Seventy presenters will be covering quite a variety of topics....something for all of us who must teach in a world that seems to grow bigger and smaller everyday--all at the same time.
These are the Guests speakers:
Author Denise Chávez is our 2012 Border Learning Conference “Crossing Borders” award recipient. Denise Chávez is a novelist, playwright, teacher and performance writer based in Las Cruces and Mesilla, New Mexico. She has roots in Far West Texas with her mother's family and in Las Cruces, New Mexico with her father's family. A true child of La Frontera, Chávez is the author of the memoir, A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture, Loving Pedro Infante Face of An Angel, and The Last of the Menu Girls. She has published a children's book, La Mujer Que Sabía El Idioma de Los Animales/The Woman Who Knew the Language of the Animals. Chávez performs her one-woman shows, Women in the State of Grace and El Muro/The Wall: A Chorus of Immigrant Women's Voices, throughout the U.S. Chávez has recently finished work on a novel, The King and Queen of Comezón, a border mystery/love story. She is working on a collection of stories, El Inglés Tan Bonito/Beautiful English and a book, Río Grande Family, about her Sephardic Jewish roots in Chihuahua and Delicias,México. She is also working on a children's book, La Hermana Ying and LaHermana Yang. Chávez is the Director of The Border Book Festival, a major national and regional book festival based at the Cultural Center de Mesilla, a multicultural bookstore that has recently opened an art gallery, Galería Tepín. www.borderbookfestival.com
Hector Galán is a critically acclaimed independent filmmaker who has won numerous national and international awards and recognition for documenting border issues. Early on in his career, he realized that his goal in life was to bring diversity to national television and bring real stories about real people. His work has explored border issues, such as, migrant farm workers, life in the colonias, development of Tejano music and its reflection of Mexican American history/culture, the life of the first Mexican-American bishop in the history of the Catholic Church, as well as, the hunt for Pancho Villa. Mr. Galán has cast his lens on the Latino experience in America, bringing the culture and history of the U.S. Latino experience to the screen. His work he says, “only scratches the surface of what Latinos are creating in our country. I am extremely proud to be a microphone for their work, to document their art, to publicize their culture.” Mr. Galán received a degree in Mass Communications from Texas Tech University.
Federico Reade received his Ph.D. in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in December 2005. His work has focused on critical theory with special emphasis on New Mexico and the experience of the American Southwest. Federico Antonio Reade Jr. is a descendent of one of the soldiers of the First California Column; his great grandmother was a Navajo captive who was traded to a family from San Geronimo, New Mexico, outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, y mama’s mexicanas. He grew up and received his education in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has applied his education on doing ethnographic documentaries on the sociocultural history of populist movements and stories of peoples of the American Southwest border region and has recently completed a screenplay of the landgrant movement. Today he is working on the story of the Black Beret’s of Albuquerque, New Mexico following a group of youth and their activities from 1968 to 1973.
For more information about the event:
http://dacc.nmsu.edu/bis/borderlearningconference/docs/final%20BLC%202012%20brochure%2009%2015%202011.pdf
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