1 PROGRAM Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 68th Annual Conference, Virtual March 18-20, 2021 Supported by Center for Latin American and Border Studies and Instructional Media Services New Mexico State University 6 pm – 8 pm Opening Reception (March 17) Saturday, March 20 8:00 am Executive Committee Meeting 6:30 pm Closing Reception and Awards Banquet Íñigo García-Bryce President, RMCLAS 2021 Program Committee, RMCLAS 2021 Steven Bunker (Modern) Peter Henderson (Modern) Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Colonial) Susan Ramirez (Colonial) 2 RMCLAS Executive Committee William H. Beezley Carolyne Ryan Larson Mark A. Burkholder Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Steven Bunker Mark Lentz Roderic Camp Stephen Lewis John F. Chuchiak IV Michael Matthews Richard Conway Chad McCutchen Linda Curcio-Nagy Maria Muñoz Susan Deeds Dana Velasco Murillo Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas Martin Nesvig Sterling Evans Stephen Neufeld Kirstin Erickson Jeffrey Pilcher Robert Ferry Fabricio Prado Arturo Flores Susan Ramirez William French Monica Rankin Iñigo García-Bryce Christoph Rosenmüller Virginia Garrard-Burnett Ray Sadler James Garza Friedrich Schuler Catherine Tracy Goode John F. Schwaller Donna Guy Jeffrey Shumway Jay T. Harrison Kathryn Sloan Peter Henderson Susan Socolow Lyman Johnson Michele McArdle Stephens Robert Jordan Donald Stevens Susan Kellogg Jonathan Truitt Kris Lane Ann Twinam L.J. Andrew Villal 2 RMCLAS Lifetime Members Michael Paul Abeyta Aaron Moulton William H. Beezley Roy C. Nelson Michael Brescia Martin Nesvig Jurgen Buchenau Stephen Neufeld Steven B. Bunker Frederick M. Nunn Mark A. Burkholder Eul-Soo Pang Roderic Camp Laura J. Pang Elaine Carey Lee Penyak John F. Chuchiak IV Jeffrey Pilcher Margaret Chowning Susie Porter William Connell Bianca Premo ThomasM. Davies, Jr. Susan Ramirez John J. Dwyer Frances L. Ramos Arturo Flores Monica A. Rankin William French Anton B. Rosenthal Iñigo García-Bryce Shelli L. Rottschafer Jian Gao Louis R. Sadler Virginia Garrard-Burnett James S. Saeger Efrain E. Garza Robert Schwaller Kevin Gosner Kathryn A. Sloan Donna Guy Gabriela Soto Laveaga Peter Henderson Donald F. Stevens Robert Himmerich y Valencia Aurea Toxqui Christina M. Jiménez Jonathan Truitt Robert Jordan Ann Twinam Susan Kellogg Martin Valadez Stephen Lewis L.J. Andrew Villalon Brian Loveman David Weiland Colin M. MacLachlan Edward Wright-Rios Jane Mangan 2 RMCLAS 2021 – Online Conference Final Program THURSDAY MARCH 18, 8:30-10:15 (Mountain Time) (Pacific Time: 7:30-9:15 am, Central Time: 9:30-11:15 am, Eastern Time: 10:30 am-12:15 pm) 1. Early Nation Building: Abolition, Ideological Debates, & Popular Politics Chair: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent Mark Mairot, San Diego Mesa College, "Life After Wartime: A Regional Economy in Early Republican Mexico" Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent, “The Abolition of Slavery in Hispanic South America” Lisa M. Edwards, University of Massachusetts Lowell, "Elections and Democratic Rhetoric in Early Republican Chile, 1811-1845" Francisco Quiroz, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, "Republican Disillusionment? The History of Peru by Basilio Cortegana (1848)" Argelia Segovia Liga, El Colegio de Michoacán, “The Roots of Discontent: The People Who Made the Junta Protectora de las Clases Menesterosas in Mexico, 1865-1867” Comment: Audience 2. New Directions in the History of the Colonial Northern Borderlands Chair: Susan M. Deeds, Northern Arizona University Susan M. Deeds, Northern Arizona University, “Reassessing the Jesuit Enterprise in Colonial Northwestern Mexico” Elisa Coronel, UAM Xochimilco, “Presencia de mujeres de origen afrodescendientes en la Sonora colonial” Catherine Tracy Goode, The Americas Research Network, “The Properties of the San Juan de Santa Cruz Family in 18th-century Chihuahua” Comment: Audience 3. Daily Lives and Daily Struggles in Colonial Latin America Chair: Leo Garófalo Hannah R. Abrahamson, Emory University, “The Encomendera’s Domain: Personal Service and its Limits” Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College, “Afro-Andean Lives and Livelihoods in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cuzco” 3 Liz Elizondo, Virginia Military Institute, “Intimate Ties: The Business Partnership and Love Affair of Gertrudis de los Santos and Philip Nolan” Maria Marsilli, John Carroll University, “The Many Lives (and deaths) of Lef-Traru: Colonial Transculturation and Ethnic Betrayal in the Construction of Chilean national Identity” Comment: Audience 4. La Sociedad de Naciones y América Latina Chair: Fabian Herrera León, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas - Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo Thomas Fischer, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, “Latin America, the League of Nations and the Monroe Doctrine” Itzel Toledo Garcia, Universidad