Events
Friday, March 28, 2008
Victoria College, Room 212
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Latin America Graduate Research Day
Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto
Friday, March 28, 2008
Victoria College Room 212 -- 9:00 -17:30
9.00-9.05 Opening Remarks
9.05-10.00 Dot Tuer, History
Conquistadors and Shamans: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the negotiation of conquest in the Río de la Plata: 1542-43.
Discussants: Hollis Moore, Anthropology, and David Rojinsky, Spanish and Portuguese.
10.00-11.00 Vannina Sztainbok, Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE
The clothesline: Drawing attention to the positioning of Afro-Uruguayan women.
Discussants: Aaron Kappeler, Anthropology, and Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Spanish and Portuguese
Coffee Break 11.00-11.15
11.15-12.15 Daniela Jofre, Anthropology
Aymara Landscape Mythologies in the Andes: Indigenous Governance and Wilderness Protected Areas.
Discussants: Kate Parizeau, Geography, Environment and Health, and Ana Maria Bejarano, Political Science.
Lunch 12.15- 13.00
13.00-14.00 Berenice Villagomez, Spanish and Portuguese
How Civil Society Got its Solidarity On: Early Proposals for an Interpretation of the Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake
Discussants: Kate Mikos, History, and Peter Blanchard, History.
14.00- 15.00 Katherine Reilly, Political Science
Openness as an Ontological and Methodological Challenge in Researching the New Latin American Left
Discussants: Stuart Parker, History, and Gavin Smith, Anthropology
15.00- 15.20 Coffee Break
15.20- 16.20 Martha Viveros, OISE at the UofT
Learning to be Canadian: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Self-transformation in Canada
Discussants: Ramón Victoriano-Martínez, Spanish and Portuguese, and Valentina Napolitano, Anthropology
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16.20- 17.20 René Guerra Salazar, Medicine and Pubic Health Sciences
Constituting Health Care Reform: a text analysis of the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution’s Health Articles.
Discussants: Michael Lima, History, and Victor Rivas, Spanish and Portuguese
17.20-17.30 Concluding Remarks
