Friday, October 10, 2003
8:15 - 8:30 On-site Registration, Coffee
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome: Joan
Wick-Pelletier, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
9:00 - 10:30
Panel 1/a: Reconciliation or Justice?
Campus Center 375
Chair: María Luisa Fischer, CUNY Hunter College
"Entre la reconciliación y la justicia: El discurso testimonial
en Chile y la redemocratización"
Alba Skar, Trinity College
"Literatura, testimonio, cine y derechos humanos en los tiempos
del neoliberalismo global"
Javier Campos, Fairfield
University
"Urban Politics and Cultural Production in Chile, 1970-2000"
Camilo
Trumper, University of California at Berkeley
"Painful and Silly? Chilean Sense of Humor before and after 9/11,
1973"
Oscar Sarmiento,
State University of New York at Potsdam
Panel 1/b: Diamela Eltit: The Changing Face of Feminism
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge
Chair: Delma Wood, Castelton
College
"Reimagining Democratic Discourses"
Liliana
Trevizan, State University of New York at Potsdam
"Diamela Eltit y Lotty Rosenfeld: Co-laborando en la representación del
subalterno"
Patricia Rubio, Skidmore
College
"The Poetics of Impossibility: Diamela Eltit's El Padre
Mío"
Michael
Lazzara, Princeton University
"Estrategias de re-inscripción en Jacques Derrida y Diamela
Eltit"
Andrea
Bachner, Harvard University
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
10:50 - 12:20
Panel 2/a: Social Movements and Neoliberal Democracy
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
Chair: Ana Margarita Cervantes Rodríguez, SUNY
at Albany
"Development and Collective Action in Chile's Neoliberal
Democracy"
Paul
W. Posner, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
"Sustainable Development or Sustained Conflict? The conflict between the
Mapuche communities and logging companies in Chile"
Diane Haughney, Johns
Hopkins University
"Chilean Labor Movement"
Volker Frank,
University North Carolina at Asheville
"Youth Participation in Post-Dictatorial Chile"
Ryan Carlin,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel 2/b: Art as Revelation
Campus Center, 375
Chair: Marta Sierra, University of Massachusetts-Boston
"¿Borrón y cuenta nueva?"
Viviana Rángil, Skidmore
College
"Velocidad, resistencia y el fetiche de la historia. Desarrollos en el
cine argentino reciente"
Christian Gundermann, University of Oregon
"Mundo Grúa: paradojas del sujeto y la máquina en la sociedad argentina de
los años noventa"
Marta Sierra,
University of Massachusetts-Boston
"Photography as 'contestatorial' cultural production in
Argentina"
David Willam
Foster, Arizona State University
Panel 2/c:Poetry Reading I.
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge
Moderator: Juan Armando Epple, University of Oregon
Juan Armando
Epple, University of Oregon
Oscar Sarmiento,
State University of New York at Potsdam
12:20 - 2:20 Lunch
Campus Center, Patroon's Room
2:20- 3:50
Panel
3/a: Legislatures in Latin America
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
Chair: James
Ketterer, Center for International Development
"Institutional Constraints to the Development of Strong Legislatures
in Latin America"
John Johnson, State University of New York
"La consolidación de la democracia en el contexto de crisis de la
representación: La imagen del congreso de la República del Perú y sus esfuerzos
por responder a la ciudadanía"
Lucía Fernández and Margarita Seminario,
Center for International Development
"Congressional Staffing for Efficiency and Representation: The Case of
Brazil"
Ana Rosa Soares, Center for International Development
"Brigada Style: Uninominal Deputies in their Home Districts"
William Culver, State
University of New York at Plattsburgh
Panel 3/b: Escenarios transitados
por la memoria
Campus Center, 375
Chair: Gloria Medina-Sancho, Bowdoin College
" Cuando se marca el fin de la historia ... o cuando se la
sueña"
Laura Demaría,
University of Maryland
"De la plaza al (super)mercado: espacios públicos, escenarios intervenidos
en dos novelas de Diamela Eltit"
Gloria
Medina-Sancho, Bowdoin College
"Ensayos sobre la subalternidad, la ciudad y la furia: de la violencia
cotidiana de José Zapiola a la violencia sistémica de Tomás Moulián"
Alvaro Kaempfer, University
of Richmond
"TURISTEL. Para transitar la transición chilena"
Juan José Daneri,
Marquette University
Panel 3/c: Poetry Reading II.
Campus Center, Terrace
Lounge
Moderator: Javier Campos,
Fairfield University
Carlos Trujillo,
Villanova University
Sergio Holas,The
University of Queensland, Australia
Javier Campos, Fairfield
University
4:10 - 6:20 Special program: The Pinochet
case documentary by Patricio
Guzmán
Lecture Center #
2.
7:00 - 8:00 Reception
Welcome: Colbert
Nepaulsingh, Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department
Performing Arts Center, Fotterer Lounge
8:00 - 9:30 Piano recital: Pola
Baytelman, Max Lifchitz, Joan
Wick-Pelletier
Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
Saturday, October 11, 2003
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee. Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
9:00 - 10:30
Panel 4/a: Discourses of the State
Campus Center, 375
Chair: Joshua Rosenthal,
State University of New York at Oneonta
"9/11/01 in the Light of 9/11/73"
Joseph Betz,
Villanova University
"Henry Kissinger, Two Assassinations, and U.S.-Chilean Alliances in the
First "War on Terrorism".
John Dinges, Columbia
University
"Modernización del sistema judicial chileno y aportes de las
organizaciones de la sociedad civil"
Patricio
Valdivieso, Instituto Ciencia Política - Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile
"Educación Universitaria en Chile treinta años después: privatización,
masificación y exclusión"
Ricardo Trumper and
Patricia Tomic,
Okanagan University College, Canada
Panel 4/b New Scholarly Books
Campus Center, Terrace
Lounge
Chair: Luis Correa-Díaz, University of Georgia
Political Bodies. Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power
in Recent Chilean Literature
Alice Nelson, Evergreen
State College
Written in Exile Chilean Fiction From 1973-Present
Ignacio López Calvo,
California State University, Los Angeles
Todas las muertes de Pinochet: Notas literarias para una biografía
crítica.
Luis
Correa-Díaz, University of Georgia
Chilean Narrative at the End of 20th Century
Juan
Armando Epple, University of Oregon
Respondent: Yolanda E. Aguila, Boston University
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
10:45 - 12:30
Plenary Session: Democracy in Latin America
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
Moderator: Fernando Leiva, State Univeristy of
New York at Albany
Marjorie Agosín,
professor of Latin American literature, poet, Wellesley College
Peter
Kornbluh, Director Chile Project, National Security Archive George
Washington University
Veronica
Schild, associate professor of Political Science, University of Western
Ontario
Steven Volk, professor of History, Oberlin College
12:30 - 2:20 Lunch
Campus Center, Patroon's Room
2:20 - 3:50
Panel 5/a: Filmic Representations of Human
Rights
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
Chair: Enrique
Morales-Díaz, SUNY atOneonta
"Me moria": Documentary and the Creation of Nostalgia in Patricio Guzman's
Chile, Obstinate Memory
Jeffrey Middents,
American University
"Chilean Media and Discourses of Human Rights"
Kristin Sorensen,
Indiana University
"Exporting Chile: Film and Literature After 1973"
Amy A. Oliver,
American University
"Cinematographic (R)evolution: Contestatory Voices in Argentine
Documentary Films"
Janis
Breckenridge, University of Chicago
Panel 5/b: A Difficult Process:
Democratization in Latin America
Campus Center 375
Chair: José
Cruz, SUNY at Albany
"A Nation of Enemies: Still Useful after Ten Years?"
