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Call for Submissions: “Special Issue: Undocumented Latina/o Students and Education: Sociopolitical Contexts.” With the 2006 immigration reform protests, the 2010 passage of Arizona’s draconian SB 1070, and bold and unprecedented youth organizing efforts in support of the DREAM Act, students have been at the forefront of contemporary Latina/o activism and efforts to fully and purposefully incorporate the undocumented Latin American population into the United States. Over the past decade, their increasing educational and political visibility has been paralleled by a blossoming of research and writing by and about undocumented youth and students. In this special journal issue, we seek to bring scholars together who are researching this topic in different geographic regions across the country, to provide a holistic picture of the plight of students who grew up undocumented in the United States. This special journal issue will connect legal and policy work on undocumented migration with ethnographic and other empirical work on the lived experiences of undocumented students (K–12, university, and adult education) in and out of schools. Complete manuscripts (limit 8,000 words) are due October 15, 2011. Please indicate in your cover letter that the submission is for the special issue on Undocumented Students and the Socio-political Context of Education. Submissions that are selected will go through a rigorous peer-review process prior to publication. Please contact Char Ullman (cullman@utep.edu), Hinda Seif (hseif2@uis.edu), or Guillermina Nuñez-Mchiri (ggnunez@utep.edu) with any questions related to this special issue.
Call for Proposals: The 2012 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education national conference will take place March 8–10, 2012, at the Hilton Costa Mesa Hotel, Costa Mesa, California. We encourage you to submit a concurrent session proposal. Please match your proposal to the conference theme, “Celebrating Our Similarities, Embracing Our Differences/Celebrando Nuestras Semejanzas, Valorando Nuestras Diferencias.” Submission deadline: Friday, September 30, 2011.
The National Community College Hispanic Council invites all to attend their sixteenth annual Leadership Symposium, September 22–24, 2011, at the Embassy Suites San Antonio Riverwalk-Downtown. NCCHC is the premier organization for Hispanic leadership development in community colleges. Our mission is to increase the number of successful Hispanic leaders in America’s community colleges through leadership development. For more information, visit the website.
The International Higher Education Collaboration conference entitled “Empowering Societies in an Era of Transformation” will take place October 12–14, 2011 at the Cultural Complex of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Puebla, Mexico. The fourteenth North American Higher Education Conference is organized by the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration. CONAHEC links higher education institutions from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and from the rest of the world. For more information about the conference, please visit the website.
Call for Proposals: The College Board encourages you to share your knowledge by submitting a session proposal for the “Prepárate 2012 Conference: Educating Latinos for the Future of America,” scheduled for May 31 to June 1, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida. Please consider submitting a session proposal that showcases trends, new initiatives, effective strategies or best practices that affect your Latino students. We are especially interested in learning about: effective early education programs; raising expectations and academic achievement; innovative teaching strategies; involving parents in education; using data to inform instruction; implementing testing and accountability measures; creating P-20 partnerships, including academic with private sector; leading Latino advocacy initiatives; college programs showing academic success and persistence; successful academic programs overcoming budgetary challenges; and effective higher education recruitment and retention strategies. All proposal submissions are due by October 7, 2011. To receive more information about the conference, please visit the website.
Call for Proposals: Tejanas have been instrumental in the development of Chicana Studies and have a long history of intellectual and political work as Tejanas in and out of Texas. The anthology, tentatively titled Somos Tejanas: Tejanidad and Identity, will gather the essays—scholarly and creative—that explore Tejana identity from a myriad of angles. We invite you to write a personal essay, a poem, or a critical article for our book. Send an electronic proposal that includes a 250-word abstract (double-spaced in Word format Times New Roman 12) and your brief bio citing your publications and area of interest (100 words) by October 12, 2011, to all three coeditors: Norma E. Cantú at norma.cantu@utsa.edu; Lori Beth Rodríguez at loribethrodriguez@yahoo.com; and Sonia Saldívar Hull at sonia.saldivarhull@utsa.edu.
Symposium: Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the United States and Latin America. October 5–6, 2011 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. This symposium will examine artistic exchange between Latin America and the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Papers will consider how artists and artworks have crossed the border separating the United States and Latin America (defined as Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean), creating new artistic dialogues and influencing each other’s work in meaningful ways. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The symposium will be available through a simultaneous webcast; an archived version will remain online indefinitely. For symposium information, please e-mail AmericanArtSymposium@si.edu. Faxes may be sent to (202) 633-8372.
