Lectures - Fall 2008

October 30 / Thursday / Noon / Chávez Bldg, Rm 205
Damián Baca, Ph.D
Department of English
"Mesoamerican and Chicano Codices"
This presentation advances Gloria Anzaldúa’s “new mestiza consciousness” as a dynamic strategy for interpreting contemporary codex literacies. The powerful aesthetic of placing oneself at the  cross-roads between Iberian, Nahuatl, and Anglo-American literacies makes possible an invention of different ways of knowing and writing, where Aztec pictographs meets the global American present.

Damián Baca, Assistant Professor of English, holds a Ph.D. in  Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University (2006). His most recent publication is Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures Series) with Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Baca is especially interested in the rhetorical potential of post-Occidental reason - an invitation to theorize with, against, and  beyond inherited patterns of thinking that emerged in Western Europe  under capitalism.

November 20 / Thursday / Noon / Chávez Bldg, Rm 205
Nina Rabin, J.D.
Southwest Institute for Research on Women
“Unseen Prisoners: A Report on Women in Immigration Detention Facilities in Arizona"

December 2 / Tuesday / Noon / Chávez Bldg, Rm 205
Patrisia Gonzales, Ph.D.
Mexican American Studies & Research Center
"Calling the Spirit Back: Relocating Curanderismo in Indigenous Knowledge Systems"
Curanderismo or Mexican Traditional Medicine is founded on Mesoamerican knowledge that has adapted to socio-religious conditions for more than 500 years. Much of the research documented on curanderismo in the United States assesses traditional medicinal knowledge as “mestizo medicine” or a mixture of Spanish, African and Indian practices. I recast various foundational characteristics of curanderismo as Indigenous knowledge that has Indigenized these other practices and adopted what is useful for healing.

December 4 / Thursday / 4:00 PM / Chávez Bldg, Rm 110
Special Presentation
"Youth Activism to Prevent Underage Drinking: Investigating and Sharing Results of the Alcohol Retailer Mapping Project"
Local youth leaders will present the findings from their nationally recognized alcohol retailer mapping project and its impact on the City of South Tucson.
The aim of this project was to share results of the proximity of alcohol retailers to youth activities with local government officials and community leaders . . . This project is one component of the South Tucson Prevention Coalition (federally funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency) comprising 12 sectors of community leaders devoted to the prevention of youth substance use.

Youth presenters are from the John Valenzuela Youth Center & the South Tucson Explorers Post #317 -- Oscar Cesena, Jesus Mejia, Gloria Otero, Nayaly Romero, Juan Yanez, and Clara Diez.

This project was done in collaboration with MASRC Associate Professor Andrea Romero; MASRC Adjunct Lecturer Yvonne Montoya, MA; and Research Specialist Michele Orduna, M.Ed.

Lectures - Spring 2008

Migration Research Dialogue
An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Global Migration Trends and Our Arizona/Sonora Border

February 6
Dr. Eithne Luibhéid,
Women’s Studies Department
“Childbearing Asylum Seekers in Ireland: Immigrant ‘Illegality’
and Nationalist Heterosexuality”

February 20
Dr. Kathleen Schwartzman, Sociology Department
“Pollos y Polleros: The Global Flow of Chicken and Immigrants”

March 6
Judy Gans, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Title TBA

March 26
Dr. Laura Huntoon, Planning Department
“Café Justo and Alternative Development”

April TBA
Dr. Liz Oglesby, Center for Latin American Studies
“ICE Enforcement in NewBedford, Conn., and Guatemalan Repatriation”

April TBA
Graduate Student Migration Research Forum

ALL PROGRAMS ARE 4:00-6:00PM IN THE CESAR CHAVEZ BLDG, RM 205

Please join us for refreshments and discussion after the presentations.

Lectures - Spring 2007

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2:30 pm

Prof. Ernesto Chávez
Univ. of Texas, El Paso

"Crossing the Boundaries of Race and Desire: The Life and Image of Ramón Novarro"

Ernesto Chávez, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso, is the author of Mi Raza Primero! (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978. (University of California Press, 2002).
Chávez Building / Room 211

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 4:00 pm

Prof. Lorena Oropeza
Univ. of California, Davis

Title TBA

Lorena Oropeza, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, is the author of ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Vietnam War Era, (University of California Press, 2005 ) and co-editor of the recently released Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte  (Arte Público Press, November 30, 2006).
Chávez Building / Room 200

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 12:30 pm

"Jácome's Department Store as Borderlands Institution: the Life and Career of Tucsonan Alex G. Jácome during the 1950s and 1960s"

Specializing in U.S. and Mexican American history, Geraldo Cadava examines political economy and culture in post-World War II Tucson..

presented by

Geraldo Cadava
Department of History, Yale University
MASRC Visiting Scholar, 2006-2007

Social Sciences Building / Room 128