Schedule of Events for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Thursday, March 31
8:00-10:00am
Panel 1: Expressions of Historical Memory
Chair/Commentator: Jadwiga Pieper, University of Arizona
Canyon A
Erika Korowin, University of Arizona: Luchar para cantar, cantar para no olvidar: Music and Memory in Post-
Dictatorship Chile
April Yoder, University of Arizona: Re-membering and Forgetting in Nicaragua: The Education of Revolution
Darcy Alexander, University of Arizona: Reconstructing Memory in El Salvador: The Association in Search of
Disappeared Children
Megan Goold, University of Arizona: Museums and Monuments: Artistic Expressions of Historical Memory in
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Panel 2: Being Men and Women in Porfirian Mexico
Chair: John Klingemann, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon C
Áurea Toxqui, University of Arizona: La chimolera y el pulquero: Popular Womanhood and Manhood in
Nineteenth-Century Mexico City
Elena Albarrán, University of Arizona: Exporting Elegance: The American Travels of Carmen Romero Rubio and
her Husband
Stephen Neufeld, University of Arizona: Cosmopolitan Officers: International Influences in the Porfirian Military,
1876-1910
Juan Manuel Silva Rodríguez, Colegio de Sonora-Hermosillo: La criminalidad en Sonora durante el Porfiriato
tardío, 1900-1910
Panel 3: US Military Involvement in Latin America
Chair: Jeff Shumway, Brigham Young University
Commentator: Audience
Canyon B
Jack R. Ferrell, Northern Arizona University- Yuma: State, Society and Violence in Colombia: Consequences of US
Military Intervention
Lawrence D. Taylor, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte: New Eyes for the Army: The Role of Naval Aircraft in the US
Landing at Veracruz, 1914
10:00am -12:00pm
Panel 1: National Rhythms
Chair/Commentator: Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, University of Arizona
Canyon A
Tracy Arwari, University of Arizona: The Narcocorrido: A Historical and Cultural Account
Amanda Lopez, University of Arizona: Official and Popular Memory in Revolutionary Corridos
Marco Bravo, University of Arizona: Sight-seeing Marimba Dance and Music
Panel 2: Changing Connections between Power and Text
Chair: Daniel Castro, Southwestern University
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon B
Ed Hood, Northern Arizona University: Radiografía del istmo: La Centroamérica actual en la novelistica de Oscar
Nuñez Olivas
Jasleen Kohli, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Hacia una redefinición del futuro a través de la memoria en
Rito de iniciación (1964) de Rosario Castellanos
Daniel Castro, Southwestern University: Imperialism and Human Rights: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Realities
in the Work of Bartolome de Las Casas
Julie H. Kang, University of Arizona: The Huarochiri Manuscript in Colonial Peru
Ryan Kashanipour, University of Arizona: A New World for Philosophy: The Thomist Humanism of Bartolome de
Las Casas
Panel 3: Topics in Inquisition History
Chair: AVAILABLE
Commentator: Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada-Reno
Ventana Room
David Graizbord, University of Arizona: Cultural Transmigration among Early Modern Sephardi Merchants of the
Seventeenth Century
Victoria Christman, University of Arizona: Faithful Christians and Secret Jews: The Portuguese New Christian
Community in Antwerp (1530-1550)
Bob Ferry, University of Colorado: TBA
Panel 4: Recent Topics in Early Modern Sonora
Chair: Áurea Toxqui, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Canyon C
Heidi Dolores Hernández Villareal, Colegio de Sonora- Hermosillo: Relativo a: contrabando de efectos extranjeros
en la frontera norte del país. Sonora, 1895-1900
María del Carmen Tonella Trelles, Colegio de Sonora-Hermosillo: El cautiverio en Sonora a principios del siglo
XIX
Roberto Corella Barreda, Colegio de Sonora-Hermosillo: El ataque a la aduana de Nogales
Ana Isabel Grijalva Díaz, Colegio de Sonora- Hermosillo: Comerciantes españoles en Guaymas, 1890-1910
Irene Ríos Figueroa, Colegio de Sonora-Hermosillo: Los mormones en el valle del Río Bavispe
12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Panel 1: Difficult People: Saying No and Other Forms of Changing Society
Chair: Susan Socolow, Emory University
Commentator: Zephyr Frank, Stanford University
Canyon B
Lyman L. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Good Reason and Christian Charity: Slavery at the
Margins
Giomar Dueñas, University of Memphis: From Rhetoric to Reality: Women Challenge the Construction of Gender
in Nineteenth Century Colombia
Panel 2: Dictatorships and Democracy in Latin America
Chair: James Tschudy, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon A
Scott Desposato and Barbara Norranader, University of Arizona: Public Opinion, Participation, and Gender in New
Democracies: The Case of Latin America
Roderic Ai Camp: Political Recruitment, Governance, and Leadership. Has Democracy Made a Difference?
Joseph J. García: Challenges to Democratic Participation in Rural Paraguay
Paul Sondrol: Paraguay: A Semi-Authoritarian Regime?
Panel 3: Panel Title: Eating, Talking and Watching: Topics in Mexican Popular Culture
Chair: María L. O. Muñoz, University of Arizona
Commentator: Sterling Evans, Humboldt State University
Ventana Room
Elizabeth Bakewell, Brown University: Me vale madre
Celeste González Bustamante, University of Arizona: From Sex Changes to Sputnik: Mexican Television News
Coverage, 1950-1960
Jeffrey Pilcher, The Citadel: Taco Bell, Maseca, or Greenpeace: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant
Cuisine?
Panel 4: Land, Gender and Language: Power in Twentieth Century Guatemala and Ecuador
Chair: Michael Matthews, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon C
Robert Scott: Land and the Politics of Agrarian Reform in a Mayan Highland Village, 1952-1954
Karin Friederic, University of Arizona: The Interplay of Gossip and Wife-Battering: Understanding Power in
Northwestern Ecuador
Elise DuBord, University of Arizona: Mayan Language Planning: From Racial to Ethnic Identification in the Pan-
Maya Movement
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Session Title: The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: A Discussion
Chair: William H. Beezley, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Ventana Room
Louis R. Sadler
Charles H. Harris III
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Reception courtesy of University of New Mexico Press
Friday, April 1
8:00am - 10:00am
Panel 1: Popular Religion and the Church in Mexico
Chair: Mary Kovel, University of Arizona
Commentator: Ann Twinam, University of Texas
Canyon A
Martin Nesvig, New Mexico State University: Popular Impiety in Early Michoacán
Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University: Prevaricating Padrinos and Parisioners' Privacy: Popular Attitudes and the
Power of Priests in Four Mexican Parishes, 1832
Daniela Traffano, CIESAS Unidad Istmo: Iglesia y Reformas en el obispado de Oaxaca: 1856-1893
Sara K. Klein, Tulane University: Nuestro joven San Felipe de Jesús: Mexico's First Major Socio-Religious Figure
Panel 2: Latin America in a Global Perspective
Chair: Celeste González Bustamante, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon B
Stan Landry, University of Arizona: Local Medical Knowledge and Ethnomedical Syncretism in the Atlantic World
Nicanor Dominguez: Trans-Atlantic Connections and South Andean Conflicts during the mid-Seventeenth Century
Freidrich Schuler, Portland State University: Japanese Policy toward Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Peru, 1900-1916
Kathleen Schwartzman, University of Arizona: Are Dependency Relations between Brazil and the US a Thing of the
Past?
