Keynote

Keynote Address

for the

Pacific Coast Caribbean and Latin American Studies Conference

“Testimony, Identity and Rights: Oaxaca, Mexico and Beyond”

Dr. Lynn Stephen

University of Oregon

Salazar Hall C135

Saturday, October 29^th

11:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Reception and Book Presentation

Reception and Book Presentation

for the

Pacific Coast Caribbean and Latin American Studies Conference

Nancy Hollander, Emerita history professor from CSU Dominguez Hill and a psychoanalyst, will discuss and answer questions about her latest book: Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas (Routledge, 2010)

Hubert Herring Awards

Music by Jazz-eao!

Golden Eagle Ballroom 1

Friday, October 28^th

4 p.m -6:00 p.m.

For more information and a complete program visit the conference blog http://pcclasconference2011.blogspot.com

Directions and Parking Information

Public Transportation:

Cal State LA is located on 5050 Campus Drive, Los Angeles CA 90032, between the 10 and the 710 freeways.  Public transportation is relatively convenient, and the campus is served by several bus lines (MTA) and Metrolink. Both the Metrolink and the express bus will take you from campus to Union Station in downtown LA in less than 20 minutes. Salazar Hall (where the conference takes place) is across the street from the campus transit station

For information on public transportation and train and bus schedules:

http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/police/transportation.php

Driving and parking:

If you are driving to campus, you will need to purchase a day permit ($ 6) at one of the parking permit dispenser machines located in the parking structure. Parking regulations are enforced 24 hours / 7 days a week. A valid parking pass from another Cal State campus is valid at CalState LA, but please make sure that your pass has not expired and is properly displayed.  The conference will take place at Salazar Hall, and the near parking structures are Lots 2 and B (C level).   

Conference Program

 

PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

2011 CONFERENCE

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES

October 28-29, 2011
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

8:30 am -9:00 am: Registration and Coffee                                                                                               Salazar Plaza

9:00 am -10:45 am: Panels

Panel 1: Subaltern Cultural Agency in the Americas                                                                                     SH C 135

                Chair: Oscar Márquez (CalStateLA)

Susana Morales (CalStateLA), “Vending More Than Food - Street Vendors And Cultural (Re)Production.”

Oscar Márquez (CalStateLA), “The P.E.A.C.E. Academy: Creating a Culture of Resistance through Urban Art.”

Bardo Martínez (CalStateLA), “The King of the Cumbia: The Global Influence of Andrés

Landero's Cultural Aesthetic.”

Justin Garcia (Temple University), “Blood, Breasts, the Border, and a Badass: Social Themes and Cultural Representations in Robert Rodriguez's Machete.”

Luis Artieda Moncada (UCLA), “Peruvian Cumbia in Lima during the 1980s: Chicha, Chacalón and Andean Descendants.”

Panel 2:  Cities and Urban Planning in Latin America                                                                                   SH C 137

Chair:  Alex Villalpando (UC Riverside)

Amanda Bradshaw (Columbia University), “Greening Urban Brazil: The Case of Sao Paulo.”        

Urania Flores (UFSC) “Política de Habitação e Direito a Cidade: as ações recentes do governo brasileiro.”

Kathleen Tobin (Purdue University Calumet), “Population Density and Housing in Port-au-Prince: Historical Construction of Vulnerability.”  

Steven  Osuna (UC Santa Barbara), “Intra-Latina/o Struggles: Investigating the Dialectical Interplay of Tension and Solidarity Between Salvadoran and Mexican Communities in Los Angeles.”                              

Panel 3: Ancient Mesoamerica: Archeology in Latin America                                                                      SH C138

Chair: Paulo Medina (CalStateLA) and Valentina Licitra (CalStateLA)

Wendy Dorenbush (CalStateLA) "The Settlement Pattern of Commoners in Cahal Pech, Belize: A comparative Analysis of Settlement Patterns in the Belize River Valley.”

Valentina Licitra, Amber Lopez Johnson, Toni Gonzales, Robin Dodge, and Fred Valdez (CalStateLA), “Hun Tun: Investigations at a Late Classic Settlement in Northern Belize

Jeremy Coltman (CalStateLA), “The Fat of the Land: Anthropomorphic Representations of Earth in Mesoamerican Ideology.”

Adam Solano (CalStateLA), “Taíno Cave Use: Connecting the Mesoamerican Concept of Ritual Cave Use to the Caribbean.”

Paulo Medina (CalStateLA), “Zapotec Genealogical Registers from Oaxaca, Mexico: An Alternative Interpretation of the “Jaws of the Sky” Icon

Jeff Delsescaux (CalStateLA), “Contact Period Mesoamerican Trading Patterns with Europeans: Material Remains Recovered in Underwater Contexts.”

Panel 4: Colonial History                                                                                                                                             SH C 141

Chair: Miriam Melton-Villanueva (UCLA)

Ernesto Bassi (UC Irvine), “Turning South Before Swinging East: Caribbean Efforts to Keep the British Empire Atlantic-Centered in the Aftermath of the American Revolution.”

Elizabeth del Pilar Montañez-Sanabria (UC Davis), “Challenging the Spanish empire: Pirates in the Viceroyalty of Peru (1570-1700).”         

Fernando Serrano (UCLA), “Silver Mining in Colonial Guanajuato: Indigenous Responses to the Repartimiento Labor Draft.”

Panel  5:  Social Movements, Human Rights, and Struggles for Justice (part 1)                                   SH C 163

Chairs:  Gabriela Fried-Amilivia (CalStateLA) and Molly Talcott (CalStateLA)

Martín Jacinto (UC Santa Barbara) “Policing a Movement of Movements: Enforcing Order in Rebellious Oaxaca.”

Suyapa Portillo Villeda (CSU Northridge), “Land Rights, Human Rights and the coup d’état in Honduras: The Cases of the Movimiento Campesino del Aguán Guadalupe Carney and Locomapa Yoro.”                          

Jack R. Ferrell (Northern Arizona University-Yuma), "Free Trade, Human Rights, and War: The Expanding U.S. Role in Colombia."

Kara Dellacioppa (CSU Dominguez Hill) “Alternative modernization vs post liberal politics in the Americas.”

                                                          

Panels:  11:00 am-12:30 pm

Panel 6: Historical Perspectives on Race, Gender and Culture                                                                SH C135

Chair: Angela Vergara (CalStateLA)

Carolina Luna (CalStateLA), “Black Images in a White Argentina.”     

Pedro Acuña (UC-Irvine), “Scoring for the Nation: Sport Policy, Print Media, and Discourses of Race and Gender in Chilean Football, 1930-1948.”

Ericka Verba (CSU Dominguez Hill), “Violeta Parra and the Performance of Authenticity.”

Catalina Vallejo (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), “Modernism as Modernity: Ideological Closure at the National Museum of Colombia.”

Augusto Rocha (CalStateLA), “The Origins of Cuban Internationalism: The Cuban Role in the Angolan Liberation.”     

Panel 7:  Social Movements, Human Rights, and Struggles for Justice (part 2)                                    SH C137

Chairs: Gabriela Fried-Amilivia (CalStateLA) and Molly Talcott (CalStateLA)

Maria Teresa  Borden (CalStateLA), “ Remembering and Forgetting Latin America.”


Tomás  Crowder-Taraborrelli (Soka University), “The 1985 Trials of the Juntas: transitional democracy and clandestine archives.”

Kristi M. Wilson (Soka University), “Memory complex: public, private and judicial spaces of traumatic memory.”

Alicia Partnoy (Loyola Marymount University) “Faith and Religion in Recent Argentine Prison Writings”

Panel 8: Globalization and Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities                                            SH C 141

Chair: Luisa Blanco (Pepperdine)

Emilia Chuquin (UCLA-Extension), “La neblina invisible: El turismo y el indígena en Ecuador.”

Cori Madrid (CUNY), “Finance Led Globalization and Official Dollarization in Latin America,"
Melody Fonseca (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “Haiti in the Last Two Decades: Has Nothing Been Learnt from the Past?”         

Pablo Calderón Martínez (King's College London), “NAFTA and Democratisation: Revisiting Mexico's Democratic Challenges in the New Millennium.”

Alezandra Brady-Villagran (USC), "The Organization of American States’ Public Diplomacy of Trade and the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Luis Limón (UCLA), “The Role Latin American Countries Play in Global Governance: A Collection of Interviews with Latin American Diplomats.”

Panel 9:  Eloy Take Two:  Transiting Between Experimental and Popular Art                                    SH C163

Roberto Oregel (Director/Producer – Oregelfilms)
Eloy Torrez (artist and composer)
Catherine Benamou (film and media scholar, UC Irvine)
Rodrigo Lazo (UC Irvine), "(E)LA Take Two: The Ethnic Presence Goes Public"
Catha Paquette (CSU Long Beach), "Eloy Torrez's Artwork in the Context of Mural Culture in the Americas."

Panel 10: “Lento pero avanzamos: Lessons Learned Through Political and Spiritual Dialogue with the Zapatistas                                                                                                                                                               SH C138

                Chair: Xochitl Quintero (CalStateLA)

                Carla Villanueva (CalState LA)

                Rosalilia Mendoza (CalState LA)

                Bryant Partida (CalState LA)

                Xochitl Quintero (CalState LA)

1:15 pm to 2:00 pm  Business Meeting– Open to all PCCLAS members--                                             SH C135

1:00 p.m to 3:45 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion:  Latina/o Youth At Risk: An Interdisciplinary, Transnational Dialogue                                                                                                                                  SH C 138

FEAR AND LEARNING AT HOOVER ELEMENTARY, dir. Laura Simón (53 min. 1997)

CASA LIBRE, dir. Roberto Oregel (58 min., 2009)

To be followed by panel with filmmakers, film participants, and scholars:
Panel 11

Chair: Catherine Benamou (UC Irvine)

Roberto S. Oregel (Director/Producer-OregelFilms), Jojo and Julie Matsumoto (Project Streetkidz), and Peter Schey (President and Executive Director, Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law), “CASA LIBRE, two years later...”

Carlos Vargas (UC Irvine), “CASA LIBRE in relation to DE NADIE and SIN NOMBRE”

Cecilia Joulain (UC Irvine), “Rita Moreno in the 1950s film SO YOUNG, SO BAD.”

Claudia G. Pineda (UC Irvine), "Shifting the Focus:  Using a Positive Youth Development Framework to Foster Resilience among Latino Youth"

 Panel: 2:00 pm -3:30 p.m.

Panel 12: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Education and Childhood in Latin America                    SH C135

                Chair: Carlos Tejeda (CalStateLA)

Araceli Barbosa Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos) “La perspectiva Latinoamericana de la educación medioambiental frente al desafío de la problemática global del medio en el nuevo milenio.”

Leonel Monterroso (Tokyo University), “Language Teaching as a Means to the Promotion of Peace: The Case of Post-Conflict Guatemala.”          

Javier Urbina (UCLA, OHIO STATE, NMSU), "Working with Bilingual Education in The Border Administration.”

Miguel Pardo and Andrés González (Universidad Javariana), "¿Los héroes del pasado vástagos de hoy? Para una historia de la infancia en Colombia, 1968 y 1989.”

Panel 13: Border and Transnational Migrations in Chicano/Latino Narratives                                       SH C137

Chair: Mario García (UC Santa Barbara)                 

Ellen McCracken (UC Santa Barbara), “Estrangement, Role Reversal, and Intertextuality in Chicano Border Narrative: Luis Alberto Urreas's Into the Beautiful North

Amber Workman (UC Santa Barbara), “Multiple Border Crossings in Recent Border Chronicles by Manuel Murrieta.”

Mario T. García (UC Santa Barbara) “Beyond Chicanismo: Gendered Transitions and Central American Autobiographies.”

Sarah   Anderson (CSU Chico), "A Magical Migration: The Spiritual Journey of Esperanza in Santitos.”

Panel 14: Analysis of Public Policy issues related to Latin America                                                             SH C141

Chair: Emily Acevedo (CalStateLA)

Odinakachi Anyanwu (Pepperdine University), “The Determinants of Corruption in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis.”

Kaissa Denis (Pepperdine University), “Law 70” and its effect on Afro-Columbians.”

Shaun Lillard (Pepperdine University), “A Colombia Plan for Peru: U.S. Policy to Eliminate Coca Growth in Colombia and its Effects on Peru.”

Sandy Luis López (Pepperdine University), “Family Violence Law in Peru and its Challenges.”

Panel 15: The Politics of Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Gender, Nationalism and Transnationalism                                                                                                                                              SH C163

Chair: Eileen Ford (CalStateLA)

Eileen Ford (CalStateLA), “National Identity and Transnationalism in Children’s Mass Media: The Case of Pequeña in Mexico.”

