The IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Association presents
On Heritage and Struggle: Deconstructing Neoliberal Assumptions and Realities
8th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE March 1st and 2nd, 2019
About CLACS The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) was founded in 1963 (originally as the Latin American Studies Program) as an umbrella organization uniting Latin Americanists from all campuses of Indiana University (IU). As a Title VI National Resource Center in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and part of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at IU, CLACS is a pivotal site for research, instruction, and outreach focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. CLACS also sponsors a wide range of lectures, confer- -ences and events highlighting aspects of the region’s cultures, societies, and languages in addition to providing information on Latin America and the Caribbean to local, regional, and national constituencies. CLACS provides interdisciplinary academic programs in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to students preparing for careers in research, teaching, or management in public, private, or nonprofit sectors. CLACS offers an undergraduate minor and area certificate, a Master’s degree, three-year Dual Master’s Degree programs (Business Administration, Library Science, Information Science, Law, Public Health, and Public Affairs) and a doctoral minor and certificate. 2
Keynote Address Acoustic Colonialism and Its Counter-Currents: Sounds and Listening(s) in the Mapuche Territory This talk will focus on how the invasive sounds of the colonial city and hydroelectric dam projects in Chile's Mapuche territories contribute to the long history of “acoustic colonialism.” In order to offer a critical reflection on this issue, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante will examine how Indigenous modes of voicing and listening are performed in audiovisual works by Mapuche artists/activists, including filmmaker Jeannette Paillan and video artist Cristian Wenuvil. Specifically, the talk will discuss audiovisual works in which the sounds of water and Mapuche modes of voicing and listening are staged as responses to contemporary colonialism, in light of both the long colonial history of Chile and the current era of neoliberalism. This will allow Professor Cárcamo-Huechante to elaborate on the relationship between sound and colonialism as well as the Indigenous modes of listening that are performed as counter-currents to “acoustic colonialism” in Wallmapu, the Mapuche territory. This presentation is part of Professor Cárcamo-Huechante's ongoing theoretical and methodological research, which brings together approaches from Indigenous Studies and Sound Studies, drawing on Mapuche concepts related to language, sound, and territory.
Friday, March 1st, 4 p.m. in GA 0001 Followed by Reception in GA 1060
Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante Director of the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin
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FRIDAY, March 1st
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies 355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST - 8:30 - 9:00 AM GA 1106 9:15 AM 10:30 AM
Panel 1 : Mexico in Focus (GA 1106) Jorge Rios Allier (Indiana University) — The Innovations in Finance Mechanisms from Subnational Levels Applied in Management Cultural Resources in Mexico Guadalupe Arellanes (California State University, Los Angeles) — "Dark-Skinned": Writing Black Mexicanas Out of the Juarez Murders Jorge Puma (University of Notre Dame) — The Failed Imposition of the Education Reform in Oaxaca and the Successful Counter-refomist Movement of the Dissident Local 22 of the National Teacher’s Union, 2013-2018 Carmina Spíndola (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) — Unbreakable Motherhood: Women and Children Adoption in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico DISCUSSANT: Dr. Peter Guardino
10:45 AM 11: 45 AM
Panel 2: Reimagining Resistance (GA 1106) Hector Araya (Université Catholique de Louvain) — Challenges of the Discourse of Sexuality in the Theology of Liberation: An Approach from Queer Theology Noe Pliego Campos (Univesity of Notre Dame) — “¡No hagas panchos!”: Chavos Banda and Mexico’s Lost Decade Conor Rasmusen (Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York) — A Non-Ethics of Violence: The Zapatistas and Radical Autonomy DISCUSSANT: Dr. Micol Seigel
LUNCH - 12:00 PM Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 1060 1:00 PM 2:15 PM
Panel 3: Systems, Markets, and Resources (GA 1106) Martin Delaroche (Indiana University) — Finger Pointing in the Amazon: Are Large-scale Soybean Producers the New Conservationists? Rosie Eyerman-Motz (Indiana University) — The Modern Andean Food System: An Analysis of the Historical and Current Food Landscape of the Central Andes Jesús Nazario (University of Texas at Austin) — Post-NAFTA Indigenous Corn Farming: Cultural Adaptability amid Neoliberal Forces in the Land of Fresh Water DISCUSSANT: Dr. Angela Babb
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2:30 PM 3:45 PM
Panel 4: Movements and Mobilizations (GA 1106) Vitor Martins Dias (Indiana University) — From Political Mobilization to the Judicialization of Politics in Brazil: Navigating the Political and Legal Systems through a Social Movement Lens Casimir Korducki (Indiana University) — Beyond Sectarianism: Competing Political Visions and the Division of the PRD in the Dominican Republic Michiko Soto (California State University, Los Angeles) — A Profitable Disaster: Erasure and Resis- tance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico DISCUSSANT: Dr. Shane Greene
