Program
NACCS 2025 Program (click here to view full program details)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025
Registration 3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
The Hospitality Room
NACCS for Beginners 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Arizona
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Welcome Reception & Invocation 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025
SESSION ONE - Thursday, 8:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Exhibits 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Garden Room
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Caucus Meeting 7:30 a.m. 8:20 a.m.
1.1 • Arizona North
Fields of Struggle and Solidarity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Farm Workers Rights
1.2 • Arizona South
Decolonization, Identity and Cultural Narratives in the Borderlands
1.3 • Colorado
Podcasting: Helping Kiddos with Reading, Writing, and Comprehension
1.4 • Texas
Spirituality, Resistance, and Healing: Profound Practices of Decolonial Connection in Chicana/o/x Spiritual Expressions
1.5 • Nevada
Workshop: Son Jarocho: Cultural Production that Unites and Dignifies Mexicanx and Chicanx Communities
1.6 • Parlor AB
Roundtable: La Onda Chicana/Tejana: The Role of Music in the Process of Politicization and Concientización
1.7 • Parlor EF
Decolonizing el sistema: Revealing, Critiquing and Dismantling the Power Structures of the white Pillars of Academia, through Chican@/x Scholarship to Empower Chicana Feminist Thought
1.8 • Parlor CD
Improving Student Outcomes through the Pipeline: The College Essay, High School Curriculum Development and Peer Mentorship
1.9 • Parlor GH
Graduate Students from California State University Los Angeles in the Chicana(o) Latina(o) Studies Department and their Research Experience
1.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: Generative (Parenthese: Poetics of Expansive Chicanidad in the Work of Adrián Arancibia
1.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Workshop: Critical Mystery Studies: The Conspiracy Board Workshop
1.12 • Rio Grande
Film: Solidarity in a New Era (Episode 3 of PBS documentary American Historia)(55 min)
PLENARY I: Blessing, Welcome and NACCS Plenary see pages 11-13 for details Sustaining Centeotzintli y Calli: Our Sacred Knowledge, Conciencia, and Home 10:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. -- New Mexico Ballroom North
Break 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
SESSION TWO - THURSDAY, 1:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
2.1 • Arizona North
Workshop: A Latine History of Resistance Through Creativity & Reflection
2.2 • Arizona South
Re-Visiting Historical Social-Political Movements 1960s-1980s
2.3 • Colorado
Workshop: The Stage is our Calli: Focusing on Performance
2.4 • Texas
The Aesthetic Force of Oppositional Consciousness: On Subversive Forms and Performances
2.5 • Nevada
A Reading with author Victor Villaseñor
2.6 • Parlor AB
In Lak’Ech, Danza, and Ceremonial Running: Indigenous Practice to Classroom Praxis
2.7 • Parlor EF
Labor Politics, Resistance, and Revolution
2.8 • Parlor CD
Roundtable: Pop-Up Botánica: Enduring Indigenous Medicine exhibit
2.9 • Parlor GH
Roundtable: Bridging Communities and Classrooms: Preserving Histories of Activism Through Oral Histories and Digital Humanities
2.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Amplifying Voices: Sound, Stigma, and Belonging in Latinx and Indigenous Campus Activism
2.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Workshop: Collective Healing: Sustainable Muxerista Abolitionist Pedagogies
2.12 • Rio Grande
Roundtable: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Recovery after the Yazzie/Martinez Lawsuit
SESSION THREE - THURSDAY, 2:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
3.1 • Arizona North
Analysis and Conversations of Popular Works in Chicana/o Literature
3.2 • Arizona South
Chicana/o and Latina Student Research on Prison Incarceration, Social Media Mental Health, and Academic Stereotyping
3.3 • Colorado
K-12 Chicanx Studies: Implementing Indigenous Knowledge as Decolonial, Liberatory Pedagogy and Practice
3.4 • Texas
New Directions in Joteria Studies
3.5 • Parlor AB
Empathy, Indigeneity, and Collective Liberation in Chicana/o Studies and Education
3.6 • Parlor EF
Weaving Together Critical/Creative Methodologies and Pedagogies in Undergraduate Education
3.7 • Parlor CD
Storytelling and Art for Self-Healing and Chicanx Identity Formation along the Mexicali/US Border
3.8 • Parlor GH
Roundtable: Field Schools as Sacred Knowledge, Conciencia, and Home
3.9 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: Mynopantla (Mynopause + Nepantla) Remedios: The Alchemizing of a Modern-Colonial Malaise
3.10 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: Chicana/o Cultural Production in the Early 1990s, A Chicana/o
3.11 • Rio Grande
Chicana/o Short-Film Festival
Film: Message from the Barrio (5 minutes)
