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
