Saturday Panels

  1. Transcultural Approaches in Argentine and Brazilian Letters / Aproximaciones Transculturales en las Letras Argentinas y Brasileñas

Salon: Fiesta

Chair: Thomas Genova, University of Minnesota, Morris

 

– Las primeras regulaciones teatrales en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata
Mónica Botta, Washington and Lee University

– Legacies of Transcultural Encounters in the Americas: the Poetry of Oliverio Girondo
Patricio Rizzo-Vast, Northeastern Illinois University

– The Kafkaesque in Fernando Sorrentino
Mark W. Schuhl, Wingate University

– La civilización en Los sertones
Thomas Genova, University of Minnesota, Morris

 

  1. Chicha and Lemonade: Conversations and Representations of Gender in Colombian, Puerto Rican, Chilean and Venezuelan Cinema and Literature / Chicha y Limonada: Conversaciones y Representaciones de Género en Cine y Literatura de Colombia, Chile y Venezuela

Salon: Lagomar 111

Chair: Belkis Suárez, Mount Mercy University

 

– Cuerpo y género reflejo de la vulnerabilidad en el cine venezolano del siglo XXI
Belkis Suárez, Mount Mercy University

– La maternidad y el feminismo en los cuentos de Andrea Amosson
Amy Borja, University of Dallas

– Representación y entendimiento del manejo de sexo, género y placer en una novela colombiana
Marta Osorio, St. Joseph’s Academy

 

  1. Leading the change we need to see in our community: The How, Why, and Results of a Service Learning Program / Liderando el cambio que necesitamos ver en nuestra comunidad: El Cómo, Porqué y Resultados de un Programa de Aprendizaje de Servicio

Salon: Agarena

Chair: Nhora Gómez-Saxon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and South Mecklenburg High School

 

– Using Art to Create Change: Community Projects in Public Schools
Jane Dalton, UNC Charlotte

– Citizenship and Social Justice through Service Learning
Kim Buch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– The Design Behind a Service-Learning Course
Aura Lawson-Alonso, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– La comunidad: Building Bridges through Service-Learning
Nhora Gómez-Saxon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and South Mecklenburg High School

 

  1. 38. Journals and Journalism: A Transnational Space of Dialogue and Resistance / Revistas y Periodismo: Espacio Transnacional de Diálogo y Resistencia

Salon: Cartagena

Chair: James Wood, North Carolina A&T State University

 

– Herald of the Egalitarian Republic: New Perspectives on Francisco Bilbao
James Wood, North Carolina A&T State University

– Encuentro en España y su impacto en Cuba: análisis crítico de una revista
Elena Adell, University of North Carolina, Asheville

– Editorial Cuarto Propio: espacio decisivo para la incorporación y diffusion de otras miradas y nuevos lenguajes latinoamericanos
Nancy Tille-Victorica, Armstrong State University

– The Anarchist ‘Renascence’ of Mexico and Brazil: Artists and Intellectuals in the Anarchist Press of the Early Twentieth Century
Rosalía Romero, Duke University

– Revista Bohemia: Covering Latin America, 1946-1959
Richard Denis, University of Florida

 

  1. Memory and Violence: The Embodied Ramifications of ‘Past’ Civil Conflicts in the Present / Memoria y Violencia: Las ramificaciones personificadas de ‘Previos’ Conflictos Civiles en el presente

Salon: Laguito

Chair: Juanita Duque, University of Florida

 

– Cycles of displacement and the institutionalization of fear in Colombia’s Caribbean: mitigation strategies for the restoration of the social fabric
Juanita Duque, University of Florida

– New Perspectives for a Collaborative Community Archaeology in Colombia: Strengthening the Social Fabric through the Mitigation of Violent Pasts and the Re-Appropriation of Heritage Management
Jorge García, University of Florida

– The Loudest Silence that a Bullet Creates:  The Violent Silencing of Trade Unionist in Colombia
Karen Cardona, University of Florida

 

  1. Through Children’s Eyes: Identity and Nation / Mediante los Ojos de los Niños: Identidad y Nación

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Ann González, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

– Between Worlds: Who is Paco Yunque
Ann González, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– La transnacionalidad, la niñez y la nación en tres textos latinoamericanos
Regina Faunes, St. Edward’s University

– “Un soldado en cada niño te dio”: Vindicación de la guerra en un libro de lectura mexicano
Nelly Palafox López, Universidad Veracruzana

 

  1. Growing up in Central America: Moral Panics and the Politics of Youth from the Cold War to the Present Day / Creciendo en Centroamérica: Pánicos Morales y las Políticas de Juventud desde la Guerra Fría al presente

Salon: Veleros 3

Chair: Claudia Rueda, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

 

