Kellogg at LASA 2018
Visit the Kellogg Institute/University of Notre Dame Press exhibit in Booth B1 of the exhibit hall. See and purchase books from the Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development, among others, and pick up information about the Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellows program.
Join us for our annual Kellogg LASA Reception, this year held Friday, May 25, 8:30-11:30pm at the Hotel Barcelona Princess in the private Gym Bar Terrace, third level.
More than 100 Kellogg-affiliated scholars are participating in LASA panels this year, listed below in date order.
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Building Social Protection for Vulnerable Women and Girls
Kellogg Advisory Board member, Wendy Hunter (Presenter)
Paper: Do CCTs Empower Women? Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Família
Former Visiting Fellow, Mariela Szwarcberg Daby (Presenter)
Paper: Vulnerable Women: Poverty, Gender, and Politics in Buenos Aires
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Shannon Drysdale Walsh (Presenter)
Paper: Specializing Justice: NGOs and the Rule of Law in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Workshop: Scholar-Activism in the Americas in an Era of Trump: Taking Stock and Engaging in Dialogue
Former Visiting Fellow, Shannon Speed (Chair & Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
LASA Section Presentation: Studying Politics from the North and the South
Former Visiting Fellow, Gerardo L Munck (Session Organizer)
Former Visiting Fellow, Tulia G Falleti (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Richard Snyder (Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Elite Power and State Capture
Former Visiting Fellow, Francisco Durand (Presenter)
Paper: Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Corruption and Political Accountability: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Nara C Pavão (Session Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: How Do Corruption Scandals Affect Public Opinion?
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Parties and Party Building in Latin America
Former Guest Scholar, Andreas Schedler (Session Organizer & Presenter)
Paper: Do our Adversaries Play by the Rules? Distrust and Democracy in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: How Corruption Undermines the State
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Alejandra Armesto (Presenter)
Paper: Clientelism and support for redistribution in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00 to 10:30am
Roundtable: Towards a better understanding of development in Latin America? Exploring interactions between productive and social policies
Incoming Visiting Fellow, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Organizer & Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 9:00am - 10:30am
Panel: Narcoculture in the Americas
University of Notre Dame Faculty, Jason M Ruiz (Presenter)
Paper: Narcomedia: Latinxs, Drug Economies, and the Politics of Representation
Wed, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Roundtable: Reevaluate the Pink Tide: A Balance of the Left Movement in Latin America
Former Distinguished Research Affiliate, Former Visiting Fellow, Aníbal S Pérez-Liñán (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Kurt G Weyland (Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: The subnational resource curse: effects of oil and mineral wealth on development
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Lucas Isaac Gonzalez (Individual Submission)
Paper: The Impact of Oil Windfalls on Subnational Living Standards: Evidence from Argentina
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Conversing with Goliath? Participation, mobilisation and repression around neoextractivist and environmental conflicts
Former Visiting Fellow, Tulia G Falleti (Presenter)
Paper: Strengthening Prior Consultation in Bolivia
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Democracy, Oligarchy and the State in Latin America: Theories and Comparisons
Former Visiting Fellow, Gerardo L Munck (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Maxwell A Cameron (Presenter)
Paper: The Corruption of Democracy and Return of Oligarchy in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Populism and the Bolivarian Revolutions
Former Visiting Fellow, Thea N Riofrancos (Presenter)
Paper: Populism from the Ground Up
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Roundtable: Considering Latin American constitutionalism in light of “The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America”
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Ezequiel A González Ocantos (Chair)
Former Visiting Fellow, Daniel M Brinks (Session Organizer & Presenter)
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Sandra Botero (Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Procesos de justicia en el cine documental y de no ficción latinoamericano
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Maria Guadalupe Arenillas (Chair & Individual Submission)
Paper: La transformación del expediente: el cine del Tribunal del Juicio Oral en lo Penal de Punta Arenas, Chile
