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The Limits and Possibilities of Cross-border Latinidades and Indigeneities Symposium

April 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene, OR 97403

12 p.m.
Keynote: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.

1 p.m.
Panel: “Pre-1848 Mexican Borderlands: Californio Ranchero Culture and Indigenous California.”
Yvette Saavedra, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Naomi Sussman, History; moderated by Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies.

2 p.m.
Panel: “Media, History and Citizenship of Indigenous and Latinx Peoples: Contested Lands and Identities across the Borderlands.”
Ramón Resendiz, Indiana University, UO Anthropology, and Rachel Nez (Navajo Diné Nation) Director, All Our Kin Collective. Fort Lewis College; moderated by Gabe Sanchez, Anthropology.

3 p.m.
Panel: “Building Comunidad and Transborder Territories in Indigenous Diasporas From Mexico and Guatemala.”
Daina Sanchez, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara, and Lynn Stephen, Anthropology; moderated by Jason Younker (Coquille), UO advisor on sovereignty and government-to government relations.

4 p.m.
Closing Remarks and Conversation.
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, Philosophy, and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.

5 p.m.
Reception.

Sponsor: Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, cllas.uoregon.edu