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Thursday 8:30am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm Mountain Standard Time

Friday 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm Mountain Standard Time.

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PROGRAM

 Thursday, July 22nd        Location:  AE Building, 424 N. Central Avenue, ASU Downtown

8:30 – 8:45        Welcome: Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes and Dr. Gloria H. Cuádraz, Co-Chairs, Site Committee, New College, Arizona State         University
 
8:45- 9:00          Opening Prayer:  Belen Stoneman, Pima
 
9:00-9:05           Introduction:  Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes
 
9:05-9:30           Keynotes:  Dr. Keta Miranda, Chair, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social and Associate Professor, UT San Antonio
        Mujer Indígena Anónima Zapoteca, Madres Indígenas
 
9:30-10:00         Break: Refreshments
 
10:00-12:00       Voices of Resistance: Arizona Actions Against SB 1070
                             Speaker: Linda Brown, Director, Arizona Advocacy Network
  “Capitol 9” Students:  Justine Garcia; Gregorio Montes de Oca; David Portugal; Rubén Lucio.
   Moderator:  Dr. Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies (TCLS), ASU
 
12:00-1:00          Lunch (provided with advance registration)
 
1:00-3:00            Human Rights, Education, and the Dream Act: Navigating the Shifting Terrains
                Speaker: Delia Salvatierra, Immigration Attorney
                Speaker:  Isabel G. Garcia, Pima County Legal Defender
   Speaker:  Dr. Luis Plascencia, Assistant Professor, ASU
   Speaker: Silvia Rodriguez, Artist
                Moderator: Julie Amparano, Lecturer and Playwright, ASU
 
3:00-3:30            Break: Refreshments
Location:  ASU Cronkite School of Journalism Building: 555 N. Central;
gather at First Amendment Lounge, Mezzanine
 
3:30-5:00            Strategy Sessions:  First Amendment Lounge   
                                        Moderators:  Dr. Seline Szkupinski Quiroga and Dr. Cleopatria Martinez
                                        Facilitators (click for bios)

Dinner on your own
 
 
         Friday, July 23rd           Location:  AE Building, 424 N. Central Avenue, ASU Downtown
 
9:00-9:05         Introduction:  Dr. Gloria Cuádraz, ASU
 
9:05-9:30         Keynote:  Dr. Josie Méndez Negrete, Editor, Chicana/Latina Studies:  The Journal of Mujeres  Activas en Letras y Cambio Social and Associate Professor, UT San Antonio
 
9:30-10:00        Break:  Refreshments
 
10:00-12:00      Interrogating the Politics of Knowledge: Implications of HB 2281   
                                        Speaker:  Augustine F. Romero, Director, Student Equity, Tucson Unified School District
                                        Student Speaker:  Leilani Clark, Tucson Activist Speaker:  
Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes, Associate Professor, ASU
Moderator:  Dr. Cleopatria Martínez, Professor of Mathematics, Phoenix College
 
12:00-1:00        Lunch (provided with advance registration)

1:00-3:00          Labor and Human Rights:  Rallying around Workers’ Issues
                                        Speaker:  Trina Zelle, Director, AZ Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice
Speaker:   Miguel, Trabajador Anónimo
Speaker:  Denisse Roca-Servat, Graduate Student, Justice and Social Inquiry, ASU
Speaker:  Sylvia Herrera, Puente, Centro Macehuali
Moderator: Cristina Sanidad, Graduate Student, Social Justice and Human Rights, ASU
 
3:00-3:15        Break:  Refreshments

3:15-4:00        Strategy Sessions
Location:  Cronkite Building: First Amendment Lounge
Moderator: Dr. Cleopatria Martinez
 
4:00-4:45         Introduction:  Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes and Dr. Gloria Cuádraz
            Closing Keynote:  Rosie López, Founder, Arizona Hispanic Community Forum
                          Location: First Amendment Lounge, Mezzanine
 
4:45-5:45        Buffet Dinner: First Amendment Lounge, Cronkite Building
                                       Entertainment: Mariachi Pasión (lead procession to AE Building)
                                       Book Sales

6:00-8:00 pm    NOCHE de CULTURA: Artists Performing Resistance
                                       Location:  AE Building
                                       Buffet Dessert           

                                  MC:  DIVINE
                                 
                                  Jolyana Bitsuie, Navajo Song
                                  Silvia Rodríguez, Spoken Word Performance
                                  Michelle Ceballos, Dance
                                  Angélica Medina, Dramatic Performance
                                  Arizona’s Award-winning Author: Stella Pope Duarte
              Women Who Live in Coffee Shops (2010); If I Die in Juarez (2008); Let Their Spirits Dance (2003);  Fragile Nights (1997)

 

  Saturday, July 24th    Location:  ASU West Campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road CLCC 158                                                                 

9:30-10:30     Film:  “How to Solve Illegal Immigration”
                         Presenter:  Dr. Cleopatria Martínez, Phoenix College

 10:30-10:45    Break

10:45-12:00    Community Knowledge, Memory, & Educational Struggles

                    Erica Ocegueda: “Como llegué a ASU: How I got here and other Postmodern Stories"

                    Marisol Badilla: "Communal Healing Though Education"

                    Dr.Gloria Cuádraz: “Ethico-Political Dilemmas of a Community Oral History Project: Navigating the Culture of the Corporate University”

12:00-1:30    Lunch Hour Workshop:

                        Stella Pope Duarte: “Feminine Archetypes in Chicano History: La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Guadalupe"

1:30- 2:45  La Mujer y la crítica chicana (This panel is in Spanish)

                 Vanesa Fonseca: “La crítica de Rosaura Sánchez hacia el discurso chicano del siglo XIX”
                 Norma Valenzuela: “Discurso femenino revolucionario: las escritoras de la Revolución mexicana y las primeras escritoras Chicanas”
                 Moderator: Dr. Marta Sánchez, Professor, ASU

2:45-3:00        Break

3:00-4:15    Chicana/o Latina/o Phoenix: The Dynamics of Cultural Health Remedies, Economic (In)Justice and University-Community Bridges

                     Donna Ruiz y Costello: “The Role and Use of Yerberías and Botánicas in Phoenix Latino Neighborhoods”
                     Leigh Anna Hidalgo: “Socio-Spatial Inequalities of Financial Services in Metropolitan Phoenix: A Comparative Study”
                     Amanda Skeen: "A Study and Development of the Transborder Chicana/o Latina/o Student Organizations"
                     Discussant: Dr. Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, TCLS, ASU
                     Moderator: Dr. Eileen Diaz McConnell, TCLS, ASU