CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday November 14, 2013 Pre3- 5 PM
Conference Event
DVD Viewing: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Keynote address at the historic conference,
“Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century
Celebrating This Bridge Called My Back,” held at UC-Berkeley on February 710, 2002.
Moderator: Norma Alarcón
6-9 PM
---------------------------------------------------------Welcome Reception
Southwest Room
Durango Building DB 1.214
501 César Chávez Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78207.
Art Exhibit: Querida Maestra
Curator: Anel Flores
Friday November 15, 2013
8AM - 5PM
8:30- 9AM
Registration
Welcome: Dr. Norma E. Cantú
Buena Vista Lobby
Buena Vista Theater (BV 1.326)
for The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Dr. Sonia Saldívar-Hull
for the Women’s Studies Institute at UTSA
Blessing:
Ari Marta Chagoya- Writer, Artist, Curandera/
Healer y Nepantlera and one of Gloria Anzaldúa’s
close friends
9- 10 AM
OPENING PLENARY:
Buena Vista Theater (BV 1.326)
MARIA FRÁNQUIZ
En palabras y acciones/In words and deeds:
¡Gloria Anzaldúa, presente!
1010:15AM
10:1511:30 AM
BREAK
CONCURRENT SESSIONS I
Buena Vista Lobby
Frio and Buena Vista Buildings
I. A. Room: Frio 3.402
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Nagini, Meme, and Marxism: Serpents and Silences en El Mundo Zurdo
Moderator: Josie Méndez-Negrete
1. Magda García, “Re-imagining Activism: Reconfiguring Marxist Feminist Responses to
the Precarity Movement through Gloria Anzaldúa’s El Mundo Zurdo”
2. Natassja Gunasena, “Nagini and Coatlicue: Subjectively Occupying Diasporic Desi
Identity by ‘Entering into the Serpent’ ”
3. T. Urayoan Noel, “Anzaldúa's Meme: Embodied Knowledge and Globalization”
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I. B. Room: Frio 3.512
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness and Social Action
Moderator: Keta Miranda
Discussant: William Calvo
1. Ruby A. Hernández and Aída Hurtado, “‘A healing process with my own ‘story’’:
Transforming Paths and Minds of Latinas in STEM through the Process of
Conocimiento and the Creation of Safe Spaces”
2. Mrinal Sinha, “Mestiza Consciousness and the CSUMB Vision Statement: Cultivating
Activism using Assets-based Pedagogies”
3. Karina Cervantez, “Lived Experience and the Commitment to Social Justice”
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I. C. Room: Frio 3.520
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Narratives of Survival: Anzaldúa and Academic Change
Moderator: Elsa C. Ruiz
1. Meredyth Grange, “Writing From the Body: Personal Narrative as Pedagogical
Necessity”
2. Ellen Riojas Clark, “The Impact of Gloria Anzaldúa on my Academic and Personal Life”
3. Cristina Golondrina Rose, “Xicana, Filipina, and Euro-American Women’s Spirituality:
Solidarity in Personal, Critical, and Creative Writing: A Mestiza Approach to
Ethnoautobiography and Literary Criticism”
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I. D. Room: Frio 3.530
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Bodies/Acts/Pedagogies: Translating Knowledge across Corporeal Borders
Moderator: Rusty Barceló
1. Suzanne Bost, “Objects/Knowledges/Pedagogies”
2. Erica Chu, “Rethinking Hybridity/Reimagining Identity Borders”
3. Tace Hedrick, “History is What Hurts: Alien Feelings and Queer Temporalities in
Gloria Anzaldúa”
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I. E. Room: Frio 3.536
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Queerness in Anzaldúa: Queering Nepantla
Moderator: Elisa Facio
1. Margarita E. Pignataro, “Recognizing Anzaldúa’s Nepantla in the Films La Mission and
A Better Life”
2. Robert Gutierrez-Perez, “Thriving in Nepantla: Surviving the Trauma of Higher
Education Spaces”
3. Rico Kleinstein Chenyek, “Dis-ease Sustains Life: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Coatlicue State
and the Physics of Love”
4. Cordelia E. Barrera, “Landscape of Healing: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Ecocritical Leanings”
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I F. Room: BV 3.324
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel: Anzaldúa in Dialogue with Trans* Studies
Moderator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
1. Max Valerio, “Trans Reflections on Anzaldúa: Visions from the Borderlands of
Changing Sex”
2. Tala Khanmalek, “The Corporealities of Politics: U.S. Third World Women of Color
Feminisms and Healing Justice”
3. Karla Padrón, “Anzalduán Theories, Rivera's Courage, and the Making of Transgender
Latina Studies”
I. G. Buena Vista 1.312
Friday 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Workshop: CART[A]S: Rooting Our Purpose as Academics in a Time of
Transformation
Moderator: Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Members: Inés Hernández-Ávila, Yvette Flores, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Gloria M.
