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National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Austin, Texas March 19-22, 2008 Preliminary Program (as of January 28, 2008) Presentations begin March 20. Presentations are not final and subject to change. Our History, Ourselves: What Faculty and Librarians Should Know About Actively Telling Our Own Story Through Our Own Archives Corral, Norma. University of California, Los Angeles. “Introduction: What We Can Learn from the Accomplishments of Yolanda Retter Vargas.” Durán, Karin and Alaniz, Yolanda. California State University, Northridge. “How to Successfully Solicit Archives.” Kelleher, Christian. University of Texas, Austin. “Processing Archives and Dealing with Issues such as Confidentiality and Copyright.” Gutiérrez, Margo. University of Texas, Austin. “Faculty Collections at UT Austin.” Discussant: Castro, Rafaela. University of California, Davis. Chair: Rivera, Diana. Michigan State University. Staging Chicana/o Theater: the Politics of (Re)Presentation and the (Re)Presentation of Politics Perez, Daniel Enrique. University of Nevada, Reno. “Dramatizing the Borderlands: Staging Chicana/o Lives and Deaths.” Fuentes, Marla. University of California, San Diego. “Staging Necessary Theater: Chicano/a Theater and the Politics of Representation and Production.” Chavarría, Carlos Manuel. Delta College. “Staging ‘Vaqueeros’: Muy machos, con pantalones y un poco de locura.” Bodies in Absence, Bodies in Crisis, Bodies in Power: the Politics of (Re)Presentation Ibarra, Ignacio. Independent Scholar. “Willful Neglect: Power and Latino (Re)Presentation of Culture.” Ramirez, Marissa. Independent Scholar. “(Ad)Dressing Absence: Huipiles as Cultural Signifiers.” Grise, Virginia. California Institute of the Arts. “Bodies in Crisis: the Panza Monologues.” Mayorga, Irma. Florida State University. “Power to the Panza: the Politics of Panza Positive Chicana Cultural Production.” Entrenzando Notions of Identity, Teaching and Social Justice García, Graciela. Independent Scholar/Educational Consultant. “Knowledge(s) and Practices of Social Justice as Understood and Enacted by Chicana Activists: Implications for Curriculum and Multicultural Education.” Garza, Esther. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Bilingual Teachers Crossing Borders.” Pérez, Micaela. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Language Brokers in the borderlands: Building Bridges in School and the community.” Saldaña, Lilliana Patricia. University of Wisconsin-Madison. “‘¡De Mi Barrio No Me Voy!’: the Identity and Consciousness of Mexican American Teachers at Emma Tenayuca Elementary.” Of Bodies, Counter-Discourse and Gender-racial Resistance: Recent Trends in Chicana/o Histories PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – JANUARY 2008 1 2 Chair: Heidenreich, Linda. Washington State University, Pullman. Gordillo, Luz Maria. Washington State University, Vancouver. “Mexicanas, the Border and Transnational Sexualities, 1942-2000.” Gonzales, Tanya. Washington State University, Pullman. “Contesting Identities: Chicanas and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in Post-Invasion Santa Fe.” Cantu, Carlos. University of Texas, PanAm. “Counter Narratives, Print Media and the First Chicano College.” Discussant: Gonzalez, Deena. Loyola Marymount University. Dancing Across Borders 2: Space/Place/Identity Cruz-Manjarrez, Adriana. Smithsonian Institution. “Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity.” Nayfack, Shakina. University of California, Riverside. “¿Por qué estás aquí? - Dancing Through History, Identity, and the Politics of Place in Butoh Ritual Mexicano.” Cashion, Susan. Stanford University. “El Danzón in Mexico: Ritual of Sanity and Pride in Tradition.” Miranda, Keta. University of Texas, San Antonio. “‘Let’s Take a Trip Down Whittier Boulevard!’: Dance and Social Identity Among Los Angeles Mexican American Youth, 1963-1968.” Chair: Cantú, Norma. University of Texas, San Antonio. Sueños, Protocols and Sacred Sites of Knowing Rodriguez, Roberto. University of Arizona. “A Methodology for People in between Stories.” Leyva, Yolanda Chavez. University of Texas, El Paso. “The Pedagogy of Sacred Space.” Casanova, Stephen. St. Cloud State University. “Towards Indigenous Chicana and Chicano Studies.” Chair: Gonzales, Patrisia. University of Arizona. “Sueños and Sacred Sight: Dreams as ways of Organizing Knowledge, Diagnosing and Gathering Data.” PANEL Baeza Ventura, Gabriela. University of Houston. “Chican@ Literature for Young Adults and Children and Its Role in Identity Formation.” Torrez, Estrella. Michigan State University. “Creating Meaningful Spaces: Connecting the Lived Experiences to the Educational Experiences of the Migrant Farmworker Child.” Arauz, JuanCarlos. Canal Alliance. “Jaula de Oro: Growing Up as an Undocumented Latin@ Immigrant in the United States.” Mora-Torres, Gregorio. San José State University. “Nineteenth Century Mexican and Chicano Students in American Colleges.” Latino Literature and the Disarticulation of (Trans)Nationalism Vigil, Ariana. Cornell University. “Latino Cultural Production and the Sandinista Revolution.” Rincón, Belinda. Cornell University. “Finding Pancho Villa: Transnational Constructions of Gender through Revolutionary Iconography.” García, Armando. Cornell University. “‘Aztlán es una fábula’: Strategies of Readership and The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez.” Nuñez, Lorena. Stanford University. “In Transit: The Psychological/Physical Trek for (Home)place in Manuel Muñoz's Zigzagger.” Chair: Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. Stanford University. Re-presenting Chicana/o Families into the 21st Century Escobar, Guadalupe. University of California, Los Angeles. “Rejecting Mexican Fathers, Embracing White Husbands: Inter-racial Marriages in Jovita González’s Caballero.” Guzmán, Georgina. University of California, Los Angeles. “Turning Absence into Activism: Missing Migrant- Laborer Men and Activist Women’s Work in Reyna Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus.” Cutler, John Alba. University of California, Los Angeles. “Acting Out: Chicano Masculinities in Daniel Chacón’s And the Shadows Took Him.” Chair: Cotera, Maria. University of Michigan. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – JANUARY 2008 Searching For a Paradigm: Developing Activist-Scholarship in Chicano/Latino Studies Chair: Moreno, Luis. Michigan State University. Moreno, Jose. Michigan State University. Mireles, Ernesto. Michigan State University. Rivera, Diana. Michigan State University. Salas, Nora. Michigan State University. Lucha Obrera: Aspects of the Transnational Political Recomposition of the Mexican-Origin Working Class, 1994-2007 Espinoza, Damarys. University of Washington. “A Chicana Feminist Rethinking of the Deskilling of Mexican Labor.” García, Raul. University of Washington. “Help Wanted: Farming, Migration, and Labor in San Luis, Colorado.” Chair: Peña, Devon. University of Washington. “The Political Recomposition of the Transnational Mexican-Origin Working Class since NAFTA.” Reflections on Community Service Learning: Best Practices in Chicana/Chicano studies Davila, Brigitte. San Francisco State University. Reyes, Belinda. San Francisco State University. Martinez, Katynka. San Francisco State University. Culture and Political Economy in Greater Mexico Guzman, Romeo. California State University. “Defining the Nation State: Immigrants as illegal Aliens and Mexican Nationals.” Garza, Irene. University of Austin, Texas. “Por La Paz y La Justicia: La Placita, the New Sanctuary Movement, and the Politics of Faith.” Gonzales, Roberto and Tran, Tam. University of California, Irvine and Los Angeles Based Activist. “Dreams Deferred: Immigration and the Construction of Liminal Americans.” Sosa-Riddell, Citlali. University of California, Los Angeles. “Chivas USA: Nationalist, Profitable, and American Accepted?” Redefining Community Work: Chicanas Transforming Our Society- Working from Multiple Spaces, Places and Sectors Chair: Gallegos-Diaz, Lupe. University of California, Berkeley. Godinez, Jennifer. Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, Inc. Cordova, Teresa. University of Nuevo Mexico. The Department of Chicana/o Studies in the 21st Century: Studying Representation, Doing Community Outreach, and Defining Ethical Research Torres, Edén. University of Minnesota. “Learning to Represent.” Sass Zaragoza, Lisa. University of Minnesota. “Learning to Organize.” Creel, Kandace. University of Minnesota. “Learning to Research.” Intersections of Art and Literature: Imagery and Gender in Chicano Cultural Production through the Long Twentieth Century Varon, Alberto. University of Texas, Austin. “Competing Masculinities in Americo Paredes’ George Washington Gomez and Jovita Gonzalez’s Caballero.” Nogar, Anna M.. University of Texas, Austin. “Folklore as Identity: the Lady in Blue Rebuts the Texas Modern.” Del Bosque, Paul. University of Texas, Austin. “The Emergence of Cultural Imagery in Daniel Venegas' Don Chipote.” Literary Legacies and Contemporary Chican@ Fiction Wilmeth, Lydia. University of Texas at Austin. “Cultura Cantada in Nina Marie Martínez’s ¡Caramba!.” Garcia, Christina. University of Texas at Austin. “Tracing Shifts and Consistencies in Chicano/a Studies: Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Hummingbird’s Daughter.” PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – JANUARY 2008 3 4 Chair: Perez, Domino Renee. 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