Thursday Panel Code Ataranzas I  (I) Panel Code Ataranzas II (II) Panel Code María Galante (III) Panel Code El Faro (IV) Panel Code Board Room (V)
Session I                                                     9-10:45 1-R-I Poesía del lenguaje: el neobarroco latinoamericano 1-R-II Estudios sobre la literatura del Chile del siglo veinte 1-R-III Religion, Race and Nationality: Composing the Dominican Identity/ Religión, raza y nacionalidad: Componer la identidad dominicana 1-R-IV Civil, Political and Cultural Rights: Composing Rights Regimes in the Americas 1-R-V Latinos en Estados Unidos: Salud pública, participacíon política e inmigracíon: metas y esperanzas para un futuro mejor
    Chair and Discussant: Lourdes Rojas, Colgate University, Lrojas@Colgate.edu   Chair and Discussant: Guillermo Valencia, Tennessee State University, leonvalencias@gmail.com   Chair and Discussant: TBA   Chair and Discussant: David Close, Memorial University of Newfoundland, dclose@mun.ca   Chair and Discussant: Oscar Somoza, University of Denver, osomoza@du.edu
                     
    Edgar Paiwonsky-Conde, Hobart and William Smith College, Azar y necesidad histórica en La Nochebuena de Encarnación Mendoza de Juan Bosch, conde@hws.edu   Arturo Flores, Texas Christian University, El habitante y su esperanza de Pablo Neruda: algunas consideraciones, A.Flores@tcu.edu   SaraMaria Rivas, Georgetown College, La religion popular y el impacto de las fuerzas maginales en el cine dominicano, sara_maria_rivas@georgetowncollege.edu   Mayra Vidales, Universidad Autónoma de Sinoloa, La política de los gobiernos revolucionarios en Sinaloa respecto a la condición femenina, maylivi@uas.uasnet.mx   Wendy Méndez, University of Denver, La salud pública entre los latinos, wmendez@du.edu
    Raquel Romeu, Le Moyne College, La noche de Ramón Yendía, Romeu@lemoyne.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   David Ross Gerling, Sam Houston State University, Le code noir: qué fue y qué significó para la República Dominicana, fol_drg@shsu.edu   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   Mirian Bornstein-Gómez and Salvador Mercado, University of Denver, Los latinos y su participación política, mbornste@du.edu and smercado@du.edu
    Lourdes Rojas, Colgate University, Mirada de doble filo: Ana Lydia Vega y la condición colonial, Lrojas@Colgate.edu   Guillermo Valencia, Tennessee State University, Los vigilantes o desarticulación del consumo-acumulación de signos en la globalización,  leonvalencias@gmail.com   Jennifer Shoaff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rethinking the Afro-Caribbean Market Woman through Dominican-Haitian Border Crossings and Inspections, jshoaff@uiuc.edu   Robert Biles, Sam Houston State University, Women as Political Leaders in Ecuador: Fifteen Years of Change, gov_reb@shsu.edu   Oscar Somoza, University of Denver, El impacto de la inmigración en la comunidad latina, osomoza@du.edu
                  Jean Herzog, Case Western Reserve University,  Comparison of Health-Seeking Behaviors of Rural Diabetics: Differences in Hispanic, African-American and Caucasian Populations, jherzog1@live.com
                     
Session II                                            11-12:45           Annual Business Meeting--All SCOLAS members encouraged to attend        
12-2 Luncheon, Esmeralda Room (tickets available on SCOLAS site)                    
Session III                               2:15-4 3-R-I Responding to Global and Hemispheric Pressures in Literature 3-R-II Newcomers in the New World: Challenges in Composing Place in the Americas 3-R-III The Intersection of Economics and Politics in the Americas, Panel I 3-R-IV Position and Honor in 19th Century Mexico 3-R-V Education as Transformation: Culture in the Classroom
    Chair and Discussant: Kimberly Contag, Minnesota State University at Mankato, kimberly.contag@mnsu.edu   Chair and Discussant: Mario Montano, Colorado College, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu   Chair and Discussant: TBA   Chair and Discussant: Paul Hart, Texas State University, ph18@txstate.edu   Chair and Discussant: Debra Andrist, Sam Houston State University, andrist@shsu.edu
                     
    Nayla Chehade, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, TBA, chehaden@uww.edu   Gene Bundy, Eastern New Mexico University, Jack Williamson: Child of Wonder, gene.bundy@enmu.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   Luz Marina Morales, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Familia y élite de poder, lmorales@slu.buap.mx   Mark Ebel, Chipola College, Using Hispanic Film to Teach Writing, ebelm@chipola.edu
    Kimberly Contag, Minnesota State University at Mankato, The Case of the Inept Investigator: Ecuadorian Literary Solutions to the "whodunit", kimberly.contag@mnsu.edu   Julie Labate, University College, Dublin, The Clover and the Cactus: Nineteenth-Century Life in Southeast Texas, julie.richko@ucd.ie   Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, The Political Economy of the Evolution of Offshore Outsourcing Industry in Brazil, nbkshetr@uncg.edu   Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón, Universidad de Guadalajara, La sociedad del Buen Tono, jalberto55@hotmail.com   Teresia Taylor, Hardin-Simmons College,  Teaching a Hybrid LA Culture class: Joys and Pitfalls, ttaylor@hsutx.edu
    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   Valentina Peguero, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, The Japanese Presence in de Dominican Republic: Cultural Dynamics and Interaction, vpeguero@uwsp.edu   John-Paul Wilson, St. John's University, Transnational Corporate Enterprise in Central America: A Case Study of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast,  wilsonj@st. johns.edu   Augustin Grajales Porras, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, TBA, agrajal@siu.buap.mx   Michael Janis, Morehouse College, African-American and Cuban Internationalism: Pan-Africanism, Pan-Americanism, and Pedagogy, mjanis@morehouse.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   Yasmine Shamsie, Wilfred Laurier University, Poverty in Haiti: Neglecting the Rural Poor and Why It's Slow to Change, yshamsie@wlu.ca        
                     
Session IV                                       4:15-6 4-R-I Miradas Históricas, Visiones Literarias 4-R-II Composing Human Rights in the Americas: Politics, Poetry and Poverty 4-R-III The Intersection of Economics and Politics in the Americas, Panel II 4-R-IV More than Pretty Pictures: Art in the Composition of Identity in the Americas 4-R-V Composing New Identities in the United States: Issues in Spanish Language and Literature
    Chair: Estela Manguía Escamilla, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, estelamun@hotmail.com   Chair and Discussant: TBA   Chair and Discussant: TBA   Chair and Discussant: Mark Ebel, Chipola College, ebelm@chipola.edu   Chair and Discussant: Linda McManess, Baylor University, Linda_McManness@baylor.edu
    Discussant: Blanca Esthela Santibáñez Tijerina, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, besanti@hotmail.com              
    Estela Manguía Escamilla,  Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Enrique Mathieu de Fossey: una mirada educativa del México decimonónico, estelamun@hotmail.com   Humberto Garcia, Regis College, Inequality is not a Market Fate; It's a Policymaker's Choice, humberto.garcia@regiscollege.edu   Lisa Kowalchuk, University of Guelph, Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization: Communication Strategies of Salvadorean Healthcare Activists, lkowalch@uoguelph.ca   Laura Senio Blair, Southwestern University, A Circular Lens: Female Identity Composition in Film (A Study of "El nuevo cine chileno"), seniobll@southwestern.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
    Blanca Esthela Santibáñez Tijerina, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Miradas comunitarias: las festividades religiosas y civiles en Tlaxcala, besanti@hotmail.com    Jose H. Pino,  Mercer University, El derecho a la vida en la poesía colombiano contemporánea,   pino_jh@mercer.edu   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   Persephone Braham, University of Delaware, Vampires, Film, and the Dictator-Simulacrum, braham@udel.edu   Romelia Hurtado de Vivas,  Eastern New Mexico University, Family Values about Literacy and the Development of Early Literacy Skills, romelia.hurtadodevivas@enmu.edu
    María del Carmen Santibáñez Tijerina, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras-BUAP, La novela histórica: una visión literaria, tomascarmen3@hotmail.com   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   John Bolus, Sam Houston State University, Making the State Work Better in Latin America: A Challenge that Transcends Economic Paradigms, jbolus@shsu.edu   Alberto José Luis Carillo Canón, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, New Media and National Space,  acarrillo_mx@yahoo.com   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
    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       Krisztina Pongratz-Chander, Framingham State College, Development in 21st Century Latin America: Where does Fair Trade Fit?, kristztinapc@gmail.com   Maja Horn, Barnard College, Changing Scenographies: "Other Visions" in Dominican Visual Arts since the 1980s, mhorn@barnard.edu    
    Gloria Tirado Villegas, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, Miradas retrospectivas de la sociedad poblana, gtirado51@yahoo.com.mx                
Friday Panel Code Ataranzas I  (I) Panel Code Ataranzas II (II)   Panel Code El Faro (IV) Panel Code Board Room (V)
  1-F-I Ficciones de la identidad en México y Hispanoamérica 1-F-II Folkways: Recomposing the Familiar, North of the Border   1-F-IV Raza, cultura e ideologia en la formacio de Buenos Aires 1-F-V Recomposing Latin America's Left in the 21st Century
Session I                                              9-10:45   Chair and Discussant: Laura R. Loustau, Chapman University, loustau@chapman.edu   Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor University, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu     Chair and Discussant: Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, pouj@fiu.edu   Chair and Discussant: Robert Biles, Sam Houston State University, gov_reb@shsu.edu
                   
    Ana María del Gesso Cabrera, Universidad de Puebla-México, La novela historica como constructora de identidad, anadelg2@gmail.com   Isaac Gusukuma, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Incorporating Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) into Death Education, isaac.gusukuma@umhb.edu      Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, La emigración italiana en la novela argentina de principios de siglo XX, pouj@fiu.edu   David Close, Memorial University of Newfoundland, The Political Comebacks of Alan Garcia and Daniel Ortega, dclose@mun.ca
    Laura R. Loustau, Chapman University, Literatura, identidad y tecnología en La Novela Perfecta de Carmen Boullosa, loustau@chapman.edu   Caitlin O'Neill Gutierrez, University College London, La Quinceañera: Coming of Age in The United States, Becoming Mexican?, caitlin.o'neill@ucl.ac.uk      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   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
    Sara del Valle López, Benemérita Universidad autónoma de Puebla, La nueva novela histórica: reinvención de la historia en Hispanoamérica, saradvl@gmail.com   Viviana Rangil, Skidmore College, Foodscapes in the Latino Community, vrangil@skidmore.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   Jim Grabowska, Minnesota State University, Ecuador and 21st Century Socialism, jim.grabowska@mnsu.edu
    Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez, Pace University, Contemporary Narratives of Peru: Unresolved Conflicts of Lima and the Andean World, agarciarodriguez@pace.edu              
                   
Session II                                            11-12:45 2-F-I Imagining Identity and Geography in Latin America 2-F-II Development in Mexico: Economics and Politics   2-F-IV Composing Identity in the Americas: External Imposition and Internal Preservation 2-F-V The Impact of the Arts in the Composition of the Americas
    Chair and Discussant: Michael Ward, Trinity University, mward@trinity.edu   Chair and Discussant: Doug Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington,  richmond@uta.ed     Chair and Discussant: Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut, ogbar@uconn.edu   Chair and Discussant: TBA
                   
    Ariana Vigil, The Divine Husband as Trans-American Foundation Narrative, avigil2@unl.edu   Teresa Gómez Pérez, TBA, Respuesta a los problemas ambientales causados por las industrias y la modenidad: Jalisco, México, y su código sanitario en 1892     Ellen Tillman, University of Illinois, Consolidation in Resistance: Dominican Initiatives against an Occupation Government, 1919-1921, etillman@uiuc.edu   Ila Sheren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Site as Statement: U.S. Mexico Border Art in the Twenty-First Century, isheren@mit.edu
    Steve Sloan, Texas Christian University, La crónica como anti-literatura de viaje: Roberto Arlt en el Brasil, s.sloan@tcu.edu   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     Teresa San Pedro, The College of New Jersey, TBA, sanpedro@tcnj.edu   Ramiro Rea, University of Texas Pan American, The Articulation of Narcoviolence in Borderland Novels, rrrea@utpa.edu
    Michael Ward, Trinity University, A Cultural Celebration: Carlos Prince's Lima Antigua, mward@trinity.edu   Ulyses Balderas, Sam Houston State University & Royella Garcia-Contreras, St. Thomas University, Microcredit and Development of Low-Income Communities: The Case of Petac in Mexico     Seth Garfield, University of Texas, A New American Frontier?: The Amazon and the U.S. Gaze During World War II, sgarfield@mail.utexas.edu   Ramón Figueroa, Millsaps College, Rosario Ferre y Mayra Montero: Fin del artifico y principio del arte, figuerea@millsaps.edu
        Joel Paredes Olguín, Instituto Electoral del Estado, Elecciones u Ciudadania en la Construcción de la Democracia en México, joel.parades@ieepuebla.org.mx     Maria F. Lander, Skidmore College,  Narcogeografias, mlander@skidmore.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
                   
Session III                                     2:15-4 3-F-I Feminist Identity and Tradition in Latin American Fiction 3-F-II Cradle Cultures and the Caribbean: Connecting Cultural Spaces, Geography, and Home   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 3-F-V One United States, Many United States: Composition of Place in a Multi-Ethnic Society
    Chair and Discussant: Pauline Warren, Houston Community College, pauline.warren@hccs.edu   Chair and Discussant: Peggy Watson, Texas Christian University, p.watson@tcu.edu     Chair and Discussant: April Mayes, Pomona College, april.mayes@ponoma.edu   Chair and Discussant: Jose H. Pino, Mercer University, pino_jh@mercer.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   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     Maria Filomena Gonzalez,  Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo y el Instituto Filosofico Pedro F. Bono, Los Gavilleros Dominicanos, 1904-1916, mgonzalez@ciee.org   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
    Lucero Tenorio, Oklahoma State University, La encrucijada de ser mujer: tribulaciones, culpas y fantasmas en tres cuentos de autoras colombianas, lucero.tenorio@okstate.edu   Sharon Fairchild, Texas Christian University, Home and Cultural Identity in Three Novels by Gisele Pineau, s.fairchild@tcu.edu     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   Gilberto Reyes, Jr., South Texas College, The effects of modern capitalism on mestizo culture in the USA, greyes@southtexascollege.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   Peggy Watson, Texas Christian University, The Search for Self-Definition in Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting, p.watson@tcu.edu     Christopher Clement, Pomona College,  Does United States 'Democracy Promotion' Breed Political Violence? The Case of Haiti, Venezuela, and Bolivia/Hace Estados Unidos ' Democracia Promotion' ¿Violencia política de la casta? El caso de Haití, de Venezuela, y de Bolivia, christopher.clement@ponoma.edu   Cecilla Marrugo, University of Houston, El discurso identitario en los obras de la literatura puertorriqueña de los Estados Unidos, bcmarrug@mail.uh.edu
                   
