Cover Photo: Pyramids at Tikal, Guatemala. Photo by Sarah Foss.
¡Calma Pueblo! Order and Chaos in Latin America March 7-8, 2014 Indiana Memorial Union-Persimmon Room On Friday and Saturday, March 7-8, CLACS hosted the third Annual Graduate Student Conference. The Conference, titled ¡Calma Pueblo!: Order and Chaos in Latin America, encouraged participants to consider changes within Latin America which have led to order and/or chaos. Although order and chaos are binary terms they were meant to encompass a wide scale of experiences within the region, and that is exactly what we received. We had an incredible response from the broader Latin American Studies community, with scholars from UC Davis, Tulane, Univ. of Wisconsin, Univ. of Connecticut, and IU from a diverse range of fields such as History, Anthropology, Public Health, Spanish Literature, Public Policy, and History. Some major themes that were discussed included: nation formation, protest art forms, policy processes, knowledge production, and social movements. IU professors from a range of departments provided feedback and facilitated discussion for the Q&A after every panel. Friday, March 7 Nation Formation Panel -Sarah Foss (Indiana University) - Mario Payeras and the Utopian Vision of Guatemala’s Octubre Revolucionario -Elena McGrath Thistle (University of Wisconsin) - Revolutionary Bodies: Copper Miners and the Bolivian National Revolution -Jonathan David Warner (Indiana University) - The Development of West Indian Black Internationalism and the Panamanian Political Response, 1920-1930s -Matthew Perse (University of Connecticut) - Urban Folk: Tanguito and the Mythological Legitimation of Rock and Roll -Discussant - Daniel James (IU Mendel Chair of History From Protest to Policy -Alexandra Toledo (Indiana University) Something’s Cooking: Social Movements and the State Debate Peruvian Food Policy -Lucy Miller (Indiana University) Mediating Expectations: Sustainable Development Discourse and the Extractive Reserve Model (RESEX) in the Brazilian Amazon -Emma McDonell (Indiana University) The Limitations of “Resource” Conflicts: “Indigeneity” in Anti-Mining Protests in Puno, Peru -Baird Campbell (Tulane University) Movilh-ización: Legitimacy in Santiago’s LGBTQ Social Movement Industry Discussant - Eduardo Brondizio (IU Professor of Anthropology) Saturday, March 8 Politicizing the Personal -Nzingha Kendall (Indiana University) - Radical Feminist Documentary: Women’s Collective Voices in Las muertes chiquitas -Jackie Markle (Indiana University) - Los Marín en Aves sin nido: El Nuevo orden propuesta para curar en Perú traumatizado -Denisa Jashari (Indiana University) - Shantytown Subculture in 1980s Santiago, Chile -Discussant - Lessie Jo Frazier (IU Associate Professor of American Studies) Enfoque - Page 1