Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Keynote Address by Saskia Sassen
Meridian Room at Café Ventanas, ERC, UCSD

Friday, February 25, 2005 from 8:30am-6:30pm
Presentations by panelists, debates
Institute of the Americas Complex, Copley Conference Center, UCSD

RSVP Required: Please RSVP to lasmail@ucsd.edu or (858) 534-6050

Papers will be presented in English and Spanish.

Few observers would deny that states, economies, and societies in Latin America have changed radically during the past decade, but debates rage about the nature and the effects of these transformations. In a region in which violence has become an increasingly central issue, the "War on Terrorism" has heightened intra-and inter-regional tensions, increased inequalities, and prompted calls to reconfigure Latin American borders in such a way as to more effectively police the people and forms of violence that get across. This conference does not focus on "9-11" but rather seeks to map how constructions of violence reshape definitions of flows and borders in Latin America, and we invite comparisons with past crises. Both concepts of borders and actually existing international borders throughout Latin America are central concerns.

This conference will consist of a keynote, traditional panels of 20 minute papers, and round-tables or one-on-one debates intended to spark conversations across political and disciplinary lines. Panels to be annnounced.

If you would like more information about this conference, including a mailing
of the finalized schedule, please send us an email at: lasmail@ucsd.edu

Thursday, February 24

Keynote Address
5:00 - 6:30pm
Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago:
"Territory, Authority and Rights: Towards New Crossborder Assemblages"
Location: The Meridian Room at Café Ventanas, Eleanor Roosevelt College Complex, UC San Diego

Friday, February 25

Coffee
8:30am

Welcoming Remarks
9:00 - 9:15am
Paul Drake, Dean of Social Sciences, UC San Diego
Charles Briggs, Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) and Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Panel 1
9:15 - 10:45am
Presenters
Claudio Lomnitz, Department of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School University
Scopic Regimes and the Rise of New Republicanism in Mexico

William Robinson, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Latin America and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Opportunities, Challenges, Hazards

Roberto Alvarez, Chair of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Free Trade, NAFTA, and Empire: The Case of the Mexican Mango and Lime Industry

Moderator: Richard Feinberg, International Relations and Pacific Studies, Director, APEC, UC San Diego

Break
10:45 - 11:00am

Panel 2
11:00 - 12:30pm
Presenters
Rossana Reguillo Cruz, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
Retóricas de la seguridad: geopolítica del miedo y vida cotidiana en Latinoamérica

Christian Ramirez, American Friends Service Committee
Militarization and Human Rights Violations on the US Mexico Border

Diane Nelson, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Living Beside One's Self: Duplicity and Reckoning in Postwar Guatemala

Moderator: Nancy Postero, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego

Lunch (RSVP Required)
12:30 - 1:30pm

Panel 3
1:30 - 3:00pm
Presenters
Nicholas De Genova, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Deportability, Detainability, and the Politics of Space in the Aftermath of "Homeland Security"

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Department of Communication, UC San Diego
The Migrant as Terrorist. US/Cuban Patriot Acts in the Post-Elian Era

Roger Rouse, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
Vicious Cycles and Diminishing Returns: Towards a Case Study of Changes in Migration Between Mexico and the United States

Moderator: Wayne Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego

Break
3:00 - 3:15pm

Panel 4
3:15 - 4:15pm
Presenters
Elana Zilberg, Department of Communication, UC San Diego
Terrorists or Refugees? Transnational Youth Gangs and Zero Tolerance in Contemporary US-Salvadoran Relations

Ricardo Dominguez, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Network_Art_Activism: Resistance and Protest Across Virtual Borders

Moderator: Ramon Gutiérrez, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Debate and Discussion
4:15 - 6:00pm