Southern Cone Studies

jueves 22 de mayo / May 22, Thursday

Estudios de la Memoria en el Cono Sur: Nuevos Lenguajes y Direcciones Críticas (I)

En la ocasión de los 40 años de los golpes chileno y uruguayo y los "casi" 40 años del argentino, este panel formado por dos mesas consecutivas se propone reflexionar sobre los nuevos lenguajes que están apareciendo para abordar el pasado reciente en diversos géneros y esferas de las sociedades. Asimismo, las ponencias señalaran algunos caminos a seguir en los estudios de la memoria, ya que es un área de estudios que se viene elaborando desde hace varias décadas. Se realiza el jueves 22 de mayo entre 12:00 y 1:45 pm, y es organizada por María Rosa Olivera-Williams (University of Notre Dame) y Michael J Lazzara (University of California/Davis). Incluye las siguientes presentaciones: Michael J Lazzara (University of California/Davis), "Pensar entre épocas: articulaciones autobiográficas y reconversiones subjetivas en el Chile posttransicional;" Alice A Nelson (Evergreen State College), "Spatial and Narrative (Dis)junctures: Visual Art in Chilean Memorysites;" Fernando A Blanco (Bucknell University), "Memorias mediatizadas: El precio de la ética del recuerdo en Chile;" y Walescka Pino Ojeda (University of Auckland), "Ética del recuerdo y dolor generacional: El tránsito de una familia víctima de la represión en dos documentales chilenos."

Estudios de la Memoria en el Cono Sur: Nuevos Lenguajes y Direcciones Críticas (II)

Se realiza el jueves 22 de mayo, entre 2:00 y 3:45pm, y es organizada por María Rosa Olivera-Williams (University of Notre Dame) y Michael J Lazzara (University of California/Davis). Incluye las siguientes presentaciones: María Rosa Olivera-Williams (University of Notre Dame), "Diferentes inflexiones de la memoria a los 40 años de las dictaduras militares: el lenguaje político en Uruguay / el lenguaje mediático en Chile;" Adriana J Bergero (University of California/Los Angeles), "La piel como frontera. De cómo la memoria circula en las emociones;" Maria Guadalupe Arenillas (Northern Michigan University), "El pasado como promesa: nuevas políticas de la identidad en Diario de una princesa montonera de Mariana Eva Pérez;" y Bernardita P Llanos (Loyola University Chicago), "Repensar el testimonio y la memoria desde el género."

Sustentabilidad como pilar de una sociedad democrática: Visiones desde el Cono Sur para siglo XXI.

How are the principles of sustainability interpreted in 21st century Southern Cone? This panel addresses issues confronting the region on the topic of Sustainability as an ethical principle, and its intersection with the quality of contemporary democracies. Four presentations will provide an interdisciplinary approach and encourage the cross-pollination of ideas to explore contemporary strategies that engage multiple areas: the role of sustainability in public policy and governance; sustainability as a sociopolitical project in marginalized groups; new challenges for sustainability in the contemporary landscape of recognition and rights for Latin America's original people; new directions in ecocriticism from the region. Este panel se realiza el jueves 30 de mayo - 6:00 to 7:45pm. El organizador de la sesión es Maria Alessandra Woolson (Middlebury College). Cuenta con las siguientes presentaciones: Alex Godoy, "Sustentabilidad y Gobernanza;" María Gabriela Rubilar Donoso (Universidad Católica), "Sustentabilidad, pueblos originarios y reconocimiento: nuevos escenarios y nuevos desafíos;" Hernan Fernandez-Meardi (University of Wisconsin/Green Bay), "La sustentabilidad vernácula: educación y cultura en los grupos marginados;" Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz (University of Wisconsin/Green Bay), "La conciencia socio-ecológica en Hombres de mar de Óscar Colchado;" y Maria Alessandra Woolson (Middlebury College), "La sustentabilidad como principio ético de base."

Migration policies in the Americas: Perceptions, attitudes, and change.

This panel deals with social and political influences to recent changes in migration policies in several countries in the Americas. In a time that the discussion about migration policies is centered on the possible new migration policy in the United States it is relevant to analyze what other countries in the region are doing regarding this matter. Using a broad perspective, proposals that form this panel deal with perceptions and attitudes towards recent and its effects on policy development; the hidden effects of bureaucracy and housing policies in the legal status of migrants; and changes in policies towards temporary migrant workers in Canada. Besides this country, this panel engages in recent migration systems in Costa Rica and Chile of mainly intraregional migrants. It will be held Thursday May 22 from 6:00 to 7:45 pm. It will include the participation of Joseph L Wiltberger (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill) as chair and discussant and presentations by Megan Sheehan (University of Arizona) and Duncan Lawrence (U Colorado Boulder), "Full Stomachs and Open Borders: How Peruvian Food Shapes Chilean Attitudes towards Immigration;" Elise Hahn, "The Flip Side of Policy: Migrant Farm Workers and 'their' Housing in Canada;" Patricia Tomic (University of British Columbia/Okanagan) and Ricardo Trumper (University of British Columbia/Okanagan), "Canadian Temporary Migration Policy and Latin American Labor;" Caitlin E Fouratt (University of California/Irvine), "Waiting for algún día: The temporalities of legality and illegality under Costa Rican immigration law;" and Cristian A Dona-Reveco (Michigan State University), "Contemporary migration and the press in Chile: The impacts of perceptions in policy-making."

viernes 23 de mayo / May 23, Friday

New Challenges for 21st Century Education: Sustainability as Space for Dialogue in Today's Democratic Context.

