SDSU Campus, Conrad Prebys Student Union

Rooms in rhe Student Union

8:00 - 8:45 am: Registro y desayuno (Legacy Suite, Union)

8:45 - 9:00 am: Palabras de Bienvenidx y apertura

9:00 - 10:15 am: Ponente Principal I - Dra. Nandita Sharma (Union Theatre)

Postcolonial Racism: National Sovereignty and the Institutionalization of Separation

In the decisive shift from imperial-states to nation-states after World War Two, two, arguably related, processes took place. There was a wide scale effort to delegitimize racist ideologies. At the same time, in a period when state sovereignty was (nearly) universally nationalized, the association of colonialism with foreignness was retained. Nationalist ideologies were regarded not only as legitimate but as practically mandatory in politics. This talk charts this history in order to understand how racism is organized, practiced, and resisted when national sovereignty is the hegemonic state form and when the social and juridical distinction between 'national' and 'migrant' are widely accepted. To do so, I examine the growing autochthonization of politics. Nationalisms the world over are increasingly reconfiguring the 'national' as an autochthon, i.e. a 'native' of the national 'soil'. Through a discussion of various autochthonous movements in very different contexts and with very different political registers, I analyze the double move wherein historic colonizers are re-termed 'migrants’ and today's 'migrants' are re-imagined as 'colonizers'. This move, I argue, is made possible by postcolonial racisms: the historic articulation between ideas of 'race' and 'nation' wherein ideas of national geography are racialized and racist ideas of blood are territorialized. The result, I argue, is an intensification of the very practices that anti-colonial struggles fought to overturn - capitalist practices of expropriation and exploitation and the associated denigration of the oppressed. I conclude with an argument for a decolonization worthy of its name, one that ushers in a planetary commons wherein no one is excluded.

10:15 - 10:30 am: Descanso

10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Sesión I (Union Theatre)

Cuerpos Racializados, Movimientos Criminalizados

D. Emily Hicks (San Diego State University):
A Complexity Approach tot he Mexico-US Border, Border Writing and African American and Afro-Indigenous Identities: Octavia Butler and Melissa Cardoza

Jessica Aguilar (University of California, San Diego): 
Crossing Mexico: Migrant Bodies, Testimonios, and Human Rights in Las Tierras Arrasadas 

Emma Newman (Texas A&M University): 
Migrant Rutas of South Texas: Preliminary Results from Brooks County, Texas

Scott Bennett (Point Loma Nazarene University): 
Hostility, Horses, and Haitians: Interpreting Paul Ratje's "Whip" Photo

12:00 - 1:30 pm: Almuerzo (Legacy Suite/Balcony)

1:30 - 3:00 pm: Sesión II (Legacy Suite)

Sin derecho a la vida: Violencias estatales que han generado una crisis humanitaria en los territorios fronterizos de Arizona

Katherine Kaufka Walts, JD (Loyola University, Center for the Human Rights of Children):
A History of Racism: Context for the Rule of Border Law 

Madeline Brashear, JD (Loyola University, Center for the Human Rights of Children):
Border Policy and Migrant Deaths: How we got to the status quo 

Perla Torres, (Colibri Center for Human Rights):
On the Ground: Repatriating remains for those with no right to life 

Sarah J. Diaz, JD LLM, (Loyola University, School of Law, Center for the Human Rights of Children):
The Right to Life: What could tomorrow look like? 

3:00 - 3:15 pm: Descanso

3:15 - 4:45 pm: Sesión III (Legacy Suite)

Narrativas de Razas, Derechos, y Seguridad

Odessa Gonzalez Benson (University of Michigan):
The limits of human rights discourse within sovereign territory: Examining US refugee policy formation

Abby Wheatley (Arizona State University): 
Challenging Border Security from Below: Migrant Critiques of “Closed” Borders

Ernesto Hernández (Chapman University): 
Border Myths, Legal Justifications, and Racial Realities 

4:45 - 5:00 pm: Descanso

5:00 - 6:30 pm: Plenaria (Legacy Suite)

7:00 pm: Cena para participantes

SDSU Campus, Arts and Letters (AL) Building

All sessions in AL 101 unless otherwise indicated.

8:00 - 8:30 am: Desayuno y Encuentro

8:30 - 9:45 am: Sesión IV

Intervenciones en la Salud: Una colaboración única para apoyar la salud de niños/as refugiados

En marzo del 2022, como respuesta a una petición de “Sidewalk School for Children Asylum Seekers”, pediátricos/as de la región de San Francisco colaboraron con SWS y “Global Response Management” en Reynosa, México para pilotear una clínica pediátrica de telesalud para enfrentar las necesidades en temas de salud de la población de niños/as.

• Felicia Rangel Samponaro (co-director, Sidewalk School), Victor Cavazos (co-director, Sidewalk School): Work at he Sidewalk School, anti Black racism faced by Haitian asylum seekers, and the need for a medical collaboration. Felicia will also share challenges including 
• Brendon Tucker, GRM will discuss the medical needs in Reynosa, the safety challenges faced by the medical team and asylum seekers, and the collaboration.
• Jyothi Marbin MD will discuss the telehealth consultation partnership, how we have been able to recruit doctors to volunteer, and the impact of the clinic

9:45 - 10:00 am: Descanso

10:00 am - 11:15 am: Sesión V

El auxilio como Resistencia Disruptiva en los territorios fronterizos

• Dr. Jacqueline Arrellano
• James Cordero
• Thelma Navarro, MPH
• Sophia Rodriguez, MA, MPH
• Luis Osuna
• Victoria Vazquez, MA
• Dulce Real

11:15 - 12:00 pm: Una presentación y exhibición sobre el artivismo y los territorios fronterizos

12:00 - 1:30 pm: Almuerzo

1:00 - 2:15 pm: Sesión VI

Reimagining the Border/Re-imaginando la Frontera: Play/Juego, Art/Arte and/e Imaginaries Resistance/Imaginarios de Resistencia

Roxana Rodríguez Ortiz (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México):
Frontera ecológica: del afecto a las afecciones

M. Isabel Martin-Sanchez (University of Wisconsin-Madison):
Teeter-Totter Wall (Rael y San Fratello): Un balancín performativo y binacional

Juan Carlos Camacho Molina (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California):
Toy and Horse, reciclando imágenes, universalizando fronteras. Sitiando el sitio: la garita internacional de San Ysidro

Amarilis Perez (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO-Mexico):
Aztlán: el imaginario de un territorio en resiliencia

2:15 - 2:30 pm: Descanso

2:30 - 4:45 pm: Foro de organizaciones comunitarias y de justicia y paz de San Diego/Tijuana

2:30 - 3:30 pm: Mesa Redonda 1 - Reflexiones sobre la relación entre Raza y Migración durante los últimos 5 años en la región San Diego-Tijuana 

• Survivors of Torture International (Etleva Bejko, Executive Director)
• Detention Resistance
• Armadillos 

3:30 - 3:45 pm: Descanso

3:45 - 4:45 pm: Mesa Redonda 2 - "Muerte por Política Pública": Corrientes actuales en las políticas sobre migraciones y racializaciones en los territorios fronterizos 

• ACLU (Norma Chávez-Peterson, Executive Director) 
• Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP), UCLA (Monika Y. Langarica, Staff Attorney) 
• Haitian Bridge Alliance (Charlotte Wiener, Staff Lawyer)

4:45 - 5:00 pm: Descanso

5:00 - 6:30 pm: Ponente Principal 2 y Plenaria – Dr. Roberto D. Hernández

6:30 - 7:00 pm: Descanso

7:00 pm: Pizza/Encuentro en Oggi’s Pizza