Calacs

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2010 CALACS Program / Programme de l’ACELAC / Programa

de la ACELC / Programa da ACELAC

1-3 June / juin / junio /junho 2010

Welcoming Reception / Réception d’accueil / Recepción de bienvenida / Recepção de Boas-Vindas

6:00-9:00, Monday / lundi / lunes / segunda-feira, 31 May / mai / mayo / maio 2010

Location: Location: Édifice Henry F. Hall Building, Room 767-00 Concordia University

Pre-Registered CALACS Members May Pick Up Programs

Les membres de l’ACELAC déjà inscrits pourront y prendre leurs programmes

Los socios de ACELC ya inscritos pueden recoger sus programas

Os sócios da ACELAC já inscritos podem pegar os seus programas

8:45-10:15 Tuesday / mardi / martes / terça-feira

1 June/ juin / junio/ junho

1. Politics and Religion in Brazil: An Anthropological Focus on Competing Moralities

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: John Collins, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center Ana Claudia Marques, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Politics and Chrematistics: Religion, Fortune and Moral among the Soy Croppers in Central Brazil

Aaron Ansell, Monmouth University Conflicting Perspectives on Hunger and Clientelism

Jorge Villela, Universidade Federal de São Carlos Among Votes and Faith. Elections, Religion and Morality in two Municipalities of Inner Northeast Brazil

Ashley Lebner, University of Cambridge A Faithfull Rendering of Secular Politics: Christian Morality, Ethics and the Landless Worker's Movement in Amazonia

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: John Collins, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center

2. Argentina en el Bicentenario: Repensando la identidad nacional

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Jorge Nallim, University of Manitoba Víctor Armony, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM)

Argentina en el Bicentenario: del "Crisol de Razas" al Multiculturalismo?

Viviana Fridman, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM) La narrativa identitaria en la ficción argentina sobre la guerra de las Malvinas

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Ana Soledad Montero, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET Derechos humanos y democracia en Argentina (1983- 2009): la "cuestión de la memoria" entre la lógica judicial y la lógica política

Daniel Torunczyk, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM) Nación y subjetividad decolonial: Las formas de la barbarie en la formación de la identidad nacional

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Jorge Nallim, University of Manitoba

3. Representación del espacio en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary Amanda Holmes, McGill University

The Erotics of Natural Space in Latin American Film Myriam Osorio, Memorial University

La poética de la ciudad en Suite Habana de Fernando Pérez Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Place or Space? Patagonia in Three Argentine Road Movies Tamara Schürch, University of Calgary

Lugares concretos e imaginados como mecanismo de resistencia en “La Quinta de los Molinos” de Nancy Morejón

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary

4. Mujeres en la historia reciente de Guatemala: Historia, memoria, autorrepresentación

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: George Lovell, Queens University Ana María Cofiño, Asociación la Cuerda Guatemala

Lo personal y lo político en las vidas de las mujeres comunistas en Guatemala

Norma Chinchilla, California State University Long Beach Aura Marina Arriola, "Obstinate Survivor": The (Unrecognized) Contributions and Challenges of a Guatemalan Revolutionary (1960's-1990's)

Ana Silvia Monzón, FLASCO- Guatemala Programa de Género Las mujeres toman la palabra: nueva voces en una sociedad silenciada

Ana Lorena Carrillo, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Autobiografías femeninas de post guerra: historia y autorrepresentación

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: George Lovell, Queens University

5. Environmental Governance in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Nicolas Foucras, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) Nathalie Gravel, Université Laval

The Role of Social Organizations in Promoting Local Governance: Questioning Leadership and its Popular Basis

Alain Boutet, Saint Mary's University Environmental Governance and Citizen Participation in a Context of Globalization and Conflicts: the Case of Colombia

Adréanne Lavoie, Université Laval Adoption de pratiques agroforestières : Quelles sont les potentialités de l’agreste brésilien?

Eliezer Arias, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas Proyecto de zona de amortiguación del Parque Nacional Canaima en Venezuela, bajo la gobernanza del pueblo indígena Pemon

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Nicolas Foucras, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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6. Reforms of Judicial Systems in Latin America

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Albert Berry, University of Toronto Marco Aurélio Vannucchi Leme de Mattos, Universidade de São Paulo

A atuação política da orden dos advogados do Brasil (OAB) nos estertores do Estado Novo

Bernardita Escobar, University of Cambridge / Instituto de Políticas Públicas- Expansiva Universidad Diego Portales

International Commitments on Intellectual Property Protection: When Countries Decide to Take Them on Board

Amaya Paulina Alvez Marín, York University Aiming for Sameness Through Judicial Balancing? Problematizing Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America

Diego Arguelhes, Yale University Political Context or Judicial Continuity? An Analysis of Recent Discourses on Judicial Independence in Argentina and Brazil

7. Have the Globalization Dreams Lived on? Crises and

Responses in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Diana Tussie, FLACSO/Argentina, Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación (ISEN) Pablo Heidrich, The North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Canadian and US Responses to Latin American Policy: Reactions to the Crisis

Juliana Peixoto, Latin American Trade Network / Latin American School of Social Sciences

Flexibilities for Developing Countries in the Doha Round: Retracing the Uruguay Round Steps?

Laura Uzquiza, Latin American Trade Network / Latin American School of Social Sciences

Food crisis: Latin American Policy Responses and the Role for the WTO

Vivianne Ventura-Dias, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Contradictions in the Multilateral Trading System: How to Face up to Short-run and Long-run Development Problems without “beggar thy neighbor”

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Diana Tussie, FLACSO / Argentina, Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación (ISEN) 8. Race, Development, and the Nation: Bermuda, Dominica, and

the French Caribbean Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Juanita de Barros, McMaster University Nicole Bourbonnais, University of Pittsburgh.

“More deadly to kill out a race than the poison gas of Mussolini”: Race, Region and Empire in Bermuda’s Birth Control Campaign

Deepak Lamba-Nieves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Furthering the Discussions on the Migration-Development Nexus: A Closer Look at Dominican Hometown Associations and their Development Impacts

Matthew Bishop, University of the West Indies Après la Crise: Where now for the French Caribbean Dèpartements?

