Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2014 MALCS Summer Institute at Northern New Mexico College.

One Writing Workshop will be held this summer:

1) The Academic Article, July 30 and Aug. 1

BOTTOM LINE: The deadline for submission for the Academic Article is postmark June 25, 2014.

WHEN: July 30 at 2:00-4:00 p.m. and Aug. 2 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.

Participants may arrive on Tuesday July 29, but must contact the Site Committee to arrange housing.

FOR QUESTIONS: Contact Karen Mary Davalos ude.umlobfsctd-30c6f3@solavadk

WHAT FOR: 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 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. July 30, and the second on Friday Aug. 2) is required.

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), Rosa Furumoto (8: 1 & 2), Irene Mata (10:2), Ella Diaz (11:1), Marci R. McMahon (11:1) and more!

WHO: The editors encourage applications from writers at all professional levels, including tenured or mid-career professors.

Due to the goals of the workshop, we cannot accept submissions of dissertation chapters. Dissertation chapters are not suited for the workshops since the dissertation style, genre, and goals are distinct from those of the academic article. Ideally, graduate schools and faculty should offer the type of mentorship offered in MALCS Writing Workshops. Facilitators of the workshop strongly urge dissertation writers to demand, negotiate, and mobilize for such support.

HOW MANY: The workshop has space for 8 participants, who must register for the Summer Institute and be current MALCS members. Proof of membership is required.

FINE PRINT: Acknowledge the labor of others who assist your development.

Although participation does not guarantee publication, the information and experience facilitates the submission and double-blind-peer review process. Our track record speaks for itself—see above partial list of workshop participants who have been published in the journal.

Although MALCS supports the publication activities in other venues, it cannot misappropriate the labor of its editors. Therefore, participants are required to sign an agreement that guarantees the journal’s Right of First Review of the material developed through the workshop. The agreement allows authors to compensate participants and editors for their labor and guarantees that the author will formally submit the work to Chicana/Latina Studies for consideration of publication. It also requires the author to acknowledge the assistance of the participants if the work is published elsewhere. The Right of First Review is understood as an aspect of feminist practice, accountability, and leadership and scholarship.

HOW TO APPLY FOR

The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop

DEADLINE: Postmark of hardcopy package: June 25, 2014.

FOR QUESTIONS: Contact Karen Mary Davalos ude.umlobfsctd-36ae0e@solavadk

WHERE: Postal and email of documents to

Dr. Josie Méndez-Negrete

University of Texas at San Antonio / Downtown Campus

501 West Cesar E. Chavez, DB 4.346

San Antonio, Texas 78207- 4415

Email: ude.astuobfsctd-3734f7@etergeNzedneM.enihpesoJ

WHAT TO SEND:

Please submit a cover letter describing the project and the author’s goals for publication (audience, timeline, etc.), the author’s contact information for various media and technology or the lead author’s contact information, and one copy of the scholarly article of 5,000 words or 25 pages (not including tables, notes, or references). All submissions must conform to the journal’s style (Chicago Manual of Style with in-text author-date system) and the text must be double-spaced.

Also send the package via email.

FOR QUESTIONS: Contact Karen Mary Davalos ude.umlobfsctd-466d1c@solavadk

For those wishing to further explore the uniqueness and cultural heritage of Northern New Mexico, Northern New Mexico College’s El Rito campus is offering heritage arts workshops prior to the conference, Monday July 28 and Tuesday July 29. Packages including class fee, meals and lodging are available at a special rate to Summer Institute attendees. Choose from the following:

Introduction to Weaving
Individuals will emphasis on shuttle techniques, block designing using dovetailing, Rio Grande multi-color bands.  Individuals will design a beautiful block pattern jerga rug.

Introduction to Spanish Colonial Woodworking
Individuals will learn gluing, sanding, and finishing. Individuals will show evidence of a fully completed project with a Spanish Colonial design.

Introduction to Retablos
Individuals will learn basic techniques that include development of skills for choosing appropriate wood; painting in the northern New Mexico tradition using homemade materials such as gesso and piñon varnish.

Mapping Geographies of Self: Woman as First Environment

July 30th-August 2, 2014

Northern New Mexico College

Española, New Mexico

It is ninety miles from Albuquerque to the El Rito campus of Northern New Mexico College. To the West is the Rio Grande; to the East are the Sandia and Sangre de Cristo mountain ranges. These mountains cradle the entire route as it snakes North into the geographic landscape of northern New Mexico. Four sacred peaks mark this landscape, tracing P’o (water and time). Etched into the countless volcanic rocks surrounding the trails of the North are millions of images recording time immemorial –histories of the Old Ones and the Mother from whom they emerged. She is the origin; she is the first environment. While this concept is not particular to northern New Mexico, to the Southwest or to the Americas, it is a critical component of our experiences and our stories as Chicana, Afro-Latina, Asian- Latina, and Indigenous women.

Northern New Mexico has remained a rural and heavily agricultural area of the U.S. Southwest. Consequently, farming and sustainability are key elements of our lifeways. At the same time it has also engaged in the complexities of technological and health advances that have driven the U.S. economy. We are a sited people, whose spirit of place influences our work, our art, our communities, our lives. Attentive to Nambi Nava (our land), mind, body and spirit and carrying on the tradition of Las Vegas, New Mexