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SCHEDULE |
- Friday, 16 May
- School of Business Board Room-321 9:00 - Registration and Welcome Coffee
- 9:30 -Opening Remarks Guillermo B. Irizarry (UConn), Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (UConn)
- 10:00-11:30- Sites of Agency and Rights in the Americas Moderator: Manisha Desai (UConn)
- Odette Casamayor Cisneros (UConn), The Other and the Revolution: Black Cultural Production in Post-Soviet Cuba
- Jacqueline Loss (UConn), Firebranding: the Author and Ourselves
- Jorge Duany (Universidad de Puerto Rico), The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Transnational Circuits of Culture, Politics, and Economics.
- Kornel Chang (UConn), Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary
- 12:00-2:00 -Lunch: Moderated by Samuel Martínez (UConn)
- Walter Mignolo (Duke), Remarks on Hemispheric Studies and Border Epistemologies (title TBA)
- 2:00-3:30 - New Border Epistemologies Moderator: Norma Bouchard (UConn)
- Mark Overmyer Velázquez (UConn), Constructing White Mexicans in Time of Détente: Race and Migration in Transborder Perspective
- Guillermo B. Irizarry (UConn), Injured Subjects: Hegemonizing Latinidad
- Mari Castañeda (UMass), Mediating Immigration: The Cultural Politics of Mass Media in the Struggle over Immigrant Rights in the US
- Alicia Schmidt Camacho (Yale), Raids, Incarceration, Deportation: Immigration Policing and the New Regime of Limpieza Social.
- 4:00-5:30 -Migration, Crossings, and Exceptionality Moderator Richard Wilson (UConn). The following participants will offer brief remarks on the general topic of the gathering and on specific essays. We will pursue a discussion on individual and collective scholarly possibilities, including ideas for an edited volume.
- Agustín Laó Montes (UMass), Sonia Álvarez (UMass), Nancy Naples (UConn).
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