Jennifer Huerta (CalStateLA), “My Dress Hangs Next to My Pants: An Analysis of Frida Kahlo, a “Modern Girl” of Mexico.”

Edgar Salinas (CalStateLA) “The Evolving Mask of Masculinity during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1937-1957)”

Carmen Nava (CSU San Marcos), “Gender in "Que Viva Mexico: Einstein's Colorful Film Symphony of Post-Revolutionary Mexico.”

4:00 to 6:00 Reception (hors d’ oeuvres  and cash bar)                    Golden Eagle Ballroom – Ballroom 1

Author Meets Critic Session (4:15 p.m): Nancy Hollander (CSU Dominguez Hill, History Department (emerita) and Psychoanalyst will discuss and answer questions about her latest book: Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas (Routledge, 2010). Her book is also available for purchase at the campus bookstore.

                Hubert Herring Awards (5:40 p.m.)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER  29

9:00-9:30 Registration and coffee                                                                                                             Salazar Plaza

9:30 am -11:00 am: Panels

Panel 16: Going Home to Study Abroad: Latino/a Student Educational Delegations to Latin America

SH C 135

                Chair: Beth Baker-Cristales (CalStateLA)

Sherley Cordova (UC Santa Cruz)

Elizandro Umaña (CalStateLA)

David “Olmeca” Barragan (CalStateLA)

Deysi Espinoza (CSU Fullerton)

Panel 17: The Complexities of Nueva España: Creation, Contention, Fusion, and Disintegration   SH C 137

Chair: E.A. Polanco (UC Riverside)           

Carlos Rivas (UCLA), "The Rise and Fall of the Republic of Central America: Art, Cultural Synthesis, Homogenization, and the Problem(s) of National Identity."            

Dominique Garcia (UC Riverside), "Indigenous Agency through Religious Artistic Practices in Colonial Michoacán.”

Steven Anderson (UC Riverside), "A Fluid Foundation: Water and the Natural Environment in Early Colonial Mexico, 1325-1608."       

E. A. Polanco (UC Riverside), “The Cult of Life and Death: Nahua Midwives as Priestesses.”

Rebecca Dufendach (UCLA), "Disease in the Florentine Codex."

Panel 18: Themes in Mexican History                                                                                                                   SH C 138

Chair: Eileen Ford (CalStateLA)

Eric Schantz (Community Alternative Living and Learning Initiative and UABC Tijuana), “Surcando un hábito nacional: La segunda guerra mundial y la expansión del mercado de los enervantes en México, 1938-1965." 

Jorge Alberto Trujillo (Universidad de Guadalajara), “Un joven en una jaula horrible. Discursos y tácticas utilizadas por Samuel C. Graham, ciudadano norteamericano preso en la penitenciaría jalisciense 'Antonio Escobedo', Guadalajara, Jal., 1891.”

Stephen Arionus (University of Michigan), “Eleuterio's Quixotic Crusade: Eleuterio Escobar and Mexican American Civil Rights Activism in San Antonio.”

Sandra Cervantes (CalStateLA), “State of Repression: The Dirty War in Guerrero, Mexico, 1961-1978.”

Daniel Polk (Princeton University), “Line in the Sand: Irrigating Communities and Drawing Boundaries on the US/Mexico Border"                               

Panel 19: Latin American Identities in the New Millennium                                                                        SH C 141

Chair: Graciela Boruszko (Pepperdine)

Graciela Boruszko (Pepperdine), “Individual Representations of Bicultural Nature in Urban Communities.”          

Trinity Bergeron (Pepperdine), “The Hidden African Presence in the Latin American Culture.”    

Sarah Jarman (Pepperdine), “Latin American Women in Politics: Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.”             

Andrea Capachietti, “Gender-Based Violence in Latin America.”

María Wilbar (Biola University), “Identity, biculturalism and bilingualism among heritage speakers."       

Panel 20: Changing Foodways and the Globalization of Food Production and Consumption           SH C 163

Chair: Julie Mitchell (CalStateLA)

Julie Mitchell (CalStateLA), “The Meatpacking Industry and Migration to Rural Iowa: A Case Study of Marshalltown, IA.”       

Xochitl Quintero (CalStateLA), “Inca Super Food: How does the Global Market affect Small-Scale Quinoa Farmers and Local Consumers in Bolivia?”             

Enrique C. Ochoa (CalStateLA), “Feast and Famine: Bimbo, MASECA, and Food Policy in Mexico

John Larreta (CalStateLA), “The Structural Violence of Intellectual Property Rights: A Case Study of the Monsanto Company.”

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 11:15 am -12:30 pm                                                                  SH C 135

Dr. Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon)

“Testimony, Identity, and Rights: Oaxaca, Mexico, and Beyond.”

Panels 1:30 p.m-3:00 pm

Panel 21: Who is in Control: Latin America's Response to Weak Capacity                                              SH C 135

Chair: David Pion-Berlin (UC-Riverside) and William Barndt (UC-Riverside)

Nathan Jones (UC Irvine), “King-Pin Strategies and the Future of Latin American Illicit Networks.”

Diana Kapiszewski, John Seth Alexander and Robert Nyenhuis (UC-Irvine) “Judging Elections: Electoral Courts and Democracy in Latin America’s Federal Systems.”

Katja S. Newman (UC Irvine), “Diminishing Democracy: Executive Overreach in Latin America.”

Robert Nyenhuis (UC Irvine), “The Persistence of Economic Populism in the Andes: An Examination of the Socioeconomic Policies of Hugo Chávez, Alvaro Uribe, and Evo Morales.”

Eric Mosinger (UC Irvine), “Crafted by crisis: integration and democracy in South America”

Panel 22: The Untold History of Context in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art           SH C 137

Chair: Fabian Cerejido

Rubén Ortiz Torres (artist/curator), “An out-of-context context.”

Bill Kelley Jr (co-curator of the Medellín Encuentro) “To Teach and To Learn: Thoughts on Curating Locally and the Case of the MDE11 (Encuentro Internacional de Medellín, 2011).”

Laura Gonzalez Flores (UNAM), “Cues to Identity in Contemporary Mexican Art: Orozco vs. Lezama."

Panel 23: Literature, Gender, and Family in Latin America                                                                     SH C 138       

Chair: Angela Vergara (CalState LA)

Christine Fernández ( UC-Santa Barbara), “ Social Visibility in Unio Mystica: Women and HIV/AIDS in the Theatre of Susana Torres Molina.”                    

Carla Manzoni ( University of Minessota), “Manzoni, Daugther in Trance, docufictional narratives in Albertina Carri.”                     

Rafaela Fiore Urizar (California Lutheran University), “Una mirada postmoderna a la ékfrasis literaria: Pintando confesiones en El común olvido de Sylvia Molloy.”

Panel 24: Experience and Imagination in Latin American Writing and Film                                            SH C 141

Chair: Enrique Berumen (CalStateLA)

 Javier Valiente Núñez (Johns Hopkins University), “Hacia una eco-teología de la liberacion maya-quiche en Hombres de maí­z de Miguel Angel Asturias.”

Rie Makino (Nihon University), “Isamu Yuba and His Floating Subject:  A Transnational Japanese Subjet in Brazil.”                        

Sheridan Wigginton (California Lutheran University), “Dominican Heroes and Haitian Others: How schoolbook biographies shape the political and cultural legacies of Joaquín Balaguer and José Francisco Peña Gómez.”

Guy Baron (University of Aberystwyth), “Cuban Cinema in the New Millennium: Dysfunction, Isolation and the Struggle for Identity.”  

Panel 25: Round Table: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation about Rights                                                SH C 163

Chair: Kate Sullivan (CalStateLA)

Alejandra Marchevsky (CalStateLA), “Racializing Practices and Rights.”  

Clare Weber, (CSU Dominguez Hill), “War and Rights.”   

Emily Acevedo, (CalStateLA), “Policing and Rights.”          

Gabriela Fried, (CalStateLA), “Post-Transitional Democracies and Rights.”             

Kara Dellacioppa (CSU Dominguez Hill), “Social Movements and Rights.”              

Beth Baker-Cristales (CalStateLA), “Immigration and Rights.”      

Molly Talcott (CalStateLA), “Gender, Sexuality and Rights.”         

Enrique Ochoa (CalStateLA), “Food Security.”    

Kate Sullivan (CalStateLA), “Environment and Rights.”   

Mike Soldatenko (CalStateLA), “Education and Rights.”