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37. K-12 Teacher Workshop: “Demystifying Haitian Vodou” Location: Wine Room Organizer: Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Moderator: Corin Zaragoza, Duke-UNC Consortium Presenter: Crystal Eddins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 38. Youth, Gender, and Class Subjectivities in Latin American Film and Fiction Location: Churchill Room Chair: Maya Socolovsky, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Caminos y barreras: la construcción de personajes femeninos en Niña errante Carlos de Oro, Southwestern University and Noelia Cigarroa-Cooke, Read more…

33. Round Table: ¡Celebra Latinx!: Celebrating Latinx Culture with a Spanish Reading Program Location: Wine Room Organizer: Mauricio Hernandez, Duke University Laura Andrade, Duke University Olivia Bond, Duke University Melody Gao, Duke University Discussant: Ofelia Lopez, Duke University 34. The Body and Violence in Latin American Latin American Literature and Film Location: Churchill Room Chair: Francisco Brignole, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Beyond the Peruvian armed conflict: neoliberal labor and migrant bodies in Julián Pérez’s Read more…

25. Art, Race, and Intersectionality in Early Modern Latin America and the Caribbean (1500-1800)–Part I Location: Wine Room Afro-Latin Art History: Identity, Representation, and Intersectionality Brisa Marie Smith Flores, University of California, Los Angeles Reading Inhumanity in the Casta Paintings of New Spain Aubrey Hobart, Savannah College of Art and Design Teaching Race in the Global Renaissance Using Local Art Collections Lisandra Estevez, Winston-Salem State University Discussant: Ilenia Colón Mendoza, University of Central Florida 26. Read more…

17. Digging Deeper: the History, Consequences, and Responses to Natural Resource Exploitation in Latin America Location: Wine Room Chair: Steven Hyland, Wingate University Natural resource exploitation in LATAM Camilo De Los Rios, Duke University Extractions: Eco-Media, Mining, and the Amazon Jessica Milhomem Doyle, Duke University Climate Adaptation in Latin America: A Systematic Review Gabriela Nagle Alverio, Duke University Discussant: Jonathan Peralta, Duke University/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 18. Studies in Latin American and Read more…

9. Round Table: Word Mingas Location: Wine Room Moderator: Miguel Rojas Sotelo, Duke University Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University Miguel Rocha Vivas, Universidad Javeriana 10. Literatura de autoría femenina en Latinoamérica y Caribe: intimidad, identidad, corporeidad y resistencia Location: Churchill Room Chair: Débora Maria Borba, Purdue University Intimidad y escritura epistolar como estrategia discursiva femenina y feminista en Ifigenia (1924), de Teresa de la Parra e Íntimas (1913), de Read more…