Cyberspace 2021 Official Program

Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

68th Annual Meeting

Institutional Sponsors:

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Wingate University Winthrop University

Cyberspace 15-18 April 2021 SECOLAS Officers: About SECOLAS: President: Alvis Dunn, UNC Asheville President-Elect: Monica Rankin, University of Texas, Dallas Established in 1953, the Southeastern Secretary-Treasurer: Steven Hyland, Wingate University Council of Latin American Studies Editor, TLA: Greg Weeks, UNC Charlotte (SECOLAS) is a non-political and non-profit Co-Editors, Annals: Jürgen Buchenau, UNC Charlotte and association of individuals interested in Latin America. Its objectives are the promotion of Gregory Crider, Winthrop University interest in Latin America, scholarly research pertaining to Latin America in all fields, and Executive Committee: the increase of friendly contacts among the Immediate Past President: Reginald Bess, South Carolina peoples of the Americas. State University Preceding Past President: Jackie Sumner, Presbyterian SECOLAS is a 501(c)3 organization. College At-large 2021: Lily Balloffet, Western Carolina University At-large 2021: Martin Nesvig, University of Miami SECOLAS Zoom Moderators: At-large 2022: Eunice Rojas, Furman University Susanny Acosta, UNC Charlotte At-large 2022: Colin Snider, University of Texas, Tyler Rossmery Palacio, UNC Charlotte At-large 2023: Maria Zalduondo, Bluefield College Julia Poppel, UNC Charlotte Paul Telljohan, UNC Charlotte At-large 2023: James Shrader, Rowan University Contingent Faculty 2022: Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University SECOLAS extends its thanks to the following Graduate Student 2022: Vanessa Castañeda, Tulane individuals for their critical assistance in University organizing the annual meeting:

Mili Cabrera, Maestro Meetings Local Arrangements Committee: John Meyers, Maestro Meetings Monica Rankin, University of Texas, Dallas Lazaros Amanatidis, Maestro Meetings John McLeod, UNC Press Jürgen Buchenau, UNC Charlotte Dylan Stroupe, UNC Press Gregory Crider, Winthrop University Steven Hyland, Wingate University ______

Program Chairs: Literature and Cultural Studies General Business Meeting Eunice Rojas, Furman University Thursday, 15 April History and Social Sciences 6:30-8:00pm EST (UTC-04:00) Colin Snider, University of Texas, Tyler

Award Committees: The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Subscribe to Historias, Beau Gaitors (2021), Winston Salem State University the podcast from the Angela Willis (2022), Davidson College David Dalton (2023), UNC Charlotte Southeastern Council of Latin

The Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article American Studies Paul Worley (2021), Western Carolina University Lily Balloffet (2022), University of California, Santa Cruz Find us on your favorite podcatcher! Fernanda Bretones (2023), University of Florida 1111111 1111111 111111111111111111111111 1111111 1111111 111111111111111111111111 Graduate Assistant: 1111111 11111111111111111111111 Susanny Acosta, UNC Charlotte 1111111 1111111 2 All times listed are EST (UTC-04:00).

Thursday, April 15

Thursday, Session 1, 11:00am-12:45pm

1. Race, Nation and Identity at the Intersection of Mexico-US Societies Chair: Lisa Pinley Covert, College of Charleston Mexican Catholic Hispanism as a Reflection of U.S.-Mexico Relations during the 1920s and 1930s Ricardo Alvarez-Pimentel, Yale University

Hope for a New Society – Sinarquista Colonization in the Borderlands, 1941-1944 Nathan Ellstrand, Loyola University Chicago

Patriotism and Mexicanization within the American Protestant Mission in Porfirian Mexico Cynthia Martinez, Rice University

Discussant: Lisa Pinley Covert, College of Charleston

2. Pedagogical Approaches to Latinx Studies 1: US-based Border Crossings and Tropicalizations in the College Writing Classroom Karen Cruz, Concordia U Chicago

Is Latinidad Cancelled? Re-shaping the Contours of Latinidad in a Latinx Lit/Culture Seminar María J. Durán, Brandeis U

Creating a Latinx Studies Program at a Rural, Regional Comprehensive University Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina U

