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Thirteenth Joseph Vélez Latin American

Studies Conference

Baylor University

Race, Religion and Democracy:

Latin America in a Globalized World

February 9th-10th, 2007

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT:

— Dean Lee Nordt, College of Arts and Sciences

— Dr. William Mitchell and Dr. Michael Morrison, Directors, Center for International Education

— Dr. Marc Ellis, University Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies

— Dr. W. H. Bellinger, Jr., Craig Professor of Bible & Chair, Religion Department

— Dr. H. Stephen Gardner, Director, McBride Center for International Business, School of Business

— Dean Terry Maness, School of Business

— Dr. Truell Hyde, Vice Provost for Research and Director of CASPER

— Dr. Michael Long, Interim Chair, Department of Modern Foreign Languages

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INSTITUTO DE ANÁLISIS ESTRATÉGICO Centro Iberoamericano de Estudios Jurídicos Instituto Metodológico de Derecho

Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL DE ESPAÑA y Políticos POLÍTICOS (CIF: G-83.729.111) Eclesiástico del Estado y Sociología

(CIF: G-84.674.894) Jurídica (G-83.729.103)

Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes

Director of Latin American Studies

Baylor University

Conference Coordinator

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

LOCATION: NORTH VILLAGE COMMUNITY CENTER

8:30 Registration

9:15 Welcome

9:30 SPECIAL SESSION:

Para una transformación radical de la estructura educativa: el advenimiento del prosumidor

Dr. José Luis Gómez-Martínez, Distinguished Research Professor, The University of Georgia

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 DICTADURA EN LA LITERATURA PERUANA

Chaired by Dr. Mark Anderson

Confluencia de poderes: Experiencia histórico-literaria en el Perú

Dr. Alcibíades Policarpo, Sam Houston State University

NEW ECOTOURISM IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Chaired by Dr. Mark Anderson

The Resilience of Vulnerable Households: Adjusting to a Newly Constructed Ecotourism in the Aftermath of Hurricane Iris

Dr. Sara Alexander, Baylor University

11:50 Lunch at Chili’s Too

1:15 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Race and Religion in the New Globalized Latin America: Vehicles or Obstacles

to Democracy?

Dr. Jeffrey Klaiber

2:15 SPECIAL SESSION:

Are States Ready to face Terrorism? The Case of Mercosur Members

Dr. Andres Fontana, Dean of Graduate School, Universidad de Belgrano,

Argentina

3:15 Coffee Break

3:30 BRAZILIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Chaired by Dr. Lancelot Cowie

Culture, Citizenship, and the Politics of Drought in Northeastern Brazil

Dr. Mark Anderson, University of North Texas

Pixote: Growing Up on the Streets / The Text

Dr. Alejandro Latinez, Sam Houston State University

4:15 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Chaired by Dr. Lancelot Cowie

The Mayan Hero Myth and the New World Order

Dr. Garrett Cook, Baylor University

Los hijos del sol: Reflexiones sobre el pensamiento político de los pueblos

indígenas en el Ecuador

Patricio Morales, Pueblos Indígenas, Ecuador

5:30 SPECIAL SESSION AND RECEPTION

(sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies)

Please walk over to Marrs McLean-Science Building, Room 133

Chaired by Dr. Manuel García-Castellón

Christian Liberation Theology: Reflections from a Jewish Theology of

Liberation

Dr. Marc Ellis, University Professor, Baylor University

7:30 LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC RECITAL (Please walk over to McCrary Building)

Cellist: Prof. Dennis Parker, Louisiana State University

Pianist: Dr. Celso Chaves, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Pampeana No 2 “Rapsodia”para Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

violoncelo y piano

Sonata para Violoncelo y Piano Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987)

Allegro deciso

Tempo di Siciliana

Rondo: Allegro

From "El Amor Brujo" Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Pantomima

Canción del Amor Dolido

Danse Rituelle du Feu

Paper Engineering (for Piano Solo) Celso Loureiro Chaves (1950-)

Ponteio-tristonho M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)

Dansa-Festivo

Preludio No. 2 Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Elegia

Modinha Francisco Mignone (1897-1986)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10

LOCATION: MARRS MCLEAN-SCIENCE BUILDING (MM-S)

8:30 LITERATURA CHILENA CONTEMPORANEA (in MM-S B17)

Chaired by Lanie Millar

La lucha para reconstituir la identidad en el cuento “Érase una vez en un

supermercado muy lejano,” de Darío Oses

Genny Smith, MA student, Baylor University

Memoria y poder en Nadie sabe más que los muertos, de Ramón Díaz Eterovic

Audrey Bryant, MA student, Baylor University

El silencio y el poder de la palabra en la obra de Marcela Serrano

Gabriela Thomson, MA student, Baylor University

The Use of Pairs in Neruda’s Poema Número XX and “Explica Algunas

Cosas”

