ROUNDTABLE ON LATINA FEMINISM
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio April 19-21, 2007
SCHEDULE

Thursday, April 19
6:30 Van will pick up participants at the Clarion Hotel
7:00-11:00 Welcome Reception/ Ortega’s house
There will be rides available back to the Clarion Hotel

Friday, April 20
9:00-9:15 Van will pick up participants at the Clarion Hotel
9:30-10:00 Continental Breakfast
Alumni Lounge, Rodman Hall, 3rd Floor (all sessions)

10:00-12:30 Race and Gender

Mariana Alessandri, Penn State University
“Am I White? The Invisible Bio-and Anatomo-Politics of Race in the U.S.”

Daphne Vanessa Taylor-Garcia, UC Berkeley
“Addressing the Problem of the Color Line: Relocating the Chicana Body”

Pedro J. Di Pietro, SUNY Binghamton
“Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Thought and Same-sex Performativity”

12:30-2:00 Lunch at the Dolan Center Atrium

2:00-3:30 Keynote Lecture
Laura E. Pérez, UC Berkeley and Chela Sandoval, UC Santa Barbara
“Decolonizing Methodologies and the Erotic in the Social Body of Love”

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Narrativity

Elena Ruiz-Aho, University of South Florida
“Narrating the Gap: Academic Receptions of Latina Testimonios”

Julia Sushytska, SUNY Stonybrook
“Gloria Anzaldúa and Transformative Writing”

6:30 Van will pick up participants at JCU and take them to Moxie Restaurant

7:00 Dinner and Discussion on Latina Feminism at Moxie Restaurant
There will be rides available back to the Clarion Hotel

Saturday, April 21
9:00 Participants will be picked up at the Clarion Hotel

9:00-10:00 Continental Breakfast

10:00-11:30 Latina Subjectivities

Adriana Nieto, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
“From ‘Black-eyed Mexican Girls’ to the MMU (Mujeres Metodistas Unidas):
Stories from the Hardwood School for Girls and the making of Mexican
Subjectivities”

Roselyn Costantino, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
“Trauma, Affect, and the Transformation of Practices of Citizenship and
Community in the Time of Feminicide and Migration”

11:30-1:00 Lunch at the Dolan Center Atrium

1:00-2:30 On Communication and Emotions

Kelli Zaytoun, Wright State University
“New Possibilities for Feminist Coalitions: Exploring Anzaldúa’s Legacy of
Conocimiento with Lugones’ Complex Communication”

Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University
“Experiencing Anger, Recognizing Injustice: Epistemology in the Borderlands”

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-6:00 Latina Feminist Praxis

Elizabeth Garcia, Connecticut College
“Latina Feminist (?) Activism: A Historical Perspective”

Dálida María Benfield, UC Berkeley
“Mujeres de Pilsen”: Oral History as Radical Praxis of Latina Feminist
Subjectivity”

María Lugones, SUNY Binghamtom
“On Praxical Thinking”

All participants: Conversation on Latina Feminist Collective Strategies

7:00 Van will pick up participants at JCU and take them to the Clarion Hotel.

Special Thanks to Paul Lauritzen from the Center of Applied Ethics
and Brenda Wirkus, Don Shula Professor, John Carroll Philosophy Department