Conference Sponsors

Conference Sponsors:
CWU Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, CWU College of Arts and Humanities, CWU Department of Foreign Languages, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA) de CWU

Conference Organizing Committee:

• Gilberto Garcia, NACCS 2009 Regional Representative and Chair of Planning Committee; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  
• Michael A. Ervin, Associate Professor, History, Director Latino/Latin American Studies
  
• Alejandro Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages
  
• Eric Mayer, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages
  

Special thanks to:

• Tony Zaragoza, Associate Professor, The Evergreen State College
  
• Karen McKinney, Director, McNair Program, EWU
  
• Christina Torres-Garcia, Academic Counselor, McNair Program, EWU

Conference Mission

As we at CWU have been creating the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies in recent years, we have been impressed by Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies’ capacity to break down borders and build bridges among communities. This year ath the Pacific Northwest Foco Reigonal Conference we are proud to present the following themes:

• Points of contact between Latina/o and Chicana/o Studies
• The border between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico
• The fluidities of gender and sexual identity
• Latina/o, Chicana/o, Latin American realities and experiences
• Hybrid identities
• The relationship between higher education institutions and surrounding communities
• The relationships among underrepresented groups in the United States of America
• Power dynamics among the powerful and the less powerful
• Regional realities of the Pacific Northwest

This conference aims at a conversation regarding these and other issues.