Latin American Studies Conference 2023 Day 2

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

VIRTUAL SESSIONS Join 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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