4:15pm – Welcome Remarks Sabrina González and Eric Tomalá
4:30-5:30pm–Panel1:Digital "Home Stories"
Introduction by Dr. Ana Patricia Rodriguez
Demetrio Gutierrez Finley, “Frijoles” Ana Julia Granados, “Un amor verdadero” Ingrid Rivas, “Entre dos mundos” Maureen Wrightson, “Paso a paso”
5:30-6:30pm– Panel 2: In Search of Sanctuary: The Health of Maryland DREAMers
Introduction by Dr. Christina Getrich, Anthropology
AnaOrtez-Rivera, UMD, Anthropology "'I Carry My Work Permit with Me Everywhere I Go': DACA as Material Security during Anti-Immigrant Times"
DelmisUmanzor,UmaiHabibah, UMD, Anthropology "'I Work Twice as Hard for Half as Much': The Balancing Act of DACA Recipients in Maryland"
KaelinRapport, Alaska Burdette, UMD, Anthropology "'We Lost our Health Insurance When We Moved': Navigating a Fragmented Health Care Landscape: DACA Recipients in Maryland"
Erica Fuentes, Moderator, UMD (group they represent) Jessica Nolasco, UMD, Media, Self, and Society, College Park Scholars Miranda Mlilo, UMD, Environmental Sci & Pol-Env Politics & Policy
8:00-9:00pm – OPEN MIC: “What is YOUR Sanctuary?” Location change: H.J. Patterson 1st floor Atrium
Friday, May 5th
8:30-9:00am – Refuge of Breath and Body - Yoga led by Dr. Britta Anderson
9:00am – check in, coffee and bagels
9:15am – Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Dr. Laurie Frederik
9:30- 10:15am – Panel 4: Capital, Labor, and Ideal Citizens
Hang M. Le, UMD, Education "Educating the Ideal Future Citizen of Cuba: Continuities amidst Ruptures"
Camille Marichal, American University, Comparative Regional Studies in Latin America and East Asia "Japanese and Chinese Immigrants: Assimilation to an Achievement of Bicultural Identity and Diversification in the Dominican Republic"
Christine Bonnefil, George Mason University, French and Spanish “Language Attitudes of Multilingual Haitians in the Washington, D.C. Area”
10:15-10:30am Q&A
10:30-11:45am – Panel 5: Las (Im)Posibilidades de Construir un Santuario Stephanie Hall, UMD, Education "Higher education: Sanctuary or risk?"
Sabrina González, UMD, History “Imaginando santuarios: los racionalistas en búsqueda de la escuela moderna en Buenos aires”
Victor Hernandez-Sang, UMD, Ethnomusicology “Sanctuaries in the Dominican Republic: Practitioners between the Margins and the Center of Local Communities"
Monica Ocasio, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "Cocinando espacios: imaginando santuario a través de las recetas en Cocina Criolla"
Cara Snyder, UMD, Women’s Studies "Refugios Queer: Sissi do Amor, las Economías Políticas de Soccer y Lugares de Santuario"
11:45am-12:00pm Q&A
12:00-12:15pm – Lunch Break
12:15-1:30pm - Keynote Panel
Dr. Linda Rabben, UMD, Anthropology Ray Ranker, Pastor, UMD, Lutheran Campus Minister Dr. Ana Patricia Rodríguez, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese, USLT Dr. Michelle Rowley, UMD, Women’s Studies Erick Sanchez, Activist
Moderator: Dr. Laurie Frederik, UMD, Latin American Studies Center, TDPS
1:30-1:45 interlude
1:45-2:45pm – Panel 6: Resistance and Performative Alternatives
Julian Moreno, UMD, History "In Our Dreams We Have Seen another World: Community and Solidarity in Zapatismo."
Eduardo Campos Lima, University of Sao Paulo, Columbia University "From Bertolt Brecht to Leonardo Boff: Creative Sanctuaries in Latin American Theatre of Liberation"
Sarah Dowman, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "La Chingada, La Virgin y La Punkera: Rethinking Chicanx Archetypes through Queer Latinx Punk Rock"
Maria De Luna, American University, International Peace and Conflict Revolution “Gender Politics in Narco Telenovelas: Women in the Mexican Imagination in La Reina del Sur”
Charlotte Blair, American University, Anthropology "Planting Gardens over Garbage Cans: Order and Disorder in a Mexico City Neighborhood"
Lisa Warren Carney, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "Taken to Live with the Forest People: Precarity, Abduction and Possibility in a Quichua Oral Narrative"
Delia Dreher, UMD, Anthropology "Circumventing the State: Indigenous Organizations on Facebook in the Peruvian Amazon"
María Cristina Monsalve, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese El santuario poético de las piedras: cantos en la poesía latinoamericana”
4:00-4:15pm Q&A
4:15-5:00pm – Panel 8: The Journey of Transgender Latina Women in the U.S.
Video presentation and roundtable
Oliver Contreras, freelance photojournalist DMV, Transgender Rights Activist Zoila Fajardo, Metro PFLAG volunteer, Board Member of Trans-Latina Maren A. Lujan, American University, School of International Service Alexa Rodriguez, Trans-Latina Coalition DMV Director, Transgender Rights Activist
5:00-5:30pm – Exhibitions – Art and Performance
Plena Puertorriqueña Music Workshop led by Ben Jackson and Victor Hernandez-Sang, UMD, Ethnomusicology
Exposición artística de fotografía: Cordillera Íntima Santiago Monsalve, Universidad de Vladimir, Rusia
5:30-6:30pm Closing Reception and LASC Graduation Celebration
8:30-9:00am – Refuge of Breath and Body - Yoga led by Dr. Britta Anderson
9:00am – check in, coffee and bagels
9:15am – Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Dr. Laurie Frederik
9:30- 10:15am – Panel 4: Capital, Labor, and Ideal Citizens Hang M. Le, UMD, Education "Educating the Ideal Future Citizen of Cuba: Continuities amidst Ruptures"
Camille Marichal, American University, Comparative Regional Studies in Latin America and East Asia "Japanese and Chinese Immigrants: Assimilation to an Achievement of Bicultural Identity and Diversification in the Dominican Republic"
Christine Bonnefil, George Mason University, “Language Attitudes of Multilingual Haitians in the Washington, D.C. Area”
10:15-10:30am Q&A
10:30-11:45am – Panel 5: Las (Im)Posibilidades de Construir un Santuario
Stephanie Hall, UMD, Education "Higher Education: Sanctuary or risk?" Sabrina González, UMD, History “Building a Sanctuary School: A Reflection from Two Case Studies”
Stephanie Hall, UMD, Education "Higher education: Sanctuary or risk?"
Victor Hernandez-Sang, UMD, Ethnomusicology “Sanctuaries in the Dominican Republic: Practitioners between the Margins and the Center of Local Communities"
Monica Ocasio, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "Cocinando espacios: imaginando santuario a través de las recetas en Cocina Criolla"
Cara Snyder, UMD, Women’s Studies "Refugios Queer: Sissi do Amor, las Economías Políticas de Soccer y Lugares de Santuario"
11:45am-12:00pm Q&A
12:00-12:15pm – Lunch Break
12:15-1:30pm - Keynote Panel
Dr. Linda Rabben, UMD, Anthropology Ray Ranker, Pastor, UMD, Lutheran Campus Minister Dr. Ana Patricia Rodríguez, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese, USLT Dr. Michelle Rowley, UMD, Women’s Studies Erick Sanchez, Activist
Moderator: Dr. Laurie Frederik, UMD, Latin American Studies Center, TDPS
1:30-1:45 interlude
1:45-2:45pm – Panel 6: Resistance and Performative Alternatives
Julian Moreno, UMD, History "'In Our Dreams We Have Seen another World:' Community and Solidarity in Zapatismo."
Eduardo Campos Lima, University of Sao Paulo, Columbia University "From Bertolt Brecht to Leonardo Boff: Creative Sanctuaries in Latin American Theatre of Liberation"
Sarah Dowman, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "La Chingada, La Virgin y La Punkera: Rethinking Chicanx Archetypes through Queer Latinx Punk Rock"
Maria De Luna, American University, International Peace and Conflict Revolution “Gender Politics in Narco Telenovelas: Women in the Mexican Imagination in La Reina del Sur”
Charlotte Blair, American University, Anthropology "Planting Gardens over Garbage Cans: Order and Disorder in a Mexico City Neighborhood"
Lisa Warren Carney, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese "Taken to Live with the Forest People: Precarity, Abduction and Possibility in a Quichua Oral Narrative"
Delia Dreher, UMD, Anthropology "Circumventing the State: Indigenous Organizations on Facebook in the Peruvian Amazon"
María Cristina Monsalve, UMD, Spanish and Portuguese El santuario poético de las piedras: cantos en la poesía latinoamericana”
4:00-4:15pm Q&A
4:15-5:00pm – Panel 8: The Journey of Transgender Latina Women in the U.S.
Video presentation and roundtable
Oliver Contreras, freelance photojournalistDMV, Transgender Rights Activist Zoila Fajardo, Metro PFLAG volunteer, Board Member of Trans-Latina Maren A. Lujan, American University, School of International Service Alexa Rodriguez, Trans-Latina Coalition DMV Director, Transgender Rights Activist
5:00-5:30pm – Exhibitions – Art and Performance
Plena Puertorriqueña Music Workshop led by Ben Jackson and Victor Hernandez-Sang, UMD, Ethnomusicology
Exposición artística de fotografía: Cordillera Íntima Santiago Monsalve, Universidad de Vladimir, Rusia
5:30-6:30pm Closing Reception and LASC Graduation Celebration
Aperitivo - Cuba de Ayer Restaurant
Abstracts Submitted for the conference - download file.