Film: Three Immigration Shorts: Turn Back South, Notes From A Long Walk, Carta a Un Viajero (27 min)
Film: Javier Gomez: The Community Activist Story (17 min)
Film: Cielo or Bust (10 min)
SESSION FOUR - THURSDAY, 3:40 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
4.1 • Arizona North
Roundtable: A Journey to Decolonial Love: Provocations of Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed 25 Years Later
4.2 • Arizona South
Interrogating/Exploring AfroChicanidad: Reflecting on the AfroChicanx Digital Humanities Project
4.3 • Colorado
Racial Ecologies: Mapping Latine Chicane Environmental Matters in the Southwest Borderlands
4.4 • Texas
Battling the Criminal Injustice System and its Impact on Boys, Men, and Migrants
4.5 • Nevada
Workshop: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Performance of Chicana/x/o Music
4.6 • Parlor AB
Methods of Empowerment of the Chicanx Community in the Imperial Valley
4.7 • Parlor EF
Roundtable: Cultivating our Tlamachtiliztli: Bridging Chican@/x Diasporas through Cariño and Convivencia to Transform Chican@/x Studies in the 21st Century
4.8 • Parlor CD
Decolonial Pedagogies: Creativity, Collaboration, and Resistance in Education
4.9 • Parlor GH
Muxerista Interventions Against Spirit Murder: Healing through Circles, Song, Raves, and Testimonios
4.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: Canceling Latinidad or Reaffirming It?: An Intersectional Approach to the Crises in Higher Education
4.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
The Politics of Servingness: UC Libratory Practices of Chicanx Latinx Student Resource Centers
Virtual Memorial Event
Honoring Dr. Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus of Chicana/o Studies (1939-2024)
@ Rio Grande 4:00 p.m.- 7 p.m.
Special Session
A Roundtable with NACCS Scholar, Cherríe Moraga
5:10 p.m. -6:20 p.m.
• New Mexico Ballroom North
FOCOS 6:40-7:30 p.m.
Caucus Meeting 7:40 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
See page 15 for details: (view schedule here)
JOTERIA RECEPTION @ Rio Grande 8:30-10:00 p.m.
Friday April 4, 2025 Click here for more details.
Registration 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Garden Room Foyer
Exhibits 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Garden Room
FOCOS 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
GRADUATE STUDENT BREAKFAST RECEPTION
8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
Executive Viewing Lounge (12th floor)
SESSION FIVE - FRIDAY, 9:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
5.1 • Arizona North
Roundtable: Bless Me, Noticias: Getting Your Work and Expertise Recognized in Media Amid a Changing Landscape
5.2 • Arizona South
Xicana, Queer, Feminist and Youth Literature
5.3 • Colorado
Workshop: Wealth Reclamation: A Critical Economic Framework for Chicana/o Studies
5.4 • Texas
Decolonial Interventions in Music, Theater and Film
5.5 • Nevada
Untold Stories of Survival, Resilience and Resistance in Ventura County
5.6 • Parlor AB
Revisiting the Xicanx Futurity Art Exhibition
5.7 • Parlor EF
Roundtable: The Stage is our Calli : Chicanx Narratives in Theatre-Making and Performance Roundtable
5.8 • Parlor CD
Workshop: Applying Anzaldúa’s Notion of Spiritual Activism to Transform Women’s Narratives of Exclusion During the Mexican Revolution
5.9 • Parlor GH
Teaching, Learning, and Navigating the Educational System
5.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Artepaño is Chicano Art
5.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: AfroMexican Futurities: Imagining Worlds of (Re)Existence
5.12 • Rio Grande
LA High School Voices: Navigating Our Identities, Our Politics, Our School
SESSION SIX - FRIDAY, 10:10 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
6.1 • Arizona North
From Silence to Strength: Healing Generational Trauma through Translingual Literacy and Chicana/o/x Identidad
6.2 • Arizona South
Materialist Critique and Chicanx Studies: Reconfiguring Culture, Identity and Economy in the Long Downturn
6.3 • Colorado
Pedagogical Interventions In Systems and in the Classroom
6.4 • Texas
Workshop: Our Fragmented Selves: Thinking About Mental Health for Graduate Students
6.5 • Nevada
Roundtable: Redefining Barrio Culture Through Chola/o Epistemologies
6.6 • Parlor AB
BiblioPolítica: The Chicano Studies Library as an Early Site of Action Research
6.7 • Parlor EF
Narrating Identity, Community Building, and Slowing Down: Moving Toward Healing Paradigms of Resistance
6.8 • Parlor CD
Validating Afro-Mexicano Experiences and Interrogating Mestizaje Y La Raza Cósmica
6.9 • Parlor GH
Workshop: Publishing in Chicana/o/x/e Studies: A Workshop with Regeneracion: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal
6.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Indigenous Language and Cultural Work
6.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
A Joteria Future In Chicanx Studies
6.12 • Rio Grande
Roundtable: Chicana/o Vampires Zombies & Ignoring Hollywood Latinx Rom-Coms - Locura still Cura!
POSTER BOARD SESSION 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
(click here for more information) Pg. 34 - 37
NACCS Awards & Recognition Banquet See page 10 for 2025 Awardees
Friday April 3, 12:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
(a ticketed event)
New Mexico Ballroom
SESSION SEVEN – FRIDAY, 3:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
7.1 • Arizona North
Conocimientos—Ancestral, Spiritual, and Sentient Knowledge
7.2 • Arizona South
Queered Masculinities and the World-Making Tactics in Indigenous and Chicano Literature
7.3 • Colorado
At the Crossroads of Memoir and History: Excavating New Mexican Indigenous and Queer Roots and Reckoning with the Hidalguense Abuelito Colonizer
7.4 • Texas
Roundtable: Lillian Gorman’s Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico
7.5 • Nevada
The Land Always Remembers: Cultivating our Sacred Bodymemory Truths
7.6 • Parlor AB
Chicana/o Experiences at Predominately White Institutions and HSI’s
7.7 • Parlor EF
Workshop: Prison Poetics: Storytelling as Critical Resistance
7.8 • Parlor CD
Mediating Latina/o/x Indigeneity: Recovering and Reimagining Indigenous Histories for Latino Storytelling
7.9 • Parlor GH
Literature and Librarianship
7.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Politicas for Liberation: Navigating Political Realities, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Coalition Building
7.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
The Yazzie-Martinez Mandate in New Mexico: Educators Creating Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Curriculum
7.12 • Rio Grande
Roundtable: Somos revolucionarias ¿Y que?
SESSION EIGHT - FRIDAY, 4:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
8.1 • Arizona North
Resistance in the Border(ed) Lands with Art, Literature, Feminism, and Community Building
8.2 • Arizona South
Home-making Solidarities Through Ethnic Studies
8.3 • Texas
Roundtable: Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the Texas and Arizona Borderlands
8.4 • Nevada
(Re)Claiming and Protecting Indigenous Ceremonial Ways
8.5 • Parlor AB
Intergenerational Trauma and Mental Health in Our Communities
8.6 • Parlor EF
Exploration of Chicana Feminist Theory and Spirituality
8.7 • Parlor CD
La Cultura Cura: Community, and Education as Healing Praxis
8.8 • Parlor GH
Resistance, Resilience, and Transformation: Navigating Tormentor Practices, Intellectual Risk-Taking, and Reclaiming Barrios in Chicana/o/x Education
8.9 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: Preserving and reconnecting with Our Cultura: Mexican- American Studies Student Organization at UTSA
8.10 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: Reflections on conocimientos in the borderlands under a new regime: Considering Tejas, Nuevo Mejico, y California
8.11 • Rio Grande
Research and Pedagogies in STEM: Genetics, Health and the Environment
SESSION NINE - FRIDAY, 5:40 p.m. – 6:50 p.m.
9.1 • Arizona North
Roundtable: MEChA: Past, Present, and Future - Learning and Thriving Together
9.2 • Arizona South
Transnational Global Movements and Diaspora from Michoacan, Oaxaca, and Brazil
9.3 • Colorado
Xicana Fashion, Pop Culture, Music and Arte Subculture Aesthetics
9.4 • Texas
Xicano/a Ideological and Social Movement Research Subjects
9.5 • Nevada
Cultivating Chisme Through Love, Solidarity, Trust, and Empowerment in Chicana/Latina Higher Education
9.6 • Parlor AB
Escritor del Barrio: Luis Rodriguez’s Vernacular Poetics and Politics from the forthcoming Anthology: The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) 1 of 2 panels
9.7 • Parlor EF
Roundtable: Decolonial Healing and Re-Indigenizing in Chicano/x Communities
9.8 • Parlor CD
Danza De Las Americas: Folklorico, Bomba, Andean, and Concheros
9.9 • Parlor GH
Wisdom Of The Land: Grassroots approaches to Environmental Justice
9.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: This Spiral Called Support: Latina Students and Faculty Discuss Surviving and Thriving in a Community College and Beyond
9.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: From Resistance to Regeneration: Dual Enrollment Mexican American Studies and the Rebirth of Ethnic Studies in Arizona
9.12 • Rio Grande
Roundtable: Rooted in Resilience: Xicana Indigena Traditions of Healing and Empowerment within Mujeres de Maiz
NOCHE DE CULTURA 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Location to be announced
Hotel Shuttle Starts at 7 p.m., EVERY 25 MINUTES
Last Shuttle Returns 11 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025
Registration 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Garden Room Foyer
Exhibits 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Garden Room
CAUCUS MEETING 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
CAUCUS MEETING 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
SESSION TEN - SATURDAY, 10:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
10.1 • Arizona North
Workshop: Addressing Anti-Chicana/o Studies Legislation and the Right to Learn
10.2 • Arizona South
Remembrance, Legacy and Memoir: Examining Family, Muxe Identity, and Activist Voices
10.3 • Colorado
Knowledge and Empowerment in the 805: Community Reflections in Oxnard, CA
10.4 • Texas
Roundtable: Intersections between Chicana and Chicano Studies and Native American Studies: Indigenous Nation-Building and Sovereignty in New Mexico and Texas
10.5 • Nevada
Roundtable: US-Mexico Border and Immigration Issues in a Second Trump Presidential Term
10.6 • Parlor AB
Red Raza: Luis Rodriguez’s Xicanindio Gnosis and Communist Revolutionary Praxis, from Forthcoming Anthology: The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run... (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) 2nd part of 2
10.7 • Parlor EF
Wanna a get an MA Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Cal State LA?
10.8 • Parlor CD
Sustaining Indigenous/Latinx Maestrxs: Reclaiming Knowledge and Resistance from Tejas to Central America
10.9 • Parlor GH
Workshop: Xicanx Ecologies: Tracing Genealogies, Cultivating Interrelational Futurities, and Mapping our Camino through Codex-Making
10.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Spirituality, Resistance, and Healing: Profound Practices of Decolonial Connection in Chicana/o/x Spiritual Expressions
10.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: Zapatismo: Updates from Chiapas
10.12 • Rio Grande
Film: Becoming Mar (90 min – partial screening)
11.1 • Arizona North
Roundtable: Transforming Knowledge Into Action: The Impact of NACCS On High School MEChistAs
11.2 • Arizona South
Towards a (Queer) Hemispheric Chicanx Studies?
11.3 • Colorado
Roundtable: First Quarter Century Masculinity and Self Determination
11.4 • Texas
Roundtable: Exploring the Dynamics of Querencia In Prison and Communal Re-Entry
11.5 • Nevada
Roundtable: Teaching with Palabra: Honoring Ancestral Storytelling using Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Approaches
11.6 • Parlor AB
Beyond Stereotypes: Reimagining Latinx Leadership in Juana Bordas’ Framework
11.7 • Parlor EF
New Directions in Chicano Movement History
11.8 • Parlor CD
Autoethnography as Methodology: Narratives of Care, Knowledge, and Memory
11.9 • Parlor GH
Decolonizing Chicano Masculinities Through Higher Education and Social Justice
11.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Roundtable: Indigenous-inspired Cultural Praxis in Chicana and Chicano Studies
11.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: The Pueblo Revolt Strikes Back: Negotiating la Resolana to Critically Examine Chicanx Studies’ Relationship with Indigeneity Sandoval,
11.12 • Rio Grande
Remedying and Repairing the Historical Record through Chicanx/Latinx Feminist Archival Practices and Digital Humanities Pedagogies
PLENARY II: Chicana Plenary see page 13-14 for details
Malcontents: The History and Future of the Chicana Caucus and Reimagining NACCS.
