The Johns Hopkins University
Program in Latin American Studies
Mobility and Exchange in Latin America: Past and Present
Conference Program
8:45-9:15 Breakfast: Third Floor Hallway
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30-11:15 Session 1
Panel 1: "Pathways across Borders: Exile, Marronage, Migration" Rm. 388
1. "Moving Peasants to Patagonia: Reconnecting the Spanish Empire at the End of the Colonial Period" Allyson Poska, UMW, History & Women's & Gender Studies
2. "Landscapes of Marronage and Imperial Policy in the Circum-Caribbean, 1680-1789" Linda M. Rupert, UNC-Greensboro, History
3. "Exile and Post-Exile: New Studies and Analytical Approaches" Luis Roniger, Wake Forest U, Politics & International Affairs
Discussant: Norah Andrews, JHU, History
Moderator: Dexnell Peters, JHU, History
Panel 2: "Making Claims to Space" Rm. 308
1. "'Where the mosquitoes reign and even the negros': The African Characteristics of Early Colonial Veracruz" Joe Clark, JHU, History
2. "Rewriting Mexican National Identity from the Periphery: A Catalan Exile in the Land of Isthmus Zapotecs" Valeriya Fedonkina, Indiana U, Spanish & Portuguese
3. "Cultivating National Rights: The Struggle between Nordestinos and Japanese Migrants in the Construction of Brasilia" Larissa Pires, Georgia Southern U, History
Discussant: María Ruhlmann, JHU, GRLL
Moderator: Cathleen Carris, JHU, GRLL
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break: Third Floor Hallway
11:30-1:00 Session 2
Panel 3: "Borderland Inequalities" Rm. 388
1. "Interview at the Border: Migration as Compulsion in Roberto Bolaño's 2666" Antonio Cordoba, Manhattan College, Modern Languages & Literatures
2. "The Effects of 'Invasion' on Early Child Health" Gwenyth Lee, JHU, Bloomberg School of Public Health
3. "¿Santo Remedio? Political Economy of Tourism and Development in the Caribbean" Emma Fawcett, American U, School of International Service
Discussant: Lauren Judy, JHU, GRLL
Moderator: Gustavo Valdivia, JHU, Anthropology
Panel 4: "Mexican Migration in the Twentieth Century" Rm. 308
1. "'She Thought It Would Be Better to Come to the City': Childhood, Gender, and Migrationn to Mexican City, 1917-1929" Reid Erec Gustafson, UMD, History
2. "Exiled for Christ the King: Mexican Migrants, Transnational Religious Devotions, and the Cristero Uprisings of the 1920s and 1930s" Julia Young, CUA, History
3. "The Intimate Politics of Return-Migration: Binational Couples across the U.S.-Mexico Border in the 1930s" Larisa Veloz, Georgetown, History
Discussant: Anaid Citlalli Reyes-Kipp, JHU, Anthropology
Moderator: Alvaro Caso Bello, JHU, History
1:00-2:00 Lunch & Optional Round-table discussion in Rm. 308
with JHU Distinguished Undergraduate Scholars in Latin American Studies Charlotte James & Sarah Horton
2:00-3:45 Session 3
Panel 5: "Intellectual Exchanges" Rm. 388
1. "Between Medievalism and Modernity: A Transatlantic Reading of Peregrinación de Bartolomé Lorenzo (1586) by Jesuit Father Acosta" Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, CSUF, Modern Languages & Literatures
2. "Remaking Housing Policy in the Americas: Colombia and the United States, 1950-1980" Amy Offner, UPenn, History
3. "Contemporary Mapuche Poetic Movement: Literary Exchanges and Interactions with Indigenous Poets from Latin America" Andrea Echeverría, GWU, Romance & German & Slavic Language & Literatures
4. "Playing Sikus Beyond the Titicaca: Sikuri Ensembles as Islands of the Transandean Cultural Archipelago in Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Buenos Aires" Daniel Castelblanco, Georgetown, Spanish & Portuguese
Discussant: Maria Lumbreras, JHU, History of Art
Moderator: Brandi Waters, JHU, History
Panel 6: "Social and Political Mobility" Rm. 308
1. "'Piedra que Rueda': Reimagining Proverb Literacy and Social Mobility for the 21st Century" Mozelle Foreman, Cornell U, Romance Studies
2. "Occupational Mobility of Japanese Immigrants in Brazil, Politics and Business: The Case of Cooperativa Agrícola de Cotia (1927-1994)" Gustavo Takeshy Taniguti, U of Sao Paulo, Sociology
3. "Political Participation of Black Activists in Brazil after World War II" Edilza Sotero, U of Sao Paulo, Sociology
4. "The History, Politics, and Poetics of Afro-Cuban Mobility in Francisco Rivera's Anti-PRIista Rhetoric, 1957-1970s" Theodore Cohen, UMD, Latin American Studies Center & History
Discussant: Joe Clark, JHU, History
Moderator: Katherine Bonil, JHU History
3:45-4:30 Coffee Break: Third Floor Hallway
4:30-5:30 Keynote Address Rm. 388
"Mexican Manila: A Trans-Pacific Maritime Enterprise and America's First Chinatown"
by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown U, History
6:30-8:30 Dinner at Sweet27 Bar & Restaurant
Mobility has been a defining theme in Latin America's history and present, whether applied to the physical movement of people and goods, to changing social and economic status, or to the transfer of knowledge and information. While these exchanges and transformations are shaped by the physical, political, and economic limits of mobility, they often alter regional landscapes--both real and imagined--in ways that are unintended. For instance, the large-scale introduction of African slaves to Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries produced syncretisms in religion and kinship that were incidental to--though not unaffected by--Spanish colonial policy. More recently, a protest movement in Sao Paolo over the city's public transportation system escalated to include questions related to social mobility--the conditions of human movement, either between continents, within a city, or between social classes--enabled the creation of spaces through which cultural knowledge, political thought, and material goods were examined and transformed. In daily activities, like urban commuting; large-scale events, like the relocations precipitated by natural disaster; or long-term demographic shifts, human mobility has inflected academic conversations about a range of topics concerning Latin America.
Locations
Gilman Hall is located at 3400 N. Charles St.
Please see this campus map
Panels:
History Seminar Room (Gilman 308)
The Tudor and Stuart Room (Gilman 388)
Lunch:
Served in the hall on Gilman Third Floor
Keynote:
The Tudor and Stuart Room (Gilman 388)
Dinner:
Sweet27 Restaurant (123 West 27th Street, Baltimore)
Conference Theme: Mobility & Exchange
