Pacific Northwest Foco

Chicana/o Studies Matters:  The Birth and Rebirth of Raza Studies North of Aztlán

NACCS Pacific Northwest Regional Conference in coordination
with the Inland Northwest Chicana/o Latina/o Studies and Alliance and the Pacific Northwest Center for Indigenous and Mestizo Research

Friday-Saturday, November 11th-12th 2011,
Washington State University, Pullman

Call for Submissions

The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Pacific Northwest Foco, in coordination with the Inland Northwest Chicana/o Latina/o Studies and Alliance and the Pacific Northwest Center for Indigenous and Mestizo Research, requests paper and panel proposals for its regional conference to be held at Washington State University, Pullman.

Interdisciplinary papers, panels and workshops that address the following topics are especially welcome:

1. Chicana/os Latina/os  and the Environment
2. Chicana/o Cultures in the Northwest
3. Queering the far North of Aztlán
4. Creating Latino/a Visibility and/or Challenging White Dominance
5. Raza and Immigration and Struggles for Citizenship
6. Latina/o Labor and Politics in the Pacific Northwest
7. Status of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies in the Northwest
8. Chicana/o Latina/o Access to Education, Reforming The Educational Systems Of The Northwest

Papers should be 20 minutes, panels will be one hour and half (including questions).  Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community members are all encouraged to submit. 

Proposals: Send an abstract of no more than 150 words. Include a list of contacts (phone, email, snail mail) for all panelists and chairs.  For complete panels, include an abstract for the full panel as well as for each panelist.  State whether the proposal is for a paper panel, workshop, or round table. Deadline for proposals: September 30, 2011.

Send proposals and inquiries to:
Linda Heidenreich Zuñiga                                   
lheidenr "at" aol.com
 
In the subject line write “NACCS FOCO 2011” 

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 Foco 2010

Chale con SB1070/HB2280:
Standing Our Ground in the Community and Academy

Regional Conference

Oregon State University
October 22-23, 2010
Corvallis, Oregon

Call for Submissions

Emphasizing cultural diversity and expressions of Chicana/o experiences through artistic, cultural, literary, and scholarly productions, NACCS and Chicana/o scholars are invited to submit papers, exhibits, or cultural productions for the NACCS Northwest Regional Conference at Oregon State University. The conference incorporates a multidisciplinary understanding of scholarship and therefore accepts papers from varied disciplines covering a wide range of topics. While the primary theme for the conference centers on SB1070/HB2280, other topics related to the Chicana/o experiences in the Northwest are also welcomed.  A 100-250 word abstract should be submitted for the paper, panel, or exhibit.

Deadline for Submissions: August 7^th, 2010

Send proposals electronically to the email below:
Richard Orozco, PhD
Oregon State University
College of Education
Waldo Hall 414
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3502
Telephone: (541) 737-3741
Email: rick.orozco@oregonstate.edu

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Breaking Borders, Building Bridges:
Creating Community through Chicana and Chicano Studies

Regional Conference, 30-31 October 2009
Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

Foco Program now available

The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies and the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) at Central Washington University (CWU) are proud to sponsor the 2009 Pacific Northwest Foco regional conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. The conference will be held in Ellensburg, Washington from Friday, October 30 to Saturday, October 31, 2009.

As we at CWU have been creating the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies in recent years, we have been impressed by Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies’ capacity to break down borders and build bridges among communities. Hopefully, the presentations will expand our knowledge and understanding of the potential to break oppressive borders and build strong bridges on the vibrant historical legacy of our communities. 

Hotel, Resturants, Airport, and Driving information follow below.

Key Note Speaker

LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ
Poet, Author, Critic

Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with ten nationally published books. He is best known for his 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis’ poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and “Foreword” magazine’s Silver Book Award, among others. His two children’s books have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two “Skipping Stones” Honor Award, and a Parent’s Choice Book Award, among others. A new novel, Music of the Mill, was published in the spring of 2005 by Rayo/HarperCollins; a poetry collection, My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004, came out in the fall of 2005 from Curbstone Press/Rattle Edition.

Presentations
During the conference, participants will cover the following topics and themes.

•  “Flowering Spirituality and Rooted Trees”
• “Women and Sexual Violence in the US-Mexico Borderlands”
•  “Perceptions of Discrimination: An Analysis of Four National Survey of Latinos”
• “Boxing an Alternative to Gangs in South Park, Not Just an After School Program”
• “The Early Beginnings of Black and Chicana Feminists, Gender Relations and Cultural Influences in the Civil Rights and Chicano Movement”
• “Ladybug under the Leaf: The African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement”
• “College Access or a Full Metal Jacket: Why Chicano/Latino Students Chose the Military over College”
• “Breaching Gender Constraints: The Epic Mestiza Heroína’s Search for Mestiza Consciousness in Sandra Cisneros’s House on Mango Street”
• “ The Full Half of the Glass: Stress and Resilience in Minority College Students who Come from Disrupted Homes, College Completion and Attendance, with Achievement Motivation as a Mitigating Factor”
• “The Social Support Systems of First-Year Students in the College Assistance Migrant Program”
• “ Genesis and Evolution of “La Causa” in Seattle and the Yakima Valley: A History of ‘ El Movimiento in Washington State”
• “Navigating College: First Generation Chicana/o, Latina/o Undergraduate Students’ Experiences in Accessing Research Opportunities”
• “Chicana Native Women Activist of the Northwest”
  “ Mixteca Womanist Thought: A Post Feminist Analysis on Important Things  Through the Life and Eyes of a Tindureña Immigrant Family”
• “Building Bridges Through the Systematic Layers of Oppression: The Life Experiences of Working Class, First Generation College Chicana/Latina Students in the Pacific Northwest”
• “ Borders: Nature, Culture, and the Construction of Power”
• “Displacement in Colombia: Violence and Agency”
• “The Need for Political Economy and Popular Education in Chicana/o, Latina/o Studies Today”
• “The Power of the Telling Mutaciones, Cruzadas, Desvios, Relajos, Desmadres, Metamorphosis y Time Travel Along Las Fronteras del Ser”
• “Bodies of Resistance: Chicana/o and Indigenous Histories Under a Colonial Sky”
• “The Mestizo as Witch: Containing the Nineteenth-Century Queer Chicano Body”
• “Mestizo Religión, Mestizo Bodies: Constructing a Nineteenth-Century Counter-narrative of Santa Fe”
  “Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Relationship to Land and Militarism”
• “Breaking Borders, Building Bridges: University Programs Serving the Latina/o Community in the Pacific Northwest”
  

Photographic Exhibit
Mexicanos in Spokane, Washington, 1932-1992
Dr. Carlos Maldonado

Historical research on the formation of the Mexican origin population in Spokane, Washington, 1930-1992, illustrated with personal, family, business, and social photographs of the Mexicano community in the second largest city in the state of Washington. Carlos Maldonado was the director of the Chicano Education Program at EWU (1987-2007), and contributed in the development of Chicana/o Studies in the region through his participation at the national and regional level in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. He passed away on September 18, 2008.

Students of Change: Los del ’68: Screening and Panel Discussion
In the fall of 1968 a group of Mexican American youth left the rural Yakima Valley and entered the University of Washington amidst a time of great transformation.  These students would not only experience great change...they would be it!  Catch up with the documentary producers and some of the original students of change.  Hear about their experiences in opening the doors to higher education for students of color and find out how it affected their lives' work over the following forty years.

All of the conference presentations will be taking place in the SURC at CWU, Rooms 135, 137 A & B, and 140.

Contact person: Dr. Gilberto Garcia, Pacific Northwest Rep, 509-963-2416 or ggarcia@cwu.edu

Hotels in the area:
The following is a list of hotels in the Ellensburg area. You can also check the web for photos of the hotels listed for the conference. You can check the following site, but there are others available in the web. These are provided only as information for the presenters/participants, since there are not special rates for the conference.

http://www.washington-hotel.org/cities/Ellensburg/hotel/1884405/

Hampton Inn -1-800-551-2409 2705 Triple L Loop, Ellensburg, WA 98926	Best Western Lincoln Inn and Suites - 509-925-4244 or 1-800-551-2409 211 West Umptanum Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Comfort Inn - 509-925-7037  1-800-551-2409 1722 Canyon Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926	Days Inn – 509-933-1500  1-800-551-2409 901 Berry Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Holiday Inn Express -1-800-551-2409 1620 Canyon Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926	Inn at Goose Creek -1-800-551-2409 1720 Canyon Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Nites Inn Motel – 509-962-9600  1-800-551-2409 1200 South Ruby Street, Ellensburg, WA 98926	Quality Inn and Conference Center – 509-925-4244  or 1-800-551-2409 1700 Canyon Blvd, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Super 8 Motel - 509-962-6888  or 1-800-551-2409 1500 Canyon Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926

    
Restaurants in the area:
The following is a list of Mexican restaurants in the area. These are provided only as information for the presenters/participants, since there are not special discounts for the conference. There are other non-Mexican outlets in the area, please check in the web for information on these and other places in Ellensburg, Wa.

El Caporal Mexican Restaurant 107 W 1st St Unit A Cle Elum, WA 98922 22.95 miles from Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 674-4284	Fiesta En Jalisco 1315 S Canyon Rd Ellensburg, WA 98926 1.17 miles from Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 933-4422
Los Cabos 1318 S Canyon Rd Ellensburg, WA 98926	Los Compadres Mexican Restaurant 203 W 9th Ave Ellensburg, WA 98926
Tacos Chalitos 209 S Main St Ellensburg, WA 98926-3609 (509) 962-5643	Taqueria Martin 200 N Kittitas St Ellensburg, WA 98926 0.32 miles from Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 962-2347
Taqueria Martin 410 S Main St Ellensburg, WA 98926 0.53 miles from Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 962-2347

Airport and Directions to conference site in Ellensburg, Wa.
Presenters and participants can fly into SEATAC airport or the Yakima airport.

For those who need a shuttle to get from or to the conference,
check the following web site: http://www.airporter.com/shuttle/
1-866-235-5247

Driving Directions
Seattle
Take I-90 East bound to Ellensburg Exit #106. Follow the road through the intersection of Main for 5 more blocks.

Yakima, Tri Cities
Take I-82 North bound to I-90 West bound for Seattle. Take the very first exit #109 towards campus. Take a right off the off-ramp and follow Canyon Road/Main Street to University Way. Turn right on 8th and go 5 more blocks.

Spokane
Take I-90 West bound to Ellensburg Exit #109. Take a right off the off-ramp and follow Canyon Road/Main Street to University Way. Turn right on University Way.

Wenatchee
Take U.S. 97 South bound over Blewett Pass into Ellensburg. Follow University Way through the intersection of Main Street and continue for 5 more blocks.

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2007 Regional Foco Conference
Class Dismissed? Reintegrating critical studies of class into Chicana/o Studies

March 22-23, 2007
University of Washington - Seattle

Conference Program

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2005 Conference

El Otro Norte:
Raza, Race and Resistance
in the Latina/o Northwest

NACCS Pacific Northwest Regional Conference
and the Latino/a Northwest Research Symposium

See conference website

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Saturday, March 4th 2006, 8:45 am-5:00 pm
Smith/CUE Bldg. 202, 207, 209 at Washington State University, Pullman

8:45 – 9:30 am, CUE Atrium	Registration and Opening Remarks
9:30 – 11:00am, CUE 207	Encuentros:  Constructing Community and Identity in Northern Aztlán  From Texas to Washington State: Chicano/a Recruitment, Migration and Settlement Josue Estrada, Washington State University   Rhetorics of La Raza: Some Implications for North Aztlán Siskanna Naynaha, Washington State University   The Chicana Perspective on Feminist Therapy: Complicating White Feminist Therapy Sarah Rangel, Washington State University   Chair: Cheris Brewer, Washington State University Comment: Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Washington State University
9:30 – 11:00 am. CUE 209	Culture, Identity and Social Change: Subverted and Subversive Texts by our Communities for our Communities Finding the Individual within the Leviathan: Identity and Urban Form in “Amorres Perros” Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson and Jonathan Thompson, Whitman College   Reality or Myth?: Mexican Foundational Myths in  Carlos Fuentes’ “Chac Mool” Alexander Sugar, Whitman College                               Translations: Using the Cultural Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change in the Pacific Northwest  Tomas Alberto Madrigal, Central Washington University   Chair:  Yolanda Flores Niemann, Washington State University Comment: Linda Zuñiga Heidenreich, Washington State University
11:00 - 12 noon CUE Atrium	Luncheon Buffet presented by San Miguel’s Taco
12:00-1:30pm, Smith/CUE 202	Keynote Speaker: Devon G. Peña Indigenous Diasporas and the Future of Eco-Justice in North America Professor of Anthropology and Chicano Studies University of Washington, Seattle
1:30 – ­2:00 pm, CUE Atrium	Book Signing
2:00-3:30 pm, CUE 207	Borders and Boundaries: The Politics of Immigration, Citizenship and Education                             'Si muero lejos de tí … [México]’:Mexicanas and the Formation of Transnational Citizenship, 1940-2000 Luz Maria Gordillo, Washington State University, Vancouver                               Las Mujeres del Noreoste: Chicana Activists at the University of Washington Raul Garcia, Independent Scholar                               Dignidad Sin Fronteras Rosalinda Guillen, De Comunidad a Comunidad Community to Community Development http://www.foodjustice.org/   Chair: Lisa Catanzarite, Washington State University Comment: The Audience
2:00 - 3:30 pm, CUE 209	Roundtable: Latino Coalition Building in Walla Walla:  Challenges and Opportunities? Cynthia Selde, Latin American Forum Berta Herrera Trejo, Education Coordinator for Broetje Orchards Joey August, Latino Outreach Coordinator for Friends of Walla Walla Facilitator:  Margo Tamez, Washington State University Comment: the Audience
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Smith/CUE 203	Plenary: Past, Present and Future: Chicano/a Studies Research in the Pacific Northwest Marcos Pizarro, San Jose State University Jerry Garcia, Michigan State University Gilberto Garcia, Eastern Washington University, Maria Cuevas, Yakima Valley Community College Chair, José M. Alamillo, Washington State University
5:00 – 5:30 pm, CUE Atrium	Book Signing
5:00 - 6:00 pm, CUE 207	Organizing Against the Minutemen Project on the U.S-Canada Border Sponsored by WSU M.E,Ch.A. Rosalinda Guillen, Workshop for Students

For more information see: http://www.josealamillo.com/latinonorthwest.htm