FRIDAY 22, California State University, San Bernardino
Coffee and Registration 9:00 Upper Commons
Welcome 9:15 Upper Commons
Eri Yasuhara, Dean of College of Arts and Letters
Session 1 9:20 – 10:20 Pine Room
Graduate Student Roundtable—-CSULA
Chair: Angela Vergara, Department of History, CSULA
Desire for Oppression: Semiotics Behind Argentina’s Dirty War, Patrcick Benjamin
_ e Aesthetic Praxis of Liberation, Jimmy Centeno
Panama’s US educated Elite and the maintanence of a dual allegiance power structure,
Maria Samaniego
Session 1B 9:20 – 10:20 Panorama Room
Graduate Student Roundtable—-CSULA
Chair: Michal Kohout, Geography, CSUSB
Radical Activism through Theater: Teatro Jornalero sin fronteras, Xochitl Quintero
Origins and Continuance of women’s participation in Mariachi and the Cultural and
Transnational implications: California, Cindy Reifl er Flores
Los mensajeros de narco tráfi co, Carla Villanueva
Keynote 10:40 – 11:50 SMSU Th eater
Introduction: Paul Amaya, Director of Center for International Studies and Programs
“MADRE: PERILOUS JOURNEY WITH A SPANISH NOUN”
Liza Bakewell, Brown University
Session 2 12:00 – 1:00 Pine Room
Graduate Student Roundtable—–Soka University
Labor and Migration in the San Diego/Tijuana Border
Chair: Tomas Crowder Taraborrelli, Soka University
Taeko Iwamoto, Heather Hallahan, Maiko Miura, María Valdovinos, Martha Valle
Session 2B 1 2:00 – 1:00 Panorama Room
Graduate Student Roundtable—–California State University, Fullerton
Chair: Michal Kohout, Geography, CSUSB
Ana Rosa Ramírez, “The Changing Structure of Cuban Agriculture”
Juan Antonio Tavárez, “Sor Juana: El vuelo del águila”
Lunch 1:00 – 2:00 Obershaw Dining Room
Introductions: Antonieta Gallegos-Ruiz, World Languages and Literatures, CSUSB
Ballet Folklorico de CSUSB with Janette Peña, María Paredez, Ana Rosa González,
Veronica Resendez, Cristina Ruiz, Rocío Ruiz, and Edgar Astorga
Session 3 2:00 – 3:00 Pine Room
Indigenous Cultures—–CSUSB
Chair: Nena Torrez, Language Literacy and Culture, CSUSB
Universidad Intercultural: Seven years later, Robin Larsen, Professor Emeritus and
Antonieta Gallegos-Ruiz, World Languages and Literatures
Sponsored by
College of Arts and Letters
Center for International Studies and Programs
International Institute
NEH Humanities Institutional Grant
World Languages and Literatures
Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli 