13268: FW: Davis forwards ACH Papers request (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Karen F. Davis <kdavis@marygrove.edu>


> Given the current discussion on Haitian lougarous, someone mught want to
> present at this conference.
>
> Karen F. Dimanche Davis
> Associate Professor and Head, Humanities Department
> Marygrove College
> Detroit, Michigan 48221
> 313-927-1352
> kdavis@marygrove.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Juanita De Barros [SMTP:juanita.debarros@wmich.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:46 PM
> To:	H-CARIBBEAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU
> Subject:	Panel for ACH Conference?
>
> Date: 24 September, 2002
> From: Reinaldo L. Román - rroman@arches.uga.edu
> Subject: Panel for ACH Conference?
>
> Papers sought for a panel titled "The Monstrous Caribbean" intended for
> presentation at the 35th Association of Caribbean Historians Conference
> in
> San Juan, Puerto Rico, 27 April - 2 May 2003.
>
>  The panel will be framed under the general rubric of "Exchange and
> Relations within the Caribbean," one of the themes for next year's
> meeting.
> The papers will address the regional dimensions of episodes
> such as the "chupacabras" scare of the 1990s, which began in Puerto Rico
> and spread throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. The
> panel will take a broad view of the notion of exchange. Issues of
> economic
> value and commodification will be addressed, as will matters pertaining to
> the production of knowledge. Questions of the latter sort include: What
> kinds of meanings are created by the circulation of stories about forms of
> preternatural intervention? What kinds of meanings are generated by
> exchanges between monsters and  humans?
>
> At present, the panelists include Robin L. H. Derby (UCLA, History) and
> Reinaldo Román (UGA, History). Prof. Derby's paper will examine the
> career
> of the chupacabras in Puerto Rico and Mexico, commenting among other
> things,
> on the creature's connections to NAFTA. My own paper will consider the
> goatsuckers' antecedents and offer an interpretation of the work of such
> rumors in relation to state-sanctioned, scientific
> knowledge. Two additional papers on similarly inspired topics are
> sought.
>
> For additional information and proposals, please contact Reinaldo L.
> Román
> at <rroman@arches.uga.edu>.
>
> Reinaldo L. Román
> University of Georgia
> History Department
> LeConte Hall
> Athens, GA 30602
> Tel. 706-542-2501
> Fax  706-542-2455