Chair/Moderadora: Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Latin American Studies, CSU Northridge
- Catherine Nolan-Ferrell, History, University of Texas at San Antonio      
 
 “The Guatemalan Refugee Crisis in Southern Chiapas, 1980-1984”
 (“La crisis del refugiado guatemalteco en el sur de Chiapas, 1980-1984”)
- Silvia Posocco, Anthropology, University of London, UK
 
 “Traces, Remnants, Genocide: Transnational Adoption in Guatemala in the 1980s”
 (“Las huellas, artefactos, genocidio: Adopciones transnacionales en Guatemala en los años ochenta”)