New Directions in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

A Multi-disciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Friday, April 25th, 2003

8:30 am Registration and Breakfast (Social and Behavioral Sciences, N-320)

Welcome: Paul Gootenberg, LACS Director, SUNY at Stony Brook

9:30-11:00 Panels I & II

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Panels III & IV

12:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:15 Panel V & VI

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Keynote Address: Prof. Julio Ortega, Brown University. “Los estudios latinoamericanos a comienzos de siglo: consideraciones sobre la historia cultural de las disciplinas sociales.”

4:30-4:45 Break

4:45-6:15 Panel VII & VIII
6:15 Closing Reception/Drinks

Panel I: Representation, Memory and Social Relations (9:30-11:00)

Sandra Duvivier, Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Challenging the ‘Status Quo’? Female Childhood Friendship in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng.”

Ena Annette Harris, American Studies, SUNY Buffalo. “Bodies of Contradiction: Explorations of Whiteness and Sexuality in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.”

Cami Lyn Nelson, English, Brigham Young University. “Critiquing the Bourgeois Family: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies.”

Maureen E. Ruprecht, English, The Graduate Center and Hunter College CUNY. “The Politics of Home and Healing in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.”

Panel II: Alterity and Normativity (9:30-11:00)

Magally Alegre-Henderson, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “’Androginopolis”: Representation of Sexual Deviancy in a Spanish Colonial City (Lima-Peru, 1770-1821).”

Ximena Castillo-Galvez, Language, Syracuse University. “Los medios masivos como elementos literarios en obras latinoamericanos”

Javier Muñoz-Basols, Romance Languages, Universidad de Zaragoza/University of Pennsylvania. “Bajo la mirada del dandy: Reflexiones sobre el género en la obra de Lucio Vitorio Mansilla.”

Amanda Lewis, Spanish and Portuguese Department, Columbia University. “The Aestheticization of the Black in Nineteenth Century Latin American Travel Literature.”

Panel III: State and Civil Society (11:15-12:45)

Marcus L. Catsam, International Development, University of Pittsburgh.

Magnolia Hernández, Political Science, University of Connecticut . “Taking a Stand: The Women in Black Movement (WIB) in Colombia and Their Short-term Approaches to a Long-term Goal for Peace.”

Mildred F. López, History, University of Connecticut. “’No Somos Menos Ciudadanas’: Reclamos de Participación Política y Ciudadanía a través de las Ideas Políticas de Magda Portal.”

Martín Monsalve, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “Violencia Política y Dominación Racial en la Construcción del Esfera Política Peruana a mediados del siglo XIX.”

Panel IV: Shaping the Americas: Geographical Perspectives (11:15-12:45)

Melixa Abad-Izquierdo, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “Urban Development Plans to the San Juan Metropolitan Area 1930-1950.”

Nina Müller-Schwarze, Anthropology, Tulane University. “Shipibo Ethnicity and the Struggle for Social and Political Power on the Ucayah River, Peru.”

Nelly Blacker-Hanson, History, University of Washington. “La Luche Sigue! Intellectuals and the Continuum of Social Unrest in Guerrero, Mexico, 1968-1994.”

Victor Rosado, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook. “Remapping Race in America: Richard Rodriguez’s Brown.”

Panel V: Ideology and Discourse in a Caribbean Context (1:45-3:15)

Kate Gordy, Government, Cornell University. “Dogma, Theory and Experience: Navigating the Principles of Cuban Socialism.”

Holger Henke, Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evans College CUNY. “Modern Caribbean Thought – A Critical Assessment.”

Tania de Miguel Magro, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook. “In the Time of the Butterflies de Julia Álvarez en su contexto literario.”

Lisa Scott, Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University. “Feminist Discourse Within a Caribbean Context.”

Panel VI: Cultural Commodities (1:45-3:15)

Illa Carrillo Rodriguez, Philosophy, Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle/SUNY Binghampton. “Argentina’s Rock Nacional: A ‘Youth’ Movement at the Crossroads of Culture and Politics.”

Bridget Chesteron, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “Doña Petrona and the Making of Argentine Middle Class Cuisine.”

Alexander Lamazares, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SUNY Albany. “New Cuban Art in the Postmodern Perverse.”

Panel VII: Atlantic Crossings (4:45-6:15)

Michael Janis, Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook. “Signatures of Africa in Alejo Carpentier’s America.”

Jeff Howison, Sociology, SUNY Binghampton. “’Let Us Guide Our Own Destiny’: Re-thinking the History of the Black Star Line.”

Ketty Thomas, Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook. “Garcia’s Dreaming and the Impossible Task of Finding Cuba.”

William A. Wharton, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “’Your Altars and Your Gods Have Sunk Together in the Dust’: the Construction of ‘Africa’ in the 1822 Charleston Slave Conspiracy.”

Panel VIII: Foundations, Folklore and Modernity (4:45-6:15)

Gena Chang-Campbell, Social and Political Thought, York University. “Powerbrokers: The Role of Religion in the Politics of Francois Duvalier and Eric Gairy.”

Luis Gomez, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “Constructing Nationalism in Peru: Riva-Aguero and the Novecientos Generation (1900-1930).”

Betsy Konefal, History, University of Pittsburgh. “Reinas, Rights and the Politics of Culture: Organizing for Social Justice in the Guatemalan Highlands, 1970-1978.”

Ivan Milliones, History, SUNY Stony Brook. “El Culto a los Heroes Patrios de la Guerra del Pacifico en Lima entre fines del siglo XIX e incios del siglo XX.”

Organized by:
Monica Sanning, Comparative Literature (Chair)
Brenda Elsey, History
Jason Meyler, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Jose Munoz, Sociology
Raphael Dalleo, Comparative Literature

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