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NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:00 – 9:30
Registration
Continental Breakfast
Cabot Hall of Flags
Cabot Mezzanine
Laminan Lounge
9:30 – 11:00
PANEL 1.1. Ruptures and Legacies: A Latin American Poetics of Defiant Continuities I
Olin 011
Chair: Lori Hopkins, University of New Hampshire
Remembering Pedro Lemebel
Ignacio López-Vicuña, University of Vermont
Familial ruptures, familial legacies: the defiant continuities of queer lives
Holly Cashman, University of New Hampshire
Eduardo Kac: A Poetics of Skin
Scott Weintraub, University of New Hampshire
PANEL 1.2. Mujeres independientes: figuras femeninas de poder y agencia de la
colonia española hasta hoy en día
Olin 012
Chair: Meredith Richard, McGill University
The Female Vigilante: Safeguarding and Avenging Honor from Gentlemanly Transgressions
Patricio Kobek, McGill University
Dance, Nationalism and Change: Female Figures Shaping the Imaginary of 20th Century Mexico
Lilia Eskildsen Torres, McGill University
Digital Afterlives: Changing Views on Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta
Meredith Richard, McGill University
PANEL 1.3. Sor Juana
Crowe Room
Chair: Gina Canepa, Providence College
A study of the visual language in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa
Amir Effat, Boston University
Las penas barrocas de Castaño y de Celia en Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana
Mike Vinces, Boston University
Didactismo y contradicción en Este, que ves, engaño colorido, de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Paloma Pueyo Sahún, Boston University
La retórica sorjuanista en su obra teatral
Philip Noonan, Boston University
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
9:30 – 11:00
PANEL 1.4. North-South Relations
Mugar 231
Chair: David Scott Palmer, Boston University
Cuban Nationalism and the Ratification of the Hay-Quesada Treaty, 1925
Michael Neagle, Nichols College
FDR’s New Deal and Puerto Rican Colonial Science
Darryl E. Brock, Central Connecticut State University
The History of Carlos Chávez in Tanglewood in 1953
Hermann Hudde, New England Conservatory
Rule of Unprecedented Severity: The 1976 Argentine Coup d'État and the United States
Joseph Andres Ledford, Tufts University
PANEL 1.5. Imperialism and Diasporas
Mugar 235
Chair: Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College
Dying Globally: Contextualizing the Exequies of Philip IV in Latin America
Stuart McManus, Harvard University
Challenging Slavery, Securing Freedom: Lives and Struggles of Enslaved Asians in Peru
Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College
Diálogos paródicos en el virreinato del Perú: La victoria naval Peruntina y Arauco domado
Pedro Lasarte, Boston University
PANEL 1.6. Migration and Belonging in Latin America
Chair: Mark Healy, University of Connecticut
Becoming “Illegal”
Robert Leroux Hernandez, College of the Holy Cross
The Other Side of the Other Side
MaryJoan Picone, LCSW
Searching for La Santa de Cabora
Jayne Reino, UMass Amherst
Cabot 702
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
9:30 – 11:00
PANEL 1.7. Socio-Economic Policy and Practices
Cabot 703
Chair: Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco, Connecticut College
Social Features of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Bolivia and Peru: Different Notions of
Welfare Regime?
Martín Mendoza-Botelho, Eastern Connecticut State University
Making Private Shoes for Public Benefit: Evaluating Economic Reintegration Programming in
Colombia
Rachel Rosenberg, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Subnational Politics and Social Protection in Latin America
Gabriela Tafoya, University of Connecticut
Decentralization and Development in Colombia
Juan Taborda, Fletcher School, Tufts University
PANEL 1.8. Mexican Politics
Mugar 200
Chair: Renata Keller, Boston University
The Democratic Paradox in Mexico: Increasing Governability and Declining Trust in Democratic
Institutions
Roderic Camp, Claremont McKenna College
Narco-Incorporation to Local Narco-Politics: The Evolving Political Influence of Mexico’s DTOS
Laura Blume, Boston University
From Revolutionary Dependency to Liberal Democratic Sovereignty
Patricia Olney, Southern Connecticut State University
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
Cabot Mezzanine
Laminan Lounge
11:15 – 12:45
PANEL 2.1. Ruptures and Legacies: A Latin American Poetics of Defiant Continuities II
Olin 011
Chair: Lori Hopkins, University of New Hampshire
The Future, a Film by Alicia Scherson: Filming Roberto Bolaño and Beyond
Gina Canepa, Providence College
The Aesthetics of Uncertainty: One Film's Poetic Dialogue between Science and Everyday Life that
Brings New Light to Chile's Recent Past