4:00 PM
Keynote Address: Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, GA 0001 Followed by Reception in GISB GA 1050 and 1060
Saturday, March 2nd
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies 355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
BREAKFAST - 9:30 AM GA 2134 10:00 AM 11:15 AM
Panel 5: Traversing Boundries (GA 2134) Alvaro L. Pajares (Indiana University) — Dance Reggaeton Like You Own It: The Political Aesthetics of Neoperreo in Contemporary Spain Jodi Scofield (California State University, Los Angeles) — It Is During Our Journey that We Rearrange Our Burden: A Meta-analysis of Garifuna Migration Yesenia Vargas (University of Illinois at Chicago) — Immigrants vs. Foreign Born: The Politics of Race, Immigration and the Chilean Racial State DISCUSSANT: Dr. Sergio Lemus LUNCH - 11:30 AM Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 2134
12: 30 PM 1:30 PM
VR Presentation & Digital Heritage Talk (GA 2067) Dr. Alex Elvis Badillo (Indiana University and Indiana State University) Matthew Brennan (Indiana University) Presentations will be followed by a visual reality exihibit of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico
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1:45 PM 3:00 PM
Panel 6: Erasure through Space and Time (GA 2067) Enrique Alvear (University of Illinois at Chicago) — Protecting Immigrants and Punishing Latino Gangs: Crafting the Crimmigration Police in Chicago’s Sanctuary City Regime Zachary Hayes (University of California San Diego) — Remodeling the Metaphor: Space in Bolaño's "By Night in Chile" Talisson Souza (Yale University/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) — Performing Democratization and Utopia through Contemporary Art at the 18th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 1985): Memory, Identity and Market Lais Lara Vanin (Indiana University) — When the Silence Screams: Slaves and Domestic Workers in the Fiction of Emi Bulhões DISCUSSANT: Dr. Luciana Namorato
CLOSING REMARKS - 3:00 PM
from the Planning Committee This conference would not have been a possible without the generous support our sponsors: the IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the IU Department of Sociology, the IU School of Public Health, the Latin American Music Center, IU Department of Informatics, the IU Department of Anthropology, and the IU Funding Board. We would like to thank all our faculty discussants for their time and committment to student-scholarship. We would also like to thank CLACS graduate students Matt Cesnik, Monty Montgomery, Rosie Eyerman Motz, Ricardo Higelin Ponce de Leon, Oscar Lemus, Aline Xavier de Araújo, and Nate Young for their hard work in organizing this year’s conference. In addition, thank you to CLACS Director Dr. Anke Birkenmaier, CLACS Associate Director Dr. Bryan Pitts, CLACS Academic Secretary Katherine Cashman, and CLACS Intern Marah Green for their much appreciated support. -The CLACS GSC Planning Commitee
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Participants Jorge Luis Rios Allier - Indiana University, Anthropology Enrique Alvear - University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology Hector Araya - Université Catholique de Louvain, Theology Guadalupe Arrelanes - California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies Noe Pliego Campos - University of Notre Dame, History Martin Deloroche - Indiana University, Public Affairs & Geography Vitor Martins Dias - Indiana University, Sociology Zachary Hayes - University of California, San Diego, Literatures in Spanish Casimir Korducki - Indiana University, History Rosie Eyerman Motz - Indiana University,Public Health and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Jesús Nazario - University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies Alvaro L. Pajares - Indiana University, Hispanic Literature Jorge Puma - University of Notre Dame, International History Conor Rasmusen - Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Christian Social Ethics Jodi Scofield - California State University Los Angeles, Interdisciplinary Studies Carmina Spíndola - Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Sociology Michiko Soto - California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies Talisson Souza - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Yale University, Sociology Lara Lais Vanin - Indiana University, Lusophone Literature Yesenia Vargas - University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology
Discussants Dr. Angela Babb - Ostrom Workshop Dr. Shane Greene - Department of Anthropology Dr. Peter Guardino - Department of History Dr. Sergio Lemus - Latino Studies Program Dr. Luciana Namorato - Department of Spanish and Portuguese Dr. Micol Seigel - Department of History, Department of American Studies
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Indiana University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to present the 8th Annual CLACS Graduate Student Conference on March 1st and 2nd at Indiana University Bloomington. Thank you to all of our participants, discussants, and supporters!
Thank you to all of our co-sponsors: IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies IU Department of Sociology IU Department of Informatics IU Department of Anthropology Latin American Music Center and IU Funding Board
To learn more about our center and our upcoming events, please contact us at: 355 N. Jordan Ave Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855 9097 clacs@indiana.edu https://clacs.indiana.edu/ Twitter: @IUCLACS Instagram: @IUCLACS