Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, the Caribbean and Latino Studies
First Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference - organized by graduate
students of the Graduate Certificate in Latin
American/Latino Studies and Gloria Bernabe-Ramos.
Keynote Address:
Roman de la Campa, SUNY Stony Brook
"The Latin American Subject and the North American Academy"
Opening Remarks:
Patricia Pinho, Amherst College
"Looking at Brazil in the Light of Latin American Studies"
Closin Remarks:
Luis Marente, UMass Amherst
Panels:
-Migratory Paterns in the Americas
-Challenging Historical and Sociocultural Discourse Through Literature
-Women, Femenism, and Politics of the Nation-State
-Bilingualism, Curriculum Design, and Word Traveling
-Trascending Space and Time: Approaching Latin America and the Caribbean Through
Art and Performance
-Mexico During the 1920s and 1930s
-Caribbean Women Writing Resistance, Identity and Politics
-Latin American-US Relations
-Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Controversias, Diablos y Batallas Femeninas
-Immigration Law and Policy Implications to Latino Immigrants
-Race and Class Relations in the Black Atlantic
-Resisting Dominat Discourses: Rhetoric, Translation, and Poscolonial Studies
-New Approaches and Alternatives in Social Analysis and Academis
-The Politics of Economic, Environmental and poblic Policies
-The Resurgence of Los Andes in Latin American Cultural Studies: The Politics of
Education, Translation and Ecology
-Afro-Latino/a Art: Hibridity, Transculturation and Glovalization
Sponsored and hosted by The Center for Latin American, Caribbean and
Latino Studies.
Co-sponsored by UMass' Graduate School, the colleges of Social and
Behavioral Sciences and Humanities and Fine Arts, the departments of
Geosciences, Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, Economics,
and Five Colleges, Inc., and the Spanish departments of Amherst and
Smith colleges.
For more information contact: las@econs.umass.edu, or gbr@cas.umass.edu or call
413-545-4648, or 413-545-4868