ILASSA27 Student Conference on Latin America, February 1 - 3, 2007
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Complete Conference Program [pdf - 258KB]
Selected Papers from the Conference (note: The titles below are taken from the official Conference Program; in some cases, the title on the paper does not match the title in the Program)
Panel: Indigeneity, Invisibility and Indigenisms
- Methods to Modernity: The Colombian Indigenist
Project of the
1920s, Igor Rodriguez
[pdf - 192KB] - The Indigenous Face of a White Nation:
Indigenous Peoples
Movements in Argentina, Adam Adkin
[pdf - 284KB] - Seizing the Lake: Tourism, Identity and Power of
the Indigenous
Peoples of Quilotoa, Ecuador, Belen Norona
[pdf - 307KB]
Panel: Contemporary Issues in Latin America-United States Immigration
- For Love or Money: Comparative Modeling of
Hispanic Migration
to New Orleans, LA and the United States, Emily
McRae
[pdf - 1.3MB] - Immigrant Access to Financial Services: A Study
of Latinos in New
York City, Kyla Levin-Russel
[pdf - 349KB] - The Role of Symbolic Legislation in the
Immigration Debate, Leya Speasmaker
[pdf - 272KB] - The Caring Networks of NGOs, Kendall
Zanowiak
[pdf - 1.63MB]
Panel: Accountability and Governance in Transition
- América Latina: governabilidade,
governance e desenvolvimento, Dirce Dutra
[pdf - 597KB] - Haiti: Transitions Less than Democratic,
Michelle Munroe
[pdf - 348KB]
Panel: Urban Spaces and Crime in Brazil
- Fatores de risco associados ao trabalho policial
no Rio de
Janeiro, Cleber Carmo
[pdf - 303KB] - Urban Space, Police and Crime, Bráulio
Alves da Silva
[pdf - 1.9MB]
Panel: Forging Identity and Creating Space: Perspectives from Media, Art, and Politics
- Changing Context, Changing Meaning: A Study of
Processional
Sculpture in the Corpus Christi Celebrations of Cuzco, Derek
Burdette
[pdf - 137KB] - La vigencia social de .La pérgola de
las flores,. la primera comedia
musical chilena, Laura Budzyna
[pdf - 215KB] - Free from the Shadow: Re-Identification of
Cultural Expression in
Argentina in the Face of Redemocratization, Amanda
Parker
[pdf - 238KB] - The Progression of the Modern Civil Union in
Argentina, Julia Decker
[pdf - 195KB] - Race and the Marriage Market in Belo Horizonte,
Todd Harvey
[pdf - 156KB]
Panel: Markets, Investments and Development
- Market Reform and Veto Players in Colombia,
Nestor Castañeda
[pdf - 273KB] - Institutions and the Evolution of Development
Economics in Brazil, Joe Vavrus
[pdf - 404KB]
Panel: Exploring the Importance of Visual Arts
- Democratic Devotion: The Role of Printing in the
Rise of the Cult of
Guadalupe, Sarah Bailey
[pdf - 160KB] - Práticas coletivas de artistas na
América Latina contemporânea, Claudia
Paim
[pdf - 3.8MB] - Political Rupture, Artistic Development: A
Critical View of the
Neoliberal Argentina of the Early 21st Century and Its Impact
on the Artistic Productions of the Period, Clara
Garavelli
[pdf - 219KB] - Woven Imagery: Significance of Aztec Textile
Designs, Jennifer Siegler
[pdf - 148KB]
Panel: Identity and Difference in Mesoamerican History
- The Spanish Moctezumas: Challenging Traditional
Representations
of the Moctezuma Family in New Spain, Cara Zacks
[pdf - 188KB] - "Each may select a little Indian girl, to his
satisfaction": Military Service, Captive Exchange, and the Making of a
Hispanic-
Apache Community in the Late-Colonial Chihuahua Borderlands,
Paul Conrad
[pdf - 218KB] - The Hispanization of Atlantic Nicaragua,
1894-1910, Samuel Frazier
[pdf - 370KB] - From Revolt to Revolution: Remembering the
Events of 1925 in
Kuna Yala, Kayla Price
[pdf - 59MB] - The Gendered City: Modernism, Masculinity, and
the Military in
San Salvador, 1920-1980, Rodgrigo Massi
[pdf - 308KB]
Panel: Making "Others" Visible in Brazil and Argentina
- Rethinking Ethnicity and Democracy: Argentina
and Its Silenced
Voices, Gabriella Hoberman
[pdf - 217KB] - Raça, desigualdade e
participação política em Belo
Horizonte, Natália Bueno and
Fabrício Fialho
[pdf - 202KB] - Quilombo: A Critical Review of a Brazilian Film,
Tristán Del Canto
[pdf - 203KB]
Panel: Social Policy: A Focus on Healthcare, Education and Social Capital
- Regional Inequalities on Health Services Supply:
An Analysis for
Brazil, 2002, Cristina Rodrigues
[pdf - 2.8MB] - Murky Waters: A Look at the Perpetual Challenge
of Water and
Sanitation Services in Guayaquil, Emily Joiner
[pdf - 490KB] - Reformas educativas en América Latina
en tiempos de crisis, Melchor Huamán
Cosi
[pdf - 202KB] - Guatemala's Bilingual Intercultural Education
System and
Indigenous Political Participation, Christina
Abreo
[pdf - 284KB]
Panel: Media, Information and Censorship
- O estado da arte dos estudos do jornalismo
digital no Brasil, Carla Schwingel
[pdf - 686KB] - Madam or Mr. President? Chile's Michelle
Bachelet, Press Coverage
and Public Perceptions, Sebastian Valenzuela
[pdf - 410KB] - Literacy, Censorship and Intellectual Freedom:
The Independent
Library Movement in Contemporary Cuba, Kelsey
Vidaillet
[pdf - 1.9MB] - An Examination of the Impact of Information
Communication
Technologies on Social Movements in Latin America, Aaron
Miller
[pdf - 386KB]
Panel: Historical Memory and Representations in the Southern Cone and Costa Rica
- How to Create a Republic with Words: Republican
Discourses
during Rio de la Plata Revolution, Gabriel Entin
[pdf - 333KB] - Historia y pasion: Olga Nolla y la nueva novela
historica, Judie Collazo
[pdf - 132KB]
Panel: Regional Integration
- Integração regional no
Mercosul: os governos subnacionais e a nova
realidade do federalismo no Brasil, Mariana
Barros
[pdf - 1.0MB] - Regional Integration and Global Insertion: Latin
American Case, Myriam Rincon Dyke
[pdf - 255KB] - El Rol de la infraestructura de transporte en la
integración de
mercados regionales: Una propuesta metodológica para la
identificación de hubs de transporte en las regiones del
Perú, Daniella Llanos and Cinthya
Pastor
[pdf - 2.8MB] - El Desarrollo vial de la comunidad sudamerica de
naciones mediante
el empleo del Turnkey Contract de las contrataciones de
participación publico-privada, Jimmy
Eric Alegria Moreano
[pdf - 669KB]
Panel: Entering and Exiting Brazil
- Movimentos migratorios fronteiriãos:
Bolivianos e Paraguaios em
Mato Grosso Do Sul, Angela Maria Marques
[pdf - 584KB] - "Nova Orleans"? Retention Factors for Brazilian
Undocumented
Immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans, Adam
Frick
[pdf - 231KB]
Panel: Violence, Health and Difference in Guatemala
- Issues of Femicide in Guatemala,
Allysun Jackson
[pdf - 125KB] - The Persistent Problem of Indigenous
Guatemalans. Access to
Health Care, Danielle Thal
[pdf - 217KB]
Panel: Social Movements and Solidarity
- Rowdy Cowboys and Masked Indigenas: Citizenship
and Autonomy
in Contemporary Social Movements, Marcelle
Beaulieu
[pdf - 313KB] - Solidarity across Borders: Vatican II and the
