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Opening Keynote
Speakers [1:15 - 2:45, Friday, March 31]
-
Alejandro Portes: "The Nativist
Challenge: The Real Perils for
Constructing a Better
America"
- Director of the Center for Migration and Development
Professor of Sociology
Princeton University
http://cmd.princeton.edu/papers/Biographical%20Sketch.pdf
- Raúl Delgado
Wise: "The Political Economy of Mexico-US Migration under
NAFTA"
- Director of Doctoral Program in Migration Studies
Professor of Development Studies
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Bio
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Saturday Afternoon Speaker
[12:20-1:20, Saturday, April 1]
-
Marielena Hincapié: "Update on Immigration Legislation in
the U.S. Congress"
- Director of Programs and Staff Attorney
National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, California
http://www.nilc.org/nilcinfo/staffbios.htm
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Research Panelists
Gina Barclay-McLaughlin: "The Context and
Experience of Immigration:
Implications for School,
Family and Community"
[4:45-6:15, Friday, Research Panel #2]
Education, University of
Tennessee-Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~tpte/faculty/gbarclaymclaughlin.html
Bio
Robert Barsky: "Fictional Law and Real Time: The
(In)discretions of
Migrant
Incarceration"
[4:45-6:15, Friday, Research Panel #2]
Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt
University
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/french_ital/barsky/research
Stephanie Bohon: "Mexican Self-Employment in Old
and New Latino Places"
[1:30-3 pm, Saturday, Research Panel
#4]
Sociology, University of
Georgia-Athens
http://www.uga.edu/~soc/bohon.htm
Bio
Dan
Cornfield: "Organizing Immigrant Workers in New
Destination Communities: African,
Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Immigrants in
Nashville,
Tennessee"
[10:30-12 noon, Saturday, Research Panel #3]
Sociology, Vanderbilt University
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/cornfield
http://www.nashville.gov/mayor/press030.htm
Tom Janoski: "The Ironies of Immigration and
Naturalization in Advanced Industrialized Countries"
[1:30-3 pm, Saturday, Research Panel #4]
Sociology, University of
Kentucky-Lexington
http://www.uky.edy/AS/Sociology/
faculty/janoski.html
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Sylvia Lazos
[4:45-6:15, Friday, Research Panel #2]
Law, University of
Nevada-Las
Vegas
http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty_sylviaLazos.html
Guadalupe
Luna: "Immigrants, Rental Markets and Municipalities
in A New Global Order"
[4:45-6:15, Friday, Research Panel #2]
Law, Northern Illinois University
Julián Samora Research
Institute
http://law.niu.edu/go.cfm?do=Directory.View&did=41&id=374
De Ann Pendry:
"Examining the Reproduction of Stereotypes about
Low-Income Mexican
Americans: Learning from the Past to Improve
Health Care in the Future" [1:30-3 pm, Saturday, Research
Panel #4]
Anthropology,
University of
Tennessee-Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/faculty/pendry.html
Barbara Ellen Smith: "Allies or
Rivals?:
Black-Latino Relations in the U.S. South"
[3-4:30 pm, Friday, Research Panel #1]
Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's Studies Program
Heather Smith: "Reconciling Myth and Reality
about the 'Latinization' of a New South
City: The Case of Charlotte, NC"
[3-4:30 pm, Friday, Research Panel #1]
Geography, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/facultypages/Hsmith/Hsmithpubs.htm
Sandy Smith-Nonini: "Between Scandal and Reform: The H2A
Guestworker Program in North
Carolina"
[10:30-12 noon, Saturday, Research Panel #3]
Anthropology, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
Bio
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Steve Striffler:
"Latinos, Big Chicken, and the Transformation of Class: A
View from Tyson
Country (Arkansas)"
[10:30-12 noon, Saturday, Research Panel #3]
Anthropology, University of
Arkansas-Fayetteville
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/striffler.htm
CV
Jamie Winders: "Southern Cities,
Immigration, and 'Ambivalent' Belonging: Urban
Geographies of Latino Migration, Race, and Citizenship
in the U.S. South."
[3-4:30, Friday, Research Panel #1]
Geography, Syracuse University
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/faculty_current/winders.htm
Bio
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Service
Learning Panelists
[10:30-12 noon, Saturday]
- Ardis Nelson: "ETSU's Language and
Culture Resource Center: Reaching out to the Latino
Community in the Tri-Cities Area"
- Foreign Languages, East Tennessee State University
- http://www.etsu.edu/univrel/accent/ac061505.pdf
(see p. 2 - "Foreign Languages Wins AATSP Award")
(Ardis will be joined by two students from ETSU, Cassandra Neace and Maria
Pestalardo, who will describe their service-learning projects)
Additional service learning presenters TBA
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Video Screening and Discussion
Anne Lewis
Independent documentary-maker
Lecturer in Department of Radio-Television-Film at UT-Austin
http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/lewisa/
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Practitioner Panel:
Challenges for Professionals in "New Destinations"
- Educator:
- Elisa Luna, Principal
- Inskip Elementary School, Knoxville
- Journalist:
- Leslie Wylie
- Editor, Metropulse
- wylie@metropulse.com
- Lawyer:
-
Sean
Lewis
- Law Offices of Sean Lewis, PLLC, Nashville
- Immigration and citizenship law practice
- www.seanlewisattorney.com/index.shtml
- Librarian:
- Mark Puente
- University of Tennessee Libraries
- Nurse:
- Pat Melcher
- Instructor, College of Nursing
- Member of Loudon County Health Council Board
- pmelcher@gwmail.utk.edu
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Other - Speakers for Continuing Education
Events
In addition to the
speakers listed above, each co-sponsoring professional
school is organizing its own continuing education event, and each of those
events will have speakers of its own. Keep checking here for details on
the
following professional breakout sessions:
Education
Information Sciences
Journalism
Law
Nursing
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