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Norma E. Cantú, Ph.D.
Professor/ Ph.D. Graduate Advisor of Record
Conference Presentations
2008
"Performing Identity: Vaqueros, Charros and Rancheros." Invited Humanities Lecture at the 24th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, Feb 1
2007
"Mentoring Women Across Race and Rank" Roundtable sponsored by the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. Chicago, December
“Huipiles and Identity" Hispanic Cultural Museum,
Albuquerque, NM November
"Performing Hybridity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas." Invited talk for the Series," Engaging Documentary: Community Values and Artistic Visions." Duke University, October 18
"Borderless Land," Roundtable Participant, American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 12
"Violence in Song Lyrics and Poems of the Border." Moderator and presenter. Latin American Studies Association. Montréal, Canada, September 6
"Huipiles," National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Jose, CA, April
"Borderlife and Borderlines, " Syracuse University January
Briefing on the work of Humanities Texas at the APAP (Association of Performance Arts Presenters) special session "Bi-National Meeting of States and Regions" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, January 19
2006
“La Quinceañera: Transformations of a Coming of Age Ritual’s Cultural Practices in South Texas,” Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Botkin Lecture, November 8
“Cabañuelas, chapter 25” Reading at the “Daniel Crowley memorial Storytelling Concert” American Folklore Society Meeting, Milwaukee October 20
“Putting a Dance Anthology Together” in “Latino/Latin American Dance: Collaborative Approaches in Festival Production and Publishing” American Folklore Society Meeting, Milwaukee, October 19
“Una Herida Por Otra” American Studies Association Meeting Oakland, October 13
“La Quinceañera: A Chicana Coming of Age Ritual,” University of Wyoming, September 21
“Doña Chona y sus Achaques: The Plays of Sylviana Wood” MALCS, UC, Santa Cruz, August 3-6
“Chicana Poetry” Congreso de literatura chicana, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, May 22-26
“Writing and Living on the Border” University of Texas, El Paso, June 13
“Borderlands Literature and Culture” University of Texas, El Paso, June 7
“Writing on the Border,” Symposium on Border Literatures. University of Texas at Pan American, April 22
“La Quinceañera: Construction of Gender through Cultural Practices in South Texas,” Interdisciplinary Symposium Gender and Latina Discourse Vernacular Rhetorics, Language, and Expressive Culture Texas A&M, April 20.
“Centering the Margins,” Symposium honoring Paul Olson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 8
“Como La Flor: An Analysis of the the Construction of Gender through Traditional Practices,” LASA, San Juan Puerto Rico, March 15-18
“Centering the Margins: Status of Scholarship and Teaching at Hispanic Serving Institutions.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference for Minority Serving Institutions, Clarke Atlanta University, January 15-16
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“Humanities and Folklore Studies” Federation of State Humanities Councils, November 2004.
“Service
Learning in a Ph.D. Program: Pedagogical Outcomes” Latin American
Studies, October 2004.
“Contemporary
Llorona Stories along the U.S. Mexico Border” American Folklore
Society, October “Border Literature: Writing on the Edge” Invited
talk,
College of Humanities, University of Arizona, September 2004.
Gathering
Llorona Stories, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, August
“Trauma and
its Aftermaths” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, August
2004.
"La Llorona: Reconfigured Legend in Contemporary Latina Texts” Latina Letters, July 2004.
"Teaching
Testimonial Literature: Telling To Live,” International Oral History
Association meeting in Rome, Italy, June 2004.
“Border
Violence and Violence of Borders: Violence and Borders in the Work
of Montserrat Fontes, Chicano/Chicana Literature in Sevilla, Spain,
May 2004.
“Gathering
Stories: Collecting and Preserving” Popular Culture Association,
April 2004.
“Reconfiguring
La Llorona” Multi Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., March 2004.
Reading from
Canícula , Tejas Foco of the National Association for
Chicano/a Studies, November 2003.
“Dancing with Faith: Two sones from the Matachin tradition” American Folklore Society, October
"A
Folklorist in an English Department” Career workshop
sponsored by the Fund for Folk Culture at the American
Folklore Society (AFS) annual meeting, Albuquerque, October 2003.
A Book
Discussion at the AFS: Chicana Traditions, October 2003.
Workshop on
Writing for Teens in the Smithsonian Institution’s Rio Bravo/Rio
Grande Exhibit, Washington, DC, 2003.
“Latina
Feminist Testimonios” Latina Letters Conference, July 2003.
"Writing the
Self” National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, UTSA, 2003.
“Latina
Writing in the New Millennium” 5th Meeting of Borderlands
Writers, Letras en el Borde, 2003.
