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November 21st, 2008
Transnational Spaces, Transborder Places: A Mellon Colloquium
Recent scholarly attention to borders and borderlands represents an opening to social phenomena and frameworks of analysis historically neglected across the disciplines. This colloquium will bring together distinguished scholars of borderlands broadly conceived through ethnographic inquiry. Their collaboration represents a comparative approach, uncommon across disciplines, which considers geopolitical and cultural border/lands of the United States-Mexico and Mexico-Guatemala. Presenters will engage transnational and transborder perspectives to explore multiple meanings of border/lands, including: the interplay of cultural constructs, such as race/ethnicity, gender, and class, with notions of geographic space; the impact of international migration on women’s identities and roles; neoliberalism and marginality; and reshaping power through indigenous and mestiza women’s collective organization and daily resistance within global processes. Panelists will present their work, compare their findings, and discuss with each other and audience members how communities, cultures, and people transcend borders and create borderlands.
Presentations and Presenters
“Netza-York and Other Transnational Urban Borderlands”. Dr. Federico Besserer, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, and Coordinator, Transnational Studies Program, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Migration to the North in the Mam Zone: New Identities, New Border Crossings in the Southern Mexican Frontier”. Dr. Rosalva Aida Hernández, Professor and Senior Researcher, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico.
“ ‘¡NAFTA No, Trabajos Sí!’: Dislocation and Neoliberal Marginality at the U.S.-Mexico Border”. Dr. Francisca James Hernández, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.
Moderator/Commentator: Dr. David Montejano, Professor, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.
Sponsorship
The colloquium is an initiative of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and generous co-sponsors: Department of Ethnic Studies, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Chicana/o Studies Program, Department of Gender & Women's Studies and the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Latino Policy Research, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Geography, Beatrice Bain Research Group
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November 17th, 2008 | 3:30-5pm
A Post U.S. Presidential Election Dialogue
Executive Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, & Diversity, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Lecturer in Residence, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
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NEW!: The Decolonial and the Politics of Liberation:
Ramón Grosfoguel, Associate Professor, Chicano Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Nathalia Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Purdue University
Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education, UCLA
AGENDA
DAY 1: Colonial and Decolonial Epistemologies
November 5th, 2008
Part 1: Opening Remarks - Patricia Baquedano-López, Ramón Grosfoguel
DAY 2: A Critique of Global Capitalism: The Cartography of Power of the Modern / Colonial World
November 6th, 2008
DAY 3: Pedagogies and Epistemologies of Incorporation, Dissent, and Liberation: Alternatives to the Global System
November 7th, 2008
Part 1: Closing Remarks - Patricia Baquedano-López, Peter McLaren
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October 21st, 2008 | 3:30-5pm
Strategies for Latino Empowerment in 2008 and Beyond
Antonio Gonzalez, President of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
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October 16th, 2008 | 3:30 - 5pm
Planning, Practice and Politics: Strategic Engagement in Community Development
Teresa Córdova, Chair and Associate Professor,
Community and Regional Planning Program,
The University of New Mexico
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October 2nd, 2008 | 3:30 - 5pm
Whither the Poor Latino Neighborhood?
Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Department of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
Respondent: Cid Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley; view his paper here
Click here for more info on Prof. Jankowski's new book.
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September 25th, 2008 | 3:30 - 5pm
Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Department of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
Respondent: Deborah McKoy, Director and Founder of the UC Berkeley Center for Cities and Schools at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Click here for more info on Prof. Jankowski's new book.
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