Pacific Northwest Foco

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Latina/o community in the Pacific Northwest shares a similar historical experience in the formation of new communities beyond the traditional “Southwest”. These communities lack the historical legacy of an established intellectual or scholarly tradition. Therefore, this symposium explores the development of an explicit intellectual tradition in the Northwest region and encourages the submission of scholarship from new voices and new directions covering the broad spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. It is open to a diverse set of disciplines and themes on the experience of Latinas/os at the national or regional level.

History Politics Economics Psychology Sociology

Anthropology Literature Fine Arts Education

Please submit proposals to:
Dr. Gilberto Garcia
Department of Political Science
400 E. University Way  
Ellensburg, WA  98926 or via email to ggarcia@cwu.edu.

Deadline for submissions of panel or individual paper proposals is October 6, 2008.

Symposium sponsored by the Chicano Education Program at Eastern Washington University.

For hotel information click here

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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