Exhibition: The Centenary of the Famous 41, Michelle Nasser, Curator. November 15-17,
Special Collections Gallery, 210 Jones Hall
Thursday, November 15th
Opening Reception: Introductions, Ed McCaughan, Loyola University. 4:30pm, Greenleaf
Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Performance: Tito Vasconcelos, Mexico City. 6:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art
Center
Friday, November 16th
Opening Remarks, Thomas Reese, Executive Director, Stone Center for Latin American
Studies, and Robert McKee Irwin, Spanish Department, Tulane University. 9:00am, Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Sexual Outlaws: Bohemian Demi-monde, Man-Boy Love, The Famous 41. Moderator:
Josefa Salmon, Loyola University. 9:15am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Cronica hemerografica de un baile prohibido. Alejandro Garcia, Consejo Nacional
para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico
Journalists and Dandies: Bohemian Male Sociability in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1920.
James Green, California State University, Long Beach
Creative Misreading: Caminha's "Bom-Crioulo" as the First Novel of Man-Boy Love?
Daniel Balderstein, University of Iowa, and Jose Quiroga, George Washington
University
Sexuality and Reclusion: Conjugal Visits, Sex in Prison, Resistance. Moderator: Justin
Wolfe, Tulane University. 10:45am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Without Women it is Impossible to Govern Fernando [de Noronha]: Concepts and
Practices of Discipline and Sexuality in Brazilian Barracks and Prisons, 1865-1935.
Peter Beattie, Michigan State University
Interpretations of Sexuality in Mexico City Prisons During the Porfiriato: A Critical
Version. Pablo Piccato, Columbia University
Reclusion, Sexuality and Gender in Early 20th Century Argentina. Debora D'Antonio,
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Public Sex: A Woman's Book on Marti Porfirio Diaz in a Chorus Line. Moderator: Alessandra
Luiselli, Tulane University. 1:45pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Blanca Z. de Baralt: "El Marti que you conoci." Oscar Montero, Lehmann College and
the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Cursed Celebrity: Scandal Sheets and Delmira Agustini. Luis Pena, Magdalena MaizPena, Davidson College
Masculine and Political Imagery in Mexican Public Opinion, 1898-1900: The Dawn of
the Famous 41. Lilia Granillo Vazquez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana,
Azcapotzalco
Female Questions/Masculinist Nations: Syphilis, Sexual Inversion, Women Talking Back.
Moderator Henry Sullivan, Tulane University. 3:15pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg
Art Center
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Law of Desire: Legal Representations and Gendered Interpretations of Sexual
Practice, Sexual Promiscuity and Sexual Commerce in Late Porfirian Mexico City.
Katherine Bliss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Aunt Medea: Politics and Female Sexuality in 19th Century "Fin-de-Siecle"
Argentina. Pablo Ben, University of Chicago
Knowledge and Sex: Porfirian Doctors Investigate the Female Question (and Women
Answer Back). Cristina Rivera Garza, San Diego State University
Keynote Speech: Sentimental Excess and Gender Disruption: The Case of Amado Nervo.
Sylvia Molloy, New York University. Moderator: Hope Glidden, Tulane University. 5:00pm,
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Saturday November 17th
Keynote Speech: The Invention of Homosexuality in Mexico. Carlos Monsivais, Mexico City.
Moderator: Nicasio Urbina, Tulane University. 9:30am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg
Art Center
Emergent Homophobias and Nation Building: Working Class Masculinities, Feminoid Cultural
Pathogens, The Threat of Homosexual Compulsion. Moderator: Idelber Avelar, Tulane
University. 10:45am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Homophobia and the Construction of Working-Class Masculinities: Mexico City, 18901910. Robert Buffington, Bowling Green State University
Masculine Culture, Feminoid Moderism: Jose Asuncion Silva and "El mal metafisico."
Alfredo Villanueva Collado, Hostos Community College, City University of New York
Exploiting Homosexual Panic in "Los invertidos." Scott Cooper, Hanover College
Utopia and Revolution: Tolstoyan Celibacy, Zapatistan Transsexualism. Moderator: Maureen
Shea, Tulane University. 12:15pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Gay Utopia: The Chilean Tolstoyan Colony. Hector Dominguez, Denison University
The Intimate Joy of Colonel Robles: Photography and the Transsexual Body in the
Mexican Revolution. Gabriela Cano, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
Homotexts, Homosexual Consumption, Homosexual Rhetorical Tradition. Moderator:
Christopher Dunn, Tulane University. 2:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art
Center
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Spaces of Desire (Short Fragments for a History of Brazilian Homotextual
Literature). Denilson Lopes, Universidade de Brasilia
The "Lagartijo" at "The High Life": Masculine Consumption and Homosexuality in
Porfirian Mexico. Victor Macias Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Representations of Male Homosexuality in 19th Century Hispanoamerican Poetry:
The Case of Julian del Casal. Wilfredo Hernandez, Allegheny College
Sex Crimes: Rape, Sexual Violence, Witchcraft. Moderator: Marline Otte, Tulane
University. 4:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Rape and the Politics of masculine Silence in Argentina. Donna Guy, Ohio State
University
"Rapto" and "Estupro" in Porfirian Mexico. William French, University of British
Columbia
Race, Gender, and Crime in Fernando Ortiz, "Los negros brujos" (1906). Licia FiolMatta, Barnard College