Friday Panels

  1. Inter-American relations in the 20th Century/Relaciones Interamericanas en el Siglo XX

Salon: Veleros 3

Chair: Timothy Henderson, Auburn University at Montgomery

 

“Standard Oil or Monroe Doctrine, Which?”: Huey P. Long, the Chaco War, and U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 1930s

Mira Kohl, Tulane University

 

‘Taking Compass Points’: Situating African Diasporic Experience within Jazz, Dance and Literature in the Cold War Americas, 1950-1960

Rebecca Kennedy Lorenzini, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Operation Intercept and U.S.-Mexican Relations During the 1960s

Timothy Henderson, Auburn University at Montgomery

 

  1. Pedagogy: Linguistic, Literary and Theatrical Approaches / La Pedagogía: Aproximaciones Lingüísticas, Literarias y Teatrales

Salon: Laguito

Chair: L. J. Randolph, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

 

La creación literaria como escenario propicio para la lectura

Carol Adriana Santana Herrera, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

 

Literature for Transformation: Critical Cultural Competence and Social Justice through Guillén’s Motivos de son

L.J. Randolph, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

 

El tejido de las Oralituras

Dania Viverly Amaya Gómez, Gimnasio Moderno

 

  1. The Legacy of Transcultural Encounters in the Americas: Perspectives on Identity / El Legado de Encuentros Trans-culturales en las Americas: Perspectivas sobre Identidad

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Jane Rausch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

The problem of “notability” in two sixteenth century female figures: Anacaona 1464?-1503 and Saint Rose of Lima 1586-1616

Linda Henderson, Coastal Carolina University and Jim Henderson, Coastal Carolina University

Career Pattern of the Spanish Accountant Baltasar Pérez Bernal (1551/1556? – 1632)

Maurice P. Brungardt, Loyola University of New Orleans

 

Comment: Jane Rausch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

  1. Globalization, Multiculturalism and Higher Education / Globalización, Multi-culturalidad y Educación Superior

Salon: Lagomar 111

Chair: Alejandro Vélez, St. Mary’s University (Emeritus)

Analyzing Entrepreneurial Activity and Culture Within the Global Environment

Rolando Sánchez, University of Incarnate Word

Globalization and Internationalization in Higher Education: Perspectives of a Colombian-American Doctoral Student
Maria P. Cantú, University of Incarnate Word

Globalization of Cultures and Languages: A Review of the Literature

Alexandra Santamaria, University of Incarnate Word

5. The Influence and Legacies of the Cuban Revolution in Brazil, Colombia, and the United States / Las Influencias y Legados de la Revolución Cubana en Brazil, Colombia y los Estados Unidos

Salon: Lagomar 111

Salon: Agarena

Chair: Mary Roldan, Hunter College, City University of New York

The Gusano Counterrevolution in Cuba, 1959-1961

Jonathan C. Brown, University of Texas at Austin

Lessons From the Enemy’s House:Leonel Brizola, Brazilian Exiles in the United States, and the Military Coup
Mila Burns, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

From “Bandoleros” to “Barbudos”: Propoaganda and Counterinsurgency Mobilization in Colombia in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution
Mary Roldan, Hunter College, City University of New York

A Sierra Maestra in the Colombian Countryside: Colombia and the “Cuban question”

Susana Romero, Cornell University

6. Modes of Contact: Bodies, Intertexts and the Social Milieu / Modos de Contacto: Cuerpos,

Intertextos y el Entorno Social

Chair: Vinodh Venkatesh, Virginia Tech

Salon: Cartagena

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Between Rock and a Hard Place: Franz Galich’s Mariposas traicioneras

Vinodh Ventkatesh, Virginia Tech

Escaping the Past: Victimizing the Neoliberal Subject in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier

Kayla Watson, University of Maryland, College Park

Jesus in a Rented Car: Consumerism and Biblical Narrative in El leproso by Méndez Vides

Matthew Richey, University of Virginia

Sintomatología fenomenológica en la obra de Evelio Rosero

María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, Virginia Tech

Parody, Ritual and Counter Conquest in Felix Darío Mendoza’s La Hispaniola

José Manuel Batista, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

7. Space, Networks and Roadways in Colonial Guatemala / Espacio, conexiones y caminos en

Guatemala Colonial

Chair: Blake Pattridge, Babson College

Working the Roads of the Late Colonial Western Guatemalan Highlands

Alvis Dunn, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Salon: Fiesta

Fighting Napoleon in Totonicapán: A Case Study in Provincial Administration during the Imperial Crisis

Timothy Hawkins, Indiana State University

All in a Day’s Work? Mapping Native Workers’ Commutes in New Spain

Catherine Komisaruk, University of Texas at San Antonio

Mesoamerican Merchants and the Limits of Mapping

Laura Matthew, Marquette University

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