Registration – Popp-Martin Student Union, 2nd Floor Lobby

Panel 6 – Commitment/Activism Beyond the University: Non-extractive Practices with Communities in Action
Room: Student Union 200

Moderator: Jennifer Prather, Duke University

Panelists:

Liliana Paredes, Duke University: Reimagining Global Learning for Reciprocity and Justice

Patrick Semmler, Duke University: Collaborative Translation in Indigenous Languages

Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke University: Minga all the Way: The Art of Collaboration

Roundtable 2 – Exploring Health, Climate, and Food Security in Intibucá, Honduras
Room: Student Union 261

Moderator: Rosa M. Solórzano, Duke University

Presenters:

Molly Fitzpatrick, Duke University

Fritzie Schimmel, Duke University

Julia Graham, Duke University

 

Panel 7 – Trauma, Hybridity, and Nationalism in Latin America
Room: Student Union 262

Moderator: Carlos Coria-Sánchez, UNC Charlotte

Panelists:

Emma Nantz, UNC Charlotte: Trauma, Hybridity and Nationalism in Latin America

Marcela Mendoza-Batista, UNC Charlotte: Representaciones de la Malinche en “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas,” de Elena Garro

Rebecca De Luna, UNC Charlotte: Finding Paz in the Labyrinth of Solitude

 

Panel 8 – The Legacies of Extractivism in Latin America in the Neoliberal Era
Room: Student Union 263

Moderator: Carmen Soliz, UNC Charlotte

Panelists:

Brendan Lang, UNC Charlotte: Autonomy, Environment, and Economy: Public Discourses on the Bolivian Lithium Industry

Mónica Ortega Gajardo, UNC Charlotte: Petorca, Chile: The Town Left Without Water due to Avocado Plantations

Jurgen Buchenau, UNC Charlotte: The End of Guayabera Diplomacy: Mexican Oil and the Resource Curse, 1979-1982

Commentator: Greg Crider, Winthrop University

Break

Panel 9 – Literatura, pedagogía y activismo: El extractivismo a través de tres enfoques
Room: Student Union 261

Moderator: Shelley Garrigan, North Carolina State University

Panelists:

Stephany Delgadillo Flores, North Carolina State University: Resistencia al olvido y a la impunidad a través del activismo: Caso Río Sonora

Bailey Dumaine, North Carolina State University: Herramientas críticas – estrategias para profundizar conexiones a temas científicos para estudiantes de las humanidades

Catherine Larsen, North Carolina State University: Poesía desde la periferia: reformar nuestras ideas de progreso

Commentator: John K. Gibson, North Carolina State University

Panel 10 – Failure in Latin American Literature and Society: Dictatorship, Trauma, and Antiheroes
Room: Mebane 169 (across the street from the Student Union)

Moderator: José Manuel Batista, UNC Charlotte

Panelists:

José Manuel Batista, UNC Charlotte: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps as Anti-Epic

Sid Candelario, UNC Charlotte: Using Science Fiction and Fantasy to Navigate Dictatorship in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Kate O’Brien, UNC Charlotte: La presidencia de Juan Perón: el fin de éxito económico de Argentina

Panel 11 – Intraregional Migration in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Room: Student Union 262

Moderator: Isabella Randle, UNC Chapel Hill

Panelists:

Renan Marques, Duke University: Forced Migration and Its Impacts on Host Communities: Evidence for the Venezuelan Exodus to Brazil

Isabella Randle, UNC Chapel Hill: Public Goods Competition and Migrants’ Feelings of Integration: Evidence from Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

Jorge Mancilla, UNC Chapel Hill: Internal Migration Dynamics During the Mexican “War on Drugs”

Commentator: Greg Weeks, UNC Charlotte

 

Outreach Workshop – Teaching with Consortium Resources: Decode a Maya Code and Create an Inka Khipu
Room: Student Union 263

Presenter: Skylar Zee, Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University

NOTE: This session is open to only those who have registered for this workshop.

