En el marco de los estudios latinos estadounidenses se celebrará el Congreso Internacional El Mundo Zurdo: Nepantla – teorías y prácticas sobre la vida y el trabajo de la escritora y teórica chicana Gloria Anzaldúa. El Mundo Zurdo tendrá lugar de 3 a 5 de noviembre de 2016 en la Universidad de San Antonio, Tejas. Los escritos de Gloria Anzaldúa han propuesto conceptos culturales y literarios sobre fronteras y cuestiones transfronterizas; género; sexualidad; espiritualidad; arte; performance, etc. Mientras se discutirá sobre cualquiera de estos aspectos, la conferencia dará prioridad a una de las nociones claves del pensamiento de Anzaldúa: Nepantla.

“Uso la palabra nepantla para teorizar la liminalidad y para hablar sobre quienes facilitan los pasajes entre mundos y a quienes yo llamé nepantleras. Asocio nepantla con un estado mental que cuestiona ideas y creencias viejas, que forja perspectivas nuevas, que cambia los puntos de vistas sobre el mundo, y que se desplaza de un mundo hacia otro.” Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Keynotes: María Lugones, Emma Pérez, Isabel Millán
Arte y performance: Celeste De Luna, Liliana Wilson, Verónica Castillo, Lourdes Pérez, Anel Flores

El Mundo Zurdo busca establecer un espacio de conexión para investigadoras/es, artistas, estudiantes y la comunidad con la intención de estimular el estudio continuo de los trabajos intelectuales de Gloria Anzaldúa. La conferencia es patrocinada y organizada por la Sociedad de Estudios sobre Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa-SSGA) y el Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer (Women’s Studies Institute) de la Universidad de Tejas en San Antonio:
http://education.utsa.edu/womens-studies/el_mundo_zurdo_conference_2016/

Programa de la conferencia:
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/institute/isla/download/El-Mundo-Zurdo-Programa.pdf

Más informaciones:
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/institute/isla/Aktivitaeten-in-der-Forschung/El-mundo-zurdo.html

Programme Schedule

Thursday November 3, 2016

1:00-3:00 PM
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON THE WORK OF MARÍA
LUGONES Facilitator: Romana Radlwimmer
Ludic theory approaches & conceptual cross-readings: “Coloniality of gender” & “Nepantla” Buena Vista 1.338

6:00-9:00 PM
WELCOME RECEPTION—-El Mundo Zurdo 2016
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
922 San Pedro Avenue
San Antonio, Texas 78212

Friday November 4, 2016

8:00 AM – 5 PM Registration

9:00-9:30 AM Welcome Ceremony
Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli and Susana Ramírez
UTSA -Downtown Campus-Bill Miller Plaza
501 W. César E. Chávez Blvd.
San Antonio, Texas 78207

9:35-10:35 AM OPENING PLENARY Buena Vista Theater
María Lugones, “Intersticios, Nepantla, Birthing a Nahua Writer”

10:45- 11:45 AM CONCURRENT SESSION 1A to 1H

Session 1A
Buena Vista 3.328
Panel: This Classroom Called Nepantla: Embodying and Practicing an Anzalduan Pedagogy
Moderator: Brenda Sendejo
Norell Martínez, “Autohistoria Pedagogy: Bringing our Stories Into the Classroom to Teach Social Justice”
María Figueroa, “Toward a Spiritual Pedagogy Along the Borderlands"
Irene Lara, “Embodying Pedagogy in the Classroom Called Nepantla”

Session 1B
Buena Vista 1.312
Roundtable: Nepantla Activism in the Heart of the Desert
Moderator: Estee Hernández
Anita Revilla, Roberto C. Orozco, Briceida Hernández-Toledo, Adrian Castrejón, Desire Galvéz

Session 1C
Buena Vista 1.318
Panel: Epistemologies of Violence and Trauma in Intimate and Institutional Borders
Moderator: Sonia Saldívar Hull
Magda García, “Epistemologies of Violence and Home: Late 20th Century and Early 21st Century Affective Renderings of South Texas in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and Noemi Martinez’s The South Texas Experience Zine Series”
Larissa M. Mercado-López, “On Not Fitting the Mold: An Anzaldúan Reading of Epistemic Violence and Institutional Fitness”
Sara A. Ramírez, “Anzaldúan Tactics: Reassembling Subjects of Trauma in Virginia Grise’s blu”

Session 1D
Buena Vista 3.306
Panel: Yoga of the Body, Yoga of the Mind: Anzaldúan Applications, Interventions, Transformations
Moderator: Joycelyn Moody
AnaLouise Keating, “Learning from Anzaldúa, Part II: Yoga, Nepantla, and the Spaces Between”
Elizabeth King, Conocimiento On and Off the Mat: Toward a Spiritual-Activist Yoga Practice"
Allison Davis, “’Let Us Be The Healing’: Yoga Therapy and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Spiritual Activism"

Session 1E
Buena Vista 3.318
Panel: Gloria E. Anzaldúan Thought and Pedagogy
Moderator: Lucila Ek
Ed Roeder, “Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldua at the Secondary Level of Public Education: An Opportunity for Educators of English and Social Studies”
Leila E. Villaverde and Dara Nix-Stevenson, “Educational Leading to Transgress: The Pedagogical Potential of a Mestiza/o Mindset”
Victoria Navarro Benavides, Nepantla and Mestiza Consciousness: Theoretical Implications for the Field of Higher Education"

Session 1F
Buena Vista 3.324
Panel: Nepantla: The Rio Grande Valley
Moderator: Verónica Sandoval
Danielle López, “Rewriting Nepantla From Mis Experiencias As A Young Curandera in the RGV Borderlands”
Sierra Salazar-Zepeda, "An Emergent Ether: An Analysis of Community Healing Spaces and Spirituality in the Lower Rio Grande Valle”
Lupe Flores, “Feminism on the Río, or, “Staying Put” in My Grandmother’s Borderlands: Rewriting History, Culture and Identity from Within/Without Nepantla”

Session 1G
Frio 1.512
Panel: Applying an Anzaldúan Framework of Analysis
Moderator: Alejandra Barrientos
Michael D. Aguirre, "Understanding a Borderlands Political Economy through Anzaldúa
Olivia Mena, “Border-Thinking in a Carceral Era”
Heidi Coronado, “Spiritual Activism and La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Connecting Mind, Body, Spirit…Healing in the Borderlands”

12:00—2:00 PM
LUNCHEON—DOUBLETREE HOTEL New and Upcoming
Editions of Borderlands/La Frontera
Speakers: Joan Pinkvoss, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius and Socorro Magallanes

2:15-3:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions 2A-2H

Session 2A
Buena Vista 3.328
Panel: Living Nepantla Theory: The Incredible Art of Immigrant Justice
Moderator: Antonia Castañeda
Irene Mata, “UndocuBus USA and the Nepantlan Art of Activism”
Linda Heidenreich, “From the FLN to the TLC: Justice Movements as Creative Inamic Power in Nepantlan Times”
Verónica Sandoval, “Immigration, Surveillance & Unaccompanied Minors: Nepantla Praxis in the works of Borderland Artist Celeste De Luna”
Sonia Hernández, "“Examining feminismo transfronterista through an Anzaldúan lens: Caritina Piña’s Transnational Women’s Network, 1910-1940”

Session 2B
Buena Vista 1.312
Panel: Nepantlera Conocimiento and Art Making
Moderator: Smadar Lavie
Diane Benavides Ríos, " Nepantlera Conocimiento: Informing the Shift through Visual Art"
Susy Zepeda, “Excavating Queer Xicana Indigenous Knowledge: The Art and Memory of Marsha Gómez”
Leslie Sotomayor, " A Nepantlera in my Art Studio: Juxtaposing Gloria Anzaldúa’s Conocimiento to Research Based Art Processes"
Kakali Bhattacharya and Meaghan Cochrane, “When Naguala Takes Us on Nepantleric Journeys: Discovering An Emerging Qualitative Methodology through Contemplative Layered Art Making”

Session 2C
Buena Vista 1.318
Panel: Nepantleras: Bodies, Identities, and Home
Moderator: Alejandra Barrientos
Margaret Newton, “Making a Home in the Shadows: Anzaldúa on Shadows, Las Nepantleras, and Home”
Leandra Hernández, “Want to know how I survive? I live in both worlds”: An Exploration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Nepantilism, Mestiza Identities, and Mexican-American Women’s Experiences”
Estee Hernández and Christine Vega, “Ni de aquí, ni de allá: (Re)claiming Indigeneity, Challenging Erasure”

Session 2D
Buena Vista Theater
Performance: The Women Writers Collective of El Paso: Reunion Reading and Choral Performance
Moderator: Cordelia Barrera
Carolina Monsivais, Emmy Pérez, Jeannette Monsivais, Michelle Otero

Session 2E
Buena Vista 3.318
Workshop: Stirring La Olla: Tranforming our Theater of Dreams
Moderator: Susana Ramírez
Berenice Dimas

Session 2F
Buena Vista 3.324
Roundtable: Nepantla – Productions of Pathologies and Healing
Moderator: Sara Ramírez
Norma Alarcón, Marisa Belaustegigoitia, Romana Radlwimmer

Session 2G
Buena Vista 3.306
Panel: Dreaming a Decolonial Existence: Ancestral Ways of Knowing, Vulnerability, and Praxis
Moderator: Wanda Alarcón
Karla M. Padrón, “TransMigrant Studies and Nepantla: Dismantling Epistemic Borders and Creating Life”
Alejandra I. Ramírez, " La Que Sueña Con Serpientes: Atravesando mundos; Acorralando tiempos"
Idalia De León, “Soñando Libertades, Sembrando Realidades: Dreams and Spirituality in Scholar Activist Work”

Session 2H
Frio 1.512
Panel: Narrating the Shape-Shifting Realities of the Trhesholds of Nepanta: Deconolizing Anzalduan
Scholarship
Moderator: Magda García
Betsy Dahms, “Narrating the Shape-Shifting Realities of the Trhesholds of Nepanta: Deconolizing Anzalduan Scholarship”
AnaLouise Keating, “Heed the Signs, Transform Our Lives, Change the World: Anzaldúa’s “Nepantla Body” as Decolonial Reading Practice”
Kelli Zaytoun, “El Nagual in My House”: La Víbora and Journeys of Imagination and Self"
Robyn Henderson Espinoza, “Decolonizing Reality in Material Ways”

3:30-3:45
BREAK

3:45-5:00
CONCURRENT SESSION 3 A to 3G

Session 3A
Buena Vista 3.328
Panel: The Transformative Implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Shamanic Thought and Practice
Moderator: Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
Noura Elwazani, “Toward a Shaman-Oriented-Rhetoric: An Anzaldúan Approach to Kenneth Burke’s ‘Ethnocentric’ Rhetorical Theory”
Kelli Zaytoun, “Shapeshifting Subjects and Shamanic Resistance in the Fiction of Gloria Anzaldúa and Clarice Lispector”
Gabriel Hartley, “Nepantla and the Imaginal Realm: Henry Corbin and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Shamanic Journeying”

Session 3B
Buena Vista 1.312
Reading/Performance: Imaniman: Poets Reflect on Transformative Borders through Anzaldua’s Work
Moderator: Rita Urquijo Ruiz
Poets: Nadine Saliba, John Fry, Verónica Sandoval, César L. De León, Joe Jiménez, ire’ne lara silva

Session 3C
Buena Vista Aula Canaria
Workshop: El Tallercito de Son Creando Comunidad A Través De La Cultura
Moderator: Liliana Saldaña
Facilitator: Keli Rosa Cabunoc

Session 3D
Buena Vista 3.306
Workshop: de boca, a mano, to librito: Production of Anzaldúa Influenced Works Through Chapbooks & Broadside Posters
Moderator: Andrea Figueroa
Facilitators: Christopher Carmona and Isaac Chavarría

Session 3E
Buena Vista 3.318
Workshop: Self Care and Empowerment Workshop for Women of Color: Be Your Own S-hero
Moderator: Elsa Ruiz
Facilitator: Valerie M. Mendoza

Session 3F
Buena Vista 3.324
Panel: Nepantla Epistemologies: Food & Trauma
Moderator: Norma Cárdenas
Jean Aguilar-Valdez, “Y Que Mas Quieren, Mi Sangre!?: Institutional Violence, Trauma, Invisibility, y la Mujer Cansada”
Brittany Fraley, “Women’s Relationship to Food through the Lens of Gloria Anzaldúa”
Nadia Ala’I Rosales, “Anzaldúa’s Nepantlera Epistemology as a Decolonial Tool”

Session 3G
Buena Vista 3.318
Book Celebration: Mariana Ortega’s In Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity
Moderator: Cordelia Barrera
Participants: Mariana Ortega, Laura E. Pérez, Cynthia M. Paccacerqua

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM FEATURED SESSION: Celeste De Luna, Liliana Wilson, Verónica Castillo, Lourdes Pérez, and Anel Flores – Artistic Expressions which Contest, Decolonize, Liberate, and Heal Room: Aula Canaria

8:00-10:00
Art Exhibit & Poetry
E.V.A. Gallery
3400 South Flores
San Antonio, Texas 78215
Phone (210) 503-5663 TRANSPORTATION ON YOUR OWN

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2016

8:30 AM Coffee/Pan Dulce/Fruit

8:30 AM – NOON Registration

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Concurrent Sessions 4A-4F

Session 4A
Buena Vista 3.328
Panel: The Body and Identity
Moderator: Rusty Barceló
Jean Aguilar-Valdez and Dora López, “Soy Gorda, y Que? – Decolonizing our Fat Bodies and Reclaiming New Mestiza Definitions of Health and Beauty”
Sabrina Boyer and Dara Nix-Stevenson, “Becoming Nepantleras in El Mundo Zurdo: Countering Neoliberalism and Surveillance of Black and Brown Trans* Bodies”
Nissa Cabral, “Anzaldúan Nepantla and the Criminalization of Queer Identities in the Juvenile Justice System”

Session 4B
Buena Vista 1.312
Panel: Auto-ethnographic Nepantler@s: (Re)mapping and (Re)membering Jotería Spaces through Autohistoria, Disidentification, and Testimonio
Moderator: William A. Calvo-Quiros
Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. , “Archives and/in Auto-historias: Methodologies for Healing and Mapping Queer Latin@ Los Angeles”
Richard Giddens, Jr., “Decolonizing Toxic Masculinities: Testimonios of Queer & Trans Tejan@ Sexual Assault Experiences”
Robert Gutierrez-Perez, "Advocating for Nos/Otras: The Disruptive Ambiguities of Disidentification at ‘Latina/o Drag Night’ "

Session 4C
Buena Vista 1.318
Panel: Nepantla Spaces in Chicana and Latina Literature
Moderator: Sonia Valencia
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, “The Politics of Language in Children and YA Publications”
Adrianna Santos, “Licking the Wounds of Colonization: Nepantlera Aesthetics in Laurie Ann Guerrero’s A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying”
Trevor Buffone, “Performing Nepantla: Adelina Anthony as Anzaldúan Border Crosser in Las Hociconas”
Norma L. Cárdenas, “Toward Anzaldúan Theory-Praxis: Viramontes’s Spiritual Activism in Under the Feet of Jesus”

Session 4D
Buena Vista 3.306
Panel: Nepantleras in the Academy
Moderator: Wanda Alarcón
Rufina Cortez, “Border Crossers: Brokering Our Presence in the Academy”
Jeannette D. Alarcón and Antonieta Ávila, “Nepantleras in the Academy: On the Path of Conocimiento”
Nancy Acevedo-Gil, "Conocimiento Colegial: Towards an Interdisciplinary Latina/o College Choice and Transition Framework
Carla Wilson, “Unsettling Women’s and Gender Studies ‘Settler’ Logics Through Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘now let us shift…’”

Session 4E
Buena Vista 3.318
Panel: International Perspectives
Moderator: Romana Radlwimmer
Carlos Vinícius da Silva Figueiredo, “Crossing Borders/Atravesando Fronteras: Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa and Douglas Diegues in Brazil”
Fabiane Ramos, “Welcome to the Australian Borderlands: engaging with the told experiences of refugee-background youth”
Eréndira Cruz and Natalia Thompson, “Armando aquelarres entre comadres: Cross-Border Feminist Insurgencies and Imaginaries”

Session 4F
Buena Vista 3.324
Panel: Nepantleras Spaces in Education
Moderator: Christina Gutiérrez
Jaime Nolan, "Napantla as a Curriculum and Pedagogy of Re-membering and Re-imagination "
Margaret Cantú-Sánchez, " Bridging American, Mexican Cutlures and Reinforcing Chicana/o Identity in the Nepantla Classroom"
Sylvia Mendoza, “Reimagining K-12 education with and through Anzaldúa”
Yanira Madrigal-García, “La Frontera: Confronting Institutional Violence in Urban Schools”

Session 4G
Frio 2.520
Panel: “This Home Called Nepantla: Queer of Color Utopias, Healing Circles, Autonomous Community Spaces, and the Practice of Spiritual Activism”
Moderator: Irene Lara
Krizia Puig, Anzaldúa’s utopian cosmology: On hope, performance and queer of color futurities Marcie Rojas, A Nepantla Healing Circle: Navigating Survivor’s Guilt, Impostor Syndrome, and Belonging in Graduate School
Vileana de la Rosa, “Nepantla Sisterhood: Building Autonomous Community Spaces”
Diana Vargas, “Frameworks for Spiritual Activist Practice: Moving from the Coatlicue State to Nepantlera to Shamana”

