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December 1, 2009
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Liago Family, Seattle, Washington, circa 1929-1930
Dorothy Cordova Photo Collection
Courtesy of the Filipino American National Historical Society
The Changing Face of California State University, circa 1970s
Public Affairs Photo Collection
Courtesy of the California State University Archives
Liga Puertorriquena e Hispana, Brooklyn, New York
The Jesus Colón Papers
Courtesy of the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Hunter College, City University of New York
2010 Understanding Sustainability Conference Call For Proposals
Second Annual International Conference on:
“Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities”
May 20-22, 2010
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Keynote Speakers:
Stephen Gardiner (Philosophy, University of Washington) – a leading expert on the ethics of global environmental problems
Natalie Jeremijenko (Visual Arts, New York University) – a renowned artist at the forefront of synthesizing experimental design, engineering, and environmental engagement
Cary Wolfe (English, Rice University) – a path-breaking scholar of posthumanism, animal studies, and postmodern systems theory
Our agenda:
We hear talk of “sustainability” everywhere—sometimes as an ecological vision, an advertising strategy, a countercultural dream or even a business model. Given the diverse uses of “sustainability,” how might those of us who invoke it most effectively address our ecological, economic, and social challenges? This conference is an invitation to construct bridges across the diverse terrains of sustainability theory and practice, engaging in productive dialogue and debate that might lead to innovative green frameworks for environmental scholarship, activism, research, and policy.
To these ends, the Second Annual International Conference on “Understanding Sustainability” seeks to encourage innovative dialogues between diverse groups that are not always in conversation.
• Humanities scholars working in fields such as ecocriticism, green cultural studies, environmental ethics, philosophy of science, and environmental history
• Social scientists working in the areas of social sustainability, environmental justice, environmental economics, sustainable business practices
• Local designers, city planners, and social service providers who are building Portland’s reputation as a leader in sustainability, and
• Artists and activists shaping ideas of green ethics and aesthetics or new strategies of political participation
Proposal Guidelines:
We welcome proposals both for traditional academic paper presentations as well as other formats, including panel discussions, interviews, workshops, art installations, and media screenings. Presentations that speak broadly to an interdisciplinary and audience and that seek to stimulate broad conversation about the future direction of green or environmental knowledge and practice are especially encouraged.
Please send proposals of 250 words or less by Monday, January 4, 2010 to:publichumanities@pdx.edu
Please write “Understanding Sustainability” in the subject line and attach your proposal in the form of a Microsoft Word file. Both the e-mail text and word document should include your name, affiliation, proposal title, and full contact information (address, phone, e-mail) for all participants.
Christian Church, Native American Tribe Reconcile
NEW YORK (AP) — Members of one of America’s oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday — for the first time — for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago.
“We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land,” the Rev. Robert Chase told descendants from both sides. “With pain, we the Collegiate Church, remember our part in these events.”
The minister spoke on Native American Heritage Day at a reconciliation ceremony of the Lenape tribe with the Collegiate Church, started in 1628 in then-New Amsterdam as the Reformed Dutch Church.
The rite was held in front of the Museum of the American Indian in lower Manhattan, where Dutch colonizers had built their fort near an Indian trail now called Broadway, just steps away from Wall Street.
(via deltafoxtrot)
November 30, 2009
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“Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams
The West Chicago (IL) City Museum with the aid of two grants, one from the History Channel and one from the Illinois Humanities Council has produced a traveling exhibit, Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams.
There has never been a written history of Mexican immigration to West Chicago, so oral history was gathered, providing a framework for producing that account. In addition, with photographs that were loaned or donated and research by the City Museum staff an immigrant story emerged. The story begins with Depression era Mexican railroad workers and families in the colonias of boxcar camps on the west side of town and extends to present day Mexican Americans with leadership roles in the community.
Although the exhibit tells a local immigrant story, it is one of great national significance, touching on issues such as the rights and dignity of workers, as seen in the 1962 strike of Campbell Soup Company’s mushroom farm workers. The importance of faith and family, social justice, the preservation and celebration of culture, and the importance of the oral tradition in a culture that is not dependent on the written word are all evident in the exhibit.
By packaging this history in a traveling format, the Museum hopes to share the community’s story of diversity with other communities to expand cultural understanding. Viewers are invited to rethink issues of immigration, identity formation and the ways local history is presented.
This is a highly relevant subject for study and presentation to the broadest audience as Mexicans in DuPage County and Illinois make up the largest immigrant ethnic group, and Latinos in the United States are the fastest growing ethnic population.
Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams is currently on display at the West Chicago City Museum until the end of February 2010, and will tour DuPage County, Chicagoland and other venues that find it of interest. Please contact Sally DeFauw at 630.231.3376 or sdefauw@westchicago.org for more information or if you are interested in hosting the exhibit. The Museum is located at 132 Main Street in West Chicago.”
via Historia Listserve
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 4
“Bocaditos: Flash Fictions is Ana Castillo’s first chapbook in many years. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies, this 40-page chapbook is printed on non-acidic, 80% post-consumer waste recycled paper, with a hand-sewn spine. A die-cut window in the cover reveals a self portrait painted by Ana.
As Ana writes in her Preface: ‘These are independent stories or excerpts from much longer ones that developed from my solitary life and my singular desire to write. They came to me in my condo in Chicago and in my desert home in New Mexico. When I lived in those places. Or, hoped that I was living.’”