– “Están en pie de guerra” (They are the brink of war): After-affects among El Salvador’s post-postwar generation
Ellen Moodie, University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign

– Politics As Usual? Youth Mobilization and the Election of Nayib Bukele in San Salvador, El Salvador
Joseph Wiltberger, California State University, Northridge

– Criminology and the Construction of Juvenile Delinquents in El Salvador, 1940s and 1950s
Aldo Vladimir García Guevara, Worcester State University

– Students and the “Vultures of the North:” Anti-Americanism, Student Politics and U.S. Public Diplomacy in Cold War Era Nicaragua
Claudia Rueda, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

 

  1. Mexican Letters: Transcultural, Migratory, and Counter-hegemonic Discourses I / Letras Mexicanas: Discursos Transculturales, Migratorios y Contra-hegemónicos I

Salon: Laguito

Chair: Alejandro Cortazar, Louisiana State University

 

– El legado de la transculturación de los heroes en Netzula (1832) de José María Lacunza
Alejandro Cortazar, Louisiana State University

– Recuerdos y amor: Life Writing and Romanticism in 19th-century Mexico
William E. French, University of British Columbia

– Las aventuras de don Chipote y los orígenes de la novela mexicana de emigración: los emigrantes mexicanos en el suroeste de los Estado Unidos en los albores del siglo XX
Sergio M. Martínez, Texas State University

 

  1. Religion as Resource for Negotiating Marginality in Latin America / La religión como un recurso para negociar la marginalidad en Latinoamérica

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

– The Comparison of the Brazilian Pomba Gira and Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe: Femininity, Sexuality, and the Social Implications of Female Religious Icons in Contemporary Society
Mary Elizabeth Moore, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– Interpretaciones del Tradicionalismo católica mexicano opuesto al concilio Vaticano II: Entre la ideología y la religiosidad popular
Austreberto Martínez Villegas, Instituto Mora

– Negotiating Respect: Christian Identity Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean
Brendan Thornton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– Charismata and Hope: Reimaging Indigenous Catholicism in a Guatemala Parish
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– Liberation Theology and the Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador: A Comparative Analysis
Patricia López de Arcia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

  1. Race and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systems / Raza y castigo en los Sistemas Legales de Latinoamérica

Salon: Agarena

Chair: Ricardo Raul Salazar Rey, University of Connecticut

 

– Difficult Transitions: Spanish Slave Law and the Path to Freedom

Ricardo Raul Salazar Rey, University of Connecticut

– La Patria Peruana: Race, Honor, and Citizenship in Post-abolition Discourse and Law

Dan Cozart, University of New Mexico

– The Long Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic, 1500s-1970s

Victor Uribe, Florida International University

– Efectos socioculturales del uso del sofisma racial en el sistema jurídico de Brasil y Colombia
Christianne Silva Vasconcellos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

 

  1. Corruption, Governance, and Markets in Latin America and the Circum-Caribbean / Corrupción, Governanza, y Mercados en Latinoamérica y El Caribe circundante

Salon: Cartagena

Chair: Stephen Morris, Middle Tennessee State University

 

– Disasters, Violence, Crime, and Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region
Vincent Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College

– Variations on a Theme: Profiling Corruption in Mexico and the U.S.
Stephen Morris, Middle Tennessee State University

– Federalism and Transparency in Argentina
Charles Blake, James Madison University

– 30 Years Later: The 1986 World Cup and PRI’s Legitimacy During the “Lost Decade” in Mexico
Noe Pliego Campos, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

  1. 46. Indigenous Textualities / Textualidades Indígenas

Salon: Fiesta

Chair: Paul Worley, Western Carolina University

 

– “No es necesariamente escritura, pero sí podría llamar ts ‘tib”: Las textualidades mayas frente a la letra
Paul Worley, Western Carolina University

– Textualidades oralitegráficas: Una noción para la lectura de textos indígenas contemporáneos
Miguel Rocha Vivas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

– Poesía, imagen y negociación en Fredy Chikangana, poeta Yana
Félix Ceballos, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

– My Mother’s Mistakes: Inter-Generational Relationships in Contemporary Maya Narratives
Hannah Palmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

  1. The Challenges of Transitional Justice in Colombia / Los desafíos de la justicia transicional en Colombia

Salon: Veleros 3

Chair: Philip J. Williams, University of Florida

 

– Sentimientos de víctimas sobre la reconciliación con victimarios en la ciudad de Barranquilla
Diana Rico Revelo, Universidad del Norte

– Justicia transicional sin transición, el caso de la masacre de Nueva Venecia
Juan Pablo Sarmiento E., Universidad del Norte

– Crimen, ilegalidad y política en la Guajira colombiana.
Luís Fernando Trejos, Universidad del Norte

– El proceso de justicia transicional en Colombia: una perspectiva comparada
Philip J. Williams, University of Florida

 

 

  1. Duality, Hybridity, and Anxiety in Colonial Latin America / Dualidad, Híbridos, y Ansiedad en Latinoamérica Colonial

Salon: Lagomar 111

Chair: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

 

– Doubles, Emissaries, and Substitutes: Exploring Inca Duality
Ruth Anne Phillips, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

– Peyote as Metaphor for Cultural Hybridity in Colonial Mexico
Martin Nesvig, University of Miami

– Slave Conspiracies and Racial Anxiety in 17th Century Cartagena
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

 

  1. 49. Visualities: Indigeneity and Contemporaneity / Visualidades: Indigenidad y Contemporaneidad

Salon: Fiesta

Chair: Miguel Rocha-Vivas, Duke University

 

– Conexiones de Arte / Art Connections: Puentes de doble vía / Two Way Bridges.
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke University

– Construyendo un Cine Intercultural / Building Intercultural Cinema
Mauricio Andrada y Guillermo Talavera, Universidad Intercultural José María Morelos

 

  1. Mexican Letters: Transcultural, Migratory, and Counter-hegemonic Discourses II / Letras Mexicanas: Discursos Transculturales, Migratorios y Contra-hegemónicos II

Salon: Veleros 3

Chair: Efraín Barradas, University of Florida

 

– Alfonso Reyes en el contexto de la poesía mexicana
Efraín Barradas, University of Florida

– Andrés Iduarte y el legado autobiográfico en México
Ignacio Rodeño, The University of Alabama

– Entre migrantes y narcos: Hacia un discurso contrahegemónico en La fila india de Antonio Ortuño
Stacey Alba Skar Hawkins, Western Connecticut State University

 

  1. Sliding the Scale: Moving from the Local to the International in Latin American History / Deslizando la Escala: Movimiento de la Historia de Latinoamérica de Local a Internacional

Salon: Agarena

Chair: Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

 

– UFOs, Aliens, Astronauts, and Outer Space in Newspapers and Popular Culture of the long 1960s in the Brazilian Northeast
Courtney J. Campbell, Tougaloo College

– Public Health Crossings: Hookworm Eradication and the Making of National Cultures in Puerto Rico and Brazil
José Amador, Miami University

– Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s
Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University

 

  1. 52. Literary Environmentalism in Latin America / El Ambientalismo Literario en América Latina

Salon: Lagomar 111

Chair: Patricia Valladares-Ruiz, University of Cincinnati

 

– Ambientalismo e hibridez cultural en el Caribe distópico de La mucama de Omicunlé, de Rita Indiana

Patricia Valladares-Ruiz, University of Cincinnati

– Una mujer en la selva: Hernán Roberto y el ambientalismo literario
Maureen Shea, Tulane University

 

  1. War, Diplomacy and Society in the Twentieth-Century Latin America / Guerra, Diplomacia y Sociedad en Latinoamérica durante el Siglo XX

Salon: Laguito

Chair: Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas

 

– The Great War and Latin America: Political, Social, and Economic Implications of World War I in Mexico and Brazil, 1910 – 1920
Matthew Needham, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– Wartime Diplomacy in the Tropics: The OCIAA and Emergency Rehabilitation in El Oro, Ecuador
Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas

– Similar Goals, Different Fates: The P.R.M Regime in Mexico and the Estado Novo in Brazil  During and After World War II

Nick Ortiz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

  1. 54. Lo Afro-Latino: Race and Nation / Lo Afro-Latino: Raza y Nación

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Maria Luci de Biaji Moreira, College of Charleston

 

– Juan Montaño the Jazzman: A Critical Black Intervention in Ecuadorian Media
Javier Eduardo Pabón, St. Augustine’s University

– The Indigenous in the Eyes of “the Other”: Ancestral Legacies and New Tendencies in Brazilian Fiction
Maria Luci de Biaji Moreira, College of Charleston

– Making the Regional National: Baianas de Acarajé as Sites of Culture and Identity
Vanessa Castañeda, Tulane University

 

  1. Environmental Histories in Latin America / Historias Ambientales en Latinoamérica

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

– Polluted Paradise: Contradicting Interpretations of Land in Vieques, Puerto Rico, 2003-2014
Christina LeBlanc, Tulane University

– Talking about the Weather in Chiapas, Mexico: Desarrollo Rural in Context
Lara Lookabaugh, University of Florida

– Mining and Extraction in the History of Central American Development
Samantha Fox, Binghamton University

– Mangrove Ecosystems and the African Diaspora in Latin America
Judith Carney, University of California, Los Angeles

Comment: Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1. The Local and the Global in Colombia’s History / Lo Local y Lo Global en la Historia de Colombia

Salon: Fiesta

Chair: Francine Cronshaw, University of New Mexico

 

