Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Program Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 55th Annual Conference, April 9-12, 2008 Hosted by Northern Arizona University Radisson Hotel, Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, April 9 7 p.m. Opening Reception/Award Thomas F. McGann Prize Ballroom Thursday, April 10 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibits 8-9:45 a.m. First Session Block 1. Así cantaron la historia: Mexico’s Corrido in Twentieth-Century History Coconino Room Chair: Liza Bakewell (Brown University) Shelby Vincent (University of Texas at Dallas), ―Revolutionary Corridos and their Revolutionary Heroes‖ Monica Rankin (University of Texas at Dallas), ―El corrido nacional: Politics, Nationalism, and War in Mid-Twentieth Century Corridos‖ Robert Jordan (University of Texas at Dallas), Nuevos cantos de abajo: The Changing Role of Corridos in Modern Mexican Culture‖ 2. Ethnicity, Miscegenation and Identity in New Spain Kaibab Room Chair: Richard Conway (Tulane University) Richard Conway (Tulane University), ―From Nahua to Colonial Community: Ethnicity and Social Relations in Xochimilco, New Spain, 1600-1700‖ Erika R. Hosselkus (Tulane University), ―The Pre-History of a Mexican Totem: Indigenous Death Practices in the Colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley‖ Lisa Munro (University of Arizona), ―Dressing for Success: The Problem of Indian Clothing in Late Colonial Guatemala, 1758-1798‖ Comment: Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona) 1 3. Thwarting Intentions: Culture, Power, and Identity in Modern Mexico Kachina Room Chair: Robert Buffington (University of Colorado) Glenn Avent (Hastings College), ―The YMCA and the Making of Modern Mexico‖ Jason Dormady (Stephen F. Austin State University), ―La Iglesia la Luz del Mundo: Creating a World Religion in a Guadalajara barrio popular, 1926-1964‖ Geoff Horner (University of British Columbia), ―Re-Appropriation of Indigeneity: An Interpretive Look at Contemporary Aboriginal Artists‘ Encounters with Early Visual Anthropology‖ Comment: Robert Buffington (University of Colorado) 4. Back to Reality: Theory, Government Programs, and Empowerment Actions of Migrant Indigenous Communities in Baja California Humphreys Room Chair: Héctor J. Maymí-Sugrañes (Alliant International University & CETYS Universidad) Nadia Nieblas Núñez (CETYS Universidad), ―Posibilidades y retos de los programas para comunidades indígenas del Estado de Baja California (el caso de desarrollo social)‖ Héctor J. Maymí-Sugrañes (Alliant International University & CETYS Universidad), ―La realidad de las comunidades indígenas mixtas en Baja California‖ Comment: Héctor J. Maymí-Sugrañes (Alliant International University & CETYS Universidad) 5. Understanding Contemporary Brazil: Culture, Race, Gender, Violence and Health Mt. Elden Room Chair: Patricia Murphey (Northern Arizona University) Julia C. Decker (Texas State University), ―Brazilian Homosexuality: Political Groups, Prostitution, Violence, and Political Success‖ Alice Driver (University of Kentucky), ―Social Construction of Fear and Socio-Spatial Fragmentation in Patricia Melo‘s The Killer‖ Nadjla Sahyoun (San Diego State University), ―Understanding Mental Health Policies in Brazil: How Do Stakeholders Address the Implementation Gap?‖ Thursday 10-11:45 a.m. Second Session Block 6. New Scholarship on Jesuit and Franciscan Missions in Colonial Latin America Mt. Elden Room Chair: Peter Bakewell (Southern Methodist University) José Gabriel Martínez Serna (Southern Methodist University), ―Institutionalizing the Jesuit Frontier: Seminaries, Colleges, and Missions of the Society of Jesus in Northern New Spain, 1594-1767‖ Raphael Folsom (University of Oklahoma), ―‗They Never Lay Down Their Arms—Not Even at Mass‘: Yaqui Perspectives on the Insurrection of 1740‖ David Rex Galindo (Southern Methodist University), ―The Important Business of Their Salvation: Franciscan Missions among Christians in 18th-Century New Spain‖ Andrea Campetella (Rutgers University), ―‗Missions in the Desert‘: Indians, Jesuits, and Spaniards in the Pampas of Buenos Aires, 1739-1752‖ Comment: Cynthia Radding (University of New Mexico) 2 7. Spectacle, National Identities and State Formation in South America Kaibab Room Chair: Viviana L. Grieco (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Rebecca Lee (University of Missouri, Kansas City), ―Defiance and Demagogues: Alberto Fujimori and the Rise of Latin American Neopopulism‖ Fabricio Prado (Emory University), ―The Building of Montevideo Province—Sovereignty and Identity in the Rio de la Plata Borderlands, 1750-1825‖ Viviana L. Grieco (University of Missouri, Kansas City), ―The First Fiestas Mayas: Family and Political Authority in Early Independent Buenos Aires, 1812-1815‖ Hayley Froysland (Indiana University, South Bend), “Los problemas de la raza” and the Road to Regeneration: Race, Disease, and the Eugenics Debate in Colombia, 1910-1940‖ Comment: Susan Socolow (Emory University) 8. Contested Modernity and Economic Visions in Venezuelan History Kachina Room Chair: Kim Morse (Washburn University) Michael Perri (Texas A&M University, Texarkana), ―Tragedy of the Commons in Eastern Venezuela: Spanish Overexploitation of Oyster Beds and Native Peoples along the Pearl Coast in the Early Sixteenth Century‖ Peter Linder (New Mexico Highlands University), ―‗Please Oblige Your Blacks‘: Resistance, Paternalism, and Class Conflict in Canton Gibraltar in 1839‖ Douglas Yarrington (Colorado State University), ―Román Cárdenas, the Liquor Tax, and the Struggle for Fiscal Modernity, 1913-1922‖ Kim Morse (Washburn University), ―‗Many and Repeated Are the Injustices We Have Suffered‘: Indigenous Land, Law, and State Formation in Eastern Venezuela, 1836-1853‖ Comment: Robert Ferry (University of Colorado) 9. Femininity/Feminism/Film Coconino Room Chair: Juanita Heredia (Northern Arizona University) Susan Drake (Murray State), ―The Femme Fatale and the Fallen Woman in a Changing Society: María Félix in 1940s-1950s Mexican Film‖ María Claudia André (Hope College), ―Voz e imagen femenina en los documentales de Carmen Guarini‖ Juanita Heredia (Northern Arizona University), ―Latinas, the Body and the City: Representations in Real Women Have Curves and María, Full of Grace‖ Judith Costello (Northern Arizona University), ―Women in Reguetón‖ 10. Corpus literario/Written Bodies Humphreys Room Chair: Emilia Chuquín (UCLA) Antonia García Rodríguez (Pace University), ―Nationalist Politics in Puerto Rico and the Motherland: Irene Vilar‘s The Ladies’ Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets‖ Ursula León Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Perú), ―‗No soy la que pensás‘: Rosario Tijeras‖ Emilia Chuquín (UCLA), ―Dos mujeres entre el silencio y el desafío en Bruna, soroche y los tíos‖ Thursday 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Break for lunch 3 Thursday 1-2:45 p.m. Third session block 11. Revisioning Mexican History through Global and Transnational Lenses Kaibab Room Chair: Catherine Tracy Goode (University of the South) Catherine Tracy Goode (University of the South), ―Centering Mexico in the Early Modern World‖ Heather Thiessen Reily (Western State College of Colorado), ―Homegirl of Heaven: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Creation of a Transcendent Cultural Identity‖ Celeste González de Bustamante (University of Arizona), ―Mexico, Television Diplomacy, and the Cold War, 1959-1963‖ Robert Alegre (Bloomfield College), ―Teaching on Cold War Latin America in the Age of Terror(ism)‖ 12. Literatura divergente: Articulaciones de otredad, sexualidad y la cotidianeidad Mt. Elden Room Chair: Juan Duchesne-Winter (University of Pittsburgh) Koichi Hagimoto (University of Pittsburgh), ―Reading Orientalism in Octavio Paz: The Articulation of Space and Otherness‖ Emily Metz (University of Pittsburgh), ―Sexuality, Power, and Self-Articulation in Pizarnik‘s Nuit de coeur‖ Raquel Alfaro (University of Pittsburgh), ―Habitando monstruosamente la cotidianeidad (Lectura del poema 9 de Druida de Marosa Di Giorgio)‖ Marcela Saldivia-Berglund (Colorado State University, Fort Collins), ―Amantes y muertos: Representaciones de necrofilia en la ficción de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, 1821-1882‖ Comment: Juan Duchesne-Winter (University of Pittsburgh) 13. Diverse Musical Styles in Latin America: Indigenous, Ladino, African, Hispanic; Rural and Urban Coconino Room Chair: J. Richard Haefer (Arizona State University) Bony Benavides (Arizona State University), ―Gaita Music: Emerging Musical Identities in a Colombian Urban Setting‖ Andrés Amado (Arizona State University), ―Swimming in the Musical Current: The Efforts of Two Young Marimba Ensembles to Keep Guatemalan Musical Traditions Up to Date‖ J. Richard Haefer (Arizona State University), ―Guarijio túmari: A Bi-Ritual Performance Event‖ 14. Latin America Politics in the World and the Region Humphreys Room Chair, Friedrich E. Schuler (Portland State University) Iñigo García-Bryce (New Mexico State University), ―Marinera with the Yankees: Haya de la Torre and the United States, 1924-1928‖ Stephen Andes (University of Oxford), ―Catholic Social Movements, the Vatican and the Political Sphere: Mexico City and Santiago de Chile, 1915-1925‖ Friedrich E. Schuler (Portland State University), ―Argentina, Spain, and Germany (1923-1926): The Curious International Culture of Arms Merchants‖ Renata Peixoto de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/University of Florida), ―The Neoliberal Crisis and Regional Latin American Geopolitics: The Recent Experiences of Bolivia and Venezuela‖ 4 Thursday 3-4:45 p.m. Fourth session block 