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Thelatinamericanist The LATINAMERICANIST University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies | Volume 45, Number 1 | Spring 2014 Inside this Issue 2 Director’s Corner 8 Faculty News & Publications 12 Student News 15 Thanks to our Donors 1 DIRECTOR’S Corner The LATINAMERICANIST Volume 45, Number 1 Spring 2014 his has Other highlights of the semester were Center for Latin American Studies Tbeen a busy talks by David Carrasco (Professor 319 Grinter Hall (should I say of Anthropology, Harvard University), PO Box 115530 hectic?) but very Maxine Margolis (Professor Emeritus of Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 (352) 392-0375 successful spring Anthropology, UF), Frank Mora (Director, www.latam.ufl.edu semester. Much Latin American and Caribbean Center, of the semester FIU), and David Samuels (Professor of Center–Based Faculty & was taken up Political Science, University of Minnesota). Professional Staff with candidate Also, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (Latin Philip Williams, Nathalia Ochoa Director Program Coordinator interviews for American and Caribbean Collection) (LAS) three senior and Lillian Guerra (History) curated an Efraín Barradas positions in Latin American Studies. The exhibition inspired by recent donations LAS/Spanish & Jocelyn Peskin, Portuguese Assistant Director, depth and quality of the applicant pool was to the Library’s Special and Area Studies Administration (LAS) a testament to the Center’s reputation as a Collections, “Revolucionarias: Women and Richmond Brown national leader in Latin American Studies. the Formation of the Cuban Nation.” Associate Director, Mary Risner, Associate Academic Programs Director, Outreach & We’re delighted to have hired three new (LAS) LABE (LAS) social scientists: Dr. Susan Paulson (Miami Finally, some of our faculty members University) will hold a 100% appointment received prestigious awards this past Emilio Bruna Patricia Delamônica in Latin American Studies; Catherine semester. Emilio Bruna (LAS/WEC) LAS/WEC Sampaio TCD Program Tucker (Indiana University) will hold a joint was selected as a new member of UF’s Jonathan Dain Coordinator (LAS) appointment in Anthropology and Latin Academy of Distinguished Teaching LAS/SNRE American Studies; and Robert Walker Scholars in recognition of his outstanding Marianne Schmink Carmen Diana Deere LAS/Anthropology (Michigan State University) will hold a and innovative teaching. Leslie Anderson LAS/FRE joint appointment in Geography and Latin (Political Science) and Susan Jacobson J. Richard Stepp American Studies (p. 5). We look forward (WEC) received UF’s Doctoral Dissertation Glen Galloway LAS/Anthropology Director, MDP (LAS) to welcoming them to the Center! Advisor/Mentoring Award. Lillian Guerra Welson Tremura (History) was awarded a fellowship from Ieva Jusionyte LAS/Music In addition to the three successful the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial LAS/Anthropology Pilar Useche searches, we also held the Center’s 63rd Foundation to support her project, Making Karen Kainer LAS/FRE annual conference, “Panama Considered” Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1959. If that LAS/SFRC (p. 4). The conference brought together wasn’t enough, the Latin American Studies Charles Wood Bette Loiselle LAS/Sociology the foremost experts on Panama to discuss Association (LASA) also named Guerra’s Director, TCD Program the country’s past and future from diverse book, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, (LAS/WEC) perspectives. Many of the participants Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 as (including several alumni) highlighted UF’s the recipient of the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Editor Graphic Designer Jocelyn Peskin, LAS Liquid Creative Studio many contributions and connections to Award for the outstanding book in Latin Panama. Moreover, we were delighted that American Studies published in the United a large number of prominent “Zonians” States (p. 6). were able to join us for the conference. S ENT 3 Rembering Gabríel Garcia Márquez 10 Outreach CONT 4 Immigration Reform and Beyond? 11 Alumni Career Profile 5 Center’s New Faculty Hires 11 Alumni News & Notes 6 Faculty Spotlight: Lillian Guerra 12 Student News 8 Faculty News and Publications 15 Staying Connected 2 “From your victim, Gabriel”: Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) n 1978, I was living in New York City. title of one he liked very much. It II had a fellowship that allowed me was a poem by the great Cuban to finish my doctoral dissertation writer José Lezama Lima. I said and work on my first book. Still I the title of the poem out loud. had some time to explore the city He looked down to the side of and meet new friends. One of them the desk to where I was sitting, informed me that he had found out smiled, and thanked me. After through another friend who had the class was over, we had a brief a friend who was a secretary at but wonderful conversation about Columbia University that the next Caribbean literature and music. I told him I only wrote criticism. He day Gabriel García Márquez was said that writers were the victims going to lecture in a creative writing García Márquez knew very well of critics, that I should write poems class. Immediately we decided to that the following day the number or short stories instead. I defended crash the class. When we got there, of visitors to the class was going literary criticism; I told him that we found out that many others to increase, so he suggested we all without critics writers would be had the same idea. The fairly large meet at Macondo Books, a Spanish working in a vacuum, that critics classroom was packed. I sat on the language bookstore on West 14th construct a literary canon. But he floor, next to the desk where García Street. So many fans came to the insisted in his idea. I knew that he Márquez was sitting. He did not bookstore that it had to be closed. would not convince me. So I got a lecture, but talked very casually Nevertheless, we had a chance to copy of El coronel no tiene quien le about poetry. He recited several speak, and he asked me if I was escriba, his favorite novel of all that poems from memory, but forgot the writing a novel. he had written to that date, and he inscribed it: “Para Efraín, de su víctima, Gabriel, 1978.” Since then I have treasured the book. Now that García Márquez has died, I have donated it to the Rare Books Collection at Smathers Library. There it will be preserved. I am sure that in the future someone will wonder why he wrote such a strange inscription. I hope this note will make it clear that he was not my victim. But I will always wonder if he was right, if I should have written 10 Outreach short stories instead of criticism. 11 Alumni Career Profile Who knows? 11 Alumni News & Notes Contributed by Efraín Barradas, 12 Student News Professor of Latin American Studies 15 Staying Connected and Spanish & Portuguese 3 EVENTS Immigration Reform & Beyond? The 5th Conference on Richmond Brown, Ida Altman, Lauren Krebs, Michael Conniff, and Karen Kainer at the conference opening reception Immigration to the US South October 23 – 25, 2014 Center’s Annual Conference University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA Spotlights Panama The 5th Conference on Immigration to the US South (formerly Conference The theme of the Center’s 63rd Annual Conference was “Panama Considered: on Immigration to the Southeast) is a Remembering the Past, Embracing the Future.” In part, the conference marked multidisciplinary meeting on immigration the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal in August 1914. to the US South. The conference will also engage in comparative analysis of The conference took place on the UF campus other regions and bring in transnational March 19-21, 2014, and featured more than 30 and global perspectives. Now that expert presentations on Panama. Highlights comprehensive immigration reform is back included addresses from Jorge Quijano, CEO on the legislative agenda, the conference of the Panama Canal Authority; Dr. Rubén seeks to promote an understanding of Berrocal, Secretary General of Panama’s the short-term and long-term challenges National Secretariat of Science, Technology Panama Canal Authority CEO Jorge Quijano of immigration reform with an emphasis and Innovation; Angeles Ramos Baquero, with Joe and Beverly Wood on finding practical and realistic policy director of the Museo del Canal Interoceánico alternatives. de Panamá; and historians Julie Greene, author of the award-winning The Canal Builders (2009) and Michael Conniff, 2014 UF Bacardi Scholar and the author of The conference is co-sponsored by the Panama and the United States (2012). A special evening University of Florida’s Center for Latin panel featured former Florida Governor and US Senator American Studies and the Program for Bob Graham, who was joined by former US ambassadors Immigration, Religion, and Social Change to Panama, Simon Ferro (UF JD, 1978) and Ambler (PIRSC); Kennesaw State University Moss, and was moderated by former Center Director Center for Conflict Management; the Terry McCoy. Conference presentations focused on Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI) such diverse topics as paleontology, geology, forest of Loyola University; and the Centro de conservation, finance, tourism, politics, Afro-Panamanian Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte heritage, indigenous peoples, and popular culture. of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. The conference also served to highlight UF’s contributions and connections with respect to Panama, Former FL Governor & U.S. Conference Registration Opens: Senator Bob Graham and and several of the presenters were UF alumni and Matthew Ubben August 1, 2014 faculty. A number of UF scholars work closely with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The For more information, contact Nathalia Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) recently won a multimillion NSF/ Ochoa: [email protected]fl.edu PIRE grant to fund research and educational outreach in connection with the ongoing canal expansion. As FLMNH scientist and curator Bruce MacFadden explains, the expansion offers a “once in a century” opportunity for scientists.
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