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Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am 3 // AGR013 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal C The Social History of South American Wine: Argentina and Uruguay Organizer : Steve Stein, University of Miami Chair(s) : Steve Stein, University of Miami Dynamic Forces in the Formation of the Argentine Wine Industry: Steve Stein, University of Miami La Vitivinicultura mendocina en 1930: Entre la miseria de la abundancia y los inicios frustrados de la reconversión productiva: Ana María Mateu, Univ Nal de Cuyo, ARGENTINA 4 // ART002 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie Critical Approaches to International Muralism Organizer : Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College Chair(s) : Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College Between Region and Nation: Negotiating Muralism in 1930s Pátzcuaro: Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College Murales Estridentes: Tatiana Flores, Florida State Univ The Ideologies of Mexican Muralism's Dissemination, 1924-1952: Robin Greeley, University of Connecticut Estrada Courts - East LA - Revisited: The Aesthetics of Visibility versus Legibility, or Whose Murals Art These?: Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Univ of New Mexico 5 // CSH011 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Ceiba "Never Again": State Repression in the 1970s Southern Cone and Its Sequels Organizer : J. Patrice McSherry, Long Island University Chair(s) : J. Patrice McSherry, Long Island University State Terror in Chile: The Long Quest for Justice: Nibaldo Galleguillos, McMaster University, CANADA Introducing the Issue of Torture into Latin American Human Rights Discourses: The Case of Brazil, 1969-1973: James Green, Brown University The Role of Uruguay in Operation Condor: J. Patrice McSherry, Long Island University The Long Road to Power: Uruguay's Left and the Struggle for Democracy: Martin Weinstein, William Paterson University Discussant(s) : Marta Cocco, King's College London, UNITED KINGDOM 6 // CUL051 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 5 Revoluciones latinoamericanas: entre autonomía y autoritarismo Organizer : Fernando Velasquez, University of Michigan Chair(s) : Ofelia Ros, University of Michigan Creación de sentido más allá del estado-nación: literatura y testimonio en el movimiento estudiantil del 68 y la rebelión zapatista: Manuel Chinchilla, University of Michigan Piqueteros y la figura del límite: revoluciones autonomistas y capturas retroliberales en el presente: Susana Draper, University of Southern California Las promesas de la revolución: Fernando Velasquez, University of Michigan Discussant(s) : Orlando Nelson Bentancor Trebino, University of Southern California 7 // CUL060 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal G Venezuela's Current Political Culture Organizer : Iraida Casique, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Chair(s) : Iraida Casique, Univ Simon Bolivar, VENEZUELA Actores Sociales y Representaciones Sociales de Política Social en Venezuela, 1999-2005: Thais Gutiérrez Briceño, Univ del Zulia, VENEZUELA Chávez: el mito de la comunidad total: Nelly Margarita Arenas Acosta, CEUDES UCV, VENEZUELA 8 // CUL061 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie Auscultando el pueblo Organizer : Alejandro Groppo, Catholic University of Cordoba, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Alejandro Groppo, Catholic University of Cordoba, ARGENTINA

People and Politics: A Post-structuralist Approach to Latin American Populism: Alejandro Groppo, Catholic University of Cordoba, ARGENTINA La ilusión óptica. Punto de Vista y el problema de la cultura popular: Mariano Lopez Seoane, NYU Simbolismo y ritual en la política Mexicana: Larissa Adler Lomnitz, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Republicanismo y democracia en el Uruguay: Javier Gallardo, Instituto de Ciencia Politica, URUGUAY 9 // DEM064 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 4 Federalism and Subnational Government Organizer : Alvaro López Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Chair(s) : Alvaro López Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Los efectos de la reelección en las unidades subnacionales: Las elecciones municipales de 2005 en Uruguay: Salvador Antonio Cardarello Iglesias, Univ de la Republica, URUGUAY Subnational Politics and Regime Change: A Theoretical Appraisal: Francisco Julián Durazo Herrmann, McGill University/Colegio San Luis, CANADA ¿Y la popularidad importa? Elecciones locales y evaluación de las autoridades en el México de la consolidación democrática (2000-2005): Nicolás Loza Otero, Fac Latinoamericana Ciencias Soc, MEXICO Explaining Subnational Authoritarianism in Latin American Democracies: Theory and Evidence from the Argentine Provinces: Carlos Gervasoni, University of Notre Dame Coaliciones y vetos en las legislaturas estatales de México: Alvaro López Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO 10 // ECO005 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo A Problemas del Desarrollo y la Inserción Internacional de Cuba Sponsor : Instituto de Estudios Cubanos (IEC) Organizer : Mauricio De Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, SPAIN Chair(s) : María Cristina Herrera, Instituto de Estudios Cubanos La empresariedad social y el desarrollo socioeconómico. Reflexiones de Cuba. Una colección de videos primera parte (Historia de un proyecto de investigación. Reflexiones autobiográficas): Maribel Aponte, University of Puerto Rico Monetary Dualism in Cuba: Causes and Consequences: Arne Kildegaard, Univ of Minnesota, Roberto Orro Fernandez, H. Calero and Assoc Los problemas de la inserción internacional de Cuba en las condiciones de la globalización: Mauricio De Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, SPAIN Dilemmas of Development in Small Countries: Exploring Cuba's Options in the Global Economy: Pedro Manuel Monreal González, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA The Cuban Tourism Sector; Performance and Challenges in the First Five Years of the 21st Century: Maria Dolores Espino, St. Thomas University La efectividad en la generación de divisas por el turismo: un análisis comparado entre Cuba y el Caribe: Gerardo González, Interamerican University 11 // EDU003 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Las Olas Role of Education in Zones of Conflict and Post-Conflict: Lessons and Experiences from Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Beyond Organizer : Virginia Bouvier, U.S. Institute of Peace Chair(s) : Virginia Bouvier, U.S. Institute of Peace Education, Violent Conflict and the Youth Challenge: Marc Sommers, Boston Univ Educating Youth in Zones of Conflict in Colombia: Ana Teresa Bernal, Redepaz, COLOMBIA Conflict resolution, curriculum development, and peace education in Haiti: Ketty Luzincourt, Cntre d'Etudes Diplomatiques/Inter, HAITI Educación para La paz en la posguerra en Guatemala: Marvin Sanchez, Catholic Relief services, GUATEMALA Discussant(s) : Angelika Rettberg, Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA, Roxanne Myers, US Insttitute of Peace 12 // EDU007 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo A La Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe de la Universidad de La Habana: una visión cubana de la cooperación académica. Sponsor : Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe

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WEDNESDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am Organizer : Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Chair(s) : Digna Castañeda Fuertes, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Peculiaridades de la evolución histórica del Caribe: Digna Castañeda Fuertes, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Importancia de la cooperación en la educación ambiental en el Caribe para la sostenibilidad de la educación caribeña: Gilberto Javier Cabrera Trimiño, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Características y perspectivas de la cooperación académica cubana para el desarrollo de la educación caribeña: Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA, Carmen Castillo Herrera, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA El Caribe desde afuera y de Cuba: Marc Blanchard, Univ of California/Davs Discussant(s) : José Seguinot Barbosa, Univ of Puerto Rico 13 // ENV002 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar A Environmental Justice In Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice Organizer : David Carruthers, San Diego State University Chair(s) : David Carruthers, San Diego State University Environmental Justice and the Politics of Energy on the U.S.-Mexico Border: David Carruthers, San Diego State University Exploring the Place of Race in Environmental Justice Research in Latin America: Juanita Sundberg, University of British Columbia, CANADA From the Guerra del Agua to the Guerra del Gas: Resource Governance, Neoliberalism and Popular Protest in Bolivia: Thomas Perreault, Syracuse University The Politics of Environmental Justice in Latin America: Sarah Moore, Univ of Arizona The Essence of Life: Who Controls the Water?: Stefanie Wickstrom, Green Mountain College Contesting the Monte: Struggles for Community Forestry in Mexico: Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois/Chicago Discussant(s) : Timmons Roberts, The College of William and Mary 14 // ENV006 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal E Water Reform and Decentralization in Brazil in Comparative Perspective Organizer : Maria Carmen Lemos, Univ of Michigan Chair(s) : Rebecca Abers, Núcleo de Pesquisa Polit Publicas, BRAZIL Water reform in Brazil in a comparative perspective: preliminary findings and trends: Rebecca Abers, Núcleo de Pesquisa Polit Publicas, BRAZIL, Rosa Maria Formiga Johnson, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Frank Beate, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, BRAZIL Stakeholder Councils and Public Policy in Latin America: Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins Univ The Effect of Municipal Level vs. Basin Level Governance on Participatory Management: The Case of Brazilian Health and Water Decentralization: Anna Gruben, Johns Hopkins University Water management and participation: when bottom-up starts from top-down: Vanessa Empinotti, Univ of Colorado Old Institutions and New Approaches to Sustainability: Creative Cooperation in Managing Waters of the Paraíba do Sul Basin: Lori Kumler, Univ of Michigan 15 // ENV014 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo B Environmental Justice: Disproportional Impacts of Environmental Degradation Organizer : Carmen Concepción Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Carmen Concepción Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico Comunidad Global de Práctica sobre el Enfoque de Ecosistemas en Salud Humana (CPE): Comunidades de América Latina y el Caribe: Graciela Gonzalez Olmedo, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Aging Women and Environmental Justice in Latin America: A Cross-National Study: Diane Bates, The College of New Jersey, Paulina Ruf, University of Tampa Luchas ambientales populares y la construccion de una perspectiva puertorriquena de justicia ambiental: Carmen Concepción Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico Despertando muertos y santificando espacios: La lucha por reclamar e higienizar a Vieques, Puerto Rico: Marie Cruz Soto, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor Análisis Preliminar sobre las Experiencias de Colaboración y Gestión Comunitaria en las Áreas Protegidas de Puerto Rico: Carmen Guerrero Perez, Iniciativa Desarrollo Sustentable

A Good Neighbor Policy? Ecotourism, Park Systems and Environmental Justice in Latin America: Michele Zebich-Knos, Kennesaw State Univ Discussant(s) : Cecilio Ortiz-Garcia, Univ of Texas of the Permian Basin 16 // EXC005 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical B Identidades mediatizadas: México y sus íconos Sponsor : University of California/ Irvine Organizer : Jill Robbins, University of California/Irvine Chair(s) : Jill Robbins, University of California/Irvine "Nocivo para la salud": globalización, mediatización y el rock en español: Analola Santana, Univ of California/Irvine El performance de la raza en "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself": Debra Faszer-McMahon, University of California/Irvine ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! Representación por el lente político: Carmen Serrano, University of California/Irvine Sub-versiones históricas en La Noche de Hernán Cortés de Vicente Leñero: Judith Villanueva, University of California/Irvine 17 // LAB006 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo C Más alla de la naturaleza económica de la maquiladora: un análisis multidimensional de cuatro décadas de maquiladora en México. Organizer : Cirila Quintero-Ramírez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MEXICO Chair(s) : Cirila Quintero-Ramírez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MEXICO Embedded Maquiladora Production in Yucatán, Mexico: the Strength of the Industrial District: Nathalie Gravel, Laval University, CANADA Organizaciones laborales en la maquila: de la reestructuración sindical a la solidaridad internacional: Cirila Quintero-Ramírez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MEXICO Balance y perspectivas del sector maquilador en México: Willy Cortez, Univ de Guadalajara, MEXICO Género y trabajo en la industria maquiladora: la trayectoria de cuatro décadas en México: Maria Eugenia De La O, CIESAS, MEXICO Maquila y salud: parámetros de comparación: Catalina Denman, El Colegio de Sonora, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Rocío Guadarrama Olivera, Univ Autónoma Mtrpl/Iztapalapa, MEXICO 18 // LAB007 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Boardroom 1 Cuban Anarchism: The Radical Left, Cultural Conflict and Identity, 1850-1925 Organizer : Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University Chair(s) : Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana, South Florida, and New York City, 1850s-1890s: Evan Daniel, New School for Social Research Un contexto oportuno: Bases para el crecimiento del anarquismo en Cuba (1902-1925): Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Universidad Jaume I / CSIC, SPAIN Anarchism and Countercultural Politics: A Radical Cubanía, 1898-1925: Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University Discussant(s) : Victoria Hattam, New School for Social Research 19 // LAT004 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 3 Diasporic Central American Visibility Through Creative Discourse Organizer : Maya Chinchilla, San Francisco State Univ Chair(s) : Maya Chinchilla, San Francisco State Univ Queering Central-American Diasporic Identity through Creating Space in the Arts: Anayvette Martinez, SFSU Trans/Coding Resistance: A SubVersion of La Siguanaba in Salvadoran Orality, Literature and Diasporic Poetry in the U.S.: Karina Oliva Alvarado, University of California/Berkeley Latino/a Salvadoran Discursive Murals: Ernesto Garay 20 // LCO005 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie New World Monsters: Difference, Crisis and the Teratogenic Divide Organizer : Persephone Braham, University of Delaware Chair(s) : Persephone Braham, University of Delaware Walking With Zombies: Mayra Montero's Haitian Inferno: Persephone Braham, University of Delaware Monsters in Recent Latin American Science Fiction: Andrea Byrum, Edgewood College

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WEDNESDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am Nineteenth-century Freak Shows and the Ancient Maya: P.T. Barnum and the Iximaya Hoax: Roxanne Davila, Brandeis University From Monsters to Warriors: The Democratization of Transgenderism: Patricia Gherovici, Philadelphia Lacan Study Group The Detective and His Monsters in La Pesquisa by Juan José Saer: Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, Univ of Delaware 21 // LCO017 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal D Humor y crítica sociopolítica en la narrativa femenina contemporánea Organizer : Victoria Garcia-Serrano, University of Pennsylvania Chair(s) : Guadalupe Cortina, Univ of Texas/ Pan American Lorca y Bombal: Conexiones transatlánticas entre La última niebla y La casa de Bernarda Alba: Maria Hernandez Ojeda, Hunter College/CUNY Giving One’s Life: Mother and Daughter in Zoe Valdes’s Te di la vida entera: Gabriella Ibieta, Drexel University Costa Rican Feminine Poets: An Historical Perspective: Charles Kargleder, Spring Hill College Las escritoras cubanas y el sentido del humor: antes y después de los 90: Victoria Garcia-Serrano, University of Pennsylvania El humor como estrategia subversiva en Loving Pedro Infante de Denise Chávez: Maria Alicia Garza, Boise State University Humoreando la Frontera: de melodramas, trafiques y otras cosas…: Guadalupe Cortina, Univ of Texas/ Pan American Discussant(s) : Maria del Mar Lopez Cabrales, Colorado State University 22 // LIA032 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie Del lápiz al medio digital. Expresiones de lo subalterno y lo local Organizer : Angelica Huizar, Old Dominion University Chair(s) : Angelica Huizar, Old Dominion University Metáforas de crimen: Álvaro Mutis y José Revueltas en la prisión de Lecumberri: Eduardo Guizar, Michigan State University Laboratorio panóptico: La cárcel de mujeres de María Carolina Geel, microcosmos subalterno: Angelica Huizar, Old Dominion University El trasfondo social de Y tu mamá también: Mavel Velasco, Virginia Wesleyan University Nortec Techno: (Re)imagining the margins: Andrew Gordus, Hampton University Discussant(s) : Regina Root, College of William and Mary 23 // LIA068 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie Emergencias urbanas Organizer : Charles Walker, University of California/Davis Chair(s) : Amy Henson Badovinac, Univ of Califonira/Davis El cuerpo de Eros: Dislocación, desmembramiento, animales y la poética modernista de escritoras latinoamericanas: Amy Henson Badovinac, Univ of Califonira/Davis Rutas prohibidas: el tránsito de los márgenes en el centro: Claudia Darrigrandi, Univ of California/Davis Una relación contradictoria: decencia y control social en Lima durante el siglo XIX: Pablo Whipple, Univ of California/Davis Representación de escenas forenses a finales de los siglos XIX y XX: Maria Gabriela Muñiz, Univ of California/Davis Discussant(s) : Ana Peluffo, Univ of California/Davis 24 // MAS010 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal A Media, Politics and Policy Organizer : Amy Lutz, Syracuse University Chair(s) : Amy Lutz, Syracuse University Cuba.cu. Cuba en Internet. La política y la práctica de los usuarios: Una relación de amor-odio: Iris Cepero, Univ of Westminster/London, SPAIN Political and Economic News During the Argentine Crisis of 2000-2002: An Agenda-Setting Analysis of Major Newspaper Coverage: Mariana Eberle-Blaylock, Univ of South Florida The Canary in the Coal Mine: Do journalists and the media lead activists during democratization in Brazil?: Elizabeth Stein, UCLA A Narrative Discourse Analysis of International Newspaper Coverage of the Pinochet Extradition Trial: Amy Lutz, Syracuse University Days of Decision: A Framing Theory of Public Opposition to the Use of Force Abroad: Hector Perla, Ohio University Prensa rosa: El conflicto entre la libertad de expresión y la vida privada de las figuras públicas: Ivette Soto, Univ of Malaga / Spain

25 // MCB003 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo C Transnational Parenthood: Latino Familial Strategies in Maintaining Parenthood Beyond Borders Organizer : Juan Bustamante, Michigan State Univ Chair(s) : Juan Bustamante, Michigan State Univ Relaciones familiares en el proceso migratorio: Consuelo Martin Fernández, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Caleñas and Pliable Bodies: Mobility through Beauty and Marriage: Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California/Sta Cruz Immigration Policy, Guest Worker Systems, and Transnational Fatherhood: The Case of Mexican Sojourners in Mid-Michigan: Juan Bustamante, Michigan State Univ Madres y Padres a larga distancia: Salvadoran Transnational Parenthood: Jessica Xiomara Garcia, University of Connecticut Los Niños Necesitan Ropa: A Transnational Analysis of the Use of Children as a Strategy in Maintaining Families: Carlos Aleman Torres, Michigan State Univ 26 // POL010 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal F Legislative Behavior and Public Policy in Mexico. 1990-2004 period Organizer : Adrián Gimate-Welsh, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Chair(s) : Adrián Gimate-Welsh, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Comportamiento legislativo. Iniciativa de Ley de ingresos de la federación. Año 2003. Mirada desde la representación: Adrián Gimate-Welsh, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Análisis de la política educativa en las Legislaturas LVIII y LIX: Regina Jiménez Otalengo, UNAM, MEXICO México. La representación política cuestionada: Ricardo Espinoza Toledo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Representación y reforma fiscal: Maria del Carmen Solorzano, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Cambio Institucional: Luisa Bejar, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Inercias y cambios institucionales en materia de desarrollo social en México: Balance sobre su evolución: Karla Valverde Viesca, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO 27 // POL012 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Salón del Mar B New Rules, New Players: Post-Reform Politics in Argentina and Brazil Organizer : Diana Kapiszewski, University of California/Berkeley Chair(s) : Shannon O'Neil, Harvard Univ Institutional Struggles: The political economy of dollarisation versus pesification during the Argentine crisis of 2001-2: Sebastian Dellepiane Avellaneda, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM Representative Regulators?: Pension policymaking after privatization: Shannon O'Neil, Harvard Univ Distributing the Costs of Stability and Reform: Macroeconomic Policy and Constitutionalism in Brazil, 1985-2004: Diana Kapiszewski, University of California/Berkeley Citizens or Consumers?: Redistributive Politics under Water Privatization in Argentina: Alison Post, Harvard Univ Discussant(s) : Matthew Taylor, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL 28 // PST012 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 9 Theatre and Resistance Organizer : Priscilla Melendez, Pennsylvania State University Chair(s) : Priscilla Melendez, Pennsylvania State University Virgilio Piñera, una poética en performance: Rita Martin, Davidson College La escritura sacra y la secreta oralidad en En el nombre de Dios de Sabina Berman: Priscilla Melendez, Pennsylvania State University Performance as Intercultural Ecology: Matthew Barney and Arto Lindsay’s Carnival Collaboration: Mitali Routh, Duke University Identidad y memoria: temas recurrentes en el teatro y el cine argentino: Patricia Sicouly, University of Maryland 29 // REC017 Breakfast Meeting Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 8 Fundraising Committee Meeting - Part I Sponsor : LASA Organizer : Marysa Navarro Aranguren, Dartmouth College

