Culture, Power and Politics

A Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Special Sessions

Special Sessions

LASA 2014 (CHICAGO, IL)

25 Years of Latin American Studies in Culture, Power and Politics I, II, and III

Post/hegemony Turn: Jon Beasley Murray, University of British Columbia
Popular Culture Turn: Pablo Alabarces, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Gender and Sexuality Turn: Matthew Gutmann, Brown University

Transnational Turn: Juan Poblete, University of California-Santa Cruz
Memory Turn:Michael Lazzara, University of California-Davis
Affect Turn: Laura Podalsky, The Ohio State University
Ethical Turn: Erin Graff, University of Southern California

Subalternist Turn: Garreth Williams, University of Michigan
New Latin American Left Turn: Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University
Deconstruction and Politics Turn: Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University

LASA 2013 (WASHINGTON D.C.)
  • Arts, Media, Public Spaces, and Human Rights: Diverse Cultural and Social Expressions in Latin America. Section Presentation (Antonio Torres-Ruiz)
  • Debates sobre Políticas culturales en América Latina: nuevas perspectivas en torno a intervenir en contextos de desigualdad. Section Presentation (Ana Wortman)
  • Las culinarias nacionales como parte del derecho a la alimentación y su justicialidad en el contexto de las culturas de la globalización. Seminario de Discusión. (Hilda Irene Cota de Guzmán)
LASA 2012 (San Francisco):
  • Human Rights: Still debating issues and looking for solutions. Transformative power or limitations of democratic institurions in Latin America´s Third Century of Independence? Workshop. Sessions I and II. (Susana Kaiser)
  • Polemizing Subaltern Politics. Decolonial, Posthegemonic, Postliberal (Benjamin Arditi) (1 session; 2 panels)
  • Tensiones en los procesos de democratización cultural en América Latina. Políticas, instituciones y prácticas culturales contempoáneas (Ana Wortman) 
LASA 2010 (Toronto):
  • Latin America´s Left: Cultural turns in the time of Economic Crisis (Mark Zimmerman)
LASA 2009 (Rio):
  • Rethinking Human Rights: Debating Current Issues and Looking for Solutions (Susana Kaiser and Robin DeLugan). With Juan Poblete, Silvina de Paula, Mirta Antonelli, Maristella Svampa, Gabriel Gatti, Cecilia McDowell Santos, Antoinette Hertel, Alberto Martín Alvarez, and Antonio Torres Ruiz
LASA 2007 (Montreal):
  • Culturas de Izquierda: Populismo, socialdemocracia, teoría crítica y la coyuntura actual (Benjamin Arditi) With Francisco Panizza, Yolanda Aguila, and Donald Kingsbury
  • En Torno a Jesús Martín Barbero (Marc Zimmerman) With Jesús Martín Barbero, Rossana Reguilo, Angel Quintero Rivera and John Beverly
  • Deudas Abiertas y Nuevos Paradigmas Culturales en América Latina (3 roundtables) (Sylvia Escarceaga and George Yúdice)
      • Advertising  and Publicity, Politics and Culture in Latin America. Withe Liv Sovik, Mirta Antonelli, Sandra Benedit, and Karen Cordero Reiman
      • New Paradigms in Latin American and Latino Studies. With Lourdes Torres, Sylvia Escarceaga, Camilla Fojas and John Karam
      • Cultural Heritage and Cultural Policy in Latin America Alter Neoliberalism. With Ximena Varela, Javier Stanziola, and Georgina DeCarli
  • Derechos Humanos, Justicia, Memoria (3 roundatables) (Susana Kaiser)
      • "Justicia Debida"; Human Rights Today. With Susana Kaiser, Robin DeLugan, Mirta Antonelli, Marcela Fuentes, and David Hernández
      • Violencia, Derechos Humanos, Memoria en América Latina. With Jemima  García Godos, Silvia Kurlat Ares, Marcela Ferreri, Myriam Santos, and Ma. Paula Araujo
      • Deudas e Inclusión Digital. With  Scott Robinson, ;a. de la paz Silva Contreras, Diana Sagastegui, María T. Márquez, and, Francisco Morin. 
LASA2006 (Puerto Rico):
  • Imaginarios políticos regionales desde el Sur. With Carlos Monsivais, Hugo Achugar, Benjamin Arditi Karlik, Eduardo Gruner, Emir Simao Sader, and Liv Sovik.
  • Puerto Rico's and Puerto Ricans' Cultural Politics and Politics of Culture (Ramon Grosfoguel). With Frances Aparicio, Agustin Lao-Montes, Isar Godreau, Felipe Pimentel, and Angel Quintero Rivera.
  • National Memory and Visual Culture. With Silvia Tandeciarz, Elina Tranchini, Maria Ulfe, Jill Gibian, Alice Nelson, Edward McCaughan, and Nancy Gates Madsen.
  • Redes sociales en relación con políticas culturales y educación. With Liliana Cotto, Marc Zimmerman, George Yúdice, Alicia Carranza, and Mirta Antonelli. 
  • Featured Speaker: Carlos Monsiváis
LASA2004 (Las Vegas):
  • The politics of contemporary popular music (Liv Sovik). With Lesley Feracho, Katia Regina Santos, T. Mark Montoya, and Malena Kuss.
  • De las "nuevas democracias": en torno a la ley, el modelo judicial y los procesos de mediatización. Impactos en la cultura política (Mirta Antonelli). With Susan Kaiser, Maryanne Schiffman,  Benjamin Arditi, Ana Wortman,  José Maria Infante,  and Liv Sovik (Discussant). In conjunction with the Law & Society Section.
  • New Forms of Collective Violence in Latin America (Jennifer Burrell and Daniel Goldstein). With Jennifer Burrell, Daniel Goldstein,  Antonio Fuentes Diaz, Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, Fernando García, Leigh Binford, and Deborah Poole.
  • Gender and the Politics of Culture: Music, Food, Tourism, and Social Transformation/Contestation (Patricia Zavella). With Florence Babb, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Ayara-Díaz, Rosario Montoya,  Lessie Jo Frasier, Lynne Bolles, and Patricia Zavella.
  • Hegemonía cultural en América Latina I (Ana Wortman). With Ryan Long, Alba Hesselroth, Martin Hopenhayn, and Benjamin Arditi.
  • Hegemonía cultural en América Latina II (Ana Wortman). With Benjamin Arditi, Jorge Lazo, Mirta Antonelli, Cecília Cervantes Barba, and George Yúdice.
LASA2003 (Dallas):
  • Procesos transnacionales y división del trabajo intelectual: Cultural Studies/Cultura y poder (Liv Sovik). With Jean Franco, Sueli Carneiro, George Yúdice, Liv Sovik, and Daniel Mato.
  • Latino/a/Merica in the Sixties (Deborah Cohen). With Deborah Cohen, Lessie Jo Frazier, Ricardo Ortíz, Edward J McCaughan, Andrea Giunta, Yolanda Flores, Carlos Munoz, and Graciela Saprizza.
  • Cacerolas y relatos. Las herencias de la dictadura y sus nuevos contextos en el Cono Sur (Teresa Basile). With Mirta Antonelli, Susana Kaiser, Roberto Follari, Cristina Dalmagro, and Teresa Basile.
  • Giros culturales, respuestas sociales, antropológicas y teatrales ante el (o)caso de la "globalización"en la Argentina (Lola Proaño-Gomez). With Lola Proaño-Gomez, Claudia Briones,  Alicia Kozameh, and Nicolás Shumway.
  • Transnational Processes and the Division of Intellectual Labor: Cultural Studies/ Culture and Power (Silvia Bermúdez). With Elizabeth Marchant, Joseba Gabilondo, Silvia Bermúdez, Timothy McGovern, and Claudia de Lima Costa.
  • Transnational migration and the reorganization of belonging: Territories, networks, and cultural practices (Steve Wiley). With Sandy Smith-Nonini, Elina Tranchini, and Carmen Ferradas 
  • Cultura, violencia y ciudadanía en escenarios latinoamericanos (en memoria de Susana Rotker) I (Mirta Antonelli). With Roberto Follari, Liv Sovik, Beatriz Amann, and Ana María Ochoa Gauthier
