NECLAS Program, October 28, 2006, Middlebury College
Registration: 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall
Book Display: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall
Session I: 9:30 to 11am
A. “Responses to Neoliberalism” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
Chair, Jeffrey Cason, Middlebury College
· John A. Maluccio, Middlebury College, “Coping with the Coffee Crisis in Central America: The Role of the Nicaragua Red de Protección Social.”
· Jeffrey Cason, Middlebury College, “Lula as a Moderate in Latin America’s New Left.”
· Stephen Meardon and David West Allen, II, Williams College, “Reciprocity in Retrospect: Tariff Preferences in Past and Present U.S.-Latin American Trade Policy.”
· Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont, “Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism in Oaxaca, Mexico.”
B. “Public (In)Security, Police Reform and The Quality of Democracy in Latin America” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Chair and Discussant, Kenneth Erickson, Hunter College, CUNY
· Mercedes Hinton, London School of Economics, “Democratic Deficit: Police and State in Argentina and Brazil.”
· Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College, CUNY, “Community Oriented Police Reform in Argentina and Honduras.”
· Eduardo Moncada, Brown University, “Citizen Security and State-Society Relations: Community-Policing in Bogotá”
C. “Race, Class and Nation in Twentieth-Century Brazil” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
Chair and Discussant, Teresa Meade, Union College
· Gregg Bocketti, Transylvania University, “Italian Immigrants and Brazilian Football: Charting National Identities in a Multiethnic Community.”
· Zachary Morgan, Boston College, “Roots of a Rebellion.”
· James P. Woodard, Montclair State University, “Race as a Problem in Post-Abolition Political History: São Paulo, Brazil, 1910s-1930s.”
D. “Inhabiting Culture” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338
Chair, Carla Giaudrone, Rutgers University
· Carla Giaudrone, Rutgers University, “The Visual Imaginary of the Centennial Celebrations of Latin American Independence.”
· Matthew Cohn, Rutgers University, “Delinquent Democracies: Colombian Cinema and the (Im)possibility of Cultural Studies.”
· Greg Cohen, Harvard University, “Geographic Imaginary: Argentine and Brazilian Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.”
E. “La mujer letrada: Revisión de tres escritoras latinoamericanas” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 438
Chair, Yamile Silva, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
· Cecilia Cuesta-Velez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “La ciudad que se va: Escritura femenina y nuevas cartografías.”
· María Twardy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Elementos metaficcionales en Volando Libremente de Judit Gerendas.”
· Yamile Silva, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Laura Restrepo o narrar la violencia con voz femenina.”
Discussant, Márgara Russotto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
F. “Undergraduate Research: National Visions, Societies and Development” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 538
Chair, Ashley Kerr, Middlebury College
· Ashley Kerr, Middlebury College, “Opening Borders, Opening Mouths: Globalization, Language and Identity in Alberto Fuguet’s Mala onda y Sobredosis.”
· Jason Siegel, Middlebury College, “Power, Ideology, and Poverty: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Life Stories of Homeless Men in Santiago, Chile.”
· Suzannah Sosman, Marlboro College, “Urbanization and Development of the Brazilian Amazon: The Case of Santarém, Pará, Brazil.”
Session II: 11:15am to 12:45pm
A. “Migration Experiences” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
Chair, David Stoll, Middlebury College
· Courtney Kurlanska, SUNY-Albany, “Alternative Migrations: Nicas in Ticaland.”
· Walter Little, SUNY-Albany, “The Lies We Tell: Poor Maya Transnational Laborers and Stories of Success.”
· Jennifer Burrell, SUNY-Albany, “Migration and the Political Economy of Communication.”
· David Stoll, Middlebury College, “May the Lord Open the Spigots of International Aid! The Moral Economy of Corruption and Emigration in Nebaj, Guatemala.”
B. “Religion” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338
Chair and Discussant, Jennie Purnell, Boston College
· Virginia Walker Snodgrass, University of Texas at Austin, “The Politics of Divorce and the Electoral Game in Chile.”
· Kristin Cheasty Miller, University of Texas at Austin, “Holy Guerrillas: Religion and Revolution in El Salvador.”
· Ben Fallaw, Colby College, “’Sumisos pero no vencidos’: Catholics and the Postrevolutionary State in Coahuila, 1929-1940.”
C. “Gender in Latin America: Past and Present” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Chair, Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont
· Anne S. MacPherson, SUNY College at Brockport, “’The Point of Entanglement’: Gender, Commerce and Creolization in Havana and San Juan, 1509-1762.”
· Bonnie Shepard, Social Sector Development Strategies, “NGO Advocacy Networks in Latin America: Lessons from Experience in Promoting Women’s and Reproductive Rights.”
· Caroline Beer, University of Vermont, “The Legal Status of Women in Latin America.”
