Looking forward to performing at this conference!
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The 2012 Lozano Long Conference
Wed. Feb 22-Saturday Feb 25. Featured Events • Photo Exhibit “Archives and Memory” by photographer Muriel Hasbun • Performance/reading by Poet Maya Chinchilla • Presentation by rapper Chingo Bling • Keynote Address by Norma Torres Assemblymember, California State Assembly • The 2012 Lozano Long Keynote Address: Eva Longoria WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 5:00–7:00 P.M. Photo Exhibit Muriel Hasbun: Archive and Memory LLILAS, SRH Unit 1, 3rd floor 7:00–7:30 P.M. Opening Ceremony: LLILAS and CMAS Directors, Conference Co-organizers 7:30–8:00 P.M. Performance/Reading: Maya Chinchilla
8:00–9:00 P.M. Reception THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 9:30–10:45 A.M. Panel 1: Community, Family, and Nation Chair: Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.313 · Sonja Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Organized Crime at Mexico’s Southern border: Street Gangs, Maras, and Drug-trafficking Organizations · Steven Osuna, University of California, Santa Barbara Latina/o Encounters: Salvadoran and Mexican Intra-Latina/o Struggles in Los Angeles and Salvadoran-Mexican Subjectivities · Karen Tejada, University of Hartford Transplanting the Organizing Seed: Seasoned Activists and the Transnational Social Field Panel 2: Heterogeneities and Culture Chair: James Cox, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.320 · Karina Oliva, Cal State University Los Angeles (CSULA) Telling Ghost Stories, Exploring a Central American Representation in a Chicana/Latina Narrative · Ariana Vigil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Central American Literature, Journalism, and Discursive Intervention into Latina/o America · Emilio del Valle Escalante, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Discursive Economy of Maya Culturales in Guatemala Panel 3: Local Communities, Economic Pressures Chair: John McKiernan-González, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 · Eduardo Contreras, Hunter College, City University of New York The Newcomers: Central Americans in Postwar San Francisco · Suyapa Portillo, California State University, Northridge Gender, Sexuality, and the Solidarity Movement · David Pedersen, University of California, San Diego Salvadoran Migrant Entrepreneurship and Remittance-led Development as Discursive Moralization of the Present 10:45–11:00 A.M. Coffee break 11:00–12:15 P.M. Héctor Tobar, Journalist and author, Los Angeles Times Latino Identity, a U.S. City, and the American Novel Discussant: John Moran González, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Oscar Casares, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 Lunch break: 2:00–3:15 P.M Panel 4 : New Challenges of Immigration Chair: Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.320 · Tatiana Reinoza Perkins, University of Texas at Austin ¡Somos Nosotros! Victor Cartagena’s Call to the Salvadoran Diaspora · Aurora Chang, Beloit College Latinidad in the Age of Obama Multiraciality: Considering Racial Queerness in Central American–American Identity and Beyond · Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles Temporary Protected Status: Learning about Immigration Laws and Well-Being from Salvadoran Transnational Families Panel 5 : Migrations and Cultural Identities Chair: Shannon Speed, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 · Elsa Hernández Méndez, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala La migración de hoy en el pueblo Mam de Guatemala: Causas, luchas, y retos · Giovanni Batz, University of Texas at Austin Displaced Memories: Recovering and Maintaining Maya Identity and Culture in Los Angeles · Alicia Ivonne Estrada, California State University, Northridge Contacto Ancestral: Maya Voices on Southern California Airwaves Panel 6: Cultural Representations Chair: José Limón, University of Notre Dame SRH 1.313 · Oriel María Siu, University of California, Los Angeles La muerte incompleta en La diáspora de Horacio Castellanos Moya · Nanci Buiza, Emory University Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latino/a America · Verónica Ríos, University of Texas at Austin Pensando la migración afrocentroamericana hacia los Estados Unidos a partir de la novela Limón Reggae (2007) de la costarricense Anacristina Rossi 3:15–3:30 P.M. Coffee break 3:30–4:45 P.M. Domingo Hernández Ixcoy, Maya activist director of Asociacion Maya Uk’ux’b’e Migración y los efectos en la cultura del Pueblo Maya
Chair: Arturo Arias, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 4:45–5:00 P.M. Coffee break 5:00–6:15 P.M. Father Alejandro Solalinde, Pastoral de Movilidad Humana Pacifico Sur del Episcopado Mexicano El migroma humano: El significado de la migración
Discussant: Néstor Rodríguez, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 9:30–10:45 A.M. Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz Historicizing the Invisible Central American
Chair: John Moran González, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 11:45–11:00 A.M. Coffee break 11:00–12:15 P.M. Claudia Milian, Duke University U.S. Central Americans and the Latino/a Economy of Brownness Discussant: Arturo Arias, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Lorraine Leu, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 Lunch break 2:00–3:15 P.M. Panel 7: Immigrant Imaginaries Chair: Cary Cordova, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.320 · Yajaira Padilla, University of Kansas Silvio Sirias’s Meet Me under the Ceiba: Central American Queerness and Inclusion in a U.S.Latino Context · Maritza Cárdenas, University of Arizona Are Central American–Americans Latina/o Subjects? · Ana Patricia Rodríguez, University of Maryland, College Park Poetic Reparations: Violence, Impunity, and Immigration in the Central American Diaspora Panel 8: Transnational Activisms and Their Consequences Chair: Charles Hale, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.313 · Charles Brockett, Sewanee: The University of the South Implications of U.S. Public Opinion for Latino/a Immigrants · Héctor Perla Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz Monseñor Romero’s Resurrection: Transnational Salvadoran Organizing and Counter public Mobilization · Norma Stoltz-Chinchilla, California State University, Long Beach Families Separated by Borders: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Mothers and the Children They Leave Behind Panel 9: Social Reconfigurations Chair: Gloria González-Lopez, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 · Allison Ramírez, University of Texas at Austin The New Disappeared: Migration Narratives in El Salvador, Policy Responses, and Avenues for Activism · Marco Mojica, University of California, Santa Cruz Nicaraguans in Miami · Thomas Boerman The Use of Expert Witnesses in Central American and Mexican Gang and Gender-Based Asylum Claims 3:15–3:30 P.M. Coffee break 3:30–4:45 P.M. Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University The Power of the Law: Central Americans’ Legality in Everyday Life Discussant: Gloria González-López, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Néstor Rodríguez, University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 5:00–6:30 P.M. 1.402 Student Activity Center Tickets required
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 9:30–10:45 A.M. Panel 10: Representing Citizenship Benson Latin American Collection 2nd Floor Conference Room, SRH Unit 1 Chair: Ben V. Olguín, University of Texas at San Antonio · Arely Zimmerman, University of Southern California Locating Central Americans in Theories of Latino Citizenship
· Cristina Metz, University of Texas at Austin Border Crossing, the Next Generation: Immigrants and Hyphenated Y ouths in El norte and Wassup Rockers · Ester Hernández, California State University, Los Angeles Political Subjects: The Salvadoran Civil War through Film Panel 11 : Ethnographies of Displacement Chair: Rebecca Torres, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.320 · Edward Shore, University of Texas at Austin Tomorrow Triumphant: Mam Mayan War Refugees and Guerrillas in Chiapas, 1980–1996 · Lindsay Carte, University of Texas at Austin Everyday Restriction, Low-level Bureaucrats, and Central American Immigrant Belonging on the Mexico-Guatemala Border · Milton R. Machuca, Pitzer College In Search of Central Americans in the U.S.: Contextualizing the Ethnographic Record Panel 12: The Spaces for Memory Chair: Gabriela Polit, University of Texas at Austin SRH 1.313 · Jennifer Cárcamo, University of California, Los Angeles Contesting Theories of Belonging, Membership, and Political Participation among First and Second Generation Salvadoran Y outh in the U.S. and Its Implications for the Salvadoran NationState … [Message clipped] View entire message |
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