CLAG 2007                   Colorado Springs                   Program Draft 4:   5/31/07

 

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2007

                                                                                                                                                                  

Evening reception for early birds, 7-9 p.m.

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2007

 

Pastries, coffee, juices 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Opening welcome, 9:30-10:00  a.m.

 

Paper Session 1 (10:00 -12:00) :

Nature and Society

Chair: Maria Fadiman

Paper Session 2 (10:00 – 12:00):

Environmental and Economic Change

Chair: Steven Rainey

10:00 Kathleen Farley “Landscape Change, Vulnerability, and the Alteration of Ecosystem Services: Examples From South America”

10:00  Rebecca Powell and Dar Roberts “Monitoring Changes in Urban Land-Cover Composition on an Amazonian Forest Frontier”

10:20  William Forbes “Perceptions of Nature in Remote Northwestern Chihuahua”

10:20  James Biles “The Latin American City, Urban Housing, and Household Microclimate: A Case Study from Yucatán, Mexico”

10: 40  Philip Keating “The Influences of Anthropogenic Disturbances and Topography on Landscape Structure in the Ecuadorian Andes”

10:40  Mercy Borbor-Cordova “Integration of Health, Community, and Environment to Evaluate Air Quality and Establish Municipal Policies, Guayaquil, Ecuador”

11:00  Kenneth Madsen “Border Law Enforcement and Considerations of Scale”

11:00  David Cochran “Who Will Work the Land? National Integration, Cash Economies, and the Future of Shifting Cultivation in the Honduran Mosquitia”

11: 20  Maria Fadiman “The Forgotten Inhabitants of the Galápagos: Can Coffee Help the Human/Environment Balance?”

11:20  Steven Rainey “Exploring Linkages Between Non-Traditional Export Crops (NTEs) and Conservation in the Guatemalan Highlands”

11:40  Discussion

11:40  Discussion

 

 

Lunch 12:00 – 1:30 pm

 

 

Paper Session 3 (2:00 – 3:30):

Paisajes Indígenas de México y Panamá

Chair: Narciso Barrera Bassols

 

Paper Session 4 (2:00 – 3:30):

Migration and Cultural Integration

Chair: Jeffrey S. Smith

2:00  Pedro Urquijo and Erandi Rivera “Saberes Locales en el Conocimiento y Manejo del Paisaje Teenek, Huasteca Potosina, México”

2:00  Ines Miyares “Landscapes of Opportunity: Latino Geographies in Honolulu County, Hawaii”

2:20  Andrea Rodriquez Figuroa and Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla “El Paisaje y el Espacio Ritual en Cuauitleua del Cecempuallapualli Nahua”

2:20  Marie Price “Out of the Andes: The Crisis of Emigration from the Andean Region”

2:40  Julie Velásquez-Runk “Wounaan Landscapes and Conservation in Eastern Panama”

2:40  Kathleen Schroeder “Aymara Rappers and Slav Cambas: Complexity and Regional Autonomy in Bolivia”

3:00  Ramin Zamanian “A Material/Conceptual Landscape Analysis of the Virgin of Guadalupe Pilgrimage Site in Mexico City, Mexico”

3:00  Jeffrey S. Smith “The Impact of Transnational Migration on the Quality-of-Life for Women in Chalchihuites, Mexico”

3:20  Discussion

3:20   Discussion

Break (3:30-4:00), COFFEE/COOKIES

 

Paper Session 5 (4:00 – 5:30):

Educational Initiatives in Latin America

Chair: Matthew Taylor

Paper Session 6 (4:00 – 5:30):

Forest Loss and Recovery in the Southern Yucatan and Guatemala: Exploring Causes and Consequences

Chair: B. L. Turner

4:00  Beatriz Bustos “Privatization of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Heaven: What the Privatization of Universities in Chile Can Tell Us About Topographies of Neoliberalism”

4:00  Claudia Radel “Gendered Social Capital and Resource Control in a Rural Mexican Ejido”

4:20   Patricia Solís “Lessons for International Collaboration from the AAMIGA Project (Advancing Academe: A Multidimensional Investigation of Geography in the Americas)”

4:20  Ximena Rueda “Structural Adjustment, Conservation, and Forest Recovery in the Southern Yucatán”

