la frontera conference

Greetings from the organizing committee of the "Los Angeles/la frontera/Mexico City" conference.  We look forward to seeing you here soon!  In the meantime, here is information regarding a few logistical details, and the conference schedule.

Participants:
Please send us a short biography of what you would like those attending the conference to know about you.  Address e-mails to Victoria.R.Hicks@Dartmouth.edu or mail to her at the Dickey Center, 206 Baker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.

Please try to send us a draft of your paper by July 15th so we can circulate it among participants (mail to Victoria Hicks at the Dickey Center, 206 Baker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755).

Travel arrangements:  Please make your travel arrangements through the Dartmouth College Travel Office (800-525-2123).  Please identify yourself as with "la frontera" conference.  Dartmouth will reimburse the round-trip costs of economy airfare between your origin and Hanover.  The closest airport is Lebanon NH (3 miles south of Hanover) served by USAirways.  Boston's Logan is 125 miles south and has a Dartmouth Mini-Coach service that would get you to Hanover (check with the Dartmouth Travel to coordinate arrival and departure times with the Dartmouth Mini-Coach schedule).  Manchester airport is another possibility.

Room Reservations: We have reserved overnight accommodations for you at the Hanover Inn for Friday July 30 and Saturday July 31 (check out by noon Sunday August 1).

Equipment: We have reserved a classroom space for the conference which is equipped with an overhead projector, slide projector, VCR, chalkboard, and internet hookup.  Please let us know if your presentation will require additional equipment.

Please address all future questions and/or correspondence to Victoria Hicks at (603) 646-2023.

Friday, July 30
6 - 8 PM: Registration

8 PM: Panel I - Globalization
Chair: Diana Taylor, NYU Professor of Performance Studies
Rubén Martínez, Los Angeles Writer and Journalist
"The New Americans: Migrant Culture and 21st Century Democracy"
Edward Soja, UCLA Professor of Urban Planning
"Transnational Geographies:  The Restructuring of Territorial Identities"
John Caldwell, UCLA Assoc. Professor of Film & Television Studies
"Performativity of Landscape: Race, Space, & Rancho California (por favor)"

Saturday, July 31
8 - 9 AM: Breakfast

9 - 11 AM: Panel II - Borders & Networks
Chair: Richard Wright, Dartmouth Professor of Geography
Don Pease, Dartmouth Professor of English and Comp. Lit.
"Touch of Evil & the McCarran Legislation: Re-Staging Operation Wetback"
Cecilia Menjívar, ASU Assoc. Professor of Justice Studies
"Salvadoran Transnationalism"
Kathleen Staudt, UTEP Professor of Political Science
"Free Trade? Informal Economies at the US-Mexico Border"

11 AM - 1 PM: Lunch Break

1 - 3:30 PM: Panel III - Visual Productions of Space
Chair: Al LaValley, Dartmouth Professor Emeritus of Film Studies
Yasushi Ishii, Dartmouth Asst. Professor of Spanish
"Optical Nation: Space, Time, & People in 19th Century Mexican Photography"
James Rojas, Los Angeles MTA Urban Planner
"The Enacted Environment of Los Angeles"
Julie Murphy Erfani, ASU Assoc. Profesor of Politics
"Borderlands Megalopolis: Cosmic Urbanism in Neo-Mexico City"
Ramón Ramírez, Los Angeles Artist and Architect
"Art, Building, and Space in Aztlán"

3:30 - 4 PM: Break

4 - 6:30 PM: Panel IV - Literary Productions of Space
Chair: Christina Dupláa, Dartmouth Assoc. Professor of Spanish
Mary Pat Brady, Cornell Asst. Professor of English
"'All this is becoming extinct:' Chicana Critiques of Spatial Abstraction"
Jean Franco, Columbia Professor Emeritus of Spanish
"Chronicles of the Megalópolis"
Ben Siguentes Jáuregui, Rutgers Asst. Professor of Spanish
"On Being 'International:' Queer Spacing in 'El vampiro de la colonia Roma'"
Marzena Grzegorczyk, Emory Asst. Professor of Spanish
"Personal Topographies and Political Transitions"

6:30 - 8 PM: Dinner Break

8 PM: Performances at Collis Center Common Ground
Presenter: Carlos Martín, Dartmouth Chávez Fellow
Helena María Viramontes, Cornell Assoc. Professor of English
  Reading from "'Their dogs came with the bulldozers:'
  Before the Freeways, After the Conquest"
Rubén Martínez, Los Angeles Writier and Journalist
  Performing from "Border Ballad: Tales from the New Frontier"

Sunday, August 1
8 - 9 AM: Breakfast

9 - 11 AM: Panel V - Virtual Spaces
Chair: Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth Asst. Professor of Film &  Television Studies
América Rodríguez, UT Austin Assoc. Professor of Communication
"Creating an Audience & Remapping a Nation: A Brief History of
  Spanish Language Broadcasting, 1920-1980"
Ana López, Tulane Assoc. Professor of Communication
"The Global Televisual Space of the Contemporary Telenovela"
John Fiske, U Wisconson-Madison Profesor of Communication Arts
"White Watch: Race, Place, & Surveillance in the Post-Modern City"

Conference Organizers:

Silvia Spitta
342 Dartmouth Hall
 Spitta@dartmouth.edu

Adrian Bailey
120 Fairchild Hall
 adrian.bailey@dartmouth.edu

Carlos Martin
20 Fairchild Hall
café@leland.stanford.edu

Mark J. Williams
317 Wilson Hall
mark.j.williams@dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth Humanities Center, Dickey Endowment, Rockefeller Center, Dean of the Faculty/Steffens Fund, Bildner Fund, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Geography, Office of the AAEO/Latina/o Student Advisor, La Alianza Latina, MeCha