WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Chicano/a Film Series at USU Merrill Cazier Library, Room 154
featuring Tanner presenters Paul Espinosa and Desirée J. Garcia:

8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. The Lemon Grove Incident (Paul Espinosa, producer/writer)

• "...the story of the nation's first successful legal challenge to school segregation." New York Times
• "...trenchant and poignant." Washington Post
• "...a successful marriage of drama and documentation, rare in the genre." Daily Star
• "...an educational experience that doesn't bog down." The Houston Post
• "...the story is told with quiet dignity that underlines the stupidity of all ethnic prejudices." NC News Service

Focusing on one of the earliest school desegregation cases in U.S. history, The Lemon Grove Incident utilizes a unique combination of dramatized scenes, documentary interviews, and historical footage. The film examines the response of the Mexican American community in Lemon Grove, California, to a 1930 school board attempt to create a segregated school for the Mexican American children of the district.

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Zoot Suit Riots (Desirée Garcia, associate producer)

August 1942: The murder of a young Mexican American man ignited a firestorm in the City of the Angels. In no time at all, ethnic and racial tensions that had been building up over the years boiled over. Police fanned out across the city in a dragnet that netted 600 Mexican Americans. Among those accused of murder was a young "zoot-suiter" named Hank Leyvas—the poster boy for an entire generation of rebellious Mexican kids who refused to play by the old rules. As he and sixteen other boys headed to trial, the mood of the city turned violent. The deck was stacked against the defendants, and a verdict of guilty would spark a series of brutal riots. The convictions were ultimately overturned, but the city and its inhabitants would be forever changed

10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. The Hunt for Pancho Villa (Paul Espinosa, producer/writer)

• "Four stars." San Diego Union Tribune
• "...a compelling hour..."
• "...thoughtful yet entertaining and above-all informative..." Austin American-Statesman

Just before dawn on March 9, 1916, a band of Mexican revolutionaries loyal to General Francisco "Pancho" Villa crossed the border into the United States and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico. Within a matter of hours, seventeen Americans and 67 Mexicans lay dead. The next day, President Woodrow Wilson announced the formation of the Punitive Expedition under the command of General John "Blackjack" Pershing. Within three months over 150,000 U.S. National guardsmen and Army regulars would be mobilized, in what was the largest troop deployment in the United States since the Civil War. "The Hunt for Pancho Villa" recounts the events that brought the U.S. and Mexico to the brink of war in the early part of this century. The film draws on a wealth of visual archival materials, such as photographs, postcards, cartoons, newsreel and film excerpts found in public and private collections in the United States and Mexico. Eleven months after they entered Mexico, the Punitive Expedition returned without ever having caught sight of Pancho Villa.

11:30 a.m.–12:30p.m. 1492 Revisited (Paul Espinosa, producer/director)

• "...surprisingly provocative and challenging vehicle to tear down some of the myths." Los Angeles Times
• "Watch 1492 Revisited. You'll never think of Christopher Columbus in the same way again. San Diego Union-Tribune

Featuring art work from an exhibition titled "Counter Colon-ialismo," this program offers an alternative perspective on the quincentenary celebration. Besides presenting provocative art pieces addressing various aspects of the colonial encounter, the program also raises questions about the nature of history and its construction. Included in the program are interviews with: Alurista, a Chicano poet and cultural critic; artists David Avalos and Deborah Small from San Diego and Los Angeles-based Karen Atkinson; Native American writer and activist Jan Elliot, editor of the journal Indigenous Thought; Chicano scholar and critic Victor Zamudio-Taylor; and two of the curators of the exhibition, Patricio Chavez from the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego and Liz Lerma from MARS Artspace in Phoenix, Arizona.

12:30 p.m.–1:20 p.m. Opening statements (USU President Stan Albrecht, Tanner family member, Melody Graulich) and Invocation (Demetria Martínez)

1:30 p.m.–2:20 p.m. Representations of Chicano/a Life: Red and Black Ink: Readings by Norma Cantú and Demetria Martínez

• Norma Cantú, from Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera
• Demetria Martínez, from Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana
• moderator

2:30 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Latinos and Labor  

• Luis Valdez, "Genesis of the Farm Workers Theater"
• Matt Garcia, "Guest Workers, Free Trade and the Making of U.S. Immigration Policy"
• Patria Julnes, USU Political Science (moderator)

3:30 p.m.–4:20 p.m. Performance of No Saco Nada de la Escuela by Luis Valdez, directed by Lanny Langston

3:30 Meeting with Norma Cantu and Jim Griffith for folklore students and colleagues. Eccles CC, Room 205

4:30 p.m.–5:20 p.m. USU Special Collections' Latino/Latina Voices Project. Eccles CC, Room 205

• Randy Williams, folklore curator/oral history specialist, USU Special Collections & Archives
• Elisaida Mendez, Latino Voices assistant director, USU Special Collections & Archives/PhD Student in Combined Psychology
• Lucy Delgadillo, professor, USU Family, Consumer and Human Development
• John Hernandez, acting principal, InTech Collegiate High School

4:30 p.m.–5:20 p.m. Crossing the Borders of Race

• Marta Sánchez, "Challenging the Master Narrative: Latino & African American Writing from the 1960s"
• María de Jesús Cordero, "Cuban-American Artists in Miami: The Journey from Exile to Transculturation and Beyond"
• Cacilda M. Rêgo, USU Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication (moderator)

5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Dinner   

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

8:30 a.m.–9:20 a.m. Latino/a Visions  

• Sam Coronado, "Chicano Art: An Emergence in Printmaking"
• Rachel Rubin, "Los Bros Hernandez"
• Local folklore creator
• Susan Andersen, USU English (moderator)

8:30 a.m.–9:20 a.m. Latino and Latin American Studies at USU. Eccles CC, Room 205.

• María de Jesús Cordero, USU Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication   
• Lawrence Culver, USU History
• Jamie Sanders, USU History
• J. P. Spicer-Escalante, USU Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication

9:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m. Representing the Immigrant Experience

• Marta Sánchez, "Para Español Oprima Número Dos: Transnationalism, Translation, and Spanish"   
• Sonia Nazario, "Representations of Immigrants in the U.S. Media"
• Lucy M. Delgadillo, USU Family, Consumer and Human Development (moderator)

9:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m. Poetry Reading, Eccles CC, Room 205.

• Francisco Aragón
• Demetria Martínez

10:30 a.m.–11:20 a.m. The Documentary

• Paul Espinosa, "Reflections on Oral History and Documentary Film"
• Lawrence Culver, USU History (moderator)

11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m. Race and Film Genres  

• Desirée Garcia,"'Fiesta Means Fun in Any Language': Latinos and the Hollywood Musical"
• Laura Isabel Serna, "Mexican Silent Cinema: 'A True Representation of the Race'"
• Melody Graulich, USU English (moderator)

11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m. Crossing Other Borders: Latinos and Sexual Orientation. Eccles CC, Room 205.

• Aleida Rodríguez, "Identity vs. Art"
• Grace Huerta, "Latina/o Gay Youth—Finding Hybridity in Aztlán"
• Maria Melendez, "The Erotics of Labor, Spirituality and Identity: Gay Protagonists in Contemporary Latino Fiction"
• Maria Melendez, USU English (moderator)

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Meeting with Sonia Nazario for High School Students. Eccles CC, Room 205.   

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Poetry Panel. David B. Haight Alumni Center, USU

• Mark Doty
• Demetria Martínez
• Aleida Rodríguez
• Michael Sowder
• Maria Melendez (moderator)

2:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Latinos in U.S. Politics/Immigration Issues in Cache Valley

• Matt Garcia, "Geographies of Latinidad: The Politics of Latino Immigrants"
• Local residents Clarence Sandoval (St. Thomas Aquinas) and Rolando Murillo
• Lawrence Culver, USU History (moderator)

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Living and Teaching the Latino Experience at USU and in Cache Valley

• Gerardo Rosendo, International Business major
• Ezra Manjarraz, Aviation major
• Jorge Marroquin, Education major
• Elizabeth Martinez, Engineering major
• J. C. Vazquez, USU Center for Persons with Disabilities and Margaret Obray (co-moderators)
• Cache Valley high school teachers and students

5:00–6:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Sonia Nazario, "Enrique's Journey: The Face of America's Newest Immigrants." Readings by Cache Valley High School students. Presented in conjunction with American Odysseys: Literary Explorations of Historic and Current Events in the Multicultural Americas. Eccles Conference Center. Introduction by Lawrence Culver.