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WEDNESDAY / 8:00 – 9:45 am 30 // RRR005 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 7 Explorations of Yellowness and Brownness in the Caribbean and the U.S. Organizer : Edith Chen, California State Univ/Northridge Chair(s) : Edith Chen, California State Univ/Northridge Chinese Dominicans: An Exploration of ethnic and racial identity: Edith Chen, California State Univ/Northridge Fernando Fortunato Vizcarrondo’s “¿Tu aguela A’onde Ejtá?”: Hypocrisy, Humanity and the Performance of Race in Puerto Rico: Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, California State Univ/Northridge "Ganbateando": A History of the Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles: Ryan Yokota, Univ of Chicago Discussant(s) : Gary Okihiro, Columbia Univ 31 // RRR006 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamingo D Estudios recientes sobre relaciones raciales en Cuba Organizer : Rodrigo Espina Prieto, Centro de Antropologia, CUBA Chair(s) : Rodrigo Espina Prieto, Centro de Antropologia, CUBA El prejuicio racial en Cuba: Un estudio en los escenarios familiar y escolar: Rodrigo Espina Prieto, Centro de Antropologia, CUBA Algunas reflexiones sobre las relaciones raciales en Cuba: Niurka Núñez González, Centro de Antropologia, CUBA Configuración de las desigualdades raciales en la crisis y la reforma económica de los noventa. Un estudio en el escenario laboral: Pablo Rodríguez Ruiz, Centro de Antropolgia, CUBA Movilidad social y raza en la reestructuración económica en Cuba: Lázara Yolanda Carrazana Fuentes, Centro de Antropología/Cuba, CUBA Discussant(s) : María del Carmen Zabala, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA 32 // RRR007 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Cristóbal B Blackness in New York and the Caribbean Organizer : Eileen Findlay, American University Chair(s) : Eileen Findlay, American University The Life and Times of Gonzalo Cabasa and the Continuation of the Antillean Revolutionary Alliance: Harry Franqui Rivera, Univ of Massachusetts/Amherst Daring to be Black: Ismael Rivera's life and Racial Consciousness: Rosa Carrasquillo, Assumption College "What are We Anyway, Blacks?": Nuyorican Returnees' Memories of Race and Exclusion in New York and Puerto Rico, 1960-2000: Eileen Findlay, American University Dancing for Development: The Uses of Danse Folkorique Haitienne: Millery Polyné, University of Rochester Colonial Identity Theft: Black Puerto Rican Women as Ambassadors of Cultural Otherness: Maritza Quiñones-Rivera, Univ of Illinois/UrbanaChampaign Discussant(s) : Frank Guridy, University of Texas/Austin 33 // RRR008 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 10 Indigenous and Afro-Latin American Peoples, Military Conflicts and Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Latin America Organizer : René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University Chair(s) : René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University Cross fire, Cactus and Racial Constructions: Indigenous People and the Chaco War of 1932-1935: René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University Modernidad, mito y significado en la creación del Cono Sur y los Estados Andinos: Amado Lascar, Ohio University Formación de identidades colectivas y momentos constitutivos de la memoria nacional en Bolivia: La guerra del Chaco y la crisis de Octubre de 2003: Karin Monasterios Pérez, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, BOLIVIA The Rise and Fall of Maya Warlords in 19th-Century Yucatán, Mexico: Wolfgang Gabbert, Universitat Hannover, GERMANY Discussant(s) : Jeffrey Gould, Indiana University 34 // RRR020 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical C Black Marginality and the Struggle for Agency Organizer : Marta Rangel Batista, CEPAL, CHILE Chair(s) : Marta Rangel Batista, CEPAL, CHILE Formas y orientaciones del cimarronaje negro en el Caribe (c. 1790-1830): Martin Lienhard, Universität Zurich, SWITZERLAND Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Twentieth Century Panamanian “Blackness”, Identity and Belonging: Renée Alexander, Univ of North Carolina / Chapel Hi

The Frivolous, the Frowned Upon, and the Forbidden: The Figuration of Musical Spaces in Chambacú, Corral de Negros, and Adire y el Tiempo Roto: Felice Blake Kleiven, Univ of California/ Santa Cruz Afro-Latinos in Latin America and U.S. Policy: Clare Ribando, Congressional Research Service 35 // RRS011 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Conference 6 Religion and the Meanings of Motherhood Organizer : Maria das Dores Machado, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Maria das Dores Machado, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Gender Representations and Relations Among Pentecostal Groups: Maria das Dores Machado, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Latina Grandmothers: Spiritual Bridges to Ancestral Lands: Gisela Norat, Agnes Scott College Private Sentiments and Public Gatherings of Faith: The Veneration of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. Report of Work in Progress: Mirtha Quintanales, New Jersey City University Religion and Child Mortality in Brazil: Charles Wood, University of Florida 36 // SEC025 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Flamboyan Educación y Trabajo en América Latina: Teoría, política, acción y alternativa. Sponsor : Educación y Política Section Organizer : Graciela Riquelme, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : María Teresa Sirvent, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Vocational training programmes and disadvantaged youth in Latin America: a balance of approaches and strategies in the last decade: Claudia Gabriela Jacinto, CONICET, ARGENTINA Discussant(s) : Gaudencio Frigotto, Univ Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, Graciela Riquelme, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 37 // SEC066 Panel Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am San Gerónimo B Local Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Historical Findings 1 Justicia Local Colonial en América Latina, siglos XVI-XVIII Sponsor : Law, Jurisprudence and Society Section Organizer : Renzo Honores, Florida International University, PERU Chair(s) : Carmen Alveal, Johns Hopkins University Difficulties of Legal Implementation of Sesmarias in Colonial Brazil: The Gap Between Practice and Law: Carmen Alveal, Johns Hopkins University Justicia local y práctica del Derecho. Una mirada desde la justicia letrada y la justicia legal: Viviana Kluger, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Prosecuting Revolutions: 18th Century Civil Suits in the Spanish Empire: Bianca Premo, Emory University Pleytos, letrados y cultura legal popular en Trujillo y Huamanga, 1540-1640: Renzo Honores, Florida International University, PERU Justicia y conflictividad social en la mixteca alta (siglos XVII-XVIII): Susana García León, Universidad Complutenese de Madrid, SPAIN La administración de justicia inferior en la ciudad de México a finales del siglo XVIII. Dos “delitos de lujuria”: la violación y el estupro: José Sánchez-Arcilla Bernal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Discussant(s) : Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, IESA, VENEZUELA 38 // TEC004 Workshop Wednesday 8:00 - 9:45 am Tropical A Research and Scholarly Communication in Latin American Studies Organizer : Pamela Graham, Columbia University Chair(s) : Pamela Graham, Columbia University *: Pamela Graham, Columbia University *: Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Univ of San Francisco *: Daniel Mato, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA *: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University *: Claude Potts, Arizona State Univ, Orchid Mazurkiewicz, Univ of California/Los Angeles

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Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am 39 // CIT016 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo D Delinquents, Prisons, Walls, and "Private Spaces": Urban Latin America Organizer : Lorraine Leu, Univ of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Chair(s) : Lorraine Leu, Univ of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Golden Ghettoes: Gated Communities and Class Residential Segregation in Montevideo, Uruguay: Maria José Alvarez, Univ of Pittsburgh, URUGUAY Held in the Balance: Labour and Spatial Rights in Informal Caracas: María Fernanda García Rincón, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM Urban (In)Security in São Paulo: Mentally Mapping Morumbi: Xelaju Korda, Tulane University The Privatization of the Public: Urban "Renewal" in Managua, Nicaragua: Patrick Scallen, Georgetown University Delinquency, Representation & Remembrance in Rio de Janeiro: Lorraine Leu, Univ of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM 40 // ECO003 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo A Globalization and Regional Integration in North America and the Caribbean Organizer : Robert Blecker, American Univ Chair(s) : Robert Blecker, American Univ Exports, Foreign Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico: A Convergence Analysis: Jorge Mendoza, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte The Conflict between Macroeconomic Stabilization and Export-Led growth in Mexican Economic Policy: Robert Blecker, American Univ Globalización y desarrollo económico en México: Jaime Ros, University of Notre Dame Analizing the Competitiveness of Mexican Exports: Kevin Gallagher, Boston Univ, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, United Nations, MEXICO Debt, Finance and Growth: The Case of the Caribbean Economies: Esteban Pérez, United Nations, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Trade and Employment in Mexico in the NAFTA Period and Perspectives on a Tariff Union in North America: Pablo Ruiz-Napoles, FLACSO, MEXICO 41 // EDU008 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Las Olas Education and the Culture of Peace: Perspectives, Paradigms and Paradoxes Organizer : Skye Stephenson, School for International Training Chair(s) : Skye Stephenson, School for International Training International Education in Latin America: Promoting Cross-Cultural Deepening to What End?: Skye Stephenson, School for International Training Educar para la tolerancia: estudiantes norteamericanos en Cuba: Beatriz Díaz, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Educación y Desmilitarización: Palabras Introductorias: Anita Yudkin, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras CHANGING CULTURES/EXCHANGING CULTURES: TOWARDS A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE: William Calhoun, SIT, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Rebecca Hovey, School for International Training 42 // ENV010 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 2 Normandie El reto de la formación ambiental en las universidades Organizer : Leslie Yáñez-González, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Chair(s) : Cristina Díaz López, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Bases para la elaboración de una estrategia ambiental en la Universidad de La Habana: Cristina Díaz López, Univ de La Habana, CUBA La dimensión ambiental en las carreras de ciencias naturales: Leslie YáñezGonzález, Univ de La Habana, CUBA La labor extensionista universitaria en la formación ambiental: Orlando Torres Fundora, Univ de La Habana, CUBA La enseñanza de las políticas ambientales globales: implicaciones para el Caribe: José Seguinot Barbosa, Univ of Puerto Rico Las percepciones ambientales. Una mirada desde la Sociología: Lilia Teresa Núñez Moreno, CIPS, CUBA Discussant(s) : Gilberto Javier Cabrera Trimiño, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA

43 // EXC007 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal D U.S. Latino Music Organizer : Jairo Moreno, New York Univ Chair(s) : Jairo Moreno, New York Univ Performing Cultural Memory: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Music and Dance in the Diaspora: Melanie Maldonado, Northwestern Univ Dances of/for Transformation: The CICRE Bombazo Project and the Bombazo Movement in Puerto Rico and the United States: Halbert Barton, Long Island University Puerto Rican Musical Expression: Defining Identity and Building Community and Bridges in Chicago: Nashma Carrera-Massari, Michigan State University “Authenticity” in the Contemporary Salsa Dance Industry: Juliet McMains, University of Central Florida 44 // HSS006 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 2 Normandie The Cultural Politics of Health and Healing in the Neo-liberal Andes Organizer : Maria Tapias, Grinnell College Chair(s) : Jason Pribilsky, Whitman College The Discourse of "Interculturalidad" and Health Policy in the RAAN of Nicaragua: Edgardo Ruiz, University of Pittsburgh Jambi Wasi: Contested Notions of Spiritual Potency and Legal Recognition in Neoliberal Ecuador: Jason Pribilsky, Whitman College Where There Are No Doctors: Doctors' strikes, austerity and community health in Salasaca, Ecuador: Catherine Timura, Yale University IVF for Every Body. The Expansion of Privatized Medicine in Neo-Liberal Ecuador: Elizabeth Roberts, Univ of California/Berkeley "No Effective Medicine": Pentecostal Conversion and the Quest for Healing in Neoliberal Bolivia: Jill Wightman, Bowdoin College The Elderly, their Caregivers, and Rural Health Care in Bolivia: Christine Hippert, University of Pittsburgh Discussant(s) : Ann Miles, Western Michigan Univ 45 // LAB004 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal E Cross-National Convergence/Divergence in Social Protection and Labor Regulation: National Legacies and Impacts of Globalization and Regionalization Organizer : Scott Martin, Columbia University Chair(s) : Scott Martin, Columbia University International Trends in Labor Standards: Where Does Mercosur Fit in?: Miguel Federico Lengyel, FLACSO, ARGENTINA Relações Trabalhistas, Responsabilidade Social e Pressões dos "Stakeholders": O Caso BASF no Mercosul e no NAFTA: João Paulo Veiga, Center for International Stds, BRAZIL Financing Social Security under Globalisation : The Case of Mercosur and NAFTA: Sylvain Turcotte, Université du Quebec/Montréal, CANADA Discussant(s) : Ilan Bizberg, El Colegio de Mexico, MEXICO 46 // LAB008 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal A Sindicalismo y nuevos desafíos en América Latina Organizer : Waldemiro Vélez, Univ of Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Waldemiro Vélez, Univ of Puerto Rico The Effects of Trade Reform on Brazilian Manufacturing: Monica Arruda de Almeida, University of California Labor Market Flexibility in Mexico: Building a New Labor Culture: Michal Kohout, Cal State University/San Bernadino La sindicación de los docentes de la Universidad de Puerto Rico: Hacia un nuevo sindicalismo latinoamericano: Waldemiro Vélez, Univ of Puerto Rico 47 // LAB014 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal F Participación y redes sociales Organizer : Sutti Ortiz, Boston University Chair(s) : Sutti Ortiz, Boston University Legislating Hunger and Misery: An Examination of the Political Consequences in Chile of the White-Collar Strike of 1950: Jordan Stanton, University of California/Irvine Redes sociales y empleo: la capacidad del capital social para reducir la incertidumbre laboral: Fiorella Mancini, UNAM, MEXICO The Challenges for Labor Rights in the post-MFA Central America Maquila Sector: Elena Arengo, Social Accountability Int'l

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WEDNESDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am Declining Fortunes? The Mexican Middle Class Since the 1980s: Dennis Gilbert, Hamilton College The Export of Fresh Fruit: Quality Standards Demands and Labor Contractors: Sutti Ortiz, Boston University Change, Power and Collective Bargaining in Chile: Indira Palacios, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill 48 // LAW004 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo B Local Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Historical Findings 2 Justicia Local en América Latina - Siglos XIX y XX Organizer : Juan Manuel Palacio, Universidad de San Martin, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Juan Manuel Palacio, Universidad de San Martin, ARGENTINA National Laws and Local Customs in the Daily Life of Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires: Jeffrey Shumway, Brigham Young University “Among us, the correctional punishment of our slaves…is a necessary custom”: 19th Century Brazilian Law and the Local Limits of Slaveholder Authority: Katherine Holt, College of Wooster Abigeato y economía en la Provincia de Concepción (Chile), 1820-1850: Mauricio Rojas, Univ del Bio-Bio, CHILE Discussant(s) : Ricardo Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, ARGENTINA 49 // LCN015 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 4 The Trans-Atlantic Baroque: Naufrages, Cannibals, Humanists, and Evil Beings Organizer : Beatriz Rodriguez Balanta, Duke Univ Chair(s) : Juan Luis Suarez, Univ of Western Ontario, CANADA Tecnologías del humanismo en América: Juan Luis Suarez, Univ of Western Ontario, CANADA El Inca Garcilaso: hacia una conversación atlántica: Francisco LopezMartin, Duke University Infortunios y naufragios en el caribe hispánico: el relato de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo: Domingo Ledezma, Wheaton College / Massachussetts Memoria, novedad y el sujeto transatlántico en las crónicas de Indias: Rafael Montano, University of Western Ontario, CANADA Imperialism, Cannibalism and the Unthought Known: Margaret Greer, Duke Univ Discussant(s) : Beatriz Rodriguez Balanta, Duke Univ 50 // LIA071 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 3 Normandie Políticas del neobarroco Organizer : Julio Ramos, Univ of California/Berkeley Chair(s) : Arturo Davila, Laney College El neobarroco sin lágrimas: Góngora, Mallarme y Alfonso Reyes: Arturo Davila, Laney College Pestes, tumores y muertes literarias: del neobarroco a la extenuación: Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, University of Arkansas Sobrevivir el apocalipsis: la epistemología del tiempo en la Virgen del Rosario y su pueblo filipino: John Blanco, Univ of California/San Diego Acoustics of the Neobaroque: S. Munia Bhaumik, Univ of California/Berkeley The Politics of Style in Pedro Lemebel’s crónicas: J. Humberto Cruz, Univ of California/Berkeley Discussant(s) : John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh 51 // MCB007 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar A Cultural Citizenship, Borders, Diasporas, and Transnational Identities in the Americas Sponsor : Doctoral Program Border Studies / Univ of Arizona Organizer : Javier Durán, University of Arizona Chair(s) : Araceli Masterson, Univ of Arizona Gendered Constructions of Ecuador-Spain migration: Nation, Citizen and Immigrant: Araceli Masterson, Univ of Arizona Agencia, localización y negociación de la identidad del sujeto transnacional: Claudia Salgado de la Rosa, Univ of Arizona Mexicanidad y regionalismo en la frontera Mexico-E.U.: Anabel Galindo, Univ of Arizona Discussant(s) : Laura Gutiérrez, University of Arizona 52 // MCB021 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Salón del Mar B La política fronteriza y migratoria de Estados Unidos Organizer : Patrisia Macías Rojas, University of California/Berkeley

Chair(s) : Patrisia Macías Rojas, University of California/Berkeley Where's the U.S. Border? Portraits of an Elastic Frontier: Michael Flynn, Graduate Inst for Intl Studies Latinos en Estados Unidos y Política Exterior: Identidad,Nacionalismo y Fronteras Culturales: Jorge Hernández-Martínez, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Criminalizing the Border: Regulating Migration and Post-national Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Patrisia Macías Rojas, University of California/Berkeley 53 // MTG048 Breakfast Meeting Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 8 Fundraising Committee Meeting - Part II Sponsor : LASA Organizer : Marysa Navarro Aranguren, Dartmouth College 54 // PST005 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver West 1 Normandie Performing Humanity in an Age of Terror Organizer : Henry Morello, Penn State University Chair(s) : Henry Morello, Penn State University El arte de reescribir y escapar la dictadura: Donoso y Lemebel: A. Alejandro Bernal, University of South Carolina “Música del enemigo”: Rap en la Diáspora y una Nueva Revolución Cubana: Sara Maria Rivas, Georgetown College Torture, Exile, Inflation, Love, Rock ’n Roll, and Other Stories of Everyday Life in the Argentine Proceso: Timothy Wilson, University of Alaska/ Fairbanks Creating Freedom Behind Bars: Argentine Female Political Prisoners and the Arts, 1976-1983: Margaret Crahan, CUNY/Hunter Bearing Witness: Political Testimony in Strange Things Happen Here, La casa y el viento and El árbol de la gitana: Carolina Rocha, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Discussant(s) : Sophia McClennen, Pennsylvania State Univ 55 // RRR002 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal G Testing Boundaries: Chinese in México, at Borders, and Beyond Organizer : Kif Augustine Adams, J. Reuben Clark Law School Chair(s) : Kif Augustine Adams, J. Reuben Clark Law School Mexican Citizenship, Chinese Race, and the Contested Power of Law: The Cases of Francisco Gin and Carlos Wong Sun: Kif Augustine Adams, J. Reuben Clark Law School Expulsión ilegal de chinos en México, 1930-1932: Anahí Parra Sandoval, Universidad Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO ‘Una vez en China ya no son ni Chinas y tampoco Mexicanas’: Mexican Women and Chinese Mexican Children in China and Postrevolutionary Citizenship and Nationality in Mexico: Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho, Univ of Texas/El Paso 56 // RRR017 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Gerónimo C Racism Within U.S. Latino Communities Organizer : Tanya Hernandez, Rutgers University Chair(s) : Tanya Hernandez, Rutgers University Political Consequences of Racial Discrimination among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans: Rosario Aguilar, University of Michigan Domestic Violence Service Providers: A Look at Serving the Immigrant Population in South Florida: Carleen Vincent, University of Miami Latino Inter-Ethnic Discrimination Cases: All People of Color are the Same and Bias-Free in the Eyes of the Law: Tanya Hernandez, Rutgers University From Race to Language: Othering Latinos in the U.S. Census: Jennifer Leeman, George Mason University Discussant(s) : Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University 57 // RRS003 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamboyan Teologia de la Liberacion desde Latinoamerica al "primer mundo" desde diferentes disciplinas Organizer : Irene Hodgson, Xavier University Chair(s) : Irene Hodgson, Xavier University La teologia de la liberacion en la literatura centroamericana: Irene Hodgson, Xavier University

