XLII
One World, Many Worlds: Composing the
The 42nd Annual Conference
of the
Southwest Council of Latin American
Studies
March 11-14, 2009
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On behalf of the Executive Board
of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), welcome to the 42nd
Annual Conference! The theme of the 2009
SCOLAS Conference “One World, Many Worlds: Composing the
At this conference, we are
delighted to have presenters and panels from many countries and disciplines who
will reconsider the ways that multiple influences – cultures, races and
languages – have interwoven to create the worlds that collectively we know as
the
In addition to contemplating the
We
welcome you to
Also, please mark your
calendars for
Rediscovering
the
As most of us are experiencing personally as
well as professionally, the global economic crisis has tremendous potential to
rearrange “truths,” not to mention retirement plans. Books that prognosticate on a “Post-American
World” are spending months on the New
York Times best-sellers list. These
changes have the potential to affect all sorts of relationships, including
those among the states of the
Thursday
Thursday Session I 9-10:45
Ataranzas I (1-R-I)
Poesía del lenguaje: el neobarroco latinoamericano
Chair and
Discussant:
Edgar Paiwonsky-Conde, Hobart and William Smith
College, Azar y necesidad histórica en La Nochebuena de Encarnación Mendoza
de Juan Bosch, conde@hws.edu
Raquel Romeu, Le Moyne College, La noche de Ramón
Yendía, Romeu@lemoyne.edu
Lourdes Rojas, Colgate University, Mirada de doble
filo: Ana Lydia Vega y la condición colonial, Lrojas@Colgate.edu
Ataranzas
II (1-R-II)
Estudios sobre la literatura del Chile del siglo veinte
Chair and
Discussant: Guillermo
Arturo Flores, Texas Christian University, El
habitante y su esperanza de Pablo Neruda: algunas consideraciones,
A.Flores@tcu.edu
Silvia Susana Perea-Fox, Oklahoma State University,
Los relatos fantasticos: comentarios a la cosmogonía mapuche relatada por Carlos
Quilaqueo, un mapuche argentino, susana.perea-fox@okstate.edu
Guillermo
Valencia, Tennessee State University, Los vigilantes o desarticulación
del consumo-acumulación de signos en la globalización, leonvalencias@gmail.com
María Galante (1-R-III)
(Re)Composing
the Southern Cone: New Perspectives on Politics, Economics and Justice
Chair and Discussant: Joan Supplee,
Cassidy Ford, Las presidentas y la prensa: The Role of the Media in the
Administrations of Michelle Bachelet and Christina Fernández de Kirchner, Cassidy_Ford@baylor.edu
Ariel Alexander, Judicial Reform in
Ted Cheavens, Jr., El Bótin de Transparencia: Wielding Grassroots
Anti-Corruption Movements as a Weapon for
El Faro (1-R-IV)
Civil, Political and
Cultural Rights: Composing Rights Regimes in the
Chair and
Discussant: David Close, Memorial University of Newfoundland, dclose@mun.ca
Mayra Vidales, Universidad Autónoma de Sinoloa, La
política de los gobiernos revolucionarios en Sinaloa respecto a la condición
femenina, maylivi@uas.uasnet.mx
Susan
Hutchinson and Christine Nix, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, A Model to
Implement a Victim's Assistance Program for Victims of Domestic Violence/Sexual
Violence and Exploitation, shutchinson@umhb.edu and Christine.Nix@umhb.edu
Robert Biles,
Board
Room (1-R-V)
Latinos en Estados Unidos: Salud pública, participacíon política e
inmigracíon: metas y esperanzas para un futuro mejor
Chair and
Discussant: Oscar Somoza,
Wendy Méndez, University of Denver, La salud pública
entre los latinos, wmendez@du.edu
Mirian Bornstein-Gómez and Salvador Mercado,
University of Denver, Los latinos y su participación política, mbornste@du.edu
and smercado@du.edu
Oscar Somoza, University of Denver, El impacto de la
inmigración en la comunidad latina, osomoza@du.edu
Jean Herzog,
Thursday Session I Business Meeting 11-12:45
María
Galante All SCOLAS members are encouraged to
attend!
