Latin American Studies Association fWINTER 2009o| VOLUME XL | ISSUErum1 IN THIS ISSUE On the Profession ¿De qué cine hablamos? Las tareas de los Estudios del Cine Latinoamericano por CLAUDIA FERMAN Estudos de Cinema na Universidade Brasileira por FERNÃO PESSOA RAMOS Películas de papel: Cartografía del estudio del cine de América Latina por GUSTAVO A. REMEDI Latin American Cinema and Latin American Studies by KATHLEEN NEWMAN Latin American Film Scholarship in the UK Mapping the Field by JOHN KING Debates Inequality in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies Introduction by CYNTHIA STEELE Against (In)equality Bad Latin American Literature by JON BEASLEY-MURRAY Overcoming Colonialism Writing in Indigenous Languages by JEAN FRANCO Inscriptions of Inequality in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies by IDELBER AVELAR Perspectivas eco-críticas latinoamericanas Conocimientos transpuestos recuperados por ILEANA RODRÍGUEZ ¿Existe un giro neoconservador en Latinoamérica hoy? por JOHN BEVERLEY Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Marginality in Contemporary Latin American Literature by LUZ HORNE and DANIEL NOEMI VOIONMAA President Eric Hershberg, Simon Fraser University [email protected] Vice President John Coatsworth, Columbia University [email protected] Past President Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin [email protected] Table of Contents Treasurer Kevin Middlebrook, University of London [email protected] EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 1 Alfred C. Stepan | Recipient of Kalman Silvert Award for 2009 For term ending April 2009 2 From the President | by ERIC HERSHBERG Ariel Armony, Colby College Guillermo Delgado, University of California/Santa Cruz José Rabasa, University of California/Berkeley ON THE PROFESSION For term ending October 2010 5 ¿De qué cine hablamos? Las tareas de los Estudios del Cine Latinoamericano Jonathan Hartlyn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill por CLAUDIA FERMAN Teresa Valdés, Center for the Study and Development of Women (CEDEM), Chile 7 Estudos de Cinema na Universidade Brasileira | por FERNÃO PESSOA RAMOS Deborah Yashar, Princeton University 9 Películas de papel: Cartografía del estudio del cine de América Latina Ex Officio por GUSTAVO A. REMEDI Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Cynthia Steele, University of Washington, Seattle 10 Latin American Cinema and Latin American Studies | by KATHLEEN NEWMAN Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh Philip Oxhorn, McGill University 16 Latin American Film Scholarship in the UK: Mapping the Field | by JOHN KING FORUM EDITORIAL COMMITTEE DEBATES Editor Eric Hershberg, Simon Fraser University Inequality in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies Associate Editor 19 Introduction | by CYNTHIA STEELE Antonio Sérgio A. Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo 20 Against (In)equality: Bad Latin American Literature | by JON BEASLEY-MURRAY Managing Editor Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh 24 Overcoming Colonialism: Writing in Indigenous Languages | by JEAN FRANCO 27 Inscriptions of Inequality in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies FORUM EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE by IDELBER AVELAR Carlos Iván Degregori, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Katherine Hite, Vassar College 30 Perspectivas eco-críticas latinoamericanas: Conocimientos transpuestos Hilda Sábato, Universidad de Buenos Aires recuperados | por ILEANA RODRÍGUEZ LASA STAFF 33 ¿Existe un giro neoconservador en Latinoamérica hoy? | por JOHN BEVERLEY Membership Coordinator 36 Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Marginality in Contemporary Jenna B. Bielewicz, University of Pittsburgh Latin American Literature | by LUZ HORNE and DANIEL NOEMI VOIONMAA Congress Coordinator Melissa A. Raslevich, University of Pittsburgh ON LASA2009 Assistant Director for Institutional Advancement Sandra Klinzing, University of Pittsburgh 41 Report from the Program Chairs | by EVELYNE HUBER and CYNTHIA STEELE Executive Director 42 Rio de Janeiro | por KARL ERIK SCHØLLHAMMER Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh Administrative Coordinator NEWS FROM LASA Israel R. Perlov, University of Pittsburgh 47 LASA Voluntary Support | by SANDY KLINZING The LASA Forum is published four times a year. It is the official vehicle for conveying news about the Latin LASA SECTIONS American Studies Association to its members. Articles appearing in the On the Profession and Debates sections 50 Section News of the Forum are commissioned by the Editorial Committee and deal with selected themes. The Committee welcomes responses to any material published in the Forum. PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL NOTES Opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors 51 In Memoriam | DONNA LEE VAN COTT and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Latin