Rodríguez
11:30-11:45 AM
11:45 AM-1:00 PM
BREAK
CONCURRENT SESSIONS II
Frio and Buena Vista
uildings
(F and BV)
II. A. Frio 3.402
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel: Popular Culture and Literature through an Anzaldúan Lens
Moderator: Kathleen Palomo
1. Sarah Montoya, “Border Trouble, Gender Wars: Representation of Queer Studies in
Cyberspace”
2. Crystal Serrano, “Latino Ska: healing the Borderlands through Transnational Hybrid
Musical Styles among Latino Youth”
3. Verónica Calvillo, “The Transfonteriza Identity in Female Characters in Contemporary
Films and Documentaries”
4. Trevor Boffone, “Mestiza Consciousness and La Facultad on the Border: Josefina
López’s Detained in the Desert”
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II. B. Frio 3.512
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel: Nagualas, Narratology, and Nomadic Subjectivities: Anzaldúa’s Potential
Contributions to Posthumanist Thought
Moderator: Erin Ranft
1. AnaLouise Keating, “Anzaldúa’s Posthumanist Mythos”
2. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, “The Borderlands of Subjectivity; The Subjectivity of
(the) Borderlands: Nomadism, Mestizaje, and Bodies”
3. Betsy Dahms, “Formalizing Fluidity: Queer second-person narration in Anzaldúa’s
‘Putting Coyolxauhqui Together’ and ‘now let us shift...the path of
conocimiento...inner works, public acts’”
4. Kelli Zaytoun, “‘Now Let Us Shift’ the Subject: Tracing the Path and Posthumanist
Implications of La Naguala/The Shape Shifter in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa”
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II. C. Frio 3.520
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel: Spiritual Mestizaje and Activism
Moderator: Susana Ramírez
1. Irene Lara, “Embodying Serpentine Conocimientos and Enacting Erotic-Spiritual
Change”
2. Theresa Torres, “Interpreting Las Guadalupanas' Vision”
3. Dara Nix-Stevenson, “Border Thinking as a Prerequisite for Disaster Resistance and
Resilience:"
4. Maira Álvarez, “Speaking from the BorderL Fronterizos along the 1,933 Mile Border
Region”
II. D. Frio 3.530
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Roundtable: Anzalduista Pedagogies and Activism at UTPA: Radical Interventions
to Heal our Campus and Communities
Moderator: Aída Hurtado
Members: Stephanie Alvarez, Marci R. McMahon, Emmy Pérez, and Cynthia Paccacerqua
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II. E. Frio 3.536
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel: Malcread@s y Terc@s: Chican@ Scholars Insisting on Creating Community,
Academic, and Societal Change through Non-Traditional Ways
Moderator: Sonia Valencia
1. Marcos Del Hierro, “And You Don’t Stop: Hiphop Embodied Knowledges as Tools for
Survival”
2. Catalina Bartlett, “Being Malcriada: Reclaiming Chicanism@, Indigeneity, and
Cultural Memory”
3. Crystal Bustamante, “Establishing Cultural Validity in the Classroom”
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II. F. Buena Vista 1.312
Friday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Poetry Performance: “New Writings from the Hopeful Hearts of Indigenous
Women: Xánath Caraza, Kim Shuck, and ire’ne lara silva”
Moderator: T. Urayoan Noel
1:00-2:30
PM
LUNCH
(included with
registration)
Double Tree Hilton Hotel—501 César
Chávez Boulevard
2:45-4:00
PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
III
Buena Vista and Frío Street Buildings
III. A. Frio 3.402
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel: Spiritual Activism: Applications, Investigations, Transformations
Moderator: Alexandra Araiza
1. Allison Davis, “Organizing with Spirit: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Spiritual Activism as a
Community Organizing Model”
2. Jessica Camp, “Wounded Interconnections: A Dialogue Between Gloria Anzaldúa and
Thich Nhat Hahn”
3. April Michels, “Devaluing the Spiritual: The Privileging of Secularity in Women’s and
Gender Studies and the Dismissal of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Transformative
Spiritualized Politics in Academic Scholarship”
4. AnaLouise Keating, “Learning from Anzaldúa: Towards a Theory-Praxis of Womanist
Self-Recovery”
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III. B. Frio 3.520
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel: Accountability, Vivencias, and Conocimiento: Grounding Theory
Moderator: Sonia Saldívar-Hull
1. Rufina Cortéz, “How to De-Academize Theory: Accountability and Representation”
2. Bert María Cueva, “Conocimiento - A Pedagogical Tool Grounded to Activism, Healing,
and Survival”
3. Judith Estrada, “Reflexiones Uncertain Futures: (Un)documented Youth in the
Midwest”
III. C. Frio 3.530
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel: Anzaldúan Analyses of Modern Family, Cuban Hip-Hop, and Death
Moderator: Jane Madrigal
1. Bernardita Yunis Varas, “Politics of Being Gloria - An Anzaldúan Analysis of Modern
Family's Sofía Vergara”
2. Silvia Galis-Menéndez, “Vamo a Vencer: Las Krudas, Feminist Activism, and Hip-Hop
Identities across Borders”
Borderlands”
3. Mary García, “Death and Transformation in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands“
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III. D. Frio 3.536
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel: Queer Corporealities: Feminisms and Healing
Moderator: Andrea Figueroa
1. Rocío Prado, “To Exist Is To Resist: A Conscious Re-application of Borderlands
Theory”
2. Michael Lee Gardin, “Reading Cherríe Moraga’s A Xicana Codex through New
Tribalism: Queerness, Indigeneity, and Transgender Identity”
3. Christina Gutiérrez, “Bodily Betrayals: Illness, Trauma, and Transformation in Gloria
Anzaldúa’s Autohistorias”
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III. E. Buena Vista 1.312
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP: “Spirituality as Theory: Understanding and Sustaining Ourselves as
Activists”
Moderator: Rose Rodríguez Rabin
Amy Foss
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III. F. Buena Vista 3.324
Friday 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel: Healing Our Wounds: Transforming Selves through Creativity, Art Forms,
and Anzaldúa
Moderator: Patricia Portales
1. Adrianna Michelle Santos, “Healing our Wounds through Our Words: Anzaldúa,
Violence, and Storytelling”
2. Sara A. Ramírez, “Tolerating Anxiety, Tolerating Ambiguity: Decolonial Feminist
Tactics for Self-Healing in the Work of Adelina Anthony”
3. V. June Pedraza, “Freeing the Female Voice: A Discussion of the Arts as Healing and
Trans-formative Agents for the Self-Injurer”
4:00-4:15 PM
4:15-5:30 PM
BREAK
Concurrent Sessions IV
Buena Vista and Frío Street
Bldgs.
