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Preliminary Program
Friday, April 17
Registration. 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
MACLAS Executive Meeting. 8:00 – 9:45 AM
Session I. 10:00 – 11:45 AM
Panel 1. Women, Politics & Identity in Latin America
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair: Sylvia Peart, United States Naval Academy
Participants:
• Natasha Patterson, United States Naval Academy, “Female Politicians Taking
over Latin America's Leadership”
• Madeline Zell, United States Naval Academy, “Gender Disparities in Latin
American Health System”
• Dale Lescher, United States Naval Academy, “Spanglish and Codeswitching in
the Re-construction on Mexican-American Identities”
Panel 2. New Latino Identities in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair: John Hinshaw, Lebanon Valley College
Participants:
• John Hinshaw, Lebanon Valley College, “The Latinization of the Pennsylvania
Dutch Countryside”
• Ivette Guzmán-Zavala and Thafany Luna Miquez, Lebanon Valley College, “Oral
Histories of Latina Mennonites”
Panel 3. Latin Lovers I: Sexuality & Gender in Latin American Film &
Literature
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: Annette Levine, Ithaca College
Participants:
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• Anna Levitt, Ithaca College, “La transformación del hombre revolucionario: la
influencia de la homosexualidad en Fresa y chocolate y El beso de la mujer
araña”
• Sarah Margolis, Ithaca College, "Las trampas de la hombría en El beso de la
mujer araña de Manuel Puig y El testigo por Cristina Peri Rossi"
• Matthew Byers, Ithaca College, "El poder de la soledad en la obra de Reinaldo
Arenas"
• Andrea Aguirre, Ithaca College, "La geometría de los triángulos eróticos en las
obras In Mortality y Quinceañera"
Panel 4. Corrientes literarias Latinoamericanas en la época
contemporánea
Six Mile Creek Room
Chair: Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, Miami University of Ohio
Participants:
• Amanda Fleites, UNEAC / Universidad de La Habana, “Literatura ‘bastarda’:
nuevas tendencias en la narrativa cubana contemporánea”
• Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, “Fictional Diplomacy: The Curious Case of John Bartlow
Martin, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1963) and The Indelible Spot”
• Kyle James Matthews, SUNY-Geneseo, “Reading Backwards, Moving Forwards:
Ignacio Solares's Oblique Neoliberal Critique in Madero, el otro”
• Ana Patino, Bucknell University, “Sobre nupcias y ausencias, y otros cuentos, de
Lenito Robinson-Bent (San Andrés Islas, Colombia)”
Panel 5. Latin American Literature & Cultural Contestations
Clark Lounge
Chair: Oscar Sarmiento, SUNY Potsdam
Participants:
• Oscar Sarmiento, SUNY Potsdam, “Exploring The Poetry e-Book in Spanish: Ecran
by Jorge Montealegre”
• Liliana Trevizan, SUNY Potsdam, “Pedro Lemebel, Diamela Eltit, and Pía Barros
Writing Change”
• Magda von der Heydt-Coca, Johns Hopkins University, "The Magic of the Real in
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Story of Latin America from the Perspective of Political
Economy"
• Elizabeth Espadas, Wesley College, “Armas literarias contra una guerra sucia”
Lunch on your own: 12:00 noon— 1:15 PM
Session II. 1:30 – 3:15 PM
Panel 6. Mobility, Borders & the Internet in Latin America
Cayuga Lake Room
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Chair: Sharika Crawford, United States Naval Academy
Participants:
• Adriana Ayala and Brissa Medina, United States Naval Academy, “Nicaragua,
the Reincorporation of Mosquitia, and Contested Maritime Borders, 1890s”
• Hannah Meadows, United States Naval Academy, “The Child Immigration
Dilemma: How Awareness and Action Will Drive U.S. Policy Forward”
• Ethan Hamilton, United States Naval Academy, “A Critical Assessment of
Immigration in Latin America”
• Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University and SUNY—Potsdam, “Computing and Its
Impact in Latin America: Two Case Studies”
Panel 7. Latin Lovers II: Sexuality & Gender in Latin American Film &
Literature
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair: Annette Levine, Ithaca College
Participants:
• Monika Juodisius, Ithaca College, “La opresión silenciada de las lesbianas en la
obra de Cristina Peri Rossi y Cherrie Moraga"
• Sarah Browne, Ithaca College, "El poder contradictorio de las mujeres dentro de
una cultura machista: un análisis de las protagonistas femeninas de varias obras
latinoamericanas"
• Beatriz Montilla, Ithaca College, “It's Like Coming Out Twice: La dualidad de la
identidad en In Mortality y Giving Up the Ghost"
• Christopher MacNamara, Ithaca College, "Los espacios cerrados en la obra de
Alejandra Pizarnik, Manuel Puig, y Cristina Peri Rossi"
Panel 8. Altered Spaces: Struggles over Landscapes & Natural
Resources in Latin America Past & Present
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: Jonathan Ablard, Ithaca College
Participants:
• Michael Malpass, Ithaca College, “Negative Impacts on Archaeological Sites in
Peru via Government Policy and Public Indifference”
• Michael Smith, Ithaca College, “Linking Oceans, Disrupting Landscapes: Toward
an Ecological and Social History of Transoceanic Canal Schemes in Nicaragua”
• Alicia Swords, Ithaca College, “Civil Society Opposition to the Plan PueblaPanamá: Network Politics vs. Accumulation by Dispossession”
Panel 9. Lecturas críticas de Borges, Darío, Paz, Cambaceres y
Molina
DeMotte Room
Chair: Marco Ramirez, Lehman CollegeCUNY
Participants:
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• Julia Mingorance Mellado, University of Delaware, “Jorge Luis Borges, un escritor
del siglo XX relacionado con la tradición civilización-barbarie”
• Marco Ramirez, Lehman College—CUNY, “Darío, Borges y Octavio Paz.
Reclamos de la tradición literaria”
• Carlos Rodriguez McGill, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Xenofobia ilustrada,
imaginario popular argentino y violencia de género en las novelas naturalistas de
Eugenio Cambaceres”
• Hilda Salazar, Campbell University, “Desmitificación del espacio hogareño en
Muchacha en azul de Silvia Molina”
Panel 10. Building & Challenging Empire in the 19th & 20th Centuries
Clark Lounge
Chair: Michael Schroeder, Lebanon Valley College
Participants:
• Nicholas Tryka, Ithaca College, “The Next American Frontier: Theodore Roosevelt
and the Panama Canal”
• David Orique, Providence College, "Memory, Myth, and Religion in the South
Atlantic: the 1806 and 1807 British Invasions of Río de La Plata”
• Josh Esposito, West Virginia University, “Institutional Decolonization: Guianese,
British, and American Perspectives on the Role of Organized Labor in Post-Colonial
Society”
• Michael Schroeder, Lebanon Valley College, “The Black Legend of Marine Corps
Atrocities in Nicaragua in the Love Letters of Emil Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio, 19251929”
Pre-Columbian Art Exhibition Tour. 3:00 – 3:30 PM
Handwerker Gallery
MACLAS Coffee Reception and Exhibition Tour, by the curators, of “AS THEY SAW IT:
The Easby Collection of Pre-Columbian Art”. Curated by Professor Jennifer Jolly
(Department of Art History), Gabriella Jorio ('16), Sarah McHugh ('15), Kenneth
Robertson ('15).
Session III. 3:45 – 5:30 PM
Panel 11. Afro-Hispanics in the 21st Century: An Overview of
Challenges & Progress
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair: Gerardo Cummings, Wells College
Participants:
• Gerardo Cummings, Wells College, "Cuajinicuilapa: A Historic Overview of an
Afro-Mexican Utopia"
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• Three other participants TBD.
Panel 12. On the Cutting Edge: Chicano Art & Contemporary
Andean & Dominican Music
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair: Carlos Mamani, Gannon University
Participants:
• Carlos Mamani, Gannon University, “Contemporary Andean Musicians Crossing
Worlds, Other Spaces”
• Amanda Frantz-Mamani, Gannon University, “In Chagoya’s Cauldron: Códices,
Comics, and Cultural Appropriation”
• Sydney Hutchinson, Syracuse University, “Sounding Difference: Gender, Music &
Tradition in the Literary & Sonic Works of Rita Indiana”
Panel 13. Participatory Workshop: Pathway to Citizenship:
Roadblocks & Reform
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair & Facilitator: Shyanne Ruiz, Ithaca College Alumnus
Panel 14. Identidad, imágenes y trasgresión en la literatura y poesía
DeMotte Room
Chair: Gabriela McEvoy, Lebanon Valley College
Participants:
• Gabriela McEvoy, Lebanon Valley College, “Teorizando la novela de
inmigración: alteridad y trasgresión”
• Silvia Alvarez-Olarra, Cita University of New York (BMCC), “La gota hecha mar:
Evolución de una imagen en la poesía de Amado Nervo y José Gorostiza”
• Rene Ibarra, Campbell University, “Y se lo tragó la revolución mexicana:
progreso o pérdida de identidad en Relación de hazañas del hijo del Relámpago
de Javier Castellanos”
• Jennifer Calles, Villanova University, “Canibalismo y Carnaval: Imágenes
transculturadas de Latinoamérica en la primera mitad del siglo XX”
Panel 15. Multimedia Workshop. Presentation of English translation of
the novel, Sueño en Llama
Clark Lounge
Chair & Facilitator: Marvin de los Reyes, Author & Independent Practitioner
Reception. 5:45 – 7:00 PM
Dinner. 7:00 – 9:00 PM
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Saturday, April 18
Continental Breakfast. 7:45 – 9:45 AM
Registration. 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Session IV. 8:00 – 9:45 AM
Panel 16. Histories of Latin American Commodities: Mexican Beer,
Paraguayan Ka’a He’e (Stevia) and South American Yerba Mate
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair: Rebekah Pite, Lafayette College
Participants:
• Susan Gauss, University at Albany–SUNY, "Beer, Race, and Nation in Early
Twentieth Century Mexico"
• Bridget Chesterton, Buffalo State–SUNY, “The Sweet Herb: Ka'a He'e and the
Paraguayan Origins of the Stevia Plant and Low Calorie Sweetness in the Global
Twentieth Century”
• Rebekah Pite, Lafayette College, “Infusing the Local: A History of Yerba Mate
Promotion in South America”
Panel 17. Healing, Death, Silence & Narrativity
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair: Meghan McInnis-Dominguez, University of Delaware
Participants:
• Jorge Garcia, Ithaca College, “Aspectos narratológicos en la crónica
latinoamericana contemporánea”
• Meghan McInnis-Dominguez, University of Delaware, “Altered Healers: Medicine
in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación and José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi’s El
Periquillo Sarniento”
• Gloria Clark, Penn State University, “Ruiz de Alarcón: Reading Disability Through
Temporality, Causality, and Self-reflexivity”
• Timothy Buckner, Fayetteville State University, “Subversive Silence: Spatial
Representations through Dead Protagonists in La amortajada and Algo pasa en la
calle”
Panel 18: Tradition, Modernity, Decoloniality & Urban Space
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: David Sheinin, Trent University
Participants:
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• Luis G. Sanchez, University at Albany–SUNY, “A Decolonial Story in Latin America:
Resistant Writers and Revolutionary Actors”
• Emily Story, Salisbury University, “Lúcio Costa and the Roots of Brazilian Modernist
Architecture”
• Nilsa Lasso-von Lang, Moravian College, “Tensión entre tradición y cambio en la
estructuración social latinoamericana”
• David Sheinin, Trent University, “Eye of the Hurricane: The 1971 Pan American
Games in Cali, Colombia”
Panel 19. Drugs, Empire, Security & Counter-Hegemonic Challenges
DeMotte Room
Chair: Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, SUNY–Fredonia
Participants:
• Celina Foran, Ithaca College, “USAID and Family Planning in Guatemala”
• Erik Caswell, Ithaca College, “ALBA as a Regional Counter-hegemonic Project:
Violent and Nonviolent Methodologies to Consolidate Power”
• Chris White, Marshall University, “The Americas on Drugs: Comparisons, Contrasts,
and Contradictions in Drug War Perspectives in the US and Latin America”
• Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, SUNY–Fredonia, “The South American Defense Council,
the Regionalization of Security and the Impact on Inter-American Relations”
Panel 20. Policy, Politics & Media in Argentina & Brazil
Clark Lounge
Chair: Diane Johnson, Lebanon Valley College
Participants:
• Adam Cohon, University of Rochester, “Building Regulator Authority and
Capacity at the State Level in Brazil: Cross-State Comparisons”
• Evan Andrews, Syracuse University, “A Challenge to the Imperial Mayor: City
Council Size in Brazilian Municipalities”
• Jonathan Ablard, Ithaca College, “Debating Military Justice in Argentina, 19011930”
• Diane Johnson, Lebanon Valley College, “Are social media good or bad for
democracy? Early lessons from Argentina”
Session V. 10:00 – 11:45 AM
Panel 21. Social Movements, Health & Human Rights
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair: Patricia Rodriguez, Ithaca College
Participants:
• Patricia Rodriguez, Ithaca College, “Social Movements and the Victims and Land
Restitution Law in Colombia”
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• Stephanie Schechter, SUNY–Geneseo, “Integrative Approach to Prenatal Care in
Indigenous Latin American Populations”
• Jennifer Guzman, SUNY–Geneseo, “What’s Talk Got to Do With It? Exploring How
a Focus on Communication Can Contribute to the Emerging Medicina Intercultural
Movement in Latin America”
• John Stolle-McAllister, University of MD–Baltimore County, “‘We’ve Done Beautiful
Work Here’: Resource Conservation as Intercultural Process in Mojanda, Ecuador”
Panel 22. Book Presentation: Honduras: Women’s Poems of Protest &
Resistance (2009–2014)
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair & Facilitator: Maria Roof, Howard University
• Maria Roof, Howard University, “Why the Urgency to Publish This Poetry Now?”
• Kathleen Cunniffe, Temple University, “Translating Tomy Morales: Individuality and
Collectiveness”
Panel 23. Film, Media, Gender & Youth in Cuba & Beyond
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: Louise Detwiler, Salisbury University
Participants:
• David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa, Western University, “Revolutionary Change:
Challenging Gender Roles in Retrato de Teresa”
• Louise Detwiler, Salisbury University, “Liberating Jineterismo: Temporary Coalitional
Identities in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?”
• Enrique Gonzalez-Conty, Ithaca College, “8-A: Orlando Jiménez Leal’s CounterCinema”
• Richard N. Gioioso, St. Joseph’s University, “Reforming the Cuban Dream:
Everyday Realities and Future Aspirations in the Lives of Cuban Youth”
Panel 24. Politics of Identity Formation & Cultural Expression
DeMotte Room
Chair: María Alejandra Aguilar, SUNY at Oswego
Participants:
• María Alejandra Aguilar, SUNY at Oswego, “Engendering the Fight: Racial and
Gender Equality from Afro-Latin American Women’s Vision”
• Franca Roibal Fernandez, Boston University, “Un saludo cordial: Intellectual
Musical Theater and Political Voice of the Uruguayan Murga”
• Graciela Maglia, Allegheny College, “Oralitura de San Basilio de Palenque,
Colombia”
• Joan Marx, Muhlenberg College, “Blintzes and Buñuelos: Cultural Identity in the
Jewish Diaspora in Mexico in Margo Blanz’s Los genealogías”
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Panel 25. Urban Spaces and Struggles for Citizenship in Brazil &
Argentina
Clark Lounge
Chair: Pamela Sertzen, Syracuse University
Participants:
• Pamela Sertzen, Syracuse University, “Landscapes of Justice for Youth in the
Favela and the ‘Right to the City’”
• Elaine Rocha, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, “‘Stand Up For
Your Rights: The Roots of the Reggae Movement and Its Influence in the Brazilian
Struggle Against Racial Inequality”
• Ildefonso Correas Apelanz, University at Albany—SUNY, “Las p(otreras) tomadas:
(re)thinking, (re)defining, and (re)creating spaces, spheres, and dimensions in
Argentine ‘fútbol’”
• Thomas Brinkerhoff, University of Pennsylvania, “Peronism on the Playing Field: The
Campeonatos Evita and the Politics of Children’s Sports in Mid-Twentieth-Century
Argentina, 1948-1955”
Business Luncheon. 12:00 – 1:45 PM
Klingenstein Lounge
Session VI. 2:00 – 3:45 PM
Panel 26. Emerging on the Margins: The Implications of Political
Change for Women and the Indigenous in Latin America
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair & Discussant: Patricia Rodriguez, Ithaca College
Participants:
• Ariana Lippi, SUNY Geneseo, “The Struggle of Latin America’s Indigenous People
in a Globalized World”
• Kaitlin Senk, SUNY Geneseo, “What Makes Gender Quotas Effective: A
Comparative Examination of Electoral Systems and Quota Legislation in South
America”
• Amanda Wagner, SUNY Geneseo, “Ecuador’s Tenuous Relationship with Oil
Resources”
Panel 27. Cuerpos alterados mexicanos: Ciborgs, vampiros y
alquimistas
Ithaca Falls Room
Chair: Carmen Serrano, University at Albany–SUNY
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Participants:
• Katja Higgins, University at Albany—SUNY, “La alteración del corpus feminae en
la novela Como agua para chocolate de Laura Esquivel”
• Jaime Mundo, University at Albany—SUNY, “El escritor ciborg: La identidad
poshumana en La Novela Perfecta de Carmen Boullosa”
• Carmen Serrano, University at Albany—SUNY, “Sorbos perturbadores que alteran
y desdibujan los límites en Vlad por Carlos Fuentes”
Panel 28. Indigenous Religiosity in Mesoamerica & the Upper
Amazon
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: Mary Preuss, Penn State University
Participants:
• Mary Preuss, Penn State University, “Ways and Whys of Mayan Shape-Shiftersan
Shape-Shifters”
• Máximo Martínez, “A Case Study of Central American Evangelical Garinagu
Transnationalism”
• Rick Goulet, Lock Haven University, “The Native Revolt of 1790 on the Upper
Amazon Frontier Revisited”
• Kim Fabbri, Lehigh University, “Guido Grossman: A Case Study on Neutrality
among the Moravian Church in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast”