Panel 3: Identity and the Court Society in Colonial Mexico
Chair: AVAILABLE
Commentator: John F. Schwaller, University of Minnesota
Canyon C
William F. Connell, Christopher Newport University: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Inter-Indian Conflicts and
the Problem of Self-Government
Christoph Rosenmüller, Middle Tennessee State University: Social Networks and Palace Intrigues: Origins of
Nation Building in Mexico, 1700-1755
Panel 4: Topics in Modern Mexican History
Chair: Áurea Toxqui, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Ventana Room
Mark Wasserman, Rutgers University: The Railroad Consolidation, 1902-1910: Business and Politics in Porfirian
Mexico.
Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina-Charlotte: Plutarco Elias Calles and the Maximato in Revolutionary
Mexico: A Reinterpretation
Servando Ortoll, Colegio de Sonora: Cananea: The Anti-Chinese Movement's Nest
José Rodrigo Abril López, Colegio de Sonora- Hermosillo: La Dinastía Calles y las políticas de exclusión clerical en
Sonora, 1929 - 1937
Noemí Orozco García, Colegio de Sonora- Hermosillo: Salvador Abascal y la colonia sinarquista María
Auxiliadora, 1941-1943
10:00am - 12:00pm
Panel 1: Politics, Popular Culture and New Cinema
Chair: Hiber Conteris, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Canyon A
Hiber Conteris, University of Arizona: The Emergence of a New Cinema in Uruguay: Generation Gap and Family
Crisis in "25 Watts" and "Whisky"
Melissa Fitch, University of Arizona: Tango in Recent Film: Imagining Argentina and "La puta y la ballena"
Ksenija Bilbija, University of Wisconsin: Itinerarios de la masculinidad en "La conquista del paraíso" de Eliseo
Subiela
Panel 2: From Temperance Campaigns to Alcohol Monopolies: Crusading Women, Social Revolution, and Business as Usual in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Chair: AVAILABLE
Commentator: William H. Beezley, University of Arizona
Canyon C
Stephanie Mitchell, Carthage College: "Su Majestad, La Mujer": Women and Mexico's Antialcohol Campaign
Gretchen Pierce, University of Arizona: Sober Revolutionaries: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the Anti-Alcohol
Campaigns in Sonora, Mexico, 1910-1940
Stephen E. Lewis, CSU Chico: The Exception to the Rule? The Pedrero Arguello Alcohol and Sugar Monopolies in
Chiapas, 1938-1958
Panel 3: Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Tools for Mexican American History: A Primary Documents Reader
Commentator: Audience
Canyon B
Shannon Baker, Texas A&M University at Kingsville
Victor M. Macias-González, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse
James A. Garza, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Panel 4: Regional Issues in Colonial New Spain
Chair: AVAILABLE
Commentator: Susan E. Ramirez, Texas Christian University
Ventana Room
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University and Colin Coates, York University: The Death of Louis Marie Moreau:
Heretic Carpenter or Just a Bad Tourist
Kevin Paul Smith, University of California- Santa Barbara: Hidalgos Otomies and the Conquest of the Bajío, 1522-
1585: Don Nicolas de San Luis and Don Fernando de Tapia
Mauricio Pajon: Reconquering the New World: The Earthquakes of 1773 and the Transformation of Bourbon
Guatemala
María del Carmen Bojórquez Jusaino, Colegio de Sonora- Hermosillo: El Pitic: la colonización del espacio, 1744-
1828
12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Panel 1: Peoples and Networks in Colonial and Early National Period, Sinaloa and Sonora
Chair: Susan M. Deeds, Northern Arizona University
Commentator: Cynthia Radding, University of New Mexico
Canyon A
Raphael Folsom, Yale University: Culture, Violence and Captive Exchange in the Conquest of Sinaloa, 1592-1616
Refugio de la Torre, University of California, Berkeley/Colegio de Michoacán: Para vender no hay otro medio que
fiar: New Spain's Internal Commerce according to the Account Books of a Sonoran Retailer, 1777-1793
Laura Shelton, University of Arizona: Respect and Veneration for Elders by All Laws Divine, Positive, and Natural:
Intergenerational Relationships in Sonora, Mexico, 1800-1850
Panel 2: Latin American Women in War and Revolution
Chair/Commentator: Jadwiga Pieper, University of Arizona
Canyon B
Marisela Fleites-Lear, University of Washington: Inside the Fatherland: The "New Cuban Woman" in Mujeres
Kathryn Gallien, University of Arizona: The Fight from Within: The Nicaraguan Women's Movement in a
Neoliberal World
Patricia Harms, Arizona State University: Imagining a Place for Themselves: Order and Progress for Guatemalan
Women
Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas: The Mexicanas Go to War: Women and World War II in Mexico
Panel 3: Religion, Family and Politics in the Caribbean
Chair: Fawn Montoya, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Canyon C
Christine Rivas, Carleton University: A Blue Print to Power: The Perez-Castro y Fernandez de Oviedo Family
Ernesto S. Sweeney, Loyola Marymount University: The Church in Castro's Cuba: An Interpretation of Church-
State Relations
BT Huntley and Jeff Borg, Front Range Community College: US College Students' (Mis)Perceptions of Cuba: An
Interdisciplinary Study
John Sherman, Wright State University: The Lion of Judah in Babylon: Rastafarian Premillennialism and the Visit
of Emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica, April 1966
Panel 4: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Transforming Space in Mexican Cities
Chair: Michelle Berry, University of Arizona
Commentator: AVAILABLE
Ventana Room
Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University: What do Victorian Cities Tell Us about Porfirian Tampico?
Rachel Kram Villareal, University of Arizona: Mr. Flowers and Fountains: Planting Gladiolas in Mexico City, 1952-
1966
Patricia Massé, Fototeca Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Simbolismo y fotografía de
aficionado: El jardín de Azurmendi
Emily Wakild, University of Arizona: Tidy Reflections: Ordering Nature and Society in Porfirian Mexico City
5:00-7:00pm
Awards Reception and Happy Hour
The Shanty (directions in registration folder)
$10 Suggested donation for the Center for Latin American Studies
Saturday, April 2
7:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast Meeting of the RMCLAS Executive Committee
Ventana Room
9:00am - 12:00pm
Panel 1: The Provinces and the Metropole: New Research Perspectives on Mexico in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chair: Daniel Newcomer, Stephen F. Austin University
Commentator: Audience
Ventana Room
Stanley Green, Texas A&M International University: Northeastern Mexico: Impact of Independence and the Texas
Revolution
Shannon Baker, Texas A&M University at Kingsville: "Monster of Contradictions": Santa Anna the Personalist
versus Santa Anna the Patriot
Jason Denzin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Progress of a Different Sort: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Road
Map for the Mexican Citizen
Victor M. Macias-González, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse: Masculinity and the Prescriptive Literature of
Bureaucracy in Nineteenth Century Mexico
James A. Garza, University of Nebraska- Lincoln: "Pan o (Mucho) Palo": Organized Crime and Urban Control in
Porfirian Mexico City, 1890-1910
Steven B. Bunker, Texas Christian University: How Far to Make a Sale? Distributing Modernity beyond the
Porfirian Metropolis
Panel 2: Identity and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Chair/Commentator: Joseph A. Stout, Jr., Oklahoma State University
Canyon A
Jason Dormady, University of California-Santa Barbara: The Kingdom of the Fullness of God: Mexican Community
and Religious Nationalism, 1920-1960
Joseph Lenti, University of New Mexico: Ante la invasión de la cultura americana: Institutionalizing Mexicanidad
on the Northern Frontier, 1930-1934
Amelia Kiddle, University of Arizona: The Funeral of Lázaro Cárdenas and Mexican Society
Kristin Pesola, Mount Holyoke College: Staged Adaptations: The Cultural Politics of Representing Antonieta Rivas
Mercado
Maria Muñoz, University of Arizona: The Cárdenas Connection, from Ixmiquilpan (1936) to Patzcuaro (1975):
