2016 MALCS Summer Institute

University of Wyoming

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Preliminary Program

Wednesday August 3

Writing Workshop 2:00-5:00 PM
(First Interstate Room- Gateway Center)

MALCS for Beginners 5:00-6:00 PM
(Boyd Conference Room- Gateway Center)

An interactive presentation about the herstory of MALCS; everyone is invited regardless of how long they have belonged to MALCS!

MALCS Opening Reception 6:00-9:00 PM
(Centennial Complex – Art Museum)

Thursday August 4th

Session One: 9:00- 10:15 AM

Let Me Expand Your Notion of Me: Literary Analysis of Gilb, Viramontes, and Romero
(Room A- Gateway Center)

Alexandra Mendoza Covarrubias, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Dime lo que lees y te diré lo que crees: A Xicana Feminist Reading of Dagoberto Gilb’s The Flowers 

Luz Minerva Jiménez, Stanford University

Ghosts, Lost and Moving in Helena María Viramontes’s ‘The Cariboo Café’

 

Ay, Ay, Ay, AAAYYYY Canta y Sí Lloren: Corridos and Folklórico in Xicana Culture
(Room B- Gateway Center)

Trisha Martínez, University of New Mexico

The Rhythms of Folklórico in Wyoming

Anel Bravo, California State University – Northridge

Negritas de mi pesares: Understanding Power and Gender in Folklórico

Teresita Lozano, University of Colorado Boulder

Songs for the Ghosts: Cristero Corridos and Immigration Religio-politics

 

We Are Gonna Be Alright:  Decolonizing our Methodologies and Minds
(Room C- Gateway Center)

Brenda Sendejo, Southwestern University

Spiritual Activist Pedagogies and Methodologies: Oral History as Recovery, Healing, and Resistance

Ann Marie Leimer, Midwestern State University

Lengua, Mano, Alma: Reading the Decolonial in the Work of Viviana Paredes

Nidia Moran Canales, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Decolonizing Mental Health

 

MALCS For Beginners
(Room DE – Gateway Center)

An interactive presentation about the herstory of MALCS; everyone is invited regardless of how long they have belonged to MALCS!

 

Chicanas in Latina/o Communication Studies: Creating Interdisciplinary Forms of Conocimiento, Decolonized Knowledge Production, and Activism
(Boyd Conference Room – Gateway Center)

Mari Castañeda, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

Sonya M. Alemán, University of Texas at San Antonio

Flor Olivo, University of Utah

Elena Esquibel, Shoreline Community College – Washington

Stephanie Gomez, University of Utah

 

Anzaldúan Methodologies: “Epistemological and Pedagogical Implications in Recovering Indigenous, Healing Knowledge(s) for Transforming our Communities”
(First Interstate Room – Gateway Center)

Elisa Facio, Eastern Washington University

Nancy Emilce Carvajal Medina, Washington State University – Pullman

 

Session Two: 10:30- 11:45 AM

Because in Order to Be an Oak You Must Have Strong Roots: Affirmation of Indigenous Knowledge and the Reclamation of History
(Room A – Gateway Center)

Inés Talamantez, University of California Santa Barbara

We Now Speak for Ourselves: the Aesthetics of Native American Chanting, Singing, and Dancing

Felicia López, University of California Santa Barbara

Setting the Record Straight about Tlahuizcalpanteuctli: Using Nahuatl Texts to Challenge Western Misrepresentations of Indigenous Culture

Cynthia Vazquez, University of California San Diego

Breaking Borders in the Borderlands: Kumeyaay Nation Carving Out Spaces in Schools

 

Trenzando and Creating Space: Xicana/Latinx Expression, Visibility and Empowerment in Online Spaces
(Room B – Gateway Center)

Trenzas Feminist Collective:

Julia Gutiérrez

Mayra Salgado

Brenda Rodríguez

Bianca Galvez

 

We Are Here, We Are Undocuqueer, We’ll Make You Get Used to It: Identity Formation, Queerness, and the New Generation of Undocumented Youth
(Room C- Gateway Center)

Jennifer R. Najera, University of California Riverside

From DREAMer to Unafraid: The Shifting Politics of Undocumented Student Identity

Liliana Ramírez, University of California Riverside

Intersecting Identities: The Experience of Coming Out as UndocuQueer

Linda Velasco, San Francisco State University

¡Viva Inez!: At the Intersections of Incarceration, Migration, and Queerness

 

Issues of National Identity, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Sexuality, and Ability – Chican@s in Text: A Cross Analysis of Chican@s in Children’s Books and in Texts Used in Higher Education
(Room DE- Gateway Center)

Maria Elena Salazar, New Mexico State University

Cynthia Cortez, St. Phillips College

 

Navigating Wild Apricot, Social Media, and Membership in MALCS
(Boyd Conference – Gateway Center)

Vanessa Fonseca, Arizona State University

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Arizona State University

 

LUNCH: 12:00-1:30
On your own

 

Plenary Session One 1:30- 3:00
Room A and B – Gateway Center

 

Session Three: 3:15-4:30 pm

Chicana HErstory is Presente! So Just Deal
(Room B- Gateway Center)

Kandace Creel Falcon, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Decolonizing the Archive Through Challenging Narrow Representations: Mexican Women’s Lives in Early 20th Century Kansas

Virginia Sánchez, Author

Captives and Captivity in Southern Colorado: A Historical View of Gender and Culture

 

WAKE UP Presents: Continuing Border Herstory in the Anzaldúan Tradition
(Room C- Gateway Center)

Gladys Ornelas, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Amalia Ortiz, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Laura Lee Oviedo, Texas A&M University

Amanda Victoria Ramírez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Verónica Solís, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

 

Curanderismo: Subverting the Impact of Modernity Through Ancestral Healing Traditions
(Room DE- Gateway Center)

Sandra Pacheco, California Institute of Integral Studies

 

Sex and the Virgin: Unfolding Messages Within the Virgen de Guadalupe
(Boyd Conference Room- Gateway Center)

Felicitas Nuñez

 

Publishing in Chicana/Latina Studies: Una Plática with the Editors
(First Interstate Room- Gateway Center)

 

Caucus Meetings 4:45 – 6:00pm

 LBTQ Caucus

Room A – Gateway Center

Women’s Indigenous Native Caucus (WINC)

Room B– Gateway Center

Undergraduate Student Caucus 

Room C – Gateway Center

Graduate Student Caucus 

Room DE – Gateway Center

 Friday August 5th  

Session Four: 9:00- 10:15 AM

You Say SB 1070, You say WALL…I Say Racism: Counternarratives of Our Historia
(Room A – Gateway Center)

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Arizona State University

‘Making Home’ Amidst Exclusionary Practices and Other Microaggressions: Strategies

from South Phoenix

Angelica “Pickels” Camacho, University of California Riverside

Breeding Delinquents: Policing and Criminalizing Latinas through the Moral Panic of the Mafioso

 

Check One Two, One Two: TESTIMONIOS on the Microphone
(Room B- Gateway Center)

Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda, University of Illinois at Chicago

Educated and Venerated: An Educated Latina Voice as a Survivor of Domestic Abuse

Adilia Torres, California Institute of Integral Studies

CIELO: Testimonios of the Queer Breasted Experience

Ana Vega Ambriz, University of Delaware

Fragmented Identity Through the Process of Migrating

 

Chicana Feminist Praxis on the “Frontier”: Teaching and Researching in Vast Spaces
(Room C – Gateway Center)

Kandace Creel Falcon, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Norma A. Valenzuela, Kansas State University

Marivel Danielson, Arizona State University

Cecelia Aragón, University of Wyoming

 

Arts Poética: Conjunctive Dialogue with Melissa Bennett, M.Div. and Dr. Elena Avilés
(Room DE – Gateway Center)

Melissa Bennett, M. Div.

Elena Avilés, Portland State University

 

Do It-Yourself Stencil Art: Creating Visibility Through Guerilla Art
(Boyd Conference – Gateway Center)

Dora López, California State University Northridge

Laura Araujo, Independent Scholar

Martha Bueno, California State University Northridge

Martha Martínez, California State University Northridge

 

Writing Workshop
>(First Interstate Room- Gateway Center)

 

Session Five: 10:30- 11:45 AM

You Don’t Get to Tell Me Who I Am:  Decolonizing, Redefining, and Deconstructing Hegemony in Collective Memory
(Room A – Gateway Center)

Margarita Elena del Carmen Pignataro, Bloomsburg University

Artist Rachel Smith: Redefining Identity Cubana Style

Margarita T. Barceló, University of California – San Diego

Comiendo lumbre/Eating Fire:  Deconstructing Ideologies of the West in Poetic Discourse

Gabriela Serrano, Angelo State University

The Use of Spanglish as Latina Grotesque 

 

The Holy Trinity: Capitalism, Gender, and Race. An Examination of How It Functions, What It Feels Like to Be Affected By It, and How One Can Utilize It
(Room B- Gateway Center)

Sharon Navarro, University of Texas at San Antonio

‘Liberal Leticia’: Leticia Van de Putte and the Race for Texas Lt. Governor

Eden Torres, University of Minnesota

Treacherous Intoxicants: Capitalism and the Differential Valuing of Human Beings

 

They Say Jump, You Say “Nah, I’m Cool”: Questioning and Navigating Spaces
(Room C – Gateway Center)

Griselda Madrigal Lara

Undocumented Scholars: Exploring the Barriers and Support Systems that Undocumented Latina/o Students Face While Navigating a Predominantly White Institution

Jean Aguilar-Valdez, Portland State University

No Puedes Poseer Mi Ciencia: Chicana Feminisms to Decolonize STEM

Mariela Eugenia Hernández, New Mexico State University

Chilaquiles Recipe, or, How My Mother Routinely Stole Food as a Child

 

Cooking as a Liberatory Practice: Food, Community, Decolonial Agency and Memory
(Room DE – Gateway Center)

Anna V. Muñoz-Garza, University of Utah

Elizabeth Silva, University of Utah

Adeli Ynostroza Ochoa, University of Utah

Liliana Castrellón, University of Utah

Andrea Vázquez, University of California Santa Cruz

Andrea Hernández, University of Utah

 

Navigating Wild Apricot, Social Media, and Membership in MALCS
(Boyd Conference – Gateway Center)

Vanessa Fonseca, Arizona State University

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Arizona State University

 

Writing Workshop
(First Interstate Room – Gateway Center)

 

Intergenerational Healing: Decolonizing Our Spirits, Bodies, and Corazones
(Dyekman Conference – Gateway Center)

Alejandra López, University of California Berkeley

Paulina Acosta-Ruiz, University of California Berkeley

Pilar Manriquez, University of California Berkeley

 

LUNCH: 12:00-1:30
On your own

 

Plenary Session Two 1:30- 3:00
Room A and B – Gateway Center

 

Session Six: 3:15- 4:30 pm

They Say Jump, You Say “Nah, I’m cool”: Questioning and Navigating Spaces in Education
(Ballroom A- Gateway Center)

Maria de Lourdes Viloria, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas

Social Justice Leadership: A South Texas Principal’s Story

Heidi M. Coronado, California Lutheran University

Counseling Con Corazón: Resiliency Circle Framework and Its Impact on First Generation High School and College Students

Yesenia Fernández, Lynwood Unified School District- Director

Raquel Mendia Nuñez

A Thin Line Between Assimilation and Resistance: English Language Development and Long­term English Learners

 

Engaging Borderlands Methodology in Our Work: Moving Toward Transformative Educational Spaces
(Room B- Gateway Center)

Anna V. Muñoz-Garza, University of Utah

Elizabeth Silva, University of Utah

Analis Carattini-Ruiz, University of Utah

Kona Eldredge, University of Utah

Adeli Ynostroza Ochoa, University of Utah

Eugene Tachinni, University of Utah

Liliana Castrellón, University of Utah

Brianda Galeana, University of Utah

 

My Body is Not Your Grenade: Gender, Terror, and Sexuality
(Room C- Gateway Center)

Daisy Herrera, California State University – Los Angeles

No Mas Bebes! Latina Sexuality and Immigration Control in Los Angeles, California 1900’s to Present Day

Gabriela Diaz de Sebatés, Kansas State University

Speaking the Unspeakable: Women, Feminism, and State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970’s and 1980’s

Yvette J. Saavedra, California State University – San Bernardino

Living la Mala Vida: Gender Propriety, Morality, and Nationalism in Mexican Los Angeles

 

Creating Hackerspaces: Social Uses of Social Media Tools for MALCS
(Room DE- Gateway Center)

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

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Arizona State University

Audrey Silvestre, University of California Los Angeles

Isabel Millán

 

Bruja-Curandera Knowledge: Healing Trauma Using Spirituality
(Boyd Conference Room – Gateway Center)

Dora López

Aranzazu Medellín Guerrero

Stephanie Domingo

Martha Bueno

Martha Martínez

 

Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Chicana/Latina Women Navigating the Graduate Experience
(First Interstate Room – Gateway Center)

Blanca Gamez-Djokic, University of California Berkeley

Evelyn Rojo, University of California Berkeley

Lupe Gallegos Díaz, University of California Berkeley

 

Caucus Meetings 4:45 – 6:00pm

LBTQ Caucus

Room A – Gateway Center

Women’s Indigenous Native Caucus (WINC)

Room B – Gateway Center

Undergraduate Student Caucus

Room C – Gateway Center

Graduate Student Caucus 

Room DE – Gateway Center

 Saturday, August 6th

 Session Seven: 9:00- 10:15 AM

Choosing Your Medicine, Finding Your Healing
(Ballroom A – Union)

Lalis Vásquez, California Institute of Integral Studies

Dolores Avila, California Institute of the Integral Studies

 

Check One Two, One Two: TESTIMONIOS on the Microphone Super Special Deluxe Edition with Rims
(Ballroom B/C- Union)

Jean Aguilar Valdez, Portland State University

¡¿Y Qué Más Quieren, Mi Sangre!?: Institutional Violence, Trauma, Invisibility, y la Mujer  Cansada

