripting taste in the Central Valley of Chile and the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia: Patricia Tomic, Univ of British Columbia/Okanagan, CANADA Globalization of the Chilean Economy and its Cultural Consequences: Lois Hecht Oppenheim, University of Judaism A Small Economy in a Globalized World: Regional Integration and the Chilean Way to Globalization: Aldo Vacs, Skidmore College Women, Work and Equality in the Era of Globalization: María Elena Valenzuela, ILO, CHILE The SocioEconomic Impact of Globalization and its Effects on Poverty and Income Distribution: Silvia Borzutzky, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant(s) : Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology 309 // GLT022 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 7 Global Reverberations: Changing Direction within Circuits of Migration, Trade and Cultural Identities in Caribbean and Central American Contexts Organizer : Gloria Rudolf, University of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Cecilia Green, Univ of Pittsburgh "Latino Before the World": Panethnicity and the Transnational Diffusion of Identity: Wendy Roth, Harvard University From "Disorderly Conduct" to Organized Self-Restraint: Identity Shift in the Barbadian Female Labor Force, 1880-1930: Cecilia Green, Univ of Pittsburgh Sugar Workers as Victims and Agents of Change in Jamaica: Monica Frölander Ulf, Univ of Pittsburgh Translocal Migrations in Panama: Urban-Rural Circuits of a Gendered Second Generation: Gloria Rudolf, University of Pittsburgh The Cinematic Representation of Cuban Exile: Investigating the Performance of Exilic Identity in a Transcultural Space: Maria-Cristina Saavedra, University of Pittsburgh/Johnstown The Post-Colonial Geographies of Bob Marley: Song Maps of Resistance and Identity Formation: Gerald Thomas, Clarion University of Pennsylvania Discussant(s) : William Mitchell, Monmouth University 310 // GLT029 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 10 Transnational Identities Organizer : Stella Cruz Romero, University of Houston Chair(s) : Stella Cruz Romero, University of Houston Shifting Identities in the Brazilian Restaurants in New York City: Thely Lopes, SUNY/Albany Growing Up with Hopes of Leaving: How Transnationalism Affects NonMigrant Youth: Leisy Abrego, Univ of California/Los Angeles Identidades e identidades juveniles en tiempos de globalización: Emilia Teresita Bermúdez Hernández, Universidad de Zulia, VENEZUELA The Impact of Ideas in the Caribbean Responses to Globalization: Angel Viera-Tirado, Univ de Pto Rico-Mayaguez 311 // HIS058 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal E Identities Meet Institutions in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Organizer : Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University, CANADA Chair(s) : Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University, CANADA How Strong was the State? School Funding in a Mexican Sierra, 1917-1935: Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Univ Autonoma de Tamaulipas/Mexico, MEXICO A Revolution in Spirit? Religious Persecution and Reform in Cristero Mexico, 1926-9: Matthew Butler, Queen's Univ Belfast, UNITED KINGDOM Los profesionistas y su combinación perfecta: la higienización y los pobres en el México de la década del veinte: Claudia Carretta Beltrán, Univ of Texas/Austin Imagining the Indian Across Borders: Mexico, the United States, and Canada, 1940: Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University, CANADA

México revolucionario bajo la mirada de intelectuales y diplomáticos brasileiros, 1921-1934: Rogelio De la Mora, Universidad de Colima, MEXICO 312 // IND014 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo C Globalization and Indigenous Resistance Organizer : Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University Chair(s) : Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University Modernity, Globality and Indigenous Movements: Mario Blaser, York University, CANADA Remaking Locality through Global Narratives: Indigenous Responses to Bioprospecting in Chiapas, Mexico: Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University, Casey Stevens, Univ of Massachisetts 313 // LAT018 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Latino Representation in Politics and Policy Making Organizer : Jose Cruz, State Univ of New York/Albany Chair(s) : Jose Cruz, State Univ of New York/Albany Latino Politics in Connecticut: Political Representation and Policy Responsiveness: Jose Cruz, State Univ of New York/Albany Postcolonial Theory, Subalternity, and Latina/o Modes of Citizenship: Raymond Rocco, UCLA 314 // LAT019 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamboyan Literary Representations of Puertoricannes: Island/Mainland Views and Debates Organizer : Glenda Nieto, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst Chair(s) : Glenda Nieto, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst Identidad y paternalismo en When I was Puerto Rican de Esmeralda Santiago: Glenda Nieto, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst In the Decimated City: Symptom, Translation, and Diasporic Identity in El Conjunto Típico Ladí’s “Un Jíbaro en Nueva York” (1947): Tomás Noel, New York Univ Islanders/Mainlanders Collaboration and the Status of Puerto Rican Literary Studies: A Report on the University of Puerto Rico: Beatriz Ramírez Betances, University of Michigan La carreta, 'La metrópoli,' y la representación híbrida de la nación puertorriqueña: Lissette Ruiz, Univ of Utah 315 // LCN002 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie Tránsitos del canon literario latinoamericano: discursos imperiales, criollos e indígenas. Organizer : Alvaro Félix Bolaños, University of Florida Chair(s) : Maria Betty Osorio Garcés, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA Imaginarios en conflicto. El complejo mítico ritual del Yurupary: Maria Betty Osorio Garcés, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA Canonicidades comparadas: el Popol Vuh en Uruguay y en los Estados Unidos: Gustavo Verdesio, University of Michigan Don Quijote y la frontera: la obra maestra del hispanismo en la literatura colonial latinoamericana: Alvaro Félix Bolaños, University of Florida Discussant(s) : Mary Louise Pratt, New York University 316 // LCO034 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal G Globalización y subjetividad: Construyendo identidades en la era neoliberal Organizer : María Rosa Olivera-Williams, University of Notre Dame Chair(s) : María Rosa Olivera-Williams, University of Notre Dame Los cuerpos monstruosos de la globalización: La ficción reciente de Diamela Eltit: María Rosa Olivera-Williams, University of Notre Dame Post-identidades post-nacionales: Transformaciones en la constitución de las subjetividades globalizadas: Arturo Arias, University of Redlands Identity Crises: Memory and Subjectivity in Recent Argentine Documentary Films: Michael Lazzara, Univ of California/Davis Discussant(s) : Doris Sommer, Harvard University 317 // LCO058 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical C Literatura centroamericana Organizer : Nicasio Urbina, University of Cincinnati Chair(s) : Nicasio Urbina, University of Cincinnati Autoformación personal y artística en El cojo bueno, de Rodrigo Rey Rosa: Claudia García, Univ of Florida

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THURSDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm Another Kind of Violence: Crime and Corruption in Postwar Central American Narrative: Misha Kokotovic, Univ of California/ San Diego Post-mortemism as Precondition: The Emergence of a New Subjectivity in 21st Century Central American Literature: Michael Millar, Western Michigan University Vidaluz Meneses: Poesía de compromiso y sobrevivencia: Maria Roof, Howard University Silencios laberínticos en las últimas novelas de Tatiana Lobo: Maureen Shea, Tulane University Sandino en la literatura y la cultura nicaragüense: Nicasio Urbina, University of Cincinnati

322 // MAS009 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo C Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Identities Organizer : Gregory Jackson Jr, SUNY/Stony Brook Chair(s) : Gregory Jackson Jr, SUNY/Stony Brook The First Black Champions, Vasco Da Gama, and the Exodus of “Gentleman” from Brazilian Football: Issues of Race and Class in Brazil 19001930’s: Gregory Jackson Jr, SUNY/Stony Brook Lucha Libre and the Anthropology of Sport in Latin America: Douglas White, Arizona State University El filme cubano Guantanamera. Choteo, música y religión como expresión de la cubanidad: Caridad Rodriguez Torres, Arizona State Univ

318 // LCO062 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal F Margenes latinoamericanos Organizer : Arturo Arango, Union Escritores y Artistas, CUBA Chair(s) : Arturo Arango, Union Escritores y Artistas, CUBA Rehacer la historia: Arturo Arango, Union Escritores y Artistas, CUBA "Total mexicanización:" Exile Identity and the Literary Canon in the Works of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga: Sara Brenneis, Univ of California/Berkeley "La guaracha del Macho Camacho": Himno orillero a la condición posmoderna caribeña: Ramsey Bolig, Tulane Univ The Saint Patrick’s Batallion in Contemporary Mexican Historical Fiction: Kristine Byron, Michigan State University

323 // POL005 Workshop Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal B Anti-Americanism in Latin America: A Comparative Historical Perspective Organizer : Paola Cesarini, Providence College Chair(s) : Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ *: Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ *: Kenneth Maxwell, Harvard Univ *: Alan McPherson, Howard University *: Esther Whitfield, Brown University Discussant(s) : Deborah Ward, Seton Hall Univ

319 // LIA033 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Literatura, periodismo y cultura: Nuevas cartografías críticas Organizer : Rosa Guzmán, Univ de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Carmen Centeno, Univ of Puerto Rico Literatura obrera, literatura subalterna: Carmen Centeno, Univ of Puerto Rico Prensa escrita y cultura política: "El Batey", vocero de Luis Muñoz Marín: Josefa Santiago-Caraballo, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Bayamón Literatura y periodismo: "Devórame otra vez" de Luis Rafael Sánchez: Carmen Pérez-Marín, Universidad de Puerto Rico La búsqueda de la casa perdida en el tiempo y la imaginación: dos novelas de Olga Nolla y Anagilda Garrastegui: María Cristina Rodríguez, Universidad de Puerto Rico "Los muchachos de París" de Justino del Valle Correa: entre la autobiografía y la memoria: Rosa Guzmán, Univ de Puerto Rico 320 // LIA052 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar B Letra, escucha y poder: Músicalidad y políticas de la interpretación en América Latina Organizer : Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Univ of Maryland/College Park Chair(s) : Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Univ of Maryland/College Park El flamenco en João Cabral de Melo Neto: una respuesta a Lorca desde Brasil: Maribel Parra-Domínguez, Harvard University, SPAIN Soneos por encargo: Letras salseras y moralización narrativa: Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Univ of Maryland/College Park Por una crítica cultural del tango y del samba: Florencia Garramuño, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA Um Outro Tempo, Um Outro Lugar: A Eterna Volta da Bossa Nova: Denilson Lopes-Silva, Univ of Brasilia Exhibiting Celia Cruz: Marvette Pérez, Smithsonian Institution Discussant(s) : Rubén Ríos-Avila, Univ of Puerto Rico 321 // LIA086 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal D Bordering Latino Identities Organizer : Robert Herr, Univ Massachusetts/Amherst Chair(s) : Robert Herr, Univ Massachusetts/Amherst Representaciones del levantamiento zapatista en la literatura mexicana: Robert Herr, Univ Massachusetts/Amherst Languaging en la zona de contacto: La(s) insólita(s) historias de la Santa de Cabora: Bárbara Gunn, Univ of California/Davis From Grief to Grieve: The Politics of Memory and Mourning in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes & Saints: Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Mount Holyoke College Border Spectres and the Politics of Cultural Theft: Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College

324 // POL037 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 6 Civil Society and Political Participation Organizer : Mario Fuks, Univ Fed de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL The Influence of Culture on the Implementation of Public Policies and Programs Involving the Elderly: A Comparative Study of Puerto Rico and the United States: Minerva Cruz, Purdue University Resources, Decision and Power within Participative Institutions: The Case of the Social Policies Councils in Curitiba: Mario Fuks, Univ Fed de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL NGOs role in Peruvian health policy process. An opportunity window?: Ruth Iguiñiz Romero, Uni Catolica Peru/Uni Peruana Cay, PERU Global governance and health policy in BrazilCase study: HIV/AIDS prevention program in Ceara: Kazumi Noguchi, Saitama Prefectiral University, JAPAN 325 // RRS006 Panel Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo B The Politics and Anti-Politics of Proselytism in Latin America Organizer : Carlota McAllister, York University, CANADA Chair(s) : Carlota McAllister, York University, CANADA The Roots of Religiously-Informed Politics: Brazil and Latin America in Comparative Perspective: Gary Reich, University of Kansas Revolutionary Consciousness and Jesuit Conscience in the Central American Revolutions: Carlota McAllister, York University, CANADA Consuming Souls: Markets, Churches and Mexican Mineral Specimens: Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University Commodification of Huichol Religion: Eduardo Barrera-Herrera, Univ of Texas/El Paso The antipolitics of evangelism and environment in Ciudad Juarez: Sarah Hill, Western Michigan University Santurismo and the “commercialization of the religion” in Cuban Santería: Kristina Wirtz, Western Michigan Univ Discussant(s) : Stephan Palmie, Univ of Chicago, Abigail Adams, Central Connecticut State Univ 326 // SMO014 Workshop Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical A The Role of Civil Society in Conflict prevention in Latin American and the Caribbean Organizer : Andres Serbin, CRIES, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Adrián Bonilla, FLACSO, ECUADOR *: Adrián Bonilla, FLACSO, ECUADOR *: José Manuel Ugarte, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA *: Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, Centro de Estudios sobre America, CUBA *: Gabriel Aguilera Peralta, Prg Participacion y Democracia PPD, GUATEMALA Discussant(s) : Francine Jácome, University of Kentucky, VENEZUELA

