First Annual

Mexican American History Workshop

“Gender and Sexuality in Mexican American History”

May 2-4, 2002

 

 

 

University of Houston

History Department

 

Facilitators

Deena Gonzalez, Pamona College

David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

 

Schedule

 

Thursday, May 2

Welcome Reception

Bayou Room 202

7pm - 10pm

 

 

Friday, May 3

 

Session #1

University  Center  202

9:00am-11:00am

 

Linda Heidenreich, Washington State University

"The Colonial North: Disruption and Continuity in 19th Century Women’s Social Status Before and After the North American Invasion"

 

Amy Meschke, Southern Methodist University

"Gender and Economics in Borderlands Communities, 1750-1846"

 


 

 

Session #2

University Center 202

2:00pm- 4:00pm

 

Manuel Callahan, University of Texas, Austin

"Gender and War in the Borderlands"

 

Richard T. Rodriguez, California State University, Los Angeles

"Firme Sexualities: Chicano Men and the History of Gay Consciousness, 1969-2000"

 

Saturday, May 4

 

Session #3

University Center 202

9:00am – 11:00am

Catherine S. Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Saying ‘Nothing’: The Pachuca’s Articulation of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality"

 

Veronica Y. Martinez, University of Texas, Austin

"Supporting Itineracy or Internment?  A Look at the New Deal’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, 1935-1947"

 

 

Discussion: Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Mexican American History





Second Annual

Mexican American History Workshop

 

 

 

“Mexican American Culture: Confronting Power, Regenerating Resistance”

 

May 1-3, 2003

 

 

 

University of Houston
History Department



Facilitators

Jose Limon, University of Texas, Austin

George Sanchez, University of Southern California

 

Schedule

 

Thursday, May 1

Welcome Reception

University  Center  242- Spindletop Room

7pm - 9pm

 

 

Friday, May 2

Opening Remarks

9:00am

 

Session #1 Moderator – Raúl A. Ramos, UH

University  Center  250

9:30am-Noon

 

Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Cornell University

"A Woman With  No Names and Many Names: Lynching, Gender, and the Question of Chicana Subject  Formation"

 

Frank Perez, University of Texas, El Paso

"Orientalizing La Raza in Public Art: Hegemony and Civic Discourse about Juan de Oñate"

 

 

 

Session #2  Moderator – Guadalupe San Miguel, UH

University Center 250

1:45pm- 3:00pm

 

Victor Viesca,  NYU/ UC, San Diego

"The Music of the Greater Eastside and the Reconversion of Chicana/o Identity in Contemporary Los Angeles"

 

Saturday, May 3

Session #3 Moderator – Luis Alvarez, UH

549 Agnes Arnold Hall

9:30am-Noon

 

Denise Sandoval, California State, Northridge

"Los(t) Angeles: Lowriding and Chicano Cultural Identity"

 

Daniel Widener, University of California, San Diego

"Interculturalism and the Politics of Art: Black and Chicano Cultural Radicalism  in Postwar Los Angeles"

 

Concluding Session

Directions in Chicano/a Studies, Cultural Politics and the Academy

549 Agnes Arnold Hall

1:30pm - 3:30pm



Third Annual
Mexican American History Workshop
"Place, Space and Identity in Chicano/a History"
May 6-8, 2004





Facilitators:

Ramon Gutierrez
        University of California, San Diego
Sonia Salidvar-Hull
        University of Texas, San Antonio

8:45 am – 10:45 am Session 1:  Beyond the Border Region/Transnational Communities
        University Center, Mediterranean Room 91 (UC Underground)
Lilia Fernandez, University of California, San Diego-  "The Other Chicano Movement?: Mexican American Community Activism in the Civil Rights Era."

Ana Elizabeth Rosas, University of Southern California-  “Desafiando un Ideal: Understanding the Contradictions and Contestations of the ‘Ideal Modern Bracero,’ 1942-1954.”
         
11:00 am – 1:00 pm    Session 2: Place and Space on the US/Mexico Border
        University Center, Mediterranean Room 91 (UC Underground)
Anthony Mora, Texas A&M University-   “Making ‘American’ Space and ‘Mexican’ Bodies’: Local Space, Race and Nation on the Nineteenth Century United States/Mexico Border”

Trinidad Gonzales, University of Houston-  “Ethnic Mexicans and the Courts: Class, Gender and Culture Through Changing Space.”

2:30 pm – 4:30pm    Session 3: Place, Space, and Cultural “Tourism”
        University Center, Mediterranean Room 91 (UC Underground)
Mary Ann Villarreal, University of Utah-  “Place and Image: Rosita Fernandez Becomes San Antonio’s Rose.”

Lydia Otero, University of Arizona-  “The Social Costs of Transforming Mexican Tucson into a ‘Modern’ Southwest Metropolis.”
           


Saturday, May 8th, 2004


9:30am – 1:00 pm    Session 4: Place, Space and the Body
        History Department (549 Agnes Arnold Hall)
Manuel Callahan, Humboldt State University-  “The Representational Machine of the 19th Century US-Mexico Borderlands.”

Jennifer Mata, Washington State University-  “Creating a Critical Chicana Narrative Through the ACWA Photographs.”

John McKiernan-González, University of South Florida-  “Place Against Space: Brownsville’s Regional Identities in the Making of the American Medical Border, 1880-1882.”


Fourth Annual
Mexican American History Workshop

May 5-7, 2005
University of Houston
Department of History


Senior Scholars:
Juan Flores
        Hunter College, CUNY
Vicki Ruiz
        University of California, Irvine

Schedule: 
Friday, May 6, 2005

9:30 am – 11:45 am Session 1:  National and Transnational Categories
        University Center, Bluebonnet Room

    Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania
            “Watching Mexicans:  María Cristina Mena’s Fictions of Mexican Nationalism” [96kb]

    Laura Isabel Serna, Harvard University
            “The Zoot Suiter and the Fifí: Transnational Origins of Chicano Resistance” [84kb]


1:30 pm – 3:45 pm    Session 2:  Forging Identities
        University Center, Bluebonnet Room

    Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara
            “Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965” [84kb]

    Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles
            “Beyond the Borderline: Policing Poor Mexican Migrants and Social Order in the Greater U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1942-1965” [136kb]

          

Saturday, May 7, 2005
9:00am – 11:15 am    Session 3:  Recasting Categories
        History Department (549 Agnes Arnold Hall)

    Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Rice University
            “Inhabiting Aztlán:  How Chicana/o Literary History Rewrites Environmental Inquiry” [96kb]

    Rebeca Burciaga, University of California, Los Angeles
            "Living Nepantla: Chicanas keeping eyes on the price of balancing career, partnerships, and motherhood"[120kb]