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This Mini-Conference in the Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar series will take place Saturday, March 31, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
PANEL ONE
“Claiming Benefits: The Life and Work of Puerto Rican Seamstress Juana Capo, 1868-1957”
Emma Amador, University of Michigan
“Third World Radicalism, El Grito, and Chicana/o Studies: The University of California at Berkeley Experiment, 1968 –1975”
Jose G. Moreno, Michigan State University
“Alien Bodies/Legal Texts: A forensic and ethnographic post-mortem on federal emancipation dockets in New Mexico (1848/1868)”
Robert F. Castro, California State University, Fullerton
Commentator: John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University
PANEL TWO
“Collaboration Across Borders: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?”
Cara Kinnally, Indiana University
“Haunted Borderlands: Space, Bewitching, and the Transnational in Jovita González’s Dew on the Thorn and Life Along the Border”
Wanalee Romero, Northwestern University
“Américo Paredes’s The Shadow and the ‘Other’ Novel of the Mexican Revolution”
Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Jose Limon, University of Notre Dame
Scholl Center Seminar papers are pre-circulated electronically. For a copy of the paper, e-mail the Scholl Center at
scholl@newberry.org. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.
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