Latin American and Iberian Studies

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October 22 & October 23, 2005

Saturday, October 22

8:30am: Breakfast/Coffee

9:00am – 11:00am: Session 1

Neil Safier: “The Oracle of Enlightenment Geography: Social Spaces of the Brazilian Sertãoand the European Cartographic Construction of South America”
Lina del Castillo: “’The State of Geography’: Printing Geographic Memories and State Formation in Colombia, 1808-1830”
Rick López: “Discovering the Unknown Mexico in the Montaña Alta: Regimes of Representation of Space and Culture in Post revolutionary Mexican Nation Formation”Images Page 1; Images Page 2; Images Page 3; Images Page 4; Images Page 5; Images Page 6; Images Page 7
Rob Campbell: Discussant

11:30am – 1:00pm: Lunch

1:30pm – 3:30pm :Session 2

Karl Offen: “Between Empitres: A Social and Spatial History of the Mosquitia, 1700 – 1860”
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Raymond Craib: “The Archive in the Field: The Work of Agrarian Reform in Mexico”
Bjorn Sletto: “Mapping the Local: Ethnocartography, Hybridity and the Liminality of Space”
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Nancy Peluso: Discussant

7:00pm: Dinner

Sunday, October 23

8:30am: Breakfast/Coffee

9:00am– 11:00am: Session 3

Thomas Klubock: “The Politics of Forests and Forestry on Chile’s Southern Frontier”
Christopher Boyer: “The Science of Forested Landscapes in Post Revolutionary Mexico”
Michael Ervin,“Reconstructing Regional Space: The Department fo National Statistics and the Economic Geopgraphy of Mexico in the 1920’s”
Bernardo Michael: Discussant

11:00am – 12:30pm: Lunch

1:00pm – 2:00pm: Session 4

Roundtable Discussion
Presenters, Discussants, Audience

For more information, please contact:
Sydney Frey
Program Assistant
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
of the Yale Center for International/Area Studies
tel: 203.432.3422
sydney.frey@yale.edu