First Annual
“Gender and Sexuality
in Mexican American History”
May 2-4, 2002
History Department
Facilitators
Deena
Gonzalez, Pamona College
David
G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Schedule
Thursday,
May 2
Welcome
Reception
7pm -
10pm
Friday,
May 3
Session
#1
9:00am-11:00am
"The Colonial
North: Disruption and Continuity in 19th Century Women’s Social
Status Before and After the North American Invasion"
"Gender and Economics in Borderlands Communities, 1750-1846"
Session
#2
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
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
Culture: Confronting Power, Regenerating Resistance”
May 1-3, 2003
Facilitators
Jose
Limon, University of Texas, Austin
George
Sanchez, University of Southern California
Schedule
Thursday,
May 1
Welcome
Reception
7pm -
9pm
Friday,
May 2
Opening
Remarks
9:00am
Session
#1 Moderator
– Raúl A. Ramos, UH
9:30am-Noon
"A Woman
With No Names and Many Names: Lynching, Gender, and
the Question of Chicana Subject Formation"
"Orientalizing La Raza in Public Art: Hegemony and Civic Discourse about Juan de Oñate"
Session
#2 Moderator – Guadalupe San Miguel, UH
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
9:30am-Noon
Denise Sandoval, California State, Northridge
"Los(t) Angeles: Lowriding and Chicano Cultural Identity"
"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
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”