IV. A. Frio 3.402
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Panel: Las Tres Madres: La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and La Llorona as
Agents of Social Activism and Empowerment
Moderator: Cynthia Cortez
1. Kristina López, “Reclaiming Malinche: The Resistance and Empowerment of Malinche
through New Mestiza Consciousness”
2. Elizabeth G. Chapa, “Social Activism, Empowerment, and La Virgen de Guadalupe in
the Classroom: Teaching Heroes and Saints through an Anzaldúan Lens in a
Hispanic Serving Institution
3. Jody A. Briones, “La Llorona and the Academy: Wailing/Writing as Activism and
Empowerment”
IV. B. Frio 3.512
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Panel: ”Doble Saber,” Philosophy and Curanderismo: Decolonizing the Rosary and
the Spirit
Moderator: Elizabeth de la Portilla
1. Sandra Pacheco, “‘Doble saber’: The Rosary and the Transformative Mysteries”
2. Helane Androne, “Gloria Anzaldúa as Salpicón Philosophy in Story, Service and Spirit”
3. Freyca Calderón & Karla O’Donald, “Vivir y cruzar con orgullo”
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IV. C. Frio 3.520
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Panel: Teaching Writing, Teaching Being
Moderator: Elsa Ruiz
1. Kendra Dority, “Readerly Facultad: Toward an Ethics of Linguistic Play in Latino/a
Literatures”
2. Erin Ranft, “Writing and (Re)Visions: An Anzaldúan Pedagogical Approach”
3. Candace Zepeda & Isaac Hinojosa, “Reflecting on the Rhetoric of Reflection:
Identifications of Writing the Flesh”
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IV. D. Frio 3.530
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Panel: Queer Spiritualities
Moderator: Sara Ramírez
1. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, “Queering the Spirits”
2. Sarah Becker, “Queering the Divine: Re(conciling) the Feminist Spiritualties of Gloria
Anzaldúa and Lydia Cabrera”
3. Sara Salazar, “The Curandera’s Daughters: Spiritual Activism in the Lives and Works
of Chicana Artists”
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IV. E. Buena Vista 1.312
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Roundtable: Nuev@ Chican@ Poetics
Moderator: June Pedraza
Members: Christopher Carmona, Gabriel Sánchez, Rossy Evelin Lima, and Isaac
Chavarría
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IV. F. Buena Vista 3.324
Friday 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Panel: Spirituality and Religion in the Borderlands and Beyond
Moderator: Lucila Ek
1. Anne M. Martínez, “Catholicism in the Borderlands of Empires, 1905-1935”
2. Felipe Hinojosa, “Decolonizing the Church: Chicana/o and Puerto Rican Struggles to
Reclaim the Space of the Church from New York to South Texas, 1969-1973”
3. Darcy Rendón, “Mapping Women’s Altared Catholicism in the U.S.-Mexico
Borderlands”
4. Albert Palacios, “Entre el machismo franciscano y la pared: La mujer indígena
in the 18th-century San Antonio Missions”
DINNER ON YOUR OWN (SEE LIST OF RESTAURANTS IN THE AREA)
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Friday Night Cultural Events in the Community
LUNADA POETRY READING
Friday, November 15th at 8 PM
Keller-­­Rihn Studio
Blue Star Arts Complex
1420 S. Alamo
SA, TX 78210
Upstairs above Stella House,
Halcyon Coffee House and Barraca's.
Enter back entrance off Probandt.
Mujeres en la Canción
Part II
Join us for Noche Azul de Esperanza at the
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8 p.m. for
the “Mujeres en la Canción part II. A $5
donation is suggested.
Visit Esperanza.org for more information.
