Media, Communication & Culture

A Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Past Section Activities

Puerto Rico 2015, Activities

Section Panel: La cultura popular en los medios masivos

Chair: Silvia Kurlat Ares
Presenter: Paul Alonso, Georgia Tech
Presenter: Lara Dotson-Renta, Brown University
Discussant: Eduardo González Castillo, CRÉVAJ

Section Panel: Los Paradigmas Teóricos frente a la Cultura: Prácticas, Lecturas, Reconstituciones

Chair: Silvia Kurlat Ares
Presenter: Mabel Moraña, Washington University/St. Louis
Presenter: Mariano Siskind, Harvard University
Presenter: Jorge Coronado, Northwestern University
Presenter: Ana Del Sarto, Ohio State University
Bussiness Meeting 

 

Chicago, 2014 Activities

Pre- Conference May 21, 2014
The Mass Media and Popular Culture Section held its first Pre- conference on May 21st, 2014 starting at 1 p.m. in the Medinah Parlor located in the Palmer House Hotel at the Chicago Conference. Members in attendance included Pablo Alabarces, Marc Zimmerman, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, Juanita Darling, Libertad Borda, Francisco Javier Cortázar Rodríguez, Matt Bush, and Silvia Kurlat Ares

Section Panel: Cultura popular: nuevos desafíos teóricos y objetos
Session Organizer: Silvia G Kurlat Ares
Chair: Marc J. Zimmerman (University of Houston)
Presenter: Pablo A. Alabarces (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)
Presenter: Angel Quintero-Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico)
Presenter: José Manuel Valenzuela Arce (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte)