Latin American Studies Conference

The Latin American Studies (LAS) Conference is an encounter of multiple disciplines revolving around Latin America.

This year the theme of the conference, "Study of the Americas", is “(Re)thinking Migratory Communities in a Shifting Political Landscape.”

There will be a series of panels, roundtables and presenters from faculty, students, and community gathering to discuss relevant issues affecting Latin America as well as Latin American communities in the United States.

Day 1, Wednesday, April 19, 9 am - 4 pm (In-person) SMSU South Events Center B (SUS-106)

Day 2, Thursday, April 20, 9 am - 4 pm (Virtual): Join LAS - Day 2 via Zoom.

Agenda

DAY 1 – Wednesday, APRIL 19

IN-PERSON SESSIONS

Location: Santos Manuel Student Union South Events Center B (USU-106)

8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Opening remarks
- Provost Rafik Mohamed
- Dean Rueyling Chuang, College of Arts and Letters
- Professor Arturo Fernández Gibert, Acting Chair, LAS Studies Advisory Board
- Angelique León, Graduate Student Success Center, SMSU
9:15 – 10:15am Borderlands, Migration and Diaspora
- Moderator: Angelique León, GSSC, CSUSB
- Giovanna Boscaino Rojas
  - Vicecónsul para Asuntos de Diáspora, Consulado de El Salvador en San Bernardino
  - "Salvadoran diaspora through the decades"/"La diáspora salvadoreña a través de las décadas"
- Marielos Soto
  - Vicecónsul General, Consulado de El Salvador en San Bernardino
  - “La gestión humanitaria de los migrantes salvadoreños”
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30am Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Roundtable
- Moderator: Eric Herrera, CSUSB
- Viviana Álvarez, “Becoming Sandinistas: The Scope of Student Activism in the Nicaraguan Revolution”
- Mariano Peinado, “Justice Reynoso Advocacy work in El Centro CA”
- Jaime Castro, “Colonial Virus: The Detrimental Impact of Colonization on Native American Community Health”
11:30am – 12:00noon Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:00pm Plenary Session
- Moderator: Dr. George Thomas, World Langs. & Lits., CSUSB
- Dr. Deborah A. Boehm
  - Andrew Carnegie Fellow 2021-2023
  - Foundation Professor, Anthropology and Gender, Race, and Identity
  - University of Nevada, Reno
  - “Confinement and Liberation Across Borders: The Transnationality of U.S. Immigration Detention”
1:00 – 1:15pm Coffee Break
1:15 – 2:15pm Hybrid Expressions and Transculturations
- Moderator: Dr. Teresa Velasquez, Anthropology, CSUSB
- Adam Boggs
  - Ph.D. candidate (ABD)
  - Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California-Los Angeles
  - “Transculturations: Reading Al-Andalus in the California Missions”
- Robert Coronado, Jr.
  - MA student, History
  - California State University, Los Angeles
  - "Renaissance Codices: The Relación de Michoacán, the Codex Mendoza, and Indo-Humanism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain"
- Joshua Mondragón
  - Undergraduate student, Anthropology
  - California State University, San Bernardino
  - “Afrolatine California”
2:15 – 2:30pm Break
2:30 – 4:00pm Panel de Consulados
- Moderator: Jairo León, Undocumented Student Success Center, CSUSB
- Manuel Eugenio Flores Tobar, Cónsul General, El Salvador
- Licda. Raquel Donado, Vicecónsul General, Guatemala
- Carlos Giménez Zamudio, Cónsul Adscrito, México

DAY 2 – Thursday, APRIL 20

VIRTUAL SESSIONS LAS - Day 2 via Zoom. MEETING ID: 846 2596 0579

9:00 – 10:15am Transcultural Expressions, Movements and Identities
- Moderator: Dr. Carmen Dagostino, CSUSB
- Dr. Sarah Dowman
  - Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Literatures
  - California State University, San Bernardino
  - “The Next World: Manifesting Justice Through Queer Latinx/e Punk Art”
- Dr. Martha C. Galván-Mandujano
  - Assistant Professor, World Languages & Cultures
  - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  - “La lucha y resistencia de los pueblos Mayas en Guatemala: Memoriales y murales en Rabinal, Plan de Sánchez, Cobán y San Cristóbal Verapaz”
- John Torres
  - Chair, Department of Anthropology
  - Mt. San Jacinto College
  - “Migrations and the California Mission Indian Identity”
10:30 – 11:30am Approaches to public policies, education recognition and social stereotypes
- Moderator: Esteban Córdoba de la Barrera, CSUSB
- Dra. Karina Galván Zavala
  - Profesora-investigadora, División de Ciencias Económico Administrativas
  - Universidad de Guanajuato
  - “Diagnóstico del gasto público orientado a políticas públicas para la reducción de desigualdades entre países: el caso del programa de Atención integral al migrante y su familia e internacionalización de Guanajuato”
- Macario Ortiz-Franco
  - Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice, Chicanx/Latinx Latin America Studies Program
  - Sacramento State University
  - “Los efectos del colonialismo Interno y la crisis Ideológica dentro del sistema del CSU por la carencia de departamentos Chicanos/as”
- Stephanie Martínez
  - Undergraduate student, Political Science, UCLA
  - “The Untold Narrative of an Undocumented Worker”
11:30 – 12:00noon Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:00pm Plenary Session
- Moderator: Dr. Arturo Fernández Gibert, World Langs & Lits., CSUSB
- Dr. María José Navia Torelli
  - Assistant Professor of Spanish and author
  - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  - “Los mundos dentro de este mundo: sobre la literatura y la práctica de la escritura”
1:15 – 2:15pm Latin American Women’s Literature and Latino/a/x Music
- Moderator: Dr. Arturo Fernández Gibert , World Langs. & Lits., CSUSB
- Andrea Penman-Lomelí
  - Doctoral Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
  - “Debt and Gossip in Rosario Ferré’s Sweet Diamond Dust”
- Hana Vega
  - Graduate student, MA in Communication Studies
  - California State University, San Bernardino
  - “Anticolonial Feminist Reading of Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic”
- Alberto Garcia Loza
  - Graduate student, MA in Spanish
  - California State University, San Bernardino
  - “La identidad latina a través de la Latin Music”
2:30 – 4:00pm CSUSB Communication Studies Session
- “Metamorphosis as a Consequence of Immigration, Migration, and Transborder Sensibility Via the Power of Art”
- Moderator: Dr. Roberto Oregel, Communication Studies, CSUSB
- Olivia Barrionuevo, artist
- Dr. Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, artist, professor, and scholar
  - Associate Professor of Decolonial Media, Transborder Culture, and Communication Studies
  - Department of Communication Studies
- Sergio Vasquez, artist
- Dr. Roberto S. Oregel, independent filmmaker
  - Assistant Professor of Film, Department of Communication Studies

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