The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Department of Government at Cornell University, will host this year’s virtual REPAL Annual Conference from July 15 to 17th, 2021-REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Politíca de América Latina). Speakers are scheduled for the three-day conference from 10am to 4pm each of the days.

2021 Conference format: 30-minute individual sessions (12-minute presentations with 15 minutes of discussion) in four parallel tracks. Papers will be posted in a website accessible only to conference participants. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance to enrich the discussion at the conference. We encourage the attendance and participation of non-presenters as well as presenters.

Registration for Repal 2021 is now open! Please register here. (Registration payments for those who previously registered for the cancelled 2020 conference will carry over to this conference.) If you are facing economic hardships due to Covid, the registration fee can be waived; please contact repalconference@gmail.com.

The final panel is free and open virtually to the public and is at 3pm on 7/17 entitled Covid-19 and Latin America, details can be found at: https://events.cornell.edu/event/covid-19_in_latin_america_politics_eco…

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Department of Government at Cornell University, will host this year’s virtual REPAL Annual Conference from July 15 to 17th, 2021-REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Politíca de América Latina). Speakers are scheduled for the three-day conference from 10am to 4pm each of the days.

2021 Conference format: 30-minute individual sessions (12-minute presentations with 15 minutes of discussion) in four parallel tracks. Papers will be posted in a website accessible only to conference participants. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance to enrich the discussion at the conference. We encourage the attendance and participation of non-presenters as well as presenters.

Registration for Repal 2021 is now open! Please register here. (Registration payments for those who previously registered for the cancelled 2020 conference will carry over to this conference.) If you are facing economic hardships due to Covid, the registration fee can be waived; please contact repalconference@gmail.com.

The Saturday, 7/17 final Keynote Panel "Covid-19 and Latin America” is free webinar and virtually open to the public on the last day of the conference beginning at 3:00pm. It can be attended registering (for free) at the link: https://bit.ly/2V9PkoH “

Register at: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DmadXQe4QsidxC_MITCu3g

This plenary panel will discuss the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the region. It features scholars working on issues like variation in policies to face the pandemic, the impact of the former and latter on economic inequality, poverty, unemployment, the gender gap, access to vaccines, among others.

Chair: Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin
Merike Blofield, German Institute for Global and Area Studies
Magdalena Gil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Nora Lustig, Tulane University
Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics

The final Keynote Panel of the 7th Annual REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina), held virtually at Cornell University 7/15-17/2021.

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema demonstrates how the dancer-actress comes to be a central figure in articulating South Asian cultural modernities. Shifting attention from narrative-driven analyses and turning instead to gesture, movement vocabulary, and the social practices around on-screen dance production brings alive corporeal histories that are peopled by many laboring bodies. Referencing acclaimed and invisibilized performers from the 1930s to the 1990s, such as, Azurie, Sadhona Bose, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit, and Saroj Khan, this talk will focus on the processes of training and rehearsal to reveal the networks of creativity and collaboration that produce Hindi film dance. Through material, technological, corporeal histories that unearth the labor, otherwise obscured, in discourses of skill, virtuosity, and talent, I examine how processes of dance training and rehearsal undergird techniques of the body, gender performance, and the specific figurations of Hindi cinema’s romantic-erotic energies. Mapping corporeal formations and relations between and across the bodies of dancer-actresses, choreographers, and spectators, and reading choreography as an archival-corporeal system of transmission and transformation that articulates body cultures, industrial systems, and labor networks enables new modes of writing cinematic and social histories.

Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Their book, Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines constructions of gender, stardom, and sexuality in Indian cinema with a focus on women’s labor and collaborative networks. Their next project is a study of the traffic of cultural forms between South Asia and the Caribbean, engaging with transnational perspectives on race, ethnicity, and migration. Dr. Iyer is Associate Editor of the journal, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art.

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Department of Government at Cornell University, will host this year’s virtual REPAL Annual Conference from July 15 to 17th, 2021-REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Politíca de América Latina). Speakers are scheduled for the three-day conference from 10am to 4pm each of the days.

2021 Conference format: 30-minute individual sessions (12-minute presentations with 15 minutes of discussion) in four parallel tracks. Papers will be posted in a website accessible only to conference participants. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance to enrich the discussion at the conference. We encourage the attendance and participation of non-presenters as well as presenters.

Registration for Repal 2021 is now open! Please register here. (Registration payments for those who previously registered for the cancelled 2020 conference will carry over to this conference.) If you are facing economic hardships due to Covid, the registration fee can be waived; please contact repalconference@gmail.com.

In this eCornell Keynotes event, Nicole Salgado '98, an advocate for environmental conservation and migrants’ rights based in Querétaro, México, and journalist Nathaniel Hoffman '99 will discuss their chronicle of a highly underreported aspect of our country’s punitive immigration system: the often insurmountable process faced by couples of mixed immigration status.

Their 2013 book, Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders, documents the experiences of three couples, including Ms. Salgado’s first-person account of life in the U.S. with her husband while he was undocumented, her tortured decision to leave the country with him, and their seven years of exile and starting over together in Mexico.

Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Salgado will examine how little has changed policywise in the years since their book’s publication. They will also highlight current proposals for legislative reform that could provide relief to millions of U.S. citizen partners and families of undocumented immigrants who are languishing in legal limbo, driven underground, exiled abroad, and/or separated.

This event is co-sponsored by eCornell and the Migrations initiative.

Join the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre for our upcoming IS4 webinar exploring the effect of democratization on Indonesia's civil service.

Does democratization lead to more meritocracy in the civil service? In this webinar, Associate Professor Jan Pierskalla argues that electoral accountability increases the value of competence over personal loyalty in the civil service. While this resembles an application of merit principles, it does not lead to an automatic reduction in patronage politics. In the context of elections in low-income countries, competent civil servants are used to facilitate the distribution of clientelistic goods at mass-scale to win competitive elections. The selection of competent but less loyal civil servants also requires the increased use of control mechanisms, like the timing of promotions, to ensure compliance by civil servants. Associate Professor Jan Pierskalla tests these claims using novel micro-level data on promotions in Indonesia's civil service before and after democratization in 1999.

We warmly invite you to join Associate Professor Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University, in conversation with Professor Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University to explore the effect of democratization on Indonesia's civil service. The conversation will be moderated by Assistant Professor Jessica Soedirgo from the University of Amsterdam.