Please join the Latin American & Latino Studies Program on Wednesday and Thursday, March 19-20, for a two-day conference on "Latinas/os & the U.S. South."

The conference includes a broad-based roster of panelists encompassing faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Program, U of A staff and students, and off-campus participants, artists and politicians.

The keynote will be delivered by historian Cecilia Marquez of Duke University and author of Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation.

Schedule

Wednesday, March 19

Arkansas Union, room 504

12:30 p.m. — Opening remarks: Professor Steven Rosales

12:40 p.m. — Illuminating el Nuevo South: Roundtable discussion

• Professor Cecilia Márquez, Duke University 
• Professor Alejandra Campos, University of Arkansas 
• Professor Vanesa Ribas, University of California San Diego

2 p.m. — Latina/o Public Health and Arkansas

• Professor Michael David Niño, University of Arkansas
• Professor Ana Bridges, University of Arkansas 

3:30 p.m. — Latina/o Arkansas Politics

• Diana Gonzales-Worthen, Arkansas House of Representatives
• Irvin Camacho, Alliance for Immigrant Respect and Education

Thursday, March 20

Arkansas Union, room 504

9:25 a.m. — Opening remarks: Professor Steven Rosales

9:30 a.m. — Art as Activism

• Professsor Erika Almenara, University of Arkansas 
• José Hernández, muralist and graffiti artist
• Cheanie Noai, conservationist and graphic designer

11 a.m. — The Old South: Cabeza de Vaca Revisited 

• Professor Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas 
• Archeologist George Sabo, University of Arkansas

Noon — Lunch

1 p.m. — Slaughterhouse Lives

• Professor Vanesa Ribas, University of California San Diego

2:15 p.m. — Latina/o Community Organizing

• Fernando García, Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition
• Magaly Licolli, Venceremos
• Amelia Southern-Uribe, Zero Hour Arkansas RSO

3:30 — U of A Latina/o Staff Perspectives

• Rafael Arciga García, assistant dean of admissions
• Magdalena Arroyo, talent management 
• Martha A. Anderson, Digital Services Department head

Gearhart Hall, room 026

5:30 p.m. — Keynote lecture: Making the Latino South 

• Professor Cecilia Márquez, Duke University