Discussant: Javier Pabón, Methodist University

3. Recentering Brazil: New Perspectives A Historia de Vida de Vazanteiros Deslocados pela UHE Estreito em Babaçulandia-TO Lucas André de Silva Dias, Universidade Federal de Tocantins

Charting the Planalto Central: the quest for a new capital and the opening of the Brazilian interior in the 1890s Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State University

3 Bandeiras in the Backlands: Nationalist Performances and the Development of Rural Health Care during the Estado Novo Cari Maes, Oregon State University

A precariedade dos corpos femininos nos feminicídios do Brasil Carolina Freitas de Oliveira Silva, Universidade Federal de Pelotas Marcus Vinicius Spolle, Universidade Federal de Pelotas Amílcar Cardoso Vilaça de Freitas, Instituto Federal Sul-Rio Grandense, câmpus Lajeado

Thursday, Session 2, 2:00-3:45pm

4. Lessons learned during the implementation of the Model Police Precinct (MPP) Projects in Guatemala and Honduras Chair: Wayne J. Pitts, RTI International, National Director Guatemala MPP Project and Project Director Honduras MPP Project

An Overview of the Pillars of the Model Police Precinct (MPP) Wayne J. Pitts, RTI International

Observations and Findings from the Guatemalan Repatriation Longitudinal Survey Study Christopher S. Inkpen, Demographer and Sociologist, RTI International

Impact of Covid-19 on Honduran Community Police Operations Raquel Ovalle, Central Region Director, Guatemala MPP Project; Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Honduras MPP Project

Impact of Police Driver Training on Accidents, Maintenance, and Repair Costs: A Case Study of the Honduran National Police Alejandro Alay, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Guatemala and Honduras MPP Project

Preliminary Evaluation Results from the Honduras National Police Comprehensive Officer Safety and Wellness Program Omar Ventura, Western Highlands Region Director, Guatemala MPP Project; Deputy Director, Honduras MPP Project – San Pedro Sula

Comments Guillermo Garcia, RTI International

4 5. Pedagogical Approaches to Latinx Studies 2: Transnational Abuelo-Palenque: aesthetics, pedagogy, and political struggle in the teachings of Abuelo Zenón Javier Pabón, Methodist University

Ixcanul y Cine Janal como ¿producción cinematográfica maya? Cristina Zhunio, Northeastern Illinois University

In chan kaajalo’ob: Oralidad, identidad, y la producción cultural ¿de los mayas latinxs? Sarah M West, Northeastern Illinois University

Transforming White Cube Pedagogy: Disrupted Narratives and the Exhibition of US Latinx Art Andrea Lepage, Washington and Lee University

Discussant: Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

6. Freedom, Customs, and Doctrines in the Colonial Period: Legal History Today Chair: Christoph Rosenmüller

Jurisdiction on the Mountain in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University

Repúblicas y municipios, entre la crisis del orden colonial y la formación constitucional en el Río de la Plata Alejandro Agüero, Universidad de Córdoba

Law, Freedom and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Lima: The Case of Domingo de Goa in 1561 Renzo Honores, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad

The Interpreter and the Repartimiento: Flight, Rebellion, and a Conflict of Interest in Colonial Yucatan Mark Lentz, Utah Valley University

Translation and Justice in Nahuatl Petitions (ca. 1650-1750) Christoph Rosenmüller, Middle Tennessee State University

7. Negotiating Subjectivity through South American Art and Film Dictatorship and Descent: Subverting Authority and Destabilizing Normative Identity in the Work of Paz Errázuriz Damon A. Reed, Virginia Commonwealth University

5 The Not-So-Just World: The Undocumented Valedictorian Trope in Matthew Newton’s Film, From Nowhere Patricia Reagan, Randolph Macon College

Puertas afuera: Watching a Maid’s Journey in La novia del desierto Andrea Meador Smith, Shenandoah University

An Ekphratic Understanding of Self and Nation in Álvaro Bisama’s Música marciana Eunice Rojas, Furman University

