THE 34th ANNUAL MACLAS CONFERENCE
From Xocolatl to Xuxa: Latin America in the World
March 8-9, 2013
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
The Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
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MACLAS 2013
FROM XOCOLATL TO XUXA:
LATIN AMERICA IN THE WORLD
March 8, Friday
Registration 8:00 AM-4:00PM - Synodinos Commons, Lynch Memorial Hall (#5 on
campus map)
Registration, breakfasts, and coffee breaks will be held in this space
All Panels will take place in Lynch Memorial Hall
SESSION 1
09:00-10:45AM
Panel 1: Memory, Ethnicity and Modernity in Spanish American Poetry
Chair: Joan Marx
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“Surviving Surrealism: The Primal Fantasies in the Works of Aída Cartagena Portalatín”
Karen Rauch, Kutztown University
“Memory as Myth in the Latin American Jewish Diaspora: The Poetry of Angela Muñiz
Huberman, Ruth Behar, and Manuela Fingueret”
Joan Marx, Muhlenberg College
“Poesía afrocaribeña nicaragüense: Andira Watson”
María Roof, Howard University
“Joaquín Pasos: misterios poéticos de una poética breve”
Amelia Mondragón, Howard University
Panel 2: Dictatorships, Coups and the Media in Argentina and Paraguay
Chair: David Sheinin
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“When First Peoples Became Argentine: Indigenous Argentina under Dictatorship, 19761983”
David Sheinin, Trent University
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“The President v. the Press: The Recent Battle in Argentina and its Effects on Democratic
Consolidation”
Diane E. Johnson, Lebanon Valley College
“ ‘Nuestro Epopeya’ and the June 2012 Paraguayan Golpe Parlamentario”
Bridget María Chesterton, Buffalo State College
Panel 3: Social Movements and Improvements in Latin America
Chair: Ingrid Lee Reader Erickson
Location: Lynch 182
Participants:
“Affirmative Action in 21st Century Brazil: Grassroots Movements to Presidential
Initiatives”
Ingrid Lee Reader Erickson, University of Florida
“Advocating for a Better World: Latin America’s Role in Making Human Rights
Universal”
Luis Limon, UCLA
“The deactivation of the conflict: the discussion of the sub national autonomy in Bolivia
during the Constitutional Assembly (2007-2009)”
Ana Haro González, Inter-American Development Bank
Panel 4: The Church, the Missionary and the Migrant
Chair: Kathleen Cunniffe
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Imaginación bilocadora y mediación re-imaginada: la agencia autorial de María de
Ágreda”
Kathleen Cunniffe, Temple University
“Joel S. Pablo and the Machete: A Story of the Methodological Challenges of Conducting
Archival Research on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast”
Kimberly Fabbri, Lehigh University
“Sanctuary, Saints, and Samaritans: Encountering the God of the Exodus in the Lives of
Migrant Women”
Sarah White, Individual Researcher
MACLAS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING – Presidential Dining Room,
Allan W. Mund College Center (#11 on campus map)
11:00-12:30
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SESSION 2
1:00-2:45PM
Panel 5: Language Development and Cultural Immersion: Teaching Foreign
Language at Home and Abroad
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“Constructing a Spanish Language Latin American Cultural Immersion Program on
campus”
Patricia Moore-Martinez, Temple University
“How to Promote Intercultural Competence and Language Development in a Short-term
Study Abroad Program through Technology”
Silvia Peart, United States Naval Academy
Panel 6: Gender, Race, and the State in Brazil and Mexico
Chair: Meredith Glueck
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“Gender, Labor and Poverty in Brazil and Mexico”
Maria Kobbe
“How Popular Images of Carmen Miranda Shaped Perceptions of Salvador’s Female
Street Venders” Meredith Glueck, UT-Austin
“Democracia Racial: O Que é Isso?
Katheryn O’Hara, Lebanon Valley College
“ISI and Brazilian State Intervention: Lessons from Brazil to the United States”
Dylan Reed, Lebanon Valley College
Panel 7: Cuisine and Culture across the Americas
Chair: Rebekah Pite, Lafayette College
Location: Lynch 182
Participants:
“Chocolate con Churros: Representations of Foods and Food Cultures in Hispanic
Literatures”
Edith Moss Jackson, Independent Scholar
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“Playing with Food: Reinterpreting Latino Cuisine in the Baldo Comics”
Agnes Ragone, Shippensburg University
“Sating and Stimulating South Americans: A History of Yerba Mate”
Rebekah E. Pite, Lafayette College
Panel 8: The U.S. and Nicaragua: Imperialism and Resistance
Chair: Michael J. Schroeder
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Transnational Solidarity in the Americas: The Campaign in Support of the Sandino
Movement in Nicaragua, 1927-1934”
Barry Carr, La Trobe University, Australia
“Cultural and Institutional Dynamics of a Small-War Security Handover: The American
Empire and the Formation of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua, 1925-1940”
Michael J. Schroeder, Lebanon Valley College and David C. Brooks
U.S. State Department.
