north central council of latin americanists

north central council of latin americanists

NORTH CENTRAL COUNCIL
OF LATIN AMERICANISTS
Simpson College
Indianola, Iowa
October 2 and 3, 2009
Borders, Interconnections and Latin America:
Past and Present
an interdisciplinary conference
Thursday, October 1
4:30 - 6
NCCLA Executive Committee Meeting (La Casa, 508 N. Jefferson)
6 p.m.
El inframundo de Rulfo: a Look into the Writer’s Photographic Memory
Exposición de la obra fotográfica de Juan Rulfo
con comentarios del escritor mexicano Roberto De la Torre Hurtado
All panels will be held in McNeill Hall.
Friday, October 2
Breakfast and Registration
SESSION I
8-9
9 to 10:30
Panel A
GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE AND POWER: LATIN AMERICA AND THE NEW
WORLD ORDER
Chair and Discussant
Eight Years of no Progress in a Small Colombian Neighborhood
Bill Katra, Independent Scholar, La Crosse, Wisconsin
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Some Consequences of Globalization in Latin America: Issues Concerning Social
Development and Human Rights
Dario Menanteau-Horta, University of Minnesota
Gold Mining in Guatemala: NGOs and the Philosophy behind Consultas
Comunitarias
Michael L. Dougherty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel B
LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS: PATHS TO POWER AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Chair and Discussant
Class, Ethnicity, and the New Left: comparing Morales’s and Correa’s Paths to
Power
Jennifer Collins, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Hugo Chávez and the New Left in Latin America
Virginia Leonard, Western Illinois University
The Politics of Desire: Sexuality and Community Formation in Late Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Brazil
Roger Mohr, Western Illinois University
SESSION II
10:45 to 12:15
Panel A
MEXICAN-AMERICANS: THE NEW “MODEL MINORITY”?
Chair and Discussant
Mexican American Culture and the Utopia of Multiculturalism
Fernando Vizcaíno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México
Marta Fabiola Torres, Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo, México
El mundo zurdo: ¿El nuevo orden en el [des]orden de la globalización?
Pilar Melero, Universidad de Wisconsin-Whitewater
Panel B
NEW APPROACHES TO TEACHING LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY AND POETRY
Chair and Discussant
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Diseases without Borders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Latin
American History and Poetry
Jonathan Hagood, Hope College
Picture This: Teaching Poetry with Visual and Textual Representations
Michael Jansen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Meghan Mehlos, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
LUNCH 12:30-1:45 (Great Hall)
SESSION III
2-3:30
Panel A
CULTURE, LANGUAGE, AND RACE: BORDER IDENTITIES IN PUERTO RICO,
URUGUAY AND BRAZIL
Chair and Discussant
Unintended Results in the Imperial “Laboratory”: Responses to Americanization
in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
Ellie Walsh, Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania
Linguistic Borders and Changing Attitudes: Uruguay, Brazil, and the Southern
Cone
Gregory Armstrong, University of Arkansas-Forth Smith
Being Black in Brazil: State, Community and the Politics of Identity
Melissa Eden Gormley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Panel B
GAZAPO, LAS RELACIONES DE CLARA Y EL LABERINTO DE SÍ MISMO:
EXPLORING THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRAGMENTATION, EXISTENTIALISM AND
OTHER MATTERS OF THE SOUL THROUGH THEATRE, NOVEL, AND THE
PERSONAL LETTER
Karl H. Heise, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Chair and Discussant
El presente y el pasado como presentado por Gustavo Sainz en su novela
Gazapo
Daniel Breining, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Bodily Discomfort: interpreting Cultural Dilemmas in Contemporary Theatrical
Production
Bretton White, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Existentialism Avant la Lettre: The Case of the Cuban Enrique Labrador Ruiz
Edwin Murillo, Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina
SESSION IV
3:45-5:15
Panel A
FROM LAS LEYES DE REFORMA TO REILLY’S LAW AND LA NUEVA ERA
MIGRATORIA: A HISTORICAL LOOK AT IMMIGRATION AND MIGRATION
Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Chair and Discussant
A Revolution Foretold: Precursos of La Reforma in México’s Immigration Debate1848-1955
David A. Burden, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana
Reilly’s Law and Regional Migration in Southwest Mexico
William Yaworsky, University of Texas at Brownsville
Migraciones internacionales y Latinoamérica
Gina Ponce de Leon, Niagara University, New York
Panel B
WRITING IDENTITY: THE WORKS OF JOSÉ MARÍA ARGUEDA, REYNALDO
ARENAS AND FRANCISCO CABANILLAS
Chair and Discussant
Identidad y melancolía en Los ríos profundos de José María Arguedas
Erika Almenara, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
El burdel como productor fallido de masculinidad
Burke White, University of Texas at Austin
Cabanillas and the World of the Caribbean
Robert G. Barnes, Bowling Green State University
DINNER AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER 6:30-10
(Matthew Simpson Room, College Hall)
Keynote speaker Congressman David Loebsack*
*Pending his voting schedule, this address may be rescheduled for Saturday at 1:00.
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Saturday, October 3
Breakfast and Registration
SESSION V
8-9
9-10:30
Panel A
LIVING IN THE IN-BETWEEN: HIP-HOP, CUBANS IN WISCONSIN, AND
SALVADORAN YOUTH
Chair and Discussant
The Marielitos of Fort McCoy,Wisconsin
Emily Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Cuba “Underground”: Los Aldeanos, Cuban Hip-Hop and Youth Culture
Manuel Fernández, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Mixed Signals, Uncertain Paths: Emerging Adulthood in El Salvador
Jim Winship, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Panel B
REPRESENTING THE DETAINED: STRATEGIES IN LAW, INTERPRETATION,
AND LITERATURE
Kristin E. Pitt
Chair and Discussant
Obstructing Justice: How the Immigration Detention System Adversely Affects the
Attorney-Client Relationship
Davorin J. Odrcic, Attorney
Interpreting for the Detained
Susan Rascón, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Discourses of Detention: Brother, I’m Dying and the Rhetoric of National Security
Kristin E. Pitt, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
SESSION VI 10:45-12
Panel A
FEDERALISM AND DEMOCRACIES?: ARGENTINA, MEXICO AND THE U.S.
Chair and Discussant
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Cut from the Same Cloth: Federalism and its Limits in Argentina in the 1820s
Sujay Rao, Gustavus Adolpus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
Victoriano Huerta: American Influence in the Mexican Presidency during the
Revolution, 1913-1914
Aaron K. Davis, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
The “Real” behind the “REAL ID”
Kyle James Dutter, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Panel B
EN POCAS PALABRAS: THE CREATIVE SPACE
Roberto De la Torre Hurtado, independent scholar
Chair and discussant
(Participants are encouraged to submit 1 very short piece of creative work (1-3
pages) to share at this creative table.)
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