Welcome:
Claudine Michel, UCSB, Chair of Black Studies

Opening Remarks:
Dean Melvin Oliver, UCSB College of Letters & Sciences, Social Sciences Division

Plenary Address:
Tricia Rose, UC Santa Cruz, American Studies “Envisioning Intimate Justice in African-American Culture and Politics”

PANEL 1 –Immigration: Displacement & Diaspora

Chair: Julie Carlson, UCSB, English

Maria Herrera-Sobek. UCSB, Luis Leal Chair, Chicana/o Studies “Aesthetic Activism: Artistic Expression and the Politics of Immigration"

Xiaojian Zhao, UCSB, Chair of Asian American Studies “The Invisibles: Undocumented Immigrants in Post-1965 Chinese America"

Edwina Barvosa-Carter, UCSB, Chicana/o Studies "Immigrant Ethnicities & Political Strategies: Identity in the Immigrant Rights Debate"

John Park, UCSB, Asian American Studies "Emergent Divides: Race and Class Divisions Among Immigrant Groups in the United States"

Discussant: Nelson Lichtenstein, UCSB, History

PANEL 2 – De-colonization: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being

Chair: Chela Sandoval, UCSB, Chair of Chicana/o Studies

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies "Reflections on the 'Latinoamericanization of Race' and the 'Latinoization of Politics' in Contemporary U.S. and their Relevance for Building Multiethnic Alliances in the 21st Century"

Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley, African American Studies “Street Strollers: Grounding the Theory of Black Women Intellectuals”

James Lee, UCSB Asian American Studies "The Laughter and Danger of Recognition: Provisional Thoughts on the Ethics of Ethnic Studies"

Laura Perez, UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies "Lessons of the Nineties' Backlashes from a Queer Feminist of Color-Centered Perspective

Discussant: Reginald Daniel, UCSB, Sociology

Plenary Address:
Rosa Linda Fregoso, UC Santa Cruz, Latino and Latin American Studies "Somos América: Why LALS"

PANEL 3 – Spacialization of Race / Ecological Justice

Chair: Douglas H. Daniels, UCSB, Black Studies

João H. Costa Vargas, University of Texas, Austin, Anthropology “Genocide in the African Diaspora: Grounds for Political Collaboration?”

Raul Villa, Occidental College, English and Comparative Literary Studies, "A Right to the City: Imagining and Enacting the Spaces of Mexican Los Angeles"

Clyde Woods, UCSB, Black Studies "New Orleans, Katrina, and the Reconstruction of Race"

Guisela Latorre, UCSB, Chicana/o Studies "The Chicana/o Mural Environment: Indigenist Aesthetics and Urban Spaces"

Discussant: Howard Winant, UCSB, Sociology

Welcome:
Chancellor Henry Yang, UCSB

Reception & Dinner

PANEL 4– Cross-Racial National & Transnational Alliances

Chair: Anna Everett, UCSB, Film Studies

Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Asian American Studies "Rethinking Victimization through Cultural Citizenship: Learning from Latina/o Immigrants"

Diane Fujino, UCSB, Asian American Studies “Activism and the Academy: Studying and Practicing Asian American Social Movements"

Grace Chang, UCSB, Women's Studies "Redefining Agency: Transnational Feminist, Anti-Imperialist Responses to Trafficking"

Nadège Clitandre, UC Berkeley, African American Studies "Haitian-Diasporic Presents and Hopeful Futures"

Discussant: Roberto Strongman, UCSB, Black Studies

Plenary Address:
Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California, English "Memories of the Bad War: Viet Nam in the American Imagination"

PANEL 5– Violence, Healing & Memory

Chair: Mireille Miller-Young, UCSB, Women's Studies

Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University, Religion “What’s Religion Got to Do with It?? Religion and Intersectionality in Ethnic Studies"

Lucia Suarez, University of Michigan, Romance Languages "Secrets: Other Formulations of Violence in the Present from a Cuban-American Perspective"

Gerardo Aldana, UCSB, Chicana/o Studies “Objectivity as the First Weapon of Mass Destruction”

Kaia Stern, UCSB, Black Studies "Alliances of Pain and Resilience: Teaching In and About Prisons"

Discussant: LeGrace Benson, UCSB, Center for Black Studies

CLOSING REMARKS:

George Lipsitz, UCSB, Black Studies & Sociology