Elizabeth Molnar, University of Pittsburgh. On the Edge in the Caribbean: Radicalism and Blackness in Nicaragua and Dominica, 1979

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10:15-10:30 Break / Pause / Receso / Intervalo

10:30-12:00 Tuesday / mardi / martes / terça-feira 1 June/ juin / junio/ junho

9. Natural Resource Exploitation and Environmental Concerns

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Nathalie Gravel, Université Laval Michelle Switzer, York University

Frontier Ecologies: Conflict on the Argentina-Uruguay Border

Jorge Virchez, Laurentian University Economic Development for Shuaras First Nations through Ecological Mining in the Native Lands of the Amazon Jungle of Ecuador

Tanya Chung Tiam Fook, York University A Win-Win Strategy for All? Exploring the Implication of Guyana´s Climate Change Strategies for Indigenous Communities

10. Social Movements: Theory and Practice

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Victor Armony, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Conny Davidsen, University of Calgary

Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Perú: Neoliberalism, Local Adaptation and Resistance

Süleyman Güder, Fatih University Social Movements and its Relation with State in Latin America: MST (Movimiento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) Case in Brazil

Matthew Hawkins, Carleton University

Plurnationality: A Revolutionary Myth for Ecuador´s Indigenous Movement

Katherine Reilly, University of Toronto A River without Banks is a Lake: Latin America's New Popular Sociopolitical Articulations as Spheres of Ontological Security

11. Mapping Latin America's Literary and Cultural Utopias from the Past to the Present

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary Alessandra Santos, University of Utah

Mapping Utopia: Theoretical Reflections Kim Beauchesne, University of British Columbia

Crisis Management: Mapping Utopian Practices in Latin America

Pedro Favaron Peyón, Université de Montréal Transformarse la tierra: utopía andina y vuelta al origen

Rita De Grandis, University of British Columbia Children's Perspectives of the 1960s-1970s Utopias in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary

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12. Migraciones y exilios latinoamericanos en Europa y Canadá

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Daniel Schugurensky, University of Toronto José Del Pozo, UQAM

Las actividades políticas de los exiliados chilenos en Montreal, años 1970-1990

Fernando Camacho Padilla, Universidad de Estocolmo (Suecia) Historia de solidaridad y exilio latinoamericano en Suecia: Apuntes sobre el caso chileno

Denis Charbonneau, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) L’immigration argentine et péruvienne à Montréal : une étude comparative

Enoin Humanez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) La emigración colombiana hacia Québec: causas y caminos

13. Contraception and Childbirth: Popular and Professional Perspectives, 18th-20th Centuries

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Jacqueline Holler, University of Northern British Columbia Verónica Vallejo, Georgetown University

Recipes and Medicamentos experimentados for Women's Health in Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain

Nora Jaffary, Concordia University Popular and Professional Approaches to Childbirth in Late Colonial and Early Republican Mexico

Raúl Necochea, University of Toronto Fertility Surveys and the Construction of the Birth Control "Acceptor" in Latin America, 1940s-1960s

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Jacqueline Holler, University of Northern British Columbia

19. Memory: Resistance, Production and Representation Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Jim Handy, University of Saskatchewan Kelly Butler, University of Saskatchewan

Remembering and Forgetting: Religious Architecture and the Production of Memory in Latin America

Marie-Christine Dugal, University of Saskatchewan Luttes de mémoires à Buenos Aires: l’École de Mécanique de la Marine (ESMA)

Rachel Hatcher, University of Saskatchewan Truth and Forgetting in Guatemala

Liliana Gómez, Columbia University Modernity in the Caribbean: Enclaves, Spatialization and Circulation of Memories

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Jim Handy, University of Saskatchewan

51. Neoliberalism in Latin America: Continuity and Change Chair / Président /Moderador / Presidente: Eduardo Canel, York University Martín Cortés, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Efectos de la crisis en el pensamiento crítico latinoamericano: El retorno del Estado como problema teórico y político

Ruth Felder, Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina en la crisis del neoliberalismo. Cambios y continuidades (1990s-2000s)

Jael Andrea Goldsmith Weil, Northwestern University The Unraveling of the Chilean Model: Examination of Bachelet´s Pension Reform

Maisa Soledad Bascuas, Universidad de Buenos Aires La reestatización de empresas públicas privatizadas en la Argentina. Rupturas y continuidades con el paradigma neoliberal

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12:00-1:30 Lunch / Déjeuner / Almuerzo / Almoço

1:30-3:00, Tuesday / mardi / martes / terça-feira 1 June/ juin / junio/ junho

Keynote Speaker I / Conférencier invité I / Ponente invitado I / Conferencista convidado I:

Franklin Midy, Université du Québec à Montréal

Haïti post-séisme : reconstruction nationale, intégration régionale latino-caribéenne et configuration d’un nouveau monde américain


3:45-5:15 Tuesday / mardi / martes / terça-feira 1 June/ juin / junio/ junho

Roundtable: Four Decades of Latin American and Caribbean Research Institutions in Canada

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Albert Berry, University of Toronto Liisa North, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University Steven Palmer, CALACS Ron Harpelle, Lakehead University, co-author of the forthcoming The International Development Research Centre: 40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact

26. Cuba: Discursos de la otredad

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Myriam Osorio, Memorial University of Newfoundland Ana Belén Martín Sevillano, Queens University

Mujer y revolución: apuntes sobre una paradoja. Alejandro Campos García, York University

Practices Of Racialization from below: The Fine Arts Case 1989-2009

Nicholas Balaisis, York University Cuba, Cinema, Alterity: Revolutionary Nationhood and the Mobile Cinema Campaign

Kaushalya Bannerji, York University Cuba: criminology and discourses of blackness

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75. Canadian connections: Commerce, and Carnival in the Caribbean and the Diaspora

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Amitava Chowdhury, Queen’s University Erin Mandzak, Queen’s University

Commercial Visions of Tropical Horizons: Canadian Business Interest in the British Caribbean 1925-1970

Shiva Mohan, University of the West Indies (Mona) / University of Toronto

Negotiating Caribbean Diasporic Identities through Caribana Carnival

Nadine Hunt, York University Scotland, Jamaica and the Role of Trust in the Expansion of Caribbean Trade, 1750-1800

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Amitava Chowdhury, Queen’s University

6. Navigating Colombia's Civil War: A New Direction? Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Garry Leech, Cape Breton University James Brittain, Acadia University

Divergence or Dissolution: In What Direction is the FARC-EP Going?

Terry Gibbs, Cape Breton University Forced Displacement: A Political Economy Perspective

Jasmin Hristov, York University Señores de la Guerra, Auto-Defensas, or BACRIM? Towards a New Conceptualization of Paramilitarism in Colombia

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedor: Garry Leech, Cape Breton University

45. Water Treatment and Environmental Risks Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Harry Polo Diaz, University of Regina Alba María Orellana Gonzalez, Universidade de São Paolo

Uso de modelos de simulación en la valoración dinámico-integral de servicios ecosistémicos hídricos en Brasil

Irene Provenzano, Universidad de Buenos Aires El despojo de los bienes comunes: la privatización y re-estatización de los servicios de agua potable in América Latina

Frederic Belley, Institute of Archaeology St. Andrews Analysis of the environmental degradation and the trade of water

Salvador Alfaro, University of Regina Environment Risks and Development in Rural El Salvador

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Harry Polo Diaz, University of Regina

58. Palimpsest, Deconstruction and New Imaginaries

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Amanda Holmes, McGill University Shawn Stein, Washington College

Performing Palimpsest: Dunga and Sérgio Sant Anna’s “Na boca do túnel”

Sandra García Sanborn, California State University Jacinta Escudos y la seducción del surrealismo

Tanita Muneshwar, York University Deconstructing ‘tropicality’ and racial miscegenation in Nancy Leys Stepan’s Picturing Tropical Nature

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46. Agriculture, Human Rights and Environmental Risks Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Lynne Phillips, University of Windsor Simon Granovsky-Larsen, York University

Land Access Programs Available to Guatemalan Campesinos, 1962-2009: Predecessors to Agrarian Reform?

Dimitri Della Faille, McMaster University Small Agriculture in Mexico and the Global Economy: Epistemological Consequences for Sociology

Paula Spieler, Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School La Oroya Case: the relation between environmental degradation and human rights violations

Marie-Josée Massicotte, University of Ottawa Struggles for Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Alternative Models for Tomorrow´s Agriculture

78. The Nation in Question in LatinAmerican Literatures

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Rita De Grandis, University of British Columbia José Antonio Giménez Micó, Concordia University

Rojo, amarillo y verde de Alejandro Saravia: Entretejiendo un imaginario planetario en los albores del siglo XXI

María Teresa Grillo, University of British Columbia Fortaleciendo la identidad: Hilaria Supa Huamán y la revalorización de la cosmovisión andina

William French, University of British Columbia The Nation and Beyond

Fresia Castillo-Sánchez, University of Calgary La nación nómade: La imaginación desbordada

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Rita De Grandis, University of British Columbia

36. Voces negras de las literaturas de las Américas. Diálogos

contemporáneos Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Aimée Bolaños, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Sillvia Valero, University of Montreal

De cocolos, chombos y pichones: migraciones afroantillanas en la literatura del Caribe hispánico

Lancelot Cowie, University of the West Indies La emancipación de la mujer negra en el Caribe y en América Latina: literatura y cine

Aimée Bolaños, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Relecturas míticas y yorubás de Alina Galliano

Lady Rojas Benavente, Concordia University De la confrontación al diálogo en la cultura afro-peruana

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Aimée Bolaños, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

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8:45-10:15 Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira 2 June / juin / junio/ junho

Joint Panel CALACS-ACELAC / CPSA-ACSP 17. Canada in the Americas Part 1

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Teresa Healy, Canadian Labour Congress María Teresa Aya Smitmans, Universidad Externado de Colombia

Colombia- Canada: Obstacles and Challenges in the Relationship

Lesley Burns, Canadian Foundation for the Americas Canada-Venezuela: An Analysis of the Multifaceted Relationship

Ricardo Grinspun, CERLAC, York University Canada’s Trade Engagement with the Americas: Sailing With or Against the Tide?

John Kirk, Dalhousie University Canada-Cuba Relations: From Bad to Worse under the Harper Government

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Teresa Healy, Canadian Labour Congress

Joint Panel CALACS-ACELAC / CASID-ACÉDI

27. Sweetness & Power in Early 20th-Century Latin America Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Gillian McGillivray, York University Marc McLeod, Seattle University

The Comparative History of Sugar in Modern Latin America Patricia Juárez Dappe, California State University, Northridge and María Celia Bravo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán

Sugarcane Planters in Tucumán, Argentina: Discourse and Action in the Consolidation of a Cañero Identity, 1880-1930

José O. Solá, Cleveland State University Puerto Rico's Place Under the Sugar Sun. “Colonos” and Workers in the formation of the Modern Sugarcane Industry in Caguas Puerto Rico, 1906 to 1928

Luis González, Indiana University Political Struggles in the Sugarcane Fields of Brazil: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1900-1950

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Gillian McGillivray, York University

74. Populist Discourse, Civil Society and Economic Crisis Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Michelle Bonner, University of Victoria Maria Susana Tabieres, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La crisis global y las nuevas formas de populismo en América Latina. Los casos de Argentina, Brasil y Bolivia

Esteban Nicholls, Carleton University State and Citizenship in Contemporary Ecuador: Elucidating Correa’s “Citizens’ Revolution”

Francisco Marín Boscán, Universidad del Zulia, Universidad Autónoma de México

Panorama de la libertad sindical en América Latina

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13. Reflections on Otherness in American and Mexican Films: Hispanics, Jews, Mennonites, and Nacos

Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: George Palacios, University of Pittsburgh Sandra Vanesa Navarro, Emory University

The Quiet Mexican: The figure of the 'Hispanic other' in Two Contemporary Westerns

Lilian Shandro, University of Alberta The Naco Discourse in Contemporary Film

Delma Gil Wilson, University of Alberta

El inusitado México norte en Luz silenciosa de Carlos Reygadas

Argelia González Hurtado, University of Alberta Novia que te vea: la inserción judía en la gran familia mexicana

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: George Palacios, University of Pittsburgh

25. Salud, inmigración y justicia social en Costa Rica Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Tanya Basok, University of Windsor Mario Solís, Escuela de Filosofia, Universidad de Costa Rica

Justicia social global, salud y poblaciones migrantes: una defensa de la categoría de ciudadanía social global

Mauricio López, University of Windsor Redistribución y reconocimiento: aportes analíticos para el estudio de determinantes sociales de la salud en poblaciones migrantes.

Roger Bonilla, Centro Centroamericano De Población, Universidad de Costa Rica

Estudios acerca del estado de salud de la población de inmigrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica.

Laura Paniagua Arguedas, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica

Cambios recientes en la legislación migratoria en Costa Rica. Implicaciones para el acceso a los servicios de salud por parte de comunidades migrantes.

12. Reconfiguring Memories in Post-Violence Peru, Guatemala,

and Argentina

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente : Monica Patterson, University of Michigan Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal

Children’s Truth-telling in Post-Shining Path Perú María Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Memory and memorialization: the idea of the Museum of Memory in Perú

Karine Vanthuyne, University of Ottawa Remembering violence in post-genocide Guatemala.

Ari Gandsman, University of Ottawa The End of Memory: Debating the Museum of Memory in Argentina.

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Monica Patterson, University of Michigan

23. Individuals and Collectives: Gender in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: William French, University of British Columbia Amanda López, Saint Xavier University

The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori: Testing the Boundaries of Gender, Class, and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico City, 1926-1931

Sophia Koutsoyannis, York University The Failed Unionization of Female Cabaret Workers under the Cárdenas Regime

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Amelia Kiddle, University of Arizona La Ministra: The Diplomatic Appointment of Palma Guillén, 1935-1936

Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, University of British Columbia Feminist Art Collectives in Mexico: Politics and New Aesthetic Languages

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: William French, University of British Columbia

15. La sécurité dans les Amériques: défense, coopération et nouveaux enjeux

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Nathalie Gravel, Université Laval Carlo Dade, FOCAL

Canada's role in the changing security environment in North America - post Sept-11

Hugo Loiseau, Université de Sherbrooke Les relations civilo-militaires au Venezuela à l'épreuve de l'environnement sécuritaire régional

François-Xavier Drapeau, Université Laval L’armement russe du Venezuela et ses conséquences régionales

Nicolas Foucras, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) La inseguridad como producto de la desconexión entre la administración pública y la sociedad: el caso de México

70. Redefinition of Female Roles in Public Life Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Lynne Phillips, University of Windsor Colleen Krushelinski, University of Saskatchewan

“Unruly” Women: Defending Respectability in 19th century Guatemala

May Bletz, Brock University The Fallen Schoolteacher: Gender and Nationalism in Los ojos vendados (1921) by Hugo Wast

Roberta Timothy, University of Toronto Resistance Education: African/Caribbean women and African/Latin American women and the Colonial war

Itzel Adriana Sosa Sánchez, Université Laval Derechos reproductivos, desigualdades sociales y género: una reflexión sobre el caso mexicano desde la perspectiva de la interseccionalidad


10:30-12:00 Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira 2 June / juin / junio/ junho

Joint Panel CALACS-ACELAC / CPSA-ACSP 18. Canada in the Americas Part 2

Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: Ricardo Grinspun, York University Liisa North, York University

Bad Neighbors: Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

John Foster, Carleton University Canada and Central America: Citizen Action and International Policy 30 Years On

Pablo Policzer, University of Calgary Canada and the International Promotion of Democracy

Jason Tockman, University of British Columbia The Coup in Honduras and Canada's Response

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Ricardo Grinspun, York University

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Joint Session CALACS-ACELAC / CASID-ACÉDI Legacies of the Slave Plantation on Contemporary Socio-Economic and Cultural Landscapes in Latin America, the

Caribbean, and the Southern United States Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Kari Polanyi Levitt, McGill University Tony Weis, University of Western Ontario Norman Girvan, University of the West Indies at St. Agustine, Trinidad and Tobago Dale Tomich, Braudel Institute in Binghamton, New York Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Jorge Nef, University of Guelph

54. Latin American Immigration to Canada Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: José Del Pozo, Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM David P. Sandell, Texas Christian University

Making Cultural Space against All Odds: Stories about Work, Informal labor, and Migration from Mexico

Christine Hughes, Carleton University Farm Fields, Transnational Fields in Guatemalan Households: Gendered Impacts of Seasonal Migration to Canada

Ofelia Beatriz Scher, Universidad de Buenos Aires Migraciones y actores emergentes. El desafío de la sociedad en construcción

Aurélie Quesada, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÁM) L’intégration socioculturelle des réfugiés : le cas des Colombiens au Québec

68. New Approaches to Political History Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Walter C. Soderlund, University of Windsor Flávia Pereira, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Mobilização política na América Afro-Latina: Comparações entre o partido independiente de color (1908-1912) e a frente negra Brasileira

Geneviève Dorais, University of Wisconsin Reaching the Spiritual and Emotional Politics of the Aprista Space of Exile (1923-1959)

Reinaldo Funes, Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez and Steven Palmer, University of Windsor

Political Animals: Outbreaks of Glanders and Colonial Legitimacy in Havana, 1889-1910

Mateo Radford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Veterans and Patriots Movement: Shifting the Paradigm of Nation in 1920’s Cuba

38. Sincretismos caribeños

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary Lourdes Rojas, Colgate University

Cimarrones en la novela de Manuel Zapata Olivella Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

La indeterminación y la diosa Fortuna en la encrucijada de Legba/Eleguá

Raquel Romeu, Le Moyne College Inserción de la cultura Yoruba en una novela cubana: Como un mensajero tuyo

Elvira Sánchez Blake, Michigan State University Sincretismos yorubas cristianos en la obra de Mayra Santos Febres

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary

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50. Political Parties in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Stéphanie Rousseau, Université Laval Denilson Bandeira Coelho, Universidade de Brasília / Instituto de Ciência Política; and Henrique Coutinho Guimarães, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil

Difusão de programas sociais innovadores no Brasil: o papel das idéias em sistemas políticos competitivos

April Carrière, University of Ottawa Living Outside the Bubble: Hegemonic Gaps and Anarchistic Currents in the Bolivian Andes

Natália Massaco Koga, University of Westminster The Dispute between the ‘Political-Conflictual’ and the ‘Apolitical-Consensual’ Discourses of Civil Society in Brazil’s Recent Democracy

David Close, Memorial University of Newfoundland Third-Party Politics in a Two-Party System: Costa Rica in Comparative Perspective

43. Canadian-Latin American Relations: Where has the Middle

Power Gone? Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Catherine LeGrand, McGill University Arturo López Levy, University of Denver

Does the Inter-American Democratic Charter make a difference? Canada's response to democratic governance crises in the Americas: the cases of Ecuador and Nicaragua in 2005.

Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Universidad de la Habana Canada Latin America: Perceptions from the South

Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine 1968 Ministerial Mission to Latin America: Redefining Regional Agendas; No Place for the OAS in the Middle Power Role

Luis René Fernández Tabío, Universidad de La Habana

The Respect of Difference & Canadian Foreign Policy toward Cuba in Face of US Hegemony

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Catherine LeGrand, McGill University

65. Regional Des/Integration in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Victor Armony, Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM José Deocleciano Júnior Silva, Centro Universitário Euro Americano

Federalismo, Deferação e integração Regional no Brasil e na Argentina

Khatchik DerGhouGassian, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina Moving Away from (FTA) Illusion. The Changing Patterns of Regional Integration in South America

Giovanni Molano Cruz, United Nations University Integración regional y política exterior Latinoamericana: una lectura en perspectiva histórica

Efe Can Gurcan, Université de Montreal New Regionalisms in South America: Towards a Newly Emerging Research Agenda?

47. Challenges of Industrialization in a Global Economy

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Eduardo Canel, York University Albert Berry, University of Toronto

The Challenge of Lowering Inequality: What Latin America Can Learn from the History of Industrial Countries

José Gilberto Souza, Unesp - Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias C. Jaboticabal-SP.

Homogeneização territorial no estado de São Paulo: externalidades negativas do avanço do setor sucroalcooleiro

Pablo Gabriel Ferreira, Université du Québec à Montréal PDVSA et Petrobras: entre les intérêts politiques et les intérêts commerciaux

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12:00-1:30 Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira

2 June/ juin / junio/ junho

CALACS General Meeting Lunch will be served

All CALACS members are encouraged to attend to elect a new slate of officers.

Réunion générale de l’ACELAC

Tous les membres de l’ACELAC sont invités à y assister afin d’élire les nouveaux responsables de leur

Association

Asamblea General de la ACELC Se invita a todos los socios de la ACELC a asistir y a elegir a las

nuevas directivas.

Reunião geral da ACELAC Roga-se a presença de todos os sócios da ACELAC para eleger a

nova diretoria

1:30-3:00, Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira 2 June/ juin / junio/ junho

Keynote Speaker II / Conférencier invité II / Ponente invitado II / Conferencista convidado II:

Maxwell A. Cameron, University of British Columbia

Texts, Media, and Constituent Power: Latin America from Ancient to Modern Times


3:45-5:15 Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira 2 June/ juin / junio/ junho

Meeting of Outgoing and Incoming CALACS Board of Directors

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39. Latin American Women's Citizenship: Current Trends in Policies and Politics

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Stéphanie Rousseau, Université Laval Nadine Jubb, York University

Struggling for Women’s Citizenship: Women’s Organizing against Violence against Women and State Responses in Post-Neoliberal Nicaragua

Rachel Brickner, Acadia University Economic Crisis vs. Economic Justice: The Shifting Terrain for Women Workers in Mexico

Lucy Luccisano, Wilfrid Laurier University

Mexico’s Centre-Right Government, Public Policies and Women’s Citizenship

Débora Lopreite, Carleton University Advancing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Stéphanie Rousseau, Université Laval

73. Los retos de la democracia mexicana actual Chair / Président / Presidente / Presidente: Denise Brown, University of Calgary Elizabeth Cristina Cobilt Cruz, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

El clientelismo político hoy: la relevancia de su estudio en América Latina

Georgina Colin Castro, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana El uso de algunos elementos totalitarios en la política mexicana

Guillermo Lizama Carrasco, Universidad Nacional de México (UNAM)

¿Votar o no votar? Geografía electoral del abstencionismo en México: ideas y conceptos

Ernesto Soto Reyes, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Los gobiernos locales: una nueva arena de la lucha política en América Latina: el caso de México

11. Understanding Diasporic Latinidad in Canada: New Approaches to the Study of Latinas/os in Canada

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Vannina Sztainbok, University of Toronto Lorena M. Gajardo, OISE/ University of Toronto

Discourses of Latinidad and Latina/o Identity Performativity in Canada

Rubén Gaztambide Fernández y Cristina Guerrero OISE / University of Toronto

¿Cómo migra la teoría?: Applications, implications, and limitations of US-based theorizing for understanding Latina/o immigration in Canada.

Daniel Schugurensky, University of Toronto Examining two educational paradoxes of Latin Americans in Canada

Guillermo Glujovsky, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM) Las crisis económicas en Latinoamérica y las migraciones a la provincia de Québec

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Vannina Sztainbok, University of Toronto

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71. Redefinition of Spaces Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: David Close, Memorial University Tchansia Koné, UPS Oyapock – CNRS Guyane

“De cordillera a mar”: l’espace andin dans le territoire chilien. Example des estives de la IVème région du Chili

Kim Kozak, University of Calgary The Boundaries of Privacy: A Case Study of Cuban Domestic Spaces

Julien Rebotier, Urbanisation Culture Société - INRS La dimension territorial des risqué urbain à Caracas. Un regard critique de géographie des risques

Aldo Merlino, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina El problema de la convivencia urbana. Un estudio de las argumentaciones y modelos de acción /situación en el discurso sobre el respecto por las normas del tránsito en Argentina

63. Music, Celebrations and Politics Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Rita De Grandis, University of British Columbia Illa Carrillo Rodríguez, Université Paris 1

Las prácticas estéticas y políticas de Mercedes Sosa y su proyección internacional en los años 1970 y 1980

Alexandrine Boudreault Fournier, Université de Montréal Repositioning Cuba within the Caribbean: The Reggaetón Factor

Natasha Pravaz, Wilfrid Laurier University Homeward Bound? The Birth of Kinesthetic Communities

Lucía Galleno, Queens University Experiencias festivas postraumáticas en el Perú global del siglo veintiuno

67. Contested National Identities Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Pablo Policzer, University of Calgary Imtyaz Mohamed, York University

National Identity and Foreign Policy: The Foreign Policy Behaviour of Guyana 1966-2010

Jesse O´Brien, University of Calgary Expatriating Place Identity: A Discussion of the Barriers to the Establishment of Place Identity Experienced by Canadian Retirees Expatriating to Yucatán, Mexico

Máximo Carlos Badaró, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Identidad militar, ciudadanía y cambio institucional en el ejército argentino: un enfoque antropológico

Karen Robert, St. Thomas University An ‘Argentine Classic’: The Ford Falcon as Tortured National Icon

69. Women in Search of Political and Working Spaces

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Kalowatie Deonandan, University of Saskatchewan Beatriz Gómez, Universidad de Guadalajara

Organizaciones de mujeres indígenas en el espacio latinoamericano: afirmaciones y tensiones en sus referentes culturales

Rebekah Wetmore, Acadia University The Role of marianismo in Women’s Involvement in Politics in Venezuela

Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole, University of Windsor Feminisms and Publics: Working Spaces of Democracy in Brazil and Ecuador

Alejandra Martínez, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Normatividad y disconfort de género: representaciones de maternidad y trabajo en mujeres argentinas

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37. Identity, Citizenship and Scholarship in Guatemala: Revisiting Guatemalan Indians and the State

Chair / Président / Moderadora/ Presidente: Julie Gibbings, University of Wisconsin-Madison George Lovell, Queens University

Translation and Transformation: Creating an English-Language Edition of Severo Martínez Peláez´ La patria del criollo (1970)

Patricia Harms, Brandon University Solving the Indian Problem: Education in Revolutionary Guatemala, 1944-1954

Jim Handy, University of Saskatchewan Failing Citizenship in Guatemala: Land, Community and the State in Contemporary Guatemala

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Julie Gibbings, University of Wisconsin-Madison

5:30-7:00 Wednesday / mercredi / miércoles / quarta-feira

2 June / juin / junio / junho

CALACS 40th Anniversary “Cinque à Sept” Reception

Montefiore Club

Announcement of Prizes and Honours

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8:45-10:15 Thursday / jeudi / jueves / quinta-feira 3 June / juin / junio / junho

72. Colonial Science, Healing, and Spirituality

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Steven Palmer, University of Windsor Hugh Cagle, Rutgers University

Asian Healing in Colonial Latin America: A Critical Engagement with the Area Studies Frameworks

Jason Michelakos, York University Race, Witchcraft, and Inquisition in Perú

Rachel O’Donnell, York University Colonies of Plants: Modern Science, Plant Classification, and European Voyages of Discovery in the Americas

33. Transformation des espaces dans

les Amériques: milieux urbains Chair / Président/ Moderador / Presidente: Carlo Prévil, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM) Antonio De Lisio, Universidad Central de Venezuela

L´Adaptation aux changements climatiques à LÉchelle Minicipale : Regards croisés entre le Canada et le Venezuela

Adriana López, Universidad del Valle, Colombia Estándares urbano-ambientales sostenibles en territorios industriales

Oswaldo López, Universidade del Valle, Colombia Estándares urbanísticos para espacio público de ladera en clima tropical

Luis Carlos Ramírez García, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM)

îlots de froideur urbain (case hiver) dans la région de La Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM)

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista/ Debatedora: Mélanie Bélanger, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM)

2. Women, Intra-Regional Migration and the Issues of Rights Chair/ Président/ Moderadora/ Presidente: Tanya Basok, University of Windsor Mario Santillo, Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, Argentina (CEMLA) Sandra Buccafusca, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina Myriam Serulnikoff, Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, Argentina (CEMLA)

Un aspecto particular de la feminización migratoria en la ciudad de Buenos Aires: la percepción de derechos y su relación con la condición migratoria

Martha Rojas and Hugo Ángeles Cruz, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México

Mujeres, migración y derechos: la situación de las inmigrantes guatemaltecas en México

Carlos Sandoval, Universidad de Costa Rica From the Right to Health to Having Access to Health Provision. The Experience of Nicaraguan Women in Costa Rica

42. Imaging Memory Across Political and

Disciplinary Boundaries Chair/ Président/ Moderador/ Presidente: Camilo Trumper, State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo María del Carmen Suescún Pozas, Brock University

Memory and Visuality At the Crossroads of Political and Disciplinary Boundaries

Sandy Morales Serrato, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Cartografías de la memoria en Colombia: Imágenes y política 1980-2005

Milica Njegovan, Brock University Possibilities and Perils of Visibility in Public Interest Work

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia

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76. Indentured labour, diaspora and identity: The Chinese and the Indian diaspora

Chair / Présidente / Moderadora / Presidente: Juanita de Barros, McMaster University Yi Huang, University of Miami

Chinese Shop as a Diasporic Borderland: Reading Patricia Powell´s The Pagoda and Elizabeth Nuñez´s Bruised Hibiscus

Amitava Chowdhury, Queen’s University Indian Indentured Labor and Imperial Policies of Integration in the Caribbean in a Comparative Perspective

Lauren Pragg, York University Queerness and (diasporic) Indo-Caribbeans

Jillian Ollivierre, York University Consuming ‘Modern’ “Indianness” in Trinidad and Tobago

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Juanita de Barros, McMaster University

Roundtable Area Studies and the Role of Study Abroad Programs in Latin

American Studies Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Laura Macdonald, Carleton University Laura Macdonald, Carleton University

10 years of North American Studies exchanges at Carleton Lucy Luccisano, Wilfrid Laurier University

North American Studies and Mobility Programs: Reflections on Student Learning

Colleen O'Manique, Trent University Trent in Ecuador

John Cameron, Dalhousie University The IDS Cuba Study Program at Dalhousie - Reflections on Student Learning


10:30-12:00 Thursday / jeudi / jueves / quinta-feira

3 June / juin / junio / junho

34. Transformation des espaces dans les Amériques: enjeux socio-territoriaux

Chair/ Président/ Moderador/ Presidente: Antonio De Lisio, Universidad Central de Venezuela Mélanie Bélanger, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM)

Rouge ou vert? Analyse critique de la trajectoire socio-environnementale de Cuba entre 1959 et 2009

Yeleine Almoza Hernández, Universidad Agraria de La Habana (Cuba)

Manejo integrado de las cuencas hidrográficas con sistema integrado para la ayuda a la decisión (SIAD)

Carlo Prévil, Université du Quebec á Montréal (UQAM) Bilan et prespectives d´une initiative de recherche-action pour la reproblemátisation de la question enrivonnementale en Haïti

Vicente Osmel Rodríguez Cárdenas, Centro de Investigaciones de Ecosistemas Costeros, Cuba

Educación ambiental en el destino turístico Jardines del Rey, Cuba. Realidades y perspectivas

Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Adriana López, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

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3. Migrant Women and Rights Activism: the Role of Nongovernmental, Regional, and International Organizations

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Mauricio López Ruiz, University of Windsor Nicola Piper and Tanya Basok, University of Windsor

Engendering Migration Governance: International Organizations and the Promotion of Norms in Latin America

Bridget Wooding, FLACSO Dominican Republic Women, migration and rights activism: the Dominican Experience

Claudia Mora y Carolina Stefoni, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile Entre la promoción de derechos y la reproducción del orden tradicional de género: programas para migrantes en Chile

64. Reimagining America and the Cuban Nation Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: David Close, Memorial University John Kirk, Dalhousie University

Exploring the Rationale for Cuban Medical Internationalism Ileana Sanz Cabrera, University of the West Indies

Mestizaje ¿utopía, mito, realidad? Russell Cobb, University of Alberta

Listen Yankee! Or, the Politics of Authenticity in Contemporary Cuba

Joanne C. Elvy, Algoma University Reimagining a New America: The Vision and Practice of Martian Ideals

31. Problemáticas en la novela latinoamericana y del Caribe Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Myriam Osorio, Memorial University Sophie Lavoie, University of New Brunswick

Mujer y compromiso en las novelas de Rosario Aguilar y Gioconda Belli

María Soledad Paz, St. Francis Xavier University Memoria e historia en el discurso literario argentino de posdictadura. Dos ejemplos.

Giovanna Pollarolo, University of Ottawa El melodrama en Melodrama de Jorge Franco

Eduardo Barraza, Universidad de los Lagos, Chile Sobre el discurso de la conquista y la narrativa de filiación histórica en la narrativa chilena

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Myriam Osorio, Memorial University

24. Transnational Religion: Migrants, Missionaries, Medicine, and Indigeneity

Chair / Présidente / Moderadora / Presidente: Catherine LeGrand, McGill University Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, California State University, Northridge

Miracles of Medicine: Health Networks in Guatemala and Mexico

Kristin Norget, McGill University “Fruits of that Christian Seed”: Globalization, Indigeneity and Strategies of Emplacement of the Translocal Roman ‘Catholic’ Church

Ana María Bidegain, Florida International University, and Juan Jennis Sánchez Soler, Colombian Studies Institute

The Role of Religion in Building a Transnational Colombia Discussant / Commentateur / Comentarista / Debatedor: Catherine LeGrand, McGill University

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61. Innovations in Teaching Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: George Lovell, Queens University Julio Pino, Kent State University

“Afro-Latin America”: Challenging a Concept Denise Brown, University of Calgary

Teaching the “meaning” of Latin America Jean Walrond, Concordia University College of Alberta; Greg Wiggan, University of North Carolina; and Alicia Trotman, Michigan State University

Trouble in Waters, at Home and Abroad: Education in the Caribbean and in the Diaspora

21. Cuba as a Rapidly Aging Society: Policy and Practice Implications

Chair / Président /Moderador / Presidente: David Strug, Yeshiva University Laurence Branch, University of South Florida

Health Care for Older People in Cuba Niurka Cascudo Barral, Centro iberoamericano para la tercera edad (CITED)

Caracterización de Demencia en Centenarios de Ciudad de La Habana

Wendy Hulko, Thompson Rivers University “La Libertad” [Freedom]: Views of Older Cubans on Aging in Cuba

30. Re-examining the Governance of Resource Extractive

Sectors in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: Walter C. Soderlund, University of Windsor Jewellord Nem Singh, University of Sheffield

How Neoliberal is the Chilean State? The Political Economy of Copper Governance under the Concertación Democrática Regime

Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Institut D’Etudes Politiques- Paris Re-examining the Extractive Sector Governance at the Local Level: Social Accountability and Royalties Management in Colombia and Perú

Sonja Killoran-McKibbin, York University Unnatural Resources: International Development Aid and Hydrocarbon Exploitation in Bolivia

Kalowatie Deonandan, University of Saskatchewan State Response to Community Resistance in Guatemala’s Extractive Sector

62. Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America

Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: Jim Handy, University of Saskatchewan Jean-François Bélisle, University of Ottawa

When Indians Become Consumers: Textile Industry and Demand in Ecuador and Guatemala, 1880-1930.

Lucas Savino, University of Western Ontario Reclaiming Citizenship: Mapuche Demands for Territorial Autonomy in Argentina

Mario Ortega Olivares, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco

Autonomía, usos y costumbres de los pueblos originarios, el caso mexicano

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12:00-1:30 Lunch / Déjeuner / Almuerzo / Almoço

1:30-3:00 Thursday / jeudi / jueves / quinta-feira 3 June / juin / junio / junho

52. Emigration and Migration within Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: José Del Pozo, Université du Québec à Montréal Sophie Le Blanc, Université d’Ottawa

L’immigration dans le Cône Sur et les défis de l’industrie du vêtement: le cas de São Paulo

Rosanne Purnwasie, York University Emigration and Migration in 21st Century Guyana: Guyana Going “Outside”, Brazilians Coming In

Brigitte Cairus, York University Gypsy Brazil: Identity, Migration and Ethnic Politics among Brazilian Romanies, 1936-2007

9. Le rôle du Canada dans la gestion et l’exploitation des

ressources naturelles en Amérique latine Chair / Président / Presidente / Presidente: Nycole Turmel, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Gabriela Da Costa Silva, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

The role of Canadian Aid Development in Water Governance in Latin American Communities

Etienne Roy Grégoire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) La gouvernance du secteur minier : enjeux de cohérence dans la politique étrangère canadienne concernant des pays en situation de conflit ou post-conflit

Daniel Navarro, Université Laval La responsabilité sociale des entreprises minières et la régulation étatique en Amérique latine

5 Diasporic Religious Sensibilities: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Religions as an Area Study

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Amitava Chowdhury, Queen’s University Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Political Perspective: New Paradigms for National Development: As If the People Mattered

Nancy Mikelsons, Independent Scholar Oral History Perspective: Spiritismo in Cuba

LeGrace Benson, Journal of Haitian Studies Material Culture Perspective: Some Effects of Afro-Creole Religion on Haitian Attitudes Toward Environment, History, and Social Space.

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29. Solidarity, Association, and Politics: The Creation of a Political Culture in Twentieth Century Argentina

Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: David Sheinin, Trent University Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University

Soccer Clubs and Civic Associations: Politics and Soccer in Buenos Aires between the Two World Wars

Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia Transnational Solidarity and Anti-imperialism in Argentina

Jorge Nallim, University of Manitoba Cracks in the Front: The Economic Debate within the Anti-Fascist Liberal Front in Argentina, 1939-1943

56. Cine, representación y políticas cinematográficas Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Salvador Velazco, Claremont McKenna Collage Liliana López Castaneda, University of British Columbia

Equidad cultural dentro de las políticas cinematográficas Emperatriz Arreaza Camero, Universidad de Zulia

La representación de la diáspora latinoamericana en el cine canadiense

Vania Barraza Toledo, University of Memphis La imagen del padre en el cine chileno: del autoritarismo al estado neoliberal

Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary Imágenes corpóreas en Ojos que no ven de Francisco Lombardi

55. Armed Conflicts in Latin America Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Liisa North, York University Gina Beltrán, University of Toronto

Rethinking the Colombian Socio-Political Conflict Through the Lens of Tragedy

Jaimie Boyd, The University of British Columbia Violence: an Informal Institution in Contemporary Latin America

Leonardo Andrés Ballesteros Pedraza, Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia

Del sufrimiento humano a la solidaridad civil: del testimonio de las víctimas en los conflictos armados en América Latina

52. Bilingualism and Hybridity Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Daniel Schugurensky, University of Toronto Jean-Robert Cadely, Florida International University

Challenging the Boundaries between the use of French and Creole in Haiti's Educational System

Constanza Rojas-Primus, Kwantlen Polytechnic University Dynamics of hybridity in the Palo Monte “lengua”

Anna Vitalievna Sokolova Grinovievkaya, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

The English Language and Mexican University Students

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40. Esclavitud y mercado de trabajo en Cuba. Siglo XIX Chair / Président / Moderador/ Presidente: Yolanda Díaz Martínez, Archivo Nacional de Cuba Amparo Sánchez Cobos, University of Windsor

La educación del esclavo según Ramón de la Sagra. Cuba, siglo XIX

Imilce Balboa Navarro, Universidad Jaume I. Castellón, España Los límites de la libertad. El mercado de trabajo tras la abolición de la esclavitud en Cuba

Claudia Varella Fernández, Universidad Jaume I. Castellón, España Identidad racial en los pleitos de libertad de esclavos

Discussant / Commentatrice / Comentarista / Debatedora: Yolanda Díaz Martínez, Archivo Nacional de Cuba


3:45-5:15 Thursday / jeudi / jueves / quinta-feira 3 June/ juin / junio/ junho

60. Artistic and Textual Innovation as Politics Chair / Président / Moderador / Presidente: Elizabeth Montes Garcés, University of Calgary Osvaldo Cleger, Lafayette College

Más allá de la página impresa: aproximaciones a la ficción hipertextual en Latino América

Carolina Ferrer, Université du Québec à Montréal Los estudios literarios hispanoamericanos: indicadores y cartografías de las principales bases bibliográficas electrónicas

Thomas Glave, State University of New York, Binghamton Why a "Queer" Caribbean Anthology, and Why Now?

Julian Luciano Bokser, CONICET La producción artística como modo de resistencia política: dos experiencias en la ciudad de Buenos Aires

44. Partages et ruptures de l’identité des Caraïbes et de

l’Amérique latine: enjeux et représentations Chair/ Président /Moderador/ Presidente: Antje Ziethen, University of Toronto Víctor Hugo Ramos, Université Laval

Les Caraïbes et l’Amérique latine : spécificités et partages identitaires régionaux et continentaux. Dynamiques civilisationnelles et géopolitiques

Nadège Brousteau, Université Laval Les Caraïbes et l'Amérique latine dans la presse américaine et la presse cubaine. Analyse des points d'ancrage et de rupture dans la couverture du rôle humanitaire de Cuba

Alexis Gérald, University of Texas at Austin

Revendication identitaire vs reconnaissance internationale - le cas d' Haïti

Pierre Schallum, Université Laval Le réalisme merveilleux en Amérique latine : vie et révolte

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57. Media in Latin America: Alternative Views Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Vania Barraza, University of Memphis Marta Silva, York University

“The Indigenous View”: Ethnic Activism And Audiovisual Production in Mato Grosso do Sul

Salvador Velazco, Claremont McKenna College El nuevo paradigma documental mexicano

Ana Lúcia Vieira de Andrade, UNIRIO Los documentales brasileños en el siglo XX: reconstruyendo la memoria del país a través de una voz periférica

Roberto Hoogendoorn, Laurentian University Nuestro Sur es el OTRO, Honduran Society and its Media Coverage; if/when did Hondurans Really Count?

14. Building the Canadian empire in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Jasmin Hristov, York University Todd Gordon, York University

What's at stake in Canada's Caribbean foreign policy Jeff Weber, University of Regina

Canadian Imperialism in the Andes: Capital Versus People in an Age of Crisis

Tyler Shipley, York University The Coup That Wasn't A Coup But Was Obviously A Coup: Canada and the Demise of Honduran Democracy

35. Negotiating the Globalization Process in the Caribbean Chair / Président / Moderadora / Presidente: Kalowatie Deonandan, University of Saskatchewan Dave Ramsaran, Susquehanna University

Contesting the Development Process in the Neo Liberal Paradigm: The Anti Smelter Movement in Trinidad and Tobago

Linden Lewis, Bucknell University Neo-liberalism, Disempowerment and other Paroxysms of Low-intensity Democracy in the Caribbean

Samer Abboud, Susquehanna University How Small States Negotiate Globalization: CARICOM and the Office of Trade Negotiations

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Cross-listings with other Associations: Panels of Interest to CALACS Delegates

May 31, 2010 2:00 – 3:30 (pm)

SESSION NINE: BROTHERS, SISTERS AND SECULAR COUSINS: MISSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND AFRICA

Joint Session Canadian Society for Church History / Canadian

Historical Association; H-420

Chair / Facilitator: Rhonda Semple, St. Francis Xavier University Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, California State University, Northridge

Cross-Cultural Catholic Cooperative Development: From AntIgonish to Guatemala

Catherine LeGrand, McGill University Development, Liberation Theology and the Peasant Movement for Agrarian Reform: Quebec Catholic Missionaries in Honduras, 1955-1975

Ruth Compton Brouwer, Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western

Reason over Passion: CUSO’s Divided Response to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

June 1, 2010

9:00 - 10:45 (am) REPRESENTING POLICING: MEDIA DISCOURSES, USES AND ABUSES IN LATIN AMERICA

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)

Chair: Laura Huey, University of Western Ontario Michelle Bonner, University of Victoria ([email protected])

Defining the Role of the Police: Discourse and Accountability in Chile

Ruth Stanley, Free University Berlin ([email protected]) Telling It Like It Ain't: Crime Fighting as Media Performance in Buenos Aires

Mary Rose Kubal, St. Bonaventure University ([email protected]) Democratic Policing’ Paradigms in Practice: Less-Than-Democratic Outcomes in Argentina and Chile

Discussant: Guillermina Seri, Union College

The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development

CASID panels of interest to CALACS members

June 1, 2010

9:00 - 10:45 Development theories and models in Latin America 1:45 - 3:30 Latin Americans, development and the media 1:45 - 3:30 Haiti after the earthquake 3:45 - 5:50 Pathways out of Poverty in Latin America

June 2, 2010 9:00 - 10:45AM Indigenous Issues in Latin America 1:45 - 3:30 Alternative Development in Venezuela

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