Wednesday, May 23, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: The Politics of Social Policy: Innovations in Policy and in Analysis
Incoming Visiting Fellow, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Chair)
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Presenter)
Paper: Jail or Jobs? Alimonies, fathers and state responsibility in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: How the Military Remembers: Countermemories of the Cold War in Latin America I
Former Visiting Fellow, Leigh A Payne (Presenter)
Paper: Confessions to Violence from the Armed Left
Wednesday, May 23, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Death Squads. The Guatemalan School. Session one
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E Vela Castaneda (Session Organizer & Presenter)
Paper: Death Squads in Guatemala City. A Perspective from Internal Dynamics. From 1982 to 1986
Wednesday, May 23, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: La democracia en América Latina ante las crisis simultáneas del progresismo y del neoliberalismo I
Former Visiting Fellow, Isidoro Cheresky (Presenter)
Paper: La Democracia continua en América Latina en el fin de ciclo progresista
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Themes on Religion and Politics in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Matthew E Carnes, SJ (Presenter)
Paper: Critic or Champion? Diverging Religious Approaches to Globalization in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Strategies of Cabinet Recruitment in Presidential Systems
Former Visiting Fellow, Cecilia Martinez Gallardo (Presenter)
Paper: Are they what we expected? Coalitional Presidentialism Revisited
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Political violence and the use of proxy-actors in modern Mexico
Former Visiting Fellow, Gema Santamaria (Session Organizer and presenter)
Mexico’s self-defense forces: towards a conceptual and historical appraisal (1920-1940s)
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: The Globalization of Latinx Literatures
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Marisel C Moreno (Presenter)
Paper: Balsero Crossings: Nilo Cruz’s A Bicycle Country
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Roundtable: Making Sense of Competitive Authoritarianism
Former Visiting Fellow, Gerardo L Munck (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Maxwell A Cameron (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Former Advisory Board member, Kenneth M Roberts (Presenter)
Wednesday, May 23, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: La Democracia en América Latina ante las crisis simultáneas del progresismo y del neoliberalismo (2)
Former Visiting Fellow, Manuel Antonio Garreton (Presenter)
Paper: Consumidores, ciudadanos o movimientos sociales. Reflexiones sobre movilizaciones en Chile en la última década.
Former Visiting Fellow, Margarita Lopez Maya (Discussant)
Wednesday, May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm
LASA Section Presentation: Global Haiti and the Dominican Republic: The Contradictions of Inclusion and Exclusion
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Karen E Richman (Chair & Individual Submission)
Paper: The Prospect of Peyi Panyòl in Haitian Mobility
Wednesday, May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: What Latin American Experiences with Populism Can Teach Us about the Trump Presidency
Former Visiting Fellow, Catherine M Conaghan (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Kurt G Weyland (Presenter)
Paper: President Trump’s Populism vs. Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Latin American Experiences
Former Visiting Fellow, Former Advisory Board member, Kenneth M Roberts (Presenter)
Paper: Populists, Parties, and Democratic Checks and Balances: A Latin American Perspective on the Republicans and Trump
Wednesday, May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Desafíos de la Paz: Construcción de paz en Colombia en tiempos de transición
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Angela J Lederach (Presenter)
Paper: Our Time is Not Like Their Time: Paz Territorial and Contested Practices of Peace in Colombia
Wednesday, May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Translating the Caribbean II
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Thomas F Anderson (Presenter)
Paper: From “Freedom Now!” to “Black Power”: Nicolás Guillén, Nancy Morejón and US Civil Rights
Wednesday, May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Media versus Presidential Power: Cases of Democratic Decline in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Taylor C Boas (Chair)
Former Distinguished Research Affiliate, Former Visiting Fellow, Aníbal S Pérez-Liñán (Presenter)
Paper: Democracy, Growth, and Opposition Media in Latin America
Wednesday, May 23, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Meeting: Haiti/ Dominican Republic Section- Business Meeting
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Karen E. Richman (Contact Person)
Wednesday, May 23, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples: cultural and social practices PART III
