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PCCLAS
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The Pacific Coast Council on Latin
American Studies
The Contexts and Consequences of Neoliberalism
Whittier College
Whittier, CA
November 6-November 8, 2003
Thursday, November 6, 2003
3:00pm-4:30pm at Hartley House
Executive Committee Meeting
2:00pm-7:00pm: Registration (Deihl Hall Portico)
November 5-November 15: Nuestra América, a Photography
Exhibit by Carlos Ugalde (Lobby of the Shannon Center for the
Performing Arts)
7:30pm: Quetzal at the Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, November 7, 2003
8:00am-5:00pm: Registration (Deihl Hall Portico)
8:00-8:30am: Breakfast Refreshments on Deihl Portico
8:30-9:00am: Welcome
Deihl 118
Doreen O’Connor-Gómez, 2003 Conference Organizer
Session I: 9:00am -10:30am
Panel 1: Transnational Issues and Migration
Deihl 004
Chair: José Orozco, Whittier College
David Diaz, CSU-Northridge
“Immigrant Latinos and the Affordability Crisis”
Thomas C. Wright, University of Las Vegas, Nevada
“Salvadorans in Las Vegas: A Growing Presence in a New Ethnic
City”
Carlos Salomon, San Francisco State University
“The Recent Impact of Transnational Indigenous Organizations in
Mexico and the US”
Panel 2: Eras of Change in Mexico and Bolivia
Deihl 118
Chair: John Mason Hart, University of Houston
María Duarte, CSU-Los Angeles
“Porfirio Díaz vs. The United States”
Kenton Haleem, CSU-Los Angeles
“Visual Imagery in Public Art: An Attempt to Change or Control
a Mexican Society”
Carlos Pérez, CSU-Fresno
“British Free Trade vs. Bolivian Protectionism: The Case of M.I.
Belzu’s April 7, 1849 decree”
Panel 3: Advances in Maya Cave Archeology
Deihl 104
Chair: Carol Atkinson-Palombo, ASU
Mike Mirro, CSU-Los Angeles
“Archeological Investigations at Barton Creek Cave: Maya Ritual
Cave Use in Western Belize ”
Vanessa Owen, CSU-Los Angeles
“Death Along the Underground River: An Analysis of Human Remains
in Barton Cave”
James Brady, CSU-Los Angeles
“Political Desecration of Sacred Landmarks in the Context of
Ancient Maya Warfare”
Roundtable I: Film Resources for the Latin American
Curriculum
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: Patricia Juarez-Dappe, CSU-Northridge
Student Participants: Roberto Ortega, Tirzah Champ, Alvaro
Medina, Roberto Alcazar, Whittier College
Friday, November 7, 2003
Session II: 10:45am – 12:15 pm
Panel 4: An Ethnographic Analysis of Ulama
Deihl 104
Chair: Gigi Terminel, Whittier College
César Espinosa, CSU-Los Angeles
“Ideological Continuity and Discontinuity in Ulama”
Mario Davila and James Brady, CSU-Los Angeles
“An Economic Analysis of Rubber Production in the Aztec Empire”
María Ramos, CSU-Los Angeles
“An Interdisciplinary Study of the Role of Women in Ulama”
Panel 5: Symbols, Communication, and Meaning
Deihl 118
Chair: Thomas C. Wright, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Kristyna Demaree, CSU-Chico
“Saints in Transition”
Rosalind Bresnahan, Editor, Latin American Perspectives
“El Mostrador and Primera Línea: The Limits of Progressive
On-line Journalism in Chile”
Daniel Durán, Whittier College
“The Wired Che Factor: The Role of the Internet on Radicalizing
Latin American Social Movements or How the Information
Ministries Were Asleep at the Wheel When Brother Che Called
Back”
Panel 6: Education, Learning and Neoliberalism
Deihl 004
Chair: Claudia Ramírez-Wiedeman, Whittier College
Javier Urbina, UCLA
“Today’s Neoliberalism and the Future”
Joan B. Anderson, USD
“Social Capital and Student Learning: Empirical Results from
Latin American Primary Schools”
Mansoor Kapasi, UCLA
“Educational Reform in Latin America Under the Influence of
Neoliberalism”
Roundtable II: Raza Press, Media and Popular Expression:
Its History and its Use as a Tool for Liberation
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: Luis Moreno, CSU-Northridge
Participants: Luis Moreno, José Moreno, Francisco Romero
12:15-2:00: Lunch (on own—see list of Uptown restaurants in
your registration packet)
12:15-1:45: Board of Governors Lunch (Hartley House)
November 5-November 15: Nuestra América, a Photography Exhibit
by Carlos Ugalde (Lobby of the Shannon Center for the Performing
Arts)
Friday, November 7, 2003
Session III
2:00-3:30pm
Panel 7: Corporate Governance, Neoliberalism and
The Environment
Deihl 118
Chair: Daniel Durán, Whittier College
Colin Griswold, UABC, Tijuana
“Corporate Governance Reform in Mexico”
Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Arizona State University
“Argentina-Crisis and Contagion”
