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THE LATINA/LATINO STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRESENTS THE THIRD BIANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: 

"AQUI LUCHAMOS, AQUI ESTAMOS:  REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE THROUGH SCHOLARSHIP"

Friday, February 23, 2007

Levis Faculty Center - Third Floor

919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL

7:00 – 7:15 pm     Welcome

Dr. Richard Herman, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

7:15– 8:30 pm     Keynote Address

Dr. Juanita Diaz-Cotto, Associate Professor, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton

Saturday, February 24, 2007 - *Event on Third Floor except for Lunch and Reception

8:00– 9:00 am     Breakfast

9:00-10:30 am     "Assessing Needs:  Promoting Health and Community Practices"

10:40-12:00        "Transnational Sexualities"

12:10-1:30 pm    Lunch - Second floor

1:40-3:10 pm      "Imagining Community/Negotiating Citizenships:  Power and the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class"

3:20-4:35 pm      "Voices of Resistance:  (Re)Defining Justice Through Social Movements"

4:45-6:00 pm      "De Nosotros, Para Nosotros, Reclaiming Space, Politicizing Popular Cultures"

8:00-12:00        Reception - Second Floor

Sunday, February 25, 2007 - Event on Third Floor except for Lunch and Reception

8:00– 9:00 am     Breakfast

9:00-10:30 am     "Marcando Presencia:  Latina/O Participatory Action in Illinois"

10:40-12:10        "Toward a New Chican@ Epistemology"

12:20-1:30 pm    Lunch - Second floor

2:00-3:30 pm     "Strategies for Graduate Student Resistance in Higher Education:  A Roundtable Discussion"

3:30-4:30        Open Dialogue With All Participants

4:30-6:30 pm   Reception and Closing  - Second floor

Co-sponsors: Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Asian American Studies, Office of Minority Student Affairs, School of Social Work, Department of Psychology, Graduate College, Department of History, Race Programming Initiative, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Office of the Provost (Resource Planning), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, African American Cultural Center, Cultural Programming Fee, La Casa Cultural Latina, Office of the Chancellor, African American Studies and Research Program, College of Liberal and Sciences