Chicana and Chicano Studies in the 21st Century:
The Continuities and Ruptures within the Field
NACCS 2024 • April 24-27
San Francisco, CA
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Submission deadline is October 15th. Submit your proposal now!
The current state of the world—catastrophic migration, climate change/crisis, attacks on ethnic studies programs including Chicana and Chicano Studies, banning of books, whitening of history, elimination of affirmative action programs, attacks on women’s reproductive rights and transgender communities, diversity, and growth of the Latinx community, including Afro-Latinx and Indigenous—is a continuation of areas that have long been our foci in the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Simultaneously, this moment also offers ruptures within the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies that pushes us to examine these foci anew.
Within this current state of the world, alliances and organizing—activism—continue. Such organizing mold their strategies within the changes of the 21st Century. For example, intersectional and transnational organizing of migration and climate change include farmworkers and domestic workers. What are the returns to previous strategies and alliances? Where are the partings?
Artistically, there appears to be openings in film and music for example that need to and should be situated within the continuities of artistic and cultural productions. What is new within this moment?
How do we, as Chicana and Chicano Studies scholars, engage with the theoretical, practical, and artistic breaks and maintenance in the first two decades of the 21st Century? In other words, how do we as academics, activists, and artists confront the returns and openings of our field? What is our place in conversations of climate change/crisis? What is our response to attacks on Ethnic Studies, including Chicana and Chicano Studies programs? How do we respond to the differences and sameness on the attacks on women’s reproductive rights and transgender communities? What does organizing look like today? How does art continue to support theory and practice?
NACCS 2024 calls for papers and presentations from multi-disciplinary approaches on the continuities and discontinuities within the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies including but not limited to:
- Catastrophic migrations
- Climate change/crisis
- Women’s reproductive rights
- Transgender communities
- Afro-Latinx Communities
- Indigenous Communities
- Attacks on Chicana and Chicano Studies programs
- K-20 Education
- Organizing in the 21st Century
- Art and cultural production the 21st Century
Submission deadline is October 15th. Submit your proposal now!
Outcome notification will be sent January 2024.
All presenters are expected to be members of the association and register (forthcoming) for the conference.
Conference Site is the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel: Guest room rates: $189 Single/Double, $199 Triple/Quad plus tax. Rates are available from April 22-28, 2024
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
333 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102