Former Visiting Fellow, Jan Hoffman French (Presenter)
Paper: The Bricolage of Pageantry in Northeast Brazil: Tourism for Academics, Photojournalists, and other Troublemakers
Wednesday, May 23, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Dealing with global food regimes across the Americas: Local impacts and popular agency
Former Visiting Fellow, Kevin J Healy (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Unruly Times? Putting the Rule of Law in Historical Context
Former Visiting Fellow, Daniel M Brinks (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 9:00 to 10:30am
LASA Section Presentation: The Life Work of Xavier Albó: His Enduring Contribution to the Founding of Social Sciences in Bolivia
Former Visiting Fellow, Kevin J Healy (Presenter)
Paper: Bolivia’s TIPNIS Road Conflict: Through the Prism of Xavier Albo’s Writings
Thursday, May 24, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Public Insecurity, Policing Strategies, and Penal Populism
Former Visiting Fellow, Mitchell A Seligson (Presenter)
Paper: From Trust to Lynchings: Contrasting Citizen Views of the Police in Three Central American Countries
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Krystin Krause (Presenter)
Paper: Citizen Support for Violent Crime Control Measures in Latin America
Former Guest Scholar, Susan Berk-Seligson (Presenter)
Paper: From Trust to Lynchings: Contrasting Citizen Views of the Police in Three Central American Countries
Thursday, May 24, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Politics of Memory and Claims-Making in Brazil
Former Visiting Fellow, Jan Hoffman French (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Representaciones culturales de la violencia
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Ruth Solarte González (Presenter)
Paper: The Performance and Poetry of Regina José Galindo: Cathartic Detonators of Violence against Women
Thursday, May 24, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Roundtable: Afro-Latin American Studies: The Current State of Research
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliet Hooker (Presenter)
Thursday, May 24, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: The Global History of Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean During the 19th Century (I)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Session Organizer & Individual Submission)
Paper: Imagining Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1850
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo A Zimmermann (Presenter)
Paper: Édouard Laboulaye, Domingo Sarmiento and the “Lincolnian Moment” of Democracy in the Americas
Former Visiting Fellow, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (Presenter)
Paper: When Liberalism met Democracy in Mexico 1821-1900
Thursday, May 24, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Workshop: Bringing Gender Back In: Security Policy in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Shannon Drysdale Walsh (Presenter)
Thursday, May 24, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Managing supply, sewage, and scarcity: The politics of water in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Taylor C Boas (Session Organizer)
Thursday, May 24, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Institutional approaches to Colombian politics: separation of powers, campaign financing, and the opposition
Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow, Juan G Albarracin Dierolf (Chair)
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Sandra Botero (Presenter)
Paper: Court to Congress: Judicial branch and legislative process in Colombia
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Laura Gamboa-Gutierrez (Presenter)
Paper: Opposition at the Margins: Preventing the Erosion of Democracy in Colombia
Thursday, May 24, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Looking to Latin America for innovation: Transitional justice bringing economic actors to account for past and on-going complicity with atrocities
Former Visiting Fellow, Leigh A Payne (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Sujetos, Institución, Autoridad: Las prácticas religiosas de los sujetos, y las tensiones con las instituciones
Former Visiting Fellow, Catalina Romero (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: The Global History of Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean During the 19th Century (II)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Session Organizer)
Former Visiting Fellow, Fabrice E Lehoucq (Presenter)
Paper: The age of classical electoral governance and “democracy” in the Americas during the 19th century
Thursday, May 24, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Nuevas formas de liderazgo y participación en Argentina
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria M Ollier (Presenter)
Paper: ¿Hacia un nuevo liderazgo presidencial sudamericano? El Jefe de Estado argentino entre la inestabilidad y la dominancia (Mauricio Macri, 2015-2017)
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Nicolas M Somma (Presenter)
Paper: Individual Dynamics of Collective Protest in Argentina and Chile: Who Protests and for what Reasons?
