NECLAS
New England Council on
Latin American Studies
2010 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 6, 2010
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Registration: 8:30-9:30
Book Display: 9:00-5:30
9:30-11:00 a.m.
11:15-12:45
1:00-2:30 p.m.
2:45-4:15 p.m.
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Session #1
Session #2
Lunch & Awards
Session #3
Refreshments
Session # 1: 9:30-11:00
Panel 1-1 In Honor of Jane Rausch
Chair: Joshua M. Rosenthal - Western Connecticut State University
Mari Clark - Western Connecticut State University
“Histories of Colombia Education”
Rick Goulet - Lock Haven, University of Pennsylvania
“Onward & Upward: Jane Rausch at UMASS, Amherst”
Mary Roldan - Hunter, CUNY
“Frontier Pioneer: From the Llanos to Radio”
Joshua M. Rosenthal - Western Connecticut State University
“The Many Other Works of Jane Rausch”
Panel 1-2 Always Promising: Economic Development in Latin America
Chair: Kevin P. Gallagher - Boston University
Discussant: Nola Reinhardt- Smith College
Maria A. Cruz-Saco – Connecticut College
“The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Poverty Reduction Programs”
Timothy A. Wise – Tufts University
“Agricultural Dumping after NAFTA”
Fernando I. Leiva – University of Albany, SUNY
“Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post – Neoliberal
Development”
Eva Paus – Mount Holyoke College
“Can Latin America Escape from the Middle Income Trap? Lessons from
Transregional Comparison”
Kevin P. Gallagher- Boston University
“The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American
Industrialization”
Panel 1-3 Themes in Latin American Literature
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Chair: Gina Canepa - Providence College
Ezio Neyra – Brown University
“Narratives and Portraits of the Latin American Future: Construction of
Modernity from Paris in ‘Mundial Magazine’”
Lucia Diaz-Starr – Baltimore City Community College
“Transnational Secrets: Exile and Return in Valeria Sarmientos’ Film
‘Secretos’”
Gina Canepa- Providence College
“Shaping the New Mother-homeland in Berlin es un cuento by Esther Andradi”
Panel 1- 4 Conflicting Conceptions of Race in Brazil and the US
Chair & Discussant: Mary Ann Mahony – Central Connecticut State University
Kenneth Aslakson – Union College
“From Adelle to Plessy: Racial Identity in Nineteenth Century New Orleans”
Teresa Meade - Union College
“Legal Versus Human Rights: the U.S. and Latin American Migration”
Patricia De Santana Pinho – University at Albany, SUNY
“The African- American Tourist Gaze on Brazil”
Panel 1-5 Integrating Community- Based Learning into the Cultural Studies
Curriculum
Chair & Discussant: Margaret A. Post – College of Holy Cross
Rocio Fuentes- College of Holy Cross
“Challenging Cultural Models through Critical Pedagogy”
Bridget Franco – College of Holy Cross
“Learning Communities Inside and Outside the Classroom”
Cynthia L. Stone- College of Holly Cross
“Towards the Development of New Pedagogical Materials”
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Panel 1-6 Discourses, Memories, and Multiple Narratives (Roundtable)
Chair & Discussant: Carolina Zumaglini- Florida International University
William Demarest - Stony Brook University, SUNY
“The Colonial Roots of Human Rights Discourse”
Ying-Ying Chu - Stony Brook University, SUNY
“What Kind of Memory and Human Rights Should We Work On? Oral History
in 1980s, Bolivia”
Andrés Estefane - Stony Brook University, SUNY
“Monumentalizing Memory: A Reflection on Chile’s Museum of Memory and
Human Rights”
Session # 2: 11:15-12:45
Panel 2-1 “New Approaches Brazilian History”
Chair: James Green- Brown University
Discussant: Amy Chazkel – Queens College, CUNY
James Green- Brown University
“‘He loved Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band’; Rewriting the History of
the Brazilian Revolutionary Left in the 1960s and 70s”
Jared Rodriguez – Hunter College, CUNY
“Black on Both Sides: The Racial-regional Conundrum of Afro-Paulista
Participation in Brazil's 1932 Constitutionalist ‘Revolution’”
Marc Hertzman- Columbia University
“Musicians and the Making of a Brazilian Middle Class”
Joel Wolfe- UMASS, Amherst
“‘Cafezinho’: Agricultural Exports and Brazilian Spatial Development”
Panel 2-2 Violence and Its Legacies in Contemporary Latin America
Chair & Discussant: Kerry Bystrom- UCONN, Storrs
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Patricia Olney- Southern Connecticut State University
“Exploring the Tensions between Sovereignty and Human Rights in Mexico's
Security Crisis”
Brenda Werth- American University
“Metaphors of Mass Violence and the Politics of Place in Gabriel Peveroni's
Sarajevo esquina Montevideo (2003) and Griselda Cambaro's La persistencia
(2007)”
Anne Lambright – Trinity College
“Mapping Terror and Trauma: Recent Peruvian Fiction and Film”
Panel 2-3 Art, Politics and Human Rights in Contemporary Latin America
Chair: Robin Greeley – UCONN, Storrs
Ila Sheren – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“‘Domestic’ Violence: Tania Candiani's Battleground and the Re-envisioning of
Border Protection”
Silvia Berger – Smith College
“El arte de recordar: el Parque de la Memoria en Buenos Aires, Argentina”
Robin Greeley - UCONN, Storrs
“Aesthetics and the Problem of Memorializing State Terrorism: Alfredo Jaar's
Geometría de la Conciencia.
Panel 2-4 Bolivarian Venezuela: Current and Conflictive Issues (Roundtable)
Chair: Carlos Blanco – Boston University
Marco Cupolo – University of Hartford
“Venezuelan Misleading Ideas: Rentier State, Bolivarism, and Caudillismo”
Javier Corrales- Amherst College
“Venezuela's Foreign Policy: Achievements and Setbacks”
Carlos Blanco – Boston University
“Communal Power: Options and Limitations”
Panel 2-5 Human Rights in Argentina, Chile, Turkey, and Greece
Chair: William M. Schmidli – Bucknell University
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William M. Schmidli – Bucknell University
“Transnational Human Rights Advocacy & the Argentine Military
Dictatorship, 1976-1983”
Alejandro Avenburg – Boston University
“NGOs, Civilian Leaders and Carter's Human Rights Policy to Argentina,
(1976-1979)”
Oya Zeynep Yegen – Boston University
“Reforming Civil-Military Relation: Accommodation or Confrontation?”
Panel 2-6 Reproductive Rights/Women’s Bodies
Chair & Discussant: Marysa Navarro – Dartmouth College
Barbara Sutton- University at Albany, SUNY and
Elizabeth Borland – The College of New Jersey
“Framing Abortion Rights: Activist Strategies Over Two Decades of
Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres in Argentina”
Lynn M. Morgan- Mount Holyoke College
“Claiming Rosa Parks: Debates over Reproductive and Civil Rights in Latin
America”
Adrián Lerner Patrón – Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru
“The Public Sphere and the Sterilization of Poor Women in Fujimori's Peru
(1994-1998)”
Panel 2-7 Labor and Agrarian Reform Movements
Chair: Kaysha Corinealdi – Yale University
Kaysha Corinealdi – Yale University
“Labor and Community Rights as Human Rights: Black Panamanians, U.S.
Imperialism and the Politics of Migration”
Robert Alegre- University of New England
“Railroaded: The Demise of the Dissident Railway Movement in Cold War
Mexico”
Maria L. Achrock- New Mexico State University
“Velasco's Agrarian Reform, 1969-1975: Success or Failure”
Lunch and Awards Ceremony: 1:00 – 2:30
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Session # 3: 2:45-4:15
Panel 3-1 Brazil
Chair: Cristina Mehrtens – UMASS Dartmouth
Jayne E. Reino – UMASS, Amherst
“The Promises and Pitfalls of Social Progress and the Trials of Coming-of-age
in Paul Pompeia's O Ateneu”
Cristina Mehrtens – UMASS Dartmouth
“Beyond the Silent Ocean: Crafting Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century
Brazil”
Marc W. Herold – University of New Hampshire
“Consumer Society in the Baroque Pearl of the Jungle: Manaos, 1890-1912”
James P. Woodard – Montclair State University
“‘Generation Coca-Cola’: Intellectual Responses to ‘Americanization’ in
Postwar Brazil”
Panel 3-2 Outsiders Within: Language and Resistance among Discriminated
Communities in the Americas
Chair: Kitty Pelerin – University at Albany, SUNY
Raquel Sanmiguel – University at Albany, SUNY
“West Indians, Education, and the Idea of ‘Nation’”
Kitty Pelerin – University at Albany, SUNY
“An Entanglement of Charity and Anxiety: The Treatment and Representation
of Haitian Migrants in the Bahamas after the Earthquake”
Carla Santamaria- University at Albany, SUNY
“Pain in Exchange of Beauty: Protest and Resistance in the Poetry of Mariposa
Fernández”
Roundtable 3-3 Derechos humanos y modernización policial en Argentina
contemporánea
Chair: Juan Cruz Vazquez, Subdirector del Instituto Superior de Seguridad
Aeroportuaria (ISSA)
Néstor Lenani, Director del Instituto Superior de Seguridad Aeroportuaria (ISSA)
Julio Postiglioni, Director Nacional de la Policia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria
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José Luis Sersale, Director General de Seguridad Aeroportuaria Preventiva
Esteban Germán Montenegro, Asesor Institucional de la Dirección Nacional
Panel 3-4 Politics and Marginalized/Underrepresented Groups
Chair & Discussant: Peter Kingstone- UCONN, Storrs
Maria Fernanda Enriquez - UCONN, Storrs
“Presidential Breakdowns in Fragile Democracies: The Case of Ecuador”
Yazmin Garcia Trejo - UCONN, Storrs
“How gender differences in education explain the gender gap in political
knowledge, and why it matters for policy outcomes in Latin America?”
Matt Singer- UCONN, Storrs
“The Political Attitudes of Argentina's Informal Sector”
Panel 3-5 Who are we writing for? The Disciplinary and Intellectual Demands
of "Latin American History"
Chair: Joshua Rosenthal – Western Connecticut State University
Jordana Dym – Skidmore College
“Writing Independence from the Periphery”
José Angel Hernández – UMASS, Amherst
“Community Commitment in Chicana/o Studies: Potential Model, Individual
Efforts”
Rick Lopez- Amherst College
“Academic Writing and Intellectual Communities”
Edward Melillo – Amherst College
“The Environment, the Pacific, and Writing Latin America”
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Panel 3-6 Contested Heritage: UNESCO, The State, and Local Politics in Latin
American Cities
Chair: Walter Little- University at Albany, SUNY
John Collins- Queens College, CUNY
“The Bahian Archive of Everyday Life: Social Science, Bureaucracy, and the
Future of Brazilian History in a UNESCO World Heritage Site”
Mathew J. Hill – University of Pennsylvania
“World Heritage and the 'Mestizo' Nation: Race and the Historic Cityscape in
Late Socialist Cuba”
Walter Little – University at Albany, SUNY
“Living Heritage Values in Antigua, Guatemala, or How to Keep a City Looking
‘Colonial’ and Tourism Attractive”
Poster Session: Popular Music, Nationhood, and Globalization in the
Portuguese-Speaking World
Professor Malcolm McNee and Students from Portuguese 222 – Smith College
Refreshments (Sherry Hour)
4:30- 5:30
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