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Issue 1 President Gilbert Joseph Yale University winter 2016 | volume xlvii | issue 1 President Gilbert Joseph Yale University Vice President Joanne Rappaport Georgetown University Past President Debra Castillo Cornell University Table of Contents Treasurer Timothy J. Power University of Oxford Incoming Treasurer Patricia Tovar Rojas City University of New York, John Jay College 1 From the President | by GIL JOSEPH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL LASA2015 KALMAN SILVERT AWARD For term ending May 2016: Carmen Martínez Novo, University of Kentucky 3 La vocación de una generación: Discurso de recepción del Premio Kalman Silvert, Angela Paiva, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro LASA, Puerto Rico, 29 Mayo 2015 | por MANUEL GARRETÓN Charles Walker, University of California, Davis For term ending May 2017: DEBATES: LATIN AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Evelina Dagnino, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Lauren “Robin” Derby, University of California, Los Angeles 7 Refuge, Alliance, and South-South Exchange: Latin America and the Maria Helena Machado, Universidade de São Paulo Middle East | by JESSICA STITES MOR Ex Officio 9 Syrian Refugees in Latin America: Diaspora Communities as Interlocutors Ariel C. Armony, University of Pittsburgh Amy Chazkel, City University of New York/Queens College by LILY BALLOFFET Philip Oxhorn, McGill University 15 Nuevas agendas para una antigua migración: La migración siria, libanesa y Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh palestina desde una mirada Latinoamericana | por JORGE ARANEDA TAPIA FORUM EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 21 El régimen militar chileno e Irán: De las relaciones con el Sha Mohammad Reza Guest Editor Pahlaví a los negocios de la guerra Irán-Irak, 1974–1986 Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan por FERNANDO CAMACHO PADILLA Managing Editor 26 Beside Bandung: Brazil’s Relations toward the Arab World Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh by JOHN TOFIK KARAM LASA STAFF 31 Not Afraid to Make Connections: Edward Said and Salman Rushdie’s Latin Special Projects Coordinator American Solidarity | by ANNA BERNARD María Soledad Cabezas, University of Pittsburgh 34 The Death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine Presidency Unhinged, and the Secret Social Media Coordinator History of Shared United States-Argentine Strategy in the Middle East Paloma Díaz-Lobos, University of Texas at Austin by DAVID M. K. SHEININ Associate Director and Financial Administrator Mirna Kolbowski, University of Pittsburgh NOTE ON THE PROFESSION Communications Specialist Sara Lickey, University of Pittsburgh 39 Interview with David Grantham | by JESSICA STITES MOR Executive Director ON LASA2016 Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh Membership Coordinator 42 From the LASA2016 Congress Program Co-Chairs Israel R. Perlov, University of Pittsburgh by ARIEL C. ARMONY and AMY CHAZKEL Operations Manager – Congress Coordinator 44 Reservation Form for the LASA2016 Book Exhibit Pilar Rodríguez Blanco, University of Pittsburgh CALLING ALL MEMBERS The LASA Forum is published four times a year. It is the official vehicle for conveying news about the Latin American Studies Association to its 45 Elections 2016: Nominating Committee Slate members. Articles appearing in the On the Profession and Debates sections of the Forum are commissioned by the Editorial Committee and deal with selected themes. The Committee welcomes responses to any material NEWS FROM LASA published in the Forum. Opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors and do not 57 Declaración de intelectuales, científicos y académicos hispanos contra necessarily reflect the view of the Latin American Studies Association xenofobia de Trump or its officers. ISSN 0890-7218 From the President by Gil Joseph | Yale University | [email protected] I write this message at the midpoint of my discussion of how specialists in that field presidential term, in the wake of a might better communicate with those who stimulating New Year’s Day tertulia hosted work on what is traditionally regarded to by Susan Meiselas and Julia Preston, two be Latin America. A variety of panels longtime observers of Latin American engage Latino New York, and one politics and cultures. A hundred of us highlighted session organized by celebrated in SoHo, a bohemian quarter of transnational historian and documentary constituencies—and speculate on what the the great multicultural metropolis where, in filmmaker Seth Fein links Cold War–era decades ahead will bring. A companion a few months’ time, LASA will convene its New York City and Latin America. Fein presidential roundtable, on 50 years of historic 50th anniversary Congress. LASA will also premiere an interdisciplinary, journalistic coverage of Latin America, will will be returning to New York for the first multimedia installation that interrogates include some of the hemisphere’s most time since it held its inaugural meeting in conventional notions of North-South renowned reporters and photojournalists, 1966, when its membership numbered only encounters, imperial core and periphery, all of whom seek to promote a deeper a few hundred, mostly North American and spatial concepts of “interborough” and exchange with academic scholars. scholars. Now LASA is an organization of “outerborough.” One of the Congress’s 12 thousand members, nearly half of whom presidential panels will feature a timely In these and a myriad of other ways, reside in Latin America. Not only does interview, six months before the U.S. “LASA at 50” will afford us the “LASA at 50” promise to be the largest presidential election, with a major figure in opportunity to take stock of Latin Congress the association has ever President Obama’s administration. The American studies and chart new directions sponsored, in terms of the number of interview, to be conducted by New York for our dynamic interdisciplinary panels and participants; it will also be the Times national immigration correspondent enterprise. In keeping with our goal of most international in character, with a bit Julia Preston, will focus on the dilemmas promoting a more diverse, engaged, and more than 60 percent of the accepted posed by international migration and relevant association, the 50th Congress will papers from participants residing outside border security, and the prospects for provide a meeting place for continuing the United States. With well over a comprehensive immigration reform. efforts to enhance the participation and thousand panels, workshops, roundtables, Another presidential panel will feature a better represent the interests of LASA’s and receptions, we had to add an extra day high-profile dialogue among leading Cuban student members, who make up roughly to the conference, and even so, limitations and U.S. diplomats and policy makers one-fifth of the association. In the same of space meant we could accommodate behind the normalization of relations spirit, “LASA at 50” will foster the only about 75 percent of those who between the two nations. In addition to the relaunch of Otros Saberes, thereby paving submitted proposals. (For the rigorous diplomatic challenges the two nations will the way for continuity with the Lima 2017 procedure that was undertaken for continue to confront, the dialogue will also Congress theme “Diálogo de Saberes.” selection, please see Program Chairs Ariel engage the flow of people, goods, and ideas Otros Saberes has recently organized a Armony and Amy Chazkel’s report, between the two nations as normalization LASA section and a new website, and the elsewhere in this issue.) proceeds. Yet another presidential panel, 50th Congress will feature a presidential “Latin American Transformations,” will session dedicated to the role of hip-hop LASA’s return to New York is particularly bring some of the most distinguished artists and activists in diverse political, fortuitous for reasons far more profound interdisciplinary thinkers in our field, social, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, and than historical symmetry. Over the course including John Coatsworth, Alejandro linguistic movements of the global South of LASA’s first half century, New York has Portes, Maria Hermínia Tavares de (which also includes the immigrant become an important part of “the field” Almeida, Florencia Mallon, and Steve J. imaginaries in the global North). The itself, a critical crossroads for the study of Stern, to assess changes over the past 50 vitality of Otros Saberes among LASA’s Latin America in its rich transnational and years. The panelists will focus on U.S. membership—and the opportunity it multilayered contexts. It is therefore fitting power and hegemony, migration and affords to consolidate collaborations that two of “LASA at 50’s” 39 program demographic trends, democracy and between academic scholars and intellectuals tracks privilege Latino/a studies, and many dictatorship, economic paradigms and and knowledge producers at the grass of our panels promise a continuing policies, and new grassroots roots—constitutes one of our organization’s 1 lasaforum winter 2016 : volume xlvii : issue 1 most promising renovating strategies as we As I began my presidential year I was keep working in the months ahead to be begin our next half century. charged by LASA’s Executive Council and able to deliver some encouraging news to Secretariat with coordinating a fund-raising the membership in a future issue of the The program of “LASA at 50” graphically effort around the 50th anniversary in Forum. Finally, let me emphasize that, underscores that LASA remains fully collaboration with LASA’s executive outside of the context
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