The Chicano Challenge: Evaluating our dualities
Fall Conference 2007
On behalf of the Chicano Caucus, I cordially invite you to this year’s fall 2007 East Coast Chicana/o Student forum held at Columbia University in the City of New York. We are committed to continuing the longstanding tradition of bringing together Chicano students from Universities across the Northeast to discuss relevant political, economic, social, and cultural issues that we face as a Chicano community.
The title for this year’s conference is The Chicano Challenge; Evaluating our Dualities. We will discuss in open forum 3 particular dualities: 1) Bilingualism within society, 2) The feminist movement within the Chicano Patriarchy, 3) Chicano [Mis]Representation in the media. We are honored to have been chosen to host the fall conference once again and hope that this year’s conference will again serve as an effective forum for intellectual discourse, as well as a precursor for the productive conferences to come next semester.
Included with this letter are the following:
Registration Form*** (to be printed out and sent by October 6)
A List of Workshops
Please keep in mind that we will be matching hosts with guests at random. If you would much rather room with someone from your own school, please let us know in the comment section of the application. We are accepting checks as well as cash. Checks should be made payable to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY/CHICANO CAUCUS and mailed to the address provided on the registration form. If you would rather pay with cash, you may do so upon arrival. In order to pay the regular fee, however, you must send a registration form by mail. Otherwise, you will have to pay the late fee of 35 dollars. If you have to cancel your registration, please do so by 11:59pm on Friday, October 12. After that date, your school is entitled to pay the price for each student registered, regardless of the circumstances.
Any further questions should be directed to Eloy Gardea at erg2104@columbia.edu or Fernando Rojas at fr2120@columbia.edu. Housing questions or concerns should be e-mailed to Rosemary Almonte at ra2226@columbia.edu.
Sincerely,
Fernando Rojas
Chicano Caucus - Chair
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Information
THE East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum
The Chicano Challenge: Evaluating our dualities
Fall Conference 2007
STRUGGLE WITHIN A STRUGGLE:
The Chicana in a Patriarchal Society
This workshop will focus on the patriarchies that operated within the Chicano movement and how Chicanas were able to maneuver within this system. While the phenomenon of patriarchy is pervasive in many societies, it is pertinent to analyze the feminist movement within the Chicana community due to its two-tiered struggle for equality: the struggle towards acceptance in American society, and the struggle to join the fight at an equal level with their male counterparts. This also spawned ideological works complicating the issue of identity even further, no longer just satisfied with seeing the Chicano identity recognized, but that of
the Chicana as well.
WHAT LANGUAGE DOES THE MOVIMIENTO SPEAK?
One of the first dualities that some Chicanos and other Latino groups are faced with is the complexity of learning two languages. Spanish is often spoken around the home, while english is predominantly spoken in education and on television. further complicating the issue is the fact that many chiicanos speak only english. we will explore how the spanish/english dichotomy is influenced through educaiton and popular culture and how the chicano communities interact with the languages and influence their composition. thinking in terms of the future, we must ask where the spanish language stands today.
MY NAME IS RICKY RICARDO:
Latinos in the Media
This panel seeks to explore the impact that the U.S. media has had on the creation of a Chicano/Latino identity. it will also examine contradictions that arise from having a constructed identity imposed on us by an outside entity. Chicanos/Latinos often compromise their identities in order to advance their careers. The discussion will address the steps that need to be taken in order to be in charge of the portrayal of our identity as we move forward.
The Chicano Challenge: Evaluating our dualities
Fall Conference 2007
STRUGGLE WITHIN A STRUGGLE:
The Chicana in a Patriarchal Society
This workshop will focus on the patriarchies that operated within the Chicano movement and how Chicanas were able to maneuver within this system. While the phenomenon of patriarchy is pervasive in many societies, it is pertinent to analyze the feminist movement within the Chicana community due to its two-tiered struggle for equality: the struggle towards acceptance in American society, and the struggle to join the fight at an equal level with their male counterparts. This also spawned ideological works complicating the issue of identity even further, no longer just satisfied with seeing the Chicano identity recognized, but that of
the Chicana as well.
