Upcoming Conferences
Regional Identity in Times of Globalization and Diaspora
April 2-3, 2009, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
An interdisciplinary conference combining issues of political economy, migration, art and humanities.
Conference Bios
Abstracts
Thursday, April 2
Room 229, ILR Conference Center
9:00a Welcome
9:30a Imaging Boundaries
9:30 Carlos Bolado: The Limits of the Human
Beth Bouloukos, Cornell University
9:45 Condé's La migration des coeurs
Nicole Calandra, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
10:00 El tiempo y las imágenes en la narrativa colombiana
del siglo XXI
Andrea Castro, Centre College
10:30a Break
10:45a Imaging Boundaries (continued)
10:45 The Man Who Didn't Copy: Jorge Furtado’s New
Frontiers in Race, Place, and Gender
Gwen Murray, Tulane University
11:00 Literatura, Internet y videojuegos o la transformacíón
electrónica de las fronteras entre realidad y ficción
José-Enrique Navarro, University of Texas at Austin
11:15 Modern Imaginaries/subaltern concerns
Steven Latzo, Binghamton University
11:30a Synthesis. Discussant: Irene Depretis, Department
of Romance Studies, Cornell University
12:00-1:30p Lunch and Poster session 1:
Movements in Cultural Histories
Baseball/Softball in Shaping Female Identity in Southern California and
the Midwest from the 1930s-1970s
Amanda Magdalena, Tulane University
Politics in the Latin American Chronicle
Turner Hirsh, Courtney Proudlock, and Jenny Wallace,
McDaniel College
The Man Who Copied: Models and Technologies of Happiness in XXI
Century Brazil
Ana Ros, Binghamton University
Peruvian Artistic Action
Jessica Thompson, Fordham University
Image and Nation Building via Online Tourism Campaigns:
Colombia, El Salvador and Paraguay
Jennifer Valdés, University of Florida
1:30-3:15p Keynote session 1:
Regional Identity in Times of Globalization and Diaspora
Panelists:
Laura Restrepo, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
Héctor Abad-Faciolince
Jaime Manrique, Columbia University
Gustavo Mejía, Central Connecticut State University
Moderator: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Department of
Romance Studies, Cornell University
3:15p Break
3:30p Frontiers of the Indigenous
3:30 How Globalization has Affected Indigenous Life in
El Salvador
Helen Ellis, UCLA
3:45 Indigenous Past, Neoliberal Presents, Sovereign Futures:
The Uses of Traditional Medicine in Mexico
Jennifer Hale-Gallardo, University of Florida
4:00 A Tragedy of Success: Haiti and the Failure of Revolution
Natalie Palmer, Cornell University
4:15 La Crónica: A Social Outlet
Paul Donoghue, McDaniel College
4:30 Ritual and Gender Identity in Modern Maya Communities
of Yucatán México
Lilia Fernández, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán,
Mérida
4:45p Synthesis. Discussant: David Rojas, Department of
Anthropology, Cornell University
Friday, April 3
Room 229, ILR Conference Center
All day: Brian Nissen’s Codices:
A contemporary interpretation of pre Hispanic codices, Room 225
8:30a Border Building
8:30 Immigration History and its Future in the United States:
Theoretical Perspectives
Erika Grosso, Syracuse University
8:45 Music, Black Voice, and the Development of
Ethnoracial Consciousness among Brazilian
Evangelical Protestants
John Burdick, Syracuse University
9:00 Buscandomela/Searching: Afro-Dominican Women's Search for
Survival Within a Capitalist-World Economy
Griselda Rodríguez, Syracuse University
9:15 Arkatecoluca: Small Town Transformation and
Legal Alienation
Miranda Cady Hallet, Cornell University
9:30 New Spatial Orders: Writers in the Diaspora Rethink Space
and Place: Junot Díaz, Angie Cruz, and Ernesto Quiñonez
Myrna García, Syracuse University
10:00a Synthesis. Discussant: Rebecca Tally, Department of
History, Cornell University
10:15a Break
10:30-12p Keynote session 2:
Mind the Gap: Mutual misunderstandings/Connecting cultures
A conversation with artist Brian Nissen Discussant:
Laura Restrepo, A.D. White Professor-at-Large,
Cornell University
12-1:30p Lunch, view Brian Nissen’s Codices, and
Poster session 2: Globalizing Democracies
Latin America in the New Global Order
Marcus Freitas with Fabio Shida Fukuda and Tomás Petti
Martins, Cerqueira Leite Advogados Associados
Analysis of a Cuban Transition Using Six Sigma Engineering Tools
Jorge Romeu, Syracuse University
Limits of Regional Mechanisms to Protect Democracy in Latin America
Lorena Vinuela Ortega, Syracuse University
1:30-4p Film session: Madeinusa (2005, 103 min, Director: Claudia Llosa)
Discussant: Cecelia Lawless, Department of
Romance Studies, Cornell University
4:00p Break
4:15-5p Closing session: Roundtable discussion and closing comments
Commentator: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Cornell University
April 2-3, 2009, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
An interdisciplinary conference combining issues of political economy, migration, art and humanities.
Conference Bios
Abstracts
Thursday, April 2
Room 229, ILR Conference Center
9:00a Welcome
9:30a Imaging Boundaries
9:30 Carlos Bolado: The Limits of the Human
Beth Bouloukos, Cornell University
9:45 Condé's La migration des coeurs
Nicole Calandra, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
10:00 El tiempo y las imágenes en la narrativa colombiana
del siglo XXI
Andrea Castro, Centre College
10:30a Break
10:45a Imaging Boundaries (continued)
10:45 The Man Who Didn't Copy: Jorge Furtado’s New
Frontiers in Race, Place, and Gender
Gwen Murray, Tulane University
11:00 Literatura, Internet y videojuegos o la transformacíón
electrónica de las fronteras entre realidad y ficción
José-Enrique Navarro, University of Texas at Austin
11:15 Modern Imaginaries/subaltern concerns
Steven Latzo, Binghamton University
11:30a Synthesis. Discussant: Irene Depretis, Department
of Romance Studies, Cornell University
12:00-1:30p Lunch and Poster session 1:
Movements in Cultural Histories
Baseball/Softball in Shaping Female Identity in Southern California and
the Midwest from the 1930s-1970s
Amanda Magdalena, Tulane University
Politics in the Latin American Chronicle
Turner Hirsh, Courtney Proudlock, and Jenny Wallace,
McDaniel College
The Man Who Copied: Models and Technologies of Happiness in XXI
Century Brazil
Ana Ros, Binghamton University
Peruvian Artistic Action
Jessica Thompson, Fordham University
Image and Nation Building via Online Tourism Campaigns:
Colombia, El Salvador and Paraguay
Jennifer Valdés, University of Florida
1:30-3:15p Keynote session 1:
Regional Identity in Times of Globalization and Diaspora
Panelists:
Laura Restrepo, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
Héctor Abad-Faciolince
Jaime Manrique, Columbia University
Gustavo Mejía, Central Connecticut State University
Moderator: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Department of
Romance Studies, Cornell University
3:15p Break
3:30p Frontiers of the Indigenous
3:30 How Globalization has Affected Indigenous Life in
El Salvador
Helen Ellis, UCLA
3:45 Indigenous Past, Neoliberal Presents, Sovereign Futures:
The Uses of Traditional Medicine in Mexico
Jennifer Hale-Gallardo, University of Florida
4:00 A Tragedy of Success: Haiti and the Failure of Revolution
Natalie Palmer, Cornell University
4:15 La Crónica: A Social Outlet
Paul Donoghue, McDaniel College
4:30 Ritual and Gender Identity in Modern Maya Communities
of Yucatán México
Lilia Fernández, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán,
Mérida
4:45p Synthesis. Discussant: David Rojas, Department of
Anthropology, Cornell University
Friday, April 3
Room 229, ILR Conference Center
All day: Brian Nissen’s Codices:
A contemporary interpretation of pre Hispanic codices, Room 225
8:30a Border Building
8:30 Immigration History and its Future in the United States:
Theoretical Perspectives
Erika Grosso, Syracuse University
8:45 Music, Black Voice, and the Development of
Ethnoracial Consciousness among Brazilian
Evangelical Protestants
John Burdick, Syracuse University
9:00 Buscandomela/Searching: Afro-Dominican Women's Search for
Survival Within a Capitalist-World Economy
Griselda Rodríguez, Syracuse University
9:15 Arkatecoluca: Small Town Transformation and
Legal Alienation
Miranda Cady Hallet, Cornell University
9:30 New Spatial Orders: Writers in the Diaspora Rethink Space
and Place: Junot Díaz, Angie Cruz, and Ernesto Quiñonez
Myrna García, Syracuse University
10:00a Synthesis. Discussant: Rebecca Tally, Department of
History, Cornell University
10:15a Break
10:30-12p Keynote session 2:
Mind the Gap: Mutual misunderstandings/Connecting cultures
A conversation with artist Brian Nissen Discussant:
Laura Restrepo, A.D. White Professor-at-Large,
Cornell University
12-1:30p Lunch, view Brian Nissen’s Codices, and
Poster session 2: Globalizing Democracies
Latin America in the New Global Order
Marcus Freitas with Fabio Shida Fukuda and Tomás Petti
Martins, Cerqueira Leite Advogados Associados
Analysis of a Cuban Transition Using Six Sigma Engineering Tools
Jorge Romeu, Syracuse University
Limits of Regional Mechanisms to Protect Democracy in Latin America
Lorena Vinuela Ortega, Syracuse University
1:30-4p Film session: Madeinusa (2005, 103 min, Director: Claudia Llosa)
Discussant: Cecelia Lawless, Department of
Romance Studies, Cornell University
4:00p Break
4:15-5p Closing session: Roundtable discussion and closing comments
Commentator: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Cornell University