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List of Panels                           

 Wednesday

 Politics (13:30-15:30)

Thomas Purcell - Title: The Limits to Populism in Venezuela

Joanna McGarry - Title: The Challenge of Latin America: A reconsideration of United States-Latin American Relations during the Kennedy Administration

Maurizio Tinnirello - Title: Uribe’s Peace Policies: Perpetuating Violence by “Masquerading” the Colombian Conflict.

Martin Mendoza Botelho - Title: Democracy in the making in the Andean Region: Decentralisation, democratic innovation, constitutional changes and a new emerging notion of citizenship

Shantytowns (16:00-17:30)

Polly Wilding – Title: Everyday Violence in the Shantytowns of Brazil: (In) security and the Neglect of Gender

Kahlil Yanes – Title: An investigation into the Relationship of Impoverished Urban Women and Water in Lima’s Shantytowns: Looking at the Cultural Dimensions of Water

James Scorer – From Sodom and Gomorrah to the City of God: Narrating the Villa Miseria in Argentina

Plenary Session (18:00-18:45)

Steven Rubenstein. RILAS director.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/ilas/staff/Steve.htm

Welcome Reception (18:45-20:15)

Thursday

 Literature (10:30- 12:00)

Laiz Capra Chen – Patative do Assare in English: translating Brazilian oral/popular poetry

Paul McAleer- Acculturation or transculturation? Hybridity, Identity, and Shattered Cosmovisions in the Contemporary Latin American Comic Novel.

Maria Soledad Montañez- Title: The Lost Paradise: ‘Intertextualising’ Marosa di Giorgio’s Erotic Writing.

Race, Gender, and Sexuality (10:30- 12:00)

Inés Ferrero Cándenas - Title: Carmen Boullosa’s Duerme : The Magic aspect of Gender and Race

Claire House - Title: Sexuality and Human Rights in Brazil

Daniel Stone - Title: Afro-Brazilian priests or black sorcerers? Race and witchcraft in Recife during the 1930s

Borges, Neruda, and Arango (13:30-15:30)

Debbie Martin – Title: The Body and Nation in Débora Arango

Mariana Casale O’Ryan – Title: “The case of two Biographies in the Making of Jorge Luis Borges as a Cultural Icon”

María Angeles Navarrete López - Title: ‘El amor con los derechos del rocío’: Metaphorical Amorous Scenarios in Pablo Neruda’s Cien sonetos de amor

Mexico (13:30-15:30)

Mireya Marquez - Title: Understanding journalistic culture in Mexico: notions of professionalism

Laura Campbell - Title: Photography, Architecture and Nation in Mexico´s 1910 Centenary

Anahely Medrano - Title: Exploring elites’ perceptions about the poor, poverty and socioeconomic rights of the children in Mexico

Film (16:00-17:30)

Jordana Blejmar - Title: Betraying Heritage: A Reading of the 1970s in Argentina through Los Rubios, Papá Ivan and Historias cotidianas

Philippa Page - Title: ‘Theatre of cruelty’, Performance of Exile: Fernando Solanas’ Tangos, El exilio de Gardel

Interdiciplinary Panel (16:00-17:30)

Sally Evans- Title: Friend or Stranger? Fieldwork in the Ecuatorian Amazon

Helen Porter- Keywords: participation, youth, empowerment

Dinner for delegates (18:00 onwards)

 FRIDAY

 Education (9:00 – 10:45)

Tristan McCowan- Building the inclusive curriculum: the Plural School experience in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Gaston Yalonetzky - Title: How persistent are educational outcomes across generations in Peru?

Cleonice Puggian - BETWEEN STREETS AND SCHOOLS: AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT DROPOUT  STUDENTS AND THEIR PATH TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION IN BRAZIL

Guy Burton – Better Late than Never: Brazilian Social Democratic Education Policy, 1995-2002

Economy, Management, and Development (11:00-12:30)

Japhy Wilson – Title: Neoliberalization and the Production of Flexible Space: The Case of Plan Puebla Panama

José Vargas Hernandez- Title: Institutional Economics of Co-Operation and the Political Economy of Trust

Gregorio Perez- Title: Managing Knowledge Workers in Chile

Historiography (11:00-12:30)

Sophie Kelsall- Title: Bolívar™

Violeta: Historicising the musical past: Chilean popular music during Pinochet’s dictatorship

Stefanie Gänger -Title: Nationalism and Archaeology: German Archaeologists and Peruvian Memory Culture in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Closing Plenary Session (12:40- 13:30)

Professor Peter Wade

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/socialanthropology/staff/p_wade/default.htm