Panel 29. Art, Journalism, and Social Movements
DeMotte Room
Chair: Alejandra Zambrano, Ithaca College
Participants:
• Alejandra Zambrano, Ithaca College, “La Poderosa Media Project: Youth, Arts
Education, and Latin America”
• Erica Yozell, Moravian College, “Cartographies of Power: Contemporary
Mapuche Cultural Journalism”
• Gwen Elizabeth Bullock, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Cornell
University, “Colombia Presenté: Artistic Appropriation of Public Space [Bogotá]”
• Beth Harris, Independent Scholar, “Autonomy, Horizontalism and the Cumbre
Agraria: From Local Movements to National Negotiations in Colombia”
Panel 30. Art, Politics, Education & the Media
Clark Lounge
Chair: Victoria Castillo, College of William & Mary
Participants:
• Victoria Castillo, College of William & Mary, “Transforming Art and Politics in Peru
in the 1920s: The Feminist and Indigenist Work of Julia Codesido”
• Sarah White, Moravian College, “Turning Borders into Bridges: BorderLinks as a
Model of the Circle of Praxis”
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• Gabriela Veronelli, Binghamton University, “Intercultural Bilingual Education in
Argentina: Insights from decolonial perspective”
• Kenneth Moss, Rutgers University, “Suppression of the Mexican Fourth Estate:
Plutarco Elias Calles and the Creation of the Department of Press”
Session VII. 4:00 – 5:45 PM
Panel 31. The Allure of the Economy: Political Tradeoffs
Accompanying Economic Growth in Central America
Cayuga Lake Room
Chair: Karleen West, SUNY Geneseo
Participants:
• Courtney Cataudella, SUNY Geneseo, “The New American Dilemma: The
Implications of Undocumented Immigration in the United States and Costa Rica”
• Patrick McCormick, SUNY Geneseo, “Sandinista Sham: How an Improving
Regional Economy Cost Nicaragua Its Democracy”
Panel 32. Law, Gender, Criminality & Politics
Taughannock Falls Room
Chair: Juanita Diaz-Cotto, SUNY-Binghamton
Participants:
• Liz Getman, University of Florida, “Speaking of the Unspeakable: Discussions of
Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence in Quiché, Guatemala”
• Paulo Fraga, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora-Brazil, “Gender and Crime:
The Case of Women Involved in Illicit Crops in Northeast Brazil”
• Juanita Diaz-Cotto, SUNY-Binghamton, “Chicanas/Latinas/Latin American
Women, Criminal Justice, and U.S.-Spearheaded War on Drugs"
• Krystall Escobedo, Ithaca College, “Why Do Organizations Face Violence If They
Already Have a Legitimized System?”
Panel 33. Labor, Migration, Community & Citizenship
Clark Lounge
Chair: Jeffrey Pugh, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Participants:
• Lawrence Goun, Cornell University, “Peruvian Textile Export Industry and Labor
Considerations”
• Jeffrey Pugh, University of Massachusetts-Boston, “Universal Citizenship and
Migration Under Ecuador's President Rafael Correa”
• Lori Klivak, Syracuse University, “An Ethos of Engagement – Conversion,
Indigeneity and Organized Change in Oaxaca, Mexico”
• Yaser Robles, Fordham University, “Brazil: The World’s Biggest Soccer Nation
Confronts its Future”
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Saturday, 7:30 PM. Teatro y Activismo: Celebrating the 50th
Anniversary of Teatro Campesino
Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 301 West Court St., Ithaca NY.
The Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
Executive Committee, 2014–2015
Diane Johnson (President), Lebanon Valley College
Meghan McInnis-Dominguez (Vice President), University of Delaware
Jeff Pugh (Past President), University of Massachusetts Boston
Brian Turner (Treasurer), Randolph–Macon College
Maria Roof, Howard University (retired)
Mark Wasserman, Rutgers University (term ends 2015)
Rosita Villagomez, College of Mount St. Vincent (term ends 2015)
Michael Schroeder, Lebanon Valley College (term ends 2016)
Patricia Rodriguez, Ithaca College (term ends 2016)
Kathleen Cunniffe, Temple University (term ends 2016)
Louise Detwiler, Salisbury University (term ends 2017)
Bridget Chesterton, Buffalo State–SUNY (term ends 2017)
Gloria Clark, Webmaster
2015 MACLAS Conference Program Chair: Michael Schroeder
Local Arrangements at Ithaca College: Patricia Rodriguez