Saturday, November 10, 2007 Kendade Hall

Saturday, November 10, 2007 Kendade Hall

PROGRAM
2007 Annual Fall Meeting
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Kendade Hall
Mt. Holyoke College
South Hadley MA
Campus Map: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/index.shtml
(Parking permitted in any faculty/staff space; for closest large parking lot see Kendall
Hall Sports Complex off Dunlap Place)
List of Local Hotels: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/lodging.shtml
(Please note that Willits-Hallowell, Stebbins, and Grandmary’s are already fully booked)
Pre-Registration by October 30: $25 for Faculty, $6 for Students & Emeriti,
$16 for Luncheon
On-Site Registration: $35 for Faculty, $6 for Students & Emeriti,
$20 for Luncheon (as available)
All panels will be held in Kendade and Cleveland Halls
Registration, the Book Exhibit, and the Sherry Hour will take place in Kendade
Hall Atrium
Luncheon will be held in Willits-Hallowell Center, Lower Level
Local Arrangements and Program Chair: Lowell Gudmundson (Latin American
Studies, Mt. Holyoke) <[email protected]>
President: Mark Williams (Political Science, Middlebury) <[email protected]>
Secretariat Administrator: Allison Goodwin (International Relations, Boston
University)
<[email protected]>
Program Organization:
Registration 8:30-9:30
Book Display 8:30-4:30
Panel Session I 9:30-11:00
Panel Session II 11:15-12:45
Luncheon and Prize Awards 1:00-2:30
Panel Session III 2:45-4:15
Sherry Hour 4:30-5:30
Panel Session I 9:30-11:00
The Missing Source: Using Fragmentary Evidence in the Reinterpretation of Colonial
Texts (Kendade 203)
Chair: Cynthia L. Stone (Languages & Literatures, Holy Cross)
Papers: “Creating a Shadow Text from Obscure passages in Translation” (Cynthia
L. Stone)
“Using Place Names as Supplementary Evidence in the Interpretation of
Christopher Columbus’ Diario de a bordo” (Evelina Guzauskyte, Languages &
Literatures, Wellesley)
“Fernández de Oviedo and Fragmentary Ethnographic Evidence” (Sarah
Beckjord, Languages & Literatures, Boston College)
Viaje, nación y exilio en Latinoamérica (Kendade 107)
Chair: Maria E. Twardy (Spanish American Literature, U. Mass Amherst)
Papers: “De la agricultura a la cultura: El campo en tres poemas del diez y nueve”
(Clara Ronderos, U. Mass Amherst)
“El Caballero de los Espejos: La migración del Quijote a la Selva
Lacandona” (Robert Herr, U. Mass Amherst)
“Alguien que anda por ahí: Julio Cortázar, literatura y exilio” (Maria E
Twardy)
Discussant: Luis Marantes (Spanish American Literature, U. Mass Amherst)
(Dis)Locating Culture in Colombia: People and Identities on the Move (Kendade 305)
Chair: Joshua M. Rosenthal (History, Western Connecticut)
Papers: “Afro-Colombian Women’s Organizing after Displacement and
Involuntary Migration” (Kiran Asher, International Development and Social
Change, Clark)
“Women, Urban Crises, and Mayoral Power in Bogotá, Colombia, 19952004” (Meri Clark, History, Western New England)
“Migration, Heroine, Civil War, and Oscar’s Night: Bridging Maria, Full
of Grace, between the United States and Colombia” (María Helena Rueda,
Spanish Literature, Smith)
“Capoeira on la Séptima: Understanding Afro-Brazilian Culture in
Bogotá” (Joshua M. Rosenthal)
Hugo Chávez y el modelo político bolivariano en Venezuela (Cleveland L 1)
Chair: Carlos Blanco (International Relations, Boston University)
Papers: “Los fundamentos del modelo económico de Chávez y los cambios
estructurales que provoca en la economía venezolana” (Francisco Rodríguez,
Economics, Wesleyan)
“Las consecuencias sociales de Chávez: Panorama de la lucha contra la
pobreza y desigualdad” (Doménico Romero, Political Science, CUNY)
“La situación de los partidos políticos en Venezuela y el partido militar”
(Carlos Blanco)
Panel Session II 11:15-12:45
4. To, From, and Within Argentina: Literature & Migration (Kendade 303)
Chair: Esther Whitfield (Literature/Cultural Studies, Brown)
Papers: “Migration in Two Novels by César Duáyen: Stella (1905) and Mecha
Iturbe (1906)” (Mary G. Berg, Literature, Brandeis)
“‘Pero adónde, adónde iremos?’ Traversing the Pampas in NineteenthCentury Argentina” (Daniel Frost, Literature, Holy Cross)
“From One Exile to the Other: Writing from the Basis of Argentinian
Congenital Uprooting” (Laeticia Iturralde, Literature, Stonehill)
“The Mimosa and Its After-Life: Remembering Welsh Emigrations to
Patagonia” (Esther Whitfield)
The Movement of Memory in Chilean Cinema (Kendade 107)
Chair: Kristin Sorenson (Communication and Culture/Latin American Studies,
Bentley)
Papers: “Memory as Irruption in Chilean Films of Exile and Post-Dictatorship”
(Ignacio López-Vicuña, Spanish/Latin American Studies, U. of Vermont)
“Fernando ha vuelto?: Re-Visioning Historical Memory in Chilean
Cinema” (Kristin Sorenson)
