National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies Midwest Conference is on my mind (NACCS), Kansas City, MO 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
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