Xánath Caraza
From October 23 – 25, 2014 in Kansas City, the Latina/Latino Studies Program (LLS), University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) will host and organize the NACCS Midwest Focus: Latin@s in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future. The conference theme–Latin@s in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future–recognizes the rich historical and growing presence of Latin@s in this region. Our goal is to promote awareness and further develop knowledge and analysis of historic, current, and future developments that impact the Latin@ population.
Keynote Presenters:
Dr. Alberto Pulido: “Everything Comes from the Streets” Documentary on Lowrider Culture
Dr. Rogelio Saenz: “Demographics: Latinos in the Midwest”
Dr. Rusty Barcelo: “Navigating Our Midwest Latina/o Journey in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future”.
Latina/Latino Studies Program at UMKC
The mission of Latina/Latino Studies (LLS), a program based in the College of Arts and Sciences, is to function as a vehicle for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teaching, research and outreach focusing on Latinas/os-Chicanas/os in the U. S. The LLS program will provide an awareness and understanding of the wide diversity of Latino communities, cultures and backgrounds. The development and expansion of our curricula will serve to empower our students with the concepts and skills to better understand a rapidly growing Latina/o population. The LLS program will engage students, scholars and the greater Kansas City community in collaborative projects, programs and service learning efforts. These efforts will foster new curricula and advance research and outreach scholarship to create new knowledge to better understand the cultural, economic, and historical experiences and contributions of U. S. Latinas/os-Chicanas/os and their diasporic origins.
EL PROGRAMA
THURSDAY OCTOBER 23, 2014 |
4:30-6:00 REGISTRATION –STUDENT UNION THEATER FOYER
5:30- WELCOME
Leo Morton, Chancellor
Miguel Carranza, Latina/Latino Studies
Theresa Torres, NACCS
Juan Betancourt, ALAS
6:00 Introduction to the Video: Everything Comes from the Streets
7:00 Question / Answer Session with Alberto Pulido, Director and Co-Producer and Rigo Reyes, Co-Producer
7:30 RECEPTION SU THEATER FOYER
Low Rider Car Display Administration Bldg Parking Lot – Cherry Street
FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 2014
9:00—5:00 REGISTRATION STUDENT UNION (SU) THEATER FOYER
10:00-11:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session 1.1 Moderator: Room Bloch 211
ROUNDTABLE: Gustavo Carlo, Sarah Killoren Francisco Palermo Katharine Zeiders and Cara Streit
TITLE: Socializing Agents and Experiences Associated with Latino/a Children and Youth Well-being
Session 1.2 Moderator: Viviana Grieco Room Bloch #212
ROUNDTABLE: Valerie Mendoza, María Torrez Anderson, Fatima Rodríguez Al-Makhim, Christina
Valdivia-Alcalá
TITLE: Chicana Testimonios: Growing up Chicana in Kansas, Three Generations of Experience
Session 1.3 Moderator: Morgan McMichen Room Bloch 213
ROUNDTABLE: María Vásquez Boyd, José Faus, Miguel Morales
TITLE: The Latino Writers Collective: Creating and Sustaining a Community of Writers, Advocates, and Educators
Session 1.4 Moderator: Erica Hernandez Scott Room SU 302
WORKSHOP: Judy Ancel and Saira Gordillo
TITLE: They Just Cut Our Program’s Budget. Now What Do We Do?
11:30-12:00 POSTER SESSION SU Theater Foyer
Victoria Santiago & Claritsa Santiago
TITLE: ESL Misconceptions: Making a Good Program Even Stronger.
Jessica Rodas
TITLE: An Evaluation of Organizations in Kansas City in Improving the Health of the Latino/Hispanic Community.
Joseph Salazar and Idaima
TITLE: Assessing Obesity of Latino Children in Southwest Kansas via Ventanilla de Salud para Niños
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-1:30 POSTER SESSION SU Theater Foyer
1:30-3:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2
Session 2.1 Moderator: DJ Ferman Room Bloch 211
ROUNDTABLE: April Bermudez & Matthew García
TITLE: (dis)Placed Ecologies, (dis)Placed Communities: Social Art Practice and the Homeland
Session 2.2 Moderator: Jessica Rodas Room Bloch 212
ROUNDTABLE: Patricia Alvarez-McHatton, Dea Bermudez-Marx, and Erica Hernandez-Scott
TITLE: Maestras: Past, Present, and Future
Session 2.3 Moderator: Morgan McMichen Room Bloch 213
READING: Xanath Caraza, Natalia Treviño and Minerva Margarita Villarreal
TITLE: La Poetry en el Midwest y en México: Chicanas/Mexicanas con Ganas
Session 2.4 Moderator: Jorge Palomares SGA Chambers/SU
ROUNDTABLE: Moises Orozco, Eduardo Coronel, Daniel Muñoz, Jonathan Mendoza, Wendy Ramírez, Angeles Rivera-Centeno, Alberto Jimenez
TITLE: Meaningful Connections between Latina/o students at a Community College in Illinois
Session 2.5 Moderator: Vanessa Aguilar Room SU 302
TITLE: Researching Women and Gender in the Midwest
Linda Garcia Merchant: Five Layers Of Performance Art: Creating the Films, ‘An Evening with La Tess”
Andres Lazaro Lopez: A Conceptual Note on Latino Professionals: The Future of Latina/O Scholarship On Paid Labor
Kandace Creel Falcón: Railroad Settlement Narratives: Invisibility And Chicana Feminist Interpretations Of Mexican Women’s Representations in Early 20th Century Kansas
BREAK
3:15-4:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3
Session 3.1 Moderator: Norma Cantu Room Bloch 211
Panel: Gloria Anzaldúa
Visnja Vujin: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Female Borderland Identities in Sandra Cisneros’ Fiction
Sarah Becker: Beyond Borderlands: Spiritual Mining and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1943-2004
Norma E. Cantú, Vanessa Aguilar Maritza Fernandez: Researching Latina Traditional Culture in Kansas City: An Anzaldúa Third Space feminist Approach
Session 3.2 Moderator: Patrica A. McHatton Room Bloch 212
ROUNDTABLE: Randy López, Jackie Madrigal
TITLE: ¿Qué hiciste en la escuela hoy?: How High Schools Can Make Meaningful Connections with Spanish-Speaking Households and Get Them College-Ready
Session 3.3 Moderator: Morgan McMichen Room Bloch 213
ROUNDTABLE/READING: Elizabeth Martinez, Xanath Caraza, Andres Rodríguez
TITLE: Gathering Words: A Special issue of Diálogo
Session 3.4 Moderator: Amelia Montes Room SU 302
Panel: Brown Mujeres Navigating Predominantly White Midwest Spaces
Belinda Acosta: Brown Body: White Faces: The Brown Female Body as Authority Figure in The Predominantly White Classroom
Bernice Oliva: Naming The Whole World A Borderland: Performance of the Teacher Self
Amelia Montes: Directing an Ethnic Studies Program in the Midwest: Challenges and Successes
4:45-5:00 BREAK
5:00-5:30 FEATURED SESSION SU Theater
POETRY READING BY MINERVA MARGARITA VILLARREAL
5:30- Plenary Talk SU Theater
Dr. Rogelio Sáenz, Dean, College of Public Policy, University of Texas at San Antonio
Title: Latinos and the Changing Demography of the Heartland: Implications for the Future of the Midwest
7:30 RECEPTION SU THEATER FOYER
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25, 2014
8:00—11:00 REGISTRATION— STUDENT UNION FOYER
8:30 A.M. BUSINESS MEETING SU Theater
9:00-10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4
Session 4.1 Moderator: Jessica Rodas Bloch 218
Panel: Education Matters
Heather Hathaway Miranda: ¡Sí Se Pudo! ¿Sí Se Pudo? Latina/Latino Student Activists in The 1990s
Hannah K. Noel: Developing a Responsible Pedagogy
Uzziel Pecina: Leadership for English-Language-Learner Programs: Uniting Policies, Practices, and Parents to Support Secondary Students
Session 4.2 Moderator: Alice R. Bloch 213
Panel: Chicana Studies at Kansas State University
Yolanda Broyles-González:
TITLE: Jenni Rivera Enacting Mujerismo (Womanism): Change And Continuity Of The Oral Tradition
Isabel Millá
TITLE: Engineering Chicana Heroism In Border Dystopian Sci-Fi Film
Norma A. Valenzuela
TITLE: The Evolution Of A Transnational Imaginary In United States Latina Drama: Mujeres In Search Of “Home”
Session 4.3 Moderator: Alberto Villalmandos Bloch 324
READING: Miguel M. Morales, Ruben Quesada, Joseph Salazar
TITLE: Queridos: Midwestern Gay Latino Poets
Session 4.4. Moderator: Theresa Torres SU 302
WORKSHOP: José García
TITLE: West Side Chronicles - City Life Chicano Style
Session 4.5 Moderator: SGA Chambers
ROUNDTABLE: Gabriela Díaz Sabates and Marcelo Sabates
TITLE: Reshaping the Multicultural Landscape at a Midwestern University
10:30 BREAK
10:45 CLOSING PLENARY
Dr. Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, President, Northern New Mexico College
TITLE: Navigating our Midwest Latin@ Journey in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future
Reyna Grande in Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Emporia State University, Keynote Speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Banquet 2014, October 15
Las Esmeraldas, ESU |
Gregory Robinson, Ph. D., Xanath Caraza, Kevin Rabas, Ph. D., ESU |
During my keynote at Emporia State University |
University of North Georgia: “Exploring Linguistic Diversity among Latinas”, October 7 – 8
Univesity of North Georgia, Dahlonega Campus, lunch with LASO |
After lunch with Alvaro Torres, Ph. D. and Maria Guadalupe Calatayud, Ph. D. with LASO students |
University of North Georgia, Dahlonega Campus |
University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus, LSA |
Festival del Libro y la Palabra, Acapulco en su Tinta 2014, October 9 – 11
Before my poetry presentation |
My poem "Frente al mar" |
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Dr. Theresa Torres |
Kansas City Chican@s are celebrating el otoño with a bang. Firstly, this year’s Community Outreach Award granted by Guadalupe Centers, Inc. went to Dr. Theresa Torres, who has a long trajectory in Kansas City. Next, NACCS will have its Midwest Focus Conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and Sílabas de viento/Syllables of Wind has its debut in Kansas City as well.
Dr. Theresa Torres |
Associate Professor Theresa Torres, Ph.D., of UMKC, has recently received the Dr. Thomas E. Purcell Award for her outstanding contributions to the Guadalupe Centers,Inc. at the Blanco y Negro Annual Awards Gala in Kansas City, MO.
The award is given in recognition of the man {or woman} who impacted the growth of the Westside community in the early 1900s. Purcell was concerned about the plight of the growing Mexican immigrant community and dedicated much of his life to improving the quality of life of Kansas City’s new arrivals.
Torres has served on the Guadalupe Center Board for ten years including three years as the Board secretary and Program Committee Chair. She currently serves on the Guadalupe Educational System (Charter School) Board and is chair of the Curriculum Committee. The fund raised each year at the gala benefit the Guadalupe Center and to honor outstanding individuals who have contributed to the growth and development of the center and the Latino Community of Kansas City, MO.
She has been a professor at the University of Missouri for nine years and has taught a variety of courses since she is an interdisciplinarian, which means she has diverse research and scholarship from a number of fields: Race and Ethnicity, Latina Latino Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and Religious Studies. Currently she is teaching two classes on Latina/o Studies with a focus on immigration. She also engages students in community service learning projects and internships. She places students in projects that serve the inner city by having them working with non-profit agencies or participate in research projects studying the community. She serves on several boards for non-profit groups and previously worked with non-profit agencies, particularly the Guadalupe Center Inc. and Guadalupe Education System School Board that serve the Latina/o community of Kansas City. As a scholar, she has direct contact on a regular basis with the urban populations of Latina/os in the Midwest.
Muchas felicidades Theresa!
In Other News
NACCS Midwest Focus: Latin@s in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future in Kansas City
Keynote Presenters:
Dr. Alberto Pulido: "Everything Comes From the Streets" Documentary on Lowrider Culture
Dr. Rogelio Saenz: "Demographics: Latinos in the Midwest"
Dr. Rusty Barceló: "Navigating Our Midwest Latina/o Journey in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future"
Latina/Latino Studies Program at UMKC
The mission of Latina/Latino Studies (LLS), a program based in the College of Arts and Sciences, is to function as a vehicle for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teaching, research and outreach focusing on Latinas/os-Chicanas/os in the U.S. The LLS program will provide an awareness and understanding of the wide diversity of Latino communities, cultures and backgrounds. The development and expansion of our curricula will serve to empower our students with the concepts and skills to better understand a rapidly growing Latina/o population. The LLS program will engage students, scholars and the greater Kansas City community in collaborative projects, programs and service learning efforts. These efforts will foster new curricula and advance research and outreach scholarship to create new knowledge to better understand the cultural, economic, and historical experiences and contributions of U.S. Latinas/os-Chicanas/os and their diasporic origins.
With a full house on September 12, 2014 at The Writers Place Juanita Salazar Lamb and I had a poetry and narrative presentation. What a delightful evening and gracias a nuestra Arkansan Chicana for being part or the Riverfront Reading Series. Here are a couple of photos of the event.
Juanita Salazar Lamb at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO |
Xanath Caraza at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO |
Finally, on September 15 Sílabas de viento/Syllables of Wind (Mammoth Publications, 2014) was released. Thank you to Park University’s Ethnic Vocies Poetry Series, Woodneath Library and New Letters on the Air, hosted by Angela Elam for hosting this event. Great evening and audience. Lastly, my upcoming appearances in September will be starting today at Carver Dual Language Elementary School, where I will share some poesía y cuento as part of their month long celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Next, I will participate in the reading at the Raven Bookstore on September 26 as part of the Big Tent Reading Series. Then on September 30 at the University of Kansas I will have another poetry reading as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. The Raven Bookstore and KU events will be in Lawrence, KS. Viva la poesía!
Xanath Caraza and Angela Elam, Ethinic Voices Poetry Series and New Letters on the Air |
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