Norma Lira Pérez, University of Wyoming

Inmigrantes en el estado de igualdad: Mujeres at the Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Work

 

Decolonizing and Connecting Mind, Body and Spirit: Healing Historical Trauma Through Indigenous Pedagogies
(Family Room- Union)

Heidi Coronado, California Lutheran University

Silvia Toscano, University of California Santa Barbara

 

Creating Community and Creating Funds:  Insights on the 2015 Chican@ Latin@ Alumni Legacy Celebration at the University of California, Berkeley
(Senate Chambers- Union)

Lupe Gallegos-Díaz, University of California Berkeley

Evelyn Rojo, University of California Berkeley

 

Translating Touch in the Medical Encounter: Latina Testimonios of Cuerpo y Corazón
(Big Horn Room- Union)

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Arizona State University

Marivel Danielson, Arizona State University

 

Remembering Your Medicine
(Warm Valley- Union)

Eutimia Montoya

 

Doubleweaving to Decolonize:  A Conversation on Indigeneity, Xicanisma and Identity
(Flaming Gorge- Union)

Sandra Huerta, Kansas State University

Marilyn Ortega, University of Kansas

Maria Ruiz, Kansas State University

 

Session Eight: 10:30- 11:45 AM

Epistemologies of Educational Leadership: Mujeres Engaging in Critical Pedagogy in Educational Leadership
(Ballroom A- Union)

Rebeca Burciaga, San José State University

Nereida Oliva, University of Utah

Blanca Baltázar-Sabbah, San José State University

Adriana Rangela, San José State University

Noralee Jasso, San José State University

 

Decolonizing Our Identities: Ni de aquí ni de allá
(Ballroom B/C- Union)

Diana López, New Mexico State University

Alejandra Lerma-Ortiz, New Mexico State University

Leslie Montañez-Hernández, New Mexico State University

 

Chicana Autoethnography and Conocimiento: Negotiating Narratives of Trauma and Healing
(Family Room- Union)

Josie Méndez-Negrete, University of Texas at San Antonio

Mariana Zaragoza, University of Texas at San Antonio

Sarah Castillo

 

Wind River Reservation Issues Panel 
(Senate Chambers- Union)

 

The Power to Change Heteropatriarchal Institutional Violence
(Big Horn Room- Union)

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

Audrey Silvestre, University of California Los Angeles

Nadia Zepeda, University of California Los Angeles

Clarrissa Rojas, University of California Los Angeles

Antonia Castañeda, Independent Scholar

Michelle Téllez, University of Arizona

 

Chicana Herstory
(Warm Valley – Union)

Marielena Ramírez

  

Chican@s Negotiating the Borderlands: Subjectivity, Indigeneity, and Political Consciousness in Literary and Historiographic Analysis
(Flaming Gorge- Union)

Crystal Bustamante, Texas A&M University

 

LUNCH: 12:00-1:30
On your own

 

Plenary Session Three 1:30 – 3:00
Ballroom A – Union

 

Session Nine: 3:15-4:30 pm

Decolonial Imaginaries through Art, Performance, Method, and Reception
(Ballroom A- Union)

Karen Mary Davalos, University of Minnesota

María Olivia Davalos Stanton, Stanford University

Dianna Marisol Santillano, California State University – Los Angeles

 

Chicana Feminist Editorial Leadership at a Chicana/o Newspaper: Testimonios of Venceremos Female Editors
(Family Room- Union)

Sonya M. Alemán, University of Texas at San Antonio, Venceremos editor

Flor Olivo, University of Utah, Venceremos editor

Tory Morales, Venceremos editor

Camila Cardoza, Venceremos editor

Adriana García, University of Utah, Venceremos editor

Stephany Murguia, Venceremos editor

Jasmine Fierro, Venceremos editor

 

La descolonización y reconstrucción de la oralidad,y el habla en un contexto feminista
(Senate Chambers- Union)

Cecilia Piñón, New Mexico State University

Alma Hernandez, New Mexico State University

 

My Blood Runs Through Your Raised Fists: Literary Analyses of Giants Past and Present
(Big Horn- Union)

Amanda Ellis, Rice University

Post-Movement Thresholds: Healing, Transformation the Figure of the Curandera

Marcelle Maese Cohen, University of San Diego

Borderlands Profundo: Rehearing Aztecas del Norte Through Flor y Canto

 

From Ancestors to Action: Native American Women Protecting their Land and Defending Their Existence
(Warm Valley- Union)

Sandra M. Pacheco, California Institute of Integral Studies

Majal Logan, California Institute of Integral Studies

 

MALCS BUSINESS Meeting 4:45 – 6:00pm
Family Room – Union

 

TORTUGA DINNER- 6:30pm
Ballroom – Union

 

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