WHAT LANGUAGE DOES THE MOVIMIENTO SPEAK?
One of the first dualities that some Chicanos and other Latino groups are faced with is the complexity of learning two languages. Spanish is often spoken around the home, while english is predominantly spoken in education and on television. further complicating the issue is the fact that many chiicanos speak only english. we will explore how the spanish/english dichotomy is influenced through educaiton and popular culture and how the chicano communities interact with the languages and influence their composition. thinking in terms of the future, we must ask where the spanish language stands today.
MY NAME IS RICKY RICARDO:
Latinos in the Media
This panel seeks to explore the impact that the U.S. media has had on the creation of a Chicano/Latino identity. it will also examine contradictions that arise from having a constructed identity imposed on us by an outside entity. Chicanos/Latinos often compromise their identities in order to advance their careers. The discussion will address the steps that need to be taken in order to be in charge of the portrayal of our identity as we move forward.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
SPRING CONFERENCE '07 - Williams College
VISTA de Williams College
Williamstown, Mass
Fellow Students,
You are cordially invited to join us at
The theme for our Spring conference is “Trafficking Bodies: Agitation through media art and performance.” Invited lecturers, artists, and activists include: award winning director of “Señorita Extraviada,” Lourdes Portillo, world renowned artist/activist Favianna Rodriguez, avant-garde performance artist Nao Bustamante, and critically acclaimed filmmaker Sergio de la Torre.
Sincerely,
Registration Information
Registration Information
The deadline for registration is
Name, Class Year, Gender, Phone Number, Email
Your main ECCSF contact person will receive an invoice via email. The sooner we get your delegate list, the faster we can process an invoice for fundraising at your respective school. All schools will be expected to pay for the number of students that RSVPed upon arrival.
Also, check out our Facebook event-“ECCSF at Williams -Spring 2007”
Registration will begin at
Getting to the
Directions to Williams
Getting to the
the junction of Routes 2 and 7 in the northwest corner of
hour's drive from the Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstates 91, 90, and 87. Driving time from
two hours from
located behind the President’s House (D4 in the campus map). Free parking is available for
visitors.
From
I-87 north to I-84 east
I-84 east to the
Route 295 east to Route 22 north
Route 22 north to Route 43 east
Route 43 east to Route 7 north
Route 7 north to Route 2 east
From
Route 2 west all the way to Williamstown
--or -
Mass Pike (I-90) west to Lee (exit 2)
Route 20 west to Route 7 north
Route 7 north to Route 2 east
From
Follow signs to I-91 north
Exit on Mass Pike (I-90) west to Lee (exit 2)
Route 20 west to Route 7 north
Route 7 north to Route 2 east
Tentative Schedule of Events
Trafficking Bodies: Agitation through media art and performance
8:00 PM Registration,
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast, Lower Level,
Intro by Pablita Santos ’07 and Luz Gomez ‘08
9:30 AM Screening: “Maquilapolis”
11:20 AM Favianna Rodriguez, Artist/Activist
12:45 PM Lunch, Lower Level,
Este Aztlan Meeting, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Paresky
ECCSF Representatives Meeting, Hardy House
2:30 PM Nao Bustamante, Performance Artist/Professor
3:50 PM Lourdes Portillo, Filmmaker/Artist
7:00 PM Dinner, Dodd Living Room
Keynote Address:
Berta Jottar, PhD, Theater & Latina/o Studies
10:00 PM Party, Dodd Living Room
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Hardy House
Thursday, January 4, 2007
WINTER CONFERENCE '07 - Yale
Past, Present and Future: The Chicano Narrative
February 16, 2007-February 18, 2007
The Chicano Narrative, an in media res epic of human struggle, is not over. It weaves the vignettes of the historical farm workers’ labor strikes with the testimony on the 1968 high school walkouts. Our narrative is linked to the first Chicanos who defied institutionalized barriers and asserted their citizenship with the most powerful weapon, higher education. Our narrative records the role of the Chicano as a humanitarian leader in the national pro-immigrant rights demonstrations of May 1st, 2006. The Chicano Narrative traces the success of the student-led actions against the Coca-Cola Corporation’s human rights violations and the injustices of maquiladora industries at home and abroad. These battles in our Chicano Narrative herald the future of a transnational Chicano movement that extends beyond geographic borders. It is not over, the plot of our narrative holds much more to tell.
