ILASSA27 Student Conference on Latin America, February 1 - 3, 2007

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Complete Conference Program [pdf - 258KB]

Selected Papers from the Conference

The titles below are taken from the official Conference Program; in some cases, the title on the paper does not match the title in the online Program.

Panel: Indigeneity, Invisibility and Indigenisms

  • Methods to Modernity: The Colombian Indigenist Project of the 1920s, Igor Rodriguez [pdf - 192KB]
  • The Indigenous Face of a White Nation: Indigenous Peoples Movements in Argentina, Adam Adkin [pdf - 284KB]
  • Seizing the Lake: Tourism, Identity and Power of the Indigenous Peoples of Quilotoa, Ecuador, Belen Norona [pdf - 307KB]

Panel: Contemporary Issues in Latin America-United States Immigration

  • For Love or Money: Comparative Modeling of Hispanic Migration to New Orleans, LA and the United States, Emily McRae [pdf - 1.3MB]
  • Immigrant Access to Financial Services: A Study of Latinos in New York City, Kyla Levin-Russel [pdf - 349KB]
  • The Role of Symbolic Legislation in the Immigration Debate, Leya Speasmaker [pdf - 272KB]
  • The Caring Networks of NGOs, Kendall Zanowiak [pdf - 1.63MB]

Panel: Accountability and Governance in Transition

  • América Latina: governabilidade, governance e desenvolvimento, Dirce Dutra [pdf - 597KB]
  • Haiti: Transitions Less than Democratic, Michelle Munroe [pdf - 348KB]

Panel: Urban Spaces and Crime in Brazil

  • Fatores de risco associados ao trabalho policial no Rio de Janeiro, Cleber Carmo [pdf - 303KB]
  • Urban Space, Police and Crime, Bráulio Alves da Silva [pdf - 1.9MB]

Panel: Forging Identity and Creating Space: Perspectives from Media, Art, and Politics

  • Changing Context, Changing Meaning: A Study of Processional Sculpture in the Corpus Christi Celebrations of Cuzco, Derek Burdette [pdf - 137KB]
  • La vigencia social de .La pérgola de las flores,. la primera comedia musical chilena, Laura Budzyna [pdf - 215KB]
  • Free from the Shadow: Re-Identification of Cultural Expression in Argentina in the Face of Redemocratization, Amanda Parker [pdf - 238KB]
  • The Progression of the Modern Civil Union in Argentina, Julia Decker [pdf - 195KB]
  • Race and the Marriage Market in Belo Horizonte, Todd Harvey [pdf - 156KB]

Panel: Markets, Investments and Development

  • Market Reform and Veto Players in Colombia, Nestor Castañeda [pdf - 273KB]
  • Institutions and the Evolution of Development Economics in Brazil, Joe Vavrus [pdf - 404KB]

Panel: Exploring the Importance of Visual Arts

  • Democratic Devotion: The Role of Printing in the Rise of the Cult of Guadalupe, Sarah Bailey [pdf - 160KB]
  • Práticas coletivas de artistas na América Latina contemporânea, Claudia Paim [pdf - 3.8MB]
  • Political Rupture, Artistic Development: A Critical View of the Neoliberal Argentina of the Early 21st Century and Its Impact on the Artistic Productions of the Period, Clara Garavelli [pdf - 219KB]
  • Woven Imagery: Significance of Aztec Textile Designs, Jennifer Siegler [pdf - 148KB]

Panel: Identity and Difference in Mesoamerican History

  • The Spanish Moctezumas: Challenging Traditional Representations of the Moctezuma Family in New Spain, Cara Zacks [pdf - 188KB]
  • "Each may select a little Indian girl, to his satisfaction": Military Service, Captive Exchange, and the Making of a Hispanic- Apache Community in the Late-Colonial Chihuahua Borderlands, Paul Conrad [pdf - 218KB]
  • The Hispanization of Atlantic Nicaragua, 1894-1910, Samuel Frazier [pdf - 370KB]
  • From Revolt to Revolution: Remembering the Events of 1925 in Kuna Yala, Kayla Price [pdf - 59MB]
  • The Gendered City: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Military in San Salvador, 1920-1980, Rodgrigo Massi [pdf - 308KB]