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Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm 327 // AGR006 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Gerónimo C The Brazilian Countryside III: Social Mobilization Organizer : Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside; Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Merle Bowen, University of Illinois El MST y la territorialización de la lucha: Un análisis antropológico de la ocupación de tierras: Nashieli Cecília Rangel Loera, Univ Estadual de Campinas, BRAZIL Land Reform Policy in Brazil: The Informational Role of the Landless Peasants' Movement: Lee Alston, Univ of Colorado, Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasilia, BRAZIL Social Movement-Political Elite Interaction in the Making of Land Redistribution Policies in Brazil: 1994-2004: Patricia Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame Two Hearts: Rural Women's Activism "in the Streets" and "in the Institutions": Jeffrey Rubin, Boston University From Communists to Camponeses: Change and Continuity in the Orientation of the Land struggle in São Paulo State, 1959-1999: Cliff Welch, Grand Valley State University, BRAZIL Challenging Inequality: The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Miguel Carter, American University 328 // ART003 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo A Modern Art and National Identity, 1920-1960: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela Organizer : Marguerite Mayhall, Kean Univ Chair(s) : Marguerite Mayhall, Kean Univ The Search for "lo venezolano": Art and National Identity in 1950s Venezuela: Marguerite Mayhall, Kean Univ International Abstraction and National Figuration at the Early São Paulo Biennials: Adele Nelson, NYU/Institute of Fine Arts Modernism and the Vanguardia Cubana: Whose Alternative Modernity?: Alison Fraunhar, Saint Xavier University Displacements and Borders: National Identity as a Political Strategy: Patricia Reinheimer, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL 329 // CSH010 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical C Rights and Development Sponsor : Inter-American Development Bank Organizer : Jacqueline Mazza, Inter-American Development Bank Chair(s) : Jacqueline Mazza, Inter-American Development Bank Reassessing Social Policies in Latin America: From the Washington Consensus to Rights-Based Development: Andres Solimano, ECLAC, United Nations, CHILE Una aproximacion al enfoque de derechos en las estrategias y politicas de desarrollo de América Latina: Víctor Abramovich, Ctr de Estudios Legales y Sociales, ARGENTINA The Challenge of a Human Rights Approach to Development: Some Thoughts on the Experience of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: María del Carmen Artigas Moreno, United Nations Econ Comm for LA, CHILE ABC of The Under-registration of Births and Documentation in Latin America: Juliana Pungiluppi, Consultant 330 // CUL001 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo D Puerto Rican Politics in the XXI Century: Elections, Civil Society, Gender and Religion Sponsor : Dept of Political Science- Univ of Puerto Rico Organizer : Luz del Alba Acevedo-Gaud, Universidad de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Luz del Alba Acevedo-Gaud, Universidad de Puerto Rico Electoral Participation in the 2004 Puerto Rican General Elections: Luis Camara Fuertes, University of Puerto Rico Religious Political Activism and the 2004 General Elections in Puerto Rico: Héctor Martínez Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico Local Political Parties and Non-Partisan Civic Groups: Their Impact in the 2004 General Election in Puerto Rico: Angel Rivera Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico Discussant(s) : Edgardo Meléndez, University of Puerto Rico

331 // CUL035 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal D América Latina: Coloniality at Large (I): Colonialidad y política(s) del conocimiento Organizer : Mabel Moraña, Washington University/St Louis Chair(s) : Mabel Moraña, Washington University/St Louis Fifteen Years Later: Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses: Patricia Seed, University of California/Irvine 332 // DEM023 Workshop Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal A Mexico's 2006 Elections: Democratic Consolidation or Crisis? Organizer : Joseph Klesner, Kenyon College Chair(s) : Chappell Lawson, Mass Inst of Technology *: James McCann, Purdue University *: Kenneth Greene, Univ of Texas *: Wayne Cornelius, Univ of California/San Diego *: Kathleen Bruhn, Univ of California/Santa Barbara Discussant(s) : Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ 333 // DEM026 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal C Calidad de la democracia en América Latina: Re-evaluando conceptos y casos II Organizer : Daniel Levine, Unive of Michigan Chair(s) : José Molina, Univ del Zulia, VENEZUELA El alcance explicativo de los indicadores cualitativos de la democracia en el caso colombiano: Gabriel Murillo-Castaño, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA La terquedad democrática en el Perú: Catalina Romero, Pontificia Univ Católica del Perú, PERU Quality of Democracy in Post-Conflict Societies. El Salvador y Guatemala: Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Fátima García Díez, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN Death of a Noble Ideal? The Problem with the Argentine Radical Party: Leslie Anderson, University of Florida Venezuela: Calidad de la ¿democracia?: Miriam Kornblith-Sonnenschein, Notre Dame University Discussant(s) : Mark Jones, Rice University 334 // DEM058 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar B Party Systems in Peril: Evidence from Mexico and South America Organizer : Henry Dietz, University of Texas Chair(s) : Henry Dietz, University of Texas No One Left to Argue With: The Lack of a Viable Opposition to the PJ and its Corrosive Effect on Argentina’s Party System: Shervin Malekzadeh, Georgetown University Post-Political Party System Collapse: Venezuela and Peru: Henry Dietz, University of Texas, David Myers, Penn State University Economic Reforms and Party System Transformations in South American Countries: Sebastien Dube, Université de Montréal, CANADA Decline of the Two Party System in Colombia: Maria Mora, University of Florida 335 // EDU022 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 9 Educational Influence in Argentine Society: An Examination Organizer : Maria Fernanda Astiz, Canisius College Chair(s) : Maria Fernanda Astiz, Canisius College Civil Society Involvement in Education: Lessons from the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina: Maria Fernanda Astiz, Canisius College Escenarios de educación y formación para el trabajo: ¿Mercado de ilusiones de corto plazo o alternativas socio-educativas a la exclusión?: Natalia Herger, , ARGENTINA, Graciela Riquelme, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 336 // EDU023 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie Examining the Educational Terrain: A Latin American Perspective Organizer : Ana Beatriz Martínez González, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Chair(s) : Ana Beatriz Martínez González, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Conditional Cash Transfers and School Achievement: Evidence from Colombia: Sandra Garcia, Columbia University

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THURSDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm Consistency and Inconsistency in Perceived Student-Teacher Relationship Quality in Colombian First-graders: Carolina Maldonado Carreño, University of Pittsburgh A diez años de la reforma educativa uruguaya. Una mirada desde la perspectiva de los docentes: Adriana Marrero Fernández, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY América Latina en la carrera de la virtualidad: Balance de la Educación Superior Virtual durante el período 2003-2005: Ana Beatriz Martínez González, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Examining Teaching Styles and Teacher’s Beliefs about Quechua Children’s Learning in Three Peruvian Schools in Highland Cusco: Paloma Visscher, Harvard University 337 // EXC008 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 1 Latin American Popular Music Organizer : Francisco Cabanillas, Bowling Green State University Chair(s) : Francisco Cabanillas, Bowling Green State University We Interrupt this Salsa Concert to Bring you Some Autochthonous Folk Music: Music and Nation Building During Panamá's Centennial: Francesca Rivera, University of California /Berkeley El hip-hop y rap afro-colombianos: globalización, música popular e identidad étnica: Christopher Dennis, Ohio State University El jazz latino de David Sánchez: Francisco Cabanillas, Bowling Green State University Maldita Primavera: Guilty Pleasure and the Latin-American Balada Revival: Daniel Party, University of Pennsylvania Reading the Romántico: An Examination of Poetic Texts in Selected Latin American Boleros.: George Torres, Lafayette College 338 // FDS003 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 5 Imaginarios del cine latinoamericano a través de Glauber Rocha Organizer : Edgardo Dieleke, Princeton University Chair(s) : Edgardo Dieleke, Princeton University From Ganga Zumba to Xica da Silva. Cinema Novo and the Creation of a New Brazilian National Project in the Era of AI-5: Paula Halperin, Univ of Maryland/College Park O sertão não virou mar. Narrativas disfóricas y utopías posibles en el cine latinoamericano actual: Edgardo Dieleke, Princeton University Documentos y ficciones: los encuentros cinematográficos de Santiago Álvarez y Glauber Rocha: Dylon Robbins, Princeton University A rocha que voa: Eryk Gaitan Rocha, , BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Florencia Garramuño, Universidad de San Andres, ARGENTINA 339 // FST005 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Las Olas The Politics of Cultural Translation: Feminisms in the Americas Organizer : Claudia de Lima Costa, Univ Federal de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Norma Klahn, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Locating Women's Writing in the Age of Latinomericanismo and Globalization: Norma Klahn, Univ of California/Santa Cruz What's a Bracera? Domestic Service, Guest Workers, and Transnational Citizenship.: Teresa Carrillo, San Francisco State University Changing Practices of Everyday Life: The Role of Public Health Promoters in Migrant Communities: Rebecca Hester, Univ of California/ Santa Cruz Longe e perto: a nação crioula cruza o Atlântico Negro: Simone Schmidt, Univ Federal de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Francine Masiello, Univ of California/Berkeley, Claudia de Lima Costa, Univ Federal de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL 340 // GEN008 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal E De pájaros y alas: Turismo queer en América Latina Sponsor : Harvard Univ and The University of Puerto Rico Organizer : Javier Laureano, Univ de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : José Quiroga, Emory Univ This Land is Our Land: Erika Lopez's Queer Latina Sexcapades: Dara Goldman, University of Illinois/Urbana Turismo, cruising y cultura gay en la década de los setenta en Puerto Rico: Javier Laureano, Univ de Puerto Rico Circuitos corpóreos, identidades globales: Latin Fever en Puerto Vallarta, México, 2005: Israel Reyes, Dartmouth College Geography of Early Gay Tourism in PR: Luis Aponte-Pares, University of Massachusetts Discussant(s) : Rubén Ríos-Avila, Univ of Puerto Rico

341 // GEN020 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 8 Genders Organizer : Mirta Yáñez, Union Escritores y Artistas Cuba, CUBA Chair(s) : Mirta Yáñez, Union Escritores y Artistas Cuba, CUBA Feminismo y compromiso. Ambiguedades y desafíos en las narradoras cubanas: Mirta Yáñez, Union Escritores y Artistas Cuba, CUBA Maldita yo entre las mujeres de Mercedes Valdivieso. Un discurso alternativo a la historia de "La Quintrala": Aida Apter-Cragnolino, Texas Lutheran University Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming: Tatiana De la Tierra, Univ at Buffalo Con sed de revolución: Cuando las mujeres toman la palabra: Estela Valverde, Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA 342 // GLT015 Workshop Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical A Commoditization of Everyday Mexican and Guatemalan Life under Neoliberal Globalization Organizer : Walter Little, Univ at Albany SUNY Chair(s) : Jennifer Burrell, University at Albany, SUNY *: Jennifer Burrell, University at Albany, SUNY *: Walter Little, Univ at Albany SUNY Discussant(s) : Elizabeth Fitting, Dalhousie Univ, CANADA 343 // GLT028 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal G Latin American Diasporas and Political Citizenship Organizer : Devra Weber, University of California/Riverside Chair(s) : Devra Weber, University of California/Riverside, and Judith Boruchoff, Roosevelt University Transnational Policies and International Migration. Argentines in Spain: Ana Margheritis, Univ of Florida, ARGENTINA Las redes del Quipu: Transnacionalismo político y enclave territorial étnico. La construcción de la ciudadanía de los inmigrantes peruanos en Santiago de Chile: José Luque Brazán, UNAM, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Judith Boruchoff, Roosevelt University 344 // HIS014 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Transitions to "Mass Politics": Parties and Social Movements in Latin America, 1890s-1940s Organizer : Iñigo Garcia-Bryce, New Mexico State University Chair(s) : Iñigo Garcia-Bryce, New Mexico State University The Building of a Mass Party: Peru's APRA during the 1930s and 40s: Iñigo Garcia-Bryce, New Mexico State University Peru’s Oligarchic Parties and “El Pueblo Irracional” During the1890s: The Tension Between Social Control and Political Incorporation: Nils Jacobsen, Univ of Illinois White-collar Unions in Chile and the Dream of Functional-Sindicalist Politics, 1920-1938: José Pablo Silva, Grinnell College "The Glory and the Tragedy": Augusto Sandino's Nationalist Peasant Movement of Nicaragua, 1927-1934: Richard Grossman, Northeastern Illinois University Discussant(s) : Laura Gotkowitz, Univ of Iowa 345 // HIS020 Workshop Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal B Comunidad e historia en México Organizer : Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago Chair(s) : Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago *: Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago *: Antonio Azuela, UNAM, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Juan Pedro Viqueira, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO 346 // IND013 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 4 Historical Perspectives on Indigeneity and the State Organizer : Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University Chair(s) : Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University The Colonial Pedagogy of Conversion: Mentoring Indian Missionaries in the Escuelas de Caciques: Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University The Seri Indians, SEP, Indigenismo, and Exploitation: Andrae Marak, California Univ of Pennsylvania

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THURSDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm 347 // LAT010 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamboyan Negotiating Gender, Generation, Work, and Community: Brazilians in the United States Organizer : Helen Marrow, Harvard University Chair(s) : Helen Marrow, Harvard University Capital social entre brasileiros nos Estados Unidos: Wilson Fusco, , BRAZIL Haciendo América, haciendo limpieza: ¿Una redefinición de las relaciones de género y solidariedad?: Gláucia De Oliveira Assis, Univ do Estado de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL Negotiating Status, Autonomy, and the Family Economy: The Making of a "Brazilian-American" Home in the New Bedford Region, Massachusetts: Cristina Mehrtens, U of Massachusetts/Dartmouth Building Families Without Borders?: Flavia Carneiro dos Passos, Ministerio das Relacoes Exteriores Updating Demographic, Geographic, and Occupational Information on Brazilian Immigration to the United States: The Case of Massachusetts: Carlos Eduardo Gomes Siqueira, Univ of Massachusetts/Lowell Discussant(s) : Sônia Melo de Jesus, Univ Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL, Helen Marrow, Harvard University 348 // LCO036 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Gerónimo A Literatura Gay y Lésbica de América Latina Organizer : Uriel Quesada, Loyola University/New Orleans Chair(s) : Uriel Quesada, Loyola University/New Orleans Homosexualidad y espacio urbano en la literatura costarricense: Uriel Quesada, Loyola University/New Orleans La figura lésbica y sus ramificaciones caribeñas: Un estudio de "La última noche que pasé contigo" de Mayra Montero: Sonia Valle, University of Southern Mississippi "Lejos, tan lejos", de Uriel Quesada: nueva propuesta de masculinidad centroamericana: Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College El "bello exterminador" en la narrativa de Abilio Estévez: Ruben Gómez Lara, St John Fisher College “Nocturno de Bujara” de Sergio Pitol y la literatura gay: Antonio Marquet, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Azcapo, MEXICO De amor en la selva a sexo en tren, topografía de lo gay en la narrativa costarricense contemporánea: Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester 349 // LCO057 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal F Narrativa colombiana Organizer : Julio Quintero, Univ of Cincinnati Chair(s) : Julio Quintero, Univ of Cincinnati Héctor Rojas Herazo como autor de relatos cortos: Julio Quintero, Univ of Cincinnati Urbanización y desplazamiento en las narrativas de Manuel Zapata Olivella y Patrick Chamoiseau: Yolanda Forero-Villegas, Coker College Violencia ritual y violencia política en "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" y "La virgen de los sicarios": Juan Galdo, Texas A&M University La Ciudad como Maquina Cartesiana: "Memorias de un Hombre Feliz", de Darío Jaramillo: Gilberto Gómez, Wabash College Los juegos dialécticos en Noviembre llega el arzobispo de Héctor Rojas Herazo: Hosun Kim, Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill 350 // LIA005 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Economía de la letra Organizer : Natalia Brizuela, Berkeley University Chair(s) : Richard Rosa, Univ of California/Berkely La circulación de lo real: Fotografía y dinero: Natalia Brizuela, Berkeley University Discussant(s) : Julio Ramos, Univ of California/Berkeley 351 // LIA007 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Modos de relação comparatista no Brasil e América Hispânica Organizer : Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Tânia Carvalhal, Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL La Literatura Comparada en Brasil en el Siglo XXI: Eduardo Coutinho, Federal Univ do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL A Crítica Romântica e o Instinto de Americanidade de Literatura Brasileira: Joaquim Norberto de Sousa Silva (1820-1891): Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BRAZIL

Deambulando pelos lugares escondidos da memória: O lugar do exílio latino-americano: Sônia Regina Torres da Cruz, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Susan Quinlan, University of Georgia 352 // LIA012 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical B Memorias de cuerpos Organizer : Ana Del Sarto, Ohio State University Chair(s) : Lelia Area, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, ARGENTINA Secretos de familia y violencia de los cuerpos en la narrativa de Marta Lynch: Lelia Area, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, ARGENTINA Memoria y agencia de las mujeres afro-ecuatorianas: Chiriboga, Jonatás y Manuela: Federico Chalupa, Bowling Green State University La Literatura como espacio de resistencia mujer, maternidad y la falacia del espacio privado: Raquel Pina, Ohio State University Discussant(s) : Ana Del Sarto, Ohio State University 353 // LIA055 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Re-constructing Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Identity: Music, Exile, and Text Organizer : Sonia Rey-Montejo, Univ of Colorado/Boulder Chair(s) : Sonia Rey-Montejo, Univ of Colorado/Boulder Re-formulating the Past in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters and Julia Álvarez’s In the Name of Salomé: Sonia Rey-Montejo, Univ of Colorado/Boulder Hip Hop Hoodíos: Humor, Hip Hop and the Performance of the Latino Jew: Oscar Reynaga, Univ of Iowa From the Margins to the Mainstream: Caribbean Popular Music, Social Identity, and Narrative Discourse: Kathleen Costello, St. John Fisher College Re-constructing Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Identity: Music, Exile, and Text: Amanda Petersen, Univ of Colorado/Boulder 354 // MTG044 Other Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Gerónimo B Featured Speaker: Carlos Monsiváis Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Marc Zimmerman, University of Houston 355 // PLE008 Workshop Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Ceiba Transnational Dialogues on Globalization and the Intersections of Latina/o-Chicana/o-Latin American(s) Studies Organizer : Juan Poblete, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Chair(s) : Juan Poblete, Univ of California/Santa Cruz *: Juan Poblete, Univ of California/Santa Cruz *: Manuel Antonio Garretón, Universidad de Chile, CHILE *: Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon *: José Valenzuela Arce, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MEXICO *: George Yúdice, New York University Discussant(s) : Sonia Alvarez, Univ of Massachussetts/Amherst 356 // POL025 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo B Redefining the public: Contested views from civil society actors Organizer : Anny Rivera Ottenberger, Univ of Massachusetts Chair(s) : Felipe Agüero, University of Miami The Role of a Politics of Minimum Income in the Construction of Democratic Citizenship in Brazil: A Lesson for Latin America: Carolina Justo, IFCH-IE/UNICAMP, BRAZIL Business, Politics and Social Responsibility in Latin America: Felipe Agüero, University of Miami Contrasting Paths from Corporatism: Reforming Labor Markets and Relations in Contemporary Brazil and Mexico: Scott Martin, Columbia University Sustainable Development and Participatory Practices in Community Forestry: The Case of FUNDECOR in Costa Rica: Ramon Borges-Méndez, Univ of Massachusetts/Boston Contested Terrain: Social Policies at the Local Level in Chile: Anny Rivera Ottenberger, Univ of Massachusetts Balancing State and Market Initiatives through Civil Society Participation: The Case of Costa Rica in the 1990s: Agustín Fallas-Santana, Uni Nal/Heredia Costa Rica Discussant(s) : Cathy Schneider, American University

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THURSDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm 357 // POL040 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar A Political Parties and Democracy in Latin America Organizer : William Shaffer, Purdue University Chair(s) : William Shaffer, Purdue University The Political Party System and Democratic Crisis in Bolivia: Jennifer Cyr, Florida Int'l Univ Party and Ideology in the Puerto Rican House and Senate: William Shaffer, Purdue University Party Control, Careers, and Voting Behavior in Paraguay's Congress: Brian Turner, Randolph Macon College

Chair(s) : María Isabel Blanco Velasco, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO El neozapatismo mexicano. Visión desde Cuba: Rafael Ramón Fernández Domínguez, Ctro Estudios sobre America, CUBA Shaping the Public Sphere: Laws Governing Popular Organizations and Deliberative Democracy in Urban Municipalities in Chile: Edward Greaves, St Cloud State Univ Taking the Scenic Route or the Direct Ride: The Drive for Freedom of Information in Argentina and Mexico: Greg Michener, Univ of Texas/Austin

358 // POL045 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo C Nuevos enfoques a los discursos políticos en América Latina Organizer : Nilo Reis, Univ Estadual de Feira de Santana, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Nilo Reis, Univ Estadual de Feira de Santana, BRAZIL Desplazamientos y rearticulaciones del discurso político en la Argentina postconvertibilidad (2002-2004): Daniela Slipak, FLACSO/UBA, ARGENTINA Cultura Política, Ciudadanía y Populismo: El caso del Velasquismo Ecuatoriano: Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Missouri Southern State University 359 // RRR013 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 7 Race, Sex, Church, and State: Negotiating Marriage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Organizer : Justin Wolfe, Tulane University Chair(s) : Justin Wolfe, Tulane University Race, Love, Honor, and Public Secrets in Late-Eighteenth-Century Nicaragua: Justin Wolfe, Tulane University Ties that Bind versus Ties of Bondage: The Making and Unmaking of Unions in Apachería: Juliana Barr, University of Florida The mestiza and the friar: Racial Identity and Marital Status in Spanish New Orleans: Jennifer Spear, Univ of California/Berkeley Criadas into Consorts: Domestic Service, Social Control, and the State: Omar Valerio-Jimenez, California State Univ/Long Beach Discussant(s) : Ann Twinam, University of Texas/Austin, Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University 360 // RRR019 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 10 Race and Racial Politics: Needed Frame of Imposition Organizer : Jacqueline Pólvora, University of Texas/Austin Chair(s) : Jacqueline Pólvora, University of Texas/Austin Urban Politics and Representations of Black Communities in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Jacqueline Pólvora, University of Texas/Austin Money Whitens?: Why the Afro-Peruvian Case Defies Assumptions about Race in Latin America: Tanya Golash-Boza, University of Kansas Against Race in Brazil: A Critical Appraisal of the Use of the Race Concept in Public Policy Debates: John Norvell, Pitzer College Color, Clients, and Country in the Republic: The Politics of the Black Cuban Clubs: Melina Pappademos, University of Connecticut Researching Race Relations in Brazil: Same Data Sets, Opposite Conclusions?: Graziella Silva, Harvard University 361 // RRS004 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 2 Rights and Religion in the Americas: Faith in the Struggle for Human Dignity and Social Justice Organizer : Christine Kovic, University of Houston/Clear Lake Chair(s) : Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, Univ of Notre Dame Catholic Women and Human Rights in Guatemala: Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, Univ of Notre Dame Catholicism and Human Rights in Haiti: Past, Present, Future: Terry Rey, Temple University The Catholic Church and the Struggle for Human Rights in Mexico: Christine Kovic, University of Houston/Clear Lake Church and Human Rights in Colombia: Rhetoric, Action and Inertia in an Ongoing Struggle: Michael La Rosa, Rhodes College Discussant(s) : Timothy Steigenga, Florida Atlantic University 362 // SMO022 Panel Thursday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 6 Civil Society in Mexico: Legal Framework and Participatory Democracy Organizer : María Isabel Blanco Velasco, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO

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Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm 363 // AGR007 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo C The Brazilian Countryside IV: Agriculture and the Environment Organizer : Steven Helfand, Univ of California/Riverside; Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Cynthia Simmons, Michigan State University Spatial Dynamics and Environmental Implications of Direct Action Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon: Cynthia Simmons, Michigan State University Ecological Land Reform: "Becoming Native to this Place" in Mato Grosso, Brazil: Hannah Wittman, Simon Fraser Univ, CANADA Land Change in the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado), 1986-2002: Comparative Analysis and Conservation Implications: Christian Brannstrom, Texas A&M Univ Producing a Modern Agricultural Frontier: Firms and Cooperatives in Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil: Wendy Jepson, Texas A&M Univ Rice and Fish: Environmental issues on Green and Blue Revolutions on the Lower São Francisco River, Brazil, 1946-2002: Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade Downs, Univ of California/ Berkeley 364 // CSH006 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal A Breaking the Cycle of Gender Violence and Impunity: Efforts to Prevent and Punish Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez and Guatemala Sponsor : Washington Office on Latin America Organizer : Laurie Freeman, Washington Office on Latin America Chair(s) : Laurie Freeman, Washington Office on Latin America, and Adriana Beltran, Washington Office on Latin America Abuso sexual infantil: De problema privado a problema público: Teresa Herrera, Univ Ciencias Sociales UDELAR, URUGUAY El Rol de la Comunidad Internacional en la Prevención de la Violencia Contra la Mujer en Latinoamérica: Laurie Freeman, Washington Office on Latin America, Adriana Beltran, Washington Office on Latin America Feminicidios e Impunidad en Guatemala: Edda Gaviola, CALDH, GUATEMALA Feminicidios e impunidad en Ciudad Juárez: Ester Chávez, Casa Amiga Centro de Crisis, MEXICO The Political Economy of Violence against Women in Ciudad Juárez and Guatemala: Deborah Weissman, Univ North Carolina Venciendo las raíces socio-culturales de la Violencia contra la mujer en Latinoamérica: Julia Perilla, Georgia State University 365 // CUL015 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical C The Politics of Fear in Times of Empire Organizer : Carmen Ferradas, State Univ of New York/Binghamton Chair(s) : Adam Flint, Hartwick College The Political Uses of the "War on Terrorsim" in El Salvador: Adam Flint, Hartwick College Uruguay Natural and Unnatural Disaster. Lead Contamination and the Environmental Politics of Risk: Daniel Renfrew, SUNY / Binghamton University Dramatología de una una ley que encontró su(s) cuerpo(s). En nombre del padre: Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA The Paramilitary Function of Democracy: Colombia and Guatemala: Staffan Lofving, Stockholm University, SWEDEN Unthinkable and Undrinkable: Coca-Cola Workers, Neoliberalism and Political Violence in Colombia: Lesley Gill, American University Fears of Empire in the Social Forum of the Triple Frontier: Carmen Ferradas, State Univ of New York/Binghamton 366 // CUL021 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal D América Latina: Coloniality at Large (II): Descolonización y cultura Organizer : Carlos Jauregui, Vanderbilt University Chair(s) : Amaryll Chanady, Université de Montréal, CANADA A Feminist Postoccidental Approach to the Contemporary Debates on Empire and Democracy: Breny Mendoza, California State Univ/Northridge The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context: Amaryll Chanady, Université de Montréal, CANADA

La colonialidad en Samuel Huntington: Renato Rosaldo, New York University Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature: Roman De La Campa, Stony Brook University Poscolonialismo y vicios neocoloniales: Carlos Pereda, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO 367 // CUL039 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Between Science and Belief: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Argentina and Brazil Organizer : Mariano Plotkin, IDES, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Mariano Plotkin, IDES, ARGENTINA Fascism, Antisemitism and Psychoanalysis in Argentina: Federico Finchelstein, Cornell University Mitos de origen, héroes culturales e imputaciones de contaminación con el Mal en la constitución del psicoanálisis lacaniano en la Argentina: Sergio Visacovsky, Univ de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA A psicocanálise no Brasil – Institucionalização e difusão entre o público leigo: Jane Russo, Univ do estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Religião e Psicoanálise no Brasil contemporâneo: Novas e velhas Weltanschauungen: Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Museu Nacional, UFRJ, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Michael Steinberg, Brown University 368 // DEM002 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal G Latin America's Violent Democracies: Toward an Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization (Part I) Organizer : Desmond Arias, CUNY/John Jay College Chair(s) : Desmond Arias, CUNY/John Jay College Violence and Political Life in Latin America: Reassessing Democratization: Desmond Arias, CUNY/John Jay College Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A View from Below: Robert Gay, Connecticut College Beyond the Quality of Democracy: Public Insecurity and the Collapse of Enlightenment. Political Ideals in Contemporary Mexico: Diane Davis, Massachusetts Inst of Technology The Global/Local Encounter of State and/or Rule of Law Reconfigurations: María Clemencia Ramírez de Jara, Inst Cbiano de Antropologia e Hist, COLOMBIA Discussant(s) : Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College/CUNY 369 // DEM012 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar A Reconstrucción estatal, democracia y seguridad: el caso de Haití Sponsor : RESDAL Organizer : Marcela Donadio, Ser en el 2000, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Marcela Donadio, Ser en el 2000, ARGENTINA La relación entre estado, democracia y seguridad: una introducción conceptual: Marcela Donadio, Ser en el 2000, ARGENTINA La participación de Chile en la Misión de Estabilización en Haití: Jaime García Covarrubias, CHDS Argentina, Brasil y Chile en la reconstrucción de Haití: Intereses y motivaciones de la participación conjunta: Elsa Llenderrozas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Segurança e Democracia: A atuação do Brasil no Haiti: Suzeley Mathias, UNESP, BRAZIL El debate sobre la participación latinoamericana en Haití: una visión desde Argentina: Luis Tibiletti, Seguridad Estratégica Regional, ARGENTINA Misiones de paz de las Fuerzas Armadas uruguayas, y su importancia en un país en transición política: Félix Besio Echeverría, Ctro de Altos Estudios Nacionales, URUGUAY Discussant(s) : Juan Rial, PEITHO 370 // DEM038 Workshop Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal B Una mirada al Golpe en Chile tres décadas después: Quiebre de la democracia, represión y memoria Organizer : Marcela Rios Tobar, FLACSO- Chile, CHILE Chair(s) : Marcela Rios Tobar, FLACSO- Chile, CHILE *: Marcela Rios Tobar, FLACSO- Chile, CHILE *: Arturo Valenzuela, Georgetown University *: Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive *: Felipe Agüero, University of Miami *: Florencia Mallon, University of Wisconsin

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371 // DEM060 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar B Political and Economic Change in Cuba Organizer : Peter Roman, Hostos Community College/CUNY Chair(s) : Peter Roman, Hostos Community College/CUNY Cultura política en el contexto cubano actual: Carlos Alfredo Cabrera Rodríguez, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA La democratización del sistema político cubano y sus criticos: Alicia Barrio Maden, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Civil Society in Cuba: Competing Vision of the Good Society: Douglas Friedman, College of Charleston Indications for Cuba: Economic Reform in Delaying Democratization: John Nelson, Texas A&M University Cuba Through Mexico's Mirror: Shifting Benchmarks of Legitimacy and the Emergence of Revolutionary Democracy: Patricia Olney, Southern Connecticut State Univ Electing Cuba’s National Assembly Deputies: Proposals, Selections, Nominations, and Campaigns: Peter Roman, Hostos Community College/CUNY 372 // EDU017 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 3 Exploring Educational Cultures in the Mexican Context Organizer : Ursula Zurita, Facultad Latinoamericana Ciencias, MEXICO Chair(s) : Ursula Zurita, Facultad Latinoamericana Ciencias, MEXICO Vinculando derechos con vidas: Escuela secundaria, pobreza y relaciones familiares en México: Maribel Blasco, Copenhagen Business Sch, DENMARK El discurso educativo de la formación jurídica: Ramón Larrauri Torroella, Univ Autonoma del Edo de Mexico, MEXICO La participación social en las escuelas primarias de México: Ursula Zurita, Facultad Latinoamericana Ciencias, MEXICO 373 // GEN021 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo D Género y familia Organizer : Sonia Isabel Catasús Cervera, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Chair(s) : Sonia Isabel Catasús Cervera, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Professionalization versus Radical Social Change: The Framing of Violence Against Women in Monterrey, Mexico: Krista Brumley, TEC de Monterrey Genero y disputas familiares. El papel de la ley en la Guadalajara decimonónica: Carmen Ramos-Escandon, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO 374 // GLT019 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 9 Dilemas migratorios transnacionales: Espacios en disputa en algunas regiones del centro de México Organizer : Liliana Rivera Sanchez, New Schl for Social Research, MEXICO Chair(s) : Fernando Herrera-Lima, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Migrantes Veracruzanos: Los dilemas de la ciudadanía y el desarrollo: Patricia Zamudio Grave, Ctro Invst y Estd Sup de Antr Soc, MEXICO Identidad y procesos de migración emergente en el oriente Michoacano: Margarita Zarate-Vidal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Cuando los Santos también migran: Conflictos transnacionales por el espacio y la pertenencia: Liliana Rivera Sanchez, New Schl for Social Research, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Federico Besserer, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO 375 // HIS009 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo A The Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution Organizer : Michael Ervin, Central Washington Univ Chair(s) : Michael Ervin, Central Washington Univ From Adolescents to Agraristas: The Education and Apprenticeship of Agronomists in Revolutionary Mexico: Michael Ervin, Central Washington Univ Maximino's Bulls: Strategies of Public Dissent in Mexico, 1940-60: Paul Gillingham, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM The Military as Political Actor (and More) in the Mexican Revolution: The Case of Puebla in the 1920s and 1930s: David La France, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MEXICO

Economistas y Revolución: Graciela Márquez, El Colegio de México, MEXICO The Mexican Middle-Class between Modernity, Tradition and State Patronage, 1940-1970: Emilio Coral, Georgetown Univ Discussant(s) : Julio Moreno, University of San Francisco 376 // IND005 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 1 Politics of (Indigenous) Peoples' Movements in Chile: Conflicts over Development, Nation, Representation, and Participation Organizer : Diane Haughney, Bates College Chair(s) : Kenneth Paul Erickson, City Univ of New York/Hunter, and Rosamel Millaman, Univ Catolica de Temuco/Chile ¿Etnonacionalismo mapuche?: José Mariman Quemenado, Univ de Santiago de Compostela Sustainable Development or Sustained Conflict? Logging Companies, Neoliberal Policies, and Mapuche Communities in Chile: Diane Haughney, Bates College Mujeres Bravas, Mujeres Emprendedoras: Media Representations of Mapuche Women in the Context of Ethnic Conflict in Chile: Patricia Richards, University of Georgia Layers of the State: the Impact of Decentralization on Mapuche movements in Chile: Yun Joo Park, University of Texas/Austin Becoming mother: Gender and Ethnicity Among the Mapuche in South Chile: Anne Lavanchy, Univ de Neuchatel, SWITZERLAND Discussant(s) : Fernando Leiva, University at Albany 377 // LAT016 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Las Olas Latino/a Cultural Discourses for the 21st Century Organizer : Lourdes Torres, DePaul University Chair(s) : Juan Flores, Hunter College/CUNY Word!: Nuyorican Poetry and Its Performance: Jacqueline Lazú, DePaul Univ With and Without Wings: Memory and Social Class in U.S. Puerto Rican Autobiographies: Juana Goergen, DePaul University Scripting the Boricua Lesbian: Lourdes Torres, DePaul University The Writing on the Wall: Chicana/o Aerosol Art and the Production of Nuevo L.A.: Victor Viesca, California State University/LA Borderlined in the Global City: Representing Los Angeles and the Global South: Camilla Fojas, DePaul University 378 // LCN012 Workshop Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 4 Estudios coloniales latinoamericanos: Polémicas y debates II Organizer : Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania Chair(s) : Eyda Merediz, University of Maryland *: Eyda Merediz, University of Maryland *: José Rabasa, Univ of California/Berkeley *: Stacey Schlau, West Chester University *: Stephanie Kirk, Washington Univ/St Louis Discussant(s) : Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin/Madison 379 // LCN020 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie Visiones religiosas coloniales, siglos XVII y XVIII Organizer : Steven Wagschal, Indiana University Chair(s) : Steven Wagschal, Indiana University Religión, purgatorio y lugar de la población “negra” en esta vida y en el más allá: lectura del diario espiritual de la mística afro-peruana Úrsula de Jesús (Perú, siglo XVII): Jacqueline Alvarez-Ogbesor, Univ of Minnesota/Morris La Delegitimación del Estado de la Nueva España en el Sermón de la Guadalupe de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier: Viviana AbreuHernández, Puerto Rico Council on Higher Educ Pluralismo discursivo en Historia Antigua de México: Margarita Altuna, University of Maryland Los Autos Sacramentales de Sor Juana como Teatro de Virtudes Políticas para Príncipes: Jeremy Paden, Georgia State Univ Sirtes de imposibles. Sobre "Primero sueño" de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Pablo Ruiz, Princeton University 380 // LCO060 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo B Nuevas Lecturas de la Literatura Latinoamericana Organizer : Maria Di Dio, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Chair(s) : Maria Di Dio, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison

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THURSDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm Después de 17 años de democracia: Laura Senio Blair, Southwestern University Nuevos realismos en la narrativa argentina contemporánea: Sandra Claudia Contreras, Univ Nal de Rosario, ARGENTINA Menuda faena: "La sombra del caminante" de Ena Lucía Portela y sus representaciones del Mal: Maria Di Dio, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison "El río de la ciudad": Caramelo verde de Fernando Ampuero: Natalia Matta, Brown University Anacronismo, Literatura, Mercado: Sarah Wells, Univ of California/Berkeley Black Women’s Poetry in the 80s in Brazil: (Re) Constructing the Metaphor of the Nation: Katia Bezerra, University of Arizona Manuel Puig's "De-centered" Archive: Carlos Riobó, Columbia University 381 // LIA036 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Contextos culinarios: Interpretaciones de la cocina en la literatura y en la sociedad Organizer : Zilkia Janer, Hofstra University Chair(s) : Zilkia Janer, Hofstra University Fusión culinaria y epistemología transmoderna: Zilkia Janer, Hofstra University De la náusea al deleite: Itinerario del consumo por vía oral y referencias culinarias en la narrativa de Luis Rafael Sánchez: Salvador Mercado, Univ of Denver Callaloo, Caruru y London Caribbean Food: Herencias compartidas en la comida del Atlántico Negro: Maria Cândida Almeida, Univ de Sevilla, BRAZIL Los contextos culinarios en "Las comidas profundas" de Antonio José Ponte (1997): Rita De Maeseneer, University of Antwerp, BELGIUM Discussant(s) : Luis Duno-Gottberg, Florida Atlantic Univ 382 // LIA046 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 8 Narrativas da Violência na Literatura e Cultura Popular Brasileira Organizer : Emanuelle Oliveira, Vanderbilt Univ Chair(s) : Emanuelle Oliveira, Vanderbilt Univ Crônicas Criminais: Problematizando Raça e Classe em Cidade de Deus e Diário de um Detento: Emanuelle Oliveira, Vanderbilt Univ Histórias paranóicas: escravos e criados violentos no imaginário da elite brasileira (1869-1934): Sonia Roncador, Univ of Texas/Austin O lugar e a função da narrativa policial no Brasil contemporâneo: Tânia Pellegrini, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL A alegoria da peste em O Mez da Grippe de Valêncio Xavier: Angela Dias, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BRAZIL 383 // LIA049 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Visual and Performative Argonautes: Particularity in the Face of Global Cultural Itinerancy Organizer : Marina Perez de Mendiola, Scripps College Chair(s) : Marina Perez de Mendiola, Scripps College Drifting and Secrecy: “De La Calle” revisits “Los Olvidados: Marina Perez de Mendiola, Scripps College City Snaps: Photographic Journey and Fantasy in Adolfo Bioy Casares: Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers University Imágenes trizadas y significados flotantes: aporías de Lo anterior: Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University 384 // LIA065 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Meciéndonos entre fronteras: perspectivas multidisciplinarias de la frontera México-Estados Unidos Organizer : María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Chair(s) : María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Miradas distintas y distantes: Ciudad Juárez a través de la mirada de sus habitantes: los documentales del siglo XXI: María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Como La Flor: An Analysis of the the Construction of Gender through Traditional Practices: Norma Cantú, University of Texas/San Antonio Cercanías distantes: una aproximación comparativa a las escritoras fronterizas de México y los Estados Unidos: Gloria Arjona, Univ of Southern California Un pie aquí y otro allá: El arte instalación del tijuanense Marcos Ramírez: Kirsten Nigro, University of Texas/ El Paso

Flasch cards from the Línea: Notes for a Border Dictionary: Santiago Vaquera Vásquez, The Pennsylvania State University Discussant(s) : Sandra Garabano, University of Texas/El Paso 385 // LIA073 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical B Lengua materna, cuerpo y normatividad. Escenas y tensiones entre America Hispana, Anglo América y Latinoamérica Organizer : María Cecilia Sánchez González, Universidad de Talca, CHILE Chair(s) : María Cecilia Sánchez González, Universidad de Talca, CHILE Las reparaciones del cuerpo de la lengua materna. De la lengua Hispana a la de Nuestra América: María Cecilia Sánchez González, Universidad de Talca, CHILE Reflexiones en torno a los debates acerca de la crítica literaria latinaomericana de principios del siglo XX: Grinor Rojo de la Rosa, Universidad de Chile, CHILE De José de Alencar al "‘modernismo"’: Estrategias literarias para crear una “lengua materna” brasileña: Horst Nitschack, Universidad de Chile, CHILE Etica, Estética y Modernidad en Martí, Darío y Mistral: María Soledad Falabella Luco, Univ Diego Portales, CHILE Discussant(s) : Julio Ramos, Univ of California/Berkeley 386 // MAS008 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal F Media(ting) Transnational Flows Organizer : Lisa Maya Knauer, Univ of Massachusetts/ Dartmouth Chair(s) : Lisa Maya Knauer, Univ of Massachusetts/ Dartmouth Testing Pan-Americanism: The Case of the Failed 1942 Pan-American Games: Cesar Torres, SUNY/Brockport Fame and the Nation: The Borderline Case of Elián González: Paul Allatson, University of Technology, AUSTRALIA How Latinos in the United States Use Mass Media to Bridge Their Old and New Lifestyles: Jesus Arroyave, Univ of Miami Imagen e ideología: Representación en fotografía del Movimiento Zapatista: Salvador Leetoy, Univ of Alberta, CANADA Cuba en la prensa mexicana: tendencias e incidencias: Erick Fernández Saldana, Universidad Iberoamericana, MEXICO 387 // MCB010 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo B Migrant-led Organizations: The Challenges of Multiple Agendas, Funding, Institutionalization and Capacity Building I Organizer : Luin Goldring, York University, CANADA Chair(s) : Amy Shannon, Enlaces America Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Community Building: Immigrants as Change Agents: Amy Shannon, Enlaces America Gender Dimensions of Transnational Activism: Women in Hometown Associations: Beth Baker Cristales, California State University/LA Community-Based Organizations and Immigrant Communities in New York City: Héctor Cordero-Guzmán, City Univ of New York/Baruch, Maria Victoria Quiroz Becerra, New School University Latin American Organizations in Toronto: How Contexts Matter for Immigrant Organization and Organizations: Luin Goldring, York University, CANADA Linking Social Capital, Human Capital, and Immigrant Groups: Capacity Building and Organizational Development among Mexican and other Latino Immigrant Hometown Associations in California: Luis EscalaRabadan, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Rigoberto Rodriguez, Univ of Southern California Discussant(s) : David Myhre, Ford Foundation 388 // MCB012 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 10 Local-Global Analysis of Recent Mexico-U.S. Migration Organizer : Alison Lee, Univ of California/Riverside Chair(s) : Leigh Binford, Benemérita Univ Autónoma de Puebla, MEXICO International Migration in the Context of the Crisis of the Mexican Construction Industry: Leigh Binford, Benemérita Univ Autónoma de Puebla, MEXICO Domestic Workers and International Migration: Daily Life in Santo Tomás Chautla: Nancy Churchill, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MEXICO “No hay dinero en la milpa”: Corn and the Transnational Household of the Southern Tehuacan Valley, Mexico: Elizabeth Fitting, Dalhousie Univ, CANADA Impacts of U.S. Immigration Control Policies on Mexican Migration: The View from Migrant-Sending Communities in Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Yucatan: Wayne Cornelius, Univ of California/San Diego

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389 // MTG027 Other Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo A Lectura de Poesía Puertorriqueña I Organizer : Juan Rodríguez, Duke Univ 390 // PLE001 Workshop Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamboyan The Place of Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans in Latin American Studies: Perspectives from the Diaspora Organizer : Edna Acosta-Belén, University of Albany/SUNY Chair(s) : Carlos Santiago, Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *: Carlos Santiago, Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *: Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Brooklyn College/CUNY *: Frances Aparicio, University of Illinois/Chicago *: Edna Acosta-Belén, University of Albany/SUNY 391 // PLE006 Workshop Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Ceiba Repensando los Andes Organizer : Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois/Chicago Chair(s) : Emma Cervone, Northwestern University *: Emma Cervone, Northwestern University *: Margarita Huayhua, University of Michigan *: Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University *: Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan *: Marcelo Fernandez-Osco, Duke Univ 392 // POL003 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo C Sociedad civil y seguridad en América Latina Organizer : Adrián Bonilla, FLACSO, ECUADOR Chair(s) : Bruce Bagley, Univ of Miami Conflicto internacional y prevención en los Andes: Adrián Bonilla, FLACSO, ECUADOR Discussant(s) : David Scott Palmer, Boston University 393 // POL021 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal E Los desafíos de seguridad en Centroamérica Organizer : Orlando Perez, Central Michigan Univ Chair(s) : Ricardo Córdova Macías, FUNDAUNGO, EL SALVADOR Los nuevos temas de seguridad en Centroamérica: Orlando Perez, Central Michigan Univ La reforma del sector seguridad en Guatemala: Gabriel Aguilera Peralta, Prg Participacion y Democracia PPD, GUATEMALA La reforma del sector seguridad en Honduras: Leticia Salomón, Univ Nal Autonoma de Honduras, HONDURAS La reforma del sector seguridad en Costa Rica: Daniel Matul, Fund para la Paz y Democracia, COSTA RICA Discussant(s) : Cristina Eguizabal, The Ford Foundation 394 // POL031 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal C Party Competition and Party Dynamics in Latin America Organizer : Edurne Zoco, University of Notre Dame Chair(s) : Annabella España Najera, University of Notre Dame Competition and Factionalism in the PRI: Dwight Dyer, Univ of California/Berkeley The Durability of Multiparty Alliances across Presidential Elections in Latin America: Marisa Kellam, Harvard University Political Scandals and the Dynamic of Politics in Latin American Countries: Andrea Castagnola, Univ of Pittsburgh Provincial Interests and Partisanship in Argentina: Hirokazu Kikuchi, Univ of Pittsburgh Discussant(s) : Daniel Brinks, University of Texas/Austin

Intertexto literario y político en La señora Macbeth, de Griselda Gambaro: conciencia, memoria y olvido en Argentina: Grisby Ogás Puga, CONICET, ARGENTINA Unresolved Mourning and Intergenerational Memory in Marcelo Bertuccio’s señora, esposa, niña y joven desde lejos: Brenda Werth, Rutgers University "Si vos tenes dudas…": Identity, Nationality and the Staging of Teatro por la identidad: Kerry Bystrom, Princeton Univ Discussant(s) : Sharon Magnarelli, Quinnipiac Univ 396 // RRR014 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 2 So Similar and Yet so Foreign: Haiti and Haitians in the Wider Caribbean Organizer : Philippe Zacaïr, California State University Chair(s) : Philippe Zacaïr, California State University Framings and Representations of Haitians, Africans, and African Americans in Daily newspapers in the Dominican Republic: William Berry, University of Illinois Dominican Apartheid: Dominico-Haitianos and their 21st-Century Struggle for Citizenship and Dignity: Edward Paulino, John Jay College of Crim Just/CUNY The Trial of Ibo Simon: Haitian Migrants, Xenophobia and Anti-Haitian Racism in Guadeloupe: Philippe Zacaïr, California State University "Les nègres des nègres": The Representation of Haitians and Guadeloupeans in Caribbean Women’s Writing: Odile Ferly, Clark University Congratulations, You don't Look Haitian: What Makes One Haitian: Cécile Accilien, Columbus State Univ Unified Prejudice: Anti-Haitian Sentiment in Ana Lydia Vega's "Encancaranublado", Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" and Strachan's "God's Angry Babies": Catherine Reinhardt, Chapman University Discussant(s) : Aracelis Rodríguez Delgado, Univ of Puerto Rico 397 // RRR016 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 7 Race and Racism in the Southern Cone Organizer : Barbara Sutton, University of Oregon Chair(s) : Barbara Sutton, University of Oregon "Los argentinos descendemos de los barcos". Articulación racial de la identidad de clase media en Argentina (1920-1960): Enrique Garguin, Univ Nacional de La Plata, ARGENTINA National Pleasures: The Fetishization of Blackness in Uruguay: Vannina Sztainbok, University of Toronto, CANADA 398 // SMO023 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 6 Gender and Women's Movements Across the Americas Organizer : Blanca Leticia Arteaga, Dept Admin de Bienstar Soc Chair(s) : Blanca Leticia Arteaga, Dept Admin de Bienstar Soc Respuestas de la comunidad al conflicto armado en Colombia: Blanca Leticia Arteaga, Dept Admin de Bienstar Soc Mature Resistance: The Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina: Elizabeth Borland, The College of New Jersey Border Women’s NGOs and Political Participation in Baja California: Silvia López Estrada, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MEXICO Feminist Identities in Flux: Race, Class, and Gender Organizing in Uruguay: Erica Townsend-Bell, Washington Univ/St Louis 399 // TEC003 Workshop Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical A Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on Latin American Studies: The Handbook of Latin American Studies at Seventy Organizer : Katherine McCann, Library of Congress Chair(s) : Katherine McCann, Library of Congress *: Katherine McCann, Library of Congress *: Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress *: Tracy North, Library of Congress

395 // PST009 Panel Thursday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 5 Scenes from the Family Album: Staging Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina Organizer : Brenda Werth, Rutgers University Chair(s) : Paola Hernandez, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Torturas, violaciones y la conquista de una nueva raza en Criaturas de aire de Lucía Laragione: Paola Hernandez, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison

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Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm 400 // AGR011 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar A Impactos del neoliberalismo y la globalizacón en el campo ecuatoriano Sponsor : FLACSO Organizer : Liisa North, York University, CANADA Chair(s) : Luciano Martínez Valle, FLACSO, ECUADOR Reconsiderando la “Cuestión Agraria” en Bolivia: Un análisis de la composición y los determinantes de los ingresos rurales: Elizabeth Jiménez-Zamora, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, BOLIVIA The Chavez Agenda: Questions of Labor in the Venezuelan Andes: Russell Rhoads, Grand Valley State University, Kiran Cunningham, Kalamazoo College Pequeños productores rurales frente a la globalización: Luciano Martínez Valle, FLACSO, ECUADOR Impacto de la globalización neoliberal en el campo y las estrategias adaptativas de los agricultores ecuatorianos: Francisco García Pascual, Universidad de Lleida, SPAIN Neoliberalismo y desarrollo rural en los Andes Ecua-torianos: Actores, modelos y prácticas sobre el medio indígena campesino: Victor Bretón, Universidad de Lleida, SPAIN International Labor Standards and Nonstate Actors: Colombia’s and Ecuador’s Cur Flower Industry in a Comparative Perspective: Olga Sanmiguel, University of Cincinnati 401 // CUL067 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Gerónimo A Agentes culturales en América Latina. Nuevos enfoques y perspectivas para un área de estudios en vías de expansión Organizer : Luciano Martinez, Univ of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Luciano Martinez, Univ of Pittsburgh Sneaking in the Illegal. Notes on Eloísa Cartonera: Santiago Deymonnaz, New York University A Poetic of Justice: Fernando Rosenberg, Yale Univ La resignificación del espacio público a través de prácticas culturales: Angela Pérez-Mejía, Brandeis Univ Taking Mexican Photography to Task: The Creencias of Maruch Sántiz Gómez: Mónica De la Torre, Columbia Univ Discussant(s) : Doris Sommer, Harvard University 402 // DEM011 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo C New Forms of Representation in the Americas? Organizer : Carlos De La Torre, FLASCO/ Ecuador, ECUADOR Chair(s) : Carlos De La Torre, FLASCO/ Ecuador, ECUADOR ¿Es el populismo la forma constitutiva de la democracia en América Latina?: Carlos De La Torre, FLASCO/ Ecuador, ECUADOR Populism and the Mirror of Democracy: Francisco Panizza, The London Schl of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM Participation and Representation: Rethinking the Links Between Citizens and Politicians in Representative Democracy: Carlos Enrique Peruzzotti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, ARGENTINA Citizenship as Consumption or Citizenship as Agency. Comparing Democratizing Reforms in Bolivia and Brazil: Philip Oxhorn, McGill Univ, CANADA Discussant(s) : Kurt Weyland, University of Texas/Austin 403 // DEM016 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal G Latin America's Violent Democracies: Toward an Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization (Part II) Organizer : Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University Chair(s) : Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University Extra-State Violence in Comparative Perspective: Urban Violence and the Challenge to Democracy: Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University “End of Discussion”: The Historical Effects of De-legitimizing Dissent in Colombia: Mary Roldán, Cornell University Organized Crime, Disorganized States: Toward a Democratic Security Agenda for the Caribbean Region: Lilian Bobea, FLACSO, Dominican Republic, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Low-Level Democratic Quality Traps in Latin America: Paola Cesarini, Providence College Discussant(s) : Martha Huggins, Tulane University

404 // DEM063 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical B Economics and Democratization: Looking for Linkages Organizer : Robert Barr, Univ of Mary Washington Chair(s) : Robert Barr, Univ of Mary Washington Explaining Democratic Fragility in Unequal Latin America: The Effects of Income and Wealth Redistribution: Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, New School for Social Research, MEXICO Democratization and Distributive Conflicts in Latin America: José Velasco, Inst de Investigaciones Sociales, MEXICO Democratization and Socio-Economic Transformation of a Region: The Case of Yucatán, México: Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo 405 // ECO007 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal D Business Politics and Industrial Policy Organizer : Andra Olivia Maciuceanu, University of California/Berkeley Chair(s) : Ben Ross Schneider, Northwestern Univ Political Institutions, Market Structures, and Performance in the Telecommunications Sector: Peter Kingstone, Univ of Connecticut, Aldo Ponce, University of Conneticut Structural Constraints Overdetermined: States and Multinational Automotive Corporations in Brazil: Andra Olivia Maciuceanu, University of California/Berkeley Capitalist Partnerships, Capitalist Patterns. Organised Business, Politics, and Economic Change in Peru and Chile: Marco Hernández, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Fear and Miscalculation in Latin America: Dollarization and the Private Sector: Pamela Starr, Inst Tec Autónomo de México Discussant(s) : Alfred Montero, Carleton College 406 // ECO009 Workshop Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical A Cuba: Economic Policies for Transition Sponsor : Assoc for the Study of Cuban Economy Organizer : Joaquin Pujol, ASCE Chair(s) : Ernesto Hernández-Catá, Hopkins University, and Joaquin Pujol, ASCE *: Ernesto Hernández-Catá, Hopkins University *: Jorge Sanguinetty, Devtech Systems Inc *: Antonio Gayoso, Thunderbird University Discussant(s) : Armando Linde, Int'l Monetary Fund 407 // ECO016 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 8 Actors and Processes in Economic Policy-Making Organizer : Johanna Birnir, SUNY/Buffalo Chair(s) : Johanna Birnir, SUNY/Buffalo Sectores socioeconómicos a favor y en contra del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas en Estados Unidos, Brasil, México y Argentina: Leandro Ariel Morgenfeld, , ARGENTINA La empresa venezolana: Una perspectiva socioeconómica: Tomás Paez, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Decentralization Reforms in Mexico: The Intersection of Neoliberalization and Democratization Processes: Aylin Topal, New School University The Discreet Charm of Neoliberalism. The Argentine Businesses’ Support to the 1990s Structural Reforms: Gaston Beltrán, SUNY at Stony Brook Economic Policy, Veto Players and Relevant Ethnic Groups: Johanna Birnir, SUNY/Buffalo Bolivia's Gas War: A Political Economy of Regionalism and Globalism: Waltraud Morales, University of Central Florida Discussant(s) : Gregg Johnson, Univ at Buffalo/SUNY 408 // EDU012 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo A Demilitarizing the University: History, Debates, and Struggles in Puerto Rico Sponsor : Universitarios por la Desmilitarización, PR Organizer : Anita Yudkin, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras Chair(s) : Anita Yudkin, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras A 85 años: Situación del ROTC: José Paralitici, American University Reinventando la democracia: Las luchas anti-ROTC después de Vieques: Anayra Santory, Univ Puerto Rico/Mayaguez Los espacios universitarios y la actividad militar: El caso del ROTC en la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez: Rima Brusi, Univ of Puerto Rico/Mayaguez Legislación Federal, el ROTC en Estados Unidos

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THURSDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm y Puerto Rico: Jorge Colón, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras Discussant(s) : José Solís Jordán, Universidad de Puerto Rico 409 // EXC003 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo D Expressive Bodies: De-centering Culture in Brazil and the Caribbean Organizer : Talia Guzman Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin/Madison Chair(s) : Talia Guzman Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin/Madison Corpo e espaço na Trilogia Bíblica do Teatro da Vertigem: Talia Guzman Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin/Madison Novas diretrizes em tempos de carência: Uma proposta em torno do corpo: Severino João Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin Presencia de cuerpos ausentes en el escenario cubano del Período Especial: Vicky Unruh, Univ of Kansas Rosa Luisa Márquez’s Theater and the Forgotten Black Bodies: Jessica Gaspar, Univ of Puerto Rico/Cayey Becoming Earth: Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization of the Body in Ana Mendieta's Earth-Body Performances: Bernat Tort, Univ of Puerto Rico Discussant(s) : Jossianna Arroyo, University of Texas/Austin 410 // FDS002 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal E Cine de ruptura pre/pos nuevo cine Organizer : Caryn Connelly, Univ of Minnesota/Wright State Chair(s) : Caryn Connelly, Univ of Minnesota/Wright State Subverting Fictions of Mexican Identity: the Melodramas of Arturo Ripstein: Natalia Jacovkis, University of Florida A Transatlantic Buuel: The Politics of Latin American Dictatorship in La mort en ce jardin and La fivre monte a El Pao: Juliet Lynd, St Olaf College 411 // FEA009 Workshop Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamboyan Procesos Organizativos Transnacionales de Pueblos y Organizaciones Indígenas Migrantes: Retos y Avances Organizer : Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon Chair(s) : Rufino Domínguez Santos, Ctro Binacional Desarrollo Indig *: Rufino Domínguez Santos, Ctro Binacional Desarrollo Indig *: José David López, , GUATEMALA *: Vladimir Painemal, Periodico Mapuche Azkintuwe, CHILE Discussant(s) : Maylei Blackwell, Univ of California/Los Angeles, Stefano Varese, University of California/Davis 412 // GLT008 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 10 Critical Engagement with Cuba: A Comparative View of European, Canadian and Latin American Policy Approaches Sponsor : Fundación Carolina Organizer : Christian Freres, ICEI, SPAIN Chair(s) : Francesc Bayo, Fundacion CIDOB, SPAIN El Gran Caribe ante la política exterior norteamericana: Rosa Lopez Oceguera, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Potencialidades y límites de las relaciones entre España y Cuba. Una perspectiva española: Francesc Bayo, Fundacion CIDOB, SPAIN, Christian Freres, ICEI, SPAIN Mexican-Cuban Relations at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: The End of Pragmatism?: Ana Covarrubias, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO Assessing Canada’s Policy of Constructive Engagement with Cuba: Cristina Warren, FOCAL, CANADA Discussant(s) : Laurence Whitehead, Oxford Univ, UNITED KINGDOM, Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ 413 // GLT013 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Las Olas Cuba - A Special Foreign Policy for a Special Period Organizer : John Kirk, Dalhousie Univ, CANADA Chair(s) : Hal Philip Klepak, Royal Military College, CANADA Cuba's Foreign Policy-Making Process: Theory and Practice: H. Michael Erisman, Indiana State University Las relaciones entre América Latina y Cuba en los 90s: Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, Centro de Estudios sobre America, CUBA The European Union and Cuba: Joaquín Roy, University of Miami Engaging Revolutionary Cuba: Comparing Mexican and Canadian Approaches: John Kirk, Dalhousie Univ, CANADA, Peter McKenna, University of Prince Edward Island, CANADA Discussant(s) : William LeoGrande, American University

414 // GLT027 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 7 Regional Economic Integration, Continental Political Separation? Organizer : Isabelle Rousseau, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO Chair(s) : Isabelle Rousseau, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO The Politics of MERCOSUR: A Comparative Analysis of Current Argentine and Brazilian Policies Towards the Southern Cone Integration Project: Amy Kirschenbaum, University of Texas/Austin “Nuclear Integration”. Construyendo supranacionalidad en el Cono Sur: Juan Milanese, ICESI / Univ Javeriana, COLOMBIA La integración energética en América del Norte: El caso del Gas Natural Licuado: Isabelle Rousseau, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO 415 // HIS023 Workshop Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal B Archived Memory: Reconstructing Guatemala’s Past Organizer : Todd Little-Siebold, College of the Atlantic Chair(s) : Todd Little-Siebold, College of the Atlantic *: Todd Little-Siebold, College of the Atlantic *: John Watanabe, Dartmouth College *: David Carey, Jr., University of Southern Maine 416 // HIS053 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal C Commonalities and Differences in Mexican Regional History from Colonial to Modern Times Organizer : Ben Vinson III, Penn State Univ Chair(s) : Ben Vinson III, Penn State Univ La tierra y los indios. Composiciones y ventas de tierras en la provincia de Avalos, siglos XVIII-XIX: Rosa Alicia De la Torre Ruiz, Univ de Guadalajara, MEXICO Regionalism and Urban Change in the Mexican North - The Case of Monterrey During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century: Jaime Rodriguez, St Johns University Regionally Unique and Nationally Common: Sonora and Baja California in the Early 20th Century: John Dwyer, Duquesne University Fostering Regional Pride in Mexico’s "Sultan of the North": Michael Snodgrass, IUPUI Race, Region, and Religion in New Spain: Nicole Von Germeten, Oregon State University Regions Reimagined: National Development and Localized Struggles for "Progress" in a Oaxacan Indigenous Community: Lourdes Gutierrez Najera, Dartmouth College Discussant(s) : Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University 417 // IND008 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 2 Populismo Militar, Campesinado y Etnicidad en tres países andinos: siglos XIX al XXI Organizer : Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California Chair(s) : Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California El Ejército y los Campesinos: Los Eslabones Perdidos de la Violencia Política en el Perú, siglos XIX al XXI: Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California Ejército cholificado: La apertura del Ejército Peruano hacia los sectores populares: Lourdes Hurtado, Univ of Notre Dame, PERU Sovereignty, Political Representation, and Liberal Counterinsurgency in Republican Bolivia: Forrest Hylton, New York Univ Los militares y su proyecto de Nación: La construcción del indio como actor político en Ecuador del siglo XX: Cecilia Ortiz Batallas, FALCSOEcuador, ECUADOR Discussant(s) : Carlos Iván Degregori Caso, Inst de Estudios Peruanos, PERU 418 // LAB010 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 5 Trayectorias de inserción en grandes y pequeñas ciudades Organizer : Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Uiv de São Paulo and CEBRAP, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Uiv de São Paulo and CEBRAP, BRAZIL Narratives of a Class Identity: The Argentine Middle Classes After the Crisis: Diana Baldermann, SUNY Stony Brook Demandas empresariales de ingenieros y posibilidades de inserción profesional en la región central Argentina: Marta Elba Panaia, , ARGENTINA Inside Latin America's Most Flexible Labor Market: The Never-Ending Story of Labor Market Reform in Chile and its Results: Kirsten Sehnbruch, UC Berkeley

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THURSDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Entrepreneurship and Racial Differences: The Case of Business Owners in Brazil: Ana Cristina Siqueira, University of Florida Economic and Social Impacts of Tourism in Mexico: Tamar Diana Wilson de García, University of Missouri/St. Louis, MEXICO 419 // LAT013 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 6 Infinite Divisions and De-Centering Hearts: Chicana and Caribeña Voices Constructing Fluid Identities and Telling Stories of Revolution, Diaspora and Exile Organizer : Carol Pearson, North Dakota State University Chair(s) : Carol Pearson, North Dakota State University Barefoot Hearts: Mexican-American Women's Voices in the Northern Plains: Carol Pearson, North Dakota State University Josefina Niggli: A Novel on the Mexican Revolution by an/other Woman Writer: Elizabeth Martinez, Sonoma State University Telling My Story: Truth or puro cuento in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo: Judy Maloof, University of New Mexico Identidades queer en la narrativa cubanoamericana contemporánea: Rosa Campos Brito, Loyola College/Maryland Whose Cubanidad? Daina Chaviano's El hombre, la hembra y el hambre: Lea Ramsdell, Towson University Discussant(s) : Lea Ramsdell, Towson University 420 // LAW007 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Ceiba Lynchings and Other Forms of Collective Violence in Latin America Organizer : Carlos Vilas, Univ Nacional de Lanús, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Carlos Vilas, Univ Nacional de Lanús, ARGENTINA Lynchings and Political Struggle in the Andes: Carlos Vilas, Univ Nacional de Lanús, ARGENTINA Structural Causes and Diffusion Processes of Collective Violence: Understantding Lynch Mobs in Post-Conflict Guatemala: Carlos Mendoza, University of Notre Dame Los linchamientos en México: Entre el estado de derecho y el espíritu de Fuenteovejuna: Raul Rodríguez Guillén, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Azcapo, MEXICO Popular Responses to Crime Violence: Social Polarization and Fragmentation: Alexis Romero Salazar, Universidad del ZuliaMaracaibo, VENEZUELA Discussant(s) : Alejandro Isla, FLACSO-Argentina, ARGENTINA 421 // LCN003 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie Texts at Work: Building National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Organizer : John Chasteen, University of North Carolina Chair(s) : Juan Carlos González Espitia, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Cryptic Thoughts: The Hidden Martí of 1894: Juan Carlos González Espitia, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Unveiling the Mask of Modernity: A Critical Gendered Perspective of José Martí’s Amistad funesta: Patricia Swier, UNC/ Chapel Hill Aesthetics in the Marketplace: Debating Art in Late Nineteenth-century Mexico: Shelley Garrigan, North Carolina State University Novels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serialized Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Amy Wright, North Carolina State University Gaucho Gazeteers: Popular Print Media and Politics during the Rosas Years: William Acree, University of North Carolina Republican Nationalism at the Intersection of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868: Michael Huner, Univ North Carolina 422 // LCO061 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical C Narrativa andina Organizer : Maria Fischer, City Univ of New York/Hunter Chair(s) : Maria Fischer, City Univ of New York/Hunter Between Vargas Llosa and Cornejo Polar: the Biopolitics of Indigenismo: Abraham Acosta, University of Michigan Mito y mestizaje en Los ríos profundos de José María Arguedas: Fernando Alfredo Aguirre Perez, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst La Imagen del Perú entre Martín Adán y Rafael de la Fuente: Eduardo Gargurevich, Concordia College/Moorhead Discussant(s) : Maria Fischer, City Univ of New York/Hunter

423 // LIA009 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Nuevas pedagogías nacionales: De la ciudad letrada a la cultura de masas Organizer : Mariam Colon Pizarro, University of Michigan Chair(s) : Mariam Colon Pizarro, University of Michigan "Were They Men of the People?": DIVEDCO's Field Workers and the Democratization of Education: Mariam Colon Pizarro, University of Michigan Simón Rodríguez y José Pedro Varela: Similares tecnologías, singulares enemigos: Cristina Miguez, Univ of Michigan Políticas del Corazón: Los boleros de Musiquito: Leonora Simonovis, Washington Univ/St Louis De amnésicas antropofagias y palimpsestos revolucionarios: La memoria como escritura en "Las aventuras de Elpidio Valdés": Pedro Porben, University of Michigan De negocios y negociaciones: la comunidad dominicana en "Drown": Danny Mendez, University of Texas/Austin Discussant(s) : Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan 424 // LIA018 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar B El campo de la ciudad, la ciudad del campo: maniobras de lo rural y lo urbano en la cultura puertorriqueña Organizer : Carmelo Esterrich, Columbia College/Chicago Chair(s) : Catherine Marsh Kennerley, Univ of Puerto Rico El buen saber del jíbaro: René Marqués, Luis Muñoz Marín y la producción cultural del populismo puertorriqueño: Catherine Marsh Kennerley, Univ of Puerto Rico Edenes insostenibles: reconstrucciones y desmantelamientos campestres en la música, el cine y la literatura puertorriqueñas: Carmelo Esterrich, Columbia College/Chicago La iconografía del jíbaro en el siglo XX: entre la pureza y la pobreza (con la ciudad de trasfondo): Mercedes Trelles-Hernández, Universidad de Puerto Rico La seducción del paisaje o el paisaje de la seducción en el proyecto público de cultura en Puerto Rico 1947-1955: Pedro Reina, University of Puerto Rico Discussant(s) : Gloria Prosper-Sánchez, Univ of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras 425 // LIA062 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Narrativa y cine cubanos en los 90. Fugas y retornos de lo cotidiano Organizer : Ana Serra, American University Chair(s) : Ana Serra, American University La Habana cotidiana: Alegorías y silencios de Fernando Pérez: Ana Serra, American University Muerte, memoria y música en "Como un mensajero tuyo" de Mayra Montero: Eliana Rivero, Univ of Arizona Ena Lucía Portela y su teoría de la escritura: Myrna Garcia-Calderon, Syracuse University 'Hogar, ¿dulce hogar?': Asedios a casas de la Habana en la novela femenina de hoy: Iraida López, Ramapo College/New Jersey Discussant(s) : Ruth Behar, University of Michigan 426 // LIA072 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Urban Realism and Globalization in Contemporary Literature and Film Organizer : Beatriz Urraca, Widener University Chair(s) : Beatriz Urraca, Widener University Urban Realism in Contemporary Argentinian Cinema: Beatriz Urraca, Widener University El realismo urbano en el cine argentino contemporáneo (segunda parte): Maria Gabriela Mizraje, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Consumerism as Urban Violence in Recent Mexican Fiction: Paul Goldberg, Widener University Where Did the Magical Go? Urban Realism in Contemporary Colombian Film and Literature: Jerry Carlson, City Univ of New York 427 // MCB005 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Gerónimo B Migrant-led Organizations: The Challenges of Multiple Agendas, Funding, Institutionalization and Capacity Building II Organizer : Héctor Cordero-Guzmán, City Univ of New York/Baruch Chair(s) : Sarah Gammage, Rutgers Univ Crowding In Collective Remittances: Lessons Learned from State-HTA Collaborations in El Salvador: Sarah Gammage, Rutgers Univ

