OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Albro, Ward S. (Texas A&M University-Kingsville), Presented paper on "magonismo y chicanismo" at meeting inaugurating "El año ciudadano Ricardo Flores Magón" in Oaxaca, Mexico, November 1997; gave a plenary session on the Día de los Muertos en Oaxaca at
the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies in Missoula, Montana, April 1998; gave workshops on Mexican cultural history for Kansas State Department of Education in Dodge City, Kansas, November, 1997; and took 18 Kansas educators to Mexico (Mexico City, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Tlaxcala) for a 10-day tour, July 1998.
Beattie, Peter M. (Michigan State University), "Medicine, Sexuality, and Discipline in the Barracks and the Prison, 1864-1945," Brazilian Studies Association Conference, Washington,
D. C., November 13, 1997; "O símbolo do Sertanejo antes de Os sertões," Seminário Canudos Sem Anos, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 1997.
Becker, Marc (Gettysburg College) "Inter-ethnic Coalition Building in the 1930s: Indigenous Protest Movements in Cayambe," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998; "The Caranqui Roots of Twentieth-Century Cayambe Identity in Highland Ecuador," paper presented to the 26th Annual Midwest Andean and Amazonian Conference, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, February 28-March 1, 1998.
Becker, Marjorie (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Presented papers on Frida Kahlo at the invitational Mexico conference at Stanford in November, 1997, and at "Emiliafest" at Yale in May, 1998.
Bessa, Beatriz G. Mamigonian (University of Waterloo), Presented a paper entitled, "British Foreign Office Personnel in Brazil and the Problem of the Liberated Africans: The Failed Attempt to Control an Experiment with Free Labour in a Slave Society" at the North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) meeting held in October, 1997; a paper entitled, "Out of Diverse Experiences, a Fragmentary History: A Study of the Historiography on Liberated Africans in Africa and the Americas" at the Summer Institute "Identifying Enslaved Africans: the 'Nigerian' Hinterland and the African Diaspora," part of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, held in July 1997.
Borges, Dain (University of California, San Diego), "Interpreting the 1888-1891 Transformation in Puerto Rico and Brazil," at BRASA IV International Congress, Washington, D. C., November 12-15, 1997.
Broussard, Ray F. (University of Georgia), Read a paper at the National Social Science Association meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana, in November, 1997, entitled, "Spanish Louisiana: An Era of Progress"; read a paper at the National Social Science Association meeting in April, 1998, in San Diego, California, entitled, "Cartagena's Naval Defense."
Buchenau, Jurgen (University of Southern Mississippi), Papers Read: "Globalization Under the Historical Microscope: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-1998," at "Globalization from Below" conference, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; "Toward a Reconsideration of Porfirian Foreign Relations" at SECOLAS Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia.
Bushnell, Amy Turner (College of Charleston), Papers read: "Escape of the Nickaleers: Castaways, Indians, and Soldiers in Jonathan Dickinson's Journal (1699)," Mid-Michigan Seminar in Early American History, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997; "A View from the Edge: Enlivening the Long Middle Period in Colonial Spanish American History," at a conference on "Colonial Centers and Colonial Peripheries: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of the Early Modern Americas," Michigan State University, 1997, and also at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1997; "Spain's Conquest by Contract: Pacification and the Mission System in Eastern North America," as the Jack and Margaret Sweet Lecture, Michigan State University, 1997, and also at Central Michigan University, 1997; "History with Boots on," Phi Alpha Theta Society, Michigan State University, 1997; "Characteristics of Settler Societies in Early Modern Spanish America," Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998.
Camuñas, Ricardo R. (Interamerican University of Puerto Rico), Presentación Libro Protestantismo y Política en Puerto Rico, una reacción al mismo el miercoles 22 de abril de 1998, Universidad Interamericana San Germán; papel "Las relaciones entre Puerto Rico y las Antillas Francesas" April Caribbean Historian Association Martiniques; papel "Las Relaciones entre Puerto Rico y Santo Domingo," Congreso Migración Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Julio 1997; papel "Las relaciones del Caribe español con el mundo no hispánico: Identidad, necesidad comercial e imposición política," Caribbean Studies Association Annual Congress
--Barranquilla Colombia, May 1997.
Cane, James (University of California, Berkeley) Paper, "Press as Property: Perón and the Expropriation of La Prensa, 1946-1951," at the Pacific Coast Branch Conference of the American Historical Association, August 6-9, 1998, San Diego, California; "Shattering the Ink Mirror: The Question of 'Freedom of the Press' in Peronist Argentina," at the Conference on Latin American History, January 1999, Washington, D. C. (panel approved); "La esfera pública de Habermas en su gérmen gramsciano," at the 8th Congress of Cuban and North American Philosophers and Social Scientists, June 1996, Havana, Cuba; also served as moderator of the panel, "Renovación del Marxismo,"; "Unity for the Defense of Culture: AIAPE and the Cultural Politics of Argentine Anti-Fascism, 1935-1943," at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, September 1995, Washington,
D. C.
Canizares Esguerra, Jorge (Illinois State University), "Nation and Nature: Creole Patriotic Representations of Nature in Colonial Spanish America," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, August 19, 1998.
Carey, Elaine (University of New Mexico), Paper read, "Cooks, Rebels, Secretaries, Guerrillas: Gendering 1968, Mexico," Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford, Oxford, U. K.
Casal, Juan Manuel (Universidad de la República de Uruguay), Papers read: "Unification and Early Professionalization in the Uruguayan Army, 1865-1904: Militarism and the Invention of Uruguayan Nationhood," at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the CLAH, in affiliation with the AHA, Seattle, Washington, January 1998; "The Uruguayan Military Generation of 1885 and the Promotion of Professional Instruction and Corporate Feeling in the Armed Forces," at the XXVIII Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 1998; Chair and Discussant, Panel on "Latin American Militias: Military Organization, Political Mobilization, and Social Confrontation, 1780-1850," at the 45th Annual SECOLAS Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, April 1998.
Casanovas, Joan (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain), "El separatisme Cubà, 1850-1898," at a conference titled "1898: desastre o punt de partida," organized by the History Dept. of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, December 1997. Lectures: "El separatisme Cubà a la segona meitat del s. XIX," municipal regional archives of Blanes, Sort, and Tortosa (Catalonia, Spain), May-June 1998.
Claxton, Robert H. (State University of West Georgia), Presented a paper, "Radio and Argentine Nationhood," 4th International Conference on the Americas, University of South Florida, January 1998; offered a graduate seminar, "Religion in Latin American History," Winter 1998.
Conniff, Michael L. (University of South Florida), Organized session on "Populism in Latin America" for 1998 LASA meeting in Chicago; chaired session on slavery in Brazil at the American Historical Association meeting in Seattle, January 1998; program development travel in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico; many lectures to local groups in Central Florida.
Cooney, Jerry W. (University of Louisville), "The Last Bandeira: The Struggle for Paraguay's Eastern Marches, 1752-1777," read at CLAH meeting, Seattle 1998.
Curcio-Nagy, Linda A. (University of Nevada, Reno), Invited guest lecturer at Indiana University, Bloomington and delivered talk entitled, "Satire, Symbols, and the Entrance of the Viceroy: Negotiating Good Governance in Colonial Mexico."
Damian, Carol (Florida International University), "Inka Noble Portraits" at SECAC/MACAA College Art Conference, Richmond, October, 1997; wrote three book reviews; participated in Prentice Hall web project for the Visual Arts.
Dávila, Walter J. J. (Gustavus Adolphus College), "Learning the American Way: U. S. Influence Over Brazilian Education in the 1920s," Brazilian Studies Association; "Education Reform and the Brand of Communism in Brazil's Vargas Era," New England Historical Association.
Dorn, Georgette (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress), Papers read: "Dynamics of Social Transformation and Modernization in the Central Chaco, Paraguay," 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito; "Women Studies in Latin America: A Historical Perspective," Universidad de República, Montevideo, Uruguay; Commentator and member of roundtable, "The Secret History of Gender," AHA Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1998.
Ewell, Judith (College of William and Mary), delivered an invited plenary lecture on "U.S.-Venezuelan Relations, 1945-1989" at the first Congreso de Investigación y Creación Intelectual at the Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela, in May 1998; read a paper at the April meeting of RMCLAS on "Saints of the Basin: José Gregorio Hernández and María Lionza of Venezuela."
French, John D. (Duke University), "Backward Workers and Strikers without Class Consciousness: Intellectuals and Workers in Post-War São Paulo, Brazil," presented, as part of a panel on "The Academy and Society," at a conference "Reclaiming 'the Political' in Latin American History: Homenagem á Emília Viotti da Costa," held at Yale University, May 14-17, 1998; served as coordinator for the Fifteenth Latin American Labor History Conference held April 17-18, 1998 at Duke University; serving as co-coordinator for the "Track on Labor Studies and Class Relations" of the LASA Program Committee for the XXI International Conference to be held in Chicago, September 24-26, 1998; served as overall coordinator for the "Working Group on Political and Social Movements" on the Program Committee for the Fourth Annual International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association in Washington, D. C. 12-15 November, 1998.
García-Muniz, Humberto (Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico), Papers read: "Louisiana's Influence in the Sugar Industry of the Caribbean," 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, 9 April 1997, Martinique; "The United States and the Caribbean at Fin de Siècle: Time of Transitions," Peace and Security in the Americas Workshop, sponsored by FLACSO-RD and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 9-10 June, 1997; "El Garveyismo en la República Dominicana durante la Ocupación Militar de los EEUU (1926-1924): migración, indentidad negra, represión y acomodamiento," Caribe 2000, 5 March 1998, Puerto Rico.
Gudmundson, Lowell (Mount Holyoke College), Presentations: "On Paths Not Taken: Commercial Capital and Coffee Production in Costa Rica," to the IV CONGRESO CENTROAMERICANO DE HISTORIA, Managua, Nicaragua, July 1998; and to a conference on the comparative history of coffee organized by the School for Oriental and African Studies and held at St. Antony's College, Oxford University in September 1998.
Guitar, Lynne A. (Vanderbilt University), Presented papers at Afro-Latin American Research Association, Santo Domingo; Michigan State University, Department of History; CLAH, Seattle, Washington; Identifying Enslaved Africans Workshop in the American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Mexico City; York University, Toronto; and for various associations in the Dominican Republic.
Hale, Charles A. (University of Iowa), "The Civil Law Tradition and Constitutionalism in Twentieth Century Mexico: the Legacy of Emilio Rabasa," paper at LASA, Guadalajara, April 1997; paper at Instituto José Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, June 1997.
Hanger, Kimberly S. (University of Tulsa), Papers read at the Slavery in Francophone World Conference and the Southern Conference on Women's History; on the steering committee to establish a Latin American-Caribbean History Section of the Southern Historical Association.
Jaksic, Ivan (University of Notre Dame), Various papers on Bello delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, April 1997; Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Spain, June 16-17; Embassy of Venezuela, November 1997, and Vanderbilt University, February 1998.
Jimenez-Wagenheim, Olga (Rutgers University--Newark), Carried out extensive research during the Spring semester 1998 on the role of the Puerto Rican Nationalists. Goal: to write about the Puerto Rican women in the nationalist party and movement as the next project.
Kicza, John E. (Washington State University), Member, American Historical Association Program Committee for the year 2000 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Kortheuer, Dennis (University of California, Irvine), Presented a paper, "High and Low: Space and Architecture as Locations and Symbols of Power in a Baja California Mining Enclave," at the conference, Taking Up Space in The American West, May 30, 1998.
Lavrin, Asunción, (Arizona State University), "Educación y Mujer: Hacia un Nuevo Milenio," Keynote Speech, IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, Santiago de Chile, May 25-29, 1998; seminar for University Professors, Members of International Organizations and Centers for the Study of Women, Pontíficia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, June 2, 1998; seminar and Workshop for Students of History, Pontíficia Universidad Católica de Chile, June 4, 1998; invited Lecturer, Universidad de Chile, June 5, 1998; "Creating Bonds and Respecting Differences," Paper presented at the Encuentro Feminista: Defining a Research and Teaching Agenda for the New Millenium, Inter-American University, San Germán, Puerto Rico, sponsored by State University of New York, Albany, April 22-25, 1998.
Lesser, Jeffrey (Connecticut College), Editorial Board, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe; Editorial Board, Estudos Ibero-Americanos; International Consulting Council, Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Contemporâneos of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Secretary, Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Papers: Alfred Smart Art Museum, University of Chicago, "Not the World of His Father: Lasar Segall's Brazil"; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, "Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil"; Duke University, Program in Latin American Studies and Asian Studies, "Creating Nikkei Identity in Brazil"; American Historical Association/ Conference on Latin American History, "Immigrants and the Construction of National Identity in Brazil"; Tel Aviv University, Center for Latin American Studies, "Immigrant Identity in Brazil"; Trinity College, "Becoming Brazilian: Immigrant Ethnicity in Brazil"; Latin American Jewish Studies Association Symposium (Harvard University) "Place Makes'Race': Citizenship and the Transnational Struggle for Jewish Identity."
Lewis, Stephen E. (California State University, Chico), Defended dissertation: "Revolution and the Rural Schoolhouse: Forging State and Nation" in Chiapas, Mexico, 1913-1948.
Lizcano Fernandez, Francisco (Univ. Aut. Edo. Mexico), En 1997 impartió ocho conferencias, entre las que sobresalen sus participaciones en el "Segundo congreso internacional de filosofía y cultura del Caribe" y "49 Congreso internacional de americanistas."
Martínez-Fernández, Luis (Rutgers University), Papers read: "La historiografía norteamericana sobre el '98," University of Puerto Rico, October 1996; "Crypto-Protestants and Pseudo-Catholics in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean" LASA International Congress, April 1997; "Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898," CLAH Annual Meeting, 1998.
Mathews-Lamb, Sandra K. (Nebraska Wesleyan University), Five Scholarly papers at meetings; Editor: H-West, H-Rural; Co-owner/co-founder: Span Bord, History and Archaeology of the Spanish Borderlands (since March 1994); Advisor: Phi Alpha Theta.
Méndez-Gastelumendi, Cecilia (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Not Finding as a Finding: On National and Ethnic Identities in Nineteenth Century Peru" presented at the Andean Committee Session, AHA Annual Meeting, Seattle 1998; "Royalism Without Old Regime" presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, July 1997.
Nazzari, Muriel (Indiana University), Presented papers at LASA, at the Third Carleton Conference on History of the Family in Ottawa and at the meetings of the Brazilian Studies Association.
O'Toole, Rachel Sarah (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Delivered a paper at the 1998 AHA in Seattle entitled, "Origin over Color: A Definition of Difference in the LCA Valley (Peru, early 1700s).
Peloso, Vincent (Howard University), Scholarly papers read at the following meetings: Social Science History Association Meeting, Washington, D. C., October, 1997; American Society for Ethnohistory meeting, Mexico City, November, 1997; conference on "Estado y Mercado en la Historia del Peru," PUCP, Lima, June, 1998; chair and commentator, panel on "Political Policy and Social Reality in South America," RMCLAS, April 1998; co-organizer, Washington Area Symposium on Modern Latin America, Georgetown University, October, 1997.
Penry, S. Elizabeth (Fordham University), Conference papers: "Ethnic Identity in Colonial Andean Rebellion" presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, November, 1997; "Are Local and Global Histories Incompatible?: An Example from
Colonial Peru" presented at the University of Chicago Social History Workshop, April, 1998.
Pineo, Ronn (Towson University), "Public Health Care in Chile, 1870-1930," paper presented at the meetings of PCCLAS, Fullerton, CA, February 1998.
Pino, Julio Cesar (Kent State University-Ohio), "Rescuing the Favela Family: Household Organization among the Squatters of Rio de Janeiro from the 1940s to the 1960s," Brazilian Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D. C., November 1997; "Favelopolis: Squatter Settlements, Social Class and Race in Rio de Janeiro," American Historical Association Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 1998.
Poole, Stafford, C. M. (Vincentian Studies Institute), "An Empire Threatened: The Origins of the Cédula general del patronazgo real," RMCLAS, April 1998; "Nahua Conversion and the Concept of Cultural Fatigue," American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, November 1997.
Potash, Robert A. (Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Appointed by the Argentine Foreign Minister to the five-member academic committee of the Comisión Para El Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en la Argentina (CEANA). The Academic Committee is directing research in the official archives of Argentina and several European countries to determine the movement of persons and assets from Europe to Argentina in the
1945-55 decade.
Ristow, Colby Nolan (Michigan State University), Presented paper titled, "Ethnic Identity and Agrarian Insurrection in Revolutionary Mexico: The Chegomista Rebellion, 1911-1912," at Conference of Indiana Association of Historians, DePaul University, February 27-28, 1998.
Schell, Patience A. (St. Antony's College, Oxford), Worker's Education 1998 LASA Chicago.
Schoonover, Thomas (University of Southwestern Louisiana), Papers or talks at the Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans, February 1998; University of Cologne, Germany, July 1998; and a panel discussion on 1898 at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Meeting, University of Maryland, June 1998; two book reviews and one review essay (Diplomatic History).
Stoetzer, O. Carlos (Fordham University, New York City), Paper read "Los retos que hicieron crecer a la OEA," in panel "La Organización de los Estados Americanos como objeto de estudio académico," at the XXth International Congress of LASA, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997; participated in the III Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Cueta, Spain, June 26-29, 1997, sponsored by the Fundación Ortega y Medina and the Consejeria de Cultura de la Ciudad de Cueta.
Stoner, Lynn K. (Arizona State University), Two Rockefeller lectures at Florida International University, Spring 1998.
Weinstein, Barbara (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Invited lecturer, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Graduate Program in History, March 24-28, 1998; "Region over Nation: Race, Gender and Regional Identity in the 1932 São Paulo Revolution," paper delivered at Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1998.
Van Deusen, Nancy (Western Washington University), "Transculturation in the Early Modern Hispanic World: The Example of Recogimiento," as part of a panel: "Enriching Latin American History: A Look at Ways to Combine Social and Economic Perspectives." AHA, Seattle, January 1998; member of Tibesar Prize Committee.
Webre, Stephen (Louisiana Tech University), Presented a paper entitled,"El estado colonial y la consolidación del dominio territorial: El problema de la frontera chol, Guatemala, siglo XVII," at the IV Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, held July 14-17 in Managua, Nicaragua.
Yaremko, Jason M. (University of Manitoba), February 1998: Guest lecturer, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Thunder Bay Branch, Lakehead University; Scholarly paper presented: "Capitalists, Christians, and Revolutionaries: Cuba Approaches the Millenium"; presented scholarly paper entitled, "Platt and God: Protestant Missions and U.S. Hegemony in the 'New Cuba,' " Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, February 1998.
