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News from the Executive Committee

Dear MALCistas,

In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section “News from the Exec”

The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing strategies of bridging letras y cambio social.

Since 2010, the Executive Committee has addressed bylaws, 501c3 status, building membership, and addressing critical infrastructural issues before us as a national organization. And other issues still are before us.

This section begins a series of discussions about MALCS and what we want it to become. It will feature various essays, hopefully short essays, to facilitate ideas for an assessment of our organization. The tracts will take up the following:

  • Report back on Special Gathering
  • Vision Statement
  • Proposed Bylaws Changes, Summary of the changes and the procedure for Bylaws voting/ timeline
  • Proposal for changing the meeting structure to every other year
  • Update on MALCS as a financial entity with a fiscal agent, the Chicana/Latina Foundation

Key to our assessment is guaranteeing the membership’s input—recommendations to the Report Back and Vision Statement, discussion of the Bylaws revisions, etc. Therefore, the “News from the Exec” link will provide a viable avenue for discussion—this includes a blog space for-members-only, as well as utilizing survey forms so that members may respond more promptly and efficiently.

At this launching, the Executive Committee extends our gratitude to The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) that graciously provided their final plenary session to MALCS in order to begin our assessment.

Siempre,
Keta Miranda, Chair

MALCS Summer Housing deadline is July 12

Dear Conference Presenters and Attendees,

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for reserving on campus housing, or for reserving hotel rooms at either the Courtyard Marriott or the San Gabriel Hilton, is July 12.  After this time it may be very difficult to reserve housing in any of these three sites. I encourage you to send in your housing reservation and payment at your earliest convenience.

More information about On Campus Housing
Please note that 27/per person is the double room rate for housing and 37/per person is the single room rate.  The more information you can provide about your housing preferences (e.g. roommates, other students/faculty, etc) the better. At the same time, it is always good to meet new people, so hopefully we can be open to that.

Each apartment in the campus housing has from two to four rooms. Each person will get two keys. One key is for the apartment and the other key is for the room within the apartment.  There are refrigerators and microwaves in each apartment.

Housing is located at the bottom of a hill so be prepared to walk up and down a hill in the morning and the evening. I will also look into campus shuttle service (one small van, usually for commuters) for those who may feel uncomfortable walking up and down. If you are in this group, please let me know so I can get a sense of the needs.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us. Adelante con MALCS Summer Institute 2011
–MALCS 2011 Site Committee

“I’m Neither Here nor There”: New Book by Patricia Zavella

Check out a new title by UCSC Professor of Latino & LatAm Studies Patricia Zavella,  I‘m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty, published by Duke University Press.

“One of the surprises was finding how diverse people were,” she said. Zavella, the outgoing chair of LALS, had shared an assumption that immigrant populations in this region hailed from a relatively narrow area.  But the surveys taken at local health fairs in 2006, showed respondents were from 19 states in Mexico (out of 31 states and one federal district.)

“It was an incredible surprise,” she said of all the places people were from. What she found common, however, was ambivalent feelings of identity by migrants and by Mexican Americans.

Zavella’s book is based on research from 1993 to 2006. She conducted life histories of 76 people to document their experiences related to migration and poverty.  One phenomenon she describes is residents’ “peripheral vision,” that “signals ways in which people always have Mexico in the back of their minds”

—article continues at UCSC news site

 

 

 

 

2011 CSULA MALCS Summer Institute Aug 3-6 – Call for Workshops/Roundtables

The Summer Institute is the highlight for MALCS membership. By creating an informal space for networking and learning, our goal is to work toward supporting Chicana/Latina and Native American women in various fields of work and activism and to develop and strengthen support in higher education.

Promoting knowledge building, the MALCS 2011 Institute invites members to submit proposals for workshops/roundtables, how to’s, and DIY’s in the suggested areas:

  • Tips for tenure
  • Finding a job
  • Applying to grad school
  • Grant Writing
  • Creating a MALCS chapter
  • Adobe ceiling/post tenure

Proposals are due June 17, 2011.
Send to: gro.sclamobfsctd-422d2f@epuL/archive-2017

Click here to download submission form as an MSDoc

 

Call for Participants for WRITING WORKSHOP

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at California State University, Los Angeles, August 3-7, 2011.  DEADLINE: Postmark July 1, 2011

WHAT: Feminist collaboration for publication!
The Writing Workshop is one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the journal’s editors offer the workshop in order to energize through collaboration, programmatically link scholarship and leadership, and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their work-in-progress and depart with clear recommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, and first-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.
To create an intellectual community, prior to the workshop, participants read and commented on the material of the other writers. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. Aug. 3, and the second on Friday Aug. 5) is required.
One Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:
1) The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop, facilitated by Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, former editor of Chicana/Latina Studies.
DATES and TIMES: Aug. 3 at 3:00-5:00 p.m. and Aug. 5 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.   Participants may arrive on Tuesday, Aug 2, but must contact the Cal State LA Site Committee to arrange housing. The workshop will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Weds., Aug. 3 and continue on Friday Aug. 5 at 8:00 a.m. of the MALCS Summer Institute. This schedule means that participants miss only one hour of the MALCS Summer Institute programs.
WHY: It really works!
Past participants who have been published in the journal are: Dora Ramirez-Dhoor (5:1), Rosalia Solorzano Torres (5:1), Ann Marie Leimer (5:2), Patricia Trullijo (6:1), Carmelita “Rosie” Castañeda (7:2), Marivel  Danielson (7:2), M. Bianet Castellanos (8: 1 & 2), and Rosa Furumoto (8: 1 & 2), and more! [Read more…] about Call for Participants for WRITING WORKSHOP

Congrats to Associate Professor Marivel Danielson!

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga writes:

Colegas, I wanted to share the wonderful news that our colleague and member of the 2010 MALCS Arizona State Conference organizing committee Dr. Marivel Danielson has been promoted to Associate Professor and been granted tenure.

Felicitaciones!