ILASSA28 Student Conference on Latin America, February 7 - 9, 2008
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Complete Conference Program [pdf - 103KB]
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: Urban Planning
- Colonial Structures and Neo-colonial Restructuring: Housing Policy and Urban Development in the Historic Center of Quito, [pdf - 877KB]
- A cidade enquanto museu a céu aberto: A experiência da revitalização do centro histórico de Santos/SP, [pdf - 7.3MB]
- Desenvolvimento urbano e questão ambiental na Amazônia: O caso projeto habitacional Nova Cidade em Manaus, [pdf - 206KB]
Panel: Re-examining the Cold War
- A Journey with Pan-Americanism, [pdf - 169KB]
- An Unlikely Cold Warrior: The Latin American Institute at Mississippi Southern College, [pdf - 118KB]
- Precarious Path to Freedom: Domestic Venezuelan Communism and International Intervention, 1963-1968 , [pdf - 140KB]
Panel: Latin American Migration and Identity
- Chinese Mexican Community Organizations in Baja California, [pdf - 135KB]
- La regulación migratoria de los extranjeros damnificados por el Huracán Stan, en el Soconusco, Chiapas, [pdf - 118KB]
- Being "Japanese" in Latin America: Language and Identity of Japanese Immigrants in Brazil, [pdf - 129KB]
Panel: Music
- The Push and Pull of Modernity: Popular Versus Traditional Music in Pernambuco , [pdf - 412KB]
- Standardization of Cultural Products in Latin Pop Music, [pdf - 264KB]
- Duranguense: A Subcultural Representation of Lo Mexicano in the Second Generation , [pdf - 141KB]
Panel: The Artistic Lens
- Recreando identidades en la historia verdadera de Bernal Díaz del Castillo, [pdf - 94KB]
- "Miracle-Working Satin": Overcoming Class through Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Mexico City, [pdf - 525KB]
- A "Handy" Identification of Artists in the Chocholá Style Ceramic Corpus, [pdf - 88KB]
- "Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer": The Use of Apocalyptic Images in Colonial Peru as Explanations of Natural Disasters, [pdf - 55KB]
Panel: Innovations in Social Policy
- Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America: An Analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades and Brazil's Bolsa Familia, [pdf - 123KB]
- Integrated Microfinance and Health Services: The Case of Esperanza International, [pdf - 419KB]
- School Choice and Equity: The Impact of Voucher Schools on Educational Inequality in the Chilean Case, [pdf - 457KB]
- Achieving Gender Equity in the Labor Market: Successes and Failures of Social Policies in Democratic Chile, [pdf - 218KB]
Panel: Cinema
- Candid Camera: Societal Representations and Critiques in New Argentine Cinema, [pdf - 206B]
- Latinos Go to the Movies: A Survey and Comparison of Latino Film Audiences in Austin, [pdf - 180KB]
- La Agonía de Rasu Niti: Esbozo para una representación contemporanea, [pdf - 130KB]
Panel: Literary Perspectives
- The Power of Play in the Works of Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, [pdf - 920KB]
- As representações da violência em Parque Industrial, de Patrícia Galvão, [pdf - 920KB]
- "Our death is in our wombs": The Aztec Womb as the Locus of Creation and Destruction, [pdf - 111KB]
Panel: Neoliberalism and Resistance
- Cosmovision vs. Neoliberalism: An Indigenous Alternative to Modernist Development in Colombia's Sierra Nevada Mountains, [pdf - 248KB]
- An Anti-colonial Popular Project: Breaking with Neoliberalism, [pdf - 98KB]
Panel: Caribbean Migration and Identity
- La otra tregua fecunda: Identity, Representation, and Community among Cuba's Haitian Immigrants, [pdf - 265KB]
- Navigating the African Diaspora through the Dominican Parade: (Re)construction of Identities of Afro Dominican Immigrants in Santurce, Puerto Rico, [pdf - 203KB]
Panel: Indigeneity and Social Inclusion
- The University and Social Change: University Education for Indigenous Students in Ecuador , [pdf - 217KB]
- Apropiación y significados de la "inclusión digital" entre los Pataxós de Coroa Vermelha, Bahía, Brasil, [pdf - 100KB]
- Como las oportunidades políticas influenciaron las formas actuales de los movimientos sociales en el norte del Cauca, [pdf - 321KB]
- We're Not Just Black: Garifuna Stories of Interethnic Relations in Guatemala, [pdf - 2.5MB]
Panel: Rural Development and Land Reform
- Um estudo de caso de promoção do desenvolvimento em comunidade tradicional amazônica, [pdf - 656KB]
- Land Reform in Brazil: The Arrival of the Market Model , [pdf - 728KB]
- Survival Strategies of Small and Family Farmers on the Island of Puerto Rico, [pdf - 123KB]
Panel: Gendered Perspectives
- De calores y lujuria: Interpretando las transgresiones sexuales del clero de Puerto Rico (Siglo XIX), [pdf - 114KB]
- Sexual Angst of Empire: Drunken Soldiers, Diseased Prostitutes, and the Panama Canal, 1914-1921, [pdf - 159KB]
- Feminismo e historia: El caso de Bogotá, [pdf - 166KB]
Panel: State and Governance in Latin America
- Accountability en México desde la Teoría Agente-Principal, [pdf - 132KB]
- Los factores que limitaron la intervención militar en política: Una historia de las relaciones cívico-militares en México, [pdf - 124KB]
- Questão global e ação do estado em uma perspectiva comparada: Brasil e Argentina, [pdf - 188KB]
Panel: Religion
- The Church in Cuba, 1952-1959: Ambivalence between Regime and Revolution, [pdf - 141KB]
- Virgin of Charity: Nation, Exile, and the Embodiment of the Waters, [pdf - 179KB]
Panel: Art, Activism, and Conflict in Central America
- Frente Sandalista: Liberal Yanquís and Political Power in Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1979-1992, [pdf - 180KB]
Panel: Political Representations
- The Tupamaros: A Refection of Uruguay's Political Culture, [pdf - 167KB]
- Instituciones, orden jurídico y representaciones políticas en Colombia, [pdf - 231KB]
- Restrição de abrangência ideológica da democracia e a não-consolidação de conteúdos de esquerda na América Latina, [pdf - 202KB]
Panel: Development and Economic Growth
- Do Remittances Enhance Economic Growth through Consumption or Inversion?, [pdf - 499KB]
- Growth with Equity? The Chilean Experience during the Democratic Period, [pdf - 240KB]
- Multinational Banking in Peru, [pdf - 162KB]
- Latin American Decentralization for the Twenty-First Century, [pdf - 66KB]
Panel: Racial Identity Formation
- Da Outra América: Gilberto Freyre's Racial Formation in the United States, [pdf - 161KB]
- Past the Politics of Black and White: Understanding Black-Latino Coalitions in the New South, [pdf - 408KB]
- The King Is Naked: Media, Police, and Black Youth in the Contemporaneous Brazil, [pdf - 91KB]
Panel: Education and Race
- Ethnic and Race Relations: Changes in the Brazilian Educational Policy, [pdf - KB]
- Banking White Supremacy: A Comparative Evaluation of Racism in Brazilian and United States Education Systems in the Twenty-First Century, [pdf - KB]
- Educación Bilíngüe Intercultural (EBI) en el Perú, Siglo XXI, [pdf - KB]
Panel: Media and Social Struggles in Argentina
- The Argentinean Satirical Press, Post the 2001 Economic Crisis: The Case of Barcelona Magazine, [pdf - 146KB]
- Silence or Defiance? The Argentine Press during the "Proceso" of 1976-1983, [pdf - 220KB]
- State-sponsored Violence in Argentina, 1930-1943, [pdf - 124KB]
Panel: Social Policy in Brazil
- Perpectivas juvenis em Austin e Porto Alegre, [pdf - 118KB]
Panel: Trade, Markets, and Regional Integration
- Participação empresarial em negociações comerciais no Brasil: O caso Mercosul e União Européia (2001-2004), [pdf - 275KB]
- Participação empresarial em negociações comerciais no Brasil: O caso Mercosul e União Européia (2001-2004), [pdf - 275KB]
- Domestic Politics and Regional Trade Agreements: How the United States and Brazil Bargain, [pdf - 224KB]
- Vigilância sanitária e regime multilateral de comércio: O sentido neoliberal da reforma do Estado brasileiro na década de 90, [pdf - 204KB]