“Bastards in Paradise: An Examination of the Exiled Chilean as AntiHero” (Gina Canepa, Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Providence)
“‘Ardiente Paciencia,’ a Film by Antonio Skármeta: Reconstructing Pablo
Neruda from the Exile” (Lucía Diáz Starr, Baltimore City Community College)
Political and Economic Modernization in Argentina (Kendade 305)
Chair: Paul W. Posner (Political Science, Clark)
Papers: “Explaining Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Polities: The
Case of Argentina (1982-1989)” (Bonnie N. Field, International Studies/Political
Science, Bentley)
“The Global Movement of Technological Innovation: Manufacturing
Machinery, Patents, and Technological Ideas in Argentina, 1900-1929” (Yovanna
Pineda, History, St. Michael’s)
“Neoliberalism and the Transformation of the State-Society Matrix:
Argentina, Chile, and Mexico in Comparative Perspective” (Paul W. Posner)
Issues in Inter-American Relations (Cleveland L 1)
Chair: David Scott Palmer (International Relations/Political Science, Boston
University)
Papers: “President Kennedy and Latin America: An Ill-Fated Monrovian Foreign
Policy” (Carey Turnquest, History/Latin American Studies, Brown)
“United States-Latin American Relations during the Bush II
Administration” (David Scott Palmer)
“United States-Venezuela Relations and Venezuela’s ‘American Style’
Foreign Policy” (Mark Williams, Political Science, Middlebury)
“U.S. International Drug Policy in the Americas” (Ken Erickson, Political
Science, Hunter)
La memoria, el viaje, y la palabra: Recreaciones discursivas (Kendade 203)
Chair: Silvia Berger (Literature, Smith)
Papers: “Arquitectura de la memoria en el ‘Museo del Holocausto:’ Buenos Aires,
Argentina” (Silvia Berger)
“De oruga a mariposa: la influencia transformadora y reconstructiva del
viaje en La carreta de René Marqués (Isabelle Therriault, Spanish, U. Mass
Amherst)
“A Question of Life, A Sentence of Death: Analysis of the Empowerment
Discourse for HIV/AIDS in Guatemala City (Liliana Leitner-Laserna,
Anthropology, Brown)
Luncheon and Prize Awards 1:00-2:30 [Willits-Hallowell Center, Lower Level]
Panel Session III 2:45-4:15
Globalization and Development in Mexico and Latin America (Cleveland L 1)
Chair: Kevin P. Gallagher (International Relations, Boston University)
Papers: “The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable
Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley” (Kevin P. Gallagher)
“Mexican Maize after NAFTA” (Timothy A. Wise, Global Development
and Environment Institute, Tufts)
“Has There Really Been Progress on Poverty in Latin America” (Ann
Helwege, Economics, Emanuel)
“Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? China and Latin America in
Comparative Perspective” (Roberto Porzecanski, Political Economy, Fletcher
School, and Kevin P. Gallagher)
Political Philosophy, Development Models, and Democracy in Latin America (Kendade
305)
Chair: Ken Erickson (Political Science, Hunter)
Papers: “Latin America’s ‘Left Turn’ Through the Lens of Political Philosophy”
(Angel López, Political Science, CUNY)
“Political Ideas, Democracy, and Violence: A Case Study of a Brazilian
Favela” (Alex Betancourt, Political Science, U. of Puerto Rico)
“John Dewey’s Pragmatist Philosophy and Educational Reform in
Revolutionary Mexico” (Kelley Swarthout, Literature, Middlebury)
Nuevas aproximaciones: La poesía peruana finisecular (Kendade 203)
Chair: José Antonio Mazzotti (Literature, Tufts)
Papers: “La ruptura poética de los años 60 en el Perú” (Raúl Bueno Chávez,
Literature, Dartmouth)
“La ruptura poética de los 80: Panorama y debate” (José Antonio
Mazzotti)
“Una visión de la Kloaka” (Roger Santiváñez, Literature, Temple)
“La poesía peruana del 90 en adelante” (José Luis Falconí, Literature,
Harvard)
Many Faces of Exiles (Kendade 107)
Chair: Marysa Navarro (History, Dartmouth)
Papers: “Exile and Ecuador’s Liberal Revolution: From Eloy Alfaro’s Central
American Adventures to Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño’s Colombian Journey” (Ernesto
Capello, History, U. of Vermont)
“‘Hear No Evil, See No Evil:’ Jewish Refugee Response to Trujillo’s
Dictatorship” (Allen Wells, History, Bowdoin)
“Exile and Academics: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
in the United States, 1964-1985” (James N. Green, History, Brown)
“Francophone Caribbean Exile Experiences: Stakes and Misadventures”
(Keith L. Walker, History, Dartmouth)
“A la búsqueda de ‘los que no volvieron’” (Marysa Navarro)
Workshop/Roundtable on Teaching Afro-Latin America (Kendade 303)
Coordinator: Lowell Gudmundson (Latin American Studies, Mt. Holyoke)
Participants: Aida Heredia (Hispanic Studies, Connecticut College), J. Michael
Turner (History/Latin American Studies, Hunter), Dorothy Mosby (Spanish, Mt.
Holyoke), and Lowell Gudmundson
Sherry Hour 4:30-5:30 [Kendade Hall Atrium]