Roundtable on Latina Feminism
April 6-8, 2006
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio

Schedule

Thursday, April 6

5:15 Van will pick up participants at the Marriot Hotel
6:00-7:00 Welcome Remarks
Reception
Rodman Hall, Alumni Lounge

7:00 p.m. Keynote Lecture (open to the public)
Linda Martín-Alcoff, Syracuse University
“Mestiza Identity Politics”
Dolan Science Center Auditorium

Friday, April 7
8:30 Van will pick up participants at the Marriot

9:15-10:00 Continental Breakfast
Welcome Remarks: Brenda Wirkus, Shula Chair in Philosophy
John Carroll University
Dolan Science Center Reading Room (all sessions)

10:00-12:00 Chair: Brenda Wirkus, John Carroll University

Laura E. Perez, UC Berkeley
“Thea/o-erotics: Revisioning the Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in Decolonizing Marian Images by U.S. Latinas”

Mariángeles Soto-Diaz, Hampshire College
“Lineas de Sangre”

María T. Martinez-Diez, University of Sacred Heart, San Juan
“Graf, Grip and Dissolution: A Gendered View from the Outside”

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Chair: Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University

Chela Sandoval, UC Santa Barbara

Monique Roelofs, Hampshire College
“Aesthetic Modes of Address in Latina and Latin American feminisms”

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Chair: Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University

Mariana Alessandri, Penn State University
“Guadalupe vs. la Malinche: A Genealogy of Mexican Feminine Identity”

Gloria Vaquera, John Carroll University
“From Theory to Practice: Mentoring Hermanitas a la Xicanisma”

Daphne Vanessa Taylor-García, UC Berkeley
“What is the ‘X’ in Xicana Feminist Thought”

6:00-9:00 Dinner at Sarava, Shaker Square
Van will take participants back to the Marriot

Saturday, April 8

8:30 Van will pick up participants at the Marriot

9:15-10:00 Continental Breakfast
Dolan Science Center Reading Room
(all Sessions)

10:00-12:00 Chair: Elizabeth Stiles, John Carroll University

Shannon Sullivan, Penn State University.
“The Power of Latina-Angla Friendship:
Reading Lugones with Foucault”

Saba Fatima, SUNY Binghamtom University
“Empowered Fragmentation”

Celia Bardwell-Jones, University of Oregon
“Travelling Identities: Examining the Cross-Cultural Self at the Borderlands”

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Keynote Lecture: María Lugones, SUNY Binghamtom

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Chair: Mindy Peden, John Carroll University

Kelli Zaytoun, Wright State University
“The Legacy of Conocimiento: Linking Self and Social Consciousness”

Eulália Moles, UC Berkeley.
“Shedding Skins: Anzaldua and Marcal or Chicana and Catalan Decolonial Writings”

Carisa P. Cortez
“Border Consciousness: Mestizaje and Conflict in Race, Language and Gender”

The Roundtable is sponsored by the The Don Shula Chair in Philosophy, The Office of Multicultural Affairs and The Center for Applied Ethics. For questions e-mail Mariana Ortega at mortega@jcu.edu or Jen McWeeny at jmcweeny@jcu.edu.