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THURSDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Who Are the ‘Native Americans’ Here?: Mexican-Indian Ethnic Identity, Group Formation, and New Transnational Immigrant Communities in the Southeastern United States: Theodore Henken, Baruch College CUNY, Casimiro Leco-Thomas, El Colegio de Michoacan, MEXICO Strategic Interventions in Transnational Social and Political Life: Robert Smith, Baruch College & Graduate Ctr Immigrant Remitting Behavior and its Developmental Consequences: Jeronimo Cortina, Columbia Univ Discussant(s) : Katrina Burgess, Tufts University 428 // MCB028 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 9 Migraciones, tradiciones y cambios culturales Organizer : Melesio Peter-Espinoza, Universidad Iberoamericana Chair(s) : Melesio Peter-Espinoza, Universidad Iberoamericana Migración e Identidad Social: Caso del grupo étnico miskito en Port Arthur,Texas: Melesio Peter-Espinoza, Universidad Iberoamericana La presencia soviética en Cuba: La comunidad ex soviética residente en Cuba, sus relaciones socioculturales. (The Soviet presence in Cuba: The ex Soviet Community Living in Cuba, their Socio-cultural Relationships): Roneld Reyes Cepero, CIPS, CUBA El Desplazamiento Interno forzado en Colombia: Ni derecho a quedarse ni a marcharse: Marta Inés Villa Martínez, Corporacion Region, COLOMBIA Puerto Rican Culinary Tradition in New York City: Nilsa Rodriguez-Jaca, Culinary Inst of America/SUNY La presencia judía y árabe en México: La difícil integración: Zidane Zeraoui, ITESM, MEXICO 429 // MTG022 non-LASA Board/Committee Meeting Thursday 6:00 7:45 pm Conference 3 Open Meeting on Less Commonly Taught Languages of Latin America Sponsor : CLASP Organizer : Sharon Mújica, Univ of North Carolina 430 // MTG046 LASA Committee Meeting Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 4 Meeting of the Academic Freedom and Human Rights Committee Organizer : Judith Adler Hellman, York University, CANADA 431 // PLE007 Workshop Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal A Redefining the Caribbean Organizer : Helen Safa, University of Florida Chair(s) : Helen Safa, University of Florida *: Helen Safa, University of Florida *: Franklin Knight, Johns Hopkins University *: Rafael Hernández, Revista TEMAS, CUBA *: Angel Quintero-Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico *: Lillian Guerra, Yale University *: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University *: Jean Stubbs, London Metropolitan Univ, UNITED KINGDOM

433 // PST006 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal F Performance, Identity, History Panel I Organizer : Diana Taylor, New York University Chair(s) : Tavia Nyong'o, New York University Performing Identity and Difference between Black and Latino/a Americas, 1848—1871: Tavia Nyong'o, New York University Black Indians and Savage Christians: Unmaking the “Other” in the Performance of Conquest: Sarah Townsend, New York University Aracy Cortes, “The Mulata Asumida” in 1920s Brazilian Revista: Judith Williams, University of Kansas 434 // PST011 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 1 Dancing Identities Organizer : Teresa Marrero, Univ of North Texas Chair(s) : Teresa Marrero, Univ of North Texas Peruvian Coastal Peñas and the Performance of Criollismo: Cynthia Garza, Tulane University Symbols Standing in for Nation: Mexican Folkloric Ballet and its Place in the Immigrant Communities of Iowa: K. Angelique Dwyer, Univ of Iowa Transnational Salsa Dancing: Performance of Simulated Authenticity?: Teresa Marrero, Univ of North Texas Mapping Faith and Claiming Rights: Performances of Devotion and the Resignification of Space by Mexican Immigrants in New York City: Alyshia Galvez, New York University 435 // SMO024 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo B Transnational Activism in a Globalizing Context Organizer : John Hammond, City University of New York Chair(s) : John Hammond, City University of New York Sliding Doors of Opportunities: The Effects of Local, National, and International Factors on the Zapatista Cycle of Protest 1994-2003: María Inclan, Univ of California/San Diego Democratización formal y criminalización de movimientos sociales en México. 28 de mayo en Guadalajara: Jorge Ceja Martinez, Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO The World Social Forum and the Emergence of Global Grassroots Politics: John Hammond, City University of New York The Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) as a CounterHegemonic Movement: Abdurazack Karriem, Cornell University The Chilean and Argentine Experience with Impunity: The Role of Transnational Prosecutions in Strengthening Social Movements: Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Univ of California Urban Resistance to Neoliberal Democracy Across Latin America: Susan Eckstein, Boston University Discussant(s) : Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins Univ

432 // POL006 Panel Thursday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Political and Ideological Determinants of Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Organizer : Fernando Filgueira, Univ Catolica del Uruguay, URUGUAY Chair(s) : Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA National Capitalisms Outside the Industrial Core: Organizing Money in 19th Century India and Brazil: Leslie Elliott Armijo, Lake Oswego, Oregon Responsabilidade social e políticas sociais para a juventude em situação de risco na cidade do Rio de Janeiro: Maria Alice Gonçalves-Rezende, , BRAZIL The Politics of Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Jennifer Pribble, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Political Targeting of Social Welfare: The Case of Mexico's Seguro Popular: Jason Lakin, Harvard University El discurso de política social antipobreza en el régimen de bienestar social costarricense: Mauricio López-Ruiz, Univ de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA Discussant(s) : Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University

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Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm 436 // MTG003 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Flamingo D Culture, Power and Politics Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA 437 // MTG005 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 8 Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Organizer : Henry Carey, Georgia State Univ 438 // MTG007 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal G Latino/a Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Latino/a Studies Section Organizer : Norma Chinchilla, California State Univ/Long Beach 439 // MTG008 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal C Central American Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Central American Section Organizer : Beatriz Cortez, California State Univ/Northridge 440 // MTG009 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 7 Southern Cone Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Southern Cone Studies Section Organizer : Laura Demaria, Univ of Maryland/ College Park 441 // MTG010 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Salón del Mar A Film Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Film Studies Section Organizer : Claudia Ferman, Univ of Richmond 442 // MTG011 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Boardroom 2 Defense and Democracy Section Meeting Sponsor : Defense and Democracy Section Organizer : J. Samuel Fitch, University of Colorado 443 // MTG014 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal E Rural Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Rural Studies Section Organizer : Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University 444 // MTG015 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Flamingo C Venezuelan Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Venezuelan Studies Section Organizer : Daniel Hellinger, Webster Univ 445 // MTG016 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal F Law and Society Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Law and Society Section Organizer : Viviana Kluger, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 446 // MTG017 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Tropical A Peru Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Peru Section Organizer : Patricia Ledesma Liebana, Northwestern University

447 // MTG018 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 5 Paraguayan Studies Section Sponsor : Paraguayan Studies Section Organizer : Tracy Lewis, State Univ of New York 448 // MTG020 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Las Olas Cuba Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Cuba Section Organizer : Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona University 449 // MTG024 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal A Sexualities Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Sexualities Studies Section Organizer : Susana Peña, Bowling Green State University 450 // MTG026 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Gerónimo B Gender and Feminist Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Studies Section Organizer : Sara Poggio, Univ of Maryland/Baltimore County 451 // MTG029 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Flamingo A Colombia Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Colombia Section Organizer : Mary Roldán, Cornell University 452 // MTG030 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Boardroom 1 LA and The Pacific Rim Section Business Meeting Sponsor : LA and the Pacific Rim Section Organizer : Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN 453 // MTG031 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 3 Labor Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Labor Section Organizer : Salvador A. M. Sandoval, Pont Univ Católica de São Paulo, BRAZIL 454 // MTG032 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Salón del Mar B Environment Section Meeting Sponsor : Environment Section Organizer : Colleen Scanlan Lyons, Univ of Colorado 455 // MTG033 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal B Brazil Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Kenneth Serbin, University of San Diego 456 // MTG034 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Tropical B Ecuadorian Studies Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Ecuadorian Studies Section Organizer : Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Missouri Southern State University 457 // MTG035 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 6 Health, Science and Society Section Meeting Sponsor : Health, Science and Society Section Organizer : Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Univ of California/Santa Barbara 458 // MTG036 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 10 Political Institutions Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Political Institutions Section Organizer : Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M Univ

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459 // MTG038 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Cristóbal D Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples Section Organizer : Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University 460 // MTG039 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 4 Europe and Latin America Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Europe and Latin America Section Organizer : Laurence Whitehead, Oxford Univ, UNITED KINGDOM 461 // MTG041 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Ceiba Economics and Politics Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Economics and Politics Section Organizer : Peter Kingstone, Univ of Connecticut / Leslie Elliot Armijo, Lake Oswego, Oregon 462 // MTG042 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Tropical C Decentralization and Sub-National Gov Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Decentralization and Sub-National Gov Section Organizer : Alfred Montero, Carleton College 463 // MTG043 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Conference 9 Educación y Políticas Educativas Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Educación y Políticas Educativas Section Organizer : Christopher Martin, Ford Foundation 464 // MTG045 Meeting of LASA Section Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Flamingo B Scholarly Reseach and Resources Section Business Meeting Sponsor : Scholarly Reseach and Resources Section Organizer : Pamela Graham, Columbia University 465 // REC009 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm San Gerónimo A And the Winner is… Mexico's 2006 Elections Sponsor : Foreign Affairs en Español Organizer : Rossana Fuentes Berain, Inst Tec Autónomo de México, MEXICO 466 // REC024 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Gold Room - Normandie Friends and Alumni of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies Sponsor : Teresa Lozano Long Institute for LA Studies Organizer : Nicolas Shumway, University of Texas/Austin 467 // REC029 Reception (sponsored) Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm Flamboyan Reception for Friends & Alumni of Tulane University's Stone Center for Latin American Studies Sponsor : Stone Center for Latin American Studies Organizer : Thomas Reese, Tulane University

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Thursday 9:30 pm 468 // REC004 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm Flamingo D Culture, Power and Politics Section Reception Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA

480 // REC026 Reception (sponsored) Thursday 9:30 pm Boardroom 1 Joint Reception Europe and Latin America and Pacific Rim Sections Sponsor : ELAS and Pacific Rim Section Organizer : Laurence Whitehead, Oxford Univ, UNITED KINGDOM

469 // REC007 Reception (sponsored) Thursday 9:30 pm San Cristóbal G Latino/a Studies Section Reception Sponsor : Latino/a Studies Section and Palgrave Press Organizer : Norma Chinchilla, California State Univ/Long Beach 470 // REC008 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm San Gerónimo B Gender and Feminist Studies Encounter Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Studies Section Organizer : Alice Colón-Warren, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras 471 // REC010 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm Flamingo B Scholarly Research and Resources Section Reception Sponsor : Scholarly Research and Resources Section Organizer : Pamela Graham, Columbia University 472 // REC012 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm San Cristóbal E Rural Studies Section Reception Sponsor : Rural Studies Section Organizer : Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University 473 // REC013 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm Flamingo C Venezuelan Studies Section Reception Sponsor : Venezuelan Studies Section Organizer : Daniel Hellinger, Webster Univ 474 // REC015 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm Tropical B Joint Reception of the Peru and Ecuadorian Studies Sections Sponsor : Peru and Ecuadorian Sections Organizer : Patricia Ledesma Liebana, Northwestern University 475 // REC016 Reception (sponsored) Thursday 9:30 pm Las Olas Cuba Section Reception Sponsor : Cuba Section Organizer : Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona University 476 // REC019 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm San Cristóbal A Sexualities Studies Section Reception Sponsor : Sexualities Studies Section Organizer : Susana Peña, Bowling Green State University 477 // REC020 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm Flamingo A Colombia Section Reception Sponsor : Colombia Section Organizer : Mary Roldán, Cornell University 478 // REC021 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm San Cristóbal C Central American Section Reception Sponsor : Central American Section Organizer : Ricardo Roque, Univ Centroamericana Jose Simeon C, EL SALVADOR 479 // REC022 Reception (cash bar) Thursday 9:30 pm San Cristóbal B Brazil Section Reception Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Kenneth Serbin, University of San Diego

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