Binational Conference on Border Issues 2010

Announcement and Call for Papers

BINATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BORDER ISSUES

San Diego City College

December 1, 2010

9 am - 3 pm

Room D 121A

"The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the third world grates against the first and bleeds". Gloria Anzaldúa

The U.S./Mexico border has become increasingly important and relevant to populations living and interacting with one another on both sides of this international boundary. Impacts and perceptions of the border region continue to be the subject of many contemporary research projects, advocacy and activism. Papers in this conference will explore the impact of the border on populations living both in the U.S. and Mexico. They may also discuss how these populations perceive and respond to these impacts from various perspectives through current research, activism, advocacy and life experience.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

DAVID BACON, California-based writer and photographer, author of Illegal People and The Children of NAFTA. VICTOR CLARK ALFARO, Director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana and a lecturer in the Latin American Studies Department at San Diego State University

This announcement is also a Call for Papers from current researchers, activists, faculty, and students on both sides of the international border.

Paper presentations will be 10 or 20 minutes in length (including presentation and Q and A) and will address one or more of the following topics:

Art, music, literature

Border studies curriculum

Baja California: development of the Peninsula

Central American migrants

Conflict Resolution/Mediation along the border

Drugs

Environment—toxic waste

Health, education, housing

Human Rights

Human Trafficking

Immigration/Migration/Emigration

Indigenous Peoples

Life after deportation

Maquiladora Industry

Militarization of the border

NAFTA

Physical Impact on Cultural (Archaeological) Resources

Racism

U.S. migration to Mexico

If interested, please submit a 250 word (maximum) abstract to by Nov 2, 2010. Selected papers will be published in a forth coming journal of border studies.

Art exhibition at the Centro Cultural de la Raza: Nov 27 - Dec 9

E-mail and additional information:

E-mail: binationalconference@gmail.com

Blog: www.conferenciaborder.blogspot.com

This conference is sponsored/supported by: San Diego City College President Terry Burgess, American Federation of Teachers local 1931, City College Institute for Human Development, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Anthropology Program of Department of Behavioral Sciences