Thursday, Session 3, 4:00-5:45pm

8. Race, Rights, and Belonging in Latin America From the Quilombola Perspective: History and Narratives of the Sambaquim Quilombo in Contemporary Times José Luiz Xavier Filho, Prefeitura Municipal de Lagoa dos Gatos-PE

Ethno-Racial Rights and Justice for Afro-Colombians Tara Yañez, Tulane University

Brazilian racism and its resignification in the current conjuncture Cristiane Lourenço, Universidade Federal Fluminense

9. Land, Forests, Lakes, and Produce: Indigenous Traditions amidst Spanish Oversight, New Studies of Environmental-Cultural History of Colonial Mexico Chair: Martin Nesvig, University of Miami

Macehual, pipiltin, and Indigenous Community Responses to Land and Labor Predation in the Sixteenth Century Martin Nesvig, University of Miami

Custom, Jurisdiction, and Justice: The Evolution of Mesoamerican Forestry Practice in Early New Spain Chris Wooley, UNC Pembroke

Ethno-Environmental Fetishization: Pulque, Cochineal, and Cacao in Colonial Mexico Joan Bristol, George Mason University

Forced Resettlement Programs and the Environmental History of Seventeenth-Century Lacustrine Communities in Central Mexico Richard Conway, Montclair State University

6 10. Queer Theory in Latin America: Honoring the Work of David William Foster Queering El Fútbol: Observing Homoaffectivity in Martín Farina’s Fulboy Patrick Ridge, Virginia Tech

Queer Slum Tourism in the Works of Salvador Novo and Carlos Monsiváis Daniel Holcombe, Georgia College and State University

Homoaffective Encounters in Cuentos de fútbol argentino Kyle K. Black, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota

José Mojica Marins and the Queer Conundrum of Horror as Parody Charles St-Georges, Denison University

11. Violence, Affect, and the Body in Recent Latin American Fiction and Film Sujetos performativos, audionarración y escenografías en fuga: Distancia de rescate (2014) de Samanta Schweblin Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Davidson College Luis H. Peña, Davidson College

The Echoes of the Marvelous Realism: a Comparative Reading of J. J. Veiga’s Sombras de Reis Barbudos and Ali Abbasi’s Gräns Lucas Sanches C. Rodrigues, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Friday, April 16

Friday, Session 4, 11:00am-12:45pm

12. New Perspectives on Cold War Inter-American Relations (I) Chair: Jonathan Brown, University of Texas at Austin

Mexico y la revolución en Centroamérica: Las bases de una política de Estado, 1979-1981 Mario Vázquez Olivera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The United States and the Falklands War James Lockhart, Zayed University

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War in Latin America Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno

7 13. Masculinities and Oralities in Contemporary Latin America Flower Boys Over Machos: Metropolitan Youth Rejecting Toxic Masculinity through K- Pop Min Suk Kim, The University of Texas at Austin

Wrestling with Mask-ulinity: How Exóticos Challenge Hegemonic Masculinity Catherine Prechtel, Tulane University

Landscapes of Abandonment and Beleaguered Masculinity in Contemporary Bolivian Literature and Film Zoya Khan, University of South Alabama

“¿Todavía sigues escuchando esto?” Amplifying reparative homosociality in Güeros Joseph Hiller, Duke University

From “Degraded Spanish” to Cultural Representation: Three Expressions of Chilean Orality Michael Bromberg, Tulane University

14. The White Boy’s Playground: Masculinity and Empire in the Popular Construction of Mexico Chair: Diana J. Montaño, Washington University in St. Louis

Reclaiming American Masculinity in the US-Mexico Borderlands Allison Huntley, Angelo State University

Under a Fiery Mexican Landscape: The Boy Scouts in Revolutionary Chihuahua Marco A. Macias, Fort Hays State University

White Boys’ Burden: Technology & Masculinity in the Mexican Countryside Diana J. Montaño, Washington University in St. Louis

15. Imagining Nation and Space YouTubing Mexico: The New (Imagi)Nation and (Inter)National Capitalism Mario Bahena Uriostegui, Johnson C. Smith University

The Production of Virtual Favela Space in Social Media Adrián Gras-Velázquez, Smith College Jamie L. Worms, Auburn University

Narrating India as a Dharma-Centric Civilization in Contemporary Contexts: A Critical Examination of Octavio Paz’s In Light of India Anshuman Saxena, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

8 Friday, Session 5, 2:00-3:45pm

16. The Cultures of Nature Across the Americas Stephanie Friede, Wake Forest University Brian Burke, Appalachian State University Nora Haenn, North Carolina State University Nicole Fabricant, Towson University

17. Race, Religion and Representation in Cuban Cultural Production The Whitewash of Blackface in José Martí: El ojo del canario by Fernando Pérez José Manuel Batista, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Azúcar!, pero ¿para quién?: Representation and Intersectionality of Womenhood, Afro- Cubaness, and the Exile in the Music of Celia Cruz Elias Larralde, Florida State University

Escritores cubanoamericanos de la segunda generación: entre dos latitudes Arturo Matute Castro, Kennesaw State University

18. Identity, Transnational Ties, and Migrant Populations When Internal Migration Fails: Central American Youths' Attempts to Relocate Internally before Migrating Internationally Angel A. Escamilla-García, Northwestern University

Soccer and the Development of the Peruvian Community of Paterson, NJ, 1960-2000 Gianncarlo Muschi, National Coalition of Independent Scholars

American Polarization and Brazilians Abroad: Does Exposure to Trump Explain Support for Bolsonaro? Rodrigo Nunes, St. Edwards’ University

19. Women in Life and Death in Nineteenth Century Latin America Imágenes amenazantes: la mujer en el espacio público según la pintura costumbrista y la narrativa cubana decimonónica María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, Florida Atlantic University

La intimidad de papel: cartas y diarios personales en novelas de Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) que cuestionan el valor del matrimonio en la sociedad decimonónica Débora Maria Borba, Purdue University

9 Eidetical Lives: Elegies to Latin American Women in the Corona Fúnebre (1858-1898) Maria Zalduondo, Bluefield College

Friday, Session 6, 4:00-5:45pm

20. Encomienda and Indigenous Rights Negotiated Subjecthood: Indigenous Pueblos and the Politics of Water Rights in Seventeenth-Century New Spain Cody J. Love, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Indios Earned with the Lance: New Perspectives of the Encomendero Revolts in Early Colonial Peru Chad McCutchen, Minnesota State University, Mankato

A Black Legend: Frey Nicolás de Ovando and the Encomienda of the Atlantic World Sebastián Arturo Blas Beller, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Censuses, Chronological Ages and the Negotiation of Tribute in the Sixteenth-Century Viceroyalty of Peru Alfredo Escudero-Villanueva, Florida International University

21. Identity, Alienation, and Resistance in Cultural Production The Transformation of American Immigrant Autobiography in Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diario de un mojado Ricardo Castells, Florida International University

La literatura mexicoamericana y el reflejo del inmigrante durante la Revolución Mexicana Karla González, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Race and rebellion in an early painting by Mel Casas Ana Pozzi Harris, University of North Georgia

Rooted in the margins: Latinx cover songs Lori Oxford, Western Carolina University

22. Ruins, Memory, and Political Violence in Latin America Paraguay Requecho: Environmental Ruins, Isolation and Revolution in Son of Man (Roa Bastos 1960) Federico Pous, Elon University

10 The Ruins of the Central American Civil Wars: Progress and Catastrophe Juan Leal Ugalde, Elon University

The Ruins of Disillusionment: Film Production and the Failure to (Re)build Peruvian Society Pablo Celis-Castillo, Elon University

23. New Perspectives on Cold War Inter-American Relations (II) Omar Torrijos, Fidel Castro, and the Sandinista Revolution Jonathan Brown, University of Texas at Austin

Showdown in Punta del Este, January 1962: Dean Rusk vs. Santiago Dantas James Hershberg, George Washington University

Revolutionary Dreams: Catholic Clergy in Central America, 1965-1985 Virginia Garrard, University of Texas at Austin

Saturday, April 17

Saturday, Session 7, 11:00am-12:45pm

24. Ethnicity and National Identity in the Twentieth-Century "My Heart Is Longing So Much": Transnational Family Letters in the Making of Chinese Mexicans, 1907-1949 Jian Gao, University of Texas at Austin