8:00 AM –
12:00 PM
9:00 AM10:15 AM
10:15 AM to
10:30 AM
10:30AM to
11:45AM
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Registration Buena Vista Lobby
FEATURED PANEL
Diabetes and Healing: Poetry, Creative NonFiction, and Decolonizing Your Diet
Buena Vista Theater
Moderator: Sonia García
(BV 1.326)
1. ire'ne lara silva, Reading from
blood∙sugar∙canto
2. Amelia María de la Luz Montes, “Glucose Logs:
Anzaldúa and the Story of Blood”
3. Luz Calvo & Catriona Esquibel, “Decolonize
Your Diet: Borderlands Foods to Fight
Diabetes”
BREAK
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS V
Buena Vista Lobby
Frio and Buena Vista Buildings
(F and BV)
V. A. Frio 3.402
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Conversation: Boxing Shadows: A Conversation with Anissa ‘The Assassin’
Zamarrón
Moderator: Rhonda Gonzalez
Gonzáles
Anne Martínez, “A Conversation with Anissa ‘The Assassin’ Zamarrón”
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V. B. Frio 3.512
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Anzaldúan Readings of Young Adult, Children’s and Science Fiction
Literature
Moderator: Margaret Cantú-Sánchez
1. Laura López, “Navigating through the Coatlicue State: A Young Chicana’s Path to
Conocimiento in Kelly Parra’s YA Novel Graffiti Girl”
2. Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, “‘Conocimiento Narratives’: (Re)imagining the
Künstlerroman for Latina Girls in Latina/o Children’s and Young Adults
Literature”
3. Susana Ramírez, “Nepantler@ Cosmologies: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Science Fiction
(Re)imagining Alternative Realities with Transpecies, Transspatial, and
Transtemporal Subjectivities”
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V.C. Frio 3.520
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Eso no se dice: malcriadas and the violence in silence
Moderator: Antonia Castañeda
Chair: Irene Mata
Abrecaminos: Bianca Sapet
1. Fabiola Torralba, “Mojada, por afuera y de adentro: Learning Privilege and Power
Within Social Justice Communities”
2. Genevieve Rodríguez, “Ahora Is Not the Time y Aquí Is Not the Place for Your Angry
Malcriada Ways”
3. Jessica O. Guerrero, “Struggling with The Struggle: Transitions, Stage Fright, and
Name Dropping”
4. Deborah Kuetzpal Vasquez, “Dando a Luz a La Justicia Con Las Palabras de Nuestras
Antepasadas—Bringing Justice to Light With The Words of Our Ancestors”
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V. E. Frio 3.536
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Pedagogical Interventions: Science, Language and Experience
Moderator: Joleen García
1. Jean Aguilar-Valdez, “New Mestiz@ Science: Latin@s as Scientific Nepantler@s”
2. Cecilia Suárez, “Unbreaking Her Back: Rehumanizing the Brown Girl Student
Through Critical Education and Love”
3. Rob Johnson & Debbie Cole, “‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue’: Gloria Anzaldúa and the
1960's-era ‘Speech Test’ at Pan American College”
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V. F. Buena Vista 1.312
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Fragmented Stories, Recovering Bodies: Intersections of Borderland
Theories, Femicide, and Disability Studies
Moderator: Ana Juárez
1. Casie C. Cobos, “’Estoy loca?’: Borderland Logics and Mental Disabilities”
2. Stephanie Wheeler, “Gloria Anzaldúa, Frida Kahlo, and the Fragmentation of the
‘Unwanted Immigrant’”
3. Aydé Enríquez-Loya, “Atravesando la Mujer: Border Rhetorics of Femicide in the
‘Murder Capital of the World’”
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V. G. Buena Vista 3.324
Saturday 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Roundtable: The Impossible Interstices Between Academic and Organizing Worlds
Moderator: Norma Alarcón
Members: Kamala Platt and Marisol Cortez
12:001:00 PM
CLOSING PLENARY: CINDY CRUZ
Notes on Crossing Disciplinary
Borderlands: Anzaldúan Pedagogies and a
Defense of Experiential Knowledges
Buena Vista Theater (1.326)
1:001:30 PM
CLOSING CEREMONY: Ari Marta
Chagoya
Buena Vista Theater (1.326)