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MIND AND BODY: Gloria Anzaldúa, Xicanísima, and Beyond
Mind and Body: Gloria Anzaldúa, Xicanísima and Beyond
A One-Day Symposium at Seattle University
February 22, 2020 | 8AM-8PM
Casey Arts and Sciences Building
Program Details
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION in Casey Atrium, 1st floor of Casey Arts & Sciences Building
**Presentations are held in Casey Commons (5th Floor)**
8:15 a.m. OPENING
with Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Theilene Pigott McCone Chair of Humanities
David Powers, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Theresa Earenfight, Director of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
8:30 a.m. Opening Poetry reading
Demetria Martínez, "¿What Then Shall We Do?: Crossing Borders of Conscience
9-10:30 a.m. Introductory Panel
"Mind and Body: Gloria Anzaldúa, Xicanísima and Beyond"
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, If not Anzaldúa, who? An Introduction to Anzaldúan thought and other Chicanx/Latinx theorists
Norma Cantú, Doing Work that Matters: Personal Thoughts on Anzaldúa for the 21st Century
Jodi OBrien, Embodying Boundaries and Contradictions: Glora Anzaldúas Contributions to LGBTQ Studies
10:45-12:00 Morning Presentations
Panel A "Alumni: The Immigrant and "The Other" in the Pacific Northwest"
Gabriela Boyle, On Jesuit education and focusing on the person in person-centered health
Noemi Natividad, On navigating traditional learning spaces as a non-traditional student
Vanessa Castañeda, Juggling Identities
Veronica Eldredge, Othered Belonging
Mónica Reyes Guzmán, Why taking a few steps back can be an opportunity to move forward in your career
Panel B "The Catholic Church and the Immigrant: Mapping and Assessing Expressions of Solidarity in Western Washington"
Moderated by Prof. Audrey Hudgins
Presented by students from the class US-Mexico Border: Contemporary Perspectives
Jonathan Young, Gareth Fairchok, Temperance Johnson, Mindy Miller, Meilani Mandery, Kellen Fitzgerald, Lynn Nguyen, Jake Goguen, Alexis Balomaga, Alexa Montenegro, Alexandra Schulte, Alena Hinojosa, Cande Hierro-Terrell, Michael Desimone, Ale Weber, Anna Kirkpatrick, Sam Fisher, Mikaelyn Blanding, and Gwen Carmichael.
12-1:30pm - LUNCH and Second Plenary
"Mind and Body: Theorizing, Belonging, Spirituality and Social Class"
Jeanette Rodríguez, Navigating through the seeds of a pomegranate: identity, resistance and the Academy
Juan Velasco, Theorizing Gloria Anzaldúa: Rewriting Las Americas through Automitografia
Nalini Iyer, Pioneering South Asian American Writers
Cristina Herrera, On Being a Chicana Yogi
1:45-3:00pm ~ Afternoon Presentations
Perspectives on Borders: The Americas and the Arab World
Audrey Hudgins, Encounter in the Borderlands: At the intersections of Catholic Social Teaching and US Immigration Policy
Maryam Griffin, Diffuse Border-Enclosures in the Palestinian West Bank
Nova Robinson, "Unwanted Immigration and Naturalization Services and the Deportation of Syrian Women in the 1930s
Randa Tawil, The Borders Never Leave You: Syrian Women's Mobility Across Borders in the Early 20th Century
3:00-3:30 AFTERNOON TEA-Casey Commons
Musical Performance by Eric Muhs
3:30 - 5:00pm Presentations
Panel A Community Savings Programs in Mexico: Comparing Models and their Impact on Poverty Alleviation, Migration Patterns, and Empowerment
Moderated by Prof. Audrey Hudgins
Presented by students from the class Global Poverty and Migration
Nicole Beauvais, Shariz Dizon, Abby Eom, Michael Haran,Nam Huynh, Noelle Ichimura, Chris Inouye, Claire Kurronen, Nate Nollan, Mark Penner, Lars Schmassmann, Alexcia Straw, Saniel Sunny, Janae Theodore, and Ruth Zekariase
Panel B "Word Images: New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú
Moderated by Dr.Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Norma Cantú, PhD, Words and Images: A Chicana Life
Juan Velasco, Theorizing Norma E. Cantú: Interconnectivity in Canícula and Cabañuelas
Steven Bender,"Snapshots of Law, Vida, and Cultura in the Borderlands
Veronica Eldredge, Re:Visualizing Words as Images, the Making of a Book Cover
Carlos Sibaja García, The Alternate Lives of Azucena in Norma Elia Cantús Canícula"
5 - 6:30 pm DINNER Plenary
Mind and Body: Science, Research, Cuir-Edad and 'The Other
Connie Anthony, Sexuality and Thinking like a State
Shari Dworkin, Which feminism counts? The politics of evidence in global gender-transformative HIV interventions with men
Martina Giselle Ramírez, Bringing The Other into STEM: Painting the Sky with Stars
7 - 8:00 pm Aesthetic Activism: Poetry and Fiction Readings and Open Mic
The Poet Activist, Artivism, Film and artistic collaboration
Demetria Martínez, Norma Elia Cantú (Palabras de Medio Día), Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Verónica Eldredge
Readings by
Catalina Cantú and Rita Wirkala, of the NW Latino Writers Collective
Donna Miscolta
Joshua Holguín
Música y Baile
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LocationCasey Commons (5th floor Casey Bldg) at Seattle University (View)
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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