网曝吃瓜

网曝吃瓜 will host a multi-disciplinary conference 鈥淏order Crossings: the Politics of Language and Identity,鈥� featuring many prestigious experts who specialize in immigration and its impact on the economy, language, the arts, and popular culture, on April 20 and 21 in the 网曝吃瓜 Pond Student Union Building.

Rub茅n Martinez, an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and author, will give the plenary address at 7:30 April 20 in the 网曝吃瓜 Pond Student Union Building Ballroom.

Martinez is the author of 鈥淐rossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail鈥� and 鈥淭he New Americans,鈥� a companion volume to a PBS documentary series that follows the journeys to the United States of immigrants from Palestine, Nigeria, Mexico, India and the Dominican Republic.

 鈥淲e鈥檙e dealing with a topic of global importance,鈥� Fogelquist said. 鈥淭he idea of the conference is to discuss population movement, its causes and its repercussions in a world context. There are sessions on Armenia, France and its former North African colonies, Japan, Transylvania, and on the revitalization of the Shoshoni language. However, as one might logically expect, many of the sessions deal with the impact of Hispanic immigration on the United States.鈥�

 鈥淲e鈥檙e hoping to educate people,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he debate over immigration policy is often driven by myths and stereotypes. What is often omitted is that population movement is produced by global economic forces.鈥� Among those who will speak on Friday are:

    鈥�    Leo Tanguma, 鈥淢ural Painting as an Expression of the Chicano/Mexicano Community鈥�;

    鈥�    Ram贸n del Castillo, poetry reading 鈥淔rom El Machete to El Molcajete鈥�;

    鈥�    Akio Egawa, 鈥淛apan鈥檚 Relations with the United States鈥�;

    鈥�    Chris Loether, 鈥淟anguage Revitalization and Manipulation of Language Ideologies: A Shoshoni Case Study鈥�

    鈥�    Misha Kokotovic, 鈥淣arratives of Violence and Migration in Central and North American Fiction鈥�; and

    鈥�    Rub茅n Martinez, plenary address.

Speakers on Saturday include: 

    鈥�    Michel Laronde, 鈥淭oward a New National Habitus: Postcolonializing High Culture in France or African Immigration and its Literature鈥�;

    鈥�    Alan Christelow, 鈥淥ral and Literate Cultures in the Shaping of the Algerian Migrant Experience鈥�;

    鈥�    Manuel Morodo Fern谩ndez, 鈥淭he Positive Economic Impact of Mexican Migration and the Services of Protection鈥�;

    鈥�    Juan Bruce-Novoa, 鈥淭ranslating the Polygot Text鈥�;

    鈥�    Andr茅s Guerra, 鈥淚mmigration Myths: Reflections Through Brown Eyes鈥�; and

    鈥�    Naomi Leiserowitz and Jason Brown, 鈥淚mmigrants and Law Enforcement.鈥�

The conference is made possible by the Idaho Humanities Council, the 网曝吃瓜 Hispanic Task Force, the 网曝吃瓜 Cultural Affairs Council, the 网曝吃瓜 Office of Research, the 网曝吃瓜 Foundation and the 网曝吃瓜 College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Jim Fogelquist at 282-3717 or 220-1685.