D. “State, Civil Society and Social Movements in Brazil” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
Chair and Discussant, Cristina Mehrtens, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
· Graziella Silva, Harvard University, Dept. of Sociology, “Defining Brazilian Black Movements as Social Movements.”
· Rogerio de Souza Medeiros, Boston University, Dept. of Sociology, “Autonomy Revisited: The Resurgence of Old Dilemmas in NGO-State Relations in Brazil.”
· Roberto Pires, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies Planning, “Participation in the Eyes of the State: distributive efficiency and political sustainability through technocratic arrangements in Belo Horizonte’s Participatory Budgeting, Brazil.”
E. “La inagotable Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 438
Chair and Discussant, Nina M. Scott, Mt. Holyoke College
· Patricia Saldarriaga, Middlebury College, “Arquitectura y discursividad en El Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.”
· Márgara Russotto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Sor Juana, hipotexto universal (o sobre los usos de la tradición).”
· Nina M. Scott, Mt. Holyoke College, “House of Desires (Los empeños de una casa) on the UMass Stage.”
F. “Undergraduate Research: Culture and Identity” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 538
Chair, Emily Nelson, Middlebury College
· Milena Flament and Sage Bierster, Middlebury College, “The Carioca Life in Brazil.”
· Emily Nelson, Middlebury College, “Rebuilding Identity: Argentina Thirty Years Later.”
· Amaury Sosa, Middlebury College, “The Most Awaited Kiss: Television, Censorship and the LGBTTQ Community in Brazil.”
· Melissa Bota, Williams College, “Conquering the Desert: Problems of Landscape in Nineteeth-Century Argentina.”
Luncheon and Prize Awards: 1:30 to 2:45 p.m., Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall.
Session III: 2:45pm to 4:30pm
A. “Indigenismo and a Discussion of Representation, National Identity, Acculturation and Globalization” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
Chair and Discussant, Raúl Bueno-Chávez, Dartmouth College
· Javier Rodríguez, Arizona State University and Nicole George, Arizona State University, “Secret Sins, Public Virtues: Sovereignty as a Function of State Capacity with Old and New Tribes in Venezuela.”
· Erin Devine, Indiana University, “National Histories/Transnational Mysteries: Mestizaje and Indigenismo in Twentieth Century Latin American Art.”
· Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones, Dartmouth College, “From Peru to Spain: Globalization, Indigenism and the New Left.”
· Stephanie Wickstrom, Green Mountain College, “Protecting and Developing Indigenous Rights to Resources in the Americas.”
B. “The Transnational Heritage of the So-Called “Nueva Canción Chilena’” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 438
Chair, Gina Canepa, Providence College
· Ramón Bannister, Bentley College, “The ‘AFDD Conjunto’: Past, Present and Future.”
· Lucia Díaz-Starr, Baltimore City Community College, “Sergio Ortega: De la marcha ‘Venceremos’ a los estilos de fusión en el exilio.”
· Gina Canepa, Providence College, “La memoria persistente o la ‘Nueva Canción Chileana’ como paradigma.”
Discussant, Kristin Sorensen, Bentley College.
C. “Nineteenth-Century Rio” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 331
Chair, Kelley Swarthout, Middlebury College
· Manuela Meyer, Yale University, “The Management of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.”
· Kelley Swarthout, Middlebury College, “’Pets or Meat?’ A Parody of Positivism in Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba.”
D. “Pinochet’s Chile” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
Chair, Saritha Komatireddy, Bancroft Associates
· Jill Stackhouse, Syracuse University, “The State of Housing, the Business of the State: Housing Policies under Chile’s Military Government.”
· Saritha Komatireddy, Bancroft Associates, “Culture in Action: Chile’s Ousting of General Augusto Pinochet;”
· Carmen Oquendo Villar, Harvard University, “11 de septiembre: La Voz de la Ley.”
E. “Representations and Renegotiations of the National in Theatre, Narrative, and Popular Culture” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338
Chair, Gloria Estela González Zenteno, Middlebury College
· Jimena Ugaz, Middlebury College, “Voces del canon nacional en la narrativa de Ricardo Piglia.”
· Kirsten Ernst, Middlebury College, “The Late, ‘Great’ Modernist: Ariano Suassuna and the Cultural Politics of nacionalismo nordestino.”
· Francine A’Ness, Dartmouth College, “Imagining a National Theatre: Mexico in the 1930s.”
F. “Undergraduate Research: Politics and Conflict” McCardell Bicentennial Hall 538
Chair, David Restrepo, Middlebury College
· Gaddi Goren, Binghamton University: “The Jewish Experience under the Military Dictators in Chile and Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s.”
· David Restrepo, Middlebury College, “The Latin American ‘Left’: Voting for Chavismo?”
· Stephanie Skiba, Binghamton University, “The Colombian Guerrillas: Origins and Changes from the mid-Twentieth Century to the Present.”
Sherry Hour: 4:30 to 5:30 pm, Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall
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