Voz Latina: Symposium on Latinos in America
Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Princeton University
The Graduate School Office of Academic Affairs & Diversity in partnership with the Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) present:
Voz Latina: A Symposium on Latinos in America
Saturday, October 11, 2008
8:00am - 9:30am Registration and Breakfast
Brush Gallery in McDonnell Hall
9:30am –11:00am Plenary Session
McDonnell Hall A01
Conference Sponsor
Karen Jackson-Weaver, PhD, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Diversity, Princeton University
Conference Conveners
Monica Trujillo – Princeton University,
Department of Sociology
Ivan Ortiz – Princeton University,
Department of English
Introduction of Speaker
Cristina Mora- Princeton University,
Department of Sociology
Opening Address
Raul Yzaguirre - Former President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Council of La Raza, Current Executive Director and Presidential Professor of Practice Center for Community Development and Civil Rights, Arizona State University
11:15am – 12:30pm Concurrent Faculty-Led Seminars
Jadwin A06- “Diversity and its Discontents: Lessons from and for Higher Education”
Marta Tienda, Ph.D., Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Jadwin A07 – “Pasado, Presente y Noviembre: The Impact of Latinos on US politics”
Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Ph.D., Researcher, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College of CUNY and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Jadwin A09 – “Taking Reggaeton Aside: From Panama to the Classroom”
Alexandra Vazquez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English and the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch
Brush Gallery in McDonnell Hall
2:30pm – 4:00pm Graduate Student Presentations (concurrent sessions)
Jadwin A06- Community Relationships and Interactions
2:30pm - Steven Alvarado, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Assimilating to Poor Health: A Multi-Generational Approach
3:00pm - Johana Londoño, New York University
Latino Form Follows Function
3:30pm - Eraina Davis, Yale University, Divinity School
Religion and Immigration in the Latino Community
Jadwin A07- Identity Formation and Representation
2:30pm - Saskias Casanova, Stanford University
“Tri-Cultural Identity:” Ethnic Identity Development for Yucatec-Maya Immigrant Students
3:00pm – G. Cristina Mora, Princeton University
Forms of Panethnic Representation
3:30pm - Cristina Mercado, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Exploring Latino Definitions of Race in Literature
Jadwin A09- Migration and the Immigrant Experience
2:30pm-Armando Ibarra Salazar, University of California at Irvine
The California Farmworker: Mexican Labor Migrants, Agribusiness and Government
3:00pm- Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, University of California at Irvine
Educational Trajectories of the Mexican-Origin Population
3:30pm-Liliana Reyes, Princeton University
The Not So Unwitting Youth of Friendship University:
Understanding the Rise of the Sandinistas in Light of Friendship University
4:00pm – 4:30pm Break/Refreshments, Brush Gallery in McDonnell Hall
4:30pm – 6:00pm Voz Latina: Present & Future, McDonnell Hall A01
Special Presentation
Nadia Seeratan,
Racial Justice Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.
Closing Address
Carlos Barba
Former Telemundo and Univision Executive and Current President of CaribeVision
6:00pm – 7:00pm Networking Reception, Fine Tower