40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Friday, 27 March 7am BREAKFAST CONWAY 176 7am Coffee and Water CONWAY HALL 219 (Tower Conference Room) 8am REGISTRATION CONWAY 176 8am MACLAS Executive Meeting CONWAY HALL 354a 10am Máscaras recientes de la literatura latinoamericana CONWAY 151 Chaired by: Rosa Tezanos Angelina Muñiz-Huberman y las máscaras de la crueldad en su narrativa breve » Rosa Tezanos (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) La violencia de género en la novela Las elegidas de Jorge Volpi » Karen Jimenez (Salisbury University) Roberto Bolo: el puente entre la Generación Crack y los McOndistas los escritores del “Boom” » David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa (Wor-Wic Community College) Del Santiago neoliberal hasta el nuevo pacto social en la obra de Alberto Fuguet » Paula Thomas (University of California, Los Angeles) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference 10am The Agrarian Question in Latin America CONWAY 152 Chaired by: John Dwyer Dora Mayer, Indigenous Rights, and the Peruvian Centennial Celebrations of 1921 » Victoria Castillo (William and Mary) Continuing the Fight: Peasant Agency in Post-Revolutionary Veracruz » John Dwyer (Duquesne University, Department of History) Political Economy and Social Justice in Paraguay » Brian Turner (Randolph-Macon College) Strategies in Campesinx Leadership in Colombia: Alternatives to Extractivism » Patricia Rodriguez (Ithaca College) 10am Democracy and Authoritarianism in Inter-American Relations CONWAY 179 Chaired by: Chrys Egan Venezuela at the Crossroads of Two Political Cultures » Jacques Koko (Salisbury University) Human Rights Violations of Latin American Immigrants in the USMexican Border » Alexandra Wagner (State University of New York at Fredonia) Paredes o Papeletas: President Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Rhetoric and the 2020 Election » Chrys Egan (Salisbury University), John Murphy (Salisbury University) “’Just What the Doctor Ordered’: What Milton Eisenhower’s 1953 Goodwill Tour to South America Tells Us about Inter-American Affairs” » Madeline Angeli (United States Naval Academy) Page 40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Eduardo Galeano's "Memorias y desmemorias" in the Post-Truth Era » Louise Detwiler (Salisbury University) Continued from Friday, 27 March 10am Environmental and Economic Issues in Latin America CONWAY 279 Chaired by: Meghan Harrington Declassifying US-Latin America Relations in the Classroom: A Perspective from Literary and Cultural Studies » Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti (State University of New York at Oswego) How Social Movements Influence Policymakers in the Brazilian Amazon » Miranda Chase (University of Massachusetts Boston) The Politics of Migration in Mario Bencastro’s Paraíso portátil/Portable Paradise » Joan F Marx (Muhlenberg College) Circumstances of Latin America » DiMond Lockwood (Salisbury University) Studying Recent Political Shifts in Latin America With Film Adaptations » Irina Dzero (Kent State University, Modern and Classical Language Studies) Óscar Olivera y la “Guerra del Agua” en Bolivia » Meghan Harrington (State University of New York at Oswego) 12pm MARLAS Editorial Board Meeting (lunch provided) CONWAY HALL 354a 1:45pm The Political Zone CONWAY 151 Chaired by: Magda von der Heydt The Use and Abuse of Conspiracy Theories in Latin America » Luis Roniger (Wake Forest University) The Latin American New Left and China » Magda von der Heydt (Johns Hopkins University) 1:45pm 1:45pm Articulating Human Rights in Emerging Contexts CONWAY 179 Chaired by: León Arredondo Articulating Human Rights in Emerging Contexts » Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon (West Chester University), Linda Stevenson (West Chester University), Daniela Johannes (West Chester University), León Arredondo (West Chester University) 1:45pm Precarious Economies in Latin America CONWAY 279 Chaired by: Jose Vargas-Vila Levantamientos y Revolución » Jaime Chuchuca (Universidad Nacional del Cuyo) Viewing Political Instability in Latin America Through the Lens of Economic Fragmentation » Aaron Stiegler (Salisbury University) Literature and Politics in Latin America CONWAY 152 Chaired by: Joan F Marx Economic Transfers, Gender, and Differences in Participation in the Informal Sector in Mexico » Juan Argaez (Mercyhurst University) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference Page 40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Continued from Friday, 27 March Identity and Political Participation: Barriers to Migrant Activism in Quito » Jeffrey Pugh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Luis Jiménez (University of Massachusetts Boston) Economic factors of Venezuelans emigration to neighboring Colombia » Jose Vargas-Vila (Independent Scholar) 3:45pm Brazilian Exporting Cities and the Informal Economy » Ivani Vassoler (State University of New York- Fredonia) Fulbright U.S Student and Scholar Program: Workshop CONWAY 151 Chaired by: Sharika Crawford Why Do Nationalists Sometimes Shift Their Shape? An Examination of Argentine Nationalism Since the 1870s » Diane Johnson (Lebanon Valley College) Fulbright U.S Student and Scholar Program: What You Need to Know » Sharika Crawford (United States Naval Academy) 3:45pm Cultural Practices in Indigenous and Afro Latin American Communities CONWAY 152 Chaired by: Regina Root The Politics of Performance: Understanding Argentine Identity in the 21st Century » Olivia Garcia (Muhlenberg College) 3:45pm “We Are Still Here: Cultural Resistance Amongst Afro-Venezuelans From Slavery to Today” » Mesi Walton (Howard University) Eat my Mexican Brain! Requiem neoliberal en el cine y la poesía zombi contemporánea » Andrea A Gaytan Cuesta (William and Mary) Does the Folklorization of Indigeneity Undercut Andean Women's Public Leadership? » Carolina Bown (Salisbury University) Human Nature? Examining the Neoliberal Deployment of Bodies in Armando Bo’s Film Animal (2018) » Krysta Herrera (Rutgers University) The Tillett Tapestry as Artistic Tipping Point » Regina Root (William & Mary) The Intersection of Religious Practices and the Art of Ancient Nasca » Meghan Tierney (Ursinus College) 3:45pm National Identities and Consumerism CONWAY 179 Chaired by: Ivani Vassoler Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference Trends in Latin American Cinema CONWAY 279 Chaired by: Amanda McMenamin Tipped Over: Decolonizing Deforestation and ‘Other’ Ecoviolences in the Slow Cinema of Lisandro Alonso’s La libertad (2001) » Amanda McMenamin (Wilson College) 5:45pm Reception (Music by SU Community Jazz Ensemble) Academic Commons/Assembly Hall 462 Page 40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Power Profile & Conflict Mapping: Ecuador’s 2010 Coup D’état and the Quechua Today » Brittany Foutz (Salisbury University), Arnaud Guyon (Salisbury University) Continued from Friday, 27 March 7pm Dinner and Keynote Speaker (Dr Jennifer Jolly- Ithaca College, AfroMexican Visibility in 19th century Mexico: The Case of José Maria Morelos) Academic Commons/Assembly Hall 462 Saturday, 28 March 7am 10am BREAKFAST CONWAY 176 7am Coffee and Water CONWAY HALL 219 (Tower Conference Room) 8am REGISTRATION CONWAY 176 8:30am Book Presentation and Publishing Talk by Casasola Editores CONWAY 279 10am Moving Toward An Asset-Based Perspective of Multilingualism CONWAY 151 Moving Toward An Asset-Based Perspective of Multilingualism » Honor McElroy (Salisbury University), Sinélia Peixoto (Salisbury University) 10am DERECHOS HUMANOS Y NEOLIBERALISMO, O LA ESPERA A GODOT » Jaime Chuchuca (Universidad Nacional del Cuyo) Environmental Justice and Human Rights CONWAY 152 Chaired by: John Stolle-McAllister Intercultural Approaches to the Global Climate Emergency » John Stolle-McAllister (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference Trends in Latin American / Latinx Popular Culture CONWAY 179 Chaired by: Melixa Abad Izquierdo The Ottomans Conquer Latin America: The rise of Turkish melodramas » Mirna Trauger (Muhlenberg College) Mistresses, Telenovelas and Rock and Roll in Public Television » Melixa Abad Izquierdo (Farmingdale State College) Reading the game: Narratives of power in Latin American football fiction » Ryan Hill (Johns Hopkins University) The Rise of Latinx and Native American Metal Music » Luis Zapata (rocklectures.com) 10am Inkarri, Tupac Amaru and the Return of the Native: (Dis)Covering and (Re)Covering the Indian Subject CONWAY 277 Chaired by: Carlos Mamani Inkarri, Tupac Amaru and the Return of the Native: (Dis)Covering and (Re)Covering the Indian Subject » Amanda Frantz-Mamani (Edinboro University), Carlos Mamani (Gannon University) Page 40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Federal Intervention in Northwestern Argentina during the Presidency of Agustín P Justo, 1932-1938 » Alistair Hattingh (Muskingum University) Continued from Saturday, 28 March 10am Bodies in Pain and Textual Violence CONWAY 279 Chaired by: Kathleen Cunniffe Peña 2:45pm Nineteenth century argentine outlaw masculinities portrayed by Eduardo Gutiérrez: the acculturated gaucho, the modern barbarian “other” and the “Señor burgués” » Carlos Rodriguez McGill (University of Michigan-Dearborn) Security, Violence, and State Policies in Central America CONWAY 152 Chaired by: Brian Potter Weber Al Reves: Comparative State Fragmentation in Central America » Brian Potter (The College of New Jersey) “(Dis)Embodiment & Subject Formation in María Lourdes Pallais’s Novel Prisionera de mi tío (2006)” » Greg C Severyn (Susquehanna University) Exploring the Interests within the El Salvador Civil War: El Salvador and the United States » Justin Thompson (Salisbury University) Quiet Horror in the Soy Fields of Argentina: An Ecocritical Reading of Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate » Kathleen Cunniffe Peña (Wilson College) U.S policy and impacts on gang violence in Central America » Robert Kirkland (Independent Scholar) 12pm Business Luncheon, Prizes, and Plenary Session (Dr Timothy Dunn Academic Commons/Assembly Hall 462 Beyond Mano Dura: An Integrated Security Strategy for the Northern Triangle » Ryan Keating (The George Washington University) 2:15pm LATINEXODUS EXHIBIT RECEPTION https://suartgalleries.org/2020/01/07/latinexodus-exhibition-events/ Fulton School Art Gallery 2:45pm Autonomy, State Intervention, and Neoliberal Tales CONWAY 151 Chaired by: Alistair Hattingh Advertising Pinochet: Paradoxes of the Free-Market » Pablo Pryluka (Princeton University) Nations or Region: The Central American Struggle for Autonomy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century » Matthew Harris (West Virginia University) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference 2:45pm Issues in Inter-American Education CONWAY 179 Valuing Spanish in United States Schooling Contexts » Thea Williamson (Salisbury University) Brechas en educación y estallido social en Chile » Elizabeth Simonsen (Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación) Building Peace Through Higher Education: A Colombo-American Project » Brian Stiegler (Salisbury University), Melissa Aristizabal (Salisbury University) Page 40th Conference Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 2020 27 - 28 March 2020 Continued from Saturday, 28 March 2:45pm Science, Global Health, and Women's Rights CONWAY 277 Chaired by: Marny Requa Literatura oral y memoria cultural en el Caribe Afro-hispánico: San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia » Graciela Maglia (The Pennsylvania State University) Aprismo in Peru: Sánchez and Seoane Correspondence 1924-1932 » Gloria Clark (Penn State University, Professor Emerita) Gender, Power, and the State: Constitutional Law and Women’s Rights in Chile » Marny Requa (Georgian Court University) Salud Digital en Latinoamerica: una síntesis cualitativa de la producción académica entre el 2014 y 2019 » Mario Portugal Ramirez (University of Massachusetts Boston) La asimilación es perjudicial: un análisis sobre la salud mental de latinos estadounidenses » Matteo Montero (Moravian College) Science communication and NGOs in Latin America: a bridge connecting formal and traditional knowledges » Diogo de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Bruce Lewenstein (Cornell University) 2:45pm Oralidad y escritura en las tradiciones intelectuales de América Latina CONWAY 279 Chaired by: Gloria Clark MIGRACIÓN Y MILAGROS: LA CRISIS MIGRATORIA EN LA NARRATIVA RELIGIOSA DE LOS RETABLOS Y EXVOTOS MEXICANOS MODERNOS » Barbara Ailstock (Randolph-Macon College) Un chistoso de aldea y el ideal Mariano » Maria Cano (State University of New York) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference Page