– Spanish-Native Relations in the 16th and Early 17th Century Gobernación of Popayán
Lauri Uusitalo, University of Tampere, Finland

– The National and the International:  The Expansion of Public Health and Social Assistance in Colombia,1918-1936
Hayley Froysland, Indiana University South Bend

– Elisée Reclus’ Colombian Adventure: Prelude to a Life of Political Engagement and Scholarly Production
Kent Mathewson, Louisiana State University

Comment: Francine Cronshaw, University of New Mexico

 

  1. Change from the Ground-Up: Organic and Subaltern Activism and Reform in Modern Latin America / Cambio desde la base: Activismo Orgánico y Subalterno y Reformas en Latinoamérica Moderna

Salon: Veleros 3

Chair: Nydia A. Martínez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Eastern Washington University

 

– Invasores: Land Invasions and Government Responses at the end of the Mexican ‘Miracle’
Joseph U. Lenti, Eastern Washington University

– A Tale of Symbiosis and Success: Cuban Vermiculture
Samantha de Abreu, Eastern Washington University

– Al Bordo del Desastre: Waste Disposal Crisis and Response in Contemporary Mexico City
Jennyfer Mesa Granada, Eastern Washington University

 

  1. Colombian Literary Expressions and Scope / Expresiones literarias colombianas y su alcance

Salon: Agarena

Chair: Rafael E. Hernández, Converse College

 

– Minimizing McOndo: Looking for García Márquez in Alberto Fuguet’s Cortos
Jeremy L. Cass, Furman University

– Aceleraciones discontinuas: Flujos y contraflujos disruptivos en la obra de Luis Tejada
Juan Cristóbal Castro Kerdel, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana

– El Piedracielismo colombiano en la narrative de Gabriel García Márquez
Rafael E. Hernández, Converse College

– La ciencia ficción en el caribe colombiano
Albio Martinéz Simanca, Universidad Javeriana

– Legible transmissions from Sutatenza: Voicing and Writing in Rural Colombia
Silvia M. Serrano, Duke University

 

  1. Transnational Dialogues and Cultural Citizenship in Brazil and Peru / Diálogos Trans-nacionales y Ciudadanía Cultural en Brazil y Peru

Salon: Cartagena

Chair: Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

 

– Diálogos transnacionales: el pensamiento francés y su papel en la construcción de la identidad nacional brasileña
Luis Fernando Tosta Barbato, Instituto Federal do Triángulo Mineiro

– Luso-Brazilian Republicanism, 1910 – 1922
Max Pendergraph, Vanderbilt University

– The Sounds of Cultural Citizenship in Brazil, 1970s-1990s
Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

– “Hybrid Spirituality and Transnational Subjectivities in Peru’s Sacred Valley”
Kerri Blumenthal, University of Florida

 

  1. Popular Politics in Latin America / Política Popular en Latinoamérica

Salon: Laguito

Chairs: Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University

 

– El Instituto Nacional de Panamá: Enlightenment, Liberation, and the Formation of Panamanian National Identity 1907-1964
Melanie G. Krob and Stephanie Enseñat Davis, Isidore Newman School

– Shadow of the Military: Panama’s Coup of 1968
Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University

– Saliendo de las Barracas: popular education and the formation of comunidades libres in Amazonian Bolivia
Kathryn Arnold Lehman, Indiana University

– Rural Conflict and the Development of Social Movements in Mexico and Brazil from the late 20th Century to the Present
Andrea Guzman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

  1. Popular Politics and Social Policy in Latin America / Política Popular y Política Social en Latinoamérica

Salon: Veleros 1

Chair: Jennifer Cantwell Wood, Family Nutrition of the Triad

 

– Women’s empowerment and Bolsa Familia in Recife, Brazil
Crisne Lebron, University of Florida

– Nutrition Transition in Latin America: the People vs. Big Food
Jennifer Cantwell Wood, Family Nutrition of the Triad

– Transnational Nutrition Projects and Local Politics in Guatemala, 1942-1954
Sarah Foss, Indiana University

 

  1. Legacies and Futures of Indigeneity in Latin America and the Caribbean / Legados y futuros de Indigenísmo en Latinoamérica y El Caribe

Salon: Lagomar 111

Chair: María L. Olin Muñoz, Susquehanna University

 

– Notions of honour of the Spanish conquistadors of the Aztec Empire
Kari Vesa-Matti, University of Jyväskylä

– The Father of My Son: Sex, Movement, and Indigeneity in the Colonization Zone
Tatiana Gumucio, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)

– Mexico and the Americas: Participatory Indigenismo in the late 20th Century
María L. Olin Muñoz, Susquehanna University

– Alternative Geographies in a time of dying Languages: The case of the Ngäbe of Panamá
Gines Alberto Sanchez Arias, Lousiana State University