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6th Annual Ottawa-Region Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean:
Mirrors and Mirages
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CA
April 16-18, 2015
Thursday, April 16th
Location: Senate Room, RO 617
6:00- 6:15 pm- Meet and Greet
6:15- 6:30 pm- Welcome and Introductions
6:30- 8:00 pm- THE ROLE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES IN REGIONAL INTEGRATION
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Edgar Torrez Mosqueira, Ambassador of Bolivia, Representative of GRULA
Harry Narine Nawbatt, Dean of CARICOM, High Commissioner of Guyana
Roberto Dormond, Ambassador of Costa Rica
Moderator: Cristina Rojas, Carleton University
8:00-8:30 pm- A performance by Venezuelan Ballet Araguaney, courtesy of the Venezuelan Embassy
Friday, April 17th
Locations: DT 2203 and DT 1524
9:00-11:00 am- Panel 1: REFLECTIONS ON SOLIDARITY- INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND RESOURCE EXTRACTION
(Room DT 2203)
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Anna Marie Sam, Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council, First Nations Women Advocating
Responsible Mining, MiningWatch Canada
Tara Ward, Horizons of Friendship
Rachel Warden, KAIROS Canada
Discussant: Sara Anderson, Carleton University
9:00-11:00 am- Panel 2: PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY
(Room DT 1524)
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“The Bank of the South as an Alternative to Development”
Ana Carolina Da Silva Soares, Carleton University
“Latin America and the Caribbean in a New Global Economic Scenario: Changes in
Transmission of Economic Shocks from the US”
Laneydi Martinez Alfonso, CEHSEU, University of Havana
“El Acuerdo de Asociación Unión Europea-Centroamérica como Herramienta para
la Integración”
Jorge Umaña Vargas, Embajada de Costa Rica
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“Drug-Trafficking, Illusions and the War on Drugs: the Case of Colombia”
Qasim Kareemi, Carleton University
Discussant: Pablo Heidrich, Carleton University
11:30- 1:30 pm- Panel 3: ROUNDTABLE- CANADIAN ENGAGEMENT IN THE AMERICAS: POLICY, SOLIDARITY,
AND IMPACTS
(Room DT 2203)
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Sheila Katz, Carleton University
Steve Stewart, University of British Columbia, CoDevelopment Canada
Rachel Vincent, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Discussant: Laura Macdonald, Carleton University
11:30-1:30 pm- Panel 4: MIGRANTS IN MOTION
(Room DT 1524)
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“A Critical Analysis of the Role of the CSME Focal Point in the Implementation of
the Free Movement of Labour Regime within CARICOM”
Kai-Ann Denise Skeete, University of the West Indies
“Los Desplazados en Colombia: Desterritorialización, Reterritorialización y ReExistencia”
Carlos Yanez Canal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
“Mujeres Que Andan de a Pie: Sobre Mujeres que Construyen Territorios”
Liliana Kremer and Ana Andrada, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
“Emotions and Identity: the Language Barrier between Latin American Temporary
Agricultural Foreign Workers and ‘the Other’”
Linamar Campos-Flores, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Luisa Veronis, University of Ottawa
2:00-4:00 pm- Panel 5: BOLIVIA, TODAY
(Room DT 2203)
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“Como Transformar el Universo en Pluriverso y Viceversa. Contribuciones desde
Bolivia”
Cristina Rojas, Carleton University
 Estado, políticas económicas y organizaciones sociales en tiempos del MAS
Vladimir Diaz, Carleton University
 Canadian Companies, Communities and Miners in Bolivia. Pathways
to “success” and veiled resistances in Bolivia
Kirsten Francescone, Carleton University
Discussant: Marie-Josée Massicotte, University of Ottawa
2:00-4:00 pm- Panel 6: SOCIAL POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
(Room DT 1524)
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“El Sistema de Protección Chileno: Mutaciones Institucionales Desencadenadas por
la Puesta en Marcha de la Ley de Subvenciones 20.032”
Rosita Vargas Diaz, Universidad de Montréal
“‘Politics and Neoliberal Policies Behind Low Proficiency in Second Language
Training: the Case of Chile”
Gloria Romero, University of Ottawa
“Justicia Social y Desigualdad Educativa en las Prácticas Pedagógicas PostRevolucionarias en México”
Johaan Castro Reyes, Centre Population & Développement
“Life After El Comandante: the Future of Education and Health Care and Other
Governance Challenges Facing a Post-Castro Cuba”
Curtis Salati, Carleton University
Discussant: Laura Macdonald, Carleton University
4:30- 5:45 pm- Keynote Address: “POLITICS OF THE UNCOMMONS” by MARISOL DE LA CADENA
