XXIV Annual ILASSA Student Conference, February 12 - 14, 2004

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Complete Conference Program [pdf - 258KB]

Panel: Civil Military Relations

  • State of Emergency and Human Rights Violations in a Newly Formed Democracy, Silvia Arispe [pdf - 195KB]
  • The Brazilian Military.s Role in Public Security: An Obstacle to the Successful End of the Democratic Transition, Kristin Lion [pdf - 118KB]
  • Law and Society in Latin America: Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico in Comparative Perspective Thamy Pogrebinschi [pdf - 122KB]

Panel: Community through Rhythm: The Unifying Power of Song and Dance

  • La canción artística latinoamericana: Formas "clásicas" de vender frutas en las calles, Patricia Caicedo [pdf - 166KB]
  • Foro: Exploring Brazilian National Identity through Imagination and Performance, Megwen Loveless [pdf - 89KB]
  • Culture and Politics as Transformative Agents in the Carnival Cultural Association Group Ile Aiye, Zipporah Slaughter [pdf - 147KB]

Panel: Comparative Legal Systems

  • O pacto de San Jose da Costa Rica e o ordenamento constitucional brasileiro: O nao-cabimento da prisao civil do depositario infiel, Tamara Joana Biolo Soares [pdf - 36KB]
  • Reforming the Criminal Procedure System in Latin America, Jay Bischoff [pdf - 35KB]
  • Louisiana Livingston and the Guatemalan Penal Code Purchase, Tanner Neidhardt [pdf - 32KB]
  • Idade, preferencias, e resultados politicos: Estudo comparativo entre senadores e deputados no Brasil, Pedro Neiva [pdf - 73KB]
  • O carater exemplar da indenizacao e o direito civil brasileiro: Pena privada ou punitive damages?, Mariana Pargendler [pdf - 273KB]

Panel: Dictators, Dirty Wars, and Counter-Insurgencies

  • Causes for Civil War and Failed Revolution in El Salvador, Brett Kyle [pdf - 201KB]
  • Money and Matanzas: The Failure of United States Military Aid to Central America during the Cold War, Claire Campbell [pdf - 178KB]

Panel: Dominant Discourses

  • The Disconnect between the History of Science and Latin American Studies, Shawn Mullet [pdf - 84KB]

Panel: Explorations of the Sacred: Images, Imagination, and Spiritual Performance

  • Challenging Gender Boundaries: La Feria de Enero, Xóchitl Chávez [pdf - 143KB]
  • Maqanakuyku: Bolivia's Diachronic Tinku, Brian Norris [pdf - 120KB]
  • La teatralidad en la evangelización franciscana: Un estudio del uso de performance en la Relación y conçudio de Hernán Gallegos, Andrea Smidt [pdf - 111KB]

Panel: Imagining the Revolution

  • Images of Zapata and the Construction of National Ideology, Theresa Avila [pdf - 95KB]
  • El rebelde nicaraguense. La santidad del sandinismo, Veronica Rueda Estrada [pdf - 168KB]

Panel: Immigration: The U.S. Experience

  • They Banish Fools: Salvadoran Gang Members in Los Angeles, Della Burke [pdf - 100KB]
  • Factors Easing Adaptation of Latina Immigrants to a Rural Midwestern Community, Kathryn Neckar [pdf - 204KB]
  • Latino American Immigrant Workers in Arizona: Globalization and the Rethinking of Labor Relations, Denisse Roca [pdf - 211KB]
  • The Central American Struggle for Amnesty and Residency: The Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan Experience in Comparative Perspective, 1980-1997, Veronica Torres [pdf - 144KB]

Panel: Local, Regional, National Development Strategies

  • Collectivity and Change: Women, Community, and Economic Development in Guatemala, Tara Feigum Stone [pdf - 195KB]
  • A Contribution to the Empirics of Micro Credit: Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico, Justin Grimmer [pdf - 316KB]
  • Information Technology and Brazil's Economic Revival, Anjum Khursh and Paula Karruz [pdf - 86KB]
  • Articulacion de las organizaciones de sexoservidoras con la politica de salud en Mexico: El Barrio de la Merced 2003, Manuel Enrique Morales Santiago [pdf - 218KB]
  • The Politics of Transportation, Informal Economies, and Urban Space: Examining the Case of the Kombeiros, Recife Brazil, Cassandra Sweet [pdf - 42KB]

Panel: Natural Resources and Development

  • Evaluating a Capacity-Building Program in Conservation Biology for Shuar and Awa Indigenous Communities in Ecuador, Amy Duchelle [pdf - 1.2MB]
  • Highway Paving, Deforestation, and Governance along the Trans-Oceanic Highway in the Brazilian State of Acre, Jeffrey Luzar [pdf - 190KB]
  • O tratamento juridico da agues subterraneas e o principio da cooperacao hidrica internacional: Perspectivas para o MERCOSUR, Laura Miller [pdf - 210KB]

Panel: Panorama of Mexican History

  • Challenging Spanish Imperialism: The Economic Ideas of Francisco Javier de Gamboa, Christopher Albi [pdf - 355KB]
  • Por la Nacion: U.S.-Mexico Collaboration during World War II, Maria de la Luz Guevara [pdf - 140KB]
  • The War and the Church: The Differences between Commemorative Devotional Art in Mexico and El Salvador, Leslie Moody [pdf - 63KB]

Panel: Race and Ethnic Identity

  • El apartheid estetico y social en Mexico: La dura realidad del joven mexicano frente a la moda, Gabriel Gutierrez [pdf - 367KB]
  • "Valiant Race, Tenacious Race, Heroic, Indomitable and Implacable": The War of the Pacific (1879-1884) and the Role of Racial Ideas in the Construction of Chilean Identity, Hugo Maureira [pdf - 397KB]
  • Hidden Racism: The Continuance of Internalized Colonization in Modern Quito and Its Possible Economic Effects, Karem Roitman [pdf - 132KB]
  • Los Kickapoos de Mexico-Texas, Blanca Aurora Silva Contreras [pdf - 124KB]

Panel: Radio, Television, Film, and Literature: Communications, Media, Nation

  • Ensayo de un crimen: Una lectura metafisica, Gerardo Garcia [pdf - 140KB]
  • Low-Income Pay Television Viewers: The Case of the Rio de Janeiro Shantytown of Rocinha, Bethany Letalien [pdf - 115KB]
  • La humanidad y la naturaleza: Un binomio complemetario en Canto general de Neruda, Itza Zavala [pdf - 95KB]

Panel: Social Movements: Effects on Legal, Political, and Economic Evolution

  • Informal Legal Systems in Latin America, Brent Barton [pdf - 197KB]
  • Asociacion Nacional por la Salvacion Agropecuaria: Resistencia cival ante la apertura economica en Colombia, Laura Maria Gutierrez Escobar [pdf - 318KB]

Panel: Society through a Literary Lens

  • Caliban y Sab: Entre el Caribe y Africa, Noah Nelson [pdf - 98KB]
  • La subjetividad hibrida y poscolonial en las narratives latinas, Jessamine Santory [pdf - 127KB]

Panel: Strategies for Dealing with the New Economic World Order

  • Post-Embargo Cuba: Economic Implications and the Future of Socialism, Rose Caraway [pdf - 159KB]
  • Public Deliberation and Policy: Intellectuals in Cuba, Monika Gerhart [pdf - 149KB]
  • Food Insecurity in Nicaragua, Nazia HabibMintz [pdf - 517KB]
  • Currency Swaps, Hedging Arrangements, and Credit Restrictions to Public Companies in Brazil, Miguel Augustin Kreling [pdf - 267KB]

Panel: Trends in Labor

  • Second Class Workers: The Dialectics of State and Status, Roosbelinda Cardenas [pdf - 141KB]

Panel: Women and Community Action

  • Poverty, Violence, and the Community Mothers Project in Colombia, Leticia Arteaga [pdf - 192KB]
  • La Lucha Sigue: Zapatista Women Building Communities of Resistance, Sandra Ortsman [pdf - 351KB]