Faith Rice-Mills, MA student, Baylor University

8:30 EL CINE LATINOAMERICANO (in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Dr. Yolanda Forero-Villegas

El cine cubano contemporáneo: Rigoberto López

Dr. Nina Bruni, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Cuento y trasposición fílmica: ‘Oriane, Tía Oriane,’ de Marvel Moreno y

‘Oriana,’ de Fina Torres

Ako Walker, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad

9:20 LITERATURA LATINOAMERICANA (in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Cristina Coleman-Rosa

Descubriendo la voz chicana en … y no se lo tragó la tierra, de Tomás Rivera.

Michelle Porter, MA student, Baylor University

El fin de la utopía en El fin de la locura por Jorge Volpi

Tara Murray, MA student, Baylor University

10:15 Coffee Break (in MM-S 133)

10:30 LITERATURA AFRO-BRASILEIRA E AFRO-HISPÁNICA (in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Dr. Roberto Fuertes-Manjón

Discurso abolicionista en Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825-1917), primera literata

afro-brasileña

Dr. Manuel García-Castellón, University of New Orleans

El proyecto modernizador en Chambacú, corral de negros, de Manuel Zapata

Olivilla

Dr. Yolanda Forero-Villegas, University of Mary Hardin Baylor

Vanguardas Artísticas: o Poeta Paulo Leminski

José Molina, MA student, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

El limbo urbano de la afro-mestiza

Víctor E. Agosto, PhD student, Texas A& M University

10:30 NEOLIBERALISM (in MM-S B17)

Chaired by Dr. Robert Mackin

Neoliberal Governance and the Growth of Evangelical Ministries in Mexico

Dr. Ethan P. Sharp, University of Texas-Pan American

Democracy: Just a Superfluous Excuse for Neoliberalism

Dr. Ricardo J. Gómez, California State University-Los Angeles

11:15 LIBERATION THEOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA (in MM-S B17)

Chaired by Dr. Nina Bruni

Church Strength and the Origins of Liberation Theology in Latin America

Dr. Robert S. Mackin, Texas A& M University

Politics, Professional Boundaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood

Dr. William Schmidt, Independent Scholar, Texas

12:00 Lunch in Marrs McLean Science 133

1:30 MÉXICO Y LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA: SU ARTE Y LITERATURA

(in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Dr. Manuel García-Castellón

Huellas de la guerra cristera en De los altos (1991), de Guillermo Chao

Ebergenyi

Dr. Lancelot Cowie, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad

El sentido del arte mexicano en el contexto del exilio republicano español

Dr. Roberto Fuertes-Manjón, Midwestern State University

Entre la bachata, el bolero y la represión: Resistencia contra el trujillismo en

tres novelas dominicanas

Dr. José Rodríguez-Valentín, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Bayamón

1:30 LANGUAGE AND DANCE IN LATIN AMERICA (in MM-S B17)

Chaired by Christine Guedri

Language as Increased Presence: Latin American Immigration to the United

States

Dr. Fred Loa, Baylor University

“Machos” and “Rascals”: Performances of Masculinity in the Afro-Brazilian

Practice of Capoeira

Cristina Coleman-Rosa, PhD student, University of California-Los Angeles

2:20 DESPLAZAMIENTO Y GUERRA CIVIL (in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Dr. Ethan Sharp

El desplazamiento por la violencia en Album (2004), de Manuel Silva

Rodríguez

Jemima Ovid, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Caperucita en la zona roja: preámbulo de la Guerra Civil salvadoreña

Isaac G. Rivera Campos, University of North Texas

3:15 Coffee Break in Marrs McLean Science 133

3:30 BRAZILIAN LITERATURE AND CINEMA: THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH

(in MM-S 133)

Chaired by Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes

O Catolicismo e a Igreja Evangélica em Conflito no Romance O Matador

Christine Guedri, PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin

A Paródia do Casamento em O Casamento, de Nelson Rodrigues

Lanie Millar, PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin

Padre Marcelo Rossi: A Case Study in Brazilian Catholicism

Tristán del Canto, MM student at The University of Texas at Austin

IDENTITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (in MM-S B17)

Chaired by Víctor Agosto

Transterritorialization, Identity and Exile in the Poetry of Eduardo Espina

Rosalinda Aregullín, Texas A & M University

Human Rights and Women in Nicaragua

Agatha Noble, University of Montana

Rosas and Ríos Montt: Recurring Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Alicia Reyes-Barrientez, MA student, Baylor University

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