15. Another Susans Session (Historia colonial a través de las Susanas) Round Table Coconino Room Chair: William H. Beezley (University of Arizona) Susan Deeds (Northern Arizona University) Susan Kellogg (University of Houston) Susan Ramírez (Texas Christian University) Susan Schroeder (Tulane University) Susan Socolow (Emory University) Sommelier: James Saeger (Lehigh University) 16. Porfirian Order and Progress Kachina Room Chair: William French (University of British Columbia) Amanda López (University of Arizona), ―Order and Progress of the Dead: Mexico City‘s Panteón de Dolores, 1875-1915‖ Aurea Toxqui (University of Tennessee), ―Porfirian Progress in Mexico City‘s Pulquerías, 18901910‖ Matthew Esposito (Drake University), ―Cultured Consul: Porte Crayon and the Public Spaces of Porfirian Mexico‖ Michael Matthews (University of Arizona), ―The Price of Progress: Popular Perceptions of the Railway Accident in Porfirian Mexico‖ Comment: Pedro Santoni (California State University, San Bernardino) 17. Gender, Neoliberalism, and Transnationalism in South America Kaibab Room Chair: Sheryl Lutjens (California State University, San Marcos) Nicole Pacino (University of California, Santa Barbara), ―Aqui no se permite mineros: Transforming Notions of Tradition, Gender and Community through Resistance to Mining in Junín, Ecuador‖ Hanna Dahlström (Northern Arizona University), "Embodying and Resisting Civilization and Pollution: Gendered Impacts of Oil Exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region" Olga L. Cuellar-Gomez (University of Arizona), ―Coffee Produced by Women in Cauca, Colombia: Where Has Juanita Valdez Been?‖ Megan Sheehan (University of Arizona), ―La Frontera Runs through the Kitchen: Border Negotiations among Peruvian Domestic Laborers and Chilean Employers‖ 18. Perspectives on the Noir Aesthetic in the Contemporary Latin American Crime Novel Mt. Elden Room Chair: Jonathan Dettman (University of California, Davis) Jonathan Dettman (University of California, Davis), ―Extrañas formas de colectividad: la distorsión de motivos ‗noirs‘ en Papel picado de Rolo Diez‖ Erik Larson (University of California, Davis), ―Film Noir, Simulacra, and Representation in Juan José Saer‘s La pesquisa‖ Greg Stallings (Brigham Young University), ―The Private Vacuum of the Individual: Spaces of Noir in Leonardo Padura‘s Pasado perfecto‖ 5 19. Defying Power: Nature and Local Communities in Latin America Humphreys Room Chair: Lucero Vásquez-Radonic (University of Arizona) Carlos del Cairo (University of Arizona), ―Defying Neoliberalism through Landscape: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Politics in the Colombian Amazon‖ Lucero Vásquez-Radonic (University of Arizona), ―Riding in the Wake of the Whale-Shark: Isla Holbox and the Production of a Space‖ Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia (University of Arizona), ―The Shadow in the Mountain Desert: Bighorn Sheep Hunting and the Seri Indians‖ Comment: Marcela Vásquez-León (University of Arizona) Thursday, 5-6:30 p.m. 20. Keynote Address and Performance Kaibab and Canyon Rooms Dieter Lehnhoff (Universidad Rafael Landívar), ―Once upon a time in Spanish America: Baroque Music from the New World‖ This presentation by Guatemalan composer, conductor and scholar, Dieter Lehnhoff, will be illustrated with live music performed by Cristina Altamira (mezzosoprano), Dieter Lehnhoff (baroque violin) Kari Barton (violin), Frank Scott (harpsichord), and Michael Corman (cello). Friday, April 11 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibits 8-9:45 a.m First Session Block 21. Michael C. Meyer and Mexican Historiography (Part I) Kaibab Room Co-chairs: William H. Beezley (University of Arizona) and Susan M. Deeds (Northern Arizona University) William H. Beezley (University of Arizona), ―Michael C. Meyer and the Contours of Mexican History‖ Peter Henderson (Minnesota State University, Winona), ―Michael C. Meyer and the Mexican Revolutionaries‖ Louis R. Sadler (New Mexico State University), ―Michael C. Meyer and the Revolution on the Border‖ 22. Power and Society in Colonial Latin America Coconino Room Chair: Mark Burkholder (University of Missouri, St. Louis) Renzo Honores (Florida International University), ―Litigating Caciques and Legal Culture in the Colonial Andes, 1550-1650‖ Marc Eagle (Loyola University, New Orleans), ―Tracing Slave Smuggling in the SeventeenthCentury Caribbean‖ Jesse Cromwell (University of Texas, Austin), ―A Life on the Margins: Logwood Cutters, Spanish Coastal Populations, and Imperial Rivalry in Yucatán, 1660-1717‖ Christoph Rosenmüller (Middle Tennessee State University), ―The Power of Ties: A Comparative Network Analysis of Social Alliances in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, 1702-1755‖ Comment: William Schell (Murray State University) and Mark Burkholder (University of