MALCS Summer Institute at UCSB July 18-21, 2012

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Planning for the “Todos somos Arizona: Confronting the Attack on Difference.”  Pending deadlines include: Writing Workshops: How to Write the Academic Article – postmark deadline June 13, 2012 Call for Member Accolades & Achievements Call for Performers , and  Call for Artists  –  deadlines Monday, May 21 Call for Vendors – June 1 The Summer Institute website with complete … Read more

MALCS Summer Institute Call for Performers

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DEADLINE TO APPLY: Monday, May 21, 2012 This year’s Summer Institute will be hosted at the University of California Santa Barbara, July 18-21, 2012. MALCS, in collaboration with the UCSB site committee, seeks performers for the Summer Institute’s Noche de Cultura, Friday, July 20th whose act reflects the values of MALCS and this year conference’s … Read more

SSGA 2012 Conference

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El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa May 16-19, 2011 University of Texas, San Antonio For more information contact: Prof. Norma E. Cantú, Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249; (210)458-5134 (office)

CFP: MALCS Writing Workshop – How to Write The Academic Article

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2012 MALCS Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, July 18-21, 2012.

DEADLINE: Postmark June 13, 2012

WHAT: Feminist collaboration for publication!
The Writing Workshop is one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the journal’s editors offer the workshop in order to energize through collaboration, programmatically link scholarship and leadership, and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their work-in-progress and depart with clearrecommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, andfirst-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.

To create an intellectual community, prior to the workshop, participants read and commented on the material of the other writers. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. July 18, and the second on Friday July 20) is required.

One Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:

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Shattered Families: Kids Lost in Deportation

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Colorlines Magazine’s Seth Freed Wessler recently won a Hillman Prize in Web Journalism for this article on the impact of ICE raids and deportations on children. Based on work from the Applied Research Center in Berkeley, CA, the article is part of a series that document: that at least 5,100 children whose parents are detained … Read more