Wednesday, March 02, 2011

NACCS Pasadena


National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies XXXVIII, Pasadena, California, March 30-April 2, 2011

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Going to NACCS? March 5th is the final day for Pre-registration.

Presenters: remember that membership and registration are both required. Complete Membership first before Registeration. www.naccs.org/Membership

Haven't booked a hotel room? March 10th will be the last day to get the conference discount rate.

Still undecided if you want to attend? Let's help convience you. We have one of our most packed conferences ever! Here is just a very, very small sampling of panels scheduled/events happening at the conference.

Wednesday Night
Welcome Reception

Thursday
NACCS Plenary: Sites of Education for Social Justice
Daniel Solorzano, UCLA. "Critical Race Theory and the Role of Education in the Struggle for Social Justice."
Jorge Huerta, NACCS Scholar 1997. "Teatro Chicana/o: Performing Social Justice Beyond the Classroom."
Rhonda Rios Kravitz, Sacramento City College. "Removing the Veil: Maintaining 'Open Access' for the Privileged."

Panel: The State of Exception and the Right of Resistance

Tezozomoc. South Central Farmers Feeding Families. “States of Exception and the Limits of Identity Politics.”

Peña, Devon. University of Washington. “The Strategy of Refusal and the State of Exception.”

Gonzalez, Rosalee. Arizona State University. “Militant Women and Resistance to the State of Exception.”

Discussant: Diaz, David R. California State University, Los Angeles


Panel: Chicana Art as Site of Critical Education

López, Tiffany Ana. University of California, Riverside. “Chicana Art as Public Pedagogy: Motherhood and the Curriculum of Defiance in the Work of Barbara Carrasco.”

Leimer, Ann Marie. University of Redlands. “Quilting Knowledge, Weaving Justice: Sites of Struggle and Survival in the Work of Consuelo Jiménez Underwood.”

Davalos, Karen Mary. Loyola Marymount University. “Art as Education for Social Justice: The Indigenous Spirituality of Linda Vallejo.”

Chair: Davalos, Karen Mary. Loyola Marymount University.


Friday
NACCS Luncheon
NACCS Scholar: Norma Alarcon, University of California, Berkeley.

Cervantes Recipients:
Israel Pastrana. University of California, San Diego. Graduate.
Arnold Farias. California State University, Northridge. Undergraduate.
Book Award: Richard T. Rodriguez. Next of Kin: the family in Chicano/a cultural politics. Duke University Press, 2009.

Panel: Performing the Latin@ Borderlands: Towards a Decolonial Performatics.

Pérez, Daniel Enrique. University of Nevada, Reno-Spanish/Latina Studies. “(Re)Examining the Latin Lover: Screening Chicano/Latino Sexualities.”

Sandoval, Chela. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Towards a Decolonial Performatics.”

Garcia, Peter J. California State University, Northridge. “Te Amo, Te Amo, Te Amo”: Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx Performing Nuevo Mexico music.”

Aldama, Arturo J. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. “No Somos Criminales: Border Musics talk back to Nativist Racism and Sexism.”

Panel: The Classroom and Community as Sites for Social Justice

Calderon, Jose. Pitzer College. "Building the Future as It Emerges in the Classroom and in the Community.”

Sanbrano, Angela. Pomona Habla and Latina/o Roundtable of the San Ga. "Pushing Back Immigration Enforcement on a Local Level.”

Cadena, Gilbert. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. "University Service Learning for Social Justice.”


Roundtable: Tejan@ Rocks!: Examining Cultural Sites of Social and Political Praxis

Miranda, Marie “Keta”. University of Texas, San Antonio.

Habell-Pallan, Michelle. University of Washington, Seattle.

Cervantes, Marco. University of Texas, San Antonio.

Urquijo-Ruiz, Rita. Trinity University.

Cardenas, Jaime. Seattle Central Community College.


Panel: The Arts as Sites of Education for Social Justice

Carlos Manuel, Bellarmine University. "Theatre for Social Change and Awareness: Funny About Serious Matters."

Alma Lopez, Independent Artist. "Controversial Art."

Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Poet. "Tragedies, Codices & Joterías: Poetic Artifacts at the Junctures of Desire, Survival and Envisagement."


Film: Danza Folklorica Escénica: El Sello Artístico de Rafael Zamarripa(Mexican Folkloric Dance: Rafael Zamarripa's Artistic Trademark). 50 min.


Presenter: Olga Najera-Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Saturday


Panel: Marching Students: Chicana/o Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present

Revilla, Anita. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Las Vegas Activist Crew and the Im/migrant Rights Movement: How We Collaboratively Transformed 'Sin City'."

Berta Avila, Margarita. Sacramento State University. “Educational Justice and Access: Conversations from Chicana/o Teachers Teaching in La Academia del Barrio Telpochcalli.”

Solorzano, Daniel. UCLA. “Racism, White Supremacy, and Racial Hierarchies: A Case Study of African American and Latina/o High School Student Activism.”

Covarrubias, Alejandro. UCLA. “Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) and Agencies of Transformational Resistance.”

Lopez Figueroa, Julie. Sacramento State University. “Marching Students: Chicana/o Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present.”


Panel/Discussion: U.S. Birthright Citizenship & Arizona's SB1070 and other Anit-Immigrant 'Copy Cat' State Laws


Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel of MALDEF

Eva Longoria, activist and MALDEF Board Member

Panel: Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell: scholar, intellectual, mentor, activist and friend

Gradilla, Alexandro Jose. California State University, Fullerton. “Towards a critical cultural competency and bioethics:

Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell' social justice perspective on health politics.”

Facio, Elisa. CU Boulder. “Honoring Dr. Adaljiza Sosa Riddell: “Naci para ser Rebelde

Davalos, Karen Mary. Loyola Marymount University. “Publishing as Transformative Education: the legacy of Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell.”

Casillas, Dolores Ines. UC Santa Barbara.


Roundtable: Battle of the Virgins: A Presentation of the Book, OUR LADY OF CONTROVERSY: ALMA LOPEZ'S “IRREVERENT APPARITION” (featuring Knockout Performers Monica Palacios as la Virgen de Guadalupe and Adelina Anthony as Our Lady of Controversy)

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. UCLA. “Announcing Our Knockout Performance...”

Lopez, Alma. Independent Artist. “Alma Lopez's ‘Nican Mopuha’.”

Gonzalez, Deena. ACE Fellow/University of California at Irvine. “Making Privates Public: It's not about the Virgen of the Conquest, it's about the Conquest of the Virgen.”

Perez, Emma. University of Colorado, Boulder. “The De-Colonial Virgin in a Colonial Site.”

Roman-Odio, Clara. Kenyon College. “Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma Lopez's Visual Art.”


Save Ethnic Studies Fundraiser


Exhibits:

University of Texas Press

Arizona University Press

Bilingual Review Press

University of Nevada Press

Ethnic Studies Library, UCB

Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA

Crafts by Amistad

art2graf creations

Chicana & Chicano Studies, UCSB

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social


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