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, [pdf - 192KB]
- The Indigenous Face of a White Nation: Indigenous Peoples Movements in Argentina, [pdf - 284KB]
- Seizing the Lake: Tourism, Identity and Power of the Indigenous Peoples of Quilotoa, Ecuador, [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, [pdf - 1.3MB]
- Immigrant Access to Financial Services: A Study of Latinos in New York City, [pdf - 349KB]
- The Role of Symbolic Legislation in the Immigration Debate, [pdf - 272KB]
- The Caring Networks of NGOs, [pdf - 1.63MB]
Panel: Accountability and Governance in Transition
- América Latina: governabilidade, governance e desenvolvimento, [pdf - 597KB]
- Haiti: Transitions Less than Democratic, [pdf - 348KB]
Panel: Urban Spaces and Crime in Brazil
- Fatores de risco associados ao trabalho policial no Rio de Janeiro, [pdf - 303KB]
- Urban Space, Police and Crime, [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, [pdf - 137KB]
- La vigencia social de .La pérgola de las flores,. la primera comedia musical chilena, [pdf - 215KB]
- Free from the Shadow: Re-Identification of Cultural Expression in Argentina in the Face of Redemocratization, [pdf - 238KB]
- The Progression of the Modern Civil Union in Argentina, [pdf - 195KB]
- Race and the Marriage Market in Belo Horizonte, [pdf - 156KB]
Panel: Markets, Investments and Development
- Market Reform and Veto Players in Colombia, [pdf - 273KB]
- Institutions and the Evolution of Development Economics in Brazil, [pdf - 404KB]
Panel: Exploring the Importance of Visual Arts
- Democratic Devotion: The Role of Printing in the Rise of the Cult of Guadalupe, [pdf - 160KB]
- Práticas coletivas de artistas na América Latina contemporânea, [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, [pdf - 219KB]
- Woven Imagery: Significance of Aztec Textile Designs, [pdf - 148KB]
Panel: Identity and Difference in Mesoamerican History
- The Spanish Moctezumas: Challenging Traditional Representations of the Moctezuma Family in New Spain, [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, [pdf - 218KB]
- The Hispanization of Atlantic Nicaragua, 1894-1910, [pdf - 370KB]
- From Revolt to Revolution: Remembering the Events of 1925 in Kuna Yala, [pdf - 59MB]
- The Gendered City: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Military in San Salvador, 1920-1980, [pdf - 308KB]
Panel: Making "Others" Visible in Brazil and Argentina
- Rethinking Ethnicity and Democracy: Argentina and Its Silenced Voices, [pdf - 217KB]
- Raça, desigualdade e participação política em Belo Horizonte, [pdf - 202KB]
- Quilombo: A Critical Review of a Brazilian Film, [pdf - 203KB]
Panel: Social Policy: A Focus on Healthcare, Education and Social Capital
- Regional Inequalities on Health Services Supply: An Analysis for Brazil, 2002, [pdf - 2.8MB]
- Murky Waters: A Look at the Perpetual Challenge of Water and Sanitation Services in Guayaquil, [pdf - 490KB]
- Reformas educativas en América Latina en tiempos de crisis, [pdf - 202KB]
- Guatemala's Bilingual Intercultural Education System and Indigenous Political Participation, [pdf - 284KB]
Panel: Media, Information and Censorship
- O estado da arte dos estudos do jornalismo digital no Brasil, [pdf - 686KB]
- Madam or Mr. President? Chile's Michelle Bachelet, Press Coverage and Public Perceptions, [pdf - 410KB]
- Literacy, Censorship and Intellectual Freedom: The Independent Library Movement in Contemporary Cuba, [pdf - 1.9MB]
- An Examination of the Impact of Information Communication Technologies on Social Movements in Latin America, [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, [pdf - 333KB]
- Historia y pasion: Olga Nolla y la nueva novela historica, [pdf - 132KB]
Panel: Regional Integration
- Integração regional no Mercosul: os governos subnacionais e a nova realidade do federalismo no Brasil, [pdf - 1.0MB]
- Regional Integration and Global Insertion: Latin American Case, [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, [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, [pdf - 669KB]
Panel: Entering and Exiting Brazil
- Movimentos migratorios fronteiriãos: Bolivianos e Paraguaios em Mato Grosso Do Sul, [pdf - 584KB]
- "Nova Orleans"? Retention Factors for Brazilian Undocumented Immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans, [pdf - 231KB]
Panel: Violence, Health and Difference in Guatemala
- Issues of Femicide in Guatemala, [pdf - 125KB]
- The Persistent Problem of Indigenous Guatemalans. Access to Health Care, [pdf - 217KB]
Panel: Social Movements and Solidarity
- Rowdy Cowboys and Masked Indigenas: Citizenship and Autonomy in Contemporary Social Movements, [pdf - 313KB]
- Solidarity across Borders: Vatican II and the School of the Americas Watch Movement, [pdf - 181KB]
- Walking the Walk: The Sanctuary Movement in a Predominantly Black Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas, [pdf - 326KB]
- El Santo Negro en la tierra del petróleo. La fiesta de San Benito en Cabimas, [pdf - 198KB]
Panel: Public Policy, Labor and Inequality
- Income Distribution in the Brazilian Labor Market: Analysis of the Years from 1981 to 2005, [pdf - 426KB]
- Product Market Competition and Informality in Mexico, [pdf - 638KB]
- Housing in Havana: A Socialist Paradox, [pdf - 300KB]
Panel: Latin America from a Literary Perspective
- Violent Literatures: Uniting the Nation, Revealing the State, [pdf - 312KB]
- Ricardo Aleixo and Abelardo Rodrigues: The Black Enunciation in the AfroBrazilian Literature, [pdf - 157KB]
- La identidad cultural puertorriqueña en "El Regalo" de Rosario Ferrão, [pdf - 102KB]
- Macondo sagrado y profano. Presencia del pensamiento antropológico de Mircea Eliade en el mundo de Cien años de soledad, [pdf - 158KB]
Panel: Placement and Displacement: The Impacts of Migration and Immigration
- Amerindian Land and Natural Resources Tenure under the International Human Rights Law, [pdf - 289KB]
- Migración centroamericana indocumentada en su paso hacia Estados Unidos: La Iglesia Católica y la política de regulación migratoria en México, [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, [pdf - 196KB]
- Impacto de los procesos de liberalización y democratización en la política exterior brasileña (1990-2003), [pdf - 917KB]
- U.S.-Brazil Cultural Relations during World War II, [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, [pdf - 210KB]
- A Energia que desenvolve o mundo, [pdf - 1.3MB]
- Determinantes sócio-demográficos do baixo peso ao nascer em cinco capitais brasileiras (2003): desigualdades ou iniqüidades?, [pdf - 245KB]
- El uso del concepto de Capital Social en INDESOL, [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, [pdf - 220KB]
- Women on the Border: Culture, Class and Community in "Reynosa, Veracruz,", [pdf - 404KB]
- Remittances and Income Inequality in El Salvador, [pdf - 195KB]
Panel: Musical Border Crossings
- Listening for Place, Marketing Identity: Latin American Composers of New Music in the U.S., [pdf - 184KB]
- The Transgression of the Racialized Subject in the Language of Brazilian Hip-Hop, [pdf - 801KB]
- Rapping Rebellion: Hip Hop as a New Social Movement in Cuba, [pdf - 322KB]
- The Funky Diaspora: The Diffusion of Soul and Funk Music across the Caribbean and Latin America, [pdf - 290KB]