“A Writer in
the Academy” 1-day workshop at the Universidad de Monterrey
exploring the role of the faculty member who is also a creative
writer and presenting my research on quinceañeras and rituals, April
2003.
“Creative
Writing for Social Change” Pima County Community College, Tucson,
March 2003.
“Latinas and
Testimonios” Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, March 2003.
“Canícula: A
Borderlands Text,” Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher
Education, Austin, January 2003.
"Envisioning a
New World: Polycultural, Mestizo and Mestiza, Creole Literatures”
MLA Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. Session convener and moderator,
December 2002.
“Latina
Feminisms and Chicana Writers” Breakfast Talk for the Women’s Caucus
of the American Studies Association Meeting, Houston November 2002.
“We Came to
Work: Mining and Smelting in Laredo, TX,” Oral History Association,
October 2002.
“Telling to
Live—Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino,” National Women’s Studies
Association, June 2002.
“Autobiography, Memoir, and Testimonios,”Congreso
Internacional de Literatura Chicana.
Málaga Spain,
May 2002.
“Coming to
Bilingualism: A writer and a reader,” San Antonio Area Bilingual
Education conference, May 2002.
“Con el
corazón y la mente: Chicana Activism and Spirituality,”National
Association of Chicano/a Studies, Chicago, March 2002.
“Latina
Feminisms: A Trope for the new Millennium,” Latino Studies Journal,
UIC, Chicago, February 2002.
“Telling to
Live,” Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st
Century: Celebrating This Bridge Called My Back, UC
Berkeley February 2002.
Modern
Languages Association. New Orleans Respondent to Tey Diana
Rebolledo’s panel, 2001.
Modern
Languages Association. New Orleans “Home Made Autobiography: La Casa
de Miel,” 2001.
Texas
Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. Austin “Chicanas in
Higher Education,” 2001.
Art Exhibit
Opening: Raquel Valle Senties.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. MX,
Border
Artists, 2001.
Latin American
Studies Association, Washington, DC, Homegrown Autobiographies in
the Borderlands, 2001.
NEH Seminar (UTSA)
Folklore in the Classroom, 2001.
“The George
Washington’s Birthday Celebration,” University of California Santa
Barbara, 2001.
“Intersections
of Class and Gender,” Working Class Studies conference, Youngstown,
Ohio, May, 2001.
“Performing
Hybridity: George Washington’s Birthday Celebration in Laredo,
Texas” American Folklore Society, Anchorage, AL, 2001.
“Autobiography” Western Literature Association. Omaha, NE, 2001.
“La Onda
Tejana: New Chicana Poets” National Association of Chicano and
Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.
“Homemade
Autobiographies: four Laredo authors.” National Association of
Chicano and Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.
“Don Pedrito
Jaramillo: Folk Healer of Los Olmos,” American Folklore Society,
Columbus, MO, 2000.
“Writing at the Crossroads: Un lenguaje y una realidad fronteriza,” Latin American Studies conference, Miami, Florida, 2000.
“Fronteriza
Literature: from Canseco del Valle to Fontes,” Primavera Conference,
Laredo, TX, 2000.
Creative
Writing and Autobiography: A Workshop for Teachers of Writing,
National Council of Teachers of English, Denver, 1999.
“Mandas y
Promesas: Los Matachines” American Folklore Society, Memphis, TN,
1999.
Teatro y
Teatristas: The Role of Chicanas in the Formation of a Dramatic
Traditions,” Hijas del Quinto Sol, San Antonio, 1999.
“Teatro and
Teatristas: Chicanas in the Development of a Dramatic Tradition,”
NACCS, San Antonio, 1999.
“Chicanas and
Latinas: A future, a past,” Portland State University, 1999.
“Latinas in
the Next Millennium: A workshop for Student Leaders,” University of
Texas, Austin, 1999.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition,” Salado Institute for the Humanities/Salado
High School, Salado, TX, 1999.
“Chicanas in
the New Millennium,” NACCS California Foco, California State
University, Monterey Bay, 1999.
“La
Quinceañera: A Gendered Racialized Ritual,” and Respondent to the
Panel on Autobiographical Writing, American Folklore Society,
Portland, OR, 1998.
Al
Filo de la Literatura, “La Literatura en las Fronteras,” Bellas
Artes, Mexico, D.F., 1998.
Panel Presentation on Papelitos Guardados, Mujeres Activas en
Letras y Cambio Social, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998.
“¿Qué Onda?
Cultural Exchange on the U.S. Mexico Border,” NACCS, Mexico City,
1998.
“Literature of
the Borderlands,” Rio Bravo Association annual conference, Laredo,
TX, 1998.
Workshop at
the American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 1997.
“Navigating
Public Discourse: Norma Alarcon’s Third Woman Press and the
Construction of a Chicana Discourse,” American Studies Association
Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 1997.
“La onda
fronteriza: Radio on the Border,” Borderlands Landscapes Conference,
TAMIU, 1997.
Border Studies
Workshop for the Texas Council for the Humanities, TAMIU, 1997.
Fife
Conference, 2 workshop presentations: La Quinceañera and
Los
Matachines,
Utah State University, 1997.
Border Studies Workshop for the Texas Council for the Humanities, TAMIU, 1997.
“Critical Perspectives on U.S. Latina Literature,” Hijas del Quinto
Sol Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1997.
“La
Quinceañera: Towards an Ethnography of a Life Cycle Ritual.”
National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies, Sacramento, CA,
1997.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition,” Stanford University, 1997.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle and Post-War Borderlands Culture.” Modern
Languages Association, Washington, D.C., 1996.
The Washington
Center’s “Women as Leaders: An Academic Seminar,” Washington, D.C.,
1996.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle: Autora Fronteriza,” “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic
Literary Heritage,” University of Houston, 1996.
Respondent at
American Studies Association meeting, Kansas City, 1996.
“Borders and Identity: the borderlands workshops,” American Folklore Society conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996.
“Women and
Leadership,” National Hispanic Leadership Conference, Phoenix, AZ,
1996.
“A writer who
teaches; A teacher who writes--The Writing of Canícula:Snapshots
of a Girlhood en la frontera,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambio Social, San Diego, 1996.
“Language and
Politics: The case of a border community,” Teaching Diversity
Teacher Workshops, Howard University, Wash. D.C., 1996.
“Folklore in
the Classroom: Using literature,” Folklore in the Classroom
Teachers' Workshops, University of Virginia, Northern Virginia
campus, 1996.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle: Escritora Fronteriza," Encuentro
Internacional de Escritores,” Monterrey, Nuevo León, 1996.
“Borderlands
Culture and Traditions,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
1996.
“The Novelist
as Social Critic: Margarita Canseco del Valle and Borderlands
Culture of the Mid-Twentieth Century.” University of New Mexico's
Fifth Annual Conference on IberoAmerican Culture and Society,
Albuquerque, N.M., 1996.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition: The literary legacy"--Intercultural Workshop
conducted for the faculty of Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Texas A&M
Kingsville at the TAM-CC campus, 1996.
“La
Quinceañera como acto de resistencia cultural,” Encuentro
Chicano/Latino, Universidad Autónoma de México, 1996.
“Language as
Cultural Resistance,” The Global Education project, Ramapo
College,Ramapo College of New Jersey, 1996.
“An Expression
of Art--Linking with Latina Writers,” workshop and reading at the
10th Hispanic Women's Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1996.
“Rights of Passage: La Celebración de la Quinceañera como rito de
pasaje comunitario e individual,” Colegio de la Frontera Norte,
Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.,1996.
Creative
Writing in the Classroom: D.C. Writing Project -- Writing Workshop,
Howard University, 1996.
“A Walk on the
Wild Side: Chicana Literature Today,” Conference on Latina Writers
at Jersey City State College, 1996.
“The Streets
of Laredo: Myth and Reality of a Legendary Site,” Presented at the
Conference on Barrios and other ethnic neighborhoods in the U.S.,
Université Paris VII, Paris, France, 1995.
Workshop
Presenter: Smithsonian Institution/Inter-University Program Latino
Qualitative Methods Seminar: Interpreting Latino Cultures:
Research and Museums “Gender and Sexuality in Cultural and
Historical Studies,” 1994.
American
Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Institution. Presenter Northern New
Mexico/Southern Colorado Hispanic weaving traditions, 1994.
American Women
Writers of Color: Other Voices: Plenary Session
Presenter--"Current Directions in U.S. Latina Literature,” Salisbury
State College, MD, 1994.
“Chicana
Poets: From Declamación to One-Woman Shows,” American Studies
Association Meeting. Boston, MA, 1993.
“Desde el otro
Lado: Notes on borders and cultures",” presented at the Américo
Paredes Symposium, Austin, TX, 1993.
“Breakfast
Round Table on Border Literature,” American Literature
Association.
San
Antonio, TX, 1993.
“Growing Up
Chicano/a: the work of Sandra Cisneros and Richard Rodriguez,”
Workshop presented for the South Dakota Humanities Council,
Mitchell, South Dakota, 1993.
“Border
Experience,” three day workshop for the Augsburg College Center for
Global Education students.
Laredo, TX, 1993.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle and Roberta Fernández: Border Writers
Writing Culture.” Coloquio de escritoras Chicanas, UNAM, Mexico
City, 1993.