Session 4H Frio 2.518
READING/PERFORMANCE
Moderator: V. June Pedraza
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza, “Milagros”
Erika Johnson, "Word Witch: Borderland Poeta/Nepantlera/Bruja”

10:15-10:30 AM
BREAK

10:30-11:45
Concurrent Session 5A-5G

Session 5A
Buena Vista 3.328
Panel: Anzaldúan Readings of Fiction and Non-Fiction
Moderator: Jackie Cuevas
Jennifer Lozano, “‘A Country I Invented:’ Curating an Anzalduan Social-Spirituality in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo”
Wendy Walker, “‘Into Her Divinity’: The Erotic as Decolonization and Spiritual Activism in Alma Luz Villanueva’s Naked Ladies”
Megan Nieto, “Anzaldúan Phagologic Resistance: Health, Healing, and (Hi)storytelling in the Nonfiction Writings of Luz Calvo and Fred Ho”
Cordelia E. Barrera, “Makina as Nepantlera: an Anzaldúan Reading of Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World”

Session 5B
Buena Vista 1.312
Roundtable: Nepantler@ Visionaries: A Discussion of Historical Trauma, Ancestral/Familial Resilience and Border-Crossing Movements in Higher Education
Moderator: Elizabeth Rodríguez
Participants: Angelica Labuguen, Itzel Corona, Richard Giddens, Jr., Susana Ramírez

Session 5C
Buena Vista 1.318
Panel: Transforming Desconocimiento(s): Gloria Anzaldúa’s Decolonizing Theories of Radical Interconnectivity
Moderator: Alejandra Barrientos
Jessica Spain Sadr, “Necesitamos Nepantleras to Inspire Us”: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Prescriptions for Post-Oppositional Social Change
Kristin Alder. “‘[Reactivación] tallo, rama, raíz’: (Re)Telling and (Re)Positioning Knowledge through an Engagement with the Theories and Practices of Native American Onto-Epistemologies and Gloria E. Anzaldúa”
Noura Elwazani, “Anzaldúa’s Imaginal-Oriented Aesthetics as Modus Operandi for Decolonial Transformation”
Sara Ishii, "’Creative Acts of Vision’: Exploring the Borders between Art and Theory Through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Archived Sketches "

Session 5D
Buena Vista 3.306
Panel: Rituals of Healing
Moderator: Cynthia Córtez
Christina Gutiérrez, “Tracing “Outlawed Knowledges” and Discourses of Healing in Ire’ne Lara Silva’s Blood Sugar Canto”
Amelia María de la Luz Montes, "Divergent Thinking:’ Reclaiming, Rethinking Ancestral and Indigenous Healing Practices”
Berenice Dimas, “NEPANTLEANDO en el Inframundo del Vientre: Stories and Lessons of Healing Generational Birth Trauma”
Irene Lara Silva, “Blood Sugar Canto”

Session 5E
Buena Vista 3.318
FILM: Entre medio de dos mundos: Between Two Worlds
Moderator: Sonia Valencia
Facilitator: Edmundo Aguilar

Session 5F
Buena Vista 3.324
Panel: Nepantla in Non Traditional Areas: Science and Philosophy
Moderator: Laura López
Karina Vielma, “STEMujeres: Using Anzaldua’s Borderland Theory to examine the educational experiences of first-generation Latina STEM degree-holders who left the field”
Jean Aguilar-Valdez, “No Puedes Poseer Mi Ciencia: Anzaldúan Theories to Decolonize STEM”
Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla, "Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Self-Referential Aesthetics and Decolonial Phenomenology

Session 5G
Buena Vista Aula Canaria
Workshop: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Creating Comunidad Situated Writing Curriculum at Hispanic Serving Institutions
Moderator: Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
Facilitators: Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa and Candace Zepeda

12:00-1:00 pm
CLOSING PLENARY Buena Vista Theater
Isabel Millán, “Autofantasías: Reinventing Self & Inspiring Travesuras in Children’s Cultural Productions” & Emma Pérez, “The Will to Feel: Decolonial Anzaldúan Methods”

1:00-1:30 PM CLOSING CEREMONY Bill Miller Plaza