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CLPR is pleased to be hosting the Latina/o Academy notes and materials on our website. This site will also serve as a temporary clearinghouse for matters related to the Academy. These pages contain the conference agenda, the proposal for the Academy, photos, and videos of keynotes and panel presentations.In Search of a Collective Voice: The Latina/o Academy 2008
(Latina/o Academy Conference Participants)
The massive marches for immigrant rights in the Spring of 2006 challenged everyone to conceive of new efforts, strategies, and institutions to oppose trends to criminalize and systematically marginalize Latina/os and other people of color and minority groups in the United States. The demographic growth of these communities also demands new interventions in the public spehere that promote the exercise of critique, the search for justice, and social transformation. This conference brings together experts on existing efforts to connect research with communities, and scholarly work with social change. Over 80 core participants from different parts of the United States met for this historic gathering to discuss the potential of founding a Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences. That would bring together Latina/o scholars in the search for social and epistemic justice.
Video Footage of Latina/o Academy Conference
Agenda of Meeting: May 2-3, 2008 (PDF)
Materials:
Initial Proposal (PDF)
Signatories
Planning Committee (PDF)
Pictures of Event
Video Footage
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