Latin American Studies Conference | CSUSB

Come check out the Latin American Studies Conference! The event will feature guest speakers, Cristopher Loperena and Marcela Velasco.

Sponsors

Association for Latin American Studies (ALAS)

College of Arts and Letters

College of Social Sciences

Department of World Languages & Literatures

Pfau Library

Schedule

LAS Conference Schedule
Welcome 10:00AM – 10:05 AM	Bibiana Díaz, World Languages and Literatures Teresa Velásquez, Anthropology
Keynote Speaker 10:05 AM - 11:00 AM	Dr. Marcela Velasco Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University. Collective Trauma in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories This presentation will discuss collective trauma among ethnic groups using the case of Afro-Colombian riparian communities and indigenous groups in Colombia’s Pacific coast, as an example. They have suffered some of the worst effects of violence, forced displacement, and territorial dispossession due to the forceful expansion of resources- and land-intensive economic development.
Session 1 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Session Chair: Teresa Velásquez	Elizabeth López, CLACSO, La Paz, Bolivia Apuesta a la vida (A bet on life): Indigenous Tacana Women’s Mechanisms of Resilience Against the Extractive Expansion of the Bolivian Amazon Eric Carbajal, California State University, Fullerton “Justicia Transicional y la figura del desaparecido en Criba de Julián Pérez” Ariana Khateeb, San Francisco State University Revolutions Challenging the Hegemon
Lunch Break 12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Session 2 1:00 PM - 2:00PM Session Chair: Bibiana Díaz	Juanita Darling, San Francisco State University “Los medios de comunicación social como fuente de la filosofía” Nancy Donald, Anthropology, University of California, San Diego Carreteras y Corridores: Scenic Routes, Rewilding and the Infrastructures of Conservation in the Chilean Patagonia Mario Castaneda, California State University, Los Angeles The impact of increased numbers of Central American on the Mexican Majority Latino Population of California.
Keynote Speaker 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Dr. Christopher Loperena Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology,The CUNY Graduate Center Prospera: The Making of a Dystopian Paradise in Honduras Honduras has long been a site for economic experimentation, beginning with the U.S. controlled banana enclaves of the early 20th century and culminating in the recent proposal to establish semi-sovereign “start up” cities (ciudades modelos) in purportedly unpopulated areas of the country. These seemingly disparate goals are bound up with a longer history of "racialized extraction," in which the land, water, and forests located within Black and Indigenous territories are relentlessly and repeatedly transmutated into extractable commodities. Today, as in the past, economic prosperity is made possible through the selective elision of Indigenous and Black presence and ultimately their erasure.
Session 3 In Spanish 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Session Chair: Dr. Alicia del Campo, Co-Director, Latin American Studies, CSU Long Beach	Subjetividades de género: desde la narrativa a las teatralidades políticas Eliécer Almaguer, California State University, Long Beach El grito catártico en La amortajada de María Luisa Bombal Yan Hua Situ Zhou, California State University, Long Beach Castigo y redención en La novia oscura de Laura Restrepo Francisco Soto Franco,California State University, Long Beach Teatralidades políticas transnacionales: neoliberalismo, cuerpo y nación en las escenas de la extradición del Chapo Guzmán.
Afternoon break 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Film Screening 5:00 PM- 6:30 PM	Sponsored by Pfau Library Film “Gather” (2020) Director: Sanjay Rawal. Register for the event to view the film.

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