Theme:  The Current and Future Status of the Chicana/o Studies Discipline:  A Pacific Northwest Perspective and Approach

October 19-20, 2012
Heritage University, Smith Family Hall in Arts and Science Building
Toppenish, Washington

Keynote Speaker:  Sean Acre, PhD Candidate in Education at the University of Arizona and Founding Director of TUSD Mexican American Studies Program

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Friday Program
4:00 - 7:00 pm - Registration
4:30 - 4:30 pm - Opening Reception
4:30 - 4:35 pm - Welcome - Jose G. Moreno, Heritage University; Maria Cuevas, Yakima Valley Community College
4:35 - 4:50 pm - Opening Statements by Heritage University - Winona Wynn, Chair of Engish and Humanities; Curt Guaglianone, Provost and Vice Present of Academic Affairs
5:00 - 6:30 pm - Panel One:  The Current Status of the Chicana/o Studies in the Pacific Northwest
6:30 - 6:45 pm - Break
6:45 - 8:15 pm - Panel Two:  The Future Status of the Chicana/o Studies in the Pacific Northwest

Saturday, October 20, 2012
8:00 - 11:30 am - Registration
8:30 - 10:00 am - Session One

Panel One: State Politics, Social Movements, and Immigration Cultural Production - Room #2364

• Chair:  Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University
• Paper - Immigration and Masculinity in the Films of Danny Trejo - Tia Butler, Whitman College
• Paper - The Commissions on  Hispanic and Latino Affairs in the United States - Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University
• Paper - Radicalism and Political Activism to A Chicana/o Studies Movement:  The University of Washington Educational Experiment - Jose G. Moreno, Heritage University.

Workshop One - Centros Culturales - Carving Out Creative Hotbeds for Social Justice Within and Outside of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Room #2366

• Francisco Romero, Raza Press and Media Association

10:15 - 11:45 am - Session Two

Panel Two:  HB 2281 and the Status of Chicana/o Studies: A Time of Crisis, A Time for Remedies - Room #2364

• Chair:  Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson, Whitman, College
• Paper - Struggle, Expansion, Banning:  Toward a Critical Understanding of Ethnic Studies in the Neoliberal Era - Jorge Enrique Moraga, Washington State University
• Paper - Colorblind Patriarchy:  Using Poststructural Feminism to Challenge the Discourse of Arizona's HB 2281 - Rebecca Fowler, Washington State University
• Paper - Against Fascism:  Why Chicana/o Studies Must Florish in Tucson and Throughout the Nation - Linda Heidenreich, Washington State University

Panel Three:  Mexican/Latino Research at Heritage University - room #2362

• Chair:  Ann Olson, Heritage University
• Paper - The Power of the Virgin:  Changing Chicana Perceptions - Ann Olson, Heritage University
• Paper - Bilingual Education in the Yakima Valley: Flaws, Effects, and Parental Engagement - Isarely Flores, Heritage University
• Paper - Cultural Education from the Outside In:  The Benefits to Community and Self - Michael Cable, Heritage University
• Paper - Issues of Conflict and Victimization in Sandra Cisneros' "Never Marry Mexican" - Amber Richards, Heritage University

Roundtable One - Chicana/o Studies and the Demographics of Change in Tri-Cities, Washington - Room #2366

• E. Mark Moreno - Columbia Basin College
• Estephany Fuentes - Columbia Basin College

12:00 - 2:00 pm - Luncheon and Keynote Speaker

• Moderator - Francisco Romero, Raza Press and Media Association
• Welcome Satement
  • Linda Heidenreich, Washington State University and NACCS Pacific Northwest Foco Chair
  • Maria Cuevas, Yakima Valley Community College
  • Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University
• Introduction to the Keynote Speaker - Jose G. Moreno, Heritage University
• Keynote Speaker - Sean Arce - Co. Founder of TUSD Mexican American Studies Program and Save Ethnic Studies Committee (For more information:  www.saveethnicstudies.org)

2:15 - 3:45 pm - Session Three

Panel Four - Migrant Education in the Yakima Valley and Washington State - Room #2366

• Chair - Martin Meraz-Garcia, Eastern Washington University
• Paper - Our "Settle" Migrants:  The Construction of the Wyoming-Mexican Diaspora in Washington State, 1937-1946 - Gonzalo Guzman, University of Washington
• Paper - Arkansas In My Blood:  The Reluctant Migrants of Izard County, Greg Hinze, Heritage University

4:00 - 5:30 pm - Regional Business Meeting
5:30 - 6:00 pm - Closing Statements