“Festival of American Folklife,” Smithsonian Institution, 1993.
“Tafolla's
with our very own name: Chicanas Transform Poetry--from Declamación
to One Woman-Shows,” National Association of Chicano Studies, San
Jose, CA, 1993.
“Issues of
Chicanas in Higher Education,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio
Social. Berkeley, 1992.
“Working Class
Chicanas as Administrators,” American Association of Higher
Education. Chicago, 1992.
“Women on the
Edge: Chicanas y Latinas in the Borderlands,” National Association
of Chicano Studies, San Antonio, 1992.
“La
Onda de la Frontera: Las Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo,”
Universidad Valle del Bravo, Semana de la Comunicacion, Nuevo
Laredo, Tamps., 1991.
“Mi Casa es su
casa: Moving Toward a Multilingual Texas or Legislation on Second
Language Learning and Culture,” Keynote Address, TexTESOL State
Conference, Austin, Texas, 1991.
“Tafolla's
with our very own names: Cultural Transformation of a Traditional
Form as Resistance and Affirmation.” South Central Modern Languages
Association, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991.
“Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz de Laredo, Texas: Un acto de
Resistencia Cultural,” Foro de Analysis, Festival de la Raza, Nuevo
Laredo, Tamps., 1991.
“Somos de aqui y de allá: Refugees on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Human Rights in the Americas Symposium, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1991.
“Pastoras and
Matachines: A Feminist Look at Chicano/a Folk Drama” Modern
Languages Association, Chicago, 1990.
“Semiotic Analysis of a Public Religious Performance - Los
Matachines de la Sta. Cruz de la Ladrillera de Laredo, Texas.”
Popular
Culture Association, San Antonio, 1990.
“Women of
Color in Academia: Rock the Boat and Learn to Swim,” South Central
Modern Languages Association, Dallas, 1990.
“how i got to
be what i never intended to be--AN ADMINISTRATOR,” Texas Faculty
Association, Texas A&I, Kingsville, TX, 1990.
“Chicana
Literature and the Border,” discussion at the Mujeres Activas en
Letras y Cambio Social Institute, UCLA, 1990.
“ESL
Techniques for LVA Tutors,” Literacy Volunteers of America-Texas,
Salado, 1990.
“Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: La Chicana en la historia de la
frontera mejico-tejana,” Foro de analysis, celebración del 5 de
mayo, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Nuevo Laredo, 1990.
“Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Feminism??? Approaches to Chicana
Literature” in the panel “Tradition and Change: Chicana Writers
Today” National Association of Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, 1990.
“Las
Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo: Apuntes basados en la
aportacion de Luciano Duarte y Ramoncita Esparza,” South Central
Organization of Latin American Studies, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 1990.
“The Many
Loves of Cisneros and Castillo: The Poetry of Sandra Cisneros and
Ana Castillo--Examples of Literary Befriending,” Modern Languages of
America, Washington, D.C., 1989.
“Los anuncios
comerciales en Laredo, Texas,” Conference on Spanish in the U.S.,
Tucson, Arizona, 1989.
“Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera: Notes Toward a
Socio-literary Analysis,” International Conference on Feasts and
Celebrations in North American Ethnic Groups, Institute Charles V,
American Studies, Paris.
Hispanic Women's Network of Texas Blue Ribbon Panel on Education,
Laredo, Texas, October, 1989.
“Literacy
Tutoring in the High Schools,” Texas Joint Council of Teachers
Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1989.
“Guadalupe and
Malinche: Roles of Women in Chicano Folk Drama” National
Association of Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, 1989.
“The ESL Student and Literacy Programs,” Adult Basic Education Conference, Dallas, TX, 1987.
“Images of
Self and Community: Audre Lorde and Cherrie Moraga,” Modern
Languages Association, 1986.
“La Gila and La Malinche: Notes Towards an Analysis of Female Characters in Chicano Folk Drama,” XII TENAZ Theater Festival, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984.
“Plenary
Session: Gender and Equality, Chicanas in Higher Education and
Society,” NACS, Austin, TX, 1984.
“Los
Matachines in Laredo,” NACS, Ypsilanti, MI, 1984.
“'The poet
within us bays': Students Write in Their Own Language,” Writing
Across The Curriculum Conference, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas,
1982.
“Trenzas and
Bright Colors: Race and Class Stereotypes,” National Women's Studies
Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979.
“My
‘Excuse-me' Tongue,” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Minneapolis, 1979.
“Los
Matachines: A Religious Celebration in Laredo, Texas," Kansas
Tri-University Latin American Studies Conference, “Images of God and
Man in Latin America,” Manhattan, Kansas, 1976.