Building codes: RC Reinhart Center, FAC Fine Arts Center, Campus Map
Friday, April 23
5:00-5:30 PM Registration, Reinhart Center (RC) Lobby.
5:30 – 7:15 PM Welcome Dinner, RC Boardroom, Entertainment by UWL Music
7:30 - 9:00 PM. Keynote Speaker will be Diana Sorensen, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dean for the Humanities at Harvard University, author of A Turbulent Decade Remembered. Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. Stanford University Press, 2007.
Her Lecture will be titled: Latin America and the Geographic Imaginaries of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. April 23, RC 127, 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 24
7:00 AM Registration, Fine Arts Center (FAC) Lobby
7:15-7:45 AM Continental Breakfast, FAC Lobby
7:45 – 8:00 AM Welcome remarks by Glena Temple, Dean of School of Letters, and Science,Viterbo University, and Víctor M. Macías-González, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latina/o and Latin American Studies, The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and Jesús E. Jambrina, Assistant Professor of Spanish and History, Coordinator of the Latin American Studies at Viterbo University
First Session: 8:00- 8:50 AM, FAC Lobby, Developing and Implementing a Latin American Studies Minor at a Small Liberal Arts University. The Viterbo University Federal Department of Education Title VI Grant, 2006-2008.
Michael Smuksta, “Overview of the Latin American Studies Minor at Viterbo University”
Theresa Moore, “The Faculty Learning Community: A Model for Faculty Development and Collaboration”
Beth Moore, “The Faculty Immersion Experience: Building Comfort and Capacity”
Connie Fossen, “Developing and Teaching a Course: the Example of Social Work”
Maribel Bird, “Student Perspectives on Learning in Latin American Studies Courses”
Second Session, 9:00 - 9:50 AM, Lobby FAC, Teaching Current Issues and Service,
Panel Moderator: Debra A. Daehn- Zellmer, Viterbo University
Darlene Lake, Modern Language, UWL, “Service Learning in Ecuador.”
Bert Kreitlow and Whitney Wood, UW-Whitewater, ”Blogging modernities in teaching Latin America.”
Third Session, 9:00-9:50 AM, FAC 221, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature.
Panel Moderator: Michael A. Wodzak, Viterbo University
Joaquín Rivera, Colgate University, “A Mathematical View of Borges’ Work”
Tania Pérez Cano, The University of Iowa, “El tema de nuestro tiempo”: comentarios sobre ecocrítica y estudios literarios”
Critián Gómez Olivares, University of South Dakota, The ever changing face of Gabriela Mistral: poetry, gender and dictatorship in the representation of the 1945 Literature Nobel Prize.
Fourth Session, 10:00- 10:50 AM, FAC Lobby, Teaching Humans Rights
Panel Moderator: Maribel Bird, Viterbo University
Paola Ehrmantraut, University of Saint Thomas, “Toward a Pedagogy of Humans Rights: The Case of Chile and Argentina”
Margaret Crosby, Alverno College, "Scrap by Scrap: The Chilean Arpillera Project at Alverno College"
Bill Katra, Independent Scholar, “Western Wisconsin's Hispanics in Court: The Persecution of the Undocumented”
Fifth Session, 10:00 -10:50 PM, FAC 221, Diasporas, Immigrants and Refugees
Panel Moderator: Naomi R. Stennes-Spidahl, Viterbo University
Tania Anderson, Tomah Area School District, and Pamela Campos, Norwalk Ontario Wilton, ”They All Speak Mexican and They’re All Hispanic…Right? Understanding the Experience of English Language Learners in Monroe County, Wisconsin”
Michael Krueger, Viterbo student, Latin American Studies minor, “Local History Documentation: 1980 Cuban refugees at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.”
Armando Chávez Rivera, University of Arizona, “Cuba per se: Letters from the Diaspora.”
Sixth Session, 11:00-11:50 PM, FAC Lobby, Anthropological Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean: Student Research on the Region
Christine Hippert, UWL, “Undergraduate Research Experience in Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.”
Sarah Swanson, Amy Fricke, and Erin Dubois, UWL Students
Seventh Session, 11:00 – 11:50 PM. FAC 221, Cultural Politics in Latin America
Moderator: Diana Elena Morán, Viterbo University
Paula Cámara, UNAM, “Symbolic Meaning and Land in the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army.”
Paula Chiara, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “ The haunting power of Trauma in National History: Lavalles's march in Ernesto Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs"
Matthew Sitek, UWL student, “Ethnographic Analogy: A Study of Household Life in Highland Bolivia, Past and Present.”
Noon-12:00 -12:50 PM Lunch
NOTE: Afternoon sessions will take place in the FAC 2 floor
Eighth Session, 1:00- 1:50 pm. FAC 221, Latin America Social Change and Revolutions
Panel Moderator: Michael Smuskta, Viterbo University
Nancy Gates, Luther College, “Teaching Memory and Political Violence in Latin American Literature”
Alfredo Alonso, Luther College, “Teaching Social Revolution, Art and Literature in Latin America.”
Damaris Puñalez Alpizar, The University of Iowa, “Cuban Mourning for Soviet Aesthetics.”
Ninth Session, 2:00 – 2:50 PM, FAC 221, Post Cold War Governability
Panel Moderator: Jean M. Janecki, UWL
Christine Hippert, UWL, “Participation and Governability: What Development Means, and Doesn’t Mean, in Rural Bolivia”
Joy Hayes, University of Iowa, “Local Force and National Threat: Mexico’s Community Radio Movement”
Keith Knutson, Viterbo University, “Political Similarities between Russia and Latin America”
Tenth Session, 3:00 – 3:50 PM. FAC 221, Conclusions and Evaluations
4:00 PM Reception. Riverplace Apartments, One Riverplace Dr, La Crosse,WI 54601.
The $25 registration cost will cover conference costs, refreshments, and lunch. Small travel grants available to defer cost of attendance of presenters.
Sponsors
Viterbo University / Latin American Studies Program (LASP)
UW-La Crosse Institute for Latino/a, Latin American, and Iberian Studies (ILLAIS)
UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Any inquires please contact Jesus E. Jambrina, Ph.D., jejambrina@viterbo.edu
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