Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean  
Democracy, Race, and Citizenship

 

Second Annual Connecticut Latin Americanist Partnership Conference
University of Connecticut – Greater Hartford Campus
West Hartford, CT
Friday, December 4, 2009

ConnLAP 2009 Registration Form

 

Tentative  Schedule

8:30-9:00 am - arrival, registration, light breakfast

9:00-9:15 am – Introductions (Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, UConn)

 

9:15-10:45 am – panel A
“Identity Rights and Nation Formation”
Chair: Anne Gebelein
Commentator: Christopher Curry

Andres Pletch
MA, History, University of Connecticut 
"Dark Passages: Race, Class and the Transnational in "Ideales de Una Raza" 

Ronnie Shepard 
MA, Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut 
“Making a Man: Commercial Sex and the Creation of Masculine Identities in Contemporary Quito, Ecuador” 

Rebecca Rodriguez
MA, History, University of Connecticut
“If You Build It, They Will Come: Puerto Rican Nation and Identity Construction in the Writings of Vanguardia Betances”
                         
10:45-11am – break

 

11:15am – 12:45pm – panel B
“Economic Development and Political Rights”
Chair: Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez
Commentator: Michael Neagle

Rebecca Nelson Jacobs
PhD, Anthropology, University of Connecticut
“A Radical-Chic Tourist Attraction: The Impact of Zapatourism on the Project of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation”

Otto Katt 
MA, Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut 
"Relations of Power: An Analysis of the Political Discourse between the US Congress and Puerto Rico, 1935-1950"

Samantha Raneri
International Relations, Yale University, 2010
“Economic Development as a Human Right: Corruption and Reform in Rural Mexico”

 

12:45 – 2:15 pm – lunch and lunchtime keynote
Professor Pablo Delano
Professor of Fine Arts
“Retratos del pueblo hondureño/Portrait of the People of Honduras: A Research Project in the Aftermath of a Coup d’État”

 

2:15 – 3:45 pm – panel C
“People's movements in the face of forced displacement”
Chair: Jean Silk
Commentator: Mary Ann Mahony

Marian Thorpe
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
“The Role of Environmental Movements in Indigenous Political Development in Panama”

Lauren Baker
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
“Extractive Industries & Indigenous Rights in Peru: Struggles over Sovereignty and Visions about Environment and Development”

Julianne Baker Gallegos
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
“Disaster Risk Reduction in Peri-Urban Slums in the outskirts of Bogotá”

 
3:45-4pm – break

4-5:30pm -Closing Keynote/Foreign Policy Seminar Speaker     

Dr. Gil Joseph, Yale University

5:30-6pm – wine and cheese reception

6:00-7:30pm – dinner (for participants and organizers and FPS paid guests)