Thursday, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Inseguridades Globales y Respuestas Locales - oportunidades y límites
Former Visiting Fellow, Sonia Fleury (Chair & Individual Submission)
Paper: Luta pela Cidadania no espaço urbano - dominação e resistências nas favelas pacificadas no Rio de Janeiro
Thursday, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Women's Rise to Executive Power in Latin America and Beyond
Former Visiting Fellow, Veronica Montecinos (Chair & Individual Submission)
Paper: Feminization of the Executive? Questions on and beyond Latin America
Thursday, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Extractive Industries, Protest, & Policy Impact (Part I)
Former Visiting Fellow, Rose J Spalding (Presenter)
Paper: From the Streets to the Chamber: Social Movements and Mining Bans in Costa Rica and El Salvador
Thursday, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Roundtable: Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Arie M Kacowicz (Presenter)
Thursday, May 24, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: El gótico latinoamericano: historia, prácticas, perspectivas
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Carlos A Jauregui (Presenter)
Paper: El gótico latinoamericano: historia, prácticas, perspectivas (I)
Thursday, May 24, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Ezequiel A González Ocantos (Presenter)
Paper: The Strategic Uses of International Law Citations in the Rulings of Colombia’s Constitutional Court
Thursday, May 24, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: The Production of New Rural Landscapes: Natural Resource Exploitation and Spatial and Social Connectivity between the Country and the City in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Manuel A Glave Testino (Presenter)
Paper: The Political Economy of Contested Resources: Land, Water and Labor During the Peruvian Mining Boom
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
LASA Section Presentation: The Implications of Alternation in Power in Latin America: Institutions, Reputations, Policy, and Agents
Former Visiting Fellow, Timothy J Power (Discussant & Presenter)
Paper: Endogenous Fragmentation: Party System Fractionalization without Cleavages in Brazil
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Crossing Borders with New Approaches to Engaged Research in and with Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Joseph L Wiltberger (Session Organizer, Chair & Presenter)
Paper: Crossing Generations, Crossing Borders: The Transnational Production of a Youth-led Digital Oral History Archive of a Resettled Refugee Community in El Salvador
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Workshop: Latin American Collections, Digitization and Access Roundtable
Former Visiting Fellow, Angelina Snodgrass Godoy (Presenter)
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Politics of Student Activism in Mexico and Puerto Rico, 1940s-1970s
Former Visiting Fellow, Victoria A Langland (Chair)
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
LASA Section Presentation: Immigrant access to social protection after Brexit and Trump
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Xóchitl Bada (Presenter)
Paper: Enforcing Rights across Borders
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Featured/Invited Session: The Long Shadow of Impunity
Former Visiting Fellow, Philip Oxhorn (Chair)
Former Advisory Council member, Terry L Karl (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell (Discussant)
Thursday, May 24, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Roundtable: US-Latin American Relations through an Autobiographical Lens: A Discussion of Peter Andreas’s Rebel Mother
Former Visiting Fellow, Richard Snyder (Chair)
Friday, May 25, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Institutional Appropriation? Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of Civil Society and New State Institutions in Latin America
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Omar C Coronel (Session Organizer & Individual Submission)
Paper: Social Protest, Civil Society, and State Capacity in Peru: Do Conflict Prevention Offices Work?
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Lucia Tiscornia (Chair)
Friday, May 25, 9:00 to 10:30am
Roundtable: Otros saberes Otras Paz-es
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Angela J Lederach (Presenter)
Friday, May 25, 9:00 to 10:30am
Panel: Party-Building in Post-Conflict Latin America
Former Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Frances Hagopian (Chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Sarah Daly (Presenter)
Paper: Voting for Victimizers: Armed Politics in Colombia
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Carlos E Meléndez, (Presenter)
Paper: The Return of Fujimorismo: Party-Building in Unexpected Environments
Friday, May 25, 9:00 to 10:30am
Roundtable: Repensando los estudios del Caribe en LASA
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Karen E Richman (Presenter)
Friday, May 25, 10:45 to 12:15pm
Panel: Historiographic theories of the state
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Peter Baker (Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 10:45 to 12:15pm
Panel: U.S.-Cuban Relation and the Trump Administration: Opportunities, Risks and Challenges.
