(NAME-MCE) FW: An academic panel on race and borderlands, Wednesday February 17th: Featuring Jose Limon, Geraldo Cadava and Kathleen Belew

[Gradilla, Alexandro]

American Studies Student Association and ICC Sponsored Academic Panel:
"New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Borderlands."
   Wednesday, February 17, 4-5:30 or 6 PM in TCU Pavilion C.
CSU Fullerton


We are honored to have three visiting scholars who will be here on February 17th to discuss their recent work on race and borderlands issues.  José Limon from the University of Texas, Austin, will speak about his new research into the literary construction of the US-Mexico borderland; Geraldo Cadava from Northwestern University will discuss the physical history of the US-Mexico borderland; and Kathleen Belew from Yale will speak about relations during the Vietnam War and proliferating violence in Latin America and the United States. This ICC funded event is ideally suited for graduate students, and I hope that as many of you as possible will be there.
   José Limon is a senior professor of Anthropology, American Studies, English Literature, and Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Limon's extensive scholarship is award-winning and widely admired. His books include: Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (1994) and American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States and the Erotics of Culture (1998).  At present he is writing Paso Por Aqui: Reflections on Americo Paredes and his talk at CSUF will be drawn from another book-in-progress: Neither Friends, Nor Strangers: Anglos and Mexicans in the Literary Making of Texas.
   Geraldo Cadava is an assistant professor of History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the co-chair of the Newberry Seminar on Latino Studies. He is an honored junior scholar of the US-Mexico borderlands, who will be speaking about his recent research into the construction of the border.
   Kathleen Belew is an advanced graduate student in American Studies at Yale University. Her deeply interdisciplinary work as well as her teaching has already won awards. Her talk at CSUF will be based on ethnographic research she is doing for her dissertation, Generations of Violence: Vietnam, Mercenaries and the Far Right, 1965-1995.