Missouri, St. Louis) 6 23. Political and Agrarian Struggles in 19th and 20th Century Mexico Kachina Room Chair: Thomas E. Sheridan (University of Arizona) Terry Rugeley (University of Oklahoma), ―Federalism, Filibusters, and Freedom-Fighters in Early National Tabasco, 1835-1849‖ Michele M. Stephens (University of Oklahoma), ―Land and Identity in the West-Central Sierra: The Huicholes and Mexican Liberal Reform‖ Ryan Alexander (University of Arizona), ―Agrarian Caciquismo and the Politics of Popular Memory: Bernardo M. de León and the Making of a Revolution in Nayarit, 1920-1990‖ Elizabeth Henson (University of Arizona), ―Madera 1965: Armed Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra de Chihuahua‖ Comment: Thomas E. Sheridan (University of Arizona) 24. Cubanidad: Politics, Press, and Popular Culture Mt. Elden Room Chair: Marisela Fleites-Lear (Green River Community College) Orlando Rivero-Valdés (University of Southern California), ―Speech, Press, Association and Religion under the Constitution of 1901 in Cuba (1898-1933): Historical Events from a Legal Perspective‖ Marisela Fleites-Lear (Green River Community College), ―Fictionalizing Food for the Revolution: Cuban CookBooks Counterpoint‖ Sheryl Lutjens (California State University, San Marcos), ―Cuba on My (Your, Her, His, Their, Our, Whose?) Mind: Cubanidad, Politics, and National (In)Securities‖ 25. Environmental Politics and Sustainability in Mexico and Brazil Humphreys Room Chair: Scott Whiteford (University of Arizona) Alfonso Cortez, Megan Donovan, and Scott Whiteford (University of Arizona), ―In the Eye of the Beholder: Mexican Water Managers and Intercultural Interpretations of the All-American Canal Decision‖ Anne-Marie Hanson (University of Arizona), ―Conflicting Spaces, Changing Priorities: Tourism and Conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche, Mexico‖ Luis Silva Barros (University of Arizona), ―Visualizing Sustainability in Brazilian Cooperatives: Defining Cooperatives as Alternative Production Systems‖ Friday 10-11:45 a.m. Second Session Block 26. Michael C. Meyer and Mexican Historiography (Part II) Kaibab Room Co-chairs: William H. Beezley (University of Arizona) and Susan M. Deeds (Northern Arizona University) Susan M. Deeds (Northern Arizona University), ―Michael C. Meyer and Environmental -Water History‖ John M. Hart (University of Houston), ―Michael C. Meyer and the Mexican Revolution‖ Roderic A. Camp (Claremont-McKenna College), ―Michael C. Meyer and Mexican Politics‖ 7 27. New Work on People of African Descent in the Late Colonial Andes Kachina Room Chair: Emily Berquist (California State University, Long Beach) Emily Berquist (CSU, Long Beach), ―Not Indians, Not Spanish: The Visibility and Invisibility of Africans in Late Colonial Trujillo‖ Marcela Echevarri (New York University), ―Enraged to the Limit of Despair: Judicial Contexts, Infanticidio, and Slave Community in Barbacoas, 1788-1798‖ Tamara Walker (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania), ―Social Lines and Color Lines: Clothing as an Index of Status in Eighteenth-Century Lima‖ Comment: Lyman Johnson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) 28. Pedagogies of Propriety, Mexico City, 1920-1960 Coconino Room Chair: Donna Guy (Ohio State University) Elena Jackson Albarran (University of Arizona), ―Hacer Patria in Revolutionary Mexico: Civismo and Extracurricular Organizations for Children, 1920-1940‖ Susanne Eineigel (University of Maryland, College Park), ―Defending Decency in the Name of Christ: Catholic Movements and the Public Sphere, Mexico City, 1920-1940‖ Mary Kay Vaughan (University of Maryland, College Park), ―Cri Cri: A Pedagogy of Propriety and Promise‖ John Lear (University of Puget Sound), ―La brocha y el martillo: State –Sponsored Educational Projects for Workers and Artists in Mexico City, 1927-1938‖ Comment: Donna Guy (Ohio State University) 29. Friends, Technocrats and Clients: Mapping the Patronage Networks in Brazil and Mexico in the 20th Century Humphreys Room Chair: Lise Sedrez (California State University, Long Beach) John J. Crocitti (San Diego Mesa College), ―Public Services, Patronage, and Mass Politics in a Brazilian City during the Vargas Era‖ Michael A. Ervin (Central Washington University), ―Agronomists and Los de arriba: Making a Living and Realizing a Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Mexico‖ Lise Sedrez (CSU, Long Beach), ―From Getulista to Amaralistas: Ernani do Amaral Peixoto and the Creation of Client-Patron Networks, 1930-1980‖ Comment: Bert Barickman (University of Arizona) 30. Contemporary Chilean Art and Literature Mt. Elden Room Chair: Cecilia Ojeda (Northern Arizona University) Cecilia Ojeda (Northern Arizona University), ―City as Maze, Burrow and Den in the Narrative of Santa Cruz, Eltit and Lemebel‖ Freddy Vilches (Lewis and Clark College), ―Violencia de Estado y desamparo en el neopolicial chileno: El segundo deseo de Ramón Díaz-Eterovic‖ Robert Neustadt (Northern Arizona University), ―Alfredo Jaar: Subverting Order, Performing Change‖ Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang (Defense Language Institute), ―Ciencia ficción chilena: problemática del mesianismo político y religioso en un libro de cómic de Alejandro Jodorowsky‖ Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Break for lunch 8 Friday 1:30-3:15 p.m. Third session block 31. Reflections on Michael C. Meyer by his Graduate Students (round table) Kaibab Room Chair: Michael M. Brescia (Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona) Robert Buffington (University of Colorado, Boulder) John W. Sherman (Wright State University) Phyllis L. Smith (Mars Hill College) Marie Francois (California State University, Channel Islands) Sharon Bailey Glasco (Linfield College) Mark Edwin Miller (Southern Utah University) 32. Advances in Colonial Andean History Kachina Room Chair: Arturo Flores (Texas Christian University) Susan Elizabeth Ramírez (Texas Christian University), ―Reflections on the ‗Navel‘ of the Universe: El Cuzco and the Limits of Empire‖ Nancy E. van Deusen (Queen‘s University, Canada), ―Diasporas, Bondage, and Intimacy in Lima, 1535-1550‖ Ana María Presta (Universidad de Buenos Aires), ―Gender Representation and Identity in Early Colonial Charcas, 1570-1650" Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas (University of Memphis), ―Within the City Limits but Outside the Enlightened Order: San Victorino and the Smallpox Census, Santafe, Nueva Granada, 1801‖ 33. Politics and Gender in the Southern Cone Humphreys Room Chair: Lyman Johnson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Steven Hyland (Ohio State University), ―‗Un Pedazo de Pan‘: Immigrant Women, Charity and Citizenship in 1930s Argentina‖ Donna Guy (Ohio State University), ―Anti-Evita Feminists and their Campaign for Female Suffrage in Argentina‖ Jennifer M. Piscopo (University of California, San Diego), ―Women's Leadership and Gender Policy in Contemporary Argentina‖ Anna Travis (Ohio State University), ―Re-evaluating Supermadre Politics: Chilean Women in the Party System during the 1960s‖ Comment: Lyman Johnson (UNC, Charlotte) 34. Saints and Sources in Latin American Literature Mt. Elden Room Chair: Edward Hood (Northern Arizona University) Edward Hood (NAU), ―La fe y la creación artística: aspectos religiosos de ‗La santa‘ de Gabriel García Márquez‖ Andrea M. Pope (University of Arizona), ―El ‗déspota ilustrado‘ y la sátira en El recurso del método de Alejo Carpentier‖ William J. Cheng (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), ―La reconfiguración de la figura del Libertador en El insondable de Alvaro Pinedo Botero: la dinámica entre la crisis y la plenitud‖ 9 35. Crossing Borders/Sounding Off: Music and Movies Coconino Room Chair: Irene Matthews (Northern Arizona University) Linda Rodríguez (Harvard University), ―The Role of the Rumbera in Mexican Cine de la Epoca Dorada‖ Reynaldo T. Rojo Mendoza (San Diego State University), ―Cinema and Rock en tu idioma: Transnationalism and Transculturation in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico‖ Irene Matthews (Northern Arizona University), ―The Mellow Message of Sweet Havana‖ Friday 3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth session block 36. Water and History in Sonora: A Panel in Honor and Memory of Michael C. Meyer Kaibab Room Chair, Sterling Evans (Brandon University, Manitoba) Sterling Evans (Brandon University), ―Damning Sonora: Water, Agriculture, and Environmental Change‖ Jeff M. Banister (University of Arizona), ―Río Revuelto: State-Space and the Politics of Water on the Lower Mayo River‖ Margaret Wilder (University of Arizona), ―The Environment for Water: 21st-Century Transitions in Mexican Water Policy and Implications for Sonora‖ Comment: Stephen Mumme (Colorado State University) 37. New Research in Colonial Ethnohistory Kachina Room Chair: Karen V. Powers (Independent Scholar) Dana Velasco Murillo (UCLA), ―The Creation of Indigenous Leadership in a Spanish Town: Zacatecas, 1566-1806‖ Alejandra Jaramillo (University of Houston), ―Legality and Colonialism: Natives and Labor Demands in Tlaxcala‖ John F. Schwaller (SUNY, Potsdam), ―Broken Spears vs. Broken Bones: The Translation History of an Iconic Description‖ Amílcar Challú (Bowling Green State University), ―Territory and Markets: Regional Grain Trade Regulations in New Spain‖ Comment: Susan Kellogg (University of Houston) 38. Art and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico Humphreys Room Chair: Jeffrey Pilcher (University of Minnesota) Anna Funk (University of Arizona), ―Mexican Calendars: Consumer Culture and National Identity, 1930-1960‖ Jennifer Valenzuela-Sliger (University of Arizona), ―The Oxymoron of Urban Indians in Modern Mexican Art‖ Christopher Fulton (University of Louisville), ―Mexican Modernists and the Image of España Negra‖ Comment: Jeffrey Pilcher (University of Minnesota) 10 39. Ideological Issues in Latin American Film Coconino Room Chair: David William Foster (Arizona State University) Elia Hatfield (Arizona State University ), ―Rojo Amanecer: entre la nostalgia y la alegoría‖ David William Foster (Arizona State University), ―XXY, de Luis Puenzo: reconfigurando la pareja de jóvenes amantes argentinos‖ Assen Kokalov (Arizona State University), ―Mexican Queers en películas de carretera‖ Cynthia Tompkins (Arizona State University), ―Una aproximación deleuziana a La extranjera (2007) de Inés Oliveira Cézar‖ 40. Musical Identities in Brazil, Peru, and Cuba Mt. Elden Room Chair: Sarah M. Tyrrell (University of Missouri, Kansas City & Johnson County Community College ) Sarah M. Tyrrell (University of Missouri, Kansas City & Johnson County Community College), ―Mário de Andrade and M. Camargo Guarnieri: Toward the Realization of Musical Modernism in Brazil, 1920-1945‖ Mario Rey (East Carolina University), ―Diasporic Voices and Black Identity in the Music of Peruvian National Belonging‖ Christa Haring (University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz), ―Combining Tradition and Jazz: The Music of Gonzalo Rubalcaba‖ Friday 7:30-11 p.m. Live Band and Dance Grand Ballroom Saturday, April 12 7-8 a.m. 8-9:45 a.m. Executive Committee Breakfast First session block Canyon Room 41. Reexamining Migrations in Mexico and Brazil Kachina Room Chair: Lance Blyth (U.S. Northern Command, Office of History) Jaime R. Aguila (Arizona State University, Polytechnic), ―Emigration Policies during the Porfiriato‖ John J. Dwyer (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh), ―A Reverse Migration: American Citizens and Corporations Moving to Northern Mexico in the Early 20th Century‖ Seth Garfield (University of Texas, Austin), ―Rethinking Drought Migration from Northeastern Brazil: Historical Trends from World War II‖ Comment: Lance Blyth (U.S. Northern Command, Office of History) 42. Dirty Wars, Memory, Accountability, and Millenarianism Kaibab Room Chair: Virginia Garrard-Burnett (University of Texas, Austin) Fernando Calderón (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), ―The Specter of Tlatelolco: Urban Guerrillas and Guadalajara during Mexico‘s Dirty War‖ Renata Keller (University of Texas, Austin), ―The Martyrdom of Monseñor Angelelli: The Popular Creation of Martyrs in Twentieth-Century Argentina‖ Megan Donovan (University of Arizona), ―The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG): Will Accountability Prevail?‖ 11 43. Historicizing Colonial Texts Coconino Room Chair: Ramón Sánchez (California State University, Fresno) Ramón Sánchez (California State University, Fresno), ―The Missionizing Discourse-created Space in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca‘s 1542 La relación‖ Kate A. McCarthy (Washington University, St. Louis), ―The Spatial Construction of the Body and Literature in the Sátira hecha por Mateo Rosas de Oquendo a las cosas que pasan en el Pirú, año de 1598‖ Jason Dyck (University of Toronto), ―Novohispano Novenas: Patriotic Texts of Creole Promotion‖ Dolores Rivas Bahti (University of Arizona), ―‗A magic instrument that could convert and Indian or a mestizo into a gentleman‘: Male Clergy and Female Monasticism in Late Colonial Mexico‖ 44. Negotiating Identity, Culture and History in Recent Latina Narratives: Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Company Humphreys Room Chair: Juanita Heredia (Northern Arizona University) Curtis Kleinman (Northern Arizona University), ―La muerte y los muertos: Un análisis en Caramelo y American Chica (Death and Dead Ones: A Comparative Analysis in Caramelo and American Chica)‖ Gina Blue (Northern Arizona University), ―Alternative Histories in Sandra Cisneros‘ Caramelo and Angie Cruz‘ Let It Rain Coffee‖ Juanita Heredia (Northern Arizona University), ―The Transnational Eyes of Sandra Cisneros in Caramelo: Cultural and Literary Conversations with Poniatowska and Modotti‖ 45. First Person (Impersonal): Meaningful Identities Mt. Elden Room Chair: Marta del Pozo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Marta del Pozo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), ―Vinagre para las heridas: el proceso de reconstrucción de una identidad dañada en Negocios de Junot Díaz‖ Solana D‘Lamant (University of Texas, Dallas), ―Poetry of Lina Zerón as Testimonio Femenino‖ Amanda Ledwon (University of Texas, Dallas), ―I, the Generic Subaltern, as Told by Elena Poniatowska . . . or Not‖ Slav N. Grachev (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), ―Algunas observaciones sobre la sustitución gradual de ‗Yo,‘ y la aparición de la forma polifónica en La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú‖ Saturday 10-11:45 a.m. Second Session Block 46. Revelations from Inquisition Records Kachina Room Chair: Martin Nesvig (University of Miami) Daniel Castro (Southwestern University), ―Andean Illuminations: Fray Francisco de la Cruz, the Colonial Inquisition of Lima and the Politics of Mysticism‖ Rafaela Acevedo-Field (University of California, Santa Barbara), ―‗Let the Dead Rest‘: The PostMortem Inquisition Case of Gaspar Méndez de Pineiro, Crypto-Jew in New Spain, 1642-1649‖ Linda Curcio-Nagy (University of Nevada, Reno), ―Confession and Popular Culture in 17thCentury Mexico‖ Comment: Martin Nesvig (University of Miami) 12 47. Transnational Vice and Contraband in North America and the Panama Canal Kaibab Room Chair: Elaine Carey (St. John‘s University) Andrae M. Marak (California University of Pennsylvania), ―The Double Game: Anti-Vice Moralizing While Supporting Whiskey and Narcotics Contraband in Ciudad Juárez, 1929-1934‖ Eric Schantz (California State University, Los Angeles), ―Behind the Juridic Border: Regulated Opium in Baja California and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1925‖ Robert Chao Romero (UCLA), ―The First ‗Undocumented Immigrants‘: Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries‖ Jeff Parker (University of Texas, Austin), ―Sexual Angst of Empire: Drunken Soldiers, Diseased Prostitutes, and the Panama Canal, 1914-1921‖ Comment: Elaine Carey (St. John‘s University) 48. Voices from the Revolutionary Margins: Memory and Competing Narratives in Revolutionary Guatemala and Nicaragua Coconino Room Chair: Patricia Harms (Brandon University, Manitoba) Patricia Harms (Brandon University), ―Claiming the Guatemalan Revolution as Our Own: Revolutionary Mothers, Maternal Feminism and Cultural Teachers, 1944-1950‖ William P. Malone (University of Illinois, Chicago), ―Occupying Space as a Means of Change in Guatemala‖ Eric Meringer (University of Texas, El Paso), ―Competing Narratives of Indigenous Social Activism: Miskito Relations with the Nicaraguan State from the 1950s to the 1980s‖ 49. Realism and Reality in the Mexican Revolution Humphreys Room Chair: Janice Jayes (Dakota State University) Amy Robinson (Bowling Green State University), ―The Mexican Revolution and the Crisis of the Bandit Myth‖ John Trimble (Northern Arizona University), ―Un acercamiento paciano a la literatura de la Revolución Mexicana: el mexicano y su búsqueda de identidad en Los de abajo, Vámonos con Pancho Villa, El gesticulador y Gringo viejo‖ Janice Jayes (Dakota State University), ―Taming the Revolution: How U.S. Journalists and Gilded Age Travel Writing Conventions Created a Revolution all Americans Could Enjoy!‖ 50. La ecocrítica en la literatura y fotografía latinoamericana Mt. Elden Room Chair: Uliana Gancea (Erskine College) Walter Rojas (Erskine College), Mamita Yunai, ave campana en la ecocrítica latinoamericana‖ Uliana Gancea (Erskine College), ―La ecocrítica en Amor en la línea vieja de Walter Rojas Pérez y L’île de Ti Jean de Evelyne Trouillot‖ Claudia Aburto Guzmán (Bates College), ―La topografía fronteriza en la fotografía de Eugenia Vargas Pereira‖ Saturday 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Break for lunch 13 Saturday 1:30-3:15 p.m. Third session block 51. Race, Caste, and Indianness in 18th and 19th Century Mexico Kaibab Room Chair: Elizabeth Kuznesof (University of Kansas) Sarah Cline (University of California, Santa Barbara), ―A Century of Childhood: Casta Children in Eighteenth-Century Mexico‖ R. A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona), ―Healing Networks in Eighteenth-Century Yucatán‖ Brian Stauffer (University of New Mexico), ―La Virgen Chinaca: Indianness, Violence, and Politics in Intervention-Era Michoacán‖ Comment: Elizabeth Kuznesof (University of Kansas) 52. Picturing Texts: Imagining Latin American Women Mt. Elden Room Chair: Maria Luisa Ruiz, (St. Mary‘s College of California) Maria Luisa Ruiz, (St. Mary‘s College of California), ―‗In and Out of Bounds‘: Spectators, Female Wrestlers and Space in the Photography of Lourdes Grobet‖ Eva Karene Romero (University of Arizona), ―Agua Paraguayo: una instancia de márketing versus feminismo en Asunción, Paraguay‖ 53. Philology, Aesthetics and Culture in South America Humphreys Room Chair: Michael T. Ward (Trinity University) Michael T. Ward (Trinity University), ―Max Müller in South America: Comparative Philology in Defense of National Pride‖ Daniel Noemí Voionmaa (University of Michigan), ―Vanguardia y realismo en los años treinta: Marmaduke Grove y la República Socialista de Chile‖ Ofelia Ros (University of Michigan), ―Consideraciones sobre la pérdida de sentido en la transición/postransición argentina a través de la literatura de César Aira‖ 54. The Violence of Economic Opportunity: Interdisciplinary Approaches from Mexico and Guatemala