Annual Symposium co-sponsored by Southern Methodist University's

  William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
  Ethnic Studies Program

Mapping Memories & Migrations:  Re-Thinking Latina Histories

The Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak, Dallas, Texas 75204

Saturday, February 28, 2004

8:30 a.m.           Welcome by Sherry L. Smith, Department of History, Southern Methodist University, and Acting Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Welcome by Symposium Co-Chair John R. Chávez, Department of History,

Southern Methodist University and Executive Board Member of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

8:45 a.m.           Introduction by Symposium Co-Chair Vicki L. Ruiz, History Department, University of California—Irvine

“Engendering Regions and Latina History”

9:15 a.m.           First Session: A WOMAN’S PLACE?

María Montoya, Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan

“Creating an American Home:  Gender, Space and Resistance in Colorado's Coal Camps"

Lydia R. Otero, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Arizona

“La Placita Committee: Claiming Place and Challenging Historical Memory”

10:30 a.m.        Second Session:  MIGRATION & SETTLEMENT

Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Department of History, The University of Texas at El Paso

“Cruzando la linea: Engendering the History of Border Mexican Children During the Early Twentieth Century”

Gabriela F. Arredondo, Latin American & Latina/o Studies Department, University of California – Santa Cruz

"Engendering the Midwest: Inter-War Chicago as a Window into Latina Histories" 

Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY

“The Star in My Compass: Claiming Intellectual Space in the American Cultural Landscape”

1:00                Third Session: EMPOWERMENT ACROSS THE LAND

Carmen Teresa Whalen, History Department, Williams College

“Puerto Rican Women and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in Postwar New York City”

Marisela R. Chávez, Irvine Doctoral Fellow in the American Studies Department, Occidental College

“California Chicanas and the International Women’s Year, Mexico City - 1975”

Elizabeth Salas, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

“Genderfication of the ‘Floating Borderlands’ of Washington and British Columbia, Canada”

3:15 p.m.          Roundtable Discussion:  MAPPING MEMORIES & MIGRATIONS

4:45 p.m.          Closing Remarks

5:00 p.m.          Symposium concludes

For information on the presenters and their publications, click here.

For more information about this seminar or other Clements Center activities, please contact the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas at 214-768-3684 or email at swcenter@smu.edu.

Last updated January 21, 2004.