  • Cultura, violencia y ciudadanía en escenarios latinoamericanos (en memoria de Susana Rotker) II (Roberto Follari). With Carmen Elsa Hernández Mardones, Hiber Conteris, Ana Wortman, Mirta Antonelli, and Gabriela Fried
LASA2001 (Washington, DC):
  • National Identity and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
  • Traveling "Nuestra America": Culture, Power and the Creation of Nation in the Touristic Encounter
  • Transmissions of Memory and Experience in Latin America. Culture and Human Rights in the Américas: De los derechos humanos a los derechos civiles (Part I) (John L. Hammond). With Hugo Fruhling, Miriam Miranda, Victor Montejo, Eva Morales, Eduardo Pizarro, and Kay B. Warren.
  • Transmissions of Memory and Experience in Latin America. Culture and Human Rights in the Américas: de los derechos humanos a los derechos civiles (Part II) (Carmen Ferradas). With Leslie Bary,  Angela Giglia, Juan Jacobo Hernández, José Pereira de Oliveira Júnior, Lynn Stephan, Kevin Danaher, and Daniel Mato. 
  • Cultural Policies: Latin and Latino Americans in the New International Division of Cultural Labor (George Yúdice). With Arlene Dávila, Marie Claire Leger, Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, George Yudice, and Néstor García Canclini.
LASA2000 (Miami):
  • Oaxacalifornia: territorialidad, globalización y reconfiguración de las identidades indígenas (Stefano Varese). With Zach Schiller, Paola Sesia, Mara Alfaro, and Nemesio Rodríguez.
  • The Global Logia of Television Systems and the Local Adaptation of TV Genres: An Emperor's Free Market or the People's Choice? (Omar Hernández). With Antonio La Pastina, Joseph Straubhaar, and Steve Wiley.
  • Lo 'afro' en América Latina: debates sobre cultura, política y poder (Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal). With Alejandro Frigerio, Antônio S. Guimarães, Adriana Maya,  Livio Sansone, and Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal. 
  • Estrategias de la memoria, politicas del olvido: El 'Estado de la deuda' en las postdictaduras del Cono Sur (Nora Strejilevich). With Silvia Tabachnik, Mirta Antonelli, Alejandro Kaufman, and John Kraniauskas. 
  • Andean Music in the Global Village: Identity, Community, Power, Politics (Lynn Meisch). With Lynn Meisch,  Elayne Zorn, Thomas Turino, Michelle Bigenho, and Fredy Amilcar Roncalla
LASA 1998 (Chicago):
  • Telenovelas at the Crossroads: Production vs. Reception, Local vs. Global (Omar Hernández). With Alison Greene, Omar Hernández, and Antonio La Pastina.
  • Globalización, medios masivos y política de comunicaciones en América Latina (Steve Wiley). With Stella Martín, Aníbal Orué-Pozzo, Mauro Pereira Porto, and Luis Alfredo Razgado-Floreso.
  • Inter-American Ground (Anne Curtis). With Vince Brown, Marcus Embry, and Ifeoma Nwankwo.
  • Democracy and Sopcial Movements (Julia Paley). With Verónica Schild and Michael Jiménez.
  • Culture, Politics, and Power: Recent Perspectives and Challenges (Daniel Mato). With Claudia de Lima Costa, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Arlene Dávila, George Yúdice, Walter Mignolo, and Néstor García Canclini.
  • Cultura, política y poder en libros recientes sobre América Latina (Fernando Coronil). With Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, Arturo Escobar, Fernando Coronil, Wil. G. Pansters, Carmen Ferradas, Arlene Dávila, Walter Mignolo, Thomas Wright, Rody Onate, Rubens Bayardo, Mônica Lacarrieu, Daniel Mato, Mariza Montero, and Emanuele Amodio.