El establecimiento del Consulado General del Imperio Otomano en Buenos Aires y el papel de la emigración, según los archivos otomanos Oguzhan Yener, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

The Health of Nations: Mestizaje & Strength in the Work of Jose Vasconcelos Everet Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Organized Labor and the Church in 1920s Mexico Gregory Crider, Winthrop University

25. Publics and Poetics in the Mid-Century Latin America La inmigración judía a la Argentina y el desarrollo de un teatro ídish en Buenos Aires en el período de entre guerras Paula Ansaldo, Universidad de Buenos Aires

11 Gregorio Torres Quintero y La Vaquera: reflexiones en torno al México post- revolucionario Alexis Ortiz, Brescia University

From Hot Goss to International News: Intimate Publics, Published Intimacy, and the Power of Gossip in Carolina Maria de Jesus’s Quarto de Despejo Emily Travis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Mediating the Simultaneous: Poetics and Public Relations of Octavio Paz in 1968 Joseph Mulligan, Duke University

26. Pedagogy I Measurable outcomes and relational values in a setting that is pedagogical among other things Chuck Sturtevant, Davidson College

A importancia das estrategias inclusivas para alunos com TEA - Transtorno do Espectro Autista em tempos de pandemia no municipio de Caieras-SP, Brasil Maria de Fátima Destro de Arruda, Preifeitura de Caieiras, São Paulo, Brasil

Modelos conceptuales de la discapacidad en los programas de intervención temprana del Peru Xavier Fuentes Avila, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

27. Self, Resistance, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Gran Mexico

El cine cristero en el siglo XXI Edma Delgado Solórzano, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance through Post-NAFTA Mexican and Chicana/o Science Fiction David Dalton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

People of the Plants: Agriculture as Indigenous Epistemology in Chiapas and New York Sean Sell, University of California, Davis

Saturday, Session 8, 2:00-3:45pm

28. Pedagogy II Teaching Outside the Textbook: Creating an Introductory Latin American Studies Course that Includes the First-hand Experiences of Those Who Lived There Leigh Ann Wilson, Brandman University Zoila Gordon, Brandman University

12 Publish your paper!

THE LATIN AMERICANIST ANNALS ISSUE

Presenters at the April 2021 SECOLAS virtual meeting are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in The Latin Americanist Annals issue. The Annals edition is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal issue published by the University of North Carolina Press in behalf of SECOLAS, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Winthrop University.

The Latin Americanist Annals issue publishes scholarly articles from any academic discipline that include original research concerning Latin America. Manuscripts may be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, and should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, including notes, tables, and works cited. Authors should include a 150-200 word abstract with their manuscripts.

Inquiries and correspondence should be sent to the email addresses of the Co-Editors (below). The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2021.

Manuscripts should be formatted in the style sheet used in the contributor’sPUBLISH discipline, such YOUR as University PAPER! of Chicago, A Manual of Style, or the MLA Style Sheet.

For further information, contact:

Dr. Gregory S. Crider Co-Editor, TLA Annals issue Winthrop University [email protected] 980-297-3461

Dr. Jürgen Buchenau Co-Editor, TLA Annals issue The University of North Carolina at Charlotte [email protected] 704-687-4635

THE LATIN AMERICANIST: SECOLAS ANNALS ISSUE

Presenters at the March 2017 SECOLAS meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in The Latin Americanist: SECOLAS Annals Issue. The Annals Issue is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal published by SECOLAS, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wiley-Blackwell.

TLA: The SECOLAS Annals Issue publishes scholarly articles from any academic discipline that include original research concerning Latin America. Manuscripts may be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, and should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, including notes, tables, and works cited. Authors should include a 150-200 word abstract with their manuscripts.

Papers are chosen for their scholarship, general interest, readability, and interdisciplinary appeal to all Latin Americanists. A manuscript should be submitted electronically to The Latin Americanist located on ScholarOne Manuscripts at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tla. Inquiries and correspondence should be sent to the email addresses of the Editors (below). The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2017.

Manuscripts should be formatted in the style sheet used in the contribtors discipline, such as University of Chicago, A Manual of Style, or the MLA Style Sheet.

