Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social

From Dolores Delgado Bernal:

Mujeres–the Utah coordinating committee has been working very hard and is getting ready for next August. Please pass this announcement to mujeres in your networks, and save the date. A call for papers will be coming very soon. In the meantime, you should know that a number of mujeres have confirmed their participation including Alma Lopez, Cecilia Burciaga, Cindy Cruz, Mary Ann Villarreal, Margaret Montoya, Christina Zuni, Debrah Vasquez and many others. We hope to see you in salt lake city.

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The Fourth Annual Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute
July 28 – August 8, 2008
Seminar: THINKING TRANSNATIONALLY: FEMINIST VISIONS

Seminar Leaders: Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College) & Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University)
Seminar Description:  Over the past several decades, feminists around the world have variously and successfully transformed lives, communities, and institutions. Nevertheless, questions of social and economic justice, identity and self-determination, psychic and social decolonization, and solidarity and alliance-building across class, race, sexual and national borders, remain at the heart of feminist work. This seminar explores interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks for addressing the above issues, focusing directly on the challenge academic researchers face to “think transnationally” without losing sight of localcontexts and issues. (more…)

MALCSistas, if you have advice or referrals for this teacher, please add a comment below or drop me a note (susana@malcs.net).  Thanks!

hello
my name is leah and i’m a 1st year teacher in NY. I’ll be starting (soon) a unit on HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and was wondering if you had any ideas for background information to handout to my middle schoolers. i’m defintely planning on making the unit strongly based on a creative writing ‘autobiography’ unit but was wondering if you have any resources for 7th graders. (poems, definitions, etc…)

Thanks,

Leah