4:40  Mary Hayden, Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez, Maureen Fonseca-Ford, Elisabeth Gleckler, and Stephen Waterman “Increasing Insect Repellent Use Among Latinos: Production of Appropriate Education Materials”

4:40  Birgit Schmook “International Labor Migration from the Southern Yucatan: Its Characteristics and Consequences in an Extractive-Agricultural Frontier”

5:00  Matthew Taylor “Integrating Teaching and Research in the Field: Taking a Look at Service Learning, Public Good, and Tenure”

5:00  Greg Chase and Curt Holder “Change in Tropical Dry Forest Structure of Eastern Guatemala”

5:20  Discussion

 

5:20  Discussion

 

Walking Field trip of Colorado Springs 6:00 – 7:30

 

 

DINNER (free choice—see restaurant maps on the conference website)

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2007

 

Pastries, coffee, juices 9:00-10:00 a.m.

 

Paper Session 7 (10:00 – 11:30):

Challenges to Sustainable Development in Latin America

Chair: Brad Jokisch

Paper Session 8 (10:00 – 11:30):

GIS and Planning in Latin America

Chair: John Harner

10:00  Tom Klak: “Sustainable Ecotourism Development: Progress and Challenges”

10:00  Darío Solís “GIS-Based Research Projects in Panama: Engineering Development Solutions in Transportation, ICT, and Renewable Energy”

10:20  James Wiley “The US-EU Banana War: A Final Look”

10:20  Kevin Knapp and John Harner “A Web-Based GIS Application for Calculating Impacts of Land Use Change Using Sustainable Development Indicators in Guadalajara, Mexico”

10:40  Bjorn Sletto “Burn Marks: Knowledge Constructions, Institutional Cultures and the Failure of Fire Management in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela”

10:40  Miguel Angel Chacón Véliz “Urban Planning Principles for Indigenous Towns” Cancelled!

11:00  Brad Jokisch and Kendra McSweeney “Demographic Change and Environmental Struggles among Shuar of Ecuador”

11:00  Pablo Monzon “Web-based GIS Tools for Economic Development”

11:20  Discussion

11:20  Discussion

 

Lunch 12:00 – 2:00 pm

 

 

Paper Session 9 (2:30 – 4:30):

Neoliberalism and Development

Chair: Margaret Wilder

Paper Session 10 (2:30 – 4:30):

Historical Geography

Chair: Thomas Whitmore

2:30  Eric Carter “Privatizing Infrastructure Development, Integrating Regional Economies: Latin America’s IIRSA Project”

2:30  Phil Crossley “The Robert West Photo Archive”

2:50 Emily Billo “What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Really Mean? The Case of the Multinational Petroleum Industry in Ecuador’s Amazon Northern Amazon Region”

2:50  Christina Jiménez “Performative Politics and Public Space: An Historical Look at Urban Geography in Mexico, 1880-1930”

3:10  Carolyn Dudek “Europe’s Papertrail: The Unintended International Consequences of EU Regulations”

3:10  Jörn Seemann and Kent Mathewson “Ratzel in Mexico: Colonialism, Race, and Travel Sketches from 1874-1875”

3:30  Carlos Reboratti “Un Conflicto de Papel: Fábricas de Pulpa Celulósica y Conflicto Ambiental en el Cono Sur”

 

3:30  Cyrus Dawsey “What Happened to the Confederados at Santarem?”

3:50  Margaret Wilder “Water, Poverty and the Milennium Development Goals”

3:50  Thomas Whitmore and Steven Wernke “Agriculture and Inequality in the Colonial Andes: A Simulation of Production and Consumption Using Colonial Administrative Documents”

4:10  Discussion

4:10  Discussion

 

 

Banquet, 7:00-11 p.m. Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, Colorado College

(fee included in registration)

 

Keynote Speaker, 8:30, Dr. Thomas Sheridan

Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

“Landscapes of Fraud: The Production and Destruction of Space at Mission Tumacacori, Arizona”

 

CLAG Awards/Honors, 9:30

 

END OF FORMAL CONFERENCE

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2007

Departure for Field Trips:

 

Jeffrey Smith, San Luis Valley excursion

George Bolling,  Garden of the Gods geology (note date change)