Thursday Luncheon 12-2
Thursday Session III 2:15-4
Ataranzas I (3-R-I)
Responding to Global and
Hemispheric Pressures in Literature
Chair and
Discussant: Kimberly Contag,
Nayla Chehade, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater,
Los poetas colombianos de origen sirio-kibanés: constryendo identidad plural y
mestiza en Colombia, chehaden@uww.edu
Kimberly
Contag,
Lourdes Fernández Bencosme, Suffolk University at
Madrid, McOndo Antes de Macondo: Los medios de comunicación y la literatura
hispanoamericana a principios de los 60, lourdesf2@gmail.com
Ataranzas II (3-R-II)
Newcomers in the New World:
Challenges in Composing Place in the
Chair and
Discussant: Mario Montano,
Gene Bundy,
Julie Labate,
Valentina
Peguero, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, The Japanese Presence in de
Dominican Republic: Cultural Dynamics and Interaction, vpeguero@uwsp.edu
Dennis Seager, Oklahoma State University, Los
chino-cubanos y la educación de Mario Conde: La cola de la serpiente de
Leonardo Padura Fuentes, dseager@okstate.edu
María Galante (3-R-III)
The Intersection of
Economics and Politics in the Americas, Panel I
Chair and
Discussant: Ambassador James Creagan, jcreagan@uiwtx.edu
María Eugenia
Fazio, Centro Redes, Rethinking Regulation: Addressing Diverse Realities in the
Governance of Transgenic Cotton in Chaco Province, Argentina,
mefazio@ricyt.edu.ar
Nir Kshetri,
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, The Political Economy of the Evolution
of Offshore Outsourcing Industry in Brazil, nbkshetr@uncg.edu
John-Paul
Wilson, St. John's University, Transnational Corporate Enterprise in Central
America: A Case Study of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, Error!
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Yasmine
Shamsie, Wilfred Laurier University, Poverty in Haiti: Neglecting the Rural
Poor and Why It's Slow to Change, yshamsie@wlu.ca
El Faro (3-R-IV)
Position and Honor in 19th
Century Mexico
Chair and
Discussant: Paul Hart, Texas State University, ph18@txstate.edu
Luz Marina Morales, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de
Puebla, Familia y élite de poder, lmorales@siu.buap.mx
Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón, Universidad de
Guadalajara, La sociedad del Buen Tono, jalberto55@hotmail.com
Augustin
Grajales Porras, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, ‘Dime con quién andas y te
diré quién eres’. Nupcialidad y calidad
en el siglo XVIII en Puebla, México, agrajal@slu.buap.mx
Board Room (3-R-V)
Education as Transformation:
Culture in the Classroom
Chair and Discussant:
Debra Andrist, Sam Houston State University, andrist@shsu.edu
Mark Ebel,
Chipola College, Using Hispanic Film to Teach Writing, ebelm@chipola.edu
Teresia Taylor,
Hardin-Simmons College, Teaching a Hybrid LA Culture class: Joys and Pitfalls,
ttaylor@hsutx.edu
Michael Janis, Morehouse College,
African-American and Cuban Internationalism: Pan-Africanism, Pan-Americanism,
and Pedagogy, mjanis@morehouse.edu
Marina Aragona, Law and
Health-Association of Social Promotion, Children with disabilities and the right
to an inclusive education in South America, marinaaragona@libero.it
Thursday Session IV 4:15-6
Ataranzas I (4-R-I)
Miradas Históricas, Visiones Literarias
Chair: Estela Munguía Escamilla, Instituto de Ciencias
Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, estelamun@hotmail.com
Discussant: Blanca Esthela Santibáñez Tijerina,
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, besanti@hotmail.com
Estela Munguía Escamilla, Instituto de Ciencias
Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Enrique Mathieu de Fossey: una mirada educativa
del México decimonónico, estelamun@hotmail.com
Blanca Esthela Santibáñez Tijerina, Instituto de
Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Miradas comunitarias: las festividades
religiosas y civiles en Tlaxcala, besanti@hotmail.com
María del Carmen Santibáñez Tijerina, Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras-BUAP, La novela histórica: una visión literaria,
tomascarmen3@hotmail.com
Yolanda Bache Cortés, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de
México, Los Ecos de la Independencia: El Iris (1826), la primera publicación
crítico literaria e ilustrada de Hispanoamérica, bache@servidor.unam.mx
Gloria
Tirado Villegas, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Miradas
retrospectivas de la sociedad poblana, gtirado51@yahoo.com.mx
Composing Human Rights in
the Americas: Politics, Poetry and Poverty
Chair and
Discussant: Pauline Warren, Houston Community College, Southeast,
pauline.warren@hccs.edu
Humberto
Garcia, Regis College, Inequality is not a Market Fate; It's a Policymaker's
Choice, humberto.garcia@regiscollege.edu
Jose H. Pino, Mercer University, El derecho a la vida
en la poesía colombiano contemporánea,
pino_jh@mercer.edu
M. Victoria Perez-Rios, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Multiple Voices for a Universal Endeavor:
Reevaluating the Contributions of the Americas to the Realization of
International Human Rights, mvictoriasp@hotmail.com
María Galante (4-R-III)
The Intersection of
Economics and Politics in the Americas, Panel II
Chair and
Discussant: Ambassador James Creagan, jcreagan@uiwtx.edu
Lisa Kowalchuk,
University of Guelph, Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization: Communication
Strategies of Salvadorean Healthcare Activists, lkowalch@uoguelph.ca
Maria Elena
Pizarro, CUNY, The Rise of the Indigenous Power: Exploring the Historical
Conjuncture in the Empowerment of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America under
Neoliberalism, mepizarro@netscape.net
John Bolus, Sam
Houston State University, Making the State Work Better in Latin America: A
Challenge that Transcends Economic Paradigms, jbolus@shsu.edu
Krisztina Pongratz-Chander,
Framingham State College, Development in 21st Century Latin America: Where does
Fair Trade Fit?, kristztinapc@gmail.com
El Faro (4-R-IV)
More than Pretty Pictures:
Art in the Composition of Identity in the Americas
Chair and
Discussant: Mark Ebel, Chipola College, ebelm@chipola.edu
Laura Senio
Blair, Southwestern University, A Circular Lens: Female Identity Composition in
Film (A Study of "El nuevo cine chileno"), seniobll@southwestern.edu
Persephone
Braham, University of Delaware, Vampires, Film, and the Dictator-Simulacrum,
braham@udel.edu
Alberto José Luis Carillo Canón, Universidad Autónoma
de Puebla, New Media and National Space,
acarrillo_mx@yahoo.com
Maja Horn, Barnard College,
Changing Scenographies: "Other Visions" in Dominican Visual Arts
since the 1980s, mhorn@barnard.edu
Board Room (4-R-V)
Composing
New Identities in the United States: Issues in Spanish Language and Literature
Chair and
Discussant: Linda McManess, Baylor University, linda_mcmanness@baylor.edu
Devin Jenkins,
University of Colorado, Denver, As the Southwest Moves North: Social
Implications of Popular Expansion in the Spanish-Speaking Southwest,
devin.jenkins@ucdenver.edu
Romelia Hurtado
de Vivas, Eastern New Mexico University, Family Values about Literacy and the
Development of Early Literacy Skills, Error! Hyperlink reference not
valid.
Geni Flores, Eastern New Mexico
University, From Colloquial to Standard Spanish: Bridging the Two Linguist
Worlds with Southeastern New Mexico High School and College Heritage Spanish
Speakers, geni.flores@enmu.edu
Friday
Friday Session I 9-10:45
Ataranzas I (1-F-I)
Ficciones de la identidad en México y Hispanoamérica
Chair and
Discussant: Laura R. Loustau, Chapman University, loustau@chapman.edu
Ana María del Gesso Cabrera, Universidad de
Puebla-México, La novela historica como constructora de identidad,
anadelg2@gmail.com
Laura R. Loustau, Chapman University, Literatura,
identidad y tecnología en La Novela Perfecta de Carmen Boullosa,
loustau@chapman.edu
Sara del Valle López, Benemérita Universidad autónoma
de Puebla, La nueva novela histórica: reinvención de la historia en
Hispanoamérica, saradvl@gmail.com
Antonia
Garcia-Rodriguez, Pace University, Contemporary Narratives of Peru: Unresolved
Conflicts of Lima and the Andean World, agarciarodriguez@pace.edu
Ataranzas II (1-F-II)
Folkways: Recomposing the
Familiar, North of the Border
Chair and
Discussant: Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor University, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu
Isaac Gusukuma,
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Incorporating Día de los Muertos (Day of the
Dead) into Death Education, isaac.gusukuma@umhb.edu
Viviana Rangil, Skidmore College, Foodscapes in the Latino Community, vrangil@skidmore.edu
SaraMaria
Rivas, Georgetown College, La religion popular y el impacto de las fuerzas
maginales en el cine dominicano, sara_maria_rivas@georgetowncollege.edu
El Faro (1-F-IV)
Raza, cultura e ideologia en la formacio de Buenos Aires
Chair and
Discussant: Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, pouj@fiu.edu
Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, La
emigración italiana en la novela argentina de principios de siglo XX,
pouj@fiu.edu
Elena Grau Lleveria, University of Miami, Coral
Gables, El infierno de la Buenos Aires rosista en Los misterios del Plata
de Juana Paula Manso, e.graulleveria@miami.edu
Elena
Gonzalez-Muntaner, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Aspectos étnicos y
culturales de la formación de Buenos Aires en la literatura argentina, gonzalee@uwosh.edu
Board Room (1-F-V)
Recomposing Latin America's
Left in the 21st Century
Chair and Discussant:
Robert Biles, Sam Houston State University, gov_reb@shsu.edu
David Close,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, The Political Comebacks of Alan Garcia and
Daniel Ortega, dclose@mun.ca
Bruno
Baltodano, Washington State University, Alternative Interpretations of
Structural Functions in the Bolivarian Republic: Hugo Chavez as a Case Study of
Counter-Hegemony, Dirangen@wsu.edu
Jim Grabowska, Minnesota State
University, Ecuador and 21st Century Socialism, jim.grabowska@mnsu.edu
Friday Session II 11-12:45
Ataranzas I (2-F-I)
Imagining Identity and
Geography in Latin America
Chair and
Discussant: Michael Ward, Trinity University, mward@trinity.edu
Ariana Vigil,
The Divine Husband as Trans-American Foundation Narrative, avigil2@unl.edu
Steve Sloan, Texas Christian University, La crónica
como anti-literatura de viaje: Roberto Arlt en el Brasil, s.sloan@tcu.edu
Michael Ward, Trinity University, A Cultural Celebration: Carlos Prince's Lima Antigua, mward@trinity.edu
Ataranzas II (2-F-II)
Development
in Mexico: Economics and Politics
Chair and
Discussant: Doug Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington, richmond@uta.ed
Teresa Gómez Pérez, TBA, Respuesta a los problemas
ambientales causados por las industrias y la modenidad: Jalisco, México, y su
código sanitario en 1892
Federico De la Torre de la Torre, Universidad de
Guadalajara, La provincia mexicana por los senderos del progreso industrial a
través de las exposiciones: el caso de Jalisco en la segunda mitad del siglo
XIX
Ulyses
Balderas, Sam Houston State University & Rogelio Garcia-Contreras, St.
Thomas University, Microcredit and Development of Low-Income Communities: The
Case of Petac in Mexico
Joel Paredes Olguín, Instituto Electoral del Estado,
Elecciones u Ciudadania en la Construcción de la Democracia en México,
joel.paredes@ieepuebla.org.mx
El Faro (2-F-IV)
Composing Identity in the
Americas: External Imposition and Internal Preservation
Chair and
Discussant: Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut, ogbar@uconn.edu
Ellen Tillman,
University of Illinois, Consolidation in Resistance: Dominican Initiatives
against an Occupation Government, 1919-1921, etillman@uiuc.edu
Teresa San Pedro, The College of New Jersey, La lucha
por la indentidad cultural en Puerto Rico: El caso de Dna. Ines Maria Mendoza Rivera, sanpedr@tcnj.edu
Seth Garfield,
University of Texas, A New American Frontier?: The Amazon and the U.S. Gaze
During World War II, sgarfield@mail.utexas.edu
Maria F. Lander, Skidmore
College, Narcogeografias, mlander@skidmore.edu
Board Room (2-F-V)
The Impact of the Arts in
the Composition of the Americas
Chair and
Discussant: Jane Mangan, Davidson College, jemangan@bellsouth.net
Ila Sheren,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Site as Statement: U.S. Mexico Border
Art in the Twenty-First Century, isheren@mit.edu
Ramiro Rea,
University of Texas Pan American, The Articulation of Narcoviolence in
Borderland Novels, rrrea@utpa.edu
Ramón Figueroa, Millsaps College, Rosario Ferre y
