The IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Graduate Student Association presents

On Heritage and Struggle:

Deconstructing Neoliberal
Assumptions and Realities

8th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

March 1st and 2nd, 2019
 About CLACS
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies (CLACS) was founded in 1963 (originally
as the Latin American Studies Program) as an um-
brella organization uniting Latin Americanists from
all campuses of Indiana University (IU). As a Title
VI National Resource Center in Latin American and
Caribbean Studies and part of the Hamilton Lugar
School of Global and International Studies at IU,
CLACS is a pivotal site for research, instruction,
and outreach focused on Latin America
and the Caribbean. CLACS also sponsors
a wide range of lectures, confer-
-ences and events highlighting
aspects of the region’s cultures,
societies, and languages in
addition to providing information on
Latin America and the Caribbean to
local, regional, and national constituencies.

CLACS provides interdisciplinary academic programs

in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to students
preparing for careers in research, teaching, or
management in public, private, or nonprofit sec-
tors. CLACS offers an undergraduate minor and
area certificate, a Master’s degree, three-year Dual
Master’s Degree programs (Business Administra-
tion, Library Science, Information Science, Law,
Public Health, and Public Affairs) and a doctoral
minor and certificate.
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 Keynote Address
Acoustic Colonialism and Its Counter-Currents:
Sounds and Listening(s) in the Mapuche Territory

This talk will focus on how the invasive sounds of the colonial city and hydroelectric dam proj-
ects in Chile's Mapuche territories contribute to the long history of “acoustic colonialism.”
In order to offer a critical reflection on this issue, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante will examine how
Indigenous modes of voicing and listening are performed in audiovisual works by Mapuche
artists/activists, including filmmaker Jeannette Paillan and video artist Cristian Wenuvil. Spe-
cifically, the talk will discuss audiovisual works in which the sounds of water and Mapuche
modes of voicing and listening are staged as responses to contemporary colonialism, in light of
both the long colonial history of Chile and the current era of neoliberalism. This will allow Pro-
fessor Cárcamo-Huechante to elaborate on the relationship between sound and colonialism as
well as the Indigenous modes of listening that are performed as counter-currents to “acoustic
colonialism” in Wallmapu, the Mapuche territory. This presentation is part of Professor Cár-
camo-Huechante's ongoing theoretical and methodological research, which brings together
approaches from Indigenous Studies and Sound Studies, drawing on Mapuche concepts relat-
ed to language, sound, and territory.

Friday, March 1st, 4 p.m. in GA 0001

Followed by Reception in GA 1060

Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante

Director of the Program in Native American and In-
digenous Studies (NAIS) and Associate Professor of
Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas
at Austin

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 FRIDAY, March 1st
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST - 8:30 - 9:00 AM

GA 1106
9:15 AM - Panel 1 : Mexico in Focus (GA 1106)
10:30 AM Jorge Rios Allier (Indiana University) — The Innovations in Finance Mechanisms from Subnational
Levels Applied in Management Cultural Resources in Mexico
Guadalupe Arellanes (California State University, Los Angeles) — "Dark-Skinned": Writing Black
Mexicanas Out of the Juarez Murders
Jorge Puma (University of Notre Dame) — The Failed Imposition of the Education Reform in Oaxaca
and the Successful Counter-refomist Movement of the Dissident Local 22 of the National Teacher’s
Union, 2013-2018
Carmina Spíndola (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) — Unbreakable Motherhood:
Women and Children Adoption in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Peter Guardino

10:45 AM - Panel 2: Reimagining Resistance (GA 1106)

11: 45 AM Hector Araya (Université Catholique de Louvain) — Challenges of the Discourse of Sexuality in the
Theology of Liberation: An Approach from Queer Theology
Noe Pliego Campos (Univesity of Notre Dame) — “¡No hagas panchos!”: Chavos Banda and Mexico’s
Lost Decade
Conor Rasmusen (Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York) — A Non-Ethics of Violence:
The Zapatistas and Radical Autonomy
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Micol Seigel

LUNCH - 12:00 PM
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 1060

1:00 PM - Panel 3: Systems, Markets, and Resources (GA 1106)

2:15 PM Martin Delaroche (Indiana University) — Finger Pointing in the Amazon: Are Large-scale Soybean
Producers the New Conservationists?
Rosie Eyerman-Motz (Indiana University) — The Modern Andean Food System: An Analysis of the
Historical and Current Food Landscape of the Central Andes
Jesús Nazario (University of Texas at Austin) — Post-NAFTA Indigenous Corn Farming: Cultural
Adaptability amid Neoliberal Forces in the Land of Fresh Water
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Angela Babb

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2:30 PM - Panel 4: Movements and Mobilizations (GA 1106)
3:45 PM Vitor Martins Dias (Indiana University) — From Political Mobilization to the Judicialization of Politics
in Brazil: Navigating the Political and Legal Systems through a Social Movement Lens
Casimir Korducki (Indiana University) — Beyond Sectarianism: Competing Political Visions and the
Division of the PRD in the Dominican Republic
Michiko Soto (California State University, Los Angeles) — A Profitable Disaster: Erasure and Resis-
tance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Shane Greene