Lunch
Room: Student Union 200

Panel 12 – Prisons, Gamblers, and Sounds: Rethinking Freedom in Latin America
Room: Student Union 263

Moderator: Federico Dupont Bernal, Duke University

Presenters:

Joe Hiller, Duke University: Freedom and Care in Colombian Carceral System

Jan Koplow, Duke University: Artistic Freedom?: Sound, Extractivism, and Metal

Federico Dupont Bernal, Duke University: Sports Gambling as a Form of Financial Freedom

 

Panel 13 –  Marginalized Subjects and National Identity in Latin America, Part 1
Room: Student Union 261

Moderator: Sharrah Lane, UNC Chapel Hill

Panelists:

Diana Torres, UNC Chapel Hill: Mnemo-críticos e identidades excluidas en el Estadillo Social colombiano de 2021

Diego Ávila López, Duke University: Ficciones de paz y negociaciones infructuosas: subjetividades transfronterizas mapuche en Mariluán (1862) de Alberto Blest Gana

Tanner Bourne, UNC Chapel Hill: La homoafectividad en el cine de El Santo – espacio permitido y valores persistentes en la sociedad mexicana

Panel 14 –  Exploring Community-Managed Natural Coastal Resources in Mexico
Room: Student Union 262

Moderator: Candela Cerpa, Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill

Panelists:

Elizabeth Kroger, Duke University: Capacity Building for Reef Restoration Monitoring in Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel

Brooke Rose, Duke University and Melissa Arcila, Duke University: The Role of Forest-Based Carbon Offsetting in Climate and Community Resilience Multidisciplinary, Multi-Scalar Research with Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico

Laura Arango, North Carolina State University: Assessing Growth Dynamics of Native Pine Species in Community-Managed Forests of Santa Maria Jaltianguis, Oaxaca, Mexico

Panel 15 –  Journeying, Identity, and Border Crossing in Contemporary Mexican-American Literature
Room: Mebane 169 (across the street from the Student Union)

Moderator: Maya Socolovsky, UNC Charlotte

Panelists:

Adriana Medina, UNC Charlotte: Thresholds of aquí, allá, ayer, hoy y mañana in McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas

Ernesto Fernandez, UNC Charlotte: Back and Forth Across the Border: Third Space and Actualizing Identity in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo

Maya Socolovsky, UNC Charlotte: A Journey to Mexico: Examining Place and Juvenile Identity in Matt de la Peña’s We Were Here

Commentator: David Dalton, UNC Charlotte

Break

Panel 16 – Hip Hop Culture: Political Education, and Fostering Citizenship on the Urban Periphery of Rio de Janeiro
Room: Student Union 200

Moderator: Travis Knoll, Independent Scholar

Panelists:

Lucas Lopes, Duke University: Rhythm and Poetry (RAP). Political Education, and Classroom Hip Hop: Translating the Art, Thought, and the Practice of a Black Rapper on the Brazilian Periphery

John D. French, Duke University: Beats, ‘Battles,’ and RapLabs: Forms of Musical, Cultural, and Political Activism on the Periphery

Travis Williams, Duke University: Hip Hop as a Spiritual Resource for the Oppressed: The Racionais MCs, Biggie Smalls, and the Thought of Huey P. Newton

Commentator: Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, North Carolina Central University

Panel 17 – Marginalized Subjects and National Identity in Latin America, Part 2
Room: Student Union 261

Moderator: Sharrah Lane, UNC Chapel Hill

Panelists:

María Molano Parrado, Duke University: Writing with Light: Desert, Indigeneity, and Development in Cold War Mexican Photography

Jhosep Delgado Guerra, UNC Chapel Hill: América Latina rizomática: líneas de fuga en la fotografía de Martín Chambi

Carlos Lopez Pari, UNC Chapel Hill: Expandiendo los límites de lo poético a través de la visualidad: el caso de Artefactos (1972) de Nicanor Parra

Panel 18 – Puerto Rican Studies on the Move: Diaspora, Death and Demilitarization
Room: Student Union 262

Moderators: Elyse Veloria, Duke University and Jessica Muñiz, Duke University

Panelists:

Elyse Veloria, Duke University: Conch Shells, Contamination, and Coloniality in Puerto Rico

Jessica Muñiz, Duke University: The Buried Legacies of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. South

Veronica Cora-Castillo, Duke University: The Politics of Remembering: A Colonially-Shaped Education and the Cultural Identity of Arroyanos.