María Woolson, Middlebury College
Quotidian Defiance: Rage and Revenge in Damian Szifron’s Relatos salvajes
Rachel Payne, University of St Joseph
Documenting the reconciliation of the past with the present: The documentary film as a means to
process trauma and recover memory in Chile
Audrey Hansen, University of New Hampshire
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
11:15 – 12:45
PANEL 2.2. Nation, Race, and Identity through Latin American Literature
Olin 012
Chair: Odalis Patricia Hidalgo, UMass Amherst
Lo público, lo privado y el yo en dos obras de Cristina García
Pilar Osorio, UMass Amherst
Música e identidad nacional en La noche que volvimos a ser gente, de José Luis González
Gloria Cuesta, UMass Amherst
La Trinidad del indio o costumbres del interior: Reconocimiento de fronteras y realidades internas
dentro de un país en proceso de reconstrucción
Odalis Patricia Hidalgo, UMass Amherst
La décima de Nicomedes Santa Cruz como instrumento de lucha del negro para su inclusión en la
sociedad peruana
Diana Fiori, University of Rhode Island
PANEL 2.3. Don Quijote y su imagen
Crowe Room
Chair: Luis M. Gonzalez, Connecticut College
Don Quijote en París y en las trincheras
Emilio Fernando Orihuela Egoavil, Université de Caen
Edgar Allan Poe’s Vision of Don Quixote
Fernando González de León, Springfield College
The Construction of the Image in Don Quixote
Carmen García de la Rasilla, University of New Hampshire
Cantinflas: Don Quijote y Sancho
Luis M. Gonzalez, Connecticut College
PANEL 2.4. Sexuality and Violence
Mugar 235
Chair: Cristina Mehrtens, UMass Dartmouth
Interacción de discurso, regulación, y derechos humanos: Derecho de vivir como LGBT en
Colombia y Perú
Stephen L. Capobianco, Binghamton University
Moralizing Public Space: Prostitution, Disease, and Social Disorder in Orizaba, Mexico, 1920-1940
Gregory Swedberg, Manhattanville College
Sodomites Before the Law: Discipline and Punishment in Modern Chile
Robert F. Alegre, University of New England
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
11:15 – 12:45
PANEL 2.5. Virtues and Difficulties of Mayan Language Acquisition for Ethnographic
Research
Cabot 102
Chair: Joyce Bennett, Connecticut College
When Speaking One Maya Language Isn't Enough: Informant Pressures Towards Multi-lingualism in
a Tourism
Walter E. Little, SUNY Albany
“Why Don’t You Learn Tsotsil?” Learning Tseltal, Being Scolded in Tsotsil, and the Challenges of a
Multilingual Fieldsite
Mounia El Kotni, SUNY Albany
“Are you sure that’s our language?” The challenges and benefits of learning the “right” Kaqchikel
Joyce Bennett, Connecticut College
Ethnography in a Language Spectrum: Learning “Good” Yucatec Maya, “Bad” Yucatecan Spanish,
and a Few Things in Between
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Smith College
PANEL 2.6. Mobility and Human Security: Trends and Challenges in Latin America
Mugar 200
Chair: Katrina Burgess, Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Impact of Migration on Security in Mexico: A Livelihood Approach
Héctor Portillo, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Human Rights and the Politics of Transit Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and Morocco
Saskia Brechenmacher, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Argentine and U.S. Immigration Policy: A Comparative Analysis
Jennifer Brody, Fletcher School, Tufts University
PANEL 2.7. Negotiating Public Health and Modernization in Central America and the
Caribbean: Puerto Rico, Guatemala and El Salvador
Cabot 702
Chair: Mark Healy, University of Connecticut
Historicizing Public Health in Twentieth-Century Guatemala: Perspectives, Practices, and Policies
David Carey, University of Loyola
Urbanization, the Environment and Public Health in San Juan, Puerto Rico between 1888 and 1912
Ann Zulawski Sydenham, Smith College
Prostitution and Public Health in El Salvador: 1920s to 1950s
Aldo V. García Guevara, Worcester State University
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
11:15 – 12:45
PANEL 2.8. Challenges for Latin American Development
Cabot 703
Chair: Eva Paus, Mt. Holyoke College
Varieties of Statism in Latin America
Javier Corrales, Amherst College
The Dark Side of the China-Led Commodity Boom in Latin America: Environment and Social
Dimensions
Kevin P. Gallagher, Boston University
Latin America in the Middle Income Trap: The Innovation Challenge
Eva Paus, Mt. Holyoke College
1:00 – 2:30
Lunch
Winthrop 51
2:45 – 4:15
PANEL 3.1. Ruptures and Legacies: A Latin American Poetics of Defiant Continuities III
Olin 011
Chair: Lori Hopkins, University of New Hampshire
Cinematographic Representations of Political Violence: Legacies of Story-Telling in Ayacucho, Peru
Tess Renker, University of New Hampshire