Panel: Making "Others" Visible in Brazil and Argentina

  • Rethinking Ethnicity and Democracy: Argentina and Its Silenced Voices, Gabriella Hoberman [pdf - 217KB]
  • Raça, desigualdade e participação política em Belo Horizonte, Natália Bueno and Fabrício Fialho [pdf - 202KB]
  • Quilombo: A Critical Review of a Brazilian Film, Tristán Del Canto [pdf - 203KB]

Panel: Social Policy: A Focus on Healthcare, Education and Social Capital

  • Regional Inequalities on Health Services Supply: An Analysis for Brazil, 2002, Cristina Rodrigues [pdf - 2.8MB]
  • Murky Waters: A Look at the Perpetual Challenge of Water and Sanitation Services in Guayaquil, Emily Joiner [pdf - 490KB]
  • Reformas educativas en América Latina en tiempos de crisis, Melchor Huamán Cosi [pdf - 202KB]
  • Guatemala's Bilingual Intercultural Education System and Indigenous Political Participation, Christina Abreo [pdf - 284KB]

Panel: Media, Information and Censorship

  • O estado da arte dos estudos do jornalismo digital no Brasil, Carla Schwingel [pdf - 686KB]
  • Madam or Mr. President? Chile's Michelle Bachelet, Press Coverage and Public Perceptions, Sebastian Valenzuela [pdf - 410KB]
  • Literacy, Censorship and Intellectual Freedom: The Independent Library Movement in Contemporary Cuba, Kelsey Vidaillet [pdf - 1.9MB]
  • An Examination of the Impact of Information Communication Technologies on Social Movements in Latin America, Aaron Miller [pdf - 386KB]

Panel: Historical Memory and Representations in the Southern Cone and Costa Rica

  • How to Create a Republic with Words: Republican Discourses during Rio de la Plata Revolution, Gabriel Entin [pdf - 333KB]
  • Historia y pasion: Olga Nolla y la nueva novela historica, Judie Collazo [pdf - 132KB]

Panel: Regional Integration

  • Integração regional no Mercosul: os governos subnacionais e a nova realidade do federalismo no Brasil, Mariana Barros [pdf - 1.0MB]
  • Regional Integration and Global Insertion: Latin American Case, Myriam Rincon Dyke [pdf - 255KB]
  • El Rol de la infraestructura de transporte en la integración de mercados regionales: Una propuesta metodológica para la identificación de hubs de transporte en las regiones del Perú, Daniella Llanos and Cinthya Pastor [pdf - 2.8MB]
  • El Desarrollo vial de la comunidad sudamerica de naciones mediante el empleo del Turnkey Contract de las contrataciones de participación publico-privada, Jimmy Eric Alegria Moreano [pdf - 669KB]

Panel: Entering and Exiting Brazil

  • Movimentos migratorios fronteiriãos: Bolivianos e Paraguaios em Mato Grosso Do Sul, Angela Maria Marques [pdf - 584KB]
  • "Nova Orleans"? Retention Factors for Brazilian Undocumented Immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans, Adam Frick [pdf - 231KB]

Panel: Violence, Health and Difference in Guatemala

  • Issues of Femicide in Guatemala, Allysun Jackson [pdf - 125KB]
  • The Persistent Problem of Indigenous Guatemalans. Access to Health Care, Danielle Thal [pdf - 217KB]