“A True and Brilliant Community? U.S. Visions for the Western Hemisphere and the
Latin American Response in the 20th Century”
James F. Siekmeier, West Virginia University
Break: 2:45-3:00
SESSION 3
3:00-4:45PM
Panel 9: El papel de la (comodificación) de la violencia en la producción literaria de
mujeres colombianas
Chair: Monica Simorangkir
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“Movimientos de mujeres por la paz en Colombia: resistencia y vida”
Ana Carolina Rodriguez, Georgetown University
“Mujeres escritoras colombianas sobre la violencia política: el espacio de lo público
como un espacio femenino”
Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez, Georgetown University
“La mujer disfrazada de loca en Delirio de Laura Restrepo”
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Monica Simorangkir, Georgetown University
Panel 10: The Feminine Voice in Historical Novels and Testimonio
Chair: Elizabeth Espadas
Location: Lynch 182
Participants:
“La autoconstrucción de la identidad o el viaje como espejo en la obra de Flora Tristán”
Ana María Ferreira, Georgetown University
“Dos mujeres intrépidas en las expediciones al Nuevo Mundo en el siglo XVI: Mencía
Calderón y María de Sanabria”
Elizabeth Espadas, Independent Scholar
Panel 11: Cacao in the Global Market
Chair: Marion E. Hines
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Do you know who, Cacao”
Maria Victoria Mata, York University
“La invención del chocolate y la creación del mercado internacional de cacao, siglos
XVI y XVII”
Martín González de la Vara, El Colegio de Michoacán
“Coincidence of Cultural Events and Notions Embedded in Vintage Poster Ads for
French Chocolates”
Marion E. Hines, Howard University
Panel 12: Latin American Cities and Popular Participation in Politics: The Results
of a Cross National Collaborative Research Project
Chair: Ivani Vassoler-Froelich
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“The impact of participatory process on urban planning in Argentina and Brazil”
Michael McAdams, Managing Editor of Urbana – Urban Affairs and Public
“The impact of participatory process on municipal public policy in Brazil, Chile, and
Mexico”
Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, Universidade Federal, Santa Maria, Brazil
“The Limitations of Participatory Processes in Selected Latin American Case Studies”
Jesus Treviño-Cantu, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Panel 13: Social and Temporal Dilemmas in Cinema from Mexico to Cuba
Chair: Mirna Trauger
Location: Lynch 187
Participants:
“Sins of the Past: The Representation of Cuban Women in Cinema and Literature”
Rosita E. Villagómez, College of Mount Saint Vincent
“The Body of the Law: Canoa and Mob (In)Justice”
Greg Schelonka, Louisiana Tech University
PLENARY SESSION 5:00-6:00PM: Leedy Theater, Allan W. Mund College Center
(#11 on campus map)
RECEPTION 6:00-7:00PM: Zimmerman Recital Hall, Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery
(#49 on campus map)
DINNER 7:00-9:00PM: Lehr Dining Room, Allan W. Mund College Center (#11 on
campus map)
March 9, Saturday
Breakfast:
7:45-9:45AM Synodinos Commons, Lynch Memorial Hall (#5 on campus map)
Registration
8:00AM-3:30PM Synodinos Commons, Lynch Memorial Hall (#5 on campus map)
SESSION 5
8:00-9:45AM
Panel 14: Community, Language and Relationships in Indigenous Literature and
Culture
Chair: Stephanie Litka
Location: Lynch 182
Participants:
“The cradle of Tradition Revisited: The Comunidad Indígena in the Andes of Ecuador”
Emma Cervone, Johns Hopkins University
“Ba’ax Pasa, My Brother?: Linguistic Admixture in Everyday Speech among the Yucatec
Maya”
Stephanie Litka, University of Dayton
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“A Comparison of Romantic Relationships in Aztec and Mayan Literature”
Mary Preuss, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Panel 15: Is Biography Destiny? Three Different Approaches to Three Different
Mexican Lives, 1750-1850
Chair: Barbara A. Tenenbaum
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Marriage and Divorce in an aristocratic Mexican Family: the Regla-Jala Family, 17621828”
Edith Couturier, emeritus, NEH
“Antonio López de Santa Anna and His Leg”
Barbara A. Tenenbaum, Specialist in Mexican Culture, Hispanic Division, Library of
Congress
“The Prince of Georgetown, the Education of Augstin Yturbide Green”
Richard Warren, St. Joseph University
Panel 16: Economic Expansion and Reform
Chair: Byron D. Crites
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“History, Economics, and Education: The Cultural Exchange between Spain, Mexico,
and the United Kingdom, 1900-1940”
Byron D. Crites, UT-Austin
“Chavez and the Bolivarian Mission in Cienfuegos, Cuba: A ‘Third Period’ of Economic
Expansion”
Jose Vargas-Vila, Indiana University
“Insurmountable Limits: An Analysis of the Relationship between Microfinance
Programs and Informal Economies”
Julia Smith, Macalester College
Panel 17: Eco-Criticism, Ecotestimonio, and Environmentalism
Chair: John Stolle-McAllister
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“Ecuador’s Socio-Bosque/Socio-Páramo: Innovative Environmental Solutions or
Continued Extraction by Other Means?”
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John Stolle-McAllister, University of Maryland
“Violence and Ecology in Luis Felipe Lomeli’s Cuaderno de flores”
Paul L. Goldberg, Widener University
“The Greening of Testimonio in Gaspar Pedro González’s El trece b’aktun”
Louise A. Detwiler, Salisbury University
Break: 9:45-10:00AM
SESSION 6
10:00-11:45AM
Panel 18: The Changing Role of Religion in Latin America
Chair: Elizabeth Kiddy
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“Selling Miskito Protestantism: Miskito Moravianism as Alternative to Liberation
Theology in Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution”
Eric Meringer, SUNY Fredonia
“God and the Nation: Presbyterians, Politics and Social Change in Cuba, 1890-1933
James A. Baer, Northern Virginia Community College
“Religion and Politics in Rural Guatemala, 1950s-1960s”
Bonar Hernández, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
“Pilgrims and Scientists: Bom Jesus da Lapa through the Eyes of Scientists”
Elizabeth Kiddy, Albright College
Panel 19: The Search for Identity in Modernismo
Chair: Paul Orta
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Un reflejo de la problemática existencial atemporal mediante la alusión del sueño en
“Rip-Rip el desaparecido” de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
Ling Anny Fung-Wu, Pennsylvania State University
“Visual Commodification in Modern Cuban Painting”
Paul Orta, Independent Scholar
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Panel 20: Twentieth Century Latin American Literature
Chair: David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“El modo fantástico y la desaparición de las unidades clásicas en la obra de Cortázar”
Theresa Warner, Temple University
“Deconstruction and Latin American Literature”
John Incledon, Albright College
“De sirvienta a señora: Lo carnavalesco en Trescientos milliones de Roberto Arlt”
Brendan William Spinelli, Temple University
“I smell… a ghost! Olfactory Eidolons in the Fiction of William Faulkner and Gabriel
García Márquez”
David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa, Montclair State University
Panel 21: Argentinian Literature: From the gauchesca to the digital word.
Chair: Carlos Rodríguez McGill
Location: Lynch 182
Participants:
“WordToys: Belen Gache’s Digital Literature Collection from a Borgesian Perspective”
Perla Sassón Henry, United States Naval Academy
“El cuerpo del delito y los fragmentos de la nación moderna en los folletines gauchescos
de Eduardo Gutiérrez”
Carlos Rodríguez McGill, University of Michigan-Dearborn
LUNCH: 12:00-1:30 Lehr Dining Room, Allan W. Mund Student Center (#11 on
campus map)
SESSION 7
1:45-3:30PM
Panel 22: Political Activism and Populism in Latin America
Chair: Jeffrey D. Pugh
Location: Lynch 185
Participants:
“Bridging the Social and the Political through Alternative Visions of Development and
Peace: MINGA and Marcha Patriotics in Colombia”
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Patricia Rodriguez, Ithaca College
“Migrant Activism in Ecuador: Political Participation in the Context of Invisibility”
Jeffrey D. Pugh, Providence College
“Latin American Civil Society and Democratization: An Examination of the FMLN in El
Salvador and the EZLN in Mexico”
Ashley Ferrari (undergraduate) Lebanon Valley College
Panel 23: Drug Awareness and Public Health
Chair: Vera Blinn Reber
Location: Lynch 186
Participants:
“Tuberculosis in Global Perspective: Physician and Patient Experiences in Buenos Aires”
Vera Blinn Reber, Shippensburg University
“The United Nations Coca Commission and its Reception in Bolivia, 1949-1952”
Chris DeLorenzo, Georgetown University
“Actors, conflicts and income: The Cultivation of Cannabis in the Northeast of Brazil”
Paulo Cesar Pontes Fraga, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
“The War on Drugs: Pursuing a New Strategy”
Mckenzie Brannon, United States Naval Academy
Panel 24: Mass Movement: Exile, Migration, and Immigration
Chair: Gabriela McEvoy
Location: Lynch 190
Participants:
“Studies of Post-Exile in Latin America: Preliminary Findings”
Luis Roniger, Wake Forest University
“Representaciones irlandesas en las cartas del inmigrante”
Gabriela McEvoy, Lebanon Valley College
“Making the Mucurí: Business, Immigration, and Private State Building Initiatives in
Imperial Brazil”
Matthew M. Barton, University of Pennsylvania
“From Sharecroppers to Lancheros: Afro-Peruvians in Tambo de Mora, 1895-1932”
Roberto Sánchez, Gallaudet University
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