ILASSA29 Student Conference on Latin America, February 5 - 7, 2009
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Complete Conference Program
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 1: Race in Latin America
- (Re) pensando la negritud: La racialización en la música popular Barbara Abadia-Rexach
- The Performance of Race in La Mujer Invisible Beliza Torres Narvaez
- Neighborly Lesson: From Afro-Brazil to Afro-Paraguay Lawrence Crockett
Panel 2: Women and Gender Issues
- Koliyal Allah Tsontsunkotik (Gracias a Allah que somos más fuertes): Islam y relaciones de genero en Chiapas Sandra Cañas
- Three Mexican-American Women Writers Break from Tradition: Images of Women in The Squatter and the Don, The Day of the Swallows, and The House on Mango Street Cristal Lopez
- “Es que tenía que ser negra”: estereotipos e identidades en un grupo de mujeres jóvenes negras en Bogotá Julie Andrea Chaparro Buitrago
Panel 3: History and Economics
- Reforma agraria en Puerto Rico, 1757-1800: Demolición de hatos y tierras para la agricultura Frank Cosme-Arroyo
- The Economic Goals of Francisco "Pancho" Villa in the Mexican Revolution Dolph Briscoe IV
- Autonomía y autoridad indígena. Disputas entre caciques y corregidores en el obraje de comunidad de Duitama (1593-1612) Claudia Marcela Vanegas Durán
Panel 4: Music
- Connecting spaces: Government, scholars, musics, and musicians in Brazil Leonardo Cardoso
- A cena do crime nos Racionais MCs Ana Raquel Motta
- Marimbas, Mandatarios, y Músicos: An Examination of the Contested History of the Marimba in Guatemala at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Andrés Roberto Amado
- National Sounds: Sharing Culture and Constructing Identity in Peru Andrew Mueller
Panel 5: Race and Brazil
- A cosmovisão africana sobre a morte nas telas de Jean Baptiste Debret Silvia Loreno Castro
Panel 6: Literature
- A Mission of Two: The Process of Prophecy in the Poetry of Pablo Neruda and Cecilia Vicuña Meredith Clark
- Mediating Peruvian Subaltern Identities Through Literature: An Alternative Discourse? Becky Thompson
- Malpaís: más allá de la nostalgia Tania Camacho Azofeifa
- “El sueño de la pirámide: la mexicanización del indígena en Corona de sombra” Adam Coon
Panel 7: Education in Latin America
- "I enjoyed school but I still preferred my father.s company: The Context of Farmworker Family Narratives" Carolina Valderrama
- Educación Tecnológica y Discriminación Positiva: Una Posibilidad de Acceso a la Educación cada vez más Lejana para los Jóvenes Colombianos? Wilson Nuñez Castañeda
- Las Lenguas Vernáculas e Interculturalidad en el Proceso Educativo Peruano: Dificultades en su Ejecución Melchor Huamán Cosi
Panel 8: Political Science and Brazil
- Os redatores do Código Civil Brasileiro de 2002 Daniela Barcellos
- Presidencialismo e multiparismo no Brasil e Chile: dois exemplos de governabilidade que contrariam as teses sobre a "combinação explosiva" Lucas Cunha
- Private Security: a research about the regulatory framework of the particular services of security in Brazil Andre Zanetic
- Choreographing National Identity: The Symbolic Journey of Samba and Tango Amy Hill
Panel 9: Indigenous Issues and Identity
- Vigilante Justice in Bolivia: Popular Protest at the Margins Cybele Kotonias
- Talk right, indian! Language policies and indigenous peoples in Brazil Antonio Santana
- Being a Subject of Development: Ecuador's Sierra Indigenous Peoples' "Personal" Views on Development Kumiko Kawachi
- Comunidad, poder y resignificaciones en las Misiones Jesuíticas "chiquitos" durante el siglo XVIII Ines Mambretti
Panel 10: Caribbean Literature
- Un pícaro en La Habana. Elementos de la picaresca en El color del verano Ingrid Robyn
- Building the Puerto Rican Literary Canon: Nilita Vientós Gastón’s Enterprise with the Journal Asomante Enrique Gonzalez
Panel 11: Political Parties in Latin America
- Concepções de política em confronto no “continente da esquerda” Fabiana Miqueletti
Panel 12: Economics, Growth, Trade, and Development
- Economic Growth in the Face of a Protected Global Market Alicia Isom
- The Microfinance Movement in Oaxaca, Mexico: Revolutionary or Institutional? Ian Carillo
- Symbols of Commerce: Exploring the Place of the United States in the Late Nineteenth-Century Venezuelan Consumer Imaginary Eliot Spencer
- La Percepción de la Sociedad sobre el Transporte Publico en Chiapas; México Tamara Quilantán Angel
Panel 13: Democracy and Participation
- The Assembly of Assemblies: The Political Culture of the Oaxacan Commune James Daria
- Problemas con la Prensa en el Chile Pos-Pinochet Laura Spencer
Panel 14: Migration
- El Acceso a la Educación Primaria para Hijos e Hijas de Migrantes Hondureños en Tapachula, Chiapas Jorge Choy Gomez
- La búsqueda de estatus como causa social de migración rural a los Estados Unidos: El caso de los jóvenes del Valle del Mezquital en el Estado de Hidalgo Gabriel Gutierrez Javan
Panel 15: Human Rights in Latin America
- La mortandad materna y la iglesia católica en la Argentina: la prohibición del aborto y sus consecuencias en la vida de las mujeres Jen Vail
- Educação sexual e catolicismo no Brasil: notícias de um embate discursivo Marcela Fossey
- Putis and the Fujimori Trial: The Fight for Social Justice In Peru through Disparate Lenses Ash Kosiewicz
- Entrepreneurialism and Affectivity: Selling Poverty and Childhood in Cusco Aviva Sinervo
Panel 16: Political Science
- ¿Por qué no te callas? O mapa geopolítico da América Latina e a crise da hegemonia norte-americana José Carlos Freire and Jaime Amparo Alves
Panel 17: Through the Artistic Lens
- Representaciones de la colonialidad del poder en América Latina: La invención del Otro Claudia Mandel
Panel 18: Social Movements
- Nociones de unidad de los movimientos sociales en México (2000 – 2006): Las experiencias del Dialogo Nacional y La Otra Campaña Victor Garcia Zapata O
- Viva a liberdade! As festas e as resistências dos trabalhadores rurais da zona da mata de Pernambuco (Brasil) Beatriz Brusantin
Panel 19: Violence and Drugs in Latin America
- Homicídios em Pernambuco e no Brasil: dinâmica e relações de causalidade José Maria Pereira da Nóbrega Júnior
- Las FARC-EP, el Estado colombiano y la producción de marcos discursivos sobre el conflicto armado colombiano Carlos Arbeláez and Jaime Otavo
- The Drug Crisis in the Americas Gabriela Moreno
- Trans-Mexican Migration: a Case of Structural Violence Felipe Jacome