Dr. Gregory S. Crider Co-Editor, TLA: SECOLAS Annals Issue Winthrop University [email protected] 980-297-3461

Dr. Jürgen Buchenau Co-Editor, TLA: SECOLAS Annals Issue The University of North Carolina at Charlotte [email protected] 704-687-4635

5 Using lessons on language contact situations to facilitate interaction in HL and L2 mixed classrooms Emily Bernate, St. Edward’s University

Perfil De Las Tesis Para La Obtención Del Título Profesional En La Escuela Nacional Superior De Folklore José María Arguedas Miriam Milagros Carreño Colchado, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

29. Race, Migration, Self, and Nation Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College

Vicente Coleoni: Lima Barreto’s Inextricable Italian Joseph Pecorelli, University of North Georgia

Viajeros y viajeras: historia cultural de la movilidad en el mapa americano. El Dr. Franck en el panorama literario puertorriqueño Mercedes Fernández-Asenjo, Binghamton University, SUNY

Hispanic Caribbean Women Documentary Directors: The Search for Identity and the Nation Dolores Alcaide Ramírez, University of Washington, Tacoma

30. Gender and Youth “So many ways to lose them”: Routes of Youth and Resistance in Rosario Castellanos’ Balún Canán Lauren Reynolds, The University of North Alabama

Cotton, makeup, and a prosthetic penis: Male and female incarnation repertoires in the mid-20th century in Argentina Patricio Simonetto, University College of London

The Position of la mulata trágica transgénero within the Cuban Diaspora(s) as seen in the Special Period: 1991-2000 Jaime Ashby, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Acercamiento a tres representaciones hegemónicas de la niñez en Guatemala (1970-2020) Perla Patrícia Polanco Pérez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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15 31. Where has the “Cultural Turn” taken Latin American History? Co-Chairs: Pablo Palomino, Emory University Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University

Cocaine History as Cultural History: Medellín as Case Study Lina Britto, Northwestern University

Labor, Migration, and Cultural Innovation in South American Football (1930s-1970s) Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University

Beef and the “Cultural Turn” in Latin American History Pablo Palomino, Emory University

Concert Dance and the Cultural History of Revolutionary Cuba Elizabeth Schwall, Northern Arizona University

Saturday, Session 9, 4:00-5:45pm

32. Material Life and Culture in the Colonial Era The Price of an "Unburdened Conscience:" Local Rivalries, Witchcraft, and Empire in the Colonial Andes Mark P. Dries, Southeastern Louisiana University

The “Other” Sor Juana: Racialized Subjectivities, Languages, and Cultures in the Ensaladilla to the Villancico Series in Honor of San Pedro Nolasco (1677) Carlos Macías Prieto, Williams College

Chicha Pots and Silver Spoons: Food, Material Culture, and Identity in the Colonial Andean Cities Jane Mangan, Davidson College

The Baroque Science of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Mauro J. Caraccioli, Virginia Tech

Female Education and Religious Devotion: The Development of the Enlightened Woman Shayna Mehas, Elon University

33. A Roundtable Discussion on Mexico’s Tourist Economies: Crises and Consequences Bianet Castellanos, University of Minnesota Carlos R. Hernández, Southern Methodist University Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, University of California, San Diego Lisa Pinley Covert, College of Charleston

SAVE THE DATE!

69th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)

March 2022

Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 October 2021

SECOLAS invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit panel and individual paper proposals for participation in the conference.

SECOLAS welcomes submissions on any aspect of Latin American and/or Caribbean Studies.

Graduate student presenters will be eligible to submit their paper for the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award for the best paper presented at the SECOLAS meeting.

After the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their paper for publication consideration in the SECOLAS Annals issue of The Latin Americanist, an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the University of North Carolina Press for SECOLAS.