School of the Americas Watch Movement, Elizabeth
Harvey
[pdf - 181KB] - Walking the Walk: The Sanctuary Movement in a
Predominantly
Black Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas, Claudia
Rueda
[pdf - 326KB] - El Santo Negro en la tierra del
petróleo. La fiesta de San Benito
en Cabimas, Oleski Miranda
[pdf - 198KB]
Panel: Public Policy, Labor and Inequality
- Income Distribution in the Brazilian Labor
Market: Analysis of the
Years from 1981 to 2005, Alexandre Maia
[pdf - 426KB] - Product Market Competition and Informality in
Mexico, Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia and
Marín Lima
[pdf - 638KB] - Housing in Havana: A Socialist Paradox,
Lauren Nussbaum
[pdf - 300KB]
Panel: Latin America from a Literary Perspective
- Violent Literatures: Uniting the Nation,
Revealing the State, Stacey Hunt
[pdf - 312KB] - Ricardo Aleixo and Abelardo Rodrigues: The Black
Enunciation in
the AfroBrazilian Literature, Silvia Castro
[pdf - 157KB] - La identidad cultural puertorriqueña
en "El Regalo" de Rosario
Ferrão, Alicia
Reyes-Barriéntez
[pdf - 102KB] - Macondo sagrado y profano. Presencia del
pensamiento
antropológico de Mircea Eliade en el mundo de Cien
años de
soledad, Ulises Gonzales
[pdf - 158KB]
Panel: Placement and Displacement: The Impacts of Migration and Immigration
- Amerindian Land and Natural Resources Tenure
under the
International Human Rights Law, Henrique Alves
[pdf - 289KB] - Migración centroamericana
indocumentada en su paso hacia Estados
Unidos: La Iglesia Católica y la política de
regulación migratoria
en México, Paulina Alvarado Fernandez
[pdf - 994KB]
Panel: Latin America's International Relations
- La política exterior de Theodore
Roosevelt hacia América Latina: el
inicio de la política del Gran Garrote, Elisa
Gómez
[pdf - 196KB] - Impacto de los procesos de
liberalización y democratización en la
política exterior brasileña (1990-2003),
Adriana Melissa Avila Loera
[pdf - 917KB] - U.S.-Brazil Cultural Relations during World War
II, Marcio Siwi
[pdf - 301KB]
Panel: A Closer Look at Public Policy: Implications, Strategies, and Knowing When to Quit
- Veto Players e a Produção
de Reformas no Brasil, Daniel Duarte Guedes de
Andrade
[pdf - 210KB] - A Energia que desenvolve o mundo, Erico
Cardoso
[pdf - 1.3MB] - Determinantes
sócio-demográficos do baixo peso ao nascer em
cinco
capitais brasileiras (2003): desigualdades ou iniqüidades?,
Fabio da Silva Gomes
[pdf - 245KB] - El uso del concepto de Capital Social en
INDESOL, Icker Cogordan
[pdf - 126KB]
Panel: Transnationality and the Social Aspects of Migration
- Forging a New Identity: The Reconstruction of
the Mexican Worker
Family in the Context of Transnational Communities, Rajeev
Gundur
[pdf - 220KB] - Women on the Border: Culture, Class and
Community in "Reynosa,
Veracruz,", Kristen Petros
[pdf - 404KB] - Remittances and Income Inequality in El
Salvador, Karen Juckett
[pdf - 195KB]
Panel: Musical Border Crossings
- Listening for Place, Marketing Identity: Latin
American Composers
of New Music in the U.S., Marc Gidal
[pdf - 184KB] - The Transgression of the Racialized Subject in
the Language of
Brazilian Hip-Hop, Adriana Lopes
[pdf - 801KB] - Rapping Rebellion: Hip Hop as a New Social
Movement in Cuba, Heather Kirkwood
[pdf - 322KB] - The Funky Diaspora: The Diffusion of Soul and
Funk Music across
the Caribbean and Latin America, Thomas Fawcett
[pdf - 290KB]