2011 Roundtable
2011 ROUNDTABLE ON LATINA FEMINISM
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio April 29-30
SCHEDULE
All sessions* will be held at the ALUMNI LOUNGE, RODMAN HALL 3RD FLOOR
FRIDAY, April 29
9:00-9:15 Van will pick up participants at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, Marriot
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Tea & Pastries
10:00-12:00 On Nepantlismo: Decentering Theoretical Debates through Cultural Productions
Clara Román-Odio, Kenyon College
“Theoretical Debates about Nepantla: Durán, León-Portilla, Medina and Anzaldúa”
Guisela Latorre, The Ohio State University
“Visual Nepantlas: Chicana /Latina Artists and Gloria Anzaldúa
Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson, Whitman College
“Documenting Nepantla: Decolonial Knowledge and Chicana Subjectivity”
Rachael Greenberg, Kenyon College
“Selena’s Market: The Legacy of the Chicana Bordercrosser in America’s CulturalIndustry”
12:00-12:40 Mariana Alessandri, University of Texas, Pan American
“Inhabiting this ‘Third Country’ for the First Time as Second Nature”
1:00-2:30 Lunch at the Dolan Center Atrium (we will walk there together)
2:30-4:00 *Keynote Lecture at Dolan Auditorium
Jacqueline M. Martinez, Arizona State University
“Cultural Specificity and Transcultural Understanding: Latina Feminism and Communicology”
4:15-4:55 Elena Ruiz-Aho, Florida Gulf Coast University
“The Impact of Colonized Languages: Rethinking Multicultural Selfhood Through Colonial Historiography”
4:55-6:15 Undergraduate Panel
María Barbero, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Undocumented Students and the ‘Dream Act’”
Julia Gutierrez, Northeastern Illinois University
“The Impact of Gang Violence on Latinas”
6:30 Van will pick up participants at JCU and take them to Fairfield Inn
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
9:00-9:15 Van will pick up participants at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, Marriot
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Tea & Pastries
10:00-11:30 A Decolonial Mode of Consciousness: praxical thinking in María Lugones’s pilgrimaging / peregrinando
Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University
“Locating Worlds of Sense in the Streetwalker‟s Body”
Pedro Di Pietro, SUNY Binghamton
“Maria Lugones‟s Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes and the thirding of the spatial imagination”
Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University
“Emptied Selves and “Playful „World‟-Travel”
11:30-12:10 Patricia Herrera, University of Richmond
“Conjuring Spirits: Narrating Theatre History through Spirituality”
12:30-2:00 Lunch at the Dolan Center Atrium (we will walk there together)
2:00-3:30 Keynote Lecture
Laura E. Pérez, University of California, Berkeley
“Alterities, Decolonization, and U.S. Women of Color Spirituality in Art, 1980s-2000.
3:45-5:05 Natalie Cisneros, Vanderbilt University
“The Pre-Natal and the Post-Racial: Maternity, Immigration, and Citizenship
Andrea Pitts, University of South Florida
“Rethinking Intersectionality: Alcoff’s Visible Identities, History, and the Self”
5:15-6:15 Workshop: “Familia Tactics: Surviving Cultural Colonization in the Twenty-first Century Academic Setting”
Jessica Artiga, Ana Barba, and Lisbeth Espinosa,
California State University, Los Angeles
6:30 Dinner
THE ROUNDTABLE ON LATINA FEMINISM IS SPONSORED BY THE SHULA PROGRAM IN PHILOSOPHY AT JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY