Ninth Annual Multicultural
Conference
All events, except the luncheon, will be free and open to the public.
6:30-7:00 pm
Reception: McAllister Foyer
7:00-8:30 pm
Welcome:
Laurie López Coleman, Conference
Co-coordinator
San Antonio College
Introductory Remarks:
Dr. Robert E. Zeigler, President
San Antonio College
Alexander V. Bernal, Chair, English Department
San Antonio College
Introduction of Conference Topic:
“Answering the ‘Call’ of Nature: Responding to the Challenge to Expand Multiculturalism’s Boundaries”
Moumin M. Quazi
University of the Incarnate Word
Keynote Speech:
“Eco-Apocalypse: Historical Reflections on the Earth’s End”
David Redles
Cuyahoga Community College
Closing
Remarks:
Juanita Luna Lawhn, Conference Coordinator
San Antonio College
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 Visual Arts and Technology
Center (VATC) 120
9:00-9:50 am
Nature in Toni Morrison’s Novels
Introductions: Stephen Dingman, San Antonio College
“Nature as the Measure of Truth in Morrison’s Song of
Solomon”
Teresa Morris
San Antonio College, English Department
“Mother Nature/Motherland in Beloved and Song of Solomon”
Clare Norris
The University of Texas at San Antonio
10:00-10:50 am
Nature Inside and Out
Introductions: Ned Bailey, San Antonio College
“Polish Immigrants in Australia and Australian Nature”
Jan Lencznarowicz
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
“Nature, Spirituality, and Environmentalism in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”
Amy Gilmour
The University of Texas at San Antonio
11:00-11:50 am
Cultural Spaces
Introductions: Liz Ann Báez Aguilar, San Antonio College
“Sharing Cultural Space in the Muddy Bosom: Américo Paredes and Langston Hughes
Speak of Rivers”
Amy Ipina
The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Trino’s Tree: Roots and Wings”
Diane Bertrand
Novelist, San Antonio, Texas
12:00-12:50 pm
Poets Reading
Introductions: Patricia Portales, San Antonio College
“Facts of Life, Past and Present”
Carol Coffee Reposa
San Antonio College
“Lost in Translation”
Marian Haddad
Poet, San Antonio, Texas
1:00-1:50 pm
Humans versus Nature
Introductions: Carol Ann Britt, San Antonio College
“Don Miguel Battles the Elements,” excerpt from The Caballeros of Ruby, Texas
Cynthia Leal Massey
San Antonio College
“Nature Imagery in ‘Black Elk Speaks’”
Mike Burton
San Antonio College
2:00-3:30 pm Visual
Arts and Technology Center (VATC) 120
Writing Workshop
Introduction: Janice Clayton, San Antonio College
“Nurturing the Roots of Fiction: Characters as Fertilizer”
Diane Bertrand
Novelist, San Antonio, Texas
7:00-8:45 pm Visual Arts and Technology Center (VATC) 120
An Evening of Literary Selections
Introductions: Jerry McCarthy, San Antonio College
“Poetry y mas: A Reading of excertps from Canícula and Current Work”
Norma Cantú
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Poetry Reading from Imprinting
Yvette Benavides
Our Lady of the Lake University
“Basic Nature”
Jane Focht-Hansen
San Antonio College
Reading
from “Blasts and Repercussions”
Joy Kennedy
Brazosport College
“Canciones de mi pasado/Songs of My Past”
Juanita Luna Lawhn
San Antonio College
9:25-10:40 am
Art and Nature
Introductions: Jason Malcolm, San Antonio College
“Culture and Nature in Art”
Philip Lampe
University of the Incarnate Word
“Land in Louis Owens’ Wolfsong”
Richard Moon
San Antonio College
“Krazy Kat: The Comic Anarchy of George Herriman”
Leslye Friedberg
Community College of Philadelphia
10:50-12:05 pm
Harmony and Discord
Introductions: Jeanne Redmond, San Antonio College
“Our Spiritual Nature and Our Interconnectedness in All Life: A Multicultural Perspective”
Francie Blake
Community College of Philadelphia
“Pastoralism as a Form of Orientalism in Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Moumin Quazi
University of the Incarnate Word
“In Defense of Elizabeth Costello: ‘Rants’ from an Ethical Academic on J.M. Coetzze’s The Lives of Animals”
Laura Wright
University of Massachusetts Amherst
12:15 pm
Luncheon at The Bright Shawl, 819 Augusta
Introductions: Nora Olivares, San Antonio College
Stephen Dingman, San Antonio College
“Nature’s Constant Voice”
Jo LeCoeur
University of the Incarnate Word
Conference
Committee:
Juanita
Luna Lawhn, Coordinator, San Antonio College
Laurie
López Coleman, Co-coordinator, San Antonio College
Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine
Moumin
M. Quazi, University of the Incarnate Word
Mike
Burton, San Antonio College
Patricia
Portales, San Antonio College
Jerry
McCarthy, San Antonio College
John
O'Keefe, San Antonio College
Tammy
Lozano-Malcolm, San Antonio College
Luncheon
Committee:
Nora
Olivares, San Antonio College
Stephen
Dingman, San Antonio College
Sponsors:
Alamo
Community College District
Arte
Público Press, University of Houston,
Houston, Texas
San
Antonio College Bookstore
San
Antonio College English Department
San
Antonio College Enrollment Management
San
Antonio College Student Life
All events,
except the luncheon, are free and open to the public.
Last updated
3/27/03
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