Juana M. Véliz, CSU-Los Angeles
“21st Century Neoliberalism: Plan Puebla Panamá in Mexico”
Derrick Hindery, UCLA
“Social and Environmental Impacts of Economic Restructuring in
Bolivia: An Analysis of Enron and Shell’s Hydrocarbon Projects”
Panel 8: Questions of Gender
Deihl 104
Chair: Ericka Verba, Occidental College
Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, UCLA
“Women’s Health and Structural Adjustment in Matagalpa,
Nicaragua”
Melissa Strong Carrillo, UCLA
“Learning from the Poor: Defining the ‘Modern’ Woman in Elena
Poniatowska’s ‘Se necesita muchacha’ and ‘Juchitán de las
mujeres’”
Michelle Ladd, Claremont Graduate University
“Smoke Rings: Cigar Labels, Masculinity, and Pleasure”
Panel 9: Narrative and Cultural Production
Deihl 004
Chair: Cristián Ricci, Whittier College
Misha Kokotovic, UC San Diego
“After the Revolution: Central American Narrative in the Age of
Neoliberalism”
Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez, Sonoma State University
“Indigenous Harmony of Life Being Lost: The Examples of Manlio
Argueta and Sandra Benítez”
Alejandro Solomianski, CSU-Los Angeles
“La Pesadilla Neoliberal en el Cono Sur”
Kara Zugman, CSU-Dominguez Hills
“This Bridge Called Zapatismo”
Roundtable III: Starting and Maintaining Latin American
Studies Programs
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: Marjorie Bray, CSU-Los Angeles
Participants: Heather Williams, Pomona College; Norma
Chinchilla, CSU-Long Beach; Irene Vasquez, East Los Angeles
College
Friday, November 7, 2003
Session IV
3:45-5:15pm
Panel 10: Ancient and Modern Indigenous Sacred Landscapes
Deihl 004
Chair: Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College
Shankari Patel, UC Riverside
“The Nexus of Built and Natural Landscapes in Maya Pilgrimage”
Reiko Ishihara, UC Riverside
“Landscape and Political Appropriation of Sacred Symbols”
Sergio Garza, UC Riverside
“Indigenous vs. Western Perspectives on Landscape”
Panel 11: Looking Back: Nostalgia and the Past in the History
of Cuban Slavery
Deihl 118
Chair: Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, Whittier College
Discussant: Robin L.H. Derby, UCLA
José Ortega, UCLA
“Estos Infernales Apóstoles: The Limits of Social Control in the
Cuban Slave Regime, 1789-1844”
Adrian López Denis, UCLA
“Losing Paradise: Nostalgia as a Slave Disease in Eighteenth
Century Cuba”
David Sartorius, Whittier College
“Cuban Liberalism, the Moment of Emancipation and the Limits of
Loyalty”
Panel 12: Villismo at Home and Abroad
Deihl 104
Chair: Irene Vasquez, East Los Angeles College
Victoria Lerner, UCLA and UNAM
“Villistas in Exilc”
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, UCLA
“Ethics and Ideology of Villismo”
Irene Vasquez, East Los Angeles College
“The Indigenous Context of Villismo”
Roundtable IV: The Importance of Community and Student
Activism in Chicano Studies: The Struggle for a Political Voice
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: José Moreno, CSU-Northridge
5:30-7:30pm: Artist Reception: Nuestra América, a Photography
Exhibit by Carlos Ugalde
Appetizers and no-host bar in the Founders Room (adjacent to
lobby) of the Shannon Center
7:30pm: GRUPO TROTEATEATRO presents:
Había una vez at the Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 8, 2003
8:00am-12:00 noon Registration (Deihl Hall Portico)
8:00-9:00am: Breakfast Refreshments on Deihl Portico
Session V
9:00-10:30am
Panel 13: International Law and Human Rights Violations
Deihl 004
Chair: Nadine Loza, CSU-Los Angeles
Linda Alvarez, CSU-Los Angeles
“The InterAmerican Court of Human Rights”
Francisco Martínez, CSU-Los Angeles
“Applications and Limitations of International Law to the
Military Junta in Power During Argentina’s Dirty Little War”
Tanya Russell, CSU-Los Angeles
“Afro-Colombians in the Chocó Region: Rights to Ancestral Lands,
Violence, and Massive Displacement”
Sandra Lomeli, CSU-Los Angeles
“The Human Rights Violations of Brazilian Children”
Panel 14: Human Rights NGOs in Latin America
Deihl 104
Chair: Celia Simonds-Hidalgo, CSU-Los Angeles
Gabriela S. Torres, CSU-Los Angeles
“The Role of NGOs in Human Rights”
Gonzalo Martínez, CSU-Los Angeles
“Human Rights Organizations and Their Role and Impact in Mexican
Politics”
Juana M. Véliz, CSU-Los Angeles
“Human Rights Defenders in Mexico”
Juanita del Toro, CSU-Los Angeles
“Witness for Peace in Nicaragua”
Panel 15: Social Struggle in Latin America
Deihl 118
Chair: Les Howard, Whittier College
Ben Oppenheim, London School of Economics
“Soil and Struggle: Civil Conflict and State Formation in
El Salvador and Costa Rica”
Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, CSU-Northridge
“Neoliberalism and the Religious Reformation in Latin America”
Jack Ferrell, Northern Arizona University in Yuma
“Nonviolent Social Movements in Latin America: Prospects for
Peace and the Civil War in Colombia”
Lynn Horton, Chapman University
“From Revolution to Free Markets: Nicaraguan Small Farmers
Confront Neoliberalism”
Roundtable V: Asian Communities in Latin America
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: Tamar Diana Wilson, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Saturday November 8, 2003
Session VI
10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 16: Political Processes and Policies
Deihl 104
Chair: Deborah Norden, Whittier College
Ernesto Sweeney, Loyola Marymont University
“Reinventing the Mexican Revolution, 1994-2003: Neoliberalism in
Action”
Lois Hecht Oppenheim, University of Judaism
“Managing the Neoliberal Model in Chile: Economic Policy Under
the Lagos Government”
Alba Hesselroth, USC
“Don’t Underestimate the Power of Policy Ideas: The Ideational
Context and Economic Policy Change in Perú in 1990”
Panel 17: Neoliberalism and Latin American Theater
Deihl 118
Chair: Alicia Partnoy, Loyola Marymount University
Lola Proaño Gómez, Pasadena City College
“Neoliberalismo y estéticas teatrales latinoamericanas”
Alicia del Campo, CSU-Long Beach
“La globalización al desnudo: teatralidades de resistencia en el
Chile neoliberal”
Gustavo Geirola, Whittier College
“Del pasado, de la repetición y del porvenir: voz, sonido y
lenguaje en el teatro latinoamericano reciente”
Panel 18: US-Mexican Relations and Human Rights Issues
Deihl 004
Chair: Marisol Grajales, CSU-Los Angeles
Gerardo Briceño, CSU-Los Angeles
“Betrayal and Violation: History of Cheap Labor, Repatriations
and the Struggle for Justice”
Jean Graham, CSU-Los Angeles
“Juvenile Detentions at the US-Mexican Border”
Arturo Martínez, CSU-Los Angeles
“NAFTA and its Consequences”
Steven Trujillo, CSU-Los Angeles
“Human Rights and the 1997 Massacre of Acteal, Chiapas”
Panel 19: Nuestra América: Un poema personal audiovisual
Presented by Carlos Ugalde
Art Seminar Room
Roundtable VI: Latin American Studies and Today’s High School
Curriculum
Center for Academic Success (Science Bldg. First Floor)
Leader: Ali Ahmadpour, East Los Angeles College
12:30-2:30pm
Lunch: THE CLUB (lower level of the CI, adjacent to The Spot)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Gómez, CSU-Los Angeles
“Globalized Neoliberalism: Refutation and Debacle”
Presentation of the 2003 Herring Awards
Presentation of the Bradford Burns Award
2:30-4:00pm: PCCLAS Membership Meeting
Deihl 118
Moderator: Marjorie Bray, CSU-Los Angeles
WHITTIER COLLEGE
Whittier College is a four-year independent residential liberal
arts college distinguished by its small size, nationally
recognized liberal arts curriculum, and innovative
interdisciplinary programs. The Religious Society of Friends
established the town of Whittier in 1887 and the Whittier
Academy the same year. Whittier College grew from the academy
and was chartered by the State of California in 1901 with a
student body of 25. Both the town and the college were named in
honor of John Greenleaf Whittier, prominent Quaker, poet, and
leader in the abolitionist movement. Although the college is no
longer affiliated with the Society of Friends, the college is
proud of its Quaker heritage, which is evidenced in many ways,
including respect for the individual, commitment to a diverse
student body and faculty, freedom of conscience, and respect for
human differences. Faculty and students at Whittier College
share a love of learning and delight in the life of the mind.
They join in understanding the value of the intellectual quest,
the use of reason, and a respect for values. They seek knowledge
of their own culture and the informed appreciation of other
traditions, and they explore the interrelatedness of knowledge
and the connections among disciplines. The college’s primary
mission is to educate students in a small college atmosphere
where they can learn, acquire skills, and form attitudes and
values appropriate for leading and serving in a global society.
It seeks to do this in the context of a diverse, friendly and
caring community, Committed to excellence in undergraduate
education, Whittier also offers selected advanced degrees, and
the Whittier Law School is an important part of the total
institution.
Thank you for being a part of the 2003 PCCLAS Conference!
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