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WEDNESDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am Neo-liberation for Neoliberalism: "Third World" Liberation Philosophy and its Implications for the "First World": David Ignatius Gandolfo, Marymounth Manhattan College A Feminist Approach to the Theme of Martyrdom in Latin American Liberation Theology: Elizabeth O'Donnell, Notre Dame University La experiencia de persecucion y martirio de Mons. Romero en el contexto de las comunidades eclesiales de base de El Salvador: Armando Marquez, FUNDAHMER, EL SALVADOR Discussant(s) : Andres Thomas Contreris, Earlham College 58 // SEC001 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo B Constructing Anti-Racism in Contemporary Brazil Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Alexandre Da Costa, Cornell University Chair(s) : Michael Mitchell, Arizona State Univ Contemporary Black Brazilian Politics of Identity in the Black Community Council of Campinas, São Paulo: Alexandre Da Costa, Cornell University Official and Unofficial Understandings of Racial Categories in the State University of Rio de Janeiro: Luisa Farah Schwartzman, University of Wisconsin/Madison The Affirmative Action Paradox: Does the United States System Fit the Brazilian Myth of Racial Democracy?: Rocio Alonso-Lorenzo, Cornell University Discussant(s) : Edward Telles, UCLA, Michael Mitchell, Arizona State Univ 59 // SEC005 Workshop Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal B "The Politics of Policies": A Roundtable IADB's 2006 Report on Economic and Social Development in Latin America Sponsor : Business and Politics Section Organizer : Peter Kingstone, Univ of Connecticut, Leslie Elliot Armijo, Lake Oswego, Oregon Chair(s) : Ben Ross Schneider, Northwestern Univ *: Ben Ross Schneider, Northwestern Univ *: Barbara Stallings, Brown University *: Evelyne Huber, Univ of North Carolina *: Fernando Coronil, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor 60 // SEC006 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 9 New Religious Trends in Guatemala: Locality and Transnationalization Sponsor : Central America Section Organizer : Christopher Chiappari, St. Olaf College Chair(s) : Christopher Chiappari, St. Olaf College Appropiation, Competition, and Critique: Conceptualizing Religious Hybridity in Highland Guatemala: Christopher Chiappari, St. Olaf College Guatemala: Land of Televised Apostles: Dennis Smith, CEDEPCA, GUATEMALA Promoting the Culture of Jesus: The Discourses of Christian Zionism and Messianic Judaism in Guatemala: Karla Koll, CEDEPCA Pluralizing Religion: Mapping Guatemala's Religious Landscape in the New Millenium: Clay (Matt) Samson, University of Oklahoma Espiritualidad Maya, una experiencia vivificante: José Antonio Otzoy Sotz, CIEDEG, GUATEMALA 61 // SEC008 Workshop Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical A ¿Por qué y cómo escribir una historia de las literaturas centroamericanas? Sponsor : Central America Section Organizer : Werner Mackenbach, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA Chair(s) : Werner Mackenbach, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA *: Werner Mackenbach, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA *: Claudia Ferman, Univ of Richmond *: Patricia Fumero, Univ of Costa Rica, COSTA RICA *: Valeria Grinberg Pla, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, GERMANY *: Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, Potsdam University, GERMANY *: Jeffrey Browitt, University of Technology/Sydney, AUSTRALIA Discussant(s) : Nicasio Urbina, University of Cincinnati 62 // SEC016 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo C Desigualdades, Territorio y Gestión Local: El caso de la Ciudad de La Habana Sponsor : Cuba Section

Organizer : Miren Uriarte, University of Massachusetts/Boston Chair(s) : Aurelio José Alonso Tejada, CIPS, CUBA Desarrollo Humano de los Municipios de la Provincia Ciudad de la Habana: Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA El Laberinto de las desigualdades en la Ciudad de La Habana: Luisa Iñíguez Rojas, Ctr de Estud de Salud y Bienestar, CUBA Desarrollo local en 20 barrios habaneros: Los Talleres de Transformación Integral del Barrio: Miren Uriarte, University of Massachusetts/Boston Discussant(s) : Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Jill Hamberg, Empire State College 63 // SEC019 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 7 National Memory and Visual Culture Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Silvia Tandeciarz, College of William & Mary Chair(s) : Silvia Tandeciarz, College of William & Mary Mnemonic Hauntings: Photography as Art of the Missing: Silvia Tandeciarz, College of William & Mary Aunque no te vuelva a ver, no habrá más penas ni olvido. Memory of Political Trauma in the Recent Argentine Cinema: Elina Tranchini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, ARGENTINA No me destruyas: Contested Memories in Peruvian Crosses and Retablos: María Ulfe, Universidad Catolica del Peru, PERU Memory, Translation, and Rebirth: The Films of Eliseo Subiela: Jill Gibian, Eastern Oregon University (Re)Inscribing Memory within the Chilean Post-Dictatorship Landscape: Recent Art Actions by Malú Urriola and Nadia Prado: Alice Nelson, Evergreen State College Discussant(s) : Nancy Gates Madsen, Lawrence University 64 // SEC022 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Flamingo A La cuestión agraria en el Norte de los Andes siglo XX: Campesinos, intelectuales y paradigmas teóricos sobre los movimientos agrarios en Ecuador y Colombia. Parte I Sponsor : Ecuadorian Section Organizer : José Figueroa, Georgetown University Chair(s) : José Figueroa, Georgetown University Hacia una “revolución cultural institucionalista”: intelectuales indigenistas y campesinos en la formación del estado corporativo en Ecuador (19251945): Valeria Coronel, New York University El indigenismo colombiano: un proyecto fallido: Luis Fernando Restrepo, Univ of Arkansas La construcción legal de la comunidad indígena en el Ecuador: Hernán Ibarra, Centro Andino de Accion Popular, ECUADOR Communists, Indigenistas and Indigenous peoples in the making of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios and the Instituto Indigenista Ecuatoriano: Marc Becker, Truman State University Discussant(s) : Marc Chernick, Georgetown University 65 // SEC031 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical B The New International Relations of Latin America: Between the Atlantic and the Pacific Sponsor : Europe and Latin America Section Organizer : Laurence Whitehead, Oxford Univ, UNITED KINGDOM Chair(s) : Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN The New International Relations of Latin America: An Overview: Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN Relaciones comerciales y financieras Europa- América Latina: tendencias y perspectivas: Carlos Quenan, University de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, FRANCE Free Trade Politics in Latin America-East Asia Relations: Shigeru Kochi, Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN El interregionalismo de la UE: El caso de la CAN: Giovanni Molano-Cruz, Universite Paris 1/Panth-Sorbon, FRANCE Discussant(s) : Laurence Whitehead, Oxford Univ, UNITED KINGDOM, Gonzalo Paz, George Washingon Univ 66 // SEC034 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 3 ¿Tercera oleada feminista? Definiciones y discusiones feministas entre las nuevas generaciones de América Latina. Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Section Organizer : Adriana Causa, Inst de Invest Gino Germani, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Adriana Causa, Inst de Invest Gino Germani, ARGENTINA

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WEDNESDAY / 10:00 – 11:45 am Generación y Experiencia. La incorporación de mujeres de sectores populares latinoamericanos al feminismo: Adriana Causa, Inst de Invest Gino Germani, ARGENTINA Discussant(s) : Linda Stevenson, West Chester University 67 // SEC051 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Tropical C Theoretical and Empirical Advances in the Study of Executive-Legislative Relations Sponsor : Political Institutions Section Organizer : David Samuels, Univ of Minnesota Chair(s) : David Samuels, Univ of Minnesota Presidential Coattail Effects in Comparative Perspective: David Samuels, Univ of Minnesota, Mark Jones, Rice University Endogenous Institutions: Veto Players and Political Stability in Presidential Regimes: Anibal Perez Linan, Univ of Pittsburgh The Game that Sets the Rules: Parties, Military Rulers and the Making of Constitutions in Latin America: Gabriel Negretto, CIDE, MEXICO Presidents' Power to Legislate: Popular Approval, Legislative Pivot Points, and the Use of Presidential Decree Authority: Brian Crisp, Washington Univ/ St Louis Presidential Use of Referenda: Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Univ of Mississippi Discussant(s) : Scott Morgenstern, University of Pittsburgh 68 // SEC054 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 10 Virtual Wine, Virtual Bottle: Research Resources in the Digital Age Sponsor : Scholarly Research Section Organizer : Scott Van Jacob, University of Notre Dame Chair(s) : Paul Bary, Tulane University Maximizing the Reach and Impact of Latin American Scholarship: What Does the Latin American Open Archives Portal Offer to Scholars?: Eudora Loh, Univ of California/Los Angeles The Latin Americanist Research Resources in its Second Decade: Scott Van Jacob, University of Notre Dame

Civil-Military Relations in Mexico: Elections, Civilian Decay and the Modern Mexican Military: William Ackroyd, Arizona State Univ West Formas de representación neo corporativa en la Venezuela del siglo XXI: Inés Guardia Rolando, Universidad de Colima, VENEZUELA Un aspecto de la relaciones civiles y militares venezolanas: El diseño e implementación de las políticas de defensa, 1999-2005: Domingo IrwinGaffaro, Univ Pedagogica Experimental, VENEZUELA Discussant(s) : Francisco Rojas-Aravena, FLACSO, CHILE 72 // SMO008 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Ceiba Military Power and Civil Society: The Case of Vieques, Puerto Rico: Part One: Military Power During and After the Cold War Organizer : Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ Chair(s) : Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ Between Two Oceans: Economy, Society and Intervention in Vieques 19421948: José Bolívar Fresneda, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras The Cold War and the Second Expropriations of the Navy in Vieques: Cesar Ayala Casas, Univ of California/LA Social Struggle Against the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico: An Historical Perspective: Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ From Vieques to Iraq: Notes on the "New American War Machine": Juan Giusti, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras Discussant(s) : Pedro Cabán, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign 73 // TEC006 Workshop Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Boardroom 2 Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Training Organizer : Mary Risner, Univ of Florida Chair(s) : Mary Risner, Univ of Florida *: Mary Risner, Univ of Florida *: Hannah Covert, University of Florida *: Jennifer Potter-Andreu, University of Texas/Austin

69 // SEC062 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Conference 6 How to Become a Modern, Progressive, Civilized Nation: The Venezuelan Long Nineteenth Century Sponsor : Venezuelan Section Organizer : Kimberly Morse, Washburn University Chair(s) : Kimberly Morse, Washburn University Built to the Honor and Glory of ...: Life, Death, and Cemeteries in Venezuela, 1865-1959: Kimberly Morse, Washburn University Civilizing Carnival: Popular Culture, Social Class, Political Power in Maracaibo, 1870-1935: Peter Linder, New Mexico Highlands University Los Matrimonios de Mixta Religión en Venezuela Siglo XIX: Haydeé Vílchez Cróquer, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas, VENEZUELA Quarrels of Love, Law, and Politics: The Scandal of Doña María Antonia Bolívar in the Early Venezuelan Republic: Arlene Díaz, Indiana University 70 // SEC063 Workshop Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am San Cristóbal C Globalization and Agriculture: Lessons from the Americas Sponsor : Rural Studies Section Organizer : Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University Chair(s) : Timothy Wise, Tufts University *: Timothy Wise, Tufts University *: Carlos Pomarada, SIDE, COSTA RICA *: Antonio Marcio Buainain, State Univ of Campinas, BRAZIL *: Tatiana Schreiber, Vermont College Discussant(s) : Belfor Portilla, CEPAL, CHILE 71 // SEC067 Panel Wednesday 10:00 - 11:45 am Silver East 1 Normandie New Directions in Research on Civil-Military Relations in Latin America Sponsor : Defense, Democracy and Civil-Military Section Organizer : J. Samuel Fitch, University of Colorado Chair(s) : Jordi Diez, University of Guelph, CANADA Relaciones civiles-militares en la Revolución Bolivariana: Cambios, tensiones, y peligros: Jorge Gustavo Lazo Cividanes, Universite de Montreal, CANADA, Hugo Loiseau, Univ de Sherbrooke, CANADA Congressional Oversight of the Armed Forces in Mexico: Jordi Diez, University of Guelph, CANADA

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WEDNESDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm

Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm 74 // AGR001 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 9 Los nuevos conceptos alimentarios: calidad, sanidad e inocuidad Organizer : Belem Avendaño, Univ Autonoma Baja California Chair(s) : Belem Avendaño, Univ Autonoma Baja California Mexican Agricultural Support Programs: Somewhat 'Decentered' Policies in an Integrated Continental Market: Steven Zahniser, US Dept of Agriculture Estándares y certificaciones: Factores de competitividad para el sector hortícola de Baja California?: Belem Avendaño, Univ Autonoma Baja California La implementación de grados y estándares en la camaronícultura mexicana: Juana Astorga, Univ Autonoma de Baja California, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Rita Schwentesius R., CIESTAAM-UACH, MEXICO 75 // AGR021 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal D Policy Change and Local Responses in Mexico and Central America Organizer : Gustavo Verduzco, El Colegio de México, MEXICO Chair(s) : Gustavo Verduzco, El Colegio de México, MEXICO On Endogenous Rural Development and New Images of Rurality in Western Mexico: Peter R. W. Gerritsen, Univ of Gudalajara/DERN-IMECBIO, MEXICO Central America: Economic Aperture, Agricultural Policies and Territorial Rural Development: Jorge Mora Alfaro, , COSTA RICA Mercados Laborales en los nuevos contextos rurales de México: Gustavo Verduzco, El Colegio de México, MEXICO 76 // CIT012 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 7 Finding the Global in the City; Putting the City in the Transnational Organizer : Tarry Hum, CUNY/Queens College Chair(s) : Tarry Hum, CUNY/Queens College Transnational Projects and the Buenos Aires Experiment: A Tale of Many Cities: Ryan Centner, Univ of California/Berkeley La Movilidad Residencial y Ciclo de Vida Familiar, Puerto Rico: 1970 & 2000: Migdalia Batista, Univ of Puerto Rico The Myth of Exclusion: Low-income Workers in the Globalizing City of Sao Paulo, Brazil: Simone Buechler, New York University Immigrant Global Neighborhoods in New York City: Tarry Hum, CUNY/Queens College The Rural and the Urban Ecotourism: The Modified Perception in Small Towns: David Ivan Rezende Fleischer, SUNY/Albany Imigrantes que regresaron: Proyectos e Insucesos: Sueli Siqueira, Univ Fed de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL 77 // CUL012 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal G Repensando "la Nación Argentina" en la crisis del nuevo siglo: perspectivas desde la antropología y la historia/Rethinking "the Argentinean Nation" in the Crisis of the New Century: Perspectives from Anthropology and History Organizer : Diego Escolar, CONICET, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Diego Escolar, CONICET, ARGENTINA Los dones étnicos de la nación: archivos subalternos, modos de producción de soberanía estatal y revisionismo huarpe en Cuyo, siglos XIX y XX: Diego Escolar, CONICET, ARGENTINA “Auténticamente Nacional”: Contested Meanings of Criollo in the Origins of Argentine National Folklore, 1940s and 1950s: Oscar Chamosa, Kenyon College “Patria sí! Colonia no!”: The Argentina of the Jubilados: Lindsay DuBois, Dalhousie University, CANADA Argentinidades en disputa: la producción política de imaginarios avaguaraníes de la nación en Salta y Jujuy: Gaston Gordillo, Univ of British Columbia, CANADA Refining Subjects: Argentine Oil Workers and Neoliberal Rationality: Elana Shever, Univ of California, Berkeley Discussant(s) : Javier Auyero, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Mark Healey, Univ of California/Berkeley

78 // CUL027 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie La cultura política de los Pueblos Originarios de la Ciudad de México Organizer : Andrés Medina-Hernández, Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO Chair(s) : Andrés Medina-Hernández, Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO Proceso electoral y violencia en San Juan Ixtayopan, un pueblo originario de Tláhuac, en la Ciudad de México: Andrés Medina-Hernández, Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO Articulación entre formas de gobernar en un pueblo de la ciudad de México y la democracia electoral: Turid Hagene, Oslo Univeristy College, NORWAY El espacio de lo político en la cultura de los pueblos originarios de la Ciudad de México: Teresa Losada, Univ Nal Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO Los Panteones Comunitarios en la Ciudad de México: Maria Teresa Romero Tovar, Univ Autonoma de la Ciudad Mexico, MEXICO Espacios y ámbitos de los pueblos en la ciudad: Hernán Correa-Ortiz, Univ Nal Auonoma de Mexico, MEXICO 79 // CUL052 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie A Defender of His People: The God of Tepoztlán, Mexico, in the 21st Century Organizer : Albert Wahrhaftig, Sonoma State University Chair(s) : Albert Wahrhaftig, Sonoma State University Pictorial State of the Culture Representations in Tepoztlán, Morelos: Albert Wahrhaftig, Sonoma State University Myth, Ritual and History in Central Mexico: Nahuatl Strategies of Cultural and Political Resistance: Catharine Good, Escuela Nal de Antropologia e Hist, MEXICO The Legendary Life of El Tepozteco: Myth and Fact: Margarita Vargas Betancourt, Tulane University Ancient Art and Modern Politics: A Reading of the Tepoztlán Seed Murals: Gordon Brotherston, Stanford Univ Movimientos de resistencia en Tepoztlan y la visión de sus niños: Carlos Pérez y Zabala, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Filming a Legend. The Making of A Defender of His People: Bruce Lane, Ethnoscope Film & Video 80 // DEM047 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 6 Los votantes mexicanos ante la consolidación de la democracia Organizer : Leonardo Valdés Zurita, Universidad de Guanajato, MEXICO Chair(s) : Leonardo Valdés Zurita, Universidad de Guanajato, MEXICO Turnout Overreporting in Mexico and What to Do About It: David Crow, University of Texas/Austin, MEXICO Elementos teóricos para estudiar la continuidad y el cambio del comportamiento electoral de los votantes mexicanos: Leonardo Valdés Zurita, Universidad de Guanajato, MEXICO Cambios en el comportamiento electoral en Querétaro 1997-2003: Martha Gloria Morales, Univ Autonoma de Queretaro, MEXICO Votos y electores en el norte de México: Victor Espinoza Valle, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte El votante mexicano de la postransición: actitudes y percepciones ante las realidades de la gobernanza y la calidad democráticas: Luis Miguel Rionda Ramírez, Universidad de Guanajato, MEXICO 81 // DEM048 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 4 Crisis institucional de los partidos políticos en México Organizer : María Eugenia Valdes Vega, Univ Autónoma Metro/Iztapalapa, MEXICO Chair(s) : Esperanza Palma, Univ Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Las coaliciones del partido Verde Ecologista de México: José Augusto Garrido Delgadillo, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Conflictos internos en la coalición dominante del PRI frente a los procesos electorales de 2003: Lizbeth Chavarría Burgoa, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Iztap, MEXICO La participación de amigos de Fox en la campaña proselitista de Vicente Fox Quesada y su relación con el Partido Acción Nacional: Josefina Maldonado Montes, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Iztap, MEXICO El liderazgo femenino en la crisis del Partido de la Revolución Democrática: Lilia Carolina Peralta Sánchez, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana/Iztap, MEXICO

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WEDNESDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm Discussant(s) : María Eugenia Valdes Vega, Univ Autónoma Metro/Iztapalapa, MEXICO 82 // EDU001 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal A Políticas avaliativas: dilemas e enfrentamentos na perspectiva de uma qualidade social Organizer : Rute Baquero, UNISIN, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Cecilia Broilo, Univ do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, BRAZIL Avaliação externa e o curso de pedagogia- implicações na prática pedagógica e na docência: Cecilia Broilo, Univ do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, BRAZIL Políticas de avaliação externa e docência na universidade: Mari Forster, Univ do Vale do Rio Dos Sinos, BRAZIL A política de avaliação dos estudantes do ensino médio no Brasil e suas repercussões no contexto escolar: Beatriz Zanchet, Univ Federal de Pelotas UFPel, BRAZIL Melhorando a qualidade de educação de jovens e adultos? – Uma análise da experiência do ENCCEJA – O Exame Nacional de Certificação de Jovens e Adultos: Rute Baquero, UNISIN, BRAZIL, Salete Campos de Moraes, Pontif Univ Catolica do Rio Grande, BRAZIL SINAES – Uma proposta de política de avaliação institucional com perspectiva emancipatória: Denise Leite, Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Flavia Werle, Univ do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, BRAZIL 83 // HIS027 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo D Histories of Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean Organizer : Alan McPherson, Howard University Chair(s) : Alan McPherson, Howard University Diaspora against Empire: Apprehension, Expectation, and West Indian AntiAmericanism, 1937-1945: Jason Parker, West Virginia University Redefining Intervention: Mexico’s Contribution to Anti-Americanism: John Britton, Francis Marion College Patriotism and Petroleum: Anti-Americanism in Venezuela from Gómez to Chávez: Darlene Rivas, Pepperdine University Battle for the Heart of the Heavyweight: Anti-Americanism in Brazil: Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant(s) : Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University 84 // HIS035 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 5 Brazil and Angola: The 'lost' historical connection Organizer : Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, , GERMANY Chair(s) : Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, , GERMANY Toward a Cultural History of the South Atlantic-Early Modern Myths in the Literatures of Brazil and Angola Today: Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, , GERMANY Discussant(s) : Saúl Sosnowski, University of Maryland 85 // LCN011 Workshop Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo A Estudios coloniales latinoamericanos: Polémicas y debates I Organizer : Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania Chair(s) : Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania *: Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania *: Luis Fernando Restrepo, Univ of Arkansas *: Gustavo Verdesio, University of Michigan *: Electa Arenal, City University of New York *: Francisco Ortega Martínez, Univ Nal de Colombia/Bogota, COLOMBIA Discussant(s) : Veronica Salles-Reese, Georgetown University 86 // LIA040 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Other Capital Flows: Literature, Arts and Politics in Latin America Organizer : Exequiel Lopresti, Duke University Chair(s) : Beatriz Rodriguez Balanta, Duke Univ Liberalismo, izquierda y nacionalismo en los debates de 1936 en Buenos Aires: Celina Manzoni, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Art, Politics and Mass Media in the Chilean Post-transition: Transparency, Nudity and Simulacra: Iara Díaz-Araujo, Duke Univ The Art of Destruction: Rachel Price, Duke University Performance y bolero: “Lo impúdico, diurético y sincrético” de lo femenino en Astrid Hadad: Alejandra Sánchez Ortega, Tulane Univ Sex, Drugs an National&Popular: Exequiel Lopresti, Duke University Discussant(s) : John Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia, CANADA

87 // LIA063 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Las Olas Más allá de la “soberanía”: Escribir por nadie desde Puerto Rico (cruce de lo narrativo y lo teórico) I Organizer : Aurea María Sotomayor, Univ de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Aurea María Sotomayor, Univ de Puerto Rico Frente al otro y el mismo: bajo el signo del nadie en la ensayística finisecular: Aurea María Sotomayor, Univ de Puerto Rico Evidencia y negatividad en el ensayo sociológico: Ivette Rodríguez-Santana, Univ of Maryland/College Park Otros "géneros" en ensayo contemporáneo puertorriqueño: Mara NegrónMarrero, Univ de Puerto Rico Pensar en Puerto Rico sin hablar por el otro: Juan Ramón Duchesne-Winter, Universidad de Puerto Rico "If the People of Puerto Rico Would Go Crazy ..." La política de la locura de Luis Muñoz Marín: Carlos Gil, Univ de Puerto Rico Discussant(s) : Juan Rodríguez, Duke Univ 88 // MAS002 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamboyan The Changing Role of News Media and Information Technology: Recent Developments in the Bolivarian Countries Organizer : Diane Johnson, Lebanon Valley College Chair(s) : Chappell Lawson, Mass Inst of Technology Una nueva visita a la relación tecnología-sociedad: Gildardo Martínez Villalobos, Universidad del Zulia, VENEZUELA Community Media in Venezuela: Eliza Tanner Hawkins, Brigham Young University Discussant(s) : Daniel Hallin, University of California/San Diego 89 // MCB023 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo B Remesas y procesos económicos Organizer : Maria Aysa-Lastra, Florida International University Chair(s) : Maria Aysa-Lastra, Florida International University Mexican Entrepreneurs in California Rural Areas: Magdalena Barros Nock, Ctr de Invest y Estudios Superiors, MEXICO Tendencias actuales de las remesas de los migrantes latinoamericanos y caribeños. Evaluación su impacto económico y social en las sociedades de origen: Fernando Lozano-Ascencio, Ctro Regional de Invst Multidis, MEXICO Sending Money Home: Colombian Contemporary Migration Networks and Remittances to the Coffee Regions: Maria Aysa-Lastra, Florida International University The Social Impact of Remittances in Latin America: Sarah Blue, Northern Illinois University 90 // POL036 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal E Social Policy and Welfare in Latin America Organizer : David García-Junco, Univ Iberoamericana, MEXICO Chair(s) : David García-Junco, Univ Iberoamericana, MEXICO Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: Meeting the Employment Challenge: The Potential of Labour Market Policies: Christoph Ernst Lestano, ILO, SWITZERLAND To promote the general welfare…?" Social Spending and Clientelism in Argentina: Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Pittsburgh The Politicas of Social Policy: Fairness, Eficiency and Equity the Unresolved Dispute in Allocation Criteria: David García-Junco, Univ Iberoamericana, MEXICO The Convergence of Federal Welfare Policy in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. Mainland after the PRWORA: Marietta Morrissey, University of Toledo Mediated Citizenship at the Interstice of Participatory and Representative Democracy in Brazilian Municipal Politics: Goetz Ottmann, La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA 91 // POL039 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal F Presidentialism and Accountability Organizer : Lucio Renno, SUNY and University of Arizona Chair(s) : Lucio Renno, SUNY and University of Arizona Autonomous Institutions and Democratic Consolidation: The Politics of Delegation and Accountability in Mexico: John Ackerman, FLACSO/Mexico, MEXICO The Eeffects of Political Competition on Horizontal Accountability: The Case of the Independent Courts of Accounts in Brazil: Carlos Mauricio Figueiredo, Federal University of Pernambuco, BRAZIL

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WEDNESDAY / 12:00 – 1:45 pm Degrees of Decrees: Assessing the Rollback of Executive Decree Authority in Brazil: Lucio Renno, SUNY and University of Arizona, Carlos Pereira, Michigan State University 92 // REC003 Luncheon Meeting Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Ceiba LASA Student Meeting/ Luncheon Organizer : Sonia Alvarez, Univ of Massachussetts/Amherst 93 // RRR010 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Gerónimo C The Racial Counterpoint of Cuban-ness and Puerto Rican-ness -Session One: Diaspora Struggles and Performing Knowledges Organizer : Kelvin Santiago-Valles, State Univ of New York/Binghamton Chair(s) : Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez, New College of Florida Las apariencias ¿engañan? Los esclavos en la prensa puertorriequña y cubana: Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez, New College of Florida Of Pigmentocrats, Patriots, and Patricians: Democracy in the Society of Race (Hostos, Thomas, and Martí): Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke College The Nations of "Others": "Race," Nation and Identity among Late-19th Century Cubans and Puerto Ricans in New York City: Fannie Rushing, Benedictine University Tecnologías de lo posible: Rafael Serra y Arturo A. Schomburg: Jossianna Arroyo, University of Texas/Austin Garveyism and the Routes of Empire in Cuba and Puerto Rico: Frank Guridy, University of Texas/Austin Of “Witches” and “Well-Trained Church People”: Afro-Caribbean Immigration, Religion, and Identity in Early Republican Cuba: Marc McLeod, Seattle University Discussant(s) : Aline Helg, Univ de Geneve, SWITZERLAND 94 // SEC004 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 8 O Português como língua de ciência e cultura Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Nelson Viana, Univ Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Nelson Viana, Univ Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL A Língua portuguesa no Brasil e no mundo: representações e abrangência: Nelson Viana, Univ Federal de São Carlos, BRAZIL O português como língua de produção de conhecimento: Indicadores e projeções: Jose Paes de Almeida Filho, Univ of Brazil, BRAZIL Desenvolvimento e usos da língua portuguesa: O contexto brasileiro: Lucia Assunção Barbosa, Univ Federal de Sao Carlos, BRAZIL Os estudos brasileiros e o hibridismo cultural: Edleise Mendes, Univ Estadual de Feira de Santana, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Jose Paes de Almeida Filho, Univ of Brazil, BRAZIL 95 // SEC009 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Poetics and Politics of Memory Sponsor : Central America Section Organizer : Ricardo Roque, Univ Centroamericana Jose Simeon C, EL SALVADOR Chair(s) : Ricardo Roque, Univ Centroamericana Jose Simeon C, EL SALVADOR Poéticas del despojo: mestizaje, memoria y violencia sacrificial en la construcción del imaginario nacional de El Salvador: Ricardo Roque, Univ Centroamericana Jose Simeon C, EL SALVADOR La sociedad civil y la colonización de los discursos minoritarios en El Salvador: Douglas Carranza-Mena, California State Univ/Northridge Un duelo truncado: La transformación de las masacres indígenas en palabras: Beatriz Cortez, California State Univ/Northridge 96 // SEC012 Workshop Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical A Pedagogy and New Categories: Teaching Colombia in a Global and Transnational World Sponsor : Colombia Section Organizer : Joshua Rosenthal, State University of New York Chair(s) : Joshua Rosenthal, State University of New York *: Joshua Rosenthal, State University of New York *: Aviva Chomsky, Salem State College *: María Clemencia Ramírez de Jara, Inst Cbiano de Antropologia e Hist, COLOMBIA *: Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton Univ *: Kiran Asher, Clark University

97 // SEC015 Workshop Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal B Repensando los Intercambios Académicos entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos Sponsor : Cuba Section Organizer : Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Chair(s) : Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA *: Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA *: Carlos Alzugaray, ISRI / Cuba, CUBA *: Soraya Castro, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA *: Louis Perez, Jr., University of North Carolina *: Kimberly Stanton, Project Counselling Service, COLOMBIA Discussant(s) : Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona University, Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA 98 // SEC021 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar A Decentralization at the Crossroads: Critical Junctures, Processes, and Actors Sponsor : Decentralization / Sub-National Governance Section Organizer : Alfred Montero, Carleton College Chair(s) : Andrew Selee, Woodrow Wilson Center Decentralization, Democratization, and Local Governance in Mexico: Andrew Selee, Woodrow Wilson Center Decentralizing Critical Junctures in Chilean History: Rodrigo Mardones, Universidad Catolica de Chile, CHILE Decentralization in Brazil: Sequence of Reforms and Coalitions: Tulia Falleti, Univ of Pennsylvania Decentralization, Subnational Governance Relations, and Political Actors: Maria Teresa Kerbauy, UNESP, BRAZIL The Impact of Decentralization on Indigenous Mobilization in Bolivia: Henry Ritchie, University of Pennsylvania Discussant(s) : Emily Edmonds Poli, Univ of San Diego 99 // SEC023 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo A La Cuestión agraria en el Norte de los Andes siglo XX: campesinos, intelectuales y paradigmas teóricos sobre los movimientos agrarios en Ecuador y Colombia. Parte II Sponsor : Ecuadorian Section Organizer : José Figueroa, Georgetown University Chair(s) : Marc Becker, Truman State University Living in a Rural City: Demarcating Social and Commercial Space in Three Parroquias in Quito in the 1920s and 1930s: Ernesto Capello, University of Texas/Austin Approaches to the Indigenous and Peasant Questions in Ecuadorian Anthropology in the 1970s and early 1980s: Carmen Martínez-Novo, FLACSO, ECUADOR Movimientos agrarios y teorías del mestizaje: la ANUC y el realismo mágico en Colombia 1974 - 1978: José Figueroa, Georgetown University Discussant(s) : Hernán Ibarra, Centro Andino de Accion Popular, ECUADOR 100 // SEC030 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Flamingo B Latin American Migration to Europe and Transnational Engagement in Countries of Origin Sponsor : Europe and Latin America Section Organizer : Jennifer Petree, EPFL, SWITZERLAND Chair(s) : Ninna Nyberg Sorensen, Danish Inst for Int'l Stds, DENMARK Dominicans in Switzerland: Patterns, Practices and Impacts of Transnational Migration and Remittances Linking the Dominican Republic and Switzerland: Jennifer Petree, EPFL, SWITZERLAND, Gladys Tahira Vargas, Equipo Vargas de Investigacion Soc, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Una realidad vivida, una realidad callada: Construcción de identidad entre trabajadoras sexuales latinoamericanas: Marie-Louise Janssen, Univ of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS "Not just like home" - Argentines of European Descent in Spain and Italy: Anahí Viladrich, CUNY Hunter College Género y etnicidad en las estrategias migratorias El caso de las ecuatorianas en España: Emma Martin, Univ de Sevilla, SPAIN Brazilian Migration to Portugal: Social Networks and Ethnic Solidarity: Beatriz Padilla, CIES/ISCTE, PORTUGAL Discussant(s) : Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, University of California/Davis, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen, Danish Inst for Int'l Stds, DENMARK

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101 // SEC036 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical B 30 Years of Latin American Feminisms: Where Do we Stand Now? Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Section Organizer : Nathalie Lebon, Gettysburg College and Elizabeth Maier, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Chair(s) : Elizabeth Maier, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Acomodando lo privado en lo público: Experiencias y legados de décadas pasadas: Elizabeth Maier, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Igualdad de género, movimientos sociales y estado en Argentina: Graciela Di Marco, Univ Nacional de San Martin, ARGENTINA Los institutos de la mujer y la pugna por el control partidario en México: María Luisa Tarrés, El Colegio de México, MEXICO Trickling Up, Down and Sideways: Gender Policy and Political Opportunity in Brazil: Fiona Macaulay, Univ of Bradford, UNITED KINGDOM Las mujeres no somos todas iguales, pero nos parecemos mucho: la diversidad, la multiplicidad de las identidades y las agendas de los activismos feministas: Ana Rivera-Lassén, Univ of Puerto Rico/CLADEM De la insurgencia a la lucha feminista: Buscando la justicia social, la democracia y la equidad entre hombres y mujeres: Morena Herrera Argueta, Fund Nacional para el Desarrollo, El Salvador Discussant(s) : Nathalie Lebon, Gettysburg College 102 // SEC040 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 3 Labor Reforms and the Changing Conditions of Labor Mobilization Sponsor : Labor Studies Section Organizer : Jean Mayer, Concordia Univ, CANADA Chair(s) : Mark Anner, Penn State University The Impact of Labor Law Reform in Latin America: When More Protection is not Enough: Mark Anner, Penn State University Transnational Actors and Labor Rights Enforcement in the North American Free Trade Agreement: Kimberly Nolan Garcia, University of New Mexico Propuestas alternativas en las relaciones de trabajo venezolanas: La cogestión y el cooperativismo: Héctor Lucena, Universidad de Carabobo, VENEZUELA La negociación de las reformas a la Ley Federal del Trabajo (1989-2005): Francisco Zapata, El Colegio de México, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State Univ, Kevin Middlebrook, University of London, UNITED KINGDOM 103 // SEC043 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Tropical C Borders and Families: Immigrant Family Separation, Adaptation and Reunification Sponsor : Latino Studies Section Organizer : Norma Chinchilla, California State Univ/Long Beach Chair(s) : Kristine Zentgraf, California State Univ/Long Beach Phoning Home: Guatemalan Families Divided by Economic Migration: Paula Worby, University of California/ Berkeley Separation and Reunification: The Experiences of Central American Immigrant Families: Kristine Zentgraf, California State Univ/Long Beach, Norma Chinchilla, California State Univ/Long Beach "My Heart was Staying Behind": The Psychosocial and Academic Experience of Separation and Reunification Among Immigrant Families: Francisco Gaytan, New York Univ, Carola Suarez-Orozco, New York Univ Immigration Policy, Family Separation and Return Migration: Karl Eschbach, Univ of Texas/Medical Branch, Jacqueline Hagan, University of North Carolina 104 // SEC050 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Conference 10 Institutional Legitimacy and Procedural Justice: The Judicial Branch in Latin America in Comparative Perspective Sponsor : Political Institutions Section Organizer : Natalia Ajenjo, European University Institute, SPAIN Chair(s) : Natalia Ajenjo, European University Institute, SPAIN, and Elena Martínez-Barahona, European Univ Inst, SPAIN Judicial Reform: Strengthened Courts, Weakened Legislatures?: Bruce Wilson, Univ of Central Florida Judicial Effectiveness and Institutional Design in Latin America: Lessons from the Prosecution of Rights Violations: Daniel Brinks, University of Texas/Austin Judicial Corruption and Public Confidence in Latin American Courts: Agustín Grijalva, Universidad Andina, ECUADOR

Institutional Models of Judicial Independence and Judicial Reform in Latin America: Julio Antonio Rios-Figueroa, New York University Acceso a la Justicia Penal de Adultos desde el Análisis de Redes de Políticas Públicas en Latinoamérica: Leopoldo Diaz Moure, Univ de Salamanca, SPAIN Lawyers and the Use of Judicial Services in Argentina: Catalina Smulovitz, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, ARGENTINA Discussant(s) : Pilar Domingo, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN, Anibal Perez Linan, Univ of Pittsburgh 105 // SEC053 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Salón del Mar B Posicionalidades multi-país para reexaaminar las crisis y transformaciones en las industrias azucareras de la América Latina y del Caribe I Sponsor : Rural Studies Section Organizer : Donna Chollett, University of Minnesota/Morris Chair(s) : Donna Chollett, University of Minnesota/Morris Las cooperativas y la autonomía local: Paradojas de la transformación de las industrias azucareras de México y Cuba: Donna Chollett, University of Minnesota/Morris La plantación que no se repite: Las historias azucareras de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, 1870-1930: Humberto García-Muñiz, University of Puerto Rico Sweet Protectionism: State Policy and Employment in the Sugar Industries of the NAFTA Countries: Gerardo Otero, Simon Fraser Univ, CANADA Discussant(s) : Leigh Binford, Benemérita Univ Autónoma de Puebla, MEXICO 106 // SEC055 Workshop Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Boardroom 1 Caribbean Treasures: Collections, Archives, and Digital Resources Sponsor : Scholarly Research Section Organizer : Pamela Graham, Columbia University Chair(s) : Pamela Graham, Columbia University *: Pamela Graham, Columbia University *: Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Princeton University *: Darlene Hull, Universidad Carlos Albizu *: Judith Rogers, Univ of the Virgin Islands *: Thomas Anderson, University of Notre Dame 107 // SEC068 Panel Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Defense and Security in an Age of Globalization Sponsor : Defense, Democracy and Civil-Military Section Organizer : J. Samuel Fitch, University of Colorado Chair(s) : Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BRAZIL Política de defesa e relações internacionais no Brasil: O destino das paralelas: Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BRAZIL La administración de la defensa bajo el poder militar: Bertha García, Pont Univ Católica del Ecuador, ECUADOR Civil-Military Relations, Democracy, and Globalization in Latin America: Can Company Become a Crowd?: Frederick Nunn, Univ of Arizona/Portland State Uni Discussant(s) : Francisco Rojas-Aravena, FLACSO, CHILE 108 // TEC002 Workshop Wednesday 12:00 - 1:45 pm San Cristóbal C De-Centering Latin American Studies Undergraduate Curricula Organizer : Katherine Hite, Vassar College Chair(s) : Michael Aronna, Vassar College *: Light Carruyo, Vassar College *: Leslie Offutt, Vassar College, Colleen Cohen, Vassar College *: David Tavarez, Vassar College *: Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College

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Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm 109 // AGR004 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar B Posicionalidades multi-país para re-examinar las crisis y transformaciones en las industrias azucareras de la América Latina y del Caribe II Organizer : Donna Chollett, University of Minnesota/Morris Chair(s) : John Dumoulin, University of Florida Conflicting Agendas of Political Representation: Regime Change, Parties and the Mexican Cane Growers Unions: Peter Singelmann, University of Missouri/Kansas City Sugar Crises and Social Transformations: The Case of Cuba: John Dumoulin, University of Florida San Sebastián: The Social and Political Implications of Mill Closure: Kathy Powell, National Univ of Ireland/Galway, IRELAND Discussant(s) : Carlos Eduardo Gomes Siqueira, Univ of Massachusetts/Lowell 110 // CIT013 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 9 Transforming the "Historical City": Gentrification, Preservation and Development Organizer : Marcelo Cruz, University of Wisconsin/Green Bay Chair(s) : Marcelo Cruz, University of Wisconsin/Green Bay Memory Practices and Discourses in Deindustrialised Areas of the City of São Paulo: Veronica Pereira, Centro Universitario Belas Artes, BRAZIL Gentrification Moves South: The Neoliberalization of Urban Space in Mexico City's Historic Center: David Walker, University of Kentucky Markets, Collective Action, and Informality in Mexico City:The Case of La Merced Market: Ingrid Bleynat, Harvard University The Preservation of Historic Districts In Latin America: The Case of Santo Domingo: Jorge Brea, Central Michigan University Barry Parker and the Brazilian Garden City Movement: Steven Wright, Edinboro University of PA 111 // CUL007 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical C Insurgent Subjectivities in Latin American Cinema and Fiction Organizer : Santiago Colas, Univ of Michigan Chair(s) : Santiago Colas, Univ of Michigan Why now? And how? Felisberto Hernandez and the Art of Making Something New Without Subjects or Objects: Santiago Colas, Univ of Michigan “El Aprendiz de Brujo” de Rodrigo Fresán: la fantasía de una historia argentina: Ana Ros, University of Michigan Cuerpos residuales: Exceso de la nación y defecto de justicia: Andrea Fanta, University of Michigan Iustitium, sujetos y (neo)liberalismo en la producción de Pablo Palacio y Machuca de Andrés Wood: Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, Univ of Michigan/Ann Arbor Discussant(s) : Cristina Moreira Menor, Univ of Michigan 112 // CUL028 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Ceiba Indigenismo y Artes Populares: Nuevos Planteamientos Organizer : Zoila Mendoza, University of California/Davis Chair(s) : Michelle Bigenho, Hampshire College ¿Artistas, folkloristas, o qué?: Experiencias bolivianas: Michelle Bigenho, Hampshire College Creación folklórica: Un espacio clave para entender el indigenismo: Zoila Mendoza, University of California/Davis Fashioning Mexico’s Indigenous Soul: Festival and Ethnic Identity in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, 1932-1944: Christopher Rodriguez, Suffolk University Discussant(s) : Karen Cordero, Universidad Iberoamericana, MEXICO 113 // CUL063 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 5 Regulating race and ethnicity Organizer : Diego Von Vacano, Texas A&M University Chair(s) : Diego Von Vacano, Texas A&M University Cultura, etnicidad y poder: Ximena Agudo Guevara, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Going Native: Indigenismo as Peace-Keeping Strategy in Contemporary Peru: Teresa Pellinen Chavez, Stanford University

Policing Culture: The Champeta Movement under the New Colombian Constitution: Ligia Aldana, SUNY/New Paltz El lenguaje de la regeneración como política del abandono: Maria del Pilar Melgarejo, University of Pittsburgh Race and Identity in Latin American Political Theory: Diego Von Vacano, Texas A&M University 114 // DEM001 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 4 Democracia Partidaria, Candidatos y Sucesión Presidencial en México Organizer : Víctor Alarcón-Olguín, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Chair(s) : Manuel Larrosa Haro, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Democracia Partidaria y Sucesión Presidencial en el Partido Revolucionario Institucional: Rosamaría Mirón-Lince, UNAM, MEXICO Selección de Candidatos y Democracia Interna en el Partido Acción Nacional. (El caso de elección presidencial mexicana de 2006): Víctor Alarcón-Olguín, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Juan Reyes del Campillo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MEXICO 115 // DEM039 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 2 Leadership, Culture, and Political Outcomes: Lessons from Panama Organizer : Gloria Rudolf, University of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Gloria Rudolf, University of Pittsburgh Populist Leadership in the US Backyard: A Comparison Between Arnulfo Arias Madrid and Luis Muñoz Marín: Carlos Guevara-Mann, University of Nevada/Reno Panamanian Leadership and Cultural Conflict during World War II: Peter Szok, Texas Christian University Kuna Middlemen and Culture Brokers: Leadership and Adaptation, 19251955: James Howe, Massachusetts Inst of Technology Discussant(s) : Betty Brannan Jaén, La Prensa of Panama 116 // DEM054 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal F International Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America Organizer : Ann Marie Clark, Purdue Univ Chair(s) : Ann Marie Clark, Purdue Univ Estados Unidos y las fórmulas para una transición en Cuba: Olga Estrella Fernández, Centro de Estudios Sobre América, CUBA International Human Rights Discourse and Political Change in Chile and Colombia: Ann Marie Clark, Purdue Univ Promise and Peril: Assessing the Inter-American Democratic Charter: Barry Steven Levitt, Emory University The Internationalization of Latin American Democracy: Deborah Norden, Whittier College The Collective Defense of Democracy in Latin America: Randall Parish, Jr., Texas A&M University, Mark Peceny, University of New Mexico 117 // ECO020 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Las Olas Poverty and Public Policy in Latin America Organizer : Mauricio Olavarría-Gambi, Universidad de Chile, CHILE Chair(s) : Mauricio Olavarría-Gambi, Universidad de Chile, CHILE Autoempleo y Restricciones de Crédito. Perspectiva conseguida por el trabajo de campo en la Ciudad de México: Tetsuro Narita, Hitotsubashi University, JAPAN Dificultades económicas en hogares de trabajadores manuales en México: Hacia una tipificación de las crisis económicas internas y arreglos realizados para resolverlas: Georgina Rojas-García, CIESAS, MEXICO Testing the Kuznets hipothesis with data from Chile: Mauricio OlavarríaGambi, Universidad de Chile, CHILE The Impact of Microfinance at the Sectoral Level: Pulperías in Matagalpa, Nicaragua: Michael Pisani, Central Michigan Univ, David Yoskowitz, Texas A&M Univ/Corpus Christi Income Distribution, Trade, and Industrialization in Argentina, 1900-1976: Paul Segal, Oxford University/Nuffield College, UNITED KINGDOM Lula, Chávez, Kirchner: The Political Economy of Contemporary Redistribution: Curtis Skinner, , Mariano Torras, Adelphi University 118 // ENV004 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical B Natural Resources and Environmental Degradation: Indigenous Movements, Participation and the Question of Democracy in Latin America

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WEDNESDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm Organizer : Tirso Gonzales, Univ of British Columbia, CANADA Chair(s) : Tirso Gonzales, Univ of British Columbia, CANADA Place, Indigenous peoples, and Cultural and Biological Diversity in the Americas: Tirso Gonzales, Univ of British Columbia, CANADA Impactos socioambientales del Proyecto Camisea y derechos de los pueblos indígenas: Maria Elena Foronda Farro, NATURA, PERU Liderazgo para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo humano sostenible con soberanía: Oscar Díaz Barboza, NATURA, PERU Inigenous Movements for Environmental Justice: an Alternative Epistemology: Maria Gonzalez, University of Michigan 119 // FEA001 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal E "Los desastres no son naturales:" Natural Disasters and their Historical Consequences Sponsor : LARR Organizer : Jonathan Brown, Univ of Texas/Austin Chair(s) : Jonathan Brown, Univ of Texas/Austin The 1746 Earthquake/Tsunami in Lima: Shaking Colonial Foundations: Charles Walker, University of California/Davis Hurricanes in the Circum-Caribbean: Natural Disasters and Historical Interpretation: Stuart Schwartz, Yale University Discussant(s) : Lyman Johnson, Univ of North Carolina/Charlotte, Virginia García-Acosta, CIESAS, MEXICO 120 // HIS017 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal A Las relaciones internacionales de Puerto Rico, 1930 al presente Organizer : Antonio Gaztambide-Géigel, University of Puerto Rico/Rio Pied Chair(s) : Rafael Hernández, Revista TEMAS, CUBA Puerto Rico en las relaciones internacionales: De la Comisión del Caribe a la Organización del Caribe, 1946-1965: Evelyn Vélez Rodríguez, Centro Estudios Avanzados de PR La personalidad jurídica internacional limitada del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (2001-2004): Efraín Vázquez-Vera, Univ de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico y sus relaciones deportivas internacionales: 1930-1950: Félix Huertas, Univ del Turabo Discussant(s) : Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, Univ Ciencias y Artes/Chiapas, MEXICO 121 // HIS048 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 7 30 años de historiografía sobre las relaciones México-Estados Unidos Organizer : Ana Suárez, Instituto Mora, MEXICO Chair(s) : Ana Suárez, Instituto Mora, MEXICO Las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos entre 1848 y 1896. Tendencias y novedades en la historiografía del segundo país: Ana Suárez, Instituto Mora, MEXICO Nuevos enfoques sobre un período crítico. La producción hemerográfica sobre las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos, 1822-1854: Marcela Terrazas, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO Lo viejo y lo nuevo en la historiografía sobre las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos para el periodo 1940-1970: Carmen Collado, Instituto de Investigaciones Mora, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Jurgen Buchenau, Univ of North Carolina/Charlotte 122 // HIS057 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal G Hispanicism, Americanism and Pan-Americanism in the Age of U.S. Empire Organizer : Elliott Young, Lewis and Clark College Chair(s) : Elliott Young, Lewis and Clark College "Who Is Master of His Bowels?" United States Indian Policy in Bolivian Indigenous Education, 1943-1952: Marten Brienen, University of Miami Crossing the Gulf: the Movement of People and Ideas between Mexico and Cuba from 1893 to1930: Dalia Muller, Univ of California/Berkeley Transnational Antiquities: Ruins, Migrations, and the Creation of a Greater American Prehistory: Samuel Truett, Univ of New Mexico Daily Life in Granada, Nicaragua, under William Walker’s Filibuster Regime (1855-57): Michel Gobat, University of Iowa Discussant(s) : Laura Briggs, University of Arizona 123 // LCO023 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Latin American Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Question of Identity Organizer : Ben Heller, University of Notre Dame Chair(s) : Thomas Anderson, University of Notre Dame

Killing the Snake: Poesía afrocubanista and the Elusive African Origins of the Comparsa: Thomas Anderson, University of Notre Dame Cruzando la división escrita/oral: La circulación de la poesía afuera de la ciudad letrada: Jill Kuhnheim, University of Kansas “Miradas hacia el cielo”: naturaleza e identidad en la poesía de Raúl Zurita: Osvaldo De la Torre, Cornell University Lo chileno, lo latino, lo latinoamericano: identidades traduciéndose (al partir de la poesía chilena reciente): Ben Heller, University of Notre Dame 124 // LIA016 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie Los signos somáticos: representaciones y represiones del cuerpo en la literatura y el cine hispanoamericanos Organizer : Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Univ of Texas / Austin Chair(s) : Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Univ of Texas / Austin El cuerpo de la víctima en la obra fílmica de Felipe Cazals: Las poquianchis, Canoas y El apando: Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Univ of Texas / Austin Formas laborales clandestinas, sexualidades perversas: Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State University Las contradicciones de la “carne” en La carne de René de Virgilio Piñera: Emilio Bejel, University of California/Davis 125 // LIA076 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Translations, mistranslations, and cultural appropriations Organizer : Aurora Camacho De Schmidt, Swarthmore College Chair(s) : Aurora Camacho De Schmidt, Swarthmore College The Translation of Fear: Rendering a Mexican Account of Struggle and Imprisonment Into English: Aurora Camacho De Schmidt, Swarthmore College, Arthur Schmidt, Temple University Translator as Interpreter: An Approach to Guaman Poma: David Frye, University of Michigan La mujer que cayó del cielo de Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda (México): dramatización de un desencuentro cultural: Lucía Garavito, Kansas State University Translation and Inter-American Relations in Sur (1931-1941): Gorica Majstorovic, Richard Stockton Clge of NewJersey De burros y gauchitos: La idealización de la vida rural en las Selecciones Folklóricas Codex (1965-66): Angel Tuninetti, Lebanon Valley College 126 // LIA082 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Archival instrumentalities and fictional necessities Organizer : Jaime Hanneken, Univ of Pennsylvania Chair(s) : Jaime Hanneken, Univ of Pennsylvania Latin American Fictions and Floating Practice: Towards a Rethinking of Postcolonial Studies: Jaime Hanneken, Univ of Pennsylvania Transnationalism and the Displacement of Literary Space: Antoinette Hertel, St Joseph's College/New York Reading Colonial Archives in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: David Slade, Centre College 127 // LIA085 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Racial architectonics in Brazil and Cuba Organizer : Diana Pardo, University of Oklahoma Chair(s) : Diana Pardo, University of Oklahoma Luiza Mahin Has Spoken. Afro-Brazilian Women's Writings Interpret Her(story): Dawn Duke, University of Tennessee Sangre Mezclada: Racial Science, Public Policy and Debates on National Identity in Colonial Cuba: David Luis-Brown, Lafayette College Maroons, Resistance, and Heroes in Nancy Morejón's Poems: Diana Pardo, University of Oklahoma La visión posmoderna de "La Habana" en la cuentística cubana de los 90: Alicia Vadillo, SUNY/Oswego, Lidia Verson, Univ de Turabo The New Andalus: Imagining Brazil in Arabic: Armando Vargas, Williams College 128 // MTG050 non-LASA Board/Committee Meeting Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Gerónimo A LASA Student Network Roundtable Organizer : Stace Rierson, Ohio State University

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WEDNESDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm

129 // POL019 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 6 Career Ambitions and Legislative Production Organizer : Andrés Mejía-Acosta, University of British Columbia, CANADA Chair(s) : Andrés Mejía-Acosta, University of British Columbia, CANADA Pork or policy? Legislative Styles in the Colombian Congress: Maria EscobarLemmon, Texas A&M Univ Career Ambitions and Legislative Politics in Uruguay: Juan Andres Moraes, Univ of Notre Dame How do Political Ambitions Affect Legislative Productivity in Unitary, Unicameral Systems? Study of the Costa Rican and Honduran Legislatures: Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M Univ Pork or Policy? Organizational Practices, Career Ambitions and Legislative Production in Ecuador and Paraguay: Sebastian Saiegh, Univ of Pittsburgh Discussant(s) : Octavio Amorim Neto, Fundacão Getúlio Vargas, BRAZIL 130 // RRR012 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Gerónimo C The Racial Counterpoint of Cuban-ness and Puerto Rican-ness - Session Two: Diaspora Struggles and Performing Knowledges Organizer : Kelvin Santiago-Valles, State Univ of New York/Binghamton Chair(s) : Kelvin Santiago-Valles, State Univ of New York/Binghamton "Un cruce étnico fraguado en el crisol": Emilia Bernal, Tomás Blanco, and the 1930s Crises of Representation in a Shifting Global Racial Regime: Kelvin Santiago-Valles, State Univ of New York/Binghamton Palés, Ballagas, Guillén, Ortiz: Negrismo and the Politics of CanoniCity: Jerome Branche, University of Pittsburgh Dominga de la Cruz y Eusebia Cosme: Declamando lo nacional y afroantillano en Puerto Rico y Cuba entre las dos guerras: Gladys JimenezMuñoz, SUNY/Binghamton The Masked Cuban in the Puerto Rican Identity Closet: Race, Gender, and Nationalism in Two Dance Sequences from "West Side Story": Joseph Dorsey, Pardue Univ Discussant(s) : Tomás Fernández Robaina, Biblioteca Nal Jose Marti, CUBA 131 // SEC003 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo C Decentering the Historiography of Brazilian Slavery, 1720-1888: Old Problems, New Methods and Sources Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Linda Lewin, Univ of California/Berkeley Chair(s) : Linda Lewin, Univ of California/Berkeley Fiador da escravidão: O problema da escravização ilegal na Consolidação do Estado Imperial (1831-1850): Sidney Chalhoub, UNICAMP, BRAZIL O tráfico negreiro e as populações escravas das Minas Gerais. C. 1720 – C. 1850: Douglas Libby, Univ Federal de Minas Gerias, BRAZIL Discriminating Lenders: Credit, Race, and Slavery in the Rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais, 1820s-1850s: Zephyr Frank, Stanford University Domingos Pereira Sodré: Um sacerdote nagô na Bahia oitocentista: João Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, BRAZIL 'Tumult and Silence’ in Rio de Janeiro, 1848: Central African Cults of Affliction (and Rebellion) in the Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Robert Slenes, Univ Estadual de Campinas, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : Linda Lewin, Univ of California/Berkeley 132 // SEC007 Workshop Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Boardroom 1 Voces Inocentes: Discusión sobre el largometraje Sponsor : Central America Section Organizer : Silvia Lopez, Carleton College Chair(s) : Silvia Lopez, Carleton College *: Silvia Lopez, Carleton College *: Horacio Roque Ramirez, Univ of California/Santa Barbara *: Douglas Carranza-Mena, California State Univ/Northridge *: Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University *: Beatriz Cortez, California State Univ/Northridge *: Misha Kokotovic, Univ of California/ San Diego *: Ana Patricia Rodriguez, Univ of Maryland/College Park Discussant(s) : Rafael Lara Martinez, New Mexico Inst of Mining and Tech 133 // SEC013 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo B Tendencias hacia la heterogeneización en la sociedad cubana. Retos para la política social. Sponsor : Cuba Section

Organizer : Mayra Paula Espina Prieto, CIPS, CUBA Chair(s) : Miren Uriarte, University of Massachusetts/Boston Estrategias de amparo frente a las dinámicas de emprobrecimiento: Aurelio José Alonso Tejada, CIPS, CUBA El mercado laboral y su incidencia en la estratificación social: Viviana Togores González, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Coping Strategies, Safety Nets and Remittances: Lorena Guadalupe Barberia, Harvard University, BRAZIL Restratificación y Política Social: Mayra Paula Espina Prieto, CIPS, CUBA Discussant(s) : Jorge Domínguez, Harvard Univ 134 // SEC017 Workshop Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal B Imaginarios políticos regionales desde el Sur Sponsor : Culture, Power & Politics Section Organizer : Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA *: Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA *: Carlos Monsiváis, Inst Nal Antropolgia e Historia, MEXICO *: Hugo Achugar, Universidad de la República, URUGUAY *: Eduardo Gruner, Univ Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Discussant(s) : Liv Sovik, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL 135 // SEC024 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Tropical A Crisis democrática en el Ecuador Sponsor : Ecuadorian Section Organizer : Michelle Wibbelsman, Univ of Texas/Austin Chair(s) : Michelle Wibbelsman, Univ of Texas/Austin Activismo académico y politicas locales: Michelle Wibbelsman, Univ of Texas/Austin Bloqueos al sistema democrático contemporáneo: Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois/Chicago Structural Constraints on Democratization in Ecuador: Liisa North, York University, CANADA Consistencia y permanencia de la democracia excluyente: Willington Paredes, Archivo Historico del Guayas, ECUADOR Refugio Colombiano, Seguridad, Fronteras y Derechos Humanos: La Inserción Ecuatoriana en el Plan Colombia: Fredy Rivera-Vélez, FLACSO/Ecuador, ECUADOR Discussant(s) : Adrián Bonilla, FLACSO, ECUADOR, Carlos De La Torre, FLASCO/ Ecuador, ECUADOR 136 // SEC027 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Salón del Mar A Can Decentralization Re-center Natural Resource Management? Sponsor : Environment Section Organizer : Andrea Ballestero, University of California/Irvine Chair(s) : Andrea Ballestero, University of California/Irvine Can power structures be decentralized in water management? Northeast Brazil and the making of water scarcities: Andrea Ballestero, University of California/Irvine Home Gardens, Rural-urban Linkages, and Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: Antoinette Winklerprins, Michigan State University The Geography of Environmental NGOs: Sustainable Forestry Projects, NGOs, and Central Places in Ecuador: Thomas Rudel, Rutgers University, Lena Raberg, Rutgers University The Political Ecology of Indigenous Movements and Tree Plantations in Chile: Maria du Monceau de Bergendal, University of British Columbia, CANADA When Social Movement Proposals Become Policy: Experiments in Sustainable Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Marianne Schmink, University of Florida Discussant(s) : Janis Alcorn, The Field Mesuem 137 // SEC032 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo A Cinema of Greater Puerto Rico Sponsor : Film Studies Section Organizer : Paul Schroeder, Univ of Hawaii/Manoa Chair(s) : Paul Schroeder, Univ of Hawaii/Manoa History of Puerto Rican Cinema: The Enigma of Silence: Paul Schroeder, Univ of Hawaii/Manoa

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WEDNESDAY / 2:00 – 3:45 pm The Greater Caribbean Multiplex: Diasporic Framing of Caribbean Cinemas: Marvin D'Lugo, Clark Univ “Desamores”, ¿diálogo del cine boricua con la convención clásica de Hollywood?: Lissette Rolón Collazo, University of Puerto Rico RUM Inside Out: Puerto Ricans and the "Latinization" of Independent Media: Frances Negrón Montaner, Columbia University La División de Educación de la Comunidad (DIVEDCO): Armando la modernidad e interpretando la cultura: José Rivera González, Universidad de Puerto Rico Postcolonial Transgressions?: Intextuality and Modes of Representation in "El Beso Que Me Diste" and "Memorias del Subdesarrollo": Luis Figueroa, Trinity College 138 // SEC037 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 8 Gender, Equity and Feminisms in Times of Neoliberal Globalization, Economic Integration and Technological Development Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Section Organizer : Gwyndolyn Weathers, Universidad de Puerto Rico Chair(s) : Gwyndolyn Weathers, Universidad de Puerto Rico Gendered Regimes of Crisis and Fiscal Discipline: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and Civil Society in Argentina: Gwyndolyn Weathers, Universidad de Puerto Rico Women’s Dissidence in Jamaica’s Globalized Tourism: Augusta Lynn Bolles, Univ of Maryland/ College Park Building the Familial State: Gender Regimes in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua: Emily Mann, University of Maryland Can Women Rule? Gendered Power Structures in Puerto Rico: Luz del Alba Acevedo-Gaud, Universidad de Puerto Rico 139 // SEC038 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Flamingo D Challenges Facing Haiti and the Dominican Republic Sponsor : Haiti/ Dominican Republic Section Organizer : Henry Carey, Georgia State Univ Chair(s) : Emelio Rafael Betances Medina, Gettysburg College The Social Pastoral of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic: Emelio Rafael Betances Medina, Gettysburg College A Rural Perspective on Dominican Catholicism: Catherine LeGrand, McGill University, CANADA Haiti: Hazards, Disasters and Environmental Degradation: Sandra WoyHazleton, Miami University of Ohio, Avram Primack, Ramapo College of New Jersey Stealing the Citadel: Icons of Nationhood and Memories of Theft in Haitian Narratives of Kout Kouto: Robin Lauren Derby, Univ of California/Los Angeles The Politics of Decentralization in the Dominican Republic, 1994-2005: Christopher Mitchell, New York University Tying the Strategical Knot: Dominican Marital Patterns 1700-1815: Christine Rivas, Carleton Univ, CANADA Discussant(s) : Dennis Hidalgo, Adelphi Univ

Lo que está muerto no ha sido enterrado: Violencia política y memoria colectiva en la obra de Tulio Mora: Mariela Dreyfus, New York University Espacios de identidad: una mirada a los espacios públicos, los nuevos medios y las nuevas imágenes del Perú contemporáneo: Rodrigo Quijano, , PERU 142 // SEC052 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 10 Party System Change - How and Why Party Systems Evolve and Decay Sponsor : Political Institutions Section Organizer : Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M Univ Chair(s) : John Carey, Dartmouth College The Effect of Authoritarian Interludes on Party Systems in Latin America: Erica Frantz, UCLA Party System Change in Venezuela: From Institutionalized Party System to Anti-Party Politics, 1973-2003: Jana Morgan Kelly, Univ of Tennessee El Sistema de Partidos Guatemaltecos (o un traje nuevo para cada eleccion): María del Mar Martínez Rosón, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN Discussant(s) : Peter Siavelis, Wake Forest University 143 // SEC058 Workshop Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal C Lo que queda en el después: reflexiones a 30 años del último golpe militar en Argentina Sponsor : Southern Cone Studies Organizer : Laura Demaria, Univ of Maryland/ College Park Chair(s) : Fernando Reati, Georgia State University *: Mario César Villani, Human Rights Activist *: Saúl Sosnowski, University of Maryland *: Nora Strejilevich, San Diego State University Discussant(s) : Idelber Avelar, Tulane University

140 // SEC044 Workshop Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm San Cristóbal D Building Bridges Among Latino, Latin American, Chicano,Dominican and Puerto Rican Studies - Workshop I Sponsor : Latino Studies Section Organizer : Victor Ortiz, Northeastern Illinois Univ Chair(s) : Pedro Cabán, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign *: Pedro Cabán, Univ of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign *: Ramona Hernandez, City University of New York *: Isar Godreau, Univ of Puerto Rico en Cayey 141 // SEC049 Panel Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Conference 3 El arte de recordar: representaciones de la memoria en la cultura peruana del Siglo XX Sponsor : Peru Section Organizer : Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College Chair(s) : Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College Crónicas de la niñez: Entre la nostalgia y la memoria crítica: Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College Los medios de la memoria: Margarita Saona, University of Illinois/Chicago El otro como desecho: El testimonio de El Brujo y la justificacion de los excesos de la guerra sucia peruana: Rocío Silva Santisteban, Univ Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, PERU Los "intelectuales populares" y la simbolización de la experiencia subalterna: Gonzalo Portocarrero, Pontifica Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU

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Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm 144 // CIT010 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo C On and Off Streets: Urban Life and Social Conflict in Latin America, Past and Present Organizer : Suzanne Wilson, Gustavus Adolphus College Chair(s) : Veronica Kann, University of Illinois Perspectivas de la violencia en América Latina: Nelson Arteaga Botello, Univ Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, MEXICO Keep It Inside: The Containment of Latina/o Ethnic Identity on a Midwestern University Campus: Veronica Kann, University of Illinois Identidades in-corporadas. Indígenas reetnizados y espacios públicos y privados en Putumayo, Colombia: Margarita Cháves-Chamorro, Inst Colombiano de Antropologia, COLOMBIA So the DOPS (Political Police) and Riot Squads Were Sent to Copacabana: Campaigns to Moralize the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1920-1950: BJ Barickman, University of Arizona Publicizing Intimacy and the Body in the Market for Erotic Services in Rio de Janeiro: Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos, Escola Nal de Saude Publica, BRAZIL Discussant(s) : William Kelleher, Univ of Illinois 145 // CSH004 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar A The Struggle for Citizens’ Security, Social Justice and Human Rights: Initiatives of (Local) Government and Civil Society Organizer : Marieke Denissen, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Chair(s) : Marieke Denissen, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Tres versiones sobre la seguridad: Sebastian Mauro, , ARGENTINA A Politics of Cooperation or Cooptation? The Participation of 'victims of the state' in the National Program against Impunity in Argentina: Marieke Denissen, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Post-war Rondas Campesinas in the Upper Huallaga Valley, Peru: Mirella Van Dun, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Kirchner's measures in the field of 'Memory, Justice and Truth' in Argentina: a blessing or a curse?: Saskia Van Drunen, Amsterdam Univ, THE NETHERLANDS Urban Violence in Colombia and the Impact of Peace Negotiations: Ralph Rozema, Utrecht Univ, THE NETHERLANDS Discussant(s) : Kees Koonings, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS 146 // CUL029 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 8 Borderline Indigeneities Organizer : Brent Metz, University of Kansas Chair(s) : Brent Metz, University of Kansas Ambiguous Indigeneities in the Ch'orti' Area of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador: Brent Metz, University of Kansas Inter-ethnic Alliances or Ethnicity Redefined? Uprisings in Early 20th Century Northern Ecuador: Kenneth Kincaid, Univ of Kansas/Johnson County CC Discursos sobre los derechos de sangre en las comunidades indígenas y ladinas-pardas en el Oriente de Guatemala: Claudia Dary, University at Albany, GUATEMALA "Indios" y Ladinos en Huité, Guatemala: Felipe Girón, AVANCSO, GUATEMALA 147 // CUL048 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie After Neoliberalism I: Borders of Governance Organizer : Therese Tardio, Carnegie Mellon University Chair(s) : Therese Tardio, Carnegie Mellon University Drawing the Line: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Limits of Neoliberalism: Roger Rouse, Univ of California/Davis From Hispanidad to Iberoamerican Cooperation to Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Europeanization, Spanish Political Culture, and Shifting Strategies of Engagement with Latin America and Latin Americans.: Richard Maddox, Carnegie Mellon Univ La post-modernidad primero, la modernidad quién sabe: D/efectos culturales del neoliberalismo en Centro América: Erick Blandon, Arkansas Tech University

Producing Personhood and Profit Rates: The Emergence of New Regimes of Accumulation and Modes of Regulation Across El Salvador and the United States: David Pedersen, Univ of California/San Diego Building New Hope or Sustaining Old Myths? Critical Reflections on Fair Trade Coffee in Mesoamerica: John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant(s) : Fernando Coronil, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor 148 // CUL049 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo D Sex, Death, and the State in History and Anthropology Organizer : Patrick Timmons, Augusta State University Chair(s) : Alan Gomez, Univ of Texas/Austin Eréndira. La leyenda tras el nombre: Ana Ramírez Barreto, UMSNH, MEXICO, Mayra Gabriela Alvarez, UMSNH Death and the Definition of the Nation: Mexico, Spain, and the Murders of San Vicente, 1856 - 1859: Patrick Timmons, Augusta State University Overcoming the Passionate Stage: Sex, Psychiatry, and Mexican Serial Killers, 1929-48: Everard Meade, University of California Nationalism and Latin-Caribbean Gender Identity of Male Sex Workers in Havana: G. Derrick Hodge, CUNY/Rutgers Commercial Sex and the Death of the State in Chiapas, Mexico: Patricia Kelly, Quinnipiac Univ Discussant(s) : Claudio Lomnitz, New School University 149 // CYC008 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 9 Barbie Came in a Bilingual Box: Ethnic Toys and Latina/o Identity Organizer : Rosa Soto, St. Lawrence University Chair(s) : Rosa Soto, St. Lawrence University Learning Child Protagonists in Latin American Children's Literature: Genny Ballard, Centre College Los objetos en la cultura del "rap" en Puerto Rico: el rol del carro en la constitución de identidades y en los procesos de interacción: Madeline Cabeza Arteaga “Are you my Homie?” Taking a Look at Ethnic Toys and a New Financial Playground: Rosa Soto, St. Lawrence University La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie: Karen Goldman, Chatham College Homies as Collectible Social Types: Sarah Gould, Univ of Michigan 150 // DEM008 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal F Conditional Relationships Betweeen Economic Development and Democracy Organizer : Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame Chair(s) : Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame Drugs, Civil War, and the Conditional Impact of the Economy on Democracy: Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame Endogenous Democratization in Latin America?: Todd Landman, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM Trade Dependence and Democratic Survival: Understanding an Intricate Relationship: Mariana Sousa, University of Notre Dame The Link Between Economic Development and Democracy: What Role Does Inequality Play in Latin America?: Simeon Nichter, UC Berkeley Discussant(s) : Peter Smith, Univ of California/San Diego, SPAIN, J. Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame 151 // DEM009 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 6 Representación y participación política de las mujeres en los países andinos (Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia) Sponsor : Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología Organizer : M. Esther Del Campo García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Chair(s) : Marisa Ramos-Rollón, Agenia Española Cooperacion Int'l, SPAIN Women’s Mobilization in Transitioning Regimes: A Women to Women Approach in Honduras: Courtney Rivard, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Instituciones y representación política de las mujeres en Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia: M. Esther Del Campo García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Cultura política y participación política de las mujeres en Ecuador: Marisa Revilla Blanco, Univ Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Discussant(s) : Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco, FLASCO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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WEDNESDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm 152 // DEM066 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 7 Civil-Military Relations in Contemporary Latin America Organizer : Katherine Hite, Vassar College Chair(s) : Katherine Hite, Vassar College When Does the Army Police the People? A Comparative Analysis of Peru and Ecuador: Maiah Jaskoski, Univ of California/Berkeley Memory in Southern Chile: Concentration Camps' Survivors Return to Dawson Island to Remember and Demand Justice and Reparation for Human Rights Violations: Elie Valencia, The Hague Parnassia Physc Inst, THE NETHERLANDS 153 // FEA006 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Las Olas Latin American Studies Journals: Round Table Forum with the Editors Sponsor : LARR Organizer : Peter Ward, University of Texas/Austin Chair(s) : Peter Ward, University of Texas/Austin *: William Smith, University of Miami *: Michiel Baud, CEDLA-Univ of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS *: Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland *: Victor Armony, Université du Québec/ Montréal, CANADA *: Ronald Chilcote, Univ of California/Riverside *: Claudia de Lima Costa, Univ Federal de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL *: David Howard, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM Discussant(s) : Nicola Miller, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM 154 // FEA015 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamboyan Interdisciplinarities Organizer : Florencia Mallon, University of Wisconsin Chair(s) : Jose Limon, Univ of Texas/Austin *: Shannan Mattiace, Allegheny College *: Mark Everingham, University of Wisconsin *: Carlos Iván Degregori Caso, Inst de Estudios Peruanos, PERU *: Margarita Antonio, Inst Comunicacion Intercultural, NICARAGUA 155 // GLT026 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal A Global Trends, Regional and National Consequences Organizer : Antonio Carmona Báez, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedra Chair(s) : Antonio Carmona Báez, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedra The Development of Development: The Rise of the National Human Development Report in Brazil: Peter Dixon, University of California/Berkeley El concepto de desarrollo. Tranformaciones y perspectivas: Antonio Casella, Univ del Zulia, VENEZUELA Global Mining Capital in Developing Countries: Increasing Disparities Between the North and the South: Jeannette Graulau-Santiago, CUNY A integração regional e as políticas de defesa de Brasil e Argentina: Samuel Alves Soares, São Paulo State Univ, BRAZIL Going Beyond the Law? Intellectual Property and Trade Negotiations between The United States and Latin America: Fernando Barrio, London Metropolitan University, UNITED KINGDOM 156 // HIS033 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo A Mexican Caciquismo Reconsidered Organizer : Wil Pansters, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Chair(s) : Alan Knight, St. Antony's College Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM *: Alan Knight, St. Antony's College Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM *: Guillermo De La Peña, CIESAS -Occidente, MEXICO *: Richard Snyder, Brown University *: Wil Pansters, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS Discussant(s) : Ben Fallaw, Colby College 157 // HIS042 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 1 Mexico and the 1940s: A Decade of Transformation? Organizer : Nichole Sanders, Lynchburg College Chair(s) : Susan Gauss, University at Albany *: Susan Gauss, University at Albany *: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, Sonoma State University *: Gladys McCormick, Univ of Wisconsin *: Aaron Navarro, University of North Texas *: Dina Berger, Loyola University/Chicago *: Halbert Jones, Harvard University *: Jaymie Heilman, Univ of Wisconsin/ Madison

Discussant(s) : Mary Kay Vaughan, Univ of Maryland/College Park 158 // HIS046 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal E "Saviors of Our Societies": Representation, Development, and the Inteventionist State in the Spanish Caribbean during the 20th Century Organizer : Jose Solá Sanchez, Cleveland State Univ Chair(s) : Jose Solá Sanchez, Cleveland State Univ Remaking the Island: Images Development and Tranquility as Propaganda to Market Puerto Rico in The United States, 1945-1950: Jose Solá Sanchez, Cleveland State Univ El arte de gobernar: algunas reflexiones sobre la representación historiográfica de los Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico durante la década del 1930: Manuel R. Rodriguez, Univ of Puerto Rico El "little Pittsburgh" de Fomento: Eje fugaz del discurso político del PPD: Luis Gabriel Villaronga Sweet, Univ of Puerto Rico Sustainable Tourism Development and Environmental Conservation in Cuba: Ricardo Pérez-Figueroa, Eastern Conn State Univ Discussant(s) : Javier Figueroa, Universidad de Puerto Rico 159 // HIS062 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Boardroom 2 The Military in Politics/The Politics of the Military Organizer : Julie Charlip, Whitman College Chair(s) : Julie Charlip, Whitman College Viejos y nuevos aires del caudillismo en América Latina: Pedro Castro, Univ Auto Metropolitana/Iztapalapa, MEXICO Bearing Arms without an Army: The Costa Rican Security Forces: Julie Charlip, Whitman College Transnational Meanings of the 1954 Coup in Guatemala: Max Friedman, Florida State University 160 // LAB011 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo C Globalización y trabajo en la transición Organizer : Iris Martha Roldán, FLACSO, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Iris Martha Roldán, FLACSO, ARGENTINA Red October: Class Formation and Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivia’s Gas War, 2003: Jeffery Webber, Univ of Toronto, CANADA Neoliberal Globalization, "the Precarious Classes", and Workers in Latin America: Harry Targ, Purdue University, David Cormier, West Virginia University 161 // LAT023 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 5 Acculturation and Identity Maintenance: Media, Language and Sports Organizer : Juan Javier Pescador, Michigan State University Chair(s) : Juan Javier Pescador, Michigan State University Deconstructing a U.S. Hispanic Advertising Campaign from the Inside Out: Alex Bruton, Univ of Houston Latinos in Missouri Need More Space: The Media Role in the Acculturation Process: Mariana De Maio, Nuestra Comunidad Aztlan Sunday Heroes: Mexican American Sports and Transnational Identities, 1920-2000: Juan Javier Pescador, Michigan State University 162 // LCO002 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Política, ética y memoria: una encrucijada para la narrativa latinoamericana en el fin del siglo XX Organizer : Ana María Amar Sánchez, University of California/Irvine Chair(s) : Ana María Amar Sánchez, University of California/Irvine Novel Testimonies: Redefining Testimonio in Post Dictatorship Argentina: Janis Breckenridge, Hiram College Of Scars and Wires: Traumatized Cyborgs in Carlos Gamerro’s Las Islas: J. Andrew Brown, Washington University Instrucciones para la derrota. Memoria y política en el relato latinoamericano: Ana María Amar Sánchez, University of California/Irvine Rodríguez Juliá, o el deber de la memoria: Ivette Hernandez-Torres, University of California/Irvine Mirada de archivo: fotografía y ficción en tres autores puertorriqueños: María Lourdes Dávila, New York University Etica y política: un sujeto para el futuro: Luis Aviles, University of California/Irvine Discussant(s) : Juan Ramón Duchesne-Winter, Universidad de Puerto Rico

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WEDNESDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm 163 // LIA019 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie The Multiple Locations of Abjection Organizer : Felicia Fahey, Bates College Chair(s) : Felicia Fahey, Bates College Reclaiming Abjection; Luisa Valenzuela: Felicia Fahey, Bates College La Tequilera: Lucha Reyes, Ranchera Music, and Neo-Mexicanist Cultural Nationalism: Sergio De La Mora, University of California/Davis Mostrando la hilacha: Sarmiento viajero y la figura del flaneur: Thomas Crowder, Stanford University 164 // LIA054 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Indigenismo y globalización Organizer : Sergio Ramírez-Franco, University of Scranton Chair(s) : Sergio Ramírez-Franco, University of Scranton Indigenismo más allá del estado-nación: Estelle Tarica, Univ of California/Berkeley Indigenismo, género y anticlericalismo en el Perú republicano: Ana Peluffo, Univ of California/Davis Heterogeneidades migrantes en América Latina: Miradas, discursos y contradiscursos. Para una historia cultural alternativa: Raul Bueno-Chavez, Dartmouth College Narrativas de niñez y migración de peruanas en los EEUU: Ulises ZevallosAguilar, Ohio State University Discussant(s) : Neil Larsen, University of California/ Davis 165 // LIA075 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 4 Choteando la transculturación: Brazil y Cuba Organizer : Aida Beaupied, Chestnut Hill College Chair(s) : Aida Beaupied, Chestnut Hill College Transculturação e Plasticidade: Diálogo entre os ensaios de Fernando Ortiz e Gilberto Freyre: Alfredo Melo, Univ of California / Berkeley Choteo y trascendentalismo en los discursos cubanos de la libertad: Aida Beaupied, Chestnut Hill College Renovation and Conservation in Brazilian Literature and Music: Jack Draper, University of Missouri An Epicurean Powder Keg: Fear and Revolution in Brazilian 19th Century Conservative Thought: Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton Univ 166 // LIA080 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Nuevas voces, nueva narrativa Organizer : Elizabeth Cummins-Muñoz, University of Houston Chair(s) : Elizabeth Cummins-Muñoz, University of Houston Pintando Poemas, Escribiendo Pinturas: Los poemas pintados de Huidobro: Claudia Cubillos Marcu, University of Alberta, CANADA Alegorías del mesianismo: el circo, el teatro y la pantomima en las novelas generacionales de Alejandro Jodorowsky: Henri Blanc Hoang, Univ of Florida Nuevas Voces en el cuento puertorriqueno: "Historias tremendas de Pedro Cabiya": Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus, Bloomsburg Univ of Pennsylvania Entre los lares y las tierras de nadie: un análisis ecocrítico comparativo de Jorge Teillier y Enrique Lihn: Christopher Travis, Elmhurst College 167 // POL028 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Ceiba The Centrality of Human Rights for U.S. Foreign Policy Goals: Lessons from Latin America Organizer : Kimberly Stanton, Project Counselling Service, COLOMBIA Chair(s) : Kimberly Stanton, Project Counselling Service, COLOMBIA Torture in Democracies: Latin America and the United States: Kimberly Stanton, Project Counselling Service, COLOMBIA Derechos humanos y estado de derecho en Colombia: Rafael Barrios Mendivil, Colectivo de Abogados J A Restrepo, COLOMBIA Human Rights and Security Assistance: The Case of Colombia: Michael Evans, National Security Archive Unintended Consequences: How Military Assistance Undermines Citizen Security: Adam Isacson, Ctr for International Policy El rol de la sociedad civil en la reforma de la justicia en América Latina: Katya Salazar, Due Process of Law Foundation

168 // SEC002 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal G Public Policy in Brazil under Lula: Progress and Challenges Sponsor : Brazil Section Organizer : Ted Goertzel, Rutgers University/Camden Chair(s) : Sybil Rhodes, Western Michigan Univ The Politics of Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology in Brazil: Sybil Rhodes, Western Michigan Univ Industrial Policy and State Capacity under Lula: Progress and Challenges: Dexter Boniface, Rollins College Public Policy in Brazil Under Lula: Corruption as a Tool for Social Reform: Ted Goertzel, Rutgers University/Camden Lula and Land Reform: Why So Little Progress?: Gabriel Ondetti, Missouri State University Discussant(s) : Wendy Hunter, University of Texas/Austin, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Fundação Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL 169 // SEC011 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Salón del Mar B Contemporary Colombian Narrative: Strategies for Coping with Violence, Narrativa colombiana contemporánea: estrategias para combatir la violencia Sponsor : Colombia Section Organizer : Julie Lirot, Miami University Chair(s) : Julie Lirot, Miami University Helena Araujo and Consuelo Triviño: Colombia in Exile: Julie Lirot, Miami University El laberinto de los delirios en búsqueda del amor: José Osorio, Queensborough Community College La narrativa de Fernando Vallejo: memoria apócrifa de un escritor y de un país: Nayla Chehade, Univ of Wisconsin/Whitewater El personaje marginal en la novela colombiana: Beatriz Botero, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Identidades híbridas, resistencia cultural y discurso de género en los pañamanes de Fanny Buitrago: Graciela Maglia Ferrari, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, COLOMBIA 170 // SEC014 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo B Reformas Educacionales en Cuba: Hacia una Pedagogía Cultural Sponsor : Cuba Section Organizer : Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona University Chair(s) : Erwin Epstein, Loyola University of Chicago, and Robert Austin, CECATP, AUSTRALIA La universalización de la educación superior en Cuba. Nuevas prácticas educativas: Nancy López Díaz, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA La universalización de la universidad cubana. Una alternativa para el desarrollo educacional ante procesos globalizadores: Pedro Pablo Recio Molina, , CUBA La masificación de la Educación Superior: Mito o realidad. Experiencias del caso Cuba: Elvira del Pilar Martin Sabina, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Perspectives of Cuban Education: Schooling and the Third Revolution: Sheryl Lutjens, Northern Arizona University Mutirracialidad , género y universalización de la Educación Superior: Notas sobre su estudio en una sede municipal: Lourdes Serrano Peralta, Univ de La Habana, CUBA Experiences of Participatory Action Research at the Community Level in Cuba: Nydia Gonzalez Rodriguez, Asoc Pedagogos Cubanos, CUBA 171 // SEC020 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical A Redes sociales en relación con políticas culturales y educación Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Marc Zimmerman, University of Houston Chair(s) : Marc Zimmerman, University of Houston *: Marc Zimmerman, University of Houston *: Liliana Cotto-Morales, Universidad de Puerto Rico *: Alicia Carranza, Univ Nal de Cordoba, ARGENTINA *: George Yúdice, New York University Discussant(s) : Mirta Alejandra Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA 172 // SEC033 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Flamingo A Encrucijadas del cine latinoamericano Sponsor : Film Studies Section Organizer : Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University Chair(s) : Isabel Arredondo, State University of New York

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WEDNESDAY / 4:00 – 5:45 pm ¿Volver a estudiar religión?: Una aproximación desde los estudios culturales al cine mexicano contemporáneo: Isabel Arredondo, State University of New York Rezos y susurros en el cine argentino: Jorge Marturano, Case Western Reserve University 'Lo siniestro' y 'el otro inapropiado'. Derechos humanos y distancias sociales en 'El espinazo del diablo': Adriana Bergero, Univ of California/Los Angeles 76 89 03 y la paternidad dictatorial de la Argentina neoliberal: Gabriela Copertari, Case Western Reserve Univ Alegorías de globalización en 'Amores perros' e 'Y tu mamá también': Rebecca Biron, University of Miami Cine y televisión, ¿nexos y/o rivalidades? Las experiencias mexicanas y brasileñas en la época actual: Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan Discussant(s) : Marvin D'Lugo, Clark Univ 173 // SEC035 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical C Informe de la preconferencia de la Sección de Género y estudios feministas: "Desigualdades, exclusiones, integración y aperturas: Género e intersecciones en los tiempos de la globalización" Sponsor : Gender and Feminist Section Organizer : Alice Colón-Warren, Univ de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras Chair(s) : Sara Poggio, Univ of Maryland/Baltimore County 174 // SEC041 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 3 Transformations in the Workplace via New Forms of Worker Ownership and Management: Alternative Historical and Contemporary Working Class Relationships in the Southern Cone. Sponsor : Labor Studies Section Organizer : Peter Ranis, Graduate Center/CUNY Chair(s) : Peter Ranis, Graduate Center/CUNY “To Occupy, to Resist, to Produce”: Argentina’s Worker-Managed Factories and Enterprises: Peter Ranis, Graduate Center/CUNY New Workplace Relationships in the Chilean Textile Industry: From Worker Self-Management to Recuperated Enterprises: Peter Winn, Tufts University Discussant(s) : Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State Univ 175 // SEC045 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal D Building Bridges Among Latino, Latin American, Chicano, Dominican and Puerto Rican Studies - Workshop II Sponsor : Latino Studies Section Organizer : Victor Ortiz, Northeastern Illinois Univ Chair(s) : Victor Ortiz, Northeastern Illinois Univ *: Victor Ortiz, Northeastern Illinois Univ *: Juan Sandoval, Nat Inst Anthropolgy and History, MEXICO *: Andres Jimenez Montoya, CA Policy Rsrch Cntr/U of CA *: Allert Brown-Gort, University of Notre Dame *: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California Discussant(s) : Dennis Bixler-Marquez, University of Texas/El Paso 176 // SEC047 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal B The 2006 Peru Elections Sponsor : Peru Section Organizer : Charles Kenney, University of Oklahoma Chair(s) : Charles Kenney, University of Oklahoma *: Charles Kenney, University of Oklahoma *: Cynthia McClintock, George Washington Univ *: Gregory Schmidt, Northern Illinois University *: Julio Carrion, University of Delaware *: David Scott Palmer, Boston University *: Maxwell Cameron, University of British Columbia, CANADA

Discussant(s) : Raul Zibechi, Revista La Brecha, URUGUAY 178 // SEC061 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Tropical B Publics in the Venezuelan Transition Sponsor : Venezuelan Section Organizer : David Smilde, University of Georgia Chair(s) : David Smilde, University of Georgia Religion and Polarization: Catholics and Evangelicals during the Chávez Years: David Smilde, University of Georgia María Lionza: polarización religiosa y política en la Venezuela contemporánea: Daisy Barreto Ramos, University Central de Venezuela, VENEZUELA Poetry, Possession and Women's Political Discourse in Venezuela: Elizabeth Gackstette Nichols, Drury University Venezuela's telenovela: Polarization and political discourse in "Cosita Rica": Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, University of Georgia Public Spheres of Controversy in the Barrios of Caracas: Sujatha Fernandes, Princeton University The Multitude and Local Power: Bases of Collective Action in the "23 de enero", 1958-1989: Alejandro Velasco, Duke University 179 // SEC064 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm Conference 10 Military Justice and Lack of Democracy in Latin America Sponsor : Law, Jurisprudence and Society Section Organizer : Jorge Zaverucha, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BRAZIL Chair(s) : Jorge Zaverucha, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BRAZIL Judicial Reform, Military Justice, and the Case of Chile's Carabineros: Meredith Fensom, University of Florida El Fuero Militar en México: La injusticia en las Fuerzas Armadas: Manuel González Oropeza, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO Superior Tribunal Militar: Entre o autoritarismo e a democracia: Jorge Zaverucha, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BRAZIL International Humanitarian Law and Political Conflict: Henry Carey, Georgia State Univ 180 // SMO009 Panel Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Gerónimo B Military Power and Civil Society: The Case of Vieques, Puerto Rico: Part Two: Struggle and the Environment Organizer : Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ Chair(s) : Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’s Experiences at the Heart of Vieques’ Social Movement: Victor Torres Velez, Michigan State Univ Social Movements and the Transformation of Civil Society: The Vieques Antimilitary Movement and the Change in Puerto Rico’s Political Public Sphere: Roberto Velez-Velez, University at Albany-SUNY Environmental Justice and the Clean-up of Vieques: Sherrie Baver, City University of New York Refuge for Whom?: Vieques and the Uses of a Bombing Area: John LindsayPoland, Fellowship of Reconciliation Vieques después del cese de bombardeo militar: la lucha continúa: Deborah Berman-Santana, Mills College Modeling Vieques as a Demilitarization Success Story: Andrés Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International Discussant(s) : Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, University of Puerto Rico

177 // SEC060 Workshop Wednesday 4:00 - 5:45 pm San Cristóbal C Recent Forms of Political Participation in the Cono Sur Countries Sponsor : Southern Cone Section Organizer : Edward Epstein, Univ of Utah Chair(s) : Edward Epstein, Univ of Utah *: Philip Oxhorn, McGill Univ, CANADA *: Diana Kapiszewski, University of California/Berkeley *: Christopher Cardona, University of California/Berkeley *: Edward Epstein, Univ of Utah

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WEDNESDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm 181 // CUL011 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 3 Normandie After Neoliberalism II: Bodies of Governance Organizer : Paul Eiss, Carnegie Mellon Univ Chair(s) : Paul Eiss, Carnegie Mellon Univ The Tláhuac Files: Lynching and Sovereignty in Mexico: Paul Eiss, Carnegie Mellon Univ Revolution, Perfection, Death?: John Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia, CANADA Social Movements, Democratic Governance, and the Crisis of the State: the Bolivian Case: Javier Sanjines, Univ of Michigan/Ann Arbor Mujeres al borde del neoliberalismo: viejas opresiones, nuevas resistencias: Therese Tardio, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant(s) : John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh 182 // CUL018 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 2 Normandie Cultura experta e identidad. Científicos, analistas y literatos haciendo y deshaciendo lo colectivo Organizer : Gabriel Gatti, Ctro Estudios Identidad Colectiva, SPAIN Chair(s) : Ignacio Irazuzta, ITESM, MEXICO Pericias sociológicas y recursos de identidad: Clases medias, política y sociedad en los inicios de la institucionalización académica de la Sociología en Argentina: Ignacio Irazuzta, ITESM, MEXICO Los saberes expertos y el poder de hacer y deshacer "sociedad": Pablo De Marinis, Univ de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA La persistencia neoliberal de la Ciudad Letrada: espectáculo, escándalo y el Nuevo Cuerpo: Joseba Gabilondo, Michigan State University Ingeniería del eufemismo e instituciones-zombie. Los límites literarios del orden social: Iñaki Martinez de Albeniz, Univ of the Basque Country, SPAIN Tras el paso de los expertos: Gabriel Gatti, Ctro Estudios Identidad Colectiva, SPAIN Discussant(s) : Horacio Sívori, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL 183 // CUL026 Workshop Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 2 War, Culture, Propaganda: Nelson Rockefeller and the U.S. "Information Program” in Latin America during World War II Organizer : Uwe Luebken, German Historical Institute Chair(s) : Christof Mauch, German Historical Institute *: Christof Mauch, German Historical Institute *: Uwe Luebken, German Historical Institute *: Catha Paquette, California State Univ/Long Beach *: Gisela Cramer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, UNITED KINGDOM *: Ursula Prutsch, Univ of Vienna, AUSTRIA 184 // DEM028 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 7 Assessing the Quality of Recently Democratized Countries: Experiences from Latin America Organizer : Angel Gustavo López-Montiel, Tecnologico de Monterrey, MEXICO Chair(s) : Angel Gustavo López-Montiel, Tecnologico de Monterrey, MEXICO Methodologies for Measuring the Quality of Democracy: Angel Gustavo López-Montiel, Tecnologico de Monterrey, MEXICO How can elections contribute to the improvement of democratic quality?: Humberto Trejo-Catalán, Inst Electoral Distrito Federal, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Martha Singer Sohet, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO 185 // DEM050 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal F Populism or Social-democracy? Alternatives to Neo-liberalism in Contemporary South America Organizer : Carlos Waisman, Univ of California/San Diego Chair(s) : Graciela Ducatenzeiler, Université de Montréal, CANADA Ruptures and continuities in Kirchner's Argentina: Sebastián Barros, Universidad Nal de la Patagonia, ARGENTINA Political reactions to neo-liberalism: between populism and social democracy: Graciela Ducatenzeiler, Université de Montréal, CANADA

Under which Conditions are Social-democracy Policies Likely? The Structural and Institutional Conditions of Populism and Socialdemocracy in the Southern Cone: Carlos Waisman, Univ of California/San Diego Los límites de la hibridación. Entre neo-liberalismo y social democracia: El caso chileno: Manuel Antonio Garretón, Universidad de Chile, CHILE From Cardoso to Lula: The Politics and Policies of Reform in Democratic Brazil: Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, Universidade de São Paulo, BRAZIL 186 // DEM061 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical B Political Parties: Formation, Re-formation, and Performance Organizer : Mark Setzler, Hight Point University Chair(s) : Mark Setzler, Hight Point University La estructura ausente. Instituciones informales y partidos políticos. El caso de la Unión Cívica Radical (UCR): Fernando Pedrosa, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN Economic and Political Crises: Impact on Party Membership in Contemporary Argentina (1989-2002).: Simone Bohn, Universidade de São Paulo Does Electoral Competition Affect Political Party Performance in Government? A Study of Democratic Governance in Mexico: Adela Yomara Guerra Aguijosa, Georgetown University Partisanship and Democratic Accountability in the Brazilian Electorate: Mark Setzler, Hight Point University 187 // ECO011 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Gerónimo C CAFTA Politics: Negotiating Free Trade in Central America Organizer : Rose Spalding, DePaul Univ Chair(s) : Rose Spalding, DePaul Univ Inequality in Central America in the 1990s: Thomas Gindling, University of Maryland/Baltimore Costa Rica: El nuevo estilo nacional de desarrollo: Jorge Rovira-Más, Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA Trade Agreement Bargaining: Costa Rica and the CAFTA Negotiations: Eliza Willis, Grinnell College, Janet Seiz, Grinnell College CAFTA Politics in El Salvador and Costa Rica: Rose Spalding, DePaul Univ Discussant(s) : Marc Edelman, City Univ of New York/Hunter 188 // ECO018 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal E Perspectives on Regional Integration: Intra-Industry Trade and the FTAA Organizer : Mehrene Larudee, DePaul University Chair(s) : Mehrene Larudee, DePaul University La estrategia de EE UU en Centroamérica: control del agua y la biodiversidad: Noemi Esther Acosta Guillén, Centro Estudios sobre América, CUBA El impacto de las remesas en el desarrollo económico de América Latina y el Caribe: Mariana Martinez Pose, Florida Internationl Univ El entorno externo Latinoamericano y Caribeño: Análisis comparativo de los patrones de relaciones económicas de Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea con la región: Hilda Puerta Rodríguez, Ctro de Investig de Econ Interncl, CUBA The Political Economy of NAFTA and the FTAA: Mehrene Larudee, DePaul University Types of Intra-Industry Trade: Evidence for the Mexican Manufacturing Trade: Maritza Sotomayor, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona 189 // EDU004 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo A Alfabetización: propuestas para una pedagogía liberadora en las Américas Sponsor : St Thomas University Organizer : Maria Chavarría, University of St Thomas Chair(s) : Felipe de Jesús Pérez Cruz, Ctro de Estudios sobre América, CUBA La Alfabetización en Venezuela: Un proyecto de cooperación solidaria internacional: Felipe de Jesús Pérez Cruz, Ctro de Estudios sobre América, CUBA Critical Literacy through Emancipatory Global Civic Education: Praxis in Cuba and The United States: Mark Abendroth, St Paul Public Schools Alfabetos y alfabetización:una problemática para el desarrollo de una educación bilingue intercultural en la Amazonía Peruana: Maria Chavarría, University of St Thomas

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WEDNESDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Caracterización de un pueblo indígena, su cultura, tradición y contexto alfabetizador: Juana Leticia Hernández Barrales, Secretaria de Educacion y Cutura, MEXICO Discussant(s) : Eulalio Velázquez Licea, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, MEXICO 190 // EDU024 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal G Contemporary Topics in Latin America Schooling Organizer : Joan Anderson, University of San Diego Chair(s) : Joan Anderson, University of San Diego School Leadership and Student Achievement in Latin American Public Primary Schools: Joan Anderson, University of San Diego Democratic Citizenship Education in Latin America: Global Interests, Contested Meanings: Bradley Ungar Levinson, Indiana University Teachers' Knowledge and Educational Policy in Latin America: Daniel Long, University of Wisconsin/Madison 191 // EXC010 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 4 Postmodern Music in Latin America Organizer : Markus Schulz, New York University Chair(s) : Markus Schulz, New York University Engendering Samba: Disciplining Bodies and Shaping Identities: Carla Brunet, University of California/Berkeley Samba são pés que passam fecundando o chão ... Madureira: Sociabilidade e conflito em um subúrbio musical: Ana Paula Ribeiro, Inst Medicina Social, BRAZIL Personalizing Son: Son Cubano a la Veracruzana: Angela Castañeda, DePauw University Sound Politics: Cultural Expressions of Transnational Mobilization: Markus Schulz, New York University 192 // FEA002 Workshop Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal A Tumultous Times: LASA in the 1960s Organizer : Carmen Diana Deere, Univ of Florida Chair(s) : Carmen Diana Deere, Univ of Florida *: Carmen Diana Deere, Univ of Florida *: Richard Adams, Patzisotz History Company, GUATEMALA *: Cole Blasier, Univ of Pittsburgh *: Ronald Chilcote, Univ of California/Riverside *: Paul Doughty, University of Florida Discussant(s) : Terry Karl, Stanford University 193 // GLT003 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar A Alternatives to the Nation Organizer : Elise Bartosik Velez, Dickinson College Chair(s) : Elise Bartosik Velez, Dickinson College Nicaraguans in Miami: Forging a Transnational Politics: Marco Mojica, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Globalization, Postnationalism, and Christopher Columbus in the Americas: Elise Bartosik Velez, Dickinson College Re-charting the Itinerary to El Dorado, or, Chronicles of the Dead-End of Nationalism in Latin America: Luis Madureira, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Narrating the Other America: Post-National, Pan-Caribbean Visions in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guyana: Dayna Oscherwitz, Southern Methodist Univ Assaulting the Nation in Reinaldo Arenas’s El asalto and João Gilberto Noll’s A céu aberto: Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico Discussant(s) : Marshall Eakin, Vanderbilt University 194 // HIS005 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo B Transnational Perspectives on Spanish American Independence Organizer : Sarah Chambers, Univ of Minnesota Chair(s) : Sarah Chambers, Univ of Minnesota De la mujer al género en la historiografía de la independencia hispanoamericana: Sarah Chambers, Univ of Minnesota Historiografía de la participación de las “razas” en la independencia del Caribe Colombiano: Alfonso Munera, Univ de Cartagena, COLOMBIA Historiografía reciente sobre las rebeliones andinas anticoloniales y la Independencia: Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Pontifica Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU Symbols, Memory and Nationalism in the Independence Era: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick, UNITED KINGDOM

Peasants, Politics and Independence in Mexico: Peter Guardino, Indiana University Discussant(s) : Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University, Victor Uribe-Uran, Florida International University 195 // HIS032 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal D Atlantic on the Pacific: Diasporas, Empires, and Markets of the Colonial Andes Organizer : Rachel Sarah O'Toole, University of California, Irvine Chair(s) : Kathryn Burns, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Moors, Moriscos, Indians and Mestizos: Iberian Political Structures and New World Realities: Karen Graubart, Cornell University State Ambition in the Imperial Atlantic: Peru, Castile and Utopia in the Sixteenth Century: Jeremy Mumford, Brandeis University When the Mountains Met the Sea: Integrating Africans and the Atlantic Slave Trade into Early Potosí History: Jane Erin Mangan, Davidson College Atlantic Africans and Diaspora Indians: Colonial Categories and Subaltern Identities of Coastal Peru: Rachel Sarah O'Toole, University of California, Irvine Discussant(s) : Kathryn Burns, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill 196 // HIS059 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo C The Politics of Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Argentina Organizer : Alistair Hattingh, Muskingum College Chair(s) : Alistair Hattingh, Muskingum College Intellectuals and Politics in Argentina from Peronism to Frondizism. The Contorno Case (1953-1959): Sebastián Carassai, Indiana Univ, ARGENTINA The Historical Writings of Argentine Nationalist and Populist Intellectuals in the 1960s: Michael Goebel, Univ College of London, UNITED KINGDOM Conservative Parties during the Era of Mass Politics: Argentina 1928-1943: Alistair Hattingh, Muskingum College 197 // IND015 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Boardroom 1 Indigenous Mobilization in the Americas Organizer : Saúl Velasco, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, MEXICO Chair(s) : Saúl Velasco, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, MEXICO Movimientos indígenas andinos: la construcción de alternativas al poder tradicional: Pável Alemán Benítez, Ctro Estudios sobre America, CUBA Raising Hell. How the Indigenous in Ecuador Earned Political Space and Power: Gregory Markowski, University of Florida Patterns of Peasant Incorporation and the Re-emergence of Indigenous Identity in Latin America: Roberta Rice, University of New Mexico, CANADA Los efectos políticos de la Década Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (1995-2004) en América Latina: Saúl Velasco, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, MEXICO 198 // LAT012 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Ceiba Latino Studies: A Dialogue on the Implications of Critical Scholarship in the Field Organizer : Suzanne Oboler, University of Illinois/Chicago Chair(s) : Karen Biegel, University of Illinois/ Chicago Academic Contradictions: Scholarly Legitimation And Social Relevance: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University The Engaged and Community Centered University: Implications for Latino Studies: Marixsa Alicea, DePaul University Latino Studies: Implications of Critical Scholarship in the Field: Suzanne Oboler, University of Illinois/Chicago 199 // LCN023 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 9 Entre la letra y la nación decimonónicas Organizer : José María Rodríguez García, Cornell University Chair(s) : José María Rodríguez García, Cornell University ¿Hacia una política del sacrificio?: melancolía y duelo en Sab, de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Kahlil Chaar, New York Univ Zárate de Eduardo Blanco: la imaginación histórica y el (des)encanto de la nación: Alejandro Cortazar, Lousiana State University Nación e identidad en Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Fernán Caballero: Victoria Galván, Univ de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN

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WEDNESDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Colonialismo y colonialidad en La Peregrinación de Bayoán de Eugenio María de Hostos: una ética viril para las Antillas: Teresa Peña-Jordan, Caribbean Preparatory School Caro contra Bolívar: José María Rodríguez García, Cornell University Patriotic and Gothic? The Case of Misterios del Plata in XIX Century Latin American Novel: Rita Schmidt, Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL 200 // LCN025 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 8 Aporias del imperio, cartas e historias coloniales Organizer : Valeria Añón, CONICET-UBA, ARGENTINA Chair(s) : Valeria Añón, CONICET-UBA, ARGENTINA “As I buy, so also do I sell;” An Ecocritique of Ramón Pané’s An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians, [1498]: Patricia Ferrer Medina, Rutgers University 'Pelo', 'genio' y subjetividad en Lima por dentro y por fuera, de Terralla y Landa.: Hugo Garcia, The Ohio State University Alboroto y motín de México: The Moral Community of Sigüenza y Góngora: Courtney Monahan, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Textual Contraband: The Subversive Circulation of Text in Luis de Carvajal’s Spiritual Autobiography (1595): Ronnie Perelis, New York University Historias múltiples de una misma travesía: versiones oficiales, interpretaciones contradictorias y suplementos involuntarios del segundo viaje colombino (1493): David Solodkow, Vanderbilt University 201 // LCO030 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical C Poesía Latinoamericana Contemporánea Organizer : Citlali Martinez, Univ of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Citlali Martinez, Univ of Pittsburgh Visiones peligrosas: dos puertorriqueños escriben del futuro: Juan Toledano Redondo, Lewis and Clark College El duelo sublime de Jaime Sabines: Citlali Martinez, Univ of Pittsburgh Más allá de lo elemental: reexaminando las Odas elementales de Neruda: Gabriela Zaviezo, Columbia Univ La experiencia del yo en la poesía de Sara de Ibáñez: Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra, University of Maryland, MEXICO El cuerpo como espacio político en la poesía de Juan Gelman: Sarli Mercado, Univ of Wisconsin/Madison Discussant(s) : Ignacio Sánchez Prado, University of Pittsburgh 202 // LIA010 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 6 Identidades fluidas en la cultura de la globalización: literatura, teatro cine e internet Organizer : Grace Davila-Lopez, Pomona College Chair(s) : Grace Davila-Lopez, Pomona College Ensayando identidades teatrales en el escenario experimental de la voz: "Nuestra Señora de las Nubes" y "Acoso textual": Grace Davila-Lopez, Pomona College Recolectando sueños e inventando identidades: el cine ontológico de Eliseo Subiela: Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University Identidades transatlánticas en el cine hispano: España en México y el Caribe en España en "Y Tu Mamá También" y "Flores de Otro Mundo": Maria Donapetry, Pomona College “La novia oscura” de Laura Restrepo: Identidad y amnesia colectiva en la era de la globalización: Lady Cohen, Arizona State University Guiado por los òrìsà: La santería como agente definitorio de la identidad cubana en el cine, la literatura y el Internet: George Cole, Texas Tech University 203 // LIA077 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 1 Normandie Resistance writing/writing resistance: Lynch, Mistral, Belli. Organizer : Marisela Funes, Colby College Chair(s) : Marisela Funes, Colby College El eterno retorno. Cuerpos y fantasmas en el imaginario político Argentino: Paola Cortés-Rocca, University of Southern California Women Revolutionaries - Revolutionary Women? The Libratory Potential of Migrant Women in the Work of Ana Menendez, Demetria Martinez and Gioconda Belli: Marion Rohrleitner, Univerity of Notre Dame Writing Bodies, Seeing Texts: Reading Medical Authority in Marta Lynch's Informe bajo llave: Marisela Funes, Colby College Santa Gabriela, Maldita Mistral: The Twisted Stories of Lucila Godoy: Elizabeth Horan, Arizona State University

204 // LIA084 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver West 2 Normandie Oral traditions and testimonial writings Organizer : Amy Millay, Tufts University Chair(s) : Amy Millay, Tufts University El contexto político-intelectual como fuente de "Quarto de despejo": Joaquín Maldonado Class, Truman State University La construcción de la identidad mexicana a través de la fragmentación en "La noche de Tlatelolco": Nashieli Marcano, University of Akron The Songs and Stories of "El Monte": Amy Millay, Tufts University Spirit Possession, Havana, and the Night: Listening and Ritual in Cuban Fiction: Solimar Otero, Lousiana State Univ Familia, raza y bolero en Las Criadas de La Habana: Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, , UNITED KINGDOM 205 // MCB032 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Silver East 1 Normandie Perspectivas latinoamericanas Organizer : John Karam, DePaul Univ Chair(s) : John Karam, DePaul Univ Migración y transición demográfica en Cuba: Rolando García Quiñones, Universidad de la Habana, CUBA Arabs in the Americas: Views from the North and South: John Karam, DePaul Univ The Political Demography of Latin American Migration: Gregory Weeks, Univ of North Carolina/Charlotte 206 // MTG013 Other Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Gerónimo A Jazz Jam Organizer : Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi 207 // POL026 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamingo D Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes: Latin America in Comparative Perspective Organizer : Sebastian Saiegh, Univ of Pittsburgh Chair(s) : Sebastian Saiegh, Univ of Pittsburgh Clientelism, Income Distribution, and Political Competition; the Latin American Experience: Leonardo Gatica, University of Guadalajara, MEXICO A política das regras fiscais no Brasil durante o governo Cardoso: Saulo Souza, UFPE, BRAZIL Democratization, Reforms and Development Strategies -Ideas, Policies, Outcomes: Dora Orlansky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Democracy, Economic Development, and Cabinets: Evidence from Eighteen Latin American Countries (1970-2004): David Altman, Pontifica Univ Catolica de Chile, CHILE Globalization's Impact on Social Spending in Latin America and Europe: David Brown, University of Colorado/Boulder, George Avelino Filho, Fundação Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL Coalitions and Policy Capacity in Presidential Democracies: Jose Antonio Cheibub, Yale Univ Democracy and Data Dissemination: The Effect of Political Regime on Transparency: James Vreeland, Yale Univ, J. Peter Rosendorff, Univ of Southern California Discussant(s) : Eduardo Aleman, Univ of Houston 208 // REC025 Reception (cash bar) Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Las Olas Journal Editors' Reception Sponsor : LARR Organizer : Peter Ward, University of Texas/Austin 209 // SEC010 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Salón del Mar B Colombia: Negociando la violencia y construyendo la paz en la vida cotidiana Sponsor : Colombia Section Organizer : Pascha Bueno Hansen, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Chair(s) : Rose Cohen, University of California/Sta Cruz Cartographies of a Shifting Landscape: Displaced Farmers and the Politics of Resource Control in the City of Cartagena, Colombia: Rose Cohen, University of California/Sta Cruz

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WEDNESDAY / 6:00 – 7:45 pm Mine Fields: An Anthropological Reflection on Dismemberment and Video Production: Emiily Cohen, New York Univ Sorteando exotismos, eludiendo sumisiones: relaciones de género y prácticas intelectuales localizadas de las líderes del Proceso de Comunidades Negras de Colombia: Juliana Flórez Flórez, Univ Autonoma de Barcelona, VENEZUELA Desmantelando “verdades” como estrategias de resistencia: Algunas reflexiones sobre prácticas intelectuales y desplazamiento forzoso en Colombia: Juan Aparicio, Univ of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Choosing Education Under Fire: Adriana Elisa Parra, Univ of California/Davis Introductory comments and comparative reflections desde Perú: Pascha Bueno Hansen, Univ of California/Santa Cruz Possibilities and Obstacles to Localized Peace Initiatives: Sandra Alvarez, Univ of California/ Santa Cruz Discussant(s) : Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina 210 // SEC018 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Flamboyan Puerto Rico's and Puerto Ricans' Cultural Poltics and Politics of Culture Sponsor : Culture, Power and Politics Section Organizer : Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California/Berkeley Chair(s) : Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California/Berkeley Desiring the Latinized Body: Cultural Gentrification in Puerto Rican Chicago: Frances Aparicio, University of Illinois/Chicago De-Colonial Politics from the Puerto Rican Grassroots: Unsettling Colonialism and Nationalism: Agustín Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts Slippery Race Talk: Everyday Uses of Racial Terminology in Puerto Rico: Isar Godreau, Univ of Puerto Rico en Cayey Puerto Rican and Latino Scholars at CUNY: Sociological Reflection on the Likelihood of “Social Closure” Within a Public University: Felipe Pimentel, Hostos C College/CUNY 211 // SEC029 Workshop Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal B Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Defining Key Concepts Sponsor : Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous People Section Organizer : Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University Chair(s) : Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University *: Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University *: June Nash, City University of New York *: Marixa Lasso, Case Western Reserve University *: Robert Cottrol, George Washington University *: Edmund Gordon, University of Texas/Austin *: Miguel Hilario, Stanford University *: Waskar Ari-Chachaki, University of Nebraska/Lincoln Discussant(s) : Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois/Chicago

Las estrategias políticas de Augusto B. Leguía para permanecer en el poder, 1919-1930: Roisida Aguilar Gil, Pontificia Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU La Educación Pre-Militar en el Perú 1939-1956: Humberto Rodríguez Sequeiros, Pontifica Univ Catolica del Peru, PERU Discussant(s) : Iñigo Garcia-Bryce, New Mexico State University 214 // SEC059 Workshop Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Cristóbal C Repensar el Cono Sur en el Siglo XXI Sponsor : Southern Cone Section Organizer : Laura Demaria, Univ of Maryland/ College Park Chair(s) : Alvaro Kaempfer, Univ of Richmond *: Alvaro Kaempfer, Univ of Richmond *: Ana Pizarro Romero, Univ Santiago de Chile, CHILE *: Mabel Moraña, Washington University/St Louis *: John Kraniauskas, Birkbeck College, UNITED KINGDOM 215 // SEC065 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 10 Latin American Prisons in Crisis: Report on a Project Sponsor : Law, Jurisprudence and Society Section Organizer : Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College/CUNY Chair(s) : Lucia Dammert, FLACSO Chile, CHILE El sistema penitenciario en Chile: Desafíos para el nuevo modelo públicoprivado: Lucia Dammert, FLACSO Chile, CHILE Estudios sobre la realidad carcelaria en el Perú: Ximena Sierralta Patrón, United Nations Development Program, PERU The Latin American Prison Crisis in Historical Perspective: Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon A Global Zero Tolerance? Colombian prisons from a World Historical Perspective: Farid Benavides Vanegas, University of Massachusetts Discussant(s) : Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College/CUNY 216 // SMO010 Workshop Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm San Gerónimo B Vieques, Puerto Rico: The Struggle Continues Organizer : Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State Univ Chair(s) : Robert Rabin, Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo *: Robert Rabin, Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo *: Carmián Cespedes, Young Vieques Leaders United *: Judith Conde, Vieques Women's Alliance

212 // SEC046 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Tropical A Understanding Race and Racism: Perspectives from Latino/a and Latin American Studies Sponsor : Latino Studies Section Organizer : Victor Rodriguez Dominguez, California State Univ/Long Beach Chair(s) : Victor Rodriguez Dominguez, California State Univ/Long Beach Color-Blind Ideology in Leftist Political Discourse and Practice in Puerto Rico: Victor Rodriguez Dominguez, California State Univ/Long Beach Critical Reflections of the Chicano/a Intellectual Discourse on Race: Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College, María Eva Valle, Univ of Rendlands The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the United States: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University Re-Negotiating the Color Line: Latinos and Race in The United States: Christina Gómez, Northeastern Illinois University 213 // SEC048 Panel Wednesday 6:00 - 7:45 pm Conference 3 Practicas políticas en el Perú en los siglos XIX y XX Sponsor : Peru Section Organizer : Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Yale University Chair(s) : Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Yale University Las Elecciones a la Diputación de Quispicanchis en 1860: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Yale University Contenidos educativos oficiales y práctica educativa: Perú, siglo XIX: Grover Antonio Espinoza, Columbia Univ Relaciones de Poder en Puno: Christine Hunefeldt, Univ of California/San Diego

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