William Culver, State
University of New York at Plattsbrugh
"Democracy in Central America: A Comparative Study of Local-level
Democracy in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala"
Robert Carmack, State
University of New York at Albany
"La paradoja de la búsqueda de estabilidad política en
Venezuela"
Yldefonso Penso Acero, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
"La violencia política y la democracia boliviana"
Andrea Morató-Lara, University of Iowa and Luis
Morató-Lara, Penn State University at Harrisbrug
Panel 5/c: Prose/Poetry Reading
III
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge
Moderator: Patricia Vilches, Lawrence
University
Jesús
Sepúlveda, University of Oregon
Patricia Vilches,
Lawrence University
Roberto
Castillo Sandoval, Haverford College
4:00 - 5:30
Panel 6/a: 'La nueva canción' Revisited
Campus Center, Assembly Hall
Chair: Juan Carlos Lértora,
Skidmore College
"La nueva canción latinoamericana"
Mario Nelson, Albany, NY
" From La Violeta to Illapu: Recapturing Memory and Cultural Identity Through
Music"
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence
University
"The music group from the Agrupación de Familiares de
Detenidos-Desaparecidos"
Ramón Bannister, Indiana University
"Todavía cantamos: La nueva canción chilena y su legado cultural"
Freddy Vilches,
University of Oregon
Panel 6/b: Dictatorship, Democratization
and the Neoliberal Challenge
Campus Center, 375
Chair: Liliana Goldín, SUNY
Albany
"Chile and México: from Third World solidarity to Neoliberal Connivance"
David R. Dávila Villiers, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
"Democracia en Latinoamérica"
Jesús Freire, State University of New York at Oswego
"Mujer y dictadura"
Otilia
Cortez, State University of New York at Oswego
Panel 6/c: Poetry Reading
IV
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge
Moderator: Luis
Correa-Díaz, University of Georgia
Marjorie
Agosín, Wellesley College
Emma
Sepúlveda, University of Nevada
Luis Correa-Díaz,
University of Georgia
5:30 - 6:00 Coffee Break
Performing Arts Center,
Fotterer Lounge
6:00 - 7:15 Amigas
(in English)
Reading by authors, Marjorie Agosín
and Emma
Sepúlveda
Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
7:30 - 9:30 Banquet. Empire Commons
Carlos
Santiago, Provost and Vice-President
for Academic Affairs
Keynote Address: Fabiola Letelier
Sunday, October 12, 2003
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee. Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
9:00 - 10:30
Panel 7/a: Democracy and Justice
for All (?)
Campus Center 375
Chair: Luis París, SUNY Albany
"Democracia y ciudadanía latinoamericana en los tiempos del libre
mercado"
Juan
Carlos Gómez Leyton, FLACSO Mexico - Chile
"From Protagonists to Spectators: The Legacy of the Dictatorship in La
Pincoya"
Rosemary Barbera, Temple University
"The Mark of Cain: The Prosecution of Pinochet and the Search for the
Disappeared."
Mark
Ensalaco, University of Dayton
"Changing Discourses on Democracy"
Julia Paley,
University of Michigan
Panel 7/b: Identity Conflicts of the
Other
Campus Center Terrace Lounge
Chair: Sergio Holas, The
University of Queensland, Australia
"Recado confidencial a los chilenos de Elicura Chihuailaf o de cómo
devenir oido. Saber escuchar y procesos de transformación identitaria como
solución al conflicto entre el estado chileno y la nación mapuche."
Sergio Holas, The
University of Queensland, Australia
"Remembering the Future: The Narrative Politics of José Miguel
Varas"
Gregory J. Lobo, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá
"Jemmy Button's Burden: Britain, Latin America and the Politics of
Representation"
Kevin
Foster, Monash University, Australia
"Poscolonialismo y posmodernidad en la poesía de Pedro Shimose"
Georgina
Wittingham, State University of New York at Oswego
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge
10:50 - 12:20
Panel 8/a: Writing Under and After
Dictatorship
Campus Center, 375
Chair: Carlos Trujillo,
Villanova University
"El rol de los talleres literarios durante la dictadura"
Carlos Trujillo,
Villanova University
"De-colonizing Memory and Language: The Case of Ariel Dorfman"
Enrique Morales-Díaz,
State University of New York at Oneonta
"Memorias de infancia: textos de Andrea Jeftanovic, Lina Meruane y Perla
Suez"
María Inés Lagos,
University of Virginia
"Revisiting the Marginal 'on the Inside': Nannies and Maids in Southern
Cone Cultural Production"
Julia Carroll,
Emory University
Panel
8/b: "La batalla de Chile"
y después...
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge
Chair: James Wessman, SUNY at Albany
"Desde el 'incidente Baltimore' hasta el 11 de septiembre. Pre- y post-episodios
de la Batalla de Chile"
Alvaro Leiva, Southeast
Missouri State University
"La generación del silencio"
Amado J. Lascar,
Ohio University
"Barbarie o autoritarismo. Las protestas nacionales en Chile y la emergencia
de una nueva generación poética"
Jesús
Sepúlveda, University of Oregon
"Alternative 'pasts' in the post-Pinochet Chile: the Relation History/Fiction
and the Subjectification of History"
Ornella Lepri Mazzuca,
State University of New York at Dutchess
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch / Conference Closing
Campus Center, Patroon's Room