Local Arrangements Monica Rankin, Department of History, UT Dallas, [email protected] Jürgen Buchenau, Department of History, UNC Charlotte, [email protected] Gregory Crider, Department of History, Winthrop University, [email protected] 34. Militaries and Elites in Authoritarian & Transitional Societies The Politics of Human Rights Prosecutions: Civil Military Relations During the Alfonsín Presidency, 1983-1989 Gabrielle Esparza, University of Texas at Austin

From Humanism to Human Resources: Brazilian Empresarios and Educational Reform, 1961-1998 Colin M. Snider, University of Texas at Tyler

Esquadroes da Morte e o Regime Militar no Brasil Márcia Gomes Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Amapá

The Legacy of Ruling Elites in El Salvador Saul Leon Dubon, University of Texas at Dallas

35. Policy and the Public in Inter-American Relations in the Twenty-First Century From Policy Windows to Broken Windows: The Politics of Citizen Security in Argentina and Chile Mary Rose Kubal, St. Bonaventure University

Donald Trump and the Evolution of Latin American Autonomy Greg Weeks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The COVID-19 Pandemic Across Latin America and the Caribbean: A Heuristic Model for Understanding the Complex, Interactive Impacts Vincent T. Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College

In Times of Crisis: Evaluating the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement in the Context of MERCOSUR's Leadership and Identity Crisis Devika Misra, Jawarhalal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Sunday, April 18

Sunday, Session 10, 11:00am-12:45pm

36. Political and Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Latin America From Residential to Professional Policing: Justice, Order, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Keegan Boyar, University of Chicago

“Born of the Conquest”: Porfirian Depictions of the Spanish Invasion of Mexico Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University

18 Las Elecciones en la Campanha Sur de Buenos Aires: Entre la Caida de Rosas y la Union Nacional (1852-1862) Laura Orta Moreno, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Black Leading Men: Gender, Patronage, and Status among African Origin and Descended Catholics in Slaveholding Brazil, 1850-1888 Alicia L. Monroe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

37. Epistemologies and Archaeologies and Ethnographies Epistemological Authority and the Political Economy of Mexican Archaeology Sam Holley-Kline, Florida State University

Por que uma Psicologia Decolonial na Amazonia? Leandro Aparecido Fonseca Missiato, Faculdade de Ciências Biomédicas de Cacoal

Ancestral Philosophy of Alli Kawsay, the Voice of the Mother Nature in the Middle of the Antropoceno Eduardo Erazo Acosta, University Nariño

The Hills Are Alive: Dimensions of Non-Human Personhood among the Ancient and Modern Maya Orion Hanna and Brent K. Woodfill, Winthrop University

38. Revolution and Society in the Age of Independence Toussaint L'Ouverture's Legacy: Bussa and the 1816 Rebellion in Barbados Lewis Eliot, University of South Carolina

Smoldering Ashes: The Aftermath of the Tupac Amaru Rebellion, 1783-1809 Silvia Escanilla Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

¡Maldita Revolucion!: The Afterlife of Transnational Revolutionary History in Mid-Nineteenth Century Colombia Spencer Gomez, University of California-Irvine

Mission Impossible: The 1810 Voyage of the Dorothea to Mexico Timothy Hawkins, Indiana State University

39. Nation and Identity in the Caribbean Basin The Innocents and the Others: War, Imperialism, and the Symbolism of Children in Cuba, 1895-1899 Richard Denis, Florida International University

The Zone before the Canal: A History of the Chiriqui Improvement Company Henry Jacob, Yale University

19 “Dominicans…The First Spaniards of America”: Santo Domingo And the Discursive Struggle for Identity, 1830 – 1833 Antony Wayne Keane-Dawes, University of South Carolina

Pedro "Pete" Augusto del Valle and Puerto Rican Responses to Empire Micah Wright, Boise State University

Sunday, Session 11, 2:00-3:45pm

40. Asserting Citizenship: Race and Class in the 21st Century Afro-Peruvian Visibility and Recognition in the 21st Century Daniel Cozart, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Shipibo-Conibo of Cantagallo: Urban Indigenous Claims to Citizenship in Lima, Peru Julia Poppell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Percepción Ciudadana del Neoliberalismo en Argentina Rebecca Rodríguez Minor, Universidad Anahuac-Cancún

Race, Class, and Identity in Regional Cuisines: the Case of Brazil M. Luci Moreira, College of Charleston

41. Cultures of Resistance: Music, Art, and Literature São Paulo e a moradia burguesa: a contribuição dos projetos Art Nouveau de Victor Dubugras (1903-13) Amanda Bianco Mitre, Universidade de São Paulo

Stealing Saxophones from a Fascist: The Challenges of Musical Activism in 1930s Brazil Micah Oelze, Adelphi University

Gender, Class, and the Tlatelolco Massacre in Jorge Fons’ Rojo amanecer (1990) Noe Pliego Campos, University of Notre Dame

Sneaking Across the Digital Divide: Piracy and Music Making in Havana's Bedroom Studios Mike Levine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

42. Moments of Uncertainty: Society and Daily Life in the Late Colonial Era The Fabulous Career of Don Ignacio Martinez, Imposter Chad Black, University of Tennessee

20 Timely Exchanges: The Centralization of the Real Renta de Correo in Bourbon Peru, 1713-1808 William Cohoon, Uplift Williams Preparatory School

Social Networks, Obscure Activities, and Criminal Life of Colonial Elite Members in Lima, Peru Judith Mansilla, Florida International University

Las Milicias frente a los movimientos insurrecionales en Venezuela durante el siglo XVIII Ebert Cardozo Sáez, Universidad de Los Andes

43. Reframing Inter-American Relations: Perspectives of the Hemisphere from Latin America & the Caribbean Iglesia, Desarrollo y Alianza para el Progreso en Chile (1961-1970) Froilán Ramos, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

El dia que Omar Torrijos obligo a los Sandinistas a negociar con los Estados Unidos Fabián Campos Hernández, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The Development of Baseball in Colombia - A Caribbean Anomaly? Jane Rausch, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Towards a Small Island State Film Tourism Industry? The History of Film Location Policy in Jamaica, 1948-2018 Emiel Martens, University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam

Sunday, Session 12, 4:00-5:45pm

44. Power, Politics, and Political Discourse in the 21st Century The memes to the power: Bolsonaro and the strategy of language simplification (Brazil, 2018-2020) Letícia Costa Silva, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

The Guatemalan Left in the 21st Century Mike Allison, University of Scranton

Anticorruption in Mexico under Lopez Obrador Stephen Morris, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

History of Authoritarian Rhetoric and U.S.-Cuba Foreign Policy Ana Valdez Curiel, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

21 45. New Perspectives on Revolutionary Mexico "Martyrdom" in the Mexican Revolution: The Life and Death of General Francisco R. Serrano Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Mexico and the U.S. amidst Oil, Revolution, and War Alexander Grimm, Winthrop University

Mobile Women: Tracking Visiting Nurses across Rural Oaxaca, 1935-1950 Marissa Nichols, Emory University

46. Economies and Networks of Contact in Colonial Latin America La comunicación política transatlántica de Buenos Aires: una aproximación a los procuradores porteños, 1580-1630 Arrigo Amadori, Cosejo Nacional de Investiaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Persons of Mala entrada and Descamino de Varios Negros: Smuggling Investigations in 1740s Camagüey, Cuba Trevor Bryant, Florida International University

"Hunger, the Biggest Battle": Weaponizing Food, Fueling Resistance in the Luso-Dutch Struggle for Brazil Suzanne Marie Litrel, Independent Scholar and History Education Consultant

“Recovered amber from the Indians of the coast…at the cost of my royal estate”: Ambergris, Florida Governors, and the Spanish Crown, 1592-1657 Peter J. Ferdinando, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Modernidad barroca latinoamericana: la Compañía de Jesús y el arte barroco César Miguel Salinas Ramos, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

47. Social Movements, Environment, and Politics in the 20th Century Surviving a Plant Pandemic: Jamaican Smallholders, Bananas, and Panama Disease, 1910-1930 Matthew Plishka, University of Pittsburgh

Transforming peasant politics into environmental politics: The CSUTCB in Bolivia 1970-1985 Olivia Arigho-Stiles, University of Essex

The Guatemalan Guerrillas: The Cuban and Soviet Influence, 1940s-1980s Brandon Sanchez, Tulane University

Mujeres Cubanas Contra el Machadato: Women's role in the resistance against Gerardo Machado Dani McIvor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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