Iberoamericana, “Women in International Organizations during the Interwar Period: the case of Mexican Palma Guillén” Fabian Herrera León, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas - Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, “México y la Sociedad de Naciones: el uso retórico y político de su trayectoria” Comment: Robert Weis, University of Northern Colorado 5. La cuentística posmoderna y su acto polifónico Chair: Andrea Perales-Fernandez-de-Gamboa, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/ University of the Basque Country Alfredo Hernández, Arizona State University, "Bilingüismo transitorio: huellas del bilingüismo fronterizo en los cuentos de Luis Humberto Crosthwaite y Rafael Saavedra" Kerry Helena Green, Arizona State University, "La impulsión de los afectos en el cuento “Os amores de Kimbá” de Conceição Evaristo" Monica Covarrubias, Arizona State University, "Del amor en la posmodernidad: dos relatos de Claudia Ulloa" Comments: Dr. Andrea Perales-Fernandez-de-Gamboa, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/ University of the Basque Country 6. POSTER SESSION (Posters will be available for the duration of the conference but those who wish to speak to the authors should plan to visit during this time or over the lunch break today. Use emails to contact presenters if you wish to set up an alternate meeting time at the poster – this session will be available through the program GATHER) Collaborative, Open-Source Tools for Researching Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Chair: Gabrielle Vail, UNC Chapel Hill, [email protected] Deborah (Debbie) Anderson, UC Berkeley, "Making Maya Hieroglyphs Accessible Online via Script Encoding Initiative Project" [email protected] 4 Carlos Pallán Gayol, Andrew Glass, and Céline Tamignaux, (1, 3) University of Bonn; (2) Microsoft Corporation, "Integrating Mayan Textual Repositories with Phase-Two Font Development" [email protected] Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández, (1) UNC Chapel Hill; (2) Tulane University, "Enhancing the Classic Maya Text Repository using Rubbings from Tulane's Latin American Library" [email protected] Holly Maxwell and Stephen White, (1) University at Albany; (2) Università Ca' Foscari, "Comparing Linguistic Patterns within Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Across Time, Space, and Media" [email protected] THURSDAY MARCH 18, 10:30am-12:15pm (Mountain Time) (Pacific Time: 9:30-11:15 am, Central Time: 11:30am-1:15 pm, Eastern Time: 12:30 -2:15 pm) 7. Race and Culture in Modern Latin America Chair: Alison Newby Rebecca Kennedy de Lorenzini, California State Polytechnic University, “The Pioneering Work of Nina S. de Friedemann and the Transnational Roots of Black Consciousness Movements in Colombia” Susan Goodier, Suny Oneonta, “Demanding the Right to Vote across Racial Lines in a (Il?)Liberal Democracy” Larisa Carranza, University of London, "Saving Latin Village: Solidarity Within a London Cultural Landmark" Comment: Audience 8. New Research on the Andes Chair: Karen Viera Powers Kathy Fine-Dare, Fort Lewis College (Colorado), “Lithic Power and Gender in the Northern Andes: Healing, Punishment, and Transculturation Across Time and Space” William Fischer, Missouri Southern State University, "Are You a True Patriot? Dominican State Formation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 20th Century.” Chad McCutchen, Minnesota State University at Mankato, “For the Peacefulness and Conservation of the Natives: Changing Sociopolitical Contexts of the Two Republics in Early Colonial Peru” Comment: Karen Viera Powers 9. Activistas, Mojados, and Alambristas: Transnational Representations of Mexican American Identity in 20th Century Film, Television, and Autobiographical Narratives Chair: Michelle Johnson Vela, Texas A&M University Verónica N. Duran, University of Nebraska, "Donde Se Encuentra Carrascolendas: Race, 5 Gender, and Aida Barrera’s Carrascolendas within a National and Transnational Scope" Michelle Johnson Vela, Texas A&M University, “Migratory and Transnational Identities in a Twentieth-Century Border Testimony” Marco Iñiguez Alba, Texas A&M University, "Theorizing Migration: Border Semiotics and Signs in Twentieth-Century Borderland Film" Comment: James Garza, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10. Sino-Russian Diasporas and Gringo Missionaries in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Chair: Steven B. Bunker, University of Alabama Jian Gao, University of Texas Austin, "Political Mobilizations and Cultural Spaces: Transnational Chinese Associations in Mexico, 1922-1945" Andrea Scott, University of Alabama, “For Love, Country, and Puppetry; Angelina Beloff’s Russian Version of Mexican Nationalism” Juan Vega Ramirez, California State University, Chico “Examining the Summer Institute Of Linguistics Exile from Mexico, 1934-1979” Comments: Audience 11. Religion in New Spain: Games, Miracles, and Other Untold Stories Chair: