8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Bolivia GMT-4)
6:00 AM - 7:15 AM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 1: Health, Homes, Tourism, and Altruism
Webinar
Session chair: Allen Zegarra Acevedo
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Luis Galanes (University of Puerto Rico, at Cayey), “Residential Tourism in Vieques, 2003-2017 (Puerto Rico)”
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Carlos E. Jijena (Universidad Privada Boiviana), “Does altruism improve efficiency in team production?”
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Lizeth Melina Reyes Dorado Gutierrez (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Indice de Protección del Entorno de Hogares en Bolivia ante el COVID-19 según las recomendaciones de la OMS.”
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Pamela Cordova, et. Al (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Academic Stress as a predicator of Mental Health in university students”
9:30 – 10:45 AM (Bolivia GMT-4)
7:30-8:45 AM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 2: Foreign Influences and National Effects
Webinar
Session Chair: Patrick Anderson
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Patrick Anderson (University of Illinois, at Springfield) “Is U.S. Influence Eroding in the Quintessential Banana Republics?”
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Glen Duerr (Cedarville University), “ Buttressing the Eagle’s Nest and the Beaver’s Dam: Differing Approaches to Trade and Diplomacy for the United States as a Great Power and Canada as a Middle Power in Central America and the Caribbean.”
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Frank Robinson (Vanderbilt University), “Bounded Citizenship: Defensive Nationalism in Panama and the Dominican Republic.”
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Jorge Rodriguez (Florida International University), “Impact of Ecotourism on Riverine Communities in the Amazon Basin”
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
9:00-10:15 AM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 3: Historical Perspectives on the Built Environment and Agricultural Contexts
Webinar
Session Chair: Betty Smith
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Allen Zegarra Acevedo (University of Florida), "How the Peruvian Agrarian Reform Affected the Human Rights of Peasants" by
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Ed Rolison (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), "Murray Colonies, El Gran Chaco, Bolivia."
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Jorge Luis Medina Torrez and Alvaro Moscoso Wayar (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Analysis de Union Viga-Columna Mediante el Metodo de los Elementos Finitos para Definir un Armado Eficiente.”
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Betty Smith (Eastern Illinois University), "Using Seriation for Relative Urban Housing Quality Classification with Late 20th Century Data in Three South American Cities: Ibarra and Riobamba, Ecuador and Santa Cruz, Bolivia."
12:30 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
10:30 AM (CST)
Remarks
Webinar
by MALAS President Dr. Francisco Mayorga
1:45-3:00 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
11:45 AM-1:00 PM(CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 4: Foreign Influences, Migration, and Nationalism
Webinar
Session Chair: Vanesa Carbonetti-Landrus
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Maria E Mudrovcic (Michigan State University), “Manufacturar Disenso: Las intervenciones de National Endowment for Democracy en Cuba.”
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Zaira Martin (New Mexico State University), “Vertical Border: U.S Influence on Mexico’s Immigration Policies and Border Militarization.”
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Horacio Estavillo (University of Texas, El Paso), “México; Continuidades Y Cambios TLCAN / T-MEC.”
3:15- 4:30 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
1:15-2:30 PM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 5: Women, Education, and Movements in Latin America
Webinar
Session Chair: Adriana Piatti-Crocker
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Adriana Piatti-Crocker (University of Illinois, at Springfield), “Diffusion of #NiUnaMenos: Argentina and Beyond.
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Hinda Seif, (University of Illinois, at Springfield) “Chicago’s Diana Solís & Oikabeth 2, Mexico City: Chicana-Mexican Exchanges & the Roots of Today’s Lesbian Feminist Politics in Mexico.”
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Mauro Oscar Lua Delboy Cespedes (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Determinants of School Attendance rate for Bolivia: A spatial Econometric Approach.”
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Hernan Naranjo, et. Al (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Women in university teaching: an uphill road in Bolivia.”
4:45 – 6:00 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
2:45-4:00 PM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 6: Between the Lines: Lessons from Latin American Literature
Webinar
Session Chair: Vanesa Carbonetti-Landrus
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Vanesa Carbonetti- Landrus (Eastern Illinois University), “Violencia de género y periodismo autobiográfico en Chicas muertas de Selva Amada.”
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Alberto Fonseca (North Central College), “Tres novelas de Tito Gutiérrez Vargas. Narconarrativa boliviana entre la cárcel verde y la crisis del capitalismo.”
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Savannah Saavedra (University of Miami), “Defining Home: Arepas, Immigration, and Magical Realism.”
6:15-7:30 PM (Bolivia GMT-4)
4:15-5:30PM (CST)
1 hour 15 minutes
Session 7: Spaces, Sounds, and Cinema
Webinar
Session Chair: Aaron Brakke
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Andres Laguna-Tapia (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “El imperio contraataca: la influencia de los Estados Unidos en el cine boliviano.”
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Clariza Ruiz de Castilla (California State University), “Reggaeton in the Americas.”
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Aaron Brakke (Samford University), “New Architecture in the Andes: Layering Indigeneity over Postmodernist Architectural Tropes.”
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Luis Brun (Universidad Privada Boliviana), “Un movimiento en dos direcciones, el cine boliviano contemporáneo."
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