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day: Congressional Briefing—HIV/AIDS and Latinos/Hispanics: Identifying and addressing the needs of a growing community in a changing landscape. Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center, Room SVC202. RSVP: Melissa Faith Ramirez, mramirez@latinoaids.org, 212-584-9315. For more information, visit the website.
Call for Proposals: The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) invite all to the seventeenth annual CUMU Conference, October 9–11, 2011. Hosted by Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the conference will focus on “Creating Tomorrow’s Future Today.” Metropolitan and urban universities are uniquely situated, not only to create their own futures, but also to assist their respective communities to realize their vision for the future. Such partnerships with an eye to creating new realities support and enhance mutual gain and shared futures. This conference will explore university/community partnerships that are preparing both to embrace the future. Partnerships in the areas of enhancing student experiential learning, expanding the roles of faculty that embrace both university and community settings, extending the university’s reach through community partnerships, creating dual urban planning projects, and creating academic offerings that uniquely engage the local community are just a few examples of proposals fitting the theme. The conference will provide a forum for students, faculty, and administrators to share ideas, experiences, and make recommendations concerning the leadership role that metropolitan universities must assume in creating the future. For more information about the conference, please visit CUMU website.
Call for Paper and Panel Proposals: The 2012 NACCS Tejas Regional Conference Committee invites proposals for papers, panels, exhibits, performances, and other creative means for addressing the many ways we see ourselves as well as how others see us—in the past, present, and our rapidly changing future. We invite Chicana perspectives on the varied situations where we find ourselves located socially, culturally, educationally, historically, politically-rhetorically. We invite perspectives which best seek to illustrate the conference theme “This Is Us.” While the primary theme for the conference centers on analyzing and reflecting on Chicana and Chicano perceptions of ourselves, additional topics related to the Chicana, Latina, or Mexican American experience are also highly welcomed. We hereby invite you to Texas State University, San Marcos where we can all share our knowledge. Ultimately, it is we who determine who we are, como nos vemos. In myriad ways, we are our community’s storytellers, teachers, organizers, writers, leaders, and students young and old. With great hope for the future, we seek your voice and participation in elucidating scholarly and rhetorical strategies for gaining a wider, deeper, and richer understanding of all raza in Tejas. Please e-mail 250-word proposals by December 18, 2011, to Dr. Jaime Armin Mejía at jm31@txstate.edu. We welcome questions, comments, and suggestions regarding the conference.
Call for Articles:Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies is currently considering submissions for 2012. Each issue of Aztlán presents three types of articles: peer-reviewed essays, thematic dossiers, and book reviews. All submissions are considered on a rolling basis and should be sent to our submission inbox at submissions@chicano.ucla.edu. For complete information about Aztlán and the submission guidelines, please visit the CSRC Press website. To ask questions or discuss ideas with the journal’s staff, please contact Assistant Editor David O’Grady at dogrady@chicano.ucla.edu.
The Consulate General of Mexico and the Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture cordially invite you to “Mujer, art = genesis+power,” a selection of self-help graphics prints from the Latino Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition showcases works of pioneer women artists of the twentieth century who established the aesthetics of contemporary Chicana art. Reception will be held at the Consulate General of Mexico, Thursday, September 29, 2011, 6:00–9:00 pm. 2401 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057. RSVP before Friday, September 23, at events@thelatinomuseum.org or by phone at 213-626-7600. Free admission.
Call for Proposals: The Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open is now accepting submissions for its 2012 edition. This unique opportunity invites creative professionals from all fields to imagine and realize projects involving works from a contemporary art collection of international repute. The Zabludowicz Collection launched its annual Curatorial Open in 2010 to encourage and support experimental curatorial practice. The Open invites creative professionals from all fields to engage with the collection by imagining ambitious projects that include a public exhibition, a publication, and a program of events to be realized in July and August 2012 at the Zabludowicz Collection in London. The Curatorial Open seeks to actively engage new voices in the discussion around works in the Zabludowicz Collection, encouraging points of view from a variety of disciplines and transcending the existing confines of contemporary art curating. The Zabludowicz Collection keenly welcomes transdisciplinary and experimental proposals. Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2011. Winner announced January 2012. For more information, please visit the website.