Mayra Montero: Fin del artifico y principio del arte, figuera@millsaps.edu
Juan
Carlos Ureña, Stephen F. Austin State University, Canción popular y religión:
Perspectivas y desafíos ante la autoridad y el dogma, urenajuan@sfasu.edu
Friday Session III 2:15-4
Ataranzas I (3-F-I)
Feminist Identity and
Tradition in Latin American Fiction
Chair and
Discussant: Pauline Warren, Houston Community College, pauline.warren@hccs.edu
Lina Marcela DeVito, University of Houston, Dos
feministas colombianos al pie de la letra y de la cruz: Evolución de la
conciencia femenina en los escritos de Blanca de Monacaleano y Soledad Acosta
de Samper, lina_Devito@hotmail.com
Lucero Tenorio, Oklahoma State University, La
encrucijada de ser mujer: tribulaciones, culpas y fantasmas en tres cuentos de
autoras colombianas, lucero.tenorio@okstate.edu
Pauline Warren, Houston Community
College, Southeast, Magical Realism and New Narrative Spaces in Ana Castillo's So
Far From God, pauline.warren@hccs.edu
Ataranzas II (3-F-II)
Cradle Cultures and the
Caribbean: Connecting Cultural Spaces, Geography, and Home
Chair and
Discussant: Peggy Watson, Texas Christian University, p.watson@tcu.edu
Australia
Tarver, Texas Christian University, The Coon Can: Spiritual Ventriloquism in
the Caribbean and American South in Erna Brodber's Louisiana,
a.tarver@tcu.edu
Sharon
Fairchild, Texas Christian University, Home and Cultural Identity in Three
Novels by Gisele Pineau, s.fairchild@tcu.edu
Peggy Watson, Texas Christian
University, The Search for Self-Definition in Cristina Garcia's Monkey
Hunting, p.watson@tcu.edu
El Faro (3-F-IV)
Los legados de intervención: Violencia, movimientos populares y
identitdades emergentes en el Caribe y America Latina, siglo XX/Legacies of
Intervention: Violence, Popular Movements and Emerging Identities in Twentieth
Century Caribbean and Latin America
Chair and
Discussant: April Mayes, Pomona College, april.mayes@ponoma.edu
Maria Filomena Gonzalez, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo y el
Instituto Filosofico Pedro F. Bono, Los Gavilleros Dominicanos, 1904-1916,
mgonzalez@ciee.org
April Mayes, Pomona College, Defendieno la republica
mestiza, autónoma y campesina: la violencia rural en San Pedro de Macoris,
1890s-1924, april.mayes@ponoma.edu
Christopher Clement, Pomona
College, Does United States 'Democracy
Promotion' Breed Political Violence? The Case of Haiti, Venezuela, and Bolivia/¿Engendra la
violencia la promoción de la democracia? El caso de Haití, de Venezuela, y de
Bolivia, christopher.clement@ponoma.edu
Board Room (3-F-V)
One United States, Many
United States: Composition of Place in a Multi-Ethnic Society
Chair and
Discussant: Jose H. Pino, Mercer University, pino_jh@mercer.edu
Moshe Semyonov
and William Bridges, University of Illinois at Chicago, Explaining Latinos'
Disadvantage in Access to Employment Benefits in the American Labor Market,
semyonov@uic.edu and wbridges@uic.edu
Gilberto Reyes,
Jr., South Texas College, The effects of modern capitalism on mestizo culture
in the USA, greyes@southtexascollege.edu
Cecilla
Marrugo, University of Houston, El discurso identitario en los obras de la
literatura puertorriqueña de los Estados Unidos, bcmarrug@mail.uh.edu
Friday Session IV 4:15-6
Ataranzas I (4-F-I)
Culture that Moves You:
Music and Dance in the Americas
Chair and
Discussant: Jeana-Paul Ureña, Stephen F. Austin State University,
jpaulurena@sfasu.edu
Baz Dreisinger,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Is Reggae Rum? Caribbean Sounds and
the American Music Trade, Bdreisinger@jjay.cuny.edu
Hayden Carron, High Point University, La Bachata en el
Discurso Sobre la Identidad Dominicana, hcarron@highpoint.edu
Flavia Pereira, Universidad
Federal de São Carlos, (São Paulo, Brazil), African Descendants in the
Americas: Race and Black Musicality in Brazil, Cuba, and United States (1930s),
irailia@golnet.com.br
Ataranzas II (4-F-II)
Intersections of Social
Science, Literature and Autobiography
Chair and
Discussant: Lee Daniel, Texas Christian University, l.daniel@tcu.edu
Norma Mouton, University of Houston, Descifrando la
verdad en Transformación y redención: novela original (1914) de Samuel
Gordiano, normamouton@yahoo.com
Nancy Noguera, Drew University, Genero, clase,
politica y educación en los ultimos años Venezuela, nnoguera@drew.edu
Lee Daniel, Texas Christian University, Al echar una cana
al aire: el hombre y la mujer son
diferentes, l.daniel@tcu.edu
El Faro (4-F-IV)
Military Defeat, Border
Dollars and Regional Domination in 19th Century Mexico
Chair: Joan
Supplee, Baylor University, Joan_Suplee@baylor.edu
Discussants:
Douglas Richmond and John Hart, University of Texas at Arlington and University
of Houston, richmond@uta.edu and
jhart@uh.edu
Douglas
Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington, The Tragedy of Restored Republic
Era in Yucatan, 1867-1876, richmond@uta.edu
John Hart,
University of Houston, Capitalization of the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1828-1910, jhart@uh.edu
Board
Room (4-F-V)
Composing Identities in Colonial Spanish America: Gender, Race and
Ethnicity/Identidades que componen en América española colonial: genero, raza y
pertenencia étnica
Chair and
Discussant: Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, pouj@fiu.edu
Lilián Illades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Vida
Urbana y Normatividad, illadesl@yahoo.com
Miguel Leon,
State University of New York at Oneonta, The City of Huanuco as a Multiethnic
Experiment, 1539-1640, leonma@oneonta.edu
Sharonah
Fredrick, SUNY and Stony Brook, Soñando la historia: El siglo XIX y la
Conquista de México, sharazteca@yahoo.com
Friday
Keynote Dinner 7-9
Tascamar Room
Ambassador Flavio Dario Espinal
Recomposing Consensus in the Americas
(tickets available for purchase at the Conference
Registration Desk)
His Excellency Flavio Darío Espinal obtained his Law
degree (Summa Cum Laude) in the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
(PUCMM).He also holds a Master degree in Political Sciences from the University
of Essex, England, and a PHD in Government from the University of Virginia,
United States.
During his studies, he received several scholarships from
programs and institutions of international prestige, such as the Fulbright
program, the Bradley Foundation, the Dupont Foundation and Institution of World
Politics.
During the period 1996-2000, he was Ambassador of the
Dominican Republic to the Organization of the American States (O.A.S.), in
which he held the positions of Chair of the Permanent Council, Chair of the
Committee on Legal and Political Issues and Chair of the Committee on
Hemispheric Security. He was also co-coordinator of the Civil Society Agenda in
the process of the “Summits of the Américas.”
Ambassador Flavio Dario Espinal is the former
Dean of the Law School at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y
Maestra (PUCMM), Recinto Santo Tomás de Aquino, in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic where he was also professor of Constitutional Law, Public
International Law and General Principles of Law. Ambassador Espinal has been
director of the University Center of Political and Social Studies (CUEPS) as
well as of the Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts
(CEPREC) of the PUCMM.
He has practiced law in the cities of Santiago and Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic and has served as a consultant both for the private
sector and international organizations, such as the Interamerican Development
Bank (IDB), the United Nations Program on Development (UNPD), and the
Organization of American States (OAS).
His book Constitutionalism
and Political Processes in the Dominican Republic received the
Annual Essays Award "Pedro Henríquez Ureña" for 2001-2002. He has
also published numerous articles and essays on political and constitutional
issues in different academic journals.
Before his appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic to the United States of America he
published a weekly op-ed column in the newspaper “El Caribe” and co-produced
the TV program “En Contexto” transmitted by Cadena de Noticias (CDN) a leading
news channel television station in the Dominican Republic.
Ambassador Flavio Darío Espinal is married to Mrs. Minerva Del Risco de Espinal and has two daughters, Carla Beatríz and María Eugenia.
Saturday
Session I 9-10:45
Ataranzas I (1-S-I)
Twentieth-Century Hispanic
Women's Writing
Chair and
Discussant: Jeana Paul-Ureña, Stephen F. Austin University, jpaulurena@sfasu.edu
Jeana Paul-Ureña, Génesis de la memoria colectiva
femenina en El infinito el la palma de la mano de Giocondo Belli,
Stephen F. Austin University,
jpaulurena@sfasu.edu
Daniela Cortez, University of Houston, Graduate
Program, Dieciséis poemas, cuatro mujeres y una revolución: Analizando las
voces femeninas nicaragüenses de Claribel Alegría, Gioconda Belli, Daisy Zamora
y Rosario Murillo, dac9525@yahoo.com
Nancy Bird-Soto, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, The (Un)Making of the Woman as Sinner: Graciela Limón's The Memoirs of Ana Calderón, birdsoto@uwm.edu
Ataranzas II (1-S-II)
Cultural and Historical
Approaches to Counter-Hegemonic Cultural Forms
Chair and
Discussant: Mario Montano, Colorado College, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu
Mark Joseph
Ramirez, University of Texas, Pan American, Exploring the Rhythmic Modalities
of Afro-Latino Centric Secular Music Rumba: Yambú, Guaguancó, Columbia,
mjr@utpa.edu
Stacy DuClos,
Colorado College, Raising and Razing Fences in Nogales, Sonora, Stacy.DuClos@ColoradoCollege.edu
Bianca Paiz,
Colorado College, Arriba Nuevo Mexico: Identity, Place and Tradition in the New
Mexican Music Industry, Bianca.Paiz@coloradocollege.edu
Mario Montano,
Colorado College, The Cultural Production of an Oppositional Folk Cuisine:
Menudo, Class, and Race, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu
Saturday Session II 11-12:45
Ataranzas I (2-S-I)
Innovation and
Representation in Latin American Fiction: Writing the Post-modern Condition,
Politics and Illness
Chair and
Discussant: César Ferreira, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, cferr@uwm.edu
Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Colorado State University,
Bac en la Era de la Globalización, Fernando.Valerio-Holguin@ColoState.edu
José Juan Colín, University of Oklahoma, La violencia
de sobrevivir en la Centroamérica actual: El arma en el hombre de Horacio Castellanos
Moya, josejuan@ou.edu
César
Ferreira, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Los mundos de Mario Bellatin, cferr@uwm.edu
Ataranzas II (2-S-II)
Skin Deep? Color and Identity in the Americas
Chair and
Discussant: Isaac Gusukuma, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, isaac.gusukuma@umhb.edu
Dionne
Stephens, Florida International University, No parda o preta: The Influence of
Parental Skin Color Messaging on Emerging Adult Hispanic Women's Self Identity
and Potential Partner Choices, stephens@fiu.edu
Wilfredo Gomez,
Bucknell University, Más Negro Que Los Negros: Bordering Blackness and the
Politics of the Imagination, gomez.wilfredo@gmail.com
Daniela Santos,
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, Tell Me the Story of
Your Skin Color, daniesantos@hotmail.com
Elaine Rocha, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, Rather Indian than Black, Elaine.Rocha@cavehill.uwi.edu
Saturday Session III 2:15-4
Ataranzas II (3-S-II)
Composing the Americas:
Challenges in Establishing Identity
Chair and Discussant: Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University, FOL_RES@shsu.edu
Aída Nadi Gambetta Chuk, Universidad Autónoma de
Puebla, Cuauhtémoc. La defensa del Quinto Sol de Pedro Ángel Palou o el fin de Tenochtitlan,
agambet@siu.buap.mx
Elizabeth
Willingham, Baylor University, Imagining Tenochtitlan/Mexico City and National
Identity in Literature, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu
Hernando A. Estévez, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Culturing Political Identity, hestevez@jjay.cuny.edu
Michael Winston, University of Oklahoma,
From “Neogrophilia” to “Neogrophobia:” The French Novel Confronts the Haitian
Revolution, mewinston@ou.edu
Saturday Session IV 4:15-6
Ataranzas II (4-S-II)
One World, Many Worlds of Literary
Experience: Composing the Americas Via Genres
Chair and
Discussant: Norma Mouton, University of Houston, normamouton@yahoo.com
Debra Andrist,
Sam Houston State University, Words and Pictures by Dominican Women/ Palabras y
pinturas por dominicanas, andrist@shsu.edu
April Shemak,
Sam Houston State University, Julia Alvarez's Post-Refugee Narratives, ,
aas004@shsu.edu
Rafael
Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University, Eduardo Espina: Language in Three
Dimensions, saumell@shsu.edu
Index of Participants