San
Antonio College
13th
Annual Multicultural Conference
Fear
and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern Culture
Tuesday,
April 24
Reception
Honoring Felipe de Ortego y Gasca:
Reception:
6:00-6:45
p.m. Loftin Student Center
Fiesta
Room
Traditional
Conjunto Music on Acordeón y Bajo Sexto
with Juan and
Armando Tejeda
Opening
Ceremonies:
7:00-9:00
p.m.
Mistress
of Ceremonies:
Laurie López
Coleman, San Antonio College
Welcome:
Dr. Robert E.
Zeigler, President, San Antonio College
Introduction
of Conference Topic & Unveiling of Journal, Voices:
Moumin
Quazi, Tarleton State University
“Casting
Out Fear, Reeling in Loathing”
Recognition
of Felipe de Ortego y Gasca:
Juan Rodríguez,
Texas Lutheran University
Presentation
of Award:
Alexander V.
Bernal, Chair, English Department, San Antonio College
Dr. Robert E.
Zeigler, President, San Antonio College
Presentation
of Premio Letras de Aztlán:
Roberto
Calderón, University of North Texas
Honoring
Felipe de Ortego y Gasca:
Saúl Sanchez,
Texas Lutheran University
"Años
después . . . Years Later"
Juan
Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine
On
Renaissance, Luz, and Selective Amnesia: An Overdue Tribute to Felipe
Ortego"
Reading:
Felipe de Ortego
y Gasca, Northwestern New Mexico University
"Chicano
Literature and Genesis of the term 'the Chicano Renaissance': Provenance,
Production, and
Posterity"
Closing
Remarks:
Mike Burton, San
Antonio College
Wednesday,
April 25
(All
sessions are held in the Visual Arts and Technology Center Room 120, unless otherwise
noted.)
Continental
Breakfast
8:00-9:00
a.m.
Threatening
Discourse
9:00-9:50
a.m.
Stephen
Badrich, San Antonio College
“Fear and
Loathing on the Internet”
Danika
M. Brown & Deborah Cole, University of Texas, Pan American
“The ‘Real’
Threat of Spanish Speakers: The Competing Discourses
of ‘estar aqui’
and ‘ser
alguien’ ”
Re-Imaging
10:00-10:50
a.m.
Garry
Partridge, San Antonio College
“The
De-Voicing of the Indigene in the American Edition of The Whale Rider”
Michael
Soto, Trinity University
“Mapping
Fear: Harlem in the Geographic Imagination”
Coming
& Conquering
11:00-11:50
a.m.
Beatriz
Rivera-Barnes, Penn State Worthington Scranton
“Christopher
Columbus: The First American Landscape Writer”
Moumin
Quazi, Tarleton State University
“The
Terrifying, Renewed ‘Sacred Mission of Civilization’”
Eliminating
Undesirables
12:00-12:50
p.m.
Arch
Mayfield, Wayland Baptist University
“Cultural
Sensitivity in Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes”
Rachel
Jennings, The University of Texas at San Antonio
“The Quiet
War at the UT Press: Américo Paredes, Chicano
Studies, and Scholarly Publishing”
Film
Viewing
1:00-1:50
p.m.
Manuel
Medrano, University of Texas at Brownsville
Américo Paredes
An
Evening of Literary Selections 6:30-9:00
p.m.
Beatriz
Rivera-Barnes, Penn State Worthington Scranton
Michelle
Paulsen, Victoria College
“Polygamy
in America?: A Presentation and Poetry Reading”
Chuck
Taylor, Texas A & M University
Moumin
Quazi, Tarleton State University
Daniel
San Miguel, Jr., Poet, San Antonio
Nephtali
De Leon, Poet & Painter, San Antonio
Carol
Reposa, San Antonio College
Claudio
San Miguel, San Antonio College
Thursday,
April 26
Getting
Over “The Wall”
8:00-9:15
a.m.
Grace
Keyes, St. Mary’s University
“Shunned
and Ridiculed: The Invisibly Disabled”
Gilbert
Polanco, Palo Alto College
“What
Wall?: Getting Past Fear and Loathing”
Jim
West, St. Philip’s College
“Demons,
Ice Baths and Exclusion”
The
Devil R Us
9:25-10:40
a.m.
Veronica
Baker, Northeast Lakeview College
“The Devil
Within: Hawthorne Addresses Fear and the
Unknown”
Mark
Noe, University of Texas, Pan American
“The
Rhetoric of Fear Meets Frankenstein’s Monster: Science Fiction as Middle-Class Post- Structuralist Conspiracy Theory”
Roberto
Calderón, University of North Texas
“The
21st Century Chicano/Latino Civil Rights Movement in Poetry and Images"
Can
You Fear Me Now?
10:50
a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Deborah
Madsen, Université de Genève
“Fear and
Loathing and Unmeltable Immigrants”
Steven
G. Kellman, University of Texas at San Antonio
"The
Siege and the Blow-up Over Movie Terrorism."
Uppinder
Mehan, Victoria College
“From
‘Do We Not Bleed’ to ‘How You Like Me Now’: Responding to Fear and
Loathing.”
Luncheon
12:15-1:45
p.m.
La
Fonda on Main
Reservation
Required
2415
N. Main Ave
(210)
733-0621
Introduction: Stephen Dingman, San Antonio College
Luncheon
Speaker:
Brandon
Valeriano, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Latino
Cultural Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, and
World Cup Television Ratings”
Conference
Committee:
Juanita
Luna Lawhn, Coordinator, San Antonio College
Stephen
Dingman, San Antonio College
Mike
Burton, San Antonio College
Juan
Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine
Judy
Lampert, San Antonio College
Laurie
López Coleman, San Antonio College
Juan
Rodriguez, Texas Lutheran University
John
O'Keefe, San Antonio College
Moumin
M. Quazi, Tarleton State University
Sponsors:
Cappy’s
La Fonda on Main
San
Antonio College
San
Antonio College English Department
San
Antonio College Enrollment Management
San
Antonio College Library and Media Services
Special
Thanks:
Luis
Mercado, Palo Alto College
Claudio
Aguillon, San Antonio Artist
Valerie
Grivas, San Antonio College
For any
special accommodation, issues, or an alternate format,
contact
the San Antonio College DisABILITY Support Services at 733-2347