PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
2011 CONFERENCE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
October 28-29, 2011
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
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?”
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."
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
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.”
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