Former Advisory Council member, Margaret E Crahan (Presenter)
Paper: Ideology and the Trump White House: Does it affect the formulation of U.S. Foreign Policy
Friday, May 25, 10:45 to 12:15pm
Panel: Constellating Modernismos: A Diachronic Approach
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Santiago Quintero (Presenter)
Paper: “Modernity Sucks”: Modernista vampires and the Latin American tradition of the undead
Friday, May 25, 10:45 to 12:15pm
Panel: Between Conflict and Incorporation: Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America
Former Advisory Board member, Former Visiting Fellow Deborah Yashar (Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 10:45 to 12:15pm
Featured/Invited Session: Kalman Silvert Award: Carmen Diana Deere - "Gender, Land and Wealth: Looking Backwards, Moving Forward”
Former Visiting Fellow, Carmen Diana Deere (Presenter)
Friday, May 25, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Centroamérica: Cuerpos en disputa
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Paola A Uparela (Presenter)
Paper: Impugnación a la “organización” genital
Friday, May 25, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: New Approaches to Blackness and Slavery in Latin America
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Karen B Graubart (Presenter)
Paper: Narratives Without Subjects: Black Republics versus Black Resistance in the 16th Century
Friday, May 25, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: 1968: 50 Years After
Former Visiting Fellow, Victoria A Langland (Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: The Amazon as Interdisciplinary Site of Study: Perspectives on the Environmental Crisis (II)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Viola (Presenter)
Paper: The Amazon in the Anthropocene: Challenges for the Regional Governance of the Forest
Friday, May 25, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Workshop: Protest event data analysis: Addressing cross-national comparative questions using country-specific event data sets
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Nicolas M Somma (Presenter)
Friday, May 25, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Roundtable: The Political Contradictions of Extractive Development
Former Visiting Fellow, Thea N Riofrancos (Session Organizer)
Friday, May 25, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: Latin American Populism in Comparative Perspective: Origins, Performance, and Legacies
Former Visiting Fellow, Catherine M Conaghan (Presenter)
Paper: Populism Interrupted: The Labyrinth of Transition in Post-Correa Ecuador
Friday, May 25, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: State and indigenous rights: problems of implementation of ILO Convention 169 - Part 1
Former Visiting Fellow, Felipe Agüero Piwonka (Session Organizer)
Paper: The Convention as an international treaty and internal policy: a regional vision of implementation problems
Friday, May 25, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: The Institutional Foundations of Modern Mexico I
Former Visiting Fellow, Philip Oxhorn (Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Competición ideológica y polarización partidista en América Latina
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Juan Andres Moraes (Presenter)
Paper: Elite Polarization and Voting Turnout in Latin America, 1993-2010
Friday, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Vidas Descartables: la Violencia contra las Mujeres Como Necropolítica de Género en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Amy C Lind (Presenter)
Paper: Post/Neoliberal Masculinities and State Violence
Friday, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: State and indigenous rights: problems of implementation of ILO Convention 169 - Part 2
Former Visiting Fellow, Felipe Agüero Piwonka (Session Organizer & Chair)
Former Visiting Fellow, Laura Gomez Mera (Presenter)
Paper: 6. Consecuencias nacionales e internacionales del Convenio 169 de la OIT
Friday, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: New Approaches to Studying Brokerage, Voting and Civic Engagement in Brazil and Mexico
Former Visiting Fellow, Taylor C Boas (Presenter)
Paper: Expanding the Public Square: Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America
Friday, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Workshop: The Latin American Right in a Globalised World
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Carlos E Meléndez (Presenter)
Friday, May 25, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Los estudios Latinoamericanos en Asia y Rusia
Former Visiting Fellow, Carol Wise (Chair, Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Advances in the study of elites in Latin America: organization, interests and political power
Former Visiting Fellow, Francisco Durand (Discussant)
Friday, May 25, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Democracias “golpeadas”. El impacto del diseño institucional en el (des)equilibrio de poderes.
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Carlos E Meléndez (Session Organizer)
Friday, May 25, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Populism, Popular Mobilization, and Constitutional Politics
Former Visiting Fellow, Gabriel L Negretto (Presenter)
Paper: Drafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes: Citizen Participation and Elite Cooperation
Saturday, May 26, 9:00 to 10:30am
Workshop: Humanidades en público: casos colaborativas de activismos culturales
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams (Presenter)
Saturday, May 26, 9:00 to 10:30am
Roundtable: Internationalizing Latin American Studies: The value of studying abroad
Former Advisory Council member, John H Coatsworth (Discussant)
Saturday, May 26, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime, Violence and the Left Wing Citizen Security
Former Visiting Fellow, David A Smilde (Presenter)
Paper: Explaining Violence in Times of Revolution
Saturday, May 26, 10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Elections in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell (Presenter)
Paper: Análisis Crítico del Sistema Electoral de Cuba
Saturday, May 26, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Panel: Death Squads. The Guatemalan School. Session Two
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E Vela Castaneda (Session Organizer, Discussant)
Saturday, May 26, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Panel: The Nature, Origins, and Consequences of State Violence in Latin America
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Omar C Coronel (Discussant)
Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow, Juan G Albarracin Dierolf (Presenter)
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Lucia Tiscornia (Presenter)
Paper: Capacity for what? The Political Determinants of Police Professionalization and Violence in Brazil
Saturday, May 26, 2:15 to 3:45pm
Workshop: Repensando la agenda de democratización de las democracias latinoamericanas. El futuro de la democracia en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Margarita Lopez Maya (Presenter)
Saturday, May 26, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Settler Colonial Theory in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Peter Baker (Presenter)
Paper: 'Narratives of Settler Colonialism and Emergent Indigeneity in Contemporary Bolivia'
Saturday, May 26, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Panel: Recent Developments and Issues in Mexico’s Political Institutions
Former Visiting Fellow, Kenneth F Greene (Presenter)
Paper: How Voters View Payoffs: The Influence of Vote-Buying Attempts on Vote Choices
Saturday, May 26, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Roundtable: Democratic Failures and the Rise of Populism: The State of the Art
Former Visiting Fellow, Kurt G Weyland (Presenter)
Former Advisory Board member, Former Visiting Fellow Deborah Yashar (Presenter)
Former Guest Scholar, Andreas Schedler (Chair)
Saturday, May 26, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Cambios y continuidades en la gestión de la seguridad contemporánea. Política, policía y delito - Parte 1
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Leslie E MacColman (Presenter)
Paper: Reglas universales, prácticas locales: Corrupción y uso debido de la fuerza en las comisarías de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saturday, May 26, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: La incognita sudamericana: Paraguay en el laberinto de la globalización.
Former VisitingFellow, Diego Abente Brun (Discussant & Presenter)
Paper: The changing nature of the Paraguayan political game: a game theoretic interpretation
Saturday, May 26, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Panel: Contribución del sector agropecuario al desarrollo. Posibilidades para Cuba a partir del potencial de comercio
Former Visiting Fellow, Carmen Diana Deere (Discussant)
Saturday, May 26, 5:45 to 7:15pm
Roundtable: "Money we have, we look for ideas": CAF and the European research agenda on Latin America
Incoming Visiting Fellow, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Presenter)
Saturday, May 26, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Panel: Universidade Pública e Educação Inclusiva: Desafios no Contexto da Baixada Fluminense
Former Visiting Fellow, John D French (Chair & Individual Submission)
Paper: Lula’s College Educated Children: Subaltern Social Mobility and its Subversive Impact over the Long Haul
Saturday, May 26, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Roundtable: Latin America: changes in the architectures of well-being in the 21st century
Former Visiting Fellow, Rossana Castiglioni (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Presenter)
Saturday, May 26, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Roundtable: Entangled history - a new kid in the block?
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo A Zimmermann (Discussant)
Saturday, May 26, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Panel: New Issues in the Global South Agenda
Former Visiting Fellow, Arie M Kacowicz (Presenter)
Paper: Learning about the world from the Latin American experience (and vice versa)