Panel: Social Movements and Solidarity

  • Rowdy Cowboys and Masked Indigenas: Citizenship and Autonomy in Contemporary Social Movements, Marcelle Beaulieu [pdf - 313KB]
  • Solidarity across Borders: Vatican II and the School of the Americas Watch Movement, Elizabeth Harvey [pdf - 181KB]
  • Walking the Walk: The Sanctuary Movement in a Predominantly Black Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas, Claudia Rueda [pdf - 326KB]
  • El Santo Negro en la tierra del petróleo. La fiesta de San Benito en Cabimas, Oleski Miranda [pdf - 198KB]

Panel: Public Policy, Labor and Inequality

  • Income Distribution in the Brazilian Labor Market: Analysis of the Years from 1981 to 2005, Alexandre Maia [pdf - 426KB]
  • Product Market Competition and Informality in Mexico, Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia and Marín Lima [pdf - 638KB]
  • Housing in Havana: A Socialist Paradox, Lauren Nussbaum [pdf - 300KB]

Panel: Latin America from a Literary Perspective

  • Violent Literatures: Uniting the Nation, Revealing the State, Stacey Hunt [pdf - 312KB]
  • Ricardo Aleixo and Abelardo Rodrigues: The Black Enunciation in the AfroBrazilian Literature, Silvia Castro [pdf - 157KB]
  • La identidad cultural puertorriqueña en "El Regalo" de Rosario Ferrão, Alicia Reyes-Barriéntez [pdf - 102KB]
  • Macondo sagrado y profano. Presencia del pensamiento antropológico de Mircea Eliade en el mundo de Cien años de soledad, Ulises Gonzales [pdf - 158KB]

Panel: Placement and Displacement: The Impacts of Migration and Immigration

  • Amerindian Land and Natural Resources Tenure under the International Human Rights Law, Henrique Alves [pdf - 289KB]
  • Migración centroamericana indocumentada en su paso hacia Estados Unidos: La Iglesia Católica y la política de regulación migratoria en México, Paulina Alvarado Fernandez [pdf - 994KB]

Panel: Latin America's International Relations

  • La política exterior de Theodore Roosevelt hacia América Latina: el inicio de la política del Gran Garrote, Elisa Gómez [pdf - 196KB]
  • Impacto de los procesos de liberalización y democratización en la política exterior brasileña (1990-2003), Adriana Melissa Avila Loera [pdf - 917KB]
  • U.S.-Brazil Cultural Relations during World War II, Marcio Siwi [pdf - 301KB]

Panel: A Closer Look at Public Policy: Implications, Strategies, and Knowing When to Quit

  • Veto Players e a Produção de Reformas no Brasil, Daniel Duarte Guedes de Andrade [pdf - 210KB]
  • A Energia que desenvolve o mundo, Erico Cardoso [pdf - 1.3MB]
  • Determinantes sócio-demográficos do baixo peso ao nascer em cinco capitais brasileiras (2003): desigualdades ou iniqüidades?, Fabio da Silva Gomes [pdf - 245KB]
  • El uso del concepto de Capital Social en INDESOL, Icker Cogordan [pdf - 126KB]

Panel: Transnationality and the Social Aspects of Migration

  • Forging a New Identity: The Reconstruction of the Mexican Worker Family in the Context of Transnational Communities, Rajeev Gundur [pdf - 220KB]
  • Women on the Border: Culture, Class and Community in "Reynosa, Veracruz,", Kristen Petros [pdf - 404KB]
  • Remittances and Income Inequality in El Salvador, Karen Juckett [pdf - 195KB]

Panel: Musical Border Crossings

  • Listening for Place, Marketing Identity: Latin American Composers of New Music in the U.S., Marc Gidal [pdf - 184KB]
  • The Transgression of the Racialized Subject in the Language of Brazilian Hip-Hop, Adriana Lopes [pdf - 801KB]
  • Rapping Rebellion: Hip Hop as a New Social Movement in Cuba, Heather Kirkwood [pdf - 322KB]
  • The Funky Diaspora: The Diffusion of Soul and Funk Music across the Caribbean and Latin America, Thomas Fawcett [pdf - 290KB]