Saturday Panels
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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