2010 NACCS Tejas Foco Regional Conference
Posted: February 9, 2010
Pasado, Presente, y Futuro: Forty Years of Chicana and Chicano Studies in Texas
The year 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the formal establishment of Mexican American Studies in the academy in Texas. Since the early 1970s, many approaches have been developed and employed in the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies, some focusing on political economy, others on cultural studies, some focusing on the specificity of the Tejano experience, others focusing on how Texas fits into the larger experience of Mexican Americans in the United States and linkages to Mexico and Latin America. Chicana and Chicano Studies in Texas has drawn from many intellectual approaches and fields, and struggled to expand the definition of the academy, activism, and intellectual life.
The goal of the 2010 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco Regional Conference is to examine questions around a "Texas School" of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Scholars of Chicana and Chicano Studies, members of NACCS, and the general public will engage the question of whether there is (or is not) a Texas-based approach to Chicana and Chicano Studies. Presentations will look at the past, present, and future of Chicana and Chicano Studies in Texas to outline such a "Texas School" of thought or may call into question the very idea of such a proposition. The conference will also consider whether there is more than one school of thought within Texas.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Thursday
February 25, 2010
Bienvenida
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Center for Mexican American Studies/West Mall Building 5th floor
Friday
February 26, 2010
Registration
All day
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Continental Breakfast and Welcome
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Breakout Sessions A
9:00 am - 10:15 am
ROUNDTABLE: GED Students Join the Discussion of the Latino Education Crisis
Meeting Room (206), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: Tejano Latino Experencias: Inviting Latinos through Texan Education in Austin
Meeting Room (208), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: Appraising Changing Identity Shifts in Mexican and Mexican American Characters from Early and Recent Chicano Literary Works
Meeting Room (210), San Jacinto Conference Center
Breakout Sessions B
10:30 am – 11:45 am
ROUNDTABLE: Graduate Education 101
Meeting Room (206), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: Chicana/o Art, Ideology, and Power
Meeting Room (208), San Jacinto Conference Center
ROUNDTABLE: Mexican American Studies of the 21st Century: A Border-Based Approach
Meeting Room (210), San Jacinto Conference Center
Luncheon
12 noon - 1:15 pm
NACCS Tejas Foco Book Award
NACCS Letras de Aztlan Premio
KEYNOTE PANEL: Community Organizing in Texas: Pasado, Presente, y Futuro
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Breakout Sessions C
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
PANEL: ¡Somos Chicanos, Somos Tejanos! Ways of Exploring and Encouraging Our Cultural Heritage
Meeting Room (206), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: Film, Theater and Chicanos in America
Meeting Room (208), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: Research From The Future Generation for a "Texas School" of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Meeting Room (210), San Jacinto Conference Center
Breakout Sessions D
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Tejano Nativism/Native Tejanismo: Political, Social, and Literary Convergences of Chican@ and Indigenous Lives in Texas
Meeting Room (206), San Jacinto Conference Center
PANEL: LGBTQ Chicana/o Studies: Pasado, Presente, Futuro
Meeting Room (208), San Jacinto Conference Center
ROUNDTABLE: ¡La Lucha Sigue! The New Generation of El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o-Chicano Student Movement
Meeting Room (210), San Jacinto Conference Center
Tardeada de Cultura
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Saturday
February 27, 2010
Registration
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Continental Breakfast and Welcome
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Breakout Sessions E
9:00 am – 10:15 am
PANEL: History and Historiography in Tejas
Meeting Room (206), San Jacinto Conference Center
PERFORMANCE PANEL: Gloria Anzaldúa, El Valle, and Transnational Tejan@ Poetics: A Reading
Meeting Room (208), San Jacinto Conference Center
ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Chicana/o Studies in Tejas
Meeting Room (210), San Jacinto Conference Center
Chicana/o Studies in Tejas: An Open Forum
10:30 am - 12 noon
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Business Meeting
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Multipurpose Room (207), San Jacinto Conference Center
Conference Information
The Center for Mexican American Studies is located on the 5th floor of the West Mall Building (WMB).
The San Jacinto Conference Center is located on the first floor of the San Jacinto Residence Hall (SJH), corner of 21st Street and San Jacinto Boulevard. Entrances can be found on 21st Street and facing the Brazos Parking Garage.
Public parking is available in the Brazos Parking Garage (BRG), 210 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Additional parking is available in the Trinity Parking Garage (TRG), 1815 Trinity St.
Hotel information is available at the following URL, http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/attend/index.php?page=accommodations
Capital Metro provides bus service in Austin and Central Texas, especially to downtown Austin, the University of Texas at Austin, and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA).
Events
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is hosting the exhibition "¡Viva! Mexico's Independence," showcasing items from the center's holdings that relate to the history of Spain's original conquest of Mexico, Mexico's independence from Spain and subsequent revolutionary activities within Mexico.