(Room DT 2203)
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Saturday, April 18th
Locations: DT 2017 and DT 2203
9:00-11:00 am- Panel 7: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
(Room DT 2017)
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“Austerity or Prifligacy? The Economic Practices of Mexican Seasonal Farm Workers
in Canada”
Jorge Pantaleón, Université de Montréal
“En Construcción: Estética de la Informalidad, Cultura Popular e Imaginarios
Urbanos del Subdesarrollo”
Nuria Carton de Grammont, Université de Montréal
“Jeunesse Immigante Latino-Américaine et Gouvernance Urbaine dans la Ville de
Montréal”
Eduardo González Castillo, École Nationale d’Administration Publique
“Popular Culture and Urban Indigenous Youth”
Elisabeth Fast, École Nationale d’Administration Publique
Discussant: Meg Stalcup, University of Ottawa
9:00-11:00 am- Panel 8: REVINDICATION: SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION
(Room DT 2203)
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“O Artesanato como Instrumento de Identidade Étnica: o Caso dos Kinikinau de
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil”
Karolinne Sotomayor Azambuja Canazillas, Universidade AnhangueraUniderp/Universidade do Québec en Outaouais
“Los Discursos de Reivindicaciones Indígenas de los Andes: una Ontología Política
que Asocia Tradición y Modernidad”
Nicolas Beauclair, Université de Sherbrooke
“Remembering San Lorenzo in Bodeo”
Matthew Hawkins, Carleton University
“Social Control x Individual Autonomy: the Pentecostal Political Activism Against
the Feminist and LGBT Movements in Brazilian Politics
Janine Trevisan, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil
Discussant: Charmain Levy, Université du Québec en Outaouais
11:30-1:30 pm- Panel 9: ART AND LITERATURE
(Room DT 2017)
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“Indigenous Modernities and the Performance of the Music of Bolivian Mission
Archives by the Ensamble Moxos”
Melba Villamizar Rodriguez, Carleton University
“Exploring Mexican Hybrid Baroque: New Perspectives on Colonial Visual Culture”
Maxine Compean, Carleton University
“Diversité et Méthode:L’Ontographie des Mondes Autochtones Andins”
Jorge Legoas, McGill University
“Propaganda Migratoria Canadiense y Arte Latinoamericano en Montreal: Un
Contrapunto Disonante”
Alexandre Beaudoin Duquette, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Discussant: Frances Slaney, Carleton University
11:30-1:30 pm- Panel 10: STATES AND BELONGING
(Room DT 2203)
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“New Constitutionalism in Ecuador: An Analysis of the Yasuní-ITT Failure and its
Repercussions”
Joaquin Bardallo Bandera, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa
“El Programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas Juntos en la Intersección
del Multiculturalismo Neoliberal y del Indigenismo Peruano”
Vildan Bahar Tuncay, Universidad Laval
“‘The Cubans are Coming!’: (In)security, solidarity, and Cuba’s Pavilian at Expo 67”
Asa McKercher
Discussant: Ajay Parasram and Julia Calvert, Carleton University.
2:00- 4:00 pm- Panel 11: ROUNDTABLE OF CARIBBEAN HIGH COMMISSIONERS AND AMBASSADORS
(Room DT 2017) Theme: The Economy is Personal: Reflecting and Imagining
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H.E. Harry Narine Nawbatt, Dean of CARICOM, High Commissioner of Guyana
H.E. O. Andre Frantz Liautaud, Ambassadeur d’Haiti
H.E. Calsey Willmore Johnson, High Commissioner of The Bahamas
H.E. Janice Avonne Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica
Discussant: Jerusa Ali, Carleton University and Valérie Black-St. Laurent, Université d’Ottawa
2:00-4:00 pm- Panel 12: LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORY
(Room DT 2203)
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“The Nicaragua Canal: Geo-Political Reorganization or Smoke and Mirrors?”
Lori Hanson, University of Saskatchewan and Sasha Hanson Pastran, Carleton
University
“Égalité des genres et politiques agraires en Bolivie : le MAS sème-t-il en terrain
fertile?”
Marie Claude Rouillard, Université d’Ottawa
“La Mondialisation de l'Activité Minière et la Transformation de l'État : Le Cas de la
Colombie”
Leandro Gomez Ortiz, Universidad de Ottawa
“A Critical Approach on Socio-Technical Transition in the Global South”
Jose Manuel Leal, University of Ottawa
Discussant: Paola Ortiz, University of Ottawa.
4:30- 5:45 pm- Keynote Address: “DIASPORIC RESOURCES: CARIBBEAN ITINERARIES AND THE POLITICS OF
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TRANSNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT” by ALISSA TROTZ
Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies, University of
Toronto
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