Latin American Environments:
Approaches from the Sciences and the Humanities
Conference Schedule
Friday, April 5
Welcome to the Conference, 9:15-9:30 (Location: Friday Building, Room 111)
Jürgen Buchenau, Latin American Studies MA Director
Light Breakfast (coffee, bagels, pastries), 9-9:30 (Friday 111)
Workshop 1, 9:30-11 (Friday 111)
- “Cyborg Virgins, Ecological Crises, and Childhood Cancer in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints”
David Dalton, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte
- “Centrifugal Capitalism: Struggles over Infrastructure in the Sugar Ports of Nineteenth-Century Cuba”
Dan Rood, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia
- Discussant: Honore Missihoun, Senior Lecturer of Africana Studies, UNC Charlotte
Workshop 2, 11:15-12:45 (Friday 111)
- “Filling Whites and Blacks with Terror”: Pathogens, Laboring Landscapes, and Toxic Colonialism in Urban Cuba, 1850-1898″
Oscar de la Torre, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, UNC Charlotte
- “Mercantile Paradise or Metropolis of Pestilence: Veracruz, Tropical Disease and Environmental Engagement in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Beau Gaitors, Assistant Professor of History, Winston-Salem State University
- Discussant: Karen Flint, Associate Professor of History, UNC Charlotte
Lunch Break, 12:45 – 2:15 (On Your Own)
Workshop 3, 2:15-3:45 (Friday 111)
- “The Geography of Poaching: Illegal Hunting and Heart-of-Palm Theft at the Brazilian-Argentine Frontier, 1940s-1970s”
Frederico Freitas, Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina State University
- “African Maritime Brokers and the Making of a South Atlantic System”
Mary Hicks, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
- Discussant: Reinaldo Funes, MacMillan Center Visiting Professor, Yale University / Universidad de La Habana, Cuba
Saturday, April 6
Light Breakfast (coffee, bagels, pastries), 9-9:30 (Friday 111)
Panel: Transnational Perspectives on Natural and Built Landscapes, 9:30- 11:30 (Friday 111)
- “Between the Pacific Coast and the Andes: How Geography and Environment Shaped Peru’s Ethnoracial Demography”
Dan Cozart, Lecturer, UNC Charlotte / University of New Mexico
- “Atmospheric Pressure: Rendering the Air as Power in Southern Mexico”
Stephanie Friede, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wake Forest University
- “Conservation Science as Hybrid Knowledge: Social Class and the Transformation of Local Environmental Expertise in Southern Mexico”
Nora Haenn, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, North Carolina State University
- “The Political Currency of Water in Porfirian Tlaxcala”
Jaclyn Sumner, Assistant Professor of History, Presbyterian College
- Chair: Benny Andrés, Associate Professor of History, UNC Charlotte
Coffee Break, 11:30-11:45
Roundtable: Understanding Bolsonaro’s Brazil, 12-1pm (Friday 111)
- Carolina de Oliveira, Latin American Studies, UNC Charlotte
- Sofia Paiva de Araujo, Latin American Studies, UNC Charlotte
- Jeanine Lino Couto, Visiting Assistant Professor, Winston-Salem State University
- Greg Weeks, Political Science Department Chair, UNC Charlotte
Lunch Break – Catering Provided, 1-2pm (Friday 112)
Keynote Address, 2-3:30pm (Friday 142):