The East Coast Chicano Student Forum at Yale during February of 2007 aims to create a dialogue between the past, present, and future of the Chicano movement. Our goal is to revisit the past, evaluate our present and define our future. As we consider the temporal boundaries of past, present, and future we will also discuss the ideological borders of our Chicanismo, which challenges us to continuously redefine and redesign. Furthermore, this conference will foster discussion on gender and sexuality and its place in the Chicano Narrative, in order to highlight the expanding definition of the Chicano identity. At this point in the narrative, we must discuss the ethnic composition of the Chicano movement and analyze the idea of the movement as a decolonized one; has the Chicano movement transcended physical borders and can it be declared a “state of mind?”
As Chicano activists we must remember those initial struggles that brought us together and learn from the strength and bravery of the first Chicano pioneers who made their mark at institutions of higher education nationwide, including our own colleges and universities. As Chicano activists of the present and the future we must review the advent of social networks and their effects on grass roots activism in the form of cell phones, Myspace, Facebook, and the Internet. The Chicano Narrative is in our hands today, it is a story for us to create and for future generations to revisit and use to recreate. The Chicano Narrative has proved to be resilient through change, we must ensure that this resilience remains characteristic of our movement and continues to tell our story. We must continue forward, looking into the future, recording our present endeavors and always remembering the story of our beginning.
Please join us as at the East Coast Chicano Student Forum at Yale, where it began, on February 16-18, 2007 for a more unified movement forward.
February 16, 2007-February 18, 2007
The Chicano Narrative, an in media res epic of human struggle, is not over. It weaves the vignettes of the historical farm workers’ labor strikes with the testimony on the 1968 high school walkouts. Our narrative is linked to the first Chicanos who defied institutionalized barriers and asserted their citizenship with the most powerful weapon, higher education. Our narrative records the role of the Chicano as a humanitarian leader in the national pro-immigrant rights demonstrations of May 1st, 2006. The Chicano Narrative traces the success of the student-led actions against the Coca-Cola Corporation’s human rights violations and the injustices of maquiladora industries at home and abroad. These battles in our Chicano Narrative herald the future of a transnational Chicano movement that extends beyond geographic borders. It is not over, the plot of our narrative holds much more to tell.
The East Coast Chicano Student Forum at Yale during February of 2007 aims to create a dialogue between the past, present, and future of the Chicano movement. Our goal is to revisit the past, evaluate our present and define our future. As we consider the temporal boundaries of past, present, and future we will also discuss the ideological borders of our Chicanismo, which challenges us to continuously redefine and redesign. Furthermore, this conference will foster discussion on gender and sexuality and its place in the Chicano Narrative, in order to highlight the expanding definition of the Chicano identity. At this point in the narrative, we must discuss the ethnic composition of the Chicano movement and analyze the idea of the movement as a decolonized one; has the Chicano movement transcended physical borders and can it be declared a “state of mind?”
As Chicano activists we must remember those initial struggles that brought us together and learn from the strength and bravery of the first Chicano pioneers who made their mark at institutions of higher education nationwide, including our own colleges and universities. As Chicano activists of the present and the future we must review the advent of social networks and their effects on grass roots activism in the form of cell phones, Myspace, Facebook, and the Internet. The Chicano Narrative is in our hands today, it is a story for us to create and for future generations to revisit and use to recreate. The Chicano Narrative has proved to be resilient through change, we must ensure that this resilience remains characteristic of our movement and continues to tell our story. We must continue forward, looking into the future, recording our present endeavors and always remembering the story of our beginning.
Please join us as at the East Coast Chicano Student Forum at Yale, where it began, on February 16-18, 2007 for a more unified movement forward.
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