12:40 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. New Mexico Ballroom North
SESSION TWELVE - SATURDAY, 2:30 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
12.1 • Arizona North
Carrying Calmecac in Our Bodies, Insisting on Our Queer Existence, Kinetic Knowledge and Memory
12.2 • Arizona South
Roundtable: Quinto Sexto Sol: A Model for Indigenous-Based Self and Community Determination
12.3 • Colorado
Northern Arizona University Chicana/o and Latina/o Undergraduate Student’s Racial and Identity Research
12.4 • Texas
Northern Arizona University Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Undergraduate Student Social Science Research
12.5 • Nevada
Untangling Our Heritage and Heartiness: Origin Stories, Ancestral Lands, and Kinship Ties
12.6 • Parlor AB
Roundtable: The MAS Teachers Academy: Celebrating a Decade of Growing and Sustaining Chicanx Studies /MAS through Nepantlera Rasquache Politics and Praxis
12.7 • Parlor EF
Activism in Aztlan through Organizing, Art, Literature, and Indigeneity
12.8 • Parlor CD
California, New Mexico and Texas K-12 classrooms: Ethnic Studies and Bilingual Education throughout the Southwest
12.9 • Parlor GH
Roundtable: When We Fight We Win! Defending the Integrity of Chicana/o Studies and Raising Consciousness in Solidarity with Palestine
12.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Spirituality as Resistance: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Xicanx Indigenous Art Praxis
12.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Roundtable: Learning Across Borders: Hybrid Classrooms as Sites of Justice and Resistance
12.12 • Rio Grande
Film: Cantos Desérticos (40-60 mins)
SESSION THIRTEEN - SATURDAY, 3:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
13.1 • Arizona North
Where Do We Go From Here? A Love Letter to Chicana/o/x Studies in the Wake of the 2024 Presidential Election
13.2 • Arizona South
Roundtable: !Si se puede! Supporting Spanish Language Learning in Higher Education
13.3 • Colorado
Deepening Our Range of Perception, Accessing Conocimiento from Ephemera, Convivencia Xicana, and Acts of Collective Healing
13.4 • Texas
Roundtable: Critical Mystery Studies: Taking the Hand of the Monster
13.5 • Nevada
The Aesthetic Force of Oppositional Consciousness: On Resistant Subjectivities & Memory Praxis
13.6 • Parlor AB
Diálogos afromexicanos: re-existir a través del arte y la cultura
13.7 • Parlor EF
Historically Resisting Patriarchy: (Re)Inventando Critical Frameworks for Understanding Chicanx/Latinx Masculinities
13.8 • Parlor CD
Ventura County: History and Activism
13.9 • Parlor GH
Understanding Chicana/o/x Expressions: From the Ivory Tower to the Urban Barrio
13.10 • New Mexico Ballroom North
Cultural Production and Documentation through Film, Music and Photos
13.11 • New Mexico Ballroom South
Challenging Systems: Identity, Media, and Sociopolitical Discourses in Chicana/o Studies
13.12 • Rio Grande
Roundtable: Consciencia, Oppositional Strategies, & Finding Home in Higher Education
MEETINGS
NACCS BUSINESS MEETING
New Mexico Ballroom South
5:10 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
LEADERSHIP ORIENTATION MEETING
New Mexico Ballroom South
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
CLOSING RECEPTION
Outdoor Courtyard
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thank you! Gracias! Tlaz’camati! Padiush! Maltiox!
Tukua! Eyaay ahan! Ahéhee’!
Wela’lin! Ta-ah! Ashóog! See you next year!!
2025/2026 NACCS Deadlines
Submission process and details are available at NACCS.org
Proceedings Submission: Details TBA
Book Award: Nominations for books published in 2024 – Submit July 1, 2025
NACCS Scholar: Deadline October 1.
Cervantes Student Premio: October 11.
Call for Papers – 2026 Conference: October 15. Online submission.
Immigrant Student Beca: October 16. Online submission.