Graduate Annual Conference

Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center
11th Annual Graduate Conference

Friday, April 20, 2012
at Stony Brook Manhattan Campus
387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10016

"Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture"

9:00-9:30 AM      Registration (Main Hall) 
                         Breakfast Reception

9:30-9:45           Conference Opening and Welcome (Lecture Room-321B)
                         Paul Firbas, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University

9:45-11:15         SESSION I

Panel I: Resistance, Appropriation, and Identity in the Politics of Pop Music
Chair: Eric Zolov, Department of History, Stony Brook University
Lecture Room (321 B)

Dr. Ana I. Simon-Alegre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Centro Duoda (Barcelona)
"Violencia machista en el ocio popular musical madrileño, a principios del siglo XX."

Anne Gillman, Johns Hopkins University
"Global Musics for Local Struggles: Transnational Musics of Urban Resistance in Latin America and the US in the 1970s."

Elizabeth Barrios, University of Michigan
"The Tango in Broadway": Carlos Gardel and the Mass Produced Image of Cultural Authenticity."

Ericka D. Herbias Ruiz, Stony Brook University
"De Muchacho Provinciano a Patriarca de la Capital: la chicha de Papá Chacalón."

Jenna Swanson, UNC-Charlotte
"Invoking Elleguá: Cuban Rappers Claiming Space."

Panel II: Diaspora: Marginality, In-betweeners, and Transnational Identities in Latin America
Chair: Silvio Rendon, Economics Department, Stony Brook University
Conference Room (313)

Chantell Smith, University of Georgia
"The Blues and the Son: Langston Hughes's and Nicolás Guillén's Transnational Exploration of Black Identity."

Ennis Addison, Stony Brook University
"'The Spell of Africa is Upon Me': Pan-African Discourse and the Latin-American/Caribbean Spectacle in The Crisis."

Raelene Wyse, New York University
"Lotty Rosenfeld's Art in the Streets: Considering Jewish Visibility and Invisibility during Pinochet's Military Regime."

Zaira Zarza Blanco, Queen's University
"The ones who left: Cuban diasporic subjects in contemporary film and video production."

11:30-12:30         KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (Lecture Room-321B)

Anne Rubenstein, Department of History, York University
"Global Pictures, Local Screens: Movie-going in Twentieth Century Mexico"

12:30-1:30 PM     Lunch (Gallery & Main Hall)

1:30-3:00            SESSION II

Panel III: Pop-culture, Comics, and the Invention of Transnational Cultural Mirrors
Chair: Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Hispanic Lang.& Lit., Stony Brook University
Lecture Room (313)

Elena Hristova, University of Sussex
"Nuestro Futuro – ¿Hombres Libres, O Esclavos?: imagining U.S.– Mexican cooperation against the Axis powers in a World War II propaganda comic book."

María José Navia, Georgetown University
"La cultura pop como espacio de negociación de la monstruosidad y el trauma en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."

Marco A. Martínez, Princeton University
"The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans: El mundo del espectáculo a través de la mirada de Miguel Covarrubias."

Panel IV: Parading Identities: Festival Performances in Transnational Cities
Chair:Brooke Larson, Department of History, Stony Brook University
Conference Room (321 B)

Angelo Santa Lucia, Florida International University
"Space Matters: Modernity and Hybrid Urbanizationin Buenos Aires, 1821-1930."

Juan Carlos Moraga Vidal, Stony Brook University
"La Relación de Paussa: materialización de la voz indígena en el contexto de la fiesta barroca."

Anna Shilova, Stony Brook University
"El trayecto del Hombre de Dios en la obra de Arguedas."

Ramon Alejandro Suarez, New York University
"A Powerful Time? The informal politics of cultural identity, pride and recognition at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, 1959-2011."

3:00-3:15          Break (Gallery & Main Hall)

3:15-4:45 PM     SESSION III

Panel V: Migrant Identities in the making of a Transnational World
Chair: Melissa Forbis, Dept. of Cultural Analysis & Theory, Stony Brook University
Lecture Room (321 B)

Leonardo Faria Chusán, University of California, Los Angeles
"Unconscious Immigrant: Undocumented Immigrant Identity Formation."

Gabriela Alejandra Veronelli, Binghamton University
"Changing the terms not just the content of the conversation:
Decolonial conceptual and methodological contributions on
Trans-national approaches"

Mario Escobar, University of Maryland
“Hybrid US-Central American Poetic Conscience in Transverse
Altar de Tierra Altar de Sol.”

Pilar C. Espitia, Stony Brook University
“Letters From the Other Side (2006) and Those Who Remain (2008): documentary narratives, gender and identity of the non-migrants in Mexico.”

Panel VI: Beyond Che’s Image: Gender, Guerrilla Fighters, and the Cold War
Chair: Javier Uriarte, Hispanic Lang. & Lit., Stony Brook University
Conference Room (313)

Amaris Del Carmen Guzmán, University at Albany
“Che: Revolutionary Icon or Popular Culture?”

Eric Macias, University at Albany
“Resisting Neoliberalism Through Education: Towards the Reconstruction of the ‘New Man’.”

Gabriel Sanchez, University at Albany
“¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!: Che Guevara's ‘New Man’ as a part of Cubanía, Past and Present.”

Samuel Ginsburg, New York University
“Gender and the Nation in Manuel Galich’s El tren Amarillo.”

4:45-6:00 PM     SESSION IV

Panel VII: Representing Memory, Repression, and Democracy in Cinema and Television
Chair: Heather Levi, Department of Anthropology, Temple University
Lecture Room (321 B)

Brent Smith-Casanueva, Stony Brook University
Cinema da Retomada’s Pastoral Trope: Contemporary Brazilian Cinematic Images of Country and City in a Transnational Frame

Elizabeth Osborne, Stony Brook University
“Transnational trends in re-presenting repression: the use of family and meta-television in Spain’s Cuéntame cómo pasó and Chile’s
Los 80.”

Leonardo Solano, University of Maryland
“Memoria y olvido en Salvador Allende y Nostalgia por la luz de Patricio Guzmán: las posibilidades de narrar la experiencia.”

Tina S. Williams, Rutgers University
“Democracy’s Children on Television.”

6:00 PM        Conclusion

We would like to extend a warm thanks to all attending guests, chairpersons and sponsors. With special thanks to this year's Conference Director, Alvaro Segovia, and the Organizing Committee, Andrew Ehrinpreis, Carlos Gomez, and Florencia Arancibia.

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