In the Shadow of the Father: Breaks and Legacies in the Works of Three Southern Cone Women
Filmmakers
Lori Hopkins, University of New Hampshire
Ruptures and Legacies of the Spanish Imperialism: memories of Cuban deportees in Fernando Po
Susana Castillo Rodríguez, University of New Hampshire /St. Anselm College
From Commodities to Brands in Latin American Culture
Brett Levinson, Binghamton University
PANEL 3.2. Latin American Novel
Olin 012
Chair: Cynthia Stone, College of the Holy Cross
Satiric Prefiguration of Imminent Emasculation: Junot Diaz' Oscar Wao meets Mario Vargas Llosa's
Urania
William Stark, University of Connecticut
La sustitución de la realidad o la evasión a ritmo de tango: melodrama, folletín y kitsch en "Boquitas
pintadas" de Manuel Puig
Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi, University of Rochester
A State in Crisis: Gender (and) Politics in Ignacio Altamirano's El Zarco
Kyle James Matthews, SUNY-Geneseo
Joseph (José) Blanco White’s Anti-Slavery Writing and London’s Multilingual Public Spheres
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, UMass Amherst
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
2:45 – 4:15
PANEL 3.3. Public Relevance of Latin American Domesticities: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives
Mugar 235
Chair: Erin O'Connor, Bridgewater State University
Are Feminists Elegant?': Elegancias Magazine and the Gender Politics of Spanish American
Modernism
Alba Aragon, Bridgewater State University
Market Women as Patriotic Mothers and Workers in a Salvadoran Military Patriarchy
Aldo Guevara, Worcester State University
Familial Discourses: Domestic Servants and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Ecuador
Erin O'Connor, Bridgewater State University
Legacies of War and the Public Representations of Domestic Violence in Guatemala
Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College
PANEL 3.4. Memory Studies in Latin America
Mugar 231
Chair: Robert Alegre, University of New England
Andean Utopias: The Politics of Memory in Bolivian Indigenous Movements, 1980-2015
Benjamin Dangl, McGill University
Trauma, silencios y memoria en Secretos de lucha
Elizabeth Rivero, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Reproducing Remembrances: Patricio Guzman, Andres Wood, and the Transmission of Memory in
Chile
Nicholas Scott, Tufts University
PANEL 3.5. Human Security in Latin America
Mugar 200
Chair: Kenneth Erikson, Hunter College
Mara Salvatrucha in the Northern Triangle: Men, women, violence, and the struggle to secure
livelihoods
Catriona Jones and David Cronin, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Extraction and External Actors in the Making of Indigenous Community in the Guatemalan Highlands
Samantha Fox, Binghamton University
The Inter-American System of Human Rights: History and Current Challenges
Sofía del Carril, Yale University
NECLAS Annual Meeting, Tufts University, November 7, 2015
2:45 – 4:15
PANEL 3.6. Research and Community Learning
Crowe Room
Chair: Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco, Connecticut College
Development of the New London Care Information for Families on Aging
Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco and Mónika López-Anuarbe, Connecticut College
Integrating Community Learning, Research, and Teaching: A Case Study in Anthropology
Joyce Bennett, Connecticut College
Hispanic Health Council and Community Learning
Alejandro Melendez-Cooper, Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut
PANEL 3.7. Communities, the Environment, & Migration: the Politics of Sustainability
Cabot 702
Chair: Grant Burrier, Curry College
Confrontation or Negotiation? Understanding Local Community Protest Against Mining in Peru
David Sussman, Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Environment or the Economy? National Park Politics in the Americas
Grant Burrier, Curry College
Transnational Coproduction or Translocal Self-Help? Migrant Investment in Local Public Goods
Katrina Burgess, Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Mexican Dream? The Effect of Return Migrants on Hometown Development
Benjamin Waddell, Adams State University
PANEL 3.8. Capitalism and its Challenges
Cabot 703
Chair: Paul Posner, Clark University
The Politicization of Corporate Power and the Rise of Latin America’s Left
Leslie Gates, Binghamton University, and Jenna Kelkres Emery, Leiden University College
Buen Vivir in Ecuador: Radical Socialism or Neopopulism?
Paul Posner, Clark University
Land and Labour in Northwest Argentina: Peasants and Capitalism in the Puna and the Quebrada de
Humahuaca, 1870s-1970s
Robert Whitney, University of New Brunswick
4:30 – 6:00
Sherry Hour and Memorial for Professor Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Cabot Hall of Flags