NACCS 2009
Conference Hightlights and Information

All events at the Hyatt Regency Hotel unless noted.

Wednesday, April 8

• 7:30-9:00 pm  Welcome Reception. Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Science, Rutgers University and NACCS.  Performance: A trio and dance troupe Xochipilli
  

Thursday, April 9

• NACCS Plenary:  ¡El Movimiento Sigue! Forty Years of Scholarship and Community Activism in Chicana and Chicano Studies, 1969-2009. Panalists: Renato Rosaldo, New York University. "Reflections on Chicana/o Studies Since the Late 1960s"; Carlos Decena, Rutgers-New Brunswick; Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, University of Arizona. Chair: Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson, NACCS Chair-Elect 2008-2009.
• “A Class Apart” renowned documentary re Hernandez v Texas – Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker Sandoval, Carlos.
• 6:00 pm Reception with the Artist Manhatitlan Codex: An Exhibition by Felipe Galindo Tuesday, April 7—Friday, May 1 CLAC at 122 College Avenue. Inspired on the ongoing phenomenon of Mexican immigration to the U.S. and drawin on pictorial traditions of Mexico, Manhatitlan Codex explores the concepts of homeland, migration, and globalization. Join us for a conversation with NewYork-based cartoonist, illustrator and animator Felipe Galindo about his work, as well as a screening of his recent short animated films. Cosponsored by the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.
• 7:30-8:30 pm Graduate Student Reception
• 8:30-10:00 pm Joteria Reception
  

Friday, April 10th

• 9:00 am SPECIAL PREVIEW: LA ONDA CHICANA  (The Chicano Wave). Hyatt Regency Hotel.  From the barrios of California and Texas they forged new musical styles, struggled against discrimination, sang their way to the national stage, and forever changed American music. Starring Ritchie Valens, El Chicano, Little Joe, Freddy Fender, Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt, Flaco Jimenez, Tierra, Selena and Los Tigres del Norte. This session will feature a special preview screening of the forthcoming PBS documentary scheduled for a prime-time national broadcast in the fall of 2009. La Onda Chicana will be part of the new PBS series LATIN MUSIC USA. The film will be followed by a discussion with award winning filmmaker John J. Valadez about the creative power of Chicano music to transform American consciousness.
• The Proposed National Museum of the U.S. Latino--a participatory discussion. Join a distinguished group of scholars, curators, and museum professionals to discuss teh concept, content, and implementation of this important enterprise.  We seek active participation to affect legislation, providing input to the legislators involved in this effort. Chair:  Tomas Ybarra Frausto, 2009 NACCS Scholar. Panelists: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, New Jersey City Museum. Deborah Cullen, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, NY. Ondine Chavoya, Art Historian, Williams College. Ruben Cordova, Independent Scholar and Curator, NYC. Carla Stellweg, Independent Curator, NY.
• 4:00 pm Film Screening and Director's Discussion: Ed Morales and "Whose barrio is it?" Rutgers Student Center, Room 410, College Avenue.  "Whose Barrio?" is an emotionally charged look at the changes in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem as real estate speculation pushes rents and property values past the point of affordability for most area residents. By interviewing long-time East Harlemites and new arrivals, and digging deep into the flavor of a neighborhood long regarded as a cultural homeland for Latinos and other ethnic groups, the film reveals a complex web of individual and community interests. The movie follows the stories of José Rivera and James Garcia, who represent the old guard and the newcomers in the neighborhood, respectively. Longtime East Harlem tenant James Barrow worries that a series of crane accidents in the city may strike home because of a construction project next door. Organizers for Movement for Justice in El Barrio have come to the aid of tenants in tenement housing now overseen by Dawnay Day Group, a multinational real estate developer with offices in London. Tenant Paula Serrano describes the demonstrations and legal actions taken by the group, and warns against the changes developers have in store for the neighborhood. City Council member Melissa MarkViverito engages in dialog with the community over a new development project for El Barrio proposed by the city and wrestles with compromise even as she strives to improve the situation.
•  7- 9:00 pm Nuyorican Poets Café –CosechaVoices is sponsoring a Chicana/o - Mejicana/o Night . Writers will include CosechaVoices students, Emmy Perez, Tato Laviera, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Dr. Edna Ochoa, Dr. Glen Martinez, and others to be determined. Participation open. Contact for details. Location: 236 E3d St N.Y.C. BetAve B-C Phone: 212-505- 8183. Cost: $10.00- 15.00. See Flyer. Organizer: Tato Laviera. tatolaviera@hotmail.com 
  

Saturday, April 11

• Chicana Plenary: "Twenty Five Years of NACCS Chicana Plenaries:  The Enduring Significance of Chicana Studies." Panalists: Teresa Cordova. University
  of New Mexico. "What We Said Back Then, and Why it is Still Important"; Cynthia E. Orozco, Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso. "The Rise of NACCS' Chicana Caucus and Chicana Studies"; Lupe Gallegos-Diaz, University of California, Berkeley. "Living and Leaving a Legacy - Reflections 25 Years Later";
  Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, Trent University, Canada. "The Tortillera Movement (@ NACCS)". Chair: Mary Pardo. Chicana Caucus Chair.
• Film: ALTAR. CRUZANDO FRONTERAS, BUILDING BRIDGES, a documentary film on Gloria Anzaldua by Paola Zaccaria and Daniele Basilio.   In this biopic on Gloria Anzaldúa, the effort has been to document how her creative mind worked visually, how she was interested in art, and consequently her influence on women artists. After having gone through Anzaldúa’s papers (published and unpublished works, graphic works, collection of posters, buttons and t-shirts, etc) collected at Austin University, Texas, I have been able to map her links with artists, activists and cultural centers and interviewed women who were inspired by her thinking and poetics (such as Liliana Wilson, Santa Barraza, Juana Alicia, Amalia-Mesa Bains, Antonia Castañeda, Betita Martinez, Graciela Sanchez, Gloria Ramirez, Irene Reti, and al.), we have shot articrafts, photographies, video, painting, murales inspired to other artists by her poetics and theory of la frontera.  On the Texas borderlands in McAllen and Hidalgo (shot in April 2008, before the actual building of the wall), we captured the material passageways between Mexican and American borders along the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo River which were the source for the texture of crossing which makes her work so special (insider guide: Daniel García Ordaz ). A special attention has been devoted to the poet’s altares reposited in the University Library of Santa Cruz, CA (curator: Irene Reti), which were an integral part of her spiritual life and creative process as a writer and may be the best picture to visualize the frame of her creative process. The editing of the video has been built on the idea that the film should have the structure of an altar, a mestizo style and a poetic-musical fronterizo rhythm (given by the music of Lourdes Perez).  
• Invitational Panel and Reception reflecting on the impact of Renato Rosaldo's book, Culture and Truth. Speakers include Ruth Behar, Pat Zavella, Arlene Torres, and Claudio Lomnitz. A rocking reception with live music follows. Latino Studies Program, New York University. Offsite. Details TBA. 
• 5-6:30 pm Recepción de Despedida—Mari Castañeda. Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Holly Week Services

St. Peter The Apostle Parish
94 Somerset Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 545-6820 Fax: (732) 545-4069
A Parish of The Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen NJ

Thursday, April 9
9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer

11:30 p.m. Night Prayer

Friday, April 10
9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
3:00 p.m. Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
7:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Saturday, April 11
9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
8:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter

Sunday, April 12 Easter Sunday:
The Resurrection of the Lord, 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.