Conferencia Anual de Historia Fronteriza

Universidad de Texas en El Paso

Fronteras movedizas: género, familia y comunidad

10-11 de febrero de 2017, El Paso, Texas

Presentadora principal Sonia Hernández presenta “A transnational feminist(s) network of women: From Tampico, to south Texas and beyond, 1900-1940"

Dra. Hernández es Associate Professor of History en Texas A&M University, autora de Working Women into the Borderlands y colaboradora de “Refusing to Forget,” una iniciativa de preservación e historia pública.

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El costo de su registración incluye entremeses durante la sesión de apertura, comida buffet y cena (con servicio de mesa) el sábado. No hay costo adicional para asistir al taller de historia oral el viernes y visitas guiadas de sitios notables de la frontera el domingo. Para facilitar nuestra planificación cuando se registra, favor de seleccionar las actividades opcionales y comidas a las cuales planeas asistir. La página acepta la mayoría de las tarjetas de crédito.

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UTEP Borderlands History Conference, February 10-12, 2017

Location: TBA

Noon to 2pm- Oral History Workshop (Space limited)

The Institute of Oral History is pleased to present "Oral History: An Introduction to the Basics" for scholars interested in conducting oral histories or initiating an oral history project. The workshop is presented by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva, director of UTEP’s Institute of Oral History, who was recently awarded the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history. The workshop will cover pre-interview strategies, the interviewing process, and cultural competency. The Institute is currently conducting a long-term project interviewing former students who attended segregated schools in the Borderlands. The Institute was founded in 1972 and currently holds 1,500 oral histories as well as 20,000 pages of transcripts. The workshop will include lunch.

Location (All Friday Afternoon/Evening Sessions): El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center

3 to 4pm- Meet &Greet with Poster Displays

4:00 to 4:10pm- Opening Remarks

4:10 to 6:10pm- Panel One: Representing the Border Family Through Radio, Literature, Monuments, and Film

• Comment: Ernesto Chavez, Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso
• Chair: TBA
• Mario T. García, Professor of Chicano Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. “The Mexican American Search for Identity in the El Paso Border Area: Ruben Salazar’s Unpublished Novel.”
• Carlos Alejandro Belmonte Grey, Visiting Research Professor, Université d'Avignon. “Identidad regional gracias al cinenarco”
• Sonia Robles, Assistant Professor of History, Brenau University. “Radio on the Rio Grande: Cross-Border Contests among Texas-Mexico Communities, 1930s-40s.”
• Robert Mason, Lecturer, Griffith University. “Disrupting Homes: Positioning the Border, Violence and Family in Heritage Spaces.”

6:30 to 7:20 pm-Keynote Speaker

Sonia Hernández, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, received the Ph.D in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006. Dr. Hernández specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico.  She has published in Spanish and English; her most recent book, Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) received the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and the Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association. Dr. Hernández is currently working on a book-length monograph on the transnational connections between women from south Texas, Tampico, and Barcelona rooted in anarcho-syndicalist ideas that at times complemented, clashed, competed with, or reinforced ideas about women’s rights. Her recent article based on this new book, “Revisiting Mexican(a) Labor History through Feminismo Transfronterista: From Tampico to Texas and Beyond, 1910-1940” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Transnational Feminism Special Issue, vol. 36, no. 3 (2015) was awarded the Outstanding Article Award from the LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Latino/a Section. Dr. Hernández is currently an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University; she is also a member of the collective public history project that documents the state-sanctioned violence against the Mexican-origin community along the Texas-Mexico border, 1910-1920 (Refusingtoforget.org).

6:30 to 9pm-Reception with Cash Bar

Location (all Saturday daytime sessions): Hilton Garden Inn El Paso / University

8:30 to 10:30am- Panel Two: Fractured Migrations – Reconfiguring Family Across Borders

• Comment: TBA
• Chair: TBA
• Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Jones Professor of Southwest Studies, Texas State University. “Blurred Identities: The Tortuous Return to ‘Civilization’ of ‘Redeemed’ Captives.”
• Raquel Padilla Ramos, Research Professor, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Emanuel Meraz Yepiz, Research Assistant, El Colegio de Sonora. “La familia yaqui y la frontera: de la diáspora a la Pascua”
• Erika R. Rendón, PhD Candidate, Rice University. “Across the Border and Back Again: Feminization of Migration in Two Twin Cities, 1950-2000.”
• Alina R. Méndez, PhD Candidate, University of California, San Diego. “We Never Separated: Bracero Family Migration to the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Borderlands.”

10:50am to 12:50pm- Panel Three: (B)ordering Gender, Sexuality, and Community

• Comment: TBA
• Chair: TBA
• Mayra Lizette Avila, Visiting Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Abandonment and Disappearance: The Other Side of the Bracero Program.”
• Yvette J. Saavedra, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino. “Living La Mala Vida: Gender, Morality, and Nationalism in Mexican Los Angeles, 1810-1850.”
• Josephina Elizabeth Villa Pérez, Humanities Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. “La Sociedad Femenil Pro-Defensa Nacional: clubismo y cohesion social durante la Segunda Guerra Munidal en Tijuana, 1942-1945.”
• Liz Elizondo, PhD Candidate in History, UT Austin. “Smoke and Mirrors: Community Vigilance and Disregard of ‘Illicit’ Sex in the Northeastern Spanish Borderlands of Coahuila and Texas.”

1pm-2:pm Buffet Lunch & Presentation of the Dr. John H. McNeely Graduate Student Oral History Award

2:20 to 4:20pm- Panel Four: Religious Communities – Saints, Brothers, and the Dead in the Borderlands

• Comment: TBA
• Chair: J. Aaron Waggoner, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at El Paso
• Amy Langford, “Borderline Saints: Polygamous Mormons and the Death of Plural Marriage Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1885-1912.”
• Daniela Guadalupe Córdova, Professor of Social Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez. “La translocación el las práctricas de religiosidad popular en las danzas de matachines de Ciudad Juárez.”
• Eloy Garcia, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at El Paso. “La Hermandad de Sangre de Cristo: Church, Community, and Change in New Mexico, 1846-1912.”
• Jamie Starling, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Violence, Trauma, and Resilience: Recovering the Dead of the Lower Rio Grande, 1848-1858.”

4:30 to 5pm- Wrap Up: Larisa Veloz, Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso

Location: Café Mayapan

7 to 11pm- Dinner & Festivities, Café Mayapan

Location (Pick up & Drop off): Hilton Garden Inn El Paso / University

8:30 to 11am- Guided Visits to Notable Border Sites (Space limited)

Location: TBA

1 to 3pm- Debriefing Session for Teachers Receiving CPE credits

UTEP’s Center for History Teaching & Learning is pleased to offer Continuing Professional Education Credits for secondary educators attending the conference.