Session IV                                           4:15-6 4-R-I Culture that Moves You: Music and Dance in the Americas 4-F-II Intersections of Social Science, Literature and Autobiography   4-F-IV Military Defeat, Border Dollars and Regional Domination in 19th Century Mexico 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: Jeana-Paul Ureña, Stephen F. Austin State University, jpaulurena@sfasu.edu   Chair and Discussant: Lee Daniel, Texas Christian University,  l.daniel@tcu.edu     Chair: Joan Supplee, Baylor University, Joan_Suplee@baylor.edu   Chair and Discussant: Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, pouj@fiu.edu
              Discussants: Douglas Richmond and John Hart, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Houston, richmond@uta.edu and  jhart@uh.edu    
    Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Is Reggae Rum? Caribbean Sounds and the American Music Trade, Bdreisinger@jjay.cuny.edu   Norma Mouton, University of Houston, Descifrando la verdad en Transformación y redención: novela original (1914) de Samuel Gordiano, normamouton@yahoo.com      Harry Hewitt, Midwestern State University, Who Failed Mexico in the Battle of Chapultepec, September 13, 1847: General Nicholas Bravo or Lieutenant Manuel Aleman?, harry.hewitt@nexus.mswu.edu   Lilián Illades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Vida Urbana y Normatividad, illadesl@yahoo.com
    Hayden Carron, High Point University, La Bachata en el Discurso Sobre la Identidad Dominicana, hcarron@highpoint.edu   Nancy Noguera, Drew University, Genero, clase, politica y educación en los ultimos años Venezuela, nnoguera@drew.edu     Douglas Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington, The Tragedy of Restored Republic Era in Yucatan, 1867-1876, richmond@uta.edu   Miguel Leon, State University of New York at Oneonta, The City of Huanuco as a Multiethnic Experiment, 1539-1640, leonma@oneonta.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   Lee Daniel, Texas Christian University, Al echar
una cana al aire:  el hombre y la mujer son diferentes, l.daniel@tcu.edu		     John Hart, University of Houston, Capitalization of the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1828-1910, jhart@uh.edu   Daniel Murphee, University of Texas at Tyler, TBA, dmurphree@uttyler.edu
7-9 Keynote Dinner with speech by His Excellency Flavio Dario Espinal, Tascamar Room (tickets available on SCOLAS site)            
Saturday Panel Code Ataranzas I  (I) Panel Code Ataranzas II (II)    
Session I                                              9-10:45 1-S-I Twentieth-Century Hispanic Women's Writing 1-S-II Cultural and Historical Approaches to Counter-Hegemonic Cultural Forms    
    Chair and Discussant: Jeana Paul-Ureña, Stephen F. Austin University,  jpaulurena@sfasu.edu   Chair and Discussant: Mario Montano, Colorado College, mmontano@coloradocollege.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   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    
    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   Stacy DuCloe, Colorado College, Border Fence Art: The Cultural Aesthetics of the Contestation of Art, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu    
    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   Bianca Paiz, Colorado College, TBA, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu    
        Mario Montano, Colorado College, The Cultural Production of an Oppositional Folk Cuisine: Menudo, Class, and Race, mmontano@coloradocollege.edu    
             
Session II                                           11-12:45 2-S-I Innovation and Representation in Latin American Fiction: Writing the Post-modern Condition, Politics and Illness 2-S-II Skin Deep? Color and Identity in the Americas    
    Chair and Discussant: César Ferreira, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,  cferr@uwm.edu   Chair and Discussant: TBA    
             
    Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Colorado State University, Bac en la Era de la Globalización, Fernando.Valerio-Jolguin@ColoState.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    
    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   Wilfredo Gomez, Bucknell University, Más Negro Que Los Negros: Bordering Blackness and the Politics of the Imagination, gomez.wilfredo@gmail.com    
    César Ferreira, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Mario Bellatin y sus y la 'Novela Histórico-Policiaca, cferr@uwm.edu   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    
             
Session III                                           2:15-4 3-S-I Presentacion del libro: De la filantropía a la rebelión. Mujeres en los movimientos sociales de finales del siglo XIX al siglo XXI 3-S-II Composing the Americas: Challenges in Establishing Identity    
    Chair: Gloria Arminda Tirado Villegas, gtirado51@yahoo.com.mx   Chair and Discussant: Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University, saumell@shsu.edu    
             
    Yolanda Bache Cortés, bache@servidor.unam.mx   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    
    María del Carmen Santibáñez Tijerina, tomascarmen3@hotmail.com   Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor University, Imagining Tenochtitlan/Mexico City and National Identity in Literature, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu    
    Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón, Universidad de Guadalajara,  jalberto55@hotmail.com   Hernando A. Estévez, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Culturing Political Identity, hestevez@jjay.cuny.edu    
             
             
Session IV                                           4:15-6 4-S-I TBA 4-S-II TBA    
        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, Julia Alvarez's Post-Refugee Narratives, Sam Houston State University, aas004@shsu.edu    
        Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University, Eduardo Espina: Language in Three Dimensions, saumell@shsu.edu    
        Enrique Mallen, Sam Houston State University, Eduardo Espina: Language in Three Dimensions, mallen.shsu.edu