4:00 PM Keynote Address: Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante

Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, GA 0001
Followed by Reception in GISB GA 1050 and 1060

Saturday, March 2nd

Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
355 N Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
BREAKFAST - 9:30 AM
GA 2134
10:00 AM - Panel 5: Traversing Boundries (GA 2134)
11:15 AM Alvaro L. Pajares (Indiana University) — Dance Reggaeton Like You Own It: The Political Aesthetics of
Neoperreo in Contemporary Spain
Jodi Scofield (California State University, Los Angeles) — It Is During Our Journey that We Rearrange
Our Burden: A Meta-analysis of Garifuna Migration
Yesenia Vargas (University of Illinois at Chicago) — Immigrants vs. Foreign Born: The Politics of Race,
Immigration and the Chilean Racial State
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Sergio Lemus

LUNCH - 11:30 AM
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 2134

VR Presentation & Digital Heritage Talk (GA 2067)

Dr. Alex Elvis Badillo (Indiana University and Indiana State University)
12: 30 PM - Matthew Brennan (Indiana University)
1:30 PM
Presentations will be followed by a visual reality exihibit of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico

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 Panel 6: Erasure through Space and Time (GA 2067)
Enrique Alvear (University of Illinois at Chicago) — Protecting Immigrants and Punishing Latino
Gangs: Crafting the Crimmigration Police in Chicago’s Sanctuary City Regime
1:45 PM -
3:00 PM Zachary Hayes (University of California San Diego) — Remodeling the Metaphor: Space in Bolaño's
"By Night in Chile"
Talisson Souza (Yale University/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) — Performing Democrati-
zation and Utopia through Contemporary Art at the 18th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 1985): Memory,
Identity and Market
Lais Lara Vanin (Indiana University) — When the Silence Screams: Slaves and Domestic Workers in
the Fiction of Emi Bulhões

DISCUSSANT: Dr. Luciana Namorato

CLOSING REMARKS - 3:00 PM

from the Planning Committee

This conference would not have been a possible without the gen-
erous support our sponsors: the IU Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, the IU Department of Sociology, the IU School
of Public Health, the Latin American Music Center, IU Department
of Informatics, the IU Department of Anthropology, and the IU
Funding Board. We would like to thank all our faculty discussants
for their time and committment to student-scholarship.

We would also like to thank CLACS graduate students Matt Cesnik,

Monty Montgomery, Rosie Eyerman Motz, Ricardo Higelin Ponce
de Leon, Oscar Lemus, Aline Xavier de Araújo, and Nate Young for
their hard work in organizing this year’s conference. In addition,
thank you to CLACS Director Dr. Anke Birkenmaier, CLACS Associ-
ate Director Dr. Bryan Pitts, CLACS Academic Secretary Katherine
Cashman, and CLACS Intern Marah Green for their much appreciat-
ed support.
-The CLACS GSC Planning Commitee
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 Participants
Jorge Luis Rios Allier - Indiana University, Anthropology
Enrique Alvear - University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology
Hector Araya - Université Catholique de Louvain, Theology
Guadalupe Arrelanes - California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies
Noe Pliego Campos - University of Notre Dame, History
Martin Deloroche - Indiana University, Public Affairs & Geography
Vitor Martins Dias - Indiana University, Sociology
Zachary Hayes - University of California, San Diego, Literatures in Spanish
Casimir Korducki - Indiana University, History
Rosie Eyerman Motz - Indiana University,Public Health and Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Jesús Nazario - University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies
Alvaro L. Pajares - Indiana University, Hispanic Literature
Jorge Puma - University of Notre Dame, International History
Conor Rasmusen - Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Christian Social Ethics
Jodi Scofield - California State University Los Angeles, Interdisciplinary Studies
Carmina Spíndola - Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Sociology
Michiko Soto - California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies
Talisson Souza - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Yale University, Sociology
Lara Lais Vanin - Indiana University, Lusophone Literature
Yesenia Vargas - University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology

Discussants
Dr. Angela Babb - Ostrom Workshop
Dr. Shane Greene - Department of Anthropology
Dr. Peter Guardino - Department of History
Dr. Sergio Lemus - Latino Studies Program
Dr. Luciana Namorato - Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Micol Seigel - Department of History, Department of American Studies

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 Indiana University’s Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies
(CLACS) is proud to present the
8th Annual CLACS Graduate Student
Conference on March 1st and 2nd at
Indiana University Bloomington.

Thank you to all of our participants,

discussants, and supporters!

Thank you to all of our co-sponsors:

IU Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies
IU Department of Sociology
IU Department of Informatics
IU Department of Anthropology
Latin American Music Center
and
IU Funding Board
To learn more about our center and
our upcoming events, please
contact us at:

355 N. Jordan Ave

Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855 9097
clacs@indiana.edu
https://clacs.indiana.edu/
Twitter: @IUCLACS
Instagram: @IUCLACS