Schedule :
Wednesday, March 5
2.00 - 4.00 PM
Plenary 1: UCSD Ethnic Studies Faculty (TBA) SSB* 107
4.30 - 6.30 PM
Plenary 2: Local San Diego Community Panel Deutz Room, CILAS**
Louis Guassac, Kumeyaay Border Task Force
Andrea Guerrero, San Diego ACLU
Education not Arms Coalition
Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee
6.45 - 8.00 PM Reception and Undergraduate Presentations Deutz Room, CILAS
Thursday, March 6
9.00 - 10.30 AM
Panel A TBA
Post-colonial mindscapes and shifting burdens - whose frame is it anyway?
Garga Chatterjee, Harvard University and Somnath Mukherji, Association for India's Development
Demystifying the Post(colonial): An Examination of Myth as Meeting Point Between Ethnic, Indigenous, Postcolonial and
Gender Studies
Amina Ben Ezzeddine, Washington State University
Neopragmatic Nativism: A Strategic History of Western Colonial Discourse
Sean Corbin, University of California, Riverside
Panel B TBA
Transnational Feminism, Competing Domesticities: Circuits of Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (Post)coloniality
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Bridges are Made with Many Footsteps: Re-imagining Filipino Identity as Resistance to a Militarized Present
Ellen-Rae Cachola, California Institute of Integral Studies
O La Ata: Shadows, Reflections, and Images
Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Independent Artist
Spectacles of Citizenship: Native Hawaiian representations and rights
Maile Arvin, University of California, San Diego
10.45 AM - 12.15 PM
Plenary 3: Intersections I: Ethnic Studies Affiliate Faculty SSB 107
Ross Frank, Ethnic Studies
Rosemary George, Literature
Elizabeth Newsome, Visual Arts
12.15 - 1.15 PM Lunch SSB 107
1.30 - 3.15 PM
Panel A TBA
The Ghost of Guam in the Machinery of American Sovereignty
Antoinette Chafauros, Ursuline College
Michael Perez, California State University Fullerton
Michael Leon Guerrero, Grassroots Global Justice
Michael Lujan Bevacqua, University of California, San Diego
Panel B TBA
Strategic Reflections on Indigenous and Migrant Alliances Against Borders
Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai'i Manoa and Cynthia Wright, York University
Sovereignty, border control and citizenship: Intersections of immigrant and indigenous rights talks in the United
States
Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Peripheral Migration: Potentialities of Border Subject to Become Decolonial Subject
Keina Espiñeira Gonzålez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Identity Formation in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl: A Comparative
Look at Two Contemporary African and Caribbean Novels
Chinenye Okparanta, University of Maryland
3.30 - 5.00 PM
Panel A TBA
Indigenous Interrogations of the 'Postcolonial' in Mahasweta Devi's "Imaginary Maps and After
Kurukshetra"
Arumina Paul, University of Southern California
Postcolonial Futures and the Pre-Modern Past in "Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha"
Joanne Lipson, University of Michigan
Encountering My (Colonized/Colonizer) Self: Reconciling Conflicting Subjectivities
Beenash Jafri, York University
'See'ing the city as a contested landscape through the lens of Indigenous histories
Julia Nagam, York University
Panel B TBA
Intersections II: A Conversation with UCSD Graduates
5.00 - 6.45 PM
Plenary 4: Global Indigineity Hojel Hall of the
Americas
Angana Chatterji, California Institute of Integral Studies Americas
Vince Diaz, University of Michigan
TBA
6.46 - 8.00 PM Dinner and Undergraduate Presentations Hojel Hall of the
Americas
Friday, March 7
9.00 - 10.30
Panel A TBA
Palestinian Predicaments: Jewish Immigration and Refugees Repatriation
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Tel-Aviv University
Silenced Conversations: American-Israeli Exceptional Relation and What It Means for Arabs and Arab Americans
Magid Shihade, University of California, Davis
Reconceptualizing the Refugee Figure Through the Intersection of Statelessness and Indigeneity
Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego
(Many) Nations Within: Sovereignty and Nativism in the Rural U.S.
Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Panel B TBA
Indigenous Politics and Biodiversity Conservation in Bolivia
Jesse Lewis, University of Michigan
The Amazighs mainly known as "Berbers" The Education Policy of North Africa:
The Case of Morocco and Algeria
Ed Lachgar Agwilal, Tamaynut Morocco.
Comparative Maya, Nahautl and Latino Studies
Gabriel S. Estrada, Cal State Long Beach
The Representation of Postcolonial Congo in the Western Imaginary
Marcel Khombe Mangwanda, University of South Africa
10.45 - 12.30
Plenary 5: Statelessness and Refugee Issues Hojel Hall of the Americas
Jesse Mills, University of San Diego Americas
Renya Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Hojel Hall of the
Americas