American Studies Association or its officers. ISSN 0890-7218 SPECIAL RECOGNITION Alfred C. Stepan Recipient of the Kalman Silvert Award for 2009 Alfred Stepan is the Wallace S. Sayre generally, authoring Rethinking Military Professor of Government at the School of Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone International and Public Affairs and the (Princeton University Press, 1988) and Department of Political Science at Columbia editing Democratizing Brazil: Problems of University. He is also the Founder and Transition and Consolidation (Oxford Director of the Center for the Study of University Press, 1989). As the titles suggest, on the National Executive Committee of the Democracy, Tolerance and Religion at the conditions supporting the establishment human rights organization Americas Watch Columbia, a Fellow of the American and preservation of democracy as a form of (1982-1994). In 1981-1982 he was a Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the government securing peaceful resolution of member of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh’s British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St conflicts and coexistence of different ethnic advisory group to design the Kellogg Antony’s College at Oxford University, and a groups and religions have been the Institute for International Studies at the holder of the Ordem do Rio Branco, intellectual puzzle driving the research. University of Notre Dame, and later he Commendador, awarded by the Brazilian Beginning with The State and Society, served for a dozen years on the Advisory Government in 2002. He received his B.A. Stepan’s work has profoundly shaped the Board of the Institute. from the University of Notre Dame, a B.A. agenda of scholars interested in the nature of and M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, in the state and the role of political institutions Among the many important roles Stepan has Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and a proper in shaping regime forms and in the played, the role of mentor figures Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political role of the military in politics. prominently. He has served on no fewer Science. than forty Ph.D. dissertation committees, Before going to Columbia University in well more than half related to Latin His many books and articles have made him 1999, Stepan taught at Yale (1970-83) where America. His message to his students has a leading figure among scholars studying he chaired the Council on Latin American been consistent: “You are writing this Latin American politics as well as those Studies (1972-1981, except when on leave); dissertation not for yourself and the studying comparative politics more broadly. he served as Dean of the School of committee—you are writing a book!” His first book, The Military in Politics: International and Public Affairs at Columbia Indeed, at least twenty-five of the Changing Patterns in Brazil (Princeton (1983-1991) and as first Rector and dissertations have been published as books, University Press, 1971) was followed by The President of the Central European University and more are on the way to publication. State and Society: Peru in Comparative and Member of the Board of Directors of the Colleagues and students, both present and Perspective (Princeton 1978). His Soros Open Society Foundation (1993-96); former, from Latin America, the United collaboration with Juan Linz, who was his and he was the Gladstone Professor of States, Europe, and elsewhere, have always professor at Columbia and then a colleague Government and Fellow at All Souls College, played central roles as intellectual partners at Yale, has lasted into the present and University of Oxford (1996-1999). He has for Stepan—members of his invisible colleges produced the path breaking volumes The been the recipient of numerous fellowships that span continents and decades. His Breakdown of Democratic Regimes (Johns and research grants from organizations such enthusiasm for the study of politics, and his Hopkins 1978) and Problems of Democratic as the Ford Foundation, Carnegie conviction that knowledge can have Transition and Consolidation: Southern Corporation of New York, Guggenheim important practical implications have Europe, South America and Post- Foundation, and the Social Science Research inspired generations of scholars. Communist Europe (Johns Hopkins, Council. He has lectured at more than 150 1996)—now translated into about a dozen institutions in approximately 30 countries The long interview in Passion, Craft, and languages including Farsi, Chinese, Croatian around the globe. He has lent his seemingly Method in Comparative Politics, by Gerardo and Basa-Indonesian. Their latest opus, boundless energy to many professional and L. Munck and Richard Snyder (Johns Democracy and Multinational Societies: public service projects. Among them are the Hopkins University Press, 2007) illustrates