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 Encefalograma

José Chávarry, College of Charleston

Abortion and Murder in the Works of Claudia Piñeiro

Katherine Ostrom, Emory University

La Llorona de Jayro Bustamante: justicia espectral y terror político

Luis H. Peña, Davidson College

Un secreto que pugna por salir. Cuerpo, amnesia y violencia política en Cambio de armas de Luisa Valenzuela

Francisco Brignole, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

35. The Inter-American System

Location: Mayfair Room

Chair: Steven Bunker, University of Alabama

The Once and Future of the Americas?: Comparing the Pan-American Conferences and the Summits of the Americas

Adam Ratzlaff, Florida International University

Salvador Allende before the Cold War: ideology, views, and policy

Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile

“This Nation’s Fourth Border”: The Caribbean Basin Initiative in Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants

Tina Shull, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Revisiting Asymmetrical Inter-American Relations: The CAFTA-DR FTA Countries

Vincent T Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College

36. Nation and its Discontents in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Production

Location: Parlor Room

Chair: Dulce María González de Estévez, Arizona State University

“¿Destino o decisión?”: Dialectical Images and Moments of Danger in Achy Obejas ¿Vinimos de Cuba para que anduvieras vestida así?

Kevin Anzzolin, Christopher Newport University

La autonomía literaria y la persistente anomia del llano en Juan Rulfo

Dulce María González de Estévez, Arizona State University

Exégesis para una identidad: repensando esa “colombianidad” nociva escrutada por William Ospina, Antonio Caballero y Fernando Vallejo

Alvaro Antonio Bernal, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Cultural Politics, Racism, and Othering Discourses. An Analysis of the Cuban State Response to Patria y Vida: A Hymn for a Movement

Darianna Videaux Capitel, Tulane University

Revisiting Representations of the Native in the Literature on the Centenary of Brazil Modern Week

Luci Moreira, College of Charleston