University of Florida at the

LASA 2007 International Congress, Montreal

The .-,ll...... UF faculty and graduate students participated at the LASA Congress in Montreal, September 5-7, 2007.


Jose Alvarez (FRE), panel organizer, "Retos Tecnicos, Econ6micos y
Sociales de la Reestructuraci6n de la Agroindustria Azucarera de Cuba."

Leslie Anderson (Political Science), panel organizer and chair,
"Environmental Activism, Citizen Rights and Social Justice," and
presenter, "Idealism and Realism as Democracy Consolidates: Electoral
Issues and Citizen Concerns in Nicaragua's 2006 Election."

Tom Ankerson (Law), presenter, "It's Not Just About the Conservation:
The Role of'Proto-tenure' in Development, Social Justice, and
Conservation in the Maya Forest."

Andres Avellaneda (RLL), presenter, "Periodismo y literature en tiempos
de c6lera."

Florence Babb (Women's Studies and Gender Research), panel
organizer, "Afro-Latin and Indigenous Peoples: Races and Ethinicity in
Latin American and Caribbean Tourism," and presenter, "Cultural
Tourism in Post-Conflict Chiapas and Andean Peru."

Efrain Barradas (LAS/RLL), presenter, "Belkis Ramirez entire el texto y la
imagen," and discussant, "Variations on a Theme: Narratives of Return in
the Cuban and Dominican Diasporas."

Gregory Bates (LAS), presenter, "The Inter-American Convention
Against Corruption: A Commentary on Trade & Human Rights."

Hannah Covert (LAS), panel organizer and chair, "Evaluation Practices at
Latin American Studies Centers."

Carmen Diana Deere (LAS/FRE), panel chair and discussant, "Genero y
Justicia: Dinimicas hist6ricas y contemporineas en America Latina;"
panelist, Kalman Silvert Award Plenary.

Joan Flocks (Law), presenter, "Responses to International Environmental
Justice."

Tace Hedrick (English), panel organizer, chair, and discussant, "Blackness
and Comparative Racial Politics in U.S. Afro-Latina/o, African
American, and Latin American Writing and Culture."

Deicy Jimenez (RLL), presenter, "Mestizaje y Revoluci6n: La mulatez
cubana en la poesia de Exilia Saldaia."

Osvaldo Jordan (Political Science), panel organizer, "New Forms of
Multiculturalism."


Ilvia Larragan Osceola (Teaching & Learning), presenter, "Critical Issues
in Bilingual Education Today: A Case Study of a Texas Rio Grande Valley
Two-Way model School District."

Ana Margheritis (LAS/Political Science), presenter, "Argentina's Foreign
Policy, Democracy, and Inter-American Relations."

Terry McCoy (LAS/Political Science), panel organizer and chair (with
Meredith Fensom), "Law and Economics in Latin America."

Sean O'Neil (Religion), panel chair, organizer and presenter, "New
Evangelisms" and "Latin America's Via Media?"

Antonio de la Pefia (Anthropology), presenter, "Ethnography, History and
Social Network Analysis: An Alternative to the World Bank's Social
Capital Applications."

Maria Rogal (Art & Art History), panel chair, "Afro-Latin and Indigenous
Peoples: Races and Ethnicity in Latin American and Caribbean Tourism,"
and presenter, "The Maya Imaginary: Cultures of Consumption in the
Yucatin."

Helen Safa (LAS/Anthropology), panel organizer, "Race and Ethnicity in
the Caribbean Women's Movement;" and discussant, "Holistic Vision of
the Caribbean;" chair and discussant Kalman Silvert Award Plenary

Marianne Schmink (LAS/Anthropology), presenter, "Challenges of
Grassroots Conservation Initiatives: Extractive Reserves in Acre."

Martin Sorbille (RLL), presenter, "Psicoandlisis y political en Tiempo de
revancha."

Manuel Vasquez (Religion), presenter, "Rligi.i. medidnica entire
imigrantes brasileiros na area metropolitan de Atlanta: Relacges de
gbnero e poder."

Philip Williams (Political Science), presenter, "Constructing Mexican
Identities in Metro Atlanta."


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