10/20/2020
CMASS at UMASS
CLACLS Community,
Join us Wednesday Oct. 21st 5 pm for a virtual panel discussion centered around discussing the different implications between using the LatinX or LatinE to represent the Latino Diaspora. There will be contrasting perspectives that reflect on the limitations
each term both in an academic and cultural context.
Panel Discussion Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 964 3320 2686
Passcode: 152812
Panelists will be comprised of:
Luis Orlando Isaza Villegas - A Colombian immigrant, Orlando Isaza came to Brandeis University in 1965 as a member of a pioneer group of students selected and granted full merit scholarships by the newly created Latin American Scholarship Program of AMerican universities (LASPAU) to pursue higher education in the United States. At the Brandeis Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare and the Sociology Department, he studies Sociology
of Health Care, Social Planning, and Social Policy. Now retired, he has been a distinguished educairo, therapist, community organizer, and policy maker, as well as administrator of numerous social welfare programs. He is a passionate warrior for civil rights, human rights, social justice and peace. He is proud father and grandfather.
Aurora Santiago Ortiz - is a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a 2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of social inequities, specifically at the intersections of race, gender, and colonialism in Puerto Rico, the US, and Latin America. Her research engages in critical ethnographic methods, participatory action research, social movements scholarship, Women and Gender Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, and Latin(x) American studies broadly.
Rosa Medina Riveros - Has a PhD in Education: Language, Literacy and Culture and holds a Certificate in Latino and Latin American Studies from CLACLS at UMass Amherst. Rosa is interested in critical, post-structural, and decolonial approaches to multilingualism, multimodality, and education. Her analytical concept tools include raciolinguistics, intersectionality, narrative, and critical discourse analyses. Her research on Latinx graduate narratives in a predominately white institution has been showcased at the American Anthropological Assocation and the American Applied Linguistics Assocation. She is the incoming co0cahir for the Multilingualism and Multiliteracies subcommittee at the Council of Anthropology of Education of the American Anthropological Assocation.
Ysaaca Axelrod - is an assistant professor in the department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a former kindergarten teacher and currently teaches pre-service early childhood and elementary education teachers. Her research interests are in Early Childhood language and literacy development, with a particular focus on emergent bilingual children and the intersections between language and identity development.
Stephanie Fetta - Stephanie Fetta holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. Her award-winning monograph Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of race in Latino/a Literature (The Ohio State University Press, 2018) uncovers a new analytical lens Dr. Fetta identifies as the soma, loosely defined as the gestural body. Portrayer of our momentary as well as deeper subjectivities, the soma is also a central actor in social relations and a primary communicator of our ideological investments. Professor Fetta argues the soma is a pivotal site for unraveling bodily social technologies we use to create and sustain social subjugation. Specifically, she argues our somas efficaciously shame one another into intersectionally racialized stratifications.
In a hemispheric study, Professor Fetta's current research considers possible forms of Latinidad south, north, and within the US border. She studies Mexican indegenous poetry of the Oaxaca diaspora in Southern California in relation to and against articulations of US Latinidad. NOrth of the US border, Dr. Fetta considers connections and dissonances between Canadian creative expression and US [email protected]/X literature. She argues the promise and the limitations of an emerging sense of continental Latinidad.
Panel Discussion Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 964 3320 2686
Passcode: 152812
Immediately following the panel CLACLS will be hosting our Fall reception, we hope to see you there.