Thursday
Thursday
Session I 9:00-10:45
I.
Cross-Connections in Fiction and
Film
Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth M. Willingham, Baylor
University, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu
“Shades of Juana la Loca and Faulkner’s ‘Miss Emily’ in Ana
García Bergua’s short story ‘Los conservadores’,” Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech
University, Wendell.aycock@ttu.edu
“The Unmasking of Don Casmurro by Capitu: Rede Globo’s 2008
Tribute to Brazil’s Machado de Assis,”
Jeana Paul-Ureña, Stephen F. Austin State University, jpaulurena@sfasu.edu
“The Chivalric Hero in Mexico’s Golden Age Film,” Elizabeth
M. Willingham, Baylor University, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu
TBA
II. Enduring Culture in the Face of Change
Chair and Discussant: Sharonah Fredrick, SUNY at Stony
Brook, New York, sharzarate@yahoo.com
“Enduring Change: An Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives in
Northwestern Argentina,” Marjorie Snipes, University of West Georgia,
msnipes@westga.edu
“Uru-Chipayans of Bolivia Adjusting to Change,” Joe Bastien,
University of Texas at Arlington, TBAbastien@uta.edu
TBA
III. Urbanscapes in the Americas
Chair and Discussant: TBA
“A City that Never Sprawled: Problems of Preservation and
Sustainability in Post-Soviet Havana, Cuba,” Paul Niell, University of North
Texas, paul.niell@unt.edu
TBA
IV. Miradas de México 1: De la
Independencia a la Modernidad
Chair and
Discussant: Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón, Universidad de Guadalajara,
jalberto55@hotmail.com
“Apuntes
para la historia del Bicentenario de Independencia: los lectores de los
folletos de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi,” Yolanda Bache Cortés,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, bache@unam.mx
“Discursos
y representaciones acerca de la penitenciaria jalisciense,” Iván Ilich Trujillo
García, Universidad de Guadalajara, jalberto55@hotmail.com
“Labor e
influencia de un educador porfirista: Fortuné Richaud,” Estela Munguía Escamilla, Insitituto de Ciencias
Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, estelamun@hotmail.com
“Tránsito
y concentration Mexicana en
“Samuel
Graham: un joven en una jaula horrible,” Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón,
Universidad de Guadalajara, jalberto55@hotmail.com
Thursday Session II 11:00-12:45
Business Meeting
TBA
Thursday Session III 12:45-2:15
SCOLAS Luncheon
La Terrazza
Thursday Session III 2:15-4:00
I.
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Narratives
Chair and Discussant: Linda McManness, Baylor University,
linda_mcmanness@baylor.edu
“Women’s Bodies in the Fiction of María Cristina Mena and
Katherine Anne Porter,” Carolina Mendoza, Idiomas Universidad Autonoma de Baja
California Campus Ensenada, Carolina.mendocita@gmail.com
“Más dura que una piedra: The Stories of Women in Guadalupe
Loaeza’s Debo luego sufro and Alisa
Valdés-Rodríguez The Dirty Girls Social
Club,” Linda McManness, Baylor University, linda_mcmanness@baylor.edu
“Y si estuviera desnudo, ¿se fijarían en su
rinoceronte? La presencia animal en un
cuento de Claudia Hernández,” José Neftalí Recinos, Stephen F. Austin State
University, recinosjn@sfasu.edu
TBA
II.
Governing in the Andes: Challenges
and Innovations
Chair and Discussant: Peter
Linder, New Mexico
Highlands University, linderpeter@nmhu.edu
“Policy Innovation at the Local Level: The Conflict between
Central Government and Localities in Bolivia,” Annabelle Conroy, University of
Central Florida, aconroy@mail.ucf.edu
“A Decade of Democratic Politics in Peru: Populists,
Reformists, and the Legacies of Fujimorismo,” Nicholas Vaccaro, Doane College,
nick.vacarro@doane.edu
TBA
III. Distaff Creation in the Cinema of the Americas
Chair and Discussant: Ruth Hidalgo, Arapahoe Community
College, ruth.hidalgo@arapahoe.edu
“La literatura de la Revolución Mexicana hecha cine: una
nueva perspective femenina,” Edward Hood, Northern Arizona University, Edward.Hood@nau.edu
“Josefina López: Feminist Screenwriter and Playwright,”
Ninfa Nik, Texas Women’s University, nnik@twu.edu
TBA
IV.
Intersections of Religion and
Politics in Latin America
Chair and Discussant: Jose Martinez, The University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor, jmartinez@umhb.edu
“Go and Make Disciples of the Nations": Moravian and
Catholic interactions in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, 1912-1933,” Kimberly
Fabbri, Lehigh University, kaf207@lehigh.edu
“Capital Men: Determining Archbishops in Chile and
Argentina,” Elizabeth Wilson, Baylor University, Elizabeth_Wilson1@baylor.edu
“The Cathedral Chapter of Puebla, Mexico and the Mexican
American War, 1846 -1848,” Sergio Francisco Rosas Salas, El Colegio de
Michoacán, A.C., sergiofrosas@yahoo.com.mx
“’Re-Christianizing’ Guatemalan Society: The Evolution of
the Catholic Action Movement in Totonicapán, 1956-1969,” Bonar L. Hernández,
blhernand@mail.utexas.edu
Thursday Session IV 4:15-6:00
I.
Contemporary Views of Culture and
the City
Chair and Discussant: Pauline Warren, Houston Community
College, pauline.warren@hccs.edu
“Two Paradigms of Onda / North American Mass Culture
Interaction: Parmenides Garcia Saldana and Hector Manjarrez,” Tim Robbins,
Drury University, trobbins01@drury.edu
“La ciudad post-ideológica en Scorpio City de Mario Mendoza”
Gabriela Miranda-Recinos, Stephen F. Austin State University,
mirandag@sfasu.edu
“Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac
of the Dead: Violence, Family Relationships, Drug Trafficking, Visions, and
Dreams,” Pauline Warren, Houston Community College, pauline.warren@hccs.edu
TBA
II. Imperial Hubris: The Compulsion to Export Values
Chair and Discussant: Richard
Chardkoff, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Chardkoff@ulm.edu
“Spearpoint to Empire: Early
American Military Expansion in Haiti, 1915-1916,” Vernon Williams, Abilene
Christian University, vwilliams@acu.edu
“Failure to Recon,” Edgar Morales,
The University of Texas-Pan American, edgar101x@gmail.com
“The Duty of the Revolutionary is
to Make the Revolution: Cuba’s Export of Revolution,” Jonathan Brown, University
of Texas at Austin, jcbrown@mail.utexas.edu
TBA
III. Soundtracks from Latin America: Love Life and Lucha
Chair and Discussant: TBA
“Bolero femenino, poética
femenina: Revalorando la historia de un amor,” Juan Carlos Ureña, Stephen F.
Austin State University, urenajuan@sfasu.edu
“From Chico to Charly: Protest Music in Brazil and Argentina
under the Military Dictatorships,” Victoria Gruzynski, Indiana University, Bloomington, vagruzyn@indiana.edu
“Identidad musical y estructuras
de sentimiento: Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco,” Fernando
Valerio-Holguin, Colorado State University, fvalerio@mail.colostate.edu
TBA
IV. Local Pushback of National Power: The Case from Venezuela
Chair and Discussant: Jonathan
Brown, University of Texas at Austin, jcbrown@mail.utexas.edu
“’Please oblige your blacks’: Citizenship, Paternalism, and
Class Conflict in cantón Gibraltar, 1838-1839,” Peter Linder, New Mexico
Highlands University, linderpeter@nmhu.edu
TBA
Friday
Friday Session I 9:00-10:45
I.
Miradas de México 2: de la
revolución a la modernidad
Chair and
Discussant: Blanca
Esthela Santibánez Tijerina, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP,
besanti@hotmail.com
“Reflejos revolucionarios en la El Águila y la Serpiente,” María del Carmen Griselda Santibáñez
Tijerina, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla tomasyaf@live.com.mx
“La Revolución Mexicana en la obra
de Carlos Fuentes,” Ana María Del Gesso
Cabrera, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), anadelg2@gmail.com
“Logros y desaciertos de la Revolución
en Tlaxcala,” Blanca Esthela Santibánez Tijerina, Instituto de Ciencias
Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP, besanti@hotmail.com
“Saldos de la revolución. La situación de las mujeres,” Gloria Arminda
Tirado Villegas, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades-BUAP,
gtirado51@yahoo.com.mx
II. Settling for More: Expanding Human Rights in the Americas
Chair and Discussant: Joan Supplee, Baylor University,
Joan_Supplee@Baylor.edu
“A Framework for Environmental Risk Inequality and
Environmental Justice in the Americas,” Leda Barnett, Our Lady of the Lake
University, lmbarnett@lake.ollusa.edu
“Cuba’s Ethic of Care and the Future of the Americas,” Doug
Morris, Eastern New Mexico University, doug.morris@enmu.edu
TBA
III. Forging Hispanic Identity in the United States
Chair and Discussant: Paul Hart, Texas
State University, ph18@txstate.edu
“Class Politics and Agricultural Labor in the Texas
Mexican-American
Movement, 1951-1953,” Joseph Orbock Medina, UC Berkeley, orbock@berkeley.edu
“Dual System, Dual Citizen: Hispanic Education in the
Southwestern United States,” Alexander Pope, Columbia University,
ap2783@columbia.edu
“The Education of Puerto Ricans in New York City from
1945-1964: From ‘Problem’ to ‘Aspirante’,” Ashley Taylor, Columbia University,
amt2161@columbia.edu
“The Emergence of a Mexican-American Identity in Texas
during the 1920s,” Jeffrey Lambert, Lone Star College-Kingwood,
Jefferylambert@gmail.com
IV. What Would Adam Smith Do? The
Debate over Neo-Liberalism in the Americas
Chair and Discussant: Luis Matias Cruz, Baylor University,
Luis_Matias-Cruz@baylor.edu
“Neoliberalism and its Impact on Chilean Women under
Dictatorship and Democracy,” Megan
Presley, Baylor University, Megan_Presley@baylor.edu
“Christianity and Capitalism: What Would Jesus Do?,” Susan
Hutchinson, Jose Martinez and Christine Nix, The University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor, susan.hutchinson@umhb.edu, jmartinez@umhb.edu,
Christine.nix@umhb.edu
“The Mexican Economy: Preparing for a Post-American World?,”
Ashley Davis, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, arhamel@mail.umhb.edu
TBA
Friday Session II 11:00-12:45
I.
The Self
and the Other: Intimate and External Viewpoints
Chair
and Discussant: Michael Ward, Trinity University, mward@trinity.edu
“(Re)defining the
Ecuadoran Women: Female Identity in Aminta Buenaños’s Short-Story Collection Mujeres divinas,” Elizabeth Harsma,
Minnesota State University, Mankato,
elizabeth.harsma@mnsu.edu
“Seduction and Idolatry
in Calderón de la Barca’s La aurora en
Copacabana” Sharonah Fredrick, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York,
sharazteca@yahoo.com
“Poéticas
del exilio en ‘El velorio de mi casa’ de Gonzalo Celorio” José Juan Colín,
University of Oklahoma, josejuan@ou.edu
II. Neoliberalism’s Waves of Creative Destruction:
Hanging Ten or Wiping Out?
Chair and Discussant: James
Creagan, University of the Incarnate Word, jcreagan@uiwtx.edu
“The Evolution of Offshore
Outsourcing Industry in Latin America,” Nir Kshetri, University of North
Carolina-Greensboro, nbkshetr@uncg.edu
“Transforming Societies by Empowering
Individuals,” J. Ulyses Balderas and Rogelio Garcia-Contreras, Sam Houston
State University, eco_jub@shsu.edu and University of St. Thomas,
rogarcia@stthorn.edu
“Mexico and the Great Recession:
So far from God and so Close to the United States,” Norman Caulfield, Fort Hays
State University, ncaulfield@fhsu.edu
TBA
III. Reading Fiction from External Perspectives
Chair and Discussant: Linda McManness, Baylor University,
linda_mcmanness@baylor.edu
“Jungle Capitalism in Three Short Stories by Horacio Quiroga,”
Allyson Irom, Baylor University, Allyson_Irom@baylor.edu
“La oralidad y la cultura popular en la alta modernidad
literaria latinoamericana (1970-1980),” Guillermo Valencia Serna, Tennessee
State University, leonvalencias@gmail.com
TBA
IV. Transformations: No More “Other”
Chair and Discussant: Mary Ayala,
Eastern New Mexico University, mary.ayala@enmu.edu
“Using Empathy to Create
Immigration Tolerance among Conservative College Students,” Geni Flores,
Eastern New Mexico Universtiy, geni.flores@enmu.edu
“Latinos and Education in
Metropolitan Chicago: Current Trends and Call to Action,” Sonia Soltero and
Jose Soltero, DePaul University ssoltero@depaul.edu
“Rural and Urban Attitudes toward
Immigrants and Immigration,” Theresa Davidson and Carlos Garcia, Samford University,
tcdavis@samford.edu and San Jose State University, carlos.e.garcia@sjsu.edu
“Cultural Sensitivity in Early
Childhood Education,” Romelia Hurtado de Vivas, Eastern New Mexico University,
romelia.hurtadodevivas@enmu.edu
Friday Session III 2:15-4:00
I.
Discovering / Uncovering the
Americas
Chair and Discussant: Michael Ward, Trinity University,
mward@trinity.edu
“Discovering the Americans in a European World: Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth-Century Investigators of Latin America,” Michael Ward,
Trinity University, mward@trinity.edu
“Reconstructing Colonial Identity through Gender in Arzán’s Historia de la villa imperial Potosí,”
Kate McCarthy-Gilmore, Loras College, kate.mccarthy-gilmore@loras.edu
“El letargo de los mayas en Guatemala,” J. Vitelio Contreras,
Eastern New Mexico University, jose.contreras@enmu.edu
TBA
II. Capitalism’s Costs and Benefits to the Individual
Chair and
Discussant: James Creagan, University of the Incarnate Word, jcreagan@uiwtx.edu
“Medio
ambiente y desarrollo sustentable en México.
El riego con aguas contaminadas en el distrito de Valsequillo, Puebla,”
Sandra Rosario Jiménez, El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C.,
sandraluzrosario@yahoo.com.mx
“El
sindicalismo mexicano ante la política
neoliberal,” María Teresa Ventura Rodriguez,
mtere_ventura@yahoo.com.mx
“Going in
order to Stay: Environmental, Economic, and Social Devastation,” Garrett
McDowell, Eastern New Mexico University, andrea@gammcdowell.com
“’El
Trabajo de la Campsina’ in Haciendas and Ranchos in Nuevo León and Tamaulipas,
1880-1930,” Sonia Hernandez, shernandez11@utpa.edu
III. Liberation Theology in the Americas: Transnational
Perspectives
Chair and Discussant: Mario
Garcia, University of California, garcia@history.ucsb.edu
“Literary, Performative, and
Cinematic Liberation Theology in the Americas: Martínez,
Limón, Leñero, and Mandoki,” Ellen McCracken, University of California,
emccr@spansport.ucsb.edu
“Liberation Theology and
Migration: Erasing Borders on Land and in Spirit,” Demetria Martínez,
demetriajuly@aol.com
“Liberation Correspondent: The
Homilies of Moises Sandoval” Mario Garcia, University of California,
garcia@history.ucsb.edu
TBA
IV. Manipulating Identity for Patriotism and Profit
Chair and Discussant: William
Beezley, beezley@email.arizona.edu
“The Perfect Consumer: Gender and
Popular Culture in Peronist Argentina” Natalia Milanesio, University of
Houston, nmilanesio@uh.edu
“Double Agents in Contemporary
Fictionalizations of the Conquest: Carmen Boullosa's ‘Duerme’,” James
Gustafson, Southern University, gustafson@suu.edu
“Imagining Mexico in 1921: Visions
of the Revolutionary State and Society in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico
City,” Michael Gonzales, Northern Illinois University, gonzales@niu.edu
TBA
Friday Session IV 4:15-6:00
I.