Regional and National Indigenous Congresses
Panel 3: Genetics, Cultural Exchanges, and Ethnogenesis in the Greater Southwest
Chair: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston
Commentator: Thomas E. Sheridan, University of Arizona
Canyon C
Susan M. Deeds, Northern Arizona University: Biological and Cultural Mestizaje in Nueva Vizcaya
Andres Resendez, University of California, Davis: Genetics and the Vagaries of European-Indian Mixing along New
Spain's Northern Frontier
Eric Meeks, Northern Arizona University: Mestizaje, Miscegenation, and Indian Identity in Southern Arizona
Panel 4: Performance, Artesania, Puppets and Music
Chair: AVAILABLE
Commentator: William H. Beezley, University of Arizona
Canyon B
Laura Gutiérrez, University of Arizona: Performace Art of Mexicanas y Chicanas
Maribel Alvarez, University of Arizona: Border Crafts and Kitsch
Daniel Ramírez, Arizona State University: Border Gospel Music
William H. Beezley, University of Arizona: TBA
Shelli Rottschafer, University of New Mexico: Performance as Subversion: How Chilean and Argentine Theater
during the 1970s-1980s Dictatorships Manifested its Resistance Historically and in Narrative
12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm-4:00pm
Panel 1: Things Matter: Material Culture, Power, and Social Life in Colonial Latin America
Chair/Commentator: Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
Ventana Room
Joan Bristol, George Mason University: "Usurping the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction": Objects and Authority in the
House on the Callejón de Lainez
Kris Lane, College of William and Mary: Silver, Soap & Sarsparilla: Consumption Conundrums in the Late
Sixteenth-Century Andes
Yanna Yannakakis, Montana State University: Colonial Entanglements: The Base of the Monstrance, the Cacique,
and Political-Sacred Competition in Seventeenth Century Oaxaca
Panel 2: Institutional and Cultural Expressions of Authority in Colonial Mexico
Chair: Kevin Gosner, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Canyon A
John F. Schwaller, University of Minnesota: Institutional versus Popular Authority in Mid-Sixteenth-Century New
Spain: Don Luis de Velasco, the Younger Viceregal Private Citizen
Michael M. Brescia, State University of New York and Fredonia: Episcopal Dimensions of the Bourbon Project in
Eighteenth-Century Puebla: The Vew from the Biblioteca Palafoxiana
Kristin Tutcher Mann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Expressions of Authority in Eighteenth-Century
Entradas into Northern New Spain
Sharon Bailey Glasco, Linfield College: Restoring Order through Chaos: State Authority and Urban Renewal in
Late Colonial Mexico City
Panel 3: Myth and Memory in Latin America
Chair/Commentator: Maria Elena Díaz, University of California-Santa Cruz
Canyon C
Adriana Gouvea, Carleton University: Representations of Slavery in the Museu Historico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Sophia Koutsoyannis, York University in Toronto: Augusto Cesar Sandino: The Hero Myth of a Nicaraguan Nation
in the Post-Revolutionary Era
Willie Hiatt, University of California- Davis: Triumph and Tragedy of the 'Condor': Aviation and the Recovery of
the Inca Past in 1920s Cuzco, Peru
Gillian Newell, University of Arizona: Quetzalcoatl, E.T. and the Archaeologist: Different Tastes of Heritage and
Tourism at Mexican Archeological Sites (Teotihuacán and Tula)
Panel 4: Latin American Research Resources
Chair: Walter Brem, University of Arizona
Commentator: Audience
Canyon B
Marene Baker, National Archives and Records Administration: Research and Resources on Latin America in the
National Archives
Romaine Ahlstrom, Huntington Library: Latin Americana in the Huntington Library
Walter Brem, University of Arizona: Mexican Statistics: Historical and Contemporary Sources
4:00pm - 4:30pm
General Meeting of RMCLAS Members
Canyon B
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Closing Reception at Galería Sirena (directions in registration folder)
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