This roundtable will meet Friday May 23 from 2:00 to 3:45pm. Participants include: Beatriz Giron; German Palacio Castañeda (Universidad Nacional de Colombia); Alberto Vargas (University of Wisconsin/Madison); and Maria Alessandra Woolson (Middlebury College).

Políticas de los afectos y la emoción en producciones culturales de América Latina

This panel will meet Friday, 2:00pm - 3:45pm, and includes the following papers: Antonio D Gómez (Tulane University), "Distancia, afecto, razón: Entrenamiento elemental para actores de León y Rejtman;" María I Cisterna Gold (University of Massachusetts/Boston), "El lugar de los afectos: La correspondencia como pacto emocional de distancia en Los incompletos de Sergio Chefjeck y Vudú urbano de Edgardo Cozarinsky;" Luz Horne (Universidad de San Andrés), "Vacío biográfico, afectividad y discenso en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea;" Karina F Miller (California State University/San Marcos), "La escritura impolítica de Osvaldo Lamborghini: lengua y tin-tin;" and Leila G Gomez (University of Colorado/Boulder), "Aventura, amor y deseo en los relatos de viaje del Río de la Plata."

sábado 24 de mayo / May 24, Saturday

"Ambassador of Culture": Gabriela Mistral's Transnational Contributions to Latin American and European Intelligentsia

This panel will be held Saturday May 24 from 12:00 to 1:45 pm. As the recent digitization of Gabriela Mistral's private archives reveals, she extensively participated in cultural policy by supporting anti-imperialist and decolonizing movements, often in resistance to "official culture." Aspects of this resistance and its limits are studied vis-à-vis the dictatorships of Mussolini, Salazar, and Getulio Vargas. Such focus leaps past canonical representations of Mistral as isolated, reductively gender-bound, primarily identified with state-sponsored educational projects. This panel shows how the archives link to existing print and online resources, revealing the transnational reach of the networks in which she figured through journalism, correspondence, and membership in organizations from the PanAmerican Union to UNESCO. It will include the participation of Claire Fox (University of Iowa) as discussant and presentations by Elizabeth Horan (Arizona State University), "Palma Guillén, Gabriela Mistral y el servicio diplomático mexicano;" Gloria Medina-Sancho (California State University/Fresno), "Gabriela Mistral: 'la insufrible demócrata' con Ada Negri y la Italia fascista de Mussolini;" Susanne Elisabeth Klengel (Freie Universität Berlin), "Gabriela Mistral y los intelectuales latinoamericanos en la Europa de la Segunda Posguerra;" Luiza Franco Moreira (Binghamton University), "'News of South American Writers:' Gabriela Mistral, Cecília Meireles, and the newspaper A Manhã in 1944;" María Soledad Falabella Luco (Universidad de Chile), "'Catástrofe ética' y memoria en la escritura de Gabriela Mistral: leyendo 'Sobre árboles y madres' de Patricio Marchant a raíz de los 40 años del Golpe de Estado en Chile."

Nuevos cines.

Este panel, con presentaciones en inglés y castellano, se llevará a cabo el sábado 24 de Mayo entre la 4pm y las 5:45 pm. El organizador de la sesión es Gonzalo M Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Cuenta con las siguientes presentaciones: Amy Sara Carroll (University of Michigan), "Biutiful's Sublime, or, Global Mexico's Coproduction;" Bridget V Franco (College of the Holy Cross), "Cinematographic Takes on "Politics as Usual" in Argentina: La redada and El estudiante;" Laura Chinchilla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Paranoid Acoustics: Detection and Sound in Sergio Bianchi's Os Inquilinos;" Katherine Karr-Cornejo (Whitworth University), "'Vamos a decir que No:' Transición, ficción, y fracaso en No (2012) de Pablo Larraín;" y Luiza C Lusvarghi (Universidade Nove de Julho Uninove), "The society of crime: neo-noir and post-modernity in Latin America."

Presidents, Protestors and Political Change in Brazil.

The panel, scheduled for Saturday May 24, from 6:00 to 7:45 pm, may be of interest to participants of the Southern Cone Studies Section. The presentations are the following: Ted G Goertzel (Rutgers University), "Presidential Leadership and Regime Change in Brazil, Mexico and the United States;" João Paulo M Peixoto (Universidade de Brasília), "Politics and Administration in the Brazilian Presidency: From the Military Regime to the Workers' Party; Paulo R Almeida (Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UniCEUB), "Presidential Leadership and Economic Regimes in Brazil; and Guy Burton (University of Kurdistan), "Political leadership and social protest in Brazil: Comparing the 2013 Vinegar Revolt across 'political time'."