Kachina Room Chair: Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens (California State University, Northridge) Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens (California State University, Northridge), ―Cooperation and Conflict: The Credit and Agricultural Cooperative Movements in Guatemala from Arbenz‘s Agrarian Reform to the Army‘s Civic Nation‖ Patty Kelley (George Washington University), ―Public Sex in an Era of Privatization: Legal Prostitution as Development Strategy in Urban Chiapas‖ Christine Kovic (University of Houston, Clear Lake), ―Vulnerable workers and Secure Borders: Central American Migrants, Global Capitalism, and National Security‖ Misha Kokotovic (University of California, San Diego), ―Testimonio Once Removed: Castellano Moya‘s Insensatez‖ 55. Borders, Fences, and Immigration Policies Coconino Room Chair: Glenn Weyant (Anta Project) Riley Merline (University of Arizona), ―A Century of Border Fence Construction and Community Transformation: Ambos Nogales, 1898-1998‖ 14 Prescott Vandervoet (University of Arizona), ―Los peligros del desierto: víboras, alacranes, y coyotes‖ Larman C. Wilson (American University, Emeritus), ―The Death of the Senate‘s 2007 Immigration Reform Bill: A Post Mortem‖ Glenn Weyant (Anta Project), ―A Look at the Transformation and Deconstruction of the United State Border Wall in Nogales, Arizona, Symbolically, Metaphorically and Literally via Art and Educational Narrative‖ Saturday 3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth session block 56. Clergy, Natives, and Education in the Viceroyalty of New Spain Coconino Room Chair: Sarah Cline (University of California, Santa Barbara) Jonathan Truitt (Tulane University), ―Nahua Students and Franciscan Teachers: The Colegio de San Josef de los Naturales in Mexico Tenochtitlan‖ Mark Christensen (Pennsylvania State University), ―The Tales of Two Cultures: The Conversion of Paul and the Creation of Adam‖ Fernando Ocampo (SUNY, Albany), ―From Text to Talk: An Examination of Performative Speech Genres in Colonial Nahuatl Passion Play Literature‖ Kristin Dutcher Mann (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), ―Pascuas de Navidad: Christmas Celebrations in the Missions of Northern New Spain‖ Comment: Stafford Poole (Independent Scholar) 57. Sexual Transgression in 18th-Century New Spain Kaibab Room Chair: Ann Twinam (University of Texas, Austin) Juandrea Bates (University of Texas, Austin), ―Unnatural Acts between Men and Beasts: Bestiality, Patriarchy and Legal Accountability in Colonial Parral‖ Cory Schott (University of Arizona), ―Fiestas, Fandangos and Shameful Acts: Defining Church and State Authority in Colonial Nicaragua, 1750-1770‖ Zahra M. Moss (University of Arizona), ―Self-Fulfillment and Sexual Desire: Reclaiming the Body in Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain‖ Elsa Malvido (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico), ―El abuso sexual de sodomía contra los novicios hipólitos en el corazón del orden: el Convento Hospital de San Hipólito Mártir, 1778-1790‖ Comment: Asunción Lavrin (Arizona State University) 58. Medicine and Society: Perspectives on Mexican History Kachina Room Chair: David Sowell (Juniata College) Heather McCrea (Kansas State University), ―Vectored Victories: The Rockefeller Foundation‘s Anti-Yellow Fever Campaign in Mexico‘s Tropical Periphery, 1917-1929‖ Donald Stevens (Drexel University), ―Private Lives and Public Health in Mexico: the Cholera Epidemic of 1833‖ David Sowell (Juniata College), ―Public Health in the Yucatec Henequen Zone‖ Gabriela Soto Laveaga (University of California, Santa Barbara), ―White Coats, Angry Doctors: Physicians, Race and Labor in 1965‖ 15 59. Links to Salvadoran History and Culture Mt. Elden Room Chair: Karen Schairer (Northern Arizona University) Karen Schairer (Northern Arizona University), ―Memories and Lessons from the Salvadoran Civil War: Insights from Oral Histories on Video‖ Alfonso Moisés (Albany State University, Georgia), ―The Mesoamerican Cultural Code‖ Claudia Rueda (University of Texas, Austin), ―‗What Are You Going to Do About It?‘ U.S. and Central American Activism in Dallas, 1981-1990‖ 60. Accidental and Unplanned Consequences of Migrations Humphreys Room Chair: Jeremy Slack (University of Arizona) Paola Canova (University of Arizona), ―Contested Spaces: Ayoreo Presence in a Mennonite Town of the Paraguayan Chaco‖ John Howard White (University of New Mexico), ―The Masculinity of the Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam Workers, Brazil and Paraguay, 1975-1982‖ Jeremy Slack (University of Arizona), ―Land Rights in Mexico: A Case Study of Land Invasion and Eviction on the U.S.-Mexico Border‖ Saturday 5:30-6 p.m. General Meeting 6:30 p.m. Closing Ceremonies/Prize Awards (Michael C. Meyer Prize, Edwin Lieuwen Prize, Ligia Parra Jahn Prize) Ballroom 16