Detectives and Drugs in Lyrics and
Literature
Chair and Discussant: Michael Ward, Trinity University,
Trinity University, mward@trinity.edu
“Un acercamiento a la mujer en el corrido,” Lee Daniel,
Texas Christian University, l.daniel@tcu.edu
“El corrido: Una alternativea para el analisis del narcotráfico,”
Roberto de la Torre, Independent Scholar, rdelatorreh@aol.com
“Corrupción, violencia, y complicidad en dos novelas
detectivescas fronterizas: The Case
Runner de Carlos Cisneros y Balas de
Plata de Elmer Mendoza,” Ramiro Rea, University of Texas-Pan American,
rrrea@utpa.edu
TBA
II. Identifying the Marginalized: Race, Gender and Sexual
Identity in Mexico
Chair and Discussant: Sharonah Fredrick, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York,
sharazteca@yahoo.com
“Women Warriors and Cosmic
Goddesses in Mexican Folklore - Writing Herstory,” Grisel Cano, Houston
Community College System, grisel.cano@hccs.edu
“Mexico’s Machos and Maricones:
History, Social Stigma, and the Struggle of Mestizo Homosexual,” Joshua Hyles,
Baylor University, Joshua_Hyles@baylor.edu
“Colonial Mexico and
Afromexicanidad,” Alicia Reyes-Barriéntez, Duke University, alicia.reyesbarrientez@gmail.com
“Convent Confessional: Agency and
Fantasy in Latin American Hagiographic Writing,” Daniel Hoover, Baylor
University, Daniel_Hoover@baylor.edu
III. Hearth and Homeland: Food as a Way to Maintain and to
Create Cultural Identity
Chair and Discussant: Nancy
Noguera, Drew University, nnoguera@drew.edu
“Food and its meanings in New
Jersey,” Nancy Noguera, Drew University, nnoguera@drew.edu
“Hole Mole: A Take on Mexican
Cuisine in New York City,” Viviana Rangil, Skidmore College,
vrangil@skidmore.edu
TBA
IV. Regional Political Strife and Consolidation in
Mexican History
Chair and Discussant: Michael
Smith, Oklahoma State University, Michael.m.smith@okstate.edu
“African Slaves in Veracruz, Early
1500s,” Veronica Nohemi Sandoval, University of Texas-Pan American,
veronica_nd87@hotmail.com
“Economic Pressures and
Democratization in Mexico,” Dale Story, University of Texas at Arlington,
story@uta.edu
“The Departamento Confidencial’s
Role in Centralizing Mexican Political Authority,” Joseph A. Stout, Oklahoma
State University, bstout4@cox.net
A Fratricidal Foundation:
Yucatecan Conflicts from Antiquity to 1821, Douglas Richmond, richmond@uta.edu
Saturday
Saturday Session I 9:00-10:45
I.
Bolivarian Echoes: Strong Men in the
Casa de Gobierno
Chair and Discussant: Paul Hart, Texas
State University, ph18@txstate.edu
David Robles, “General Díaz: Man
of Vision,” University of Texas-Pan American, sinstereo83@aol.com
Tyler Talbert, “Men on Horseback
and on the Balcony: Juan Domingo Perón and Hugo Chávez as Caudillos and
Populists,” Baylor University, tyler_talbert@baylor.edu
TBA
II. The Struggle for Acceptance on the South Texas
Borderlands
Chair:
Sonia Hernandez, University of Texas-Pan American, shernandez11@utpa.edu
Discussant: Jake Frederick,
Lawrence University, jake.frederick@lawrence.edu
“The Conundrum of Race in Hidalgo
County’s Petit Jury Selections, 1951-1954” Rene Rios, University of Texas-Pan
American, renerios@msn.edu
“Unusual Alliance: Hector P.
Garcia and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Involvement in the Longoria Affair” Cris
Carrizales, University of Texas-Pan American, little_cris@msn.edu
“Swept South of the Border: The
Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley,
1929-1937,” Richard Tovar, University of Texas-Pan American,
rtovarz3@broncs.utpa.edu
III. Rebellion, Revolution, and Emigration: The Origins
and Evolution of Mexican Nationalism
Chair and
Discussant John Mason Hart, University of Houston, jhart@uh.edu
“Desde Tiempos Immemoriales,”
Jamie Christy, University of Houston, dix409@yahoo.com
"Mexico flotante: Mexican
Nationalism through the lens of 20th Century Migration," Natalie Garza,
University of Houstonn,mgarza@mail.uh.edu
TBA
Saturday Session II 11:00-12:45
I.
Creating and Sustaining Nation
Chair and Discussant: Consuelo
Navarro, Trinity (Washington) University, NavarroC@trinitydc.edu
“Pueblos fantasmas: Pedro
Páramo y otras consecuencias de la [in]migración,” Pilar Melero, University
of Wisconsin-Whitewater, melerop@uww.edu
“La ciudad de Guayaquil como palimpsesto en El alma en los labios, de Raúl Vallejo,”
Consuelo Navarro, Trinity (Washington) University, NavarroC@trinitydc.edu
TBA
II. Science-Fiction in Latin American Fiction
Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor
University, Beth_Willingham@baylor.edu
“Utopía, distopías y fronteras: los espacios de la ciencia
ficción mexiana,” Guadalupe Cortina, University of Texas-Pan American,
gcortina@utpa.edu
“From Non-fiction to Science-Fiction: The Imagining of
Post-America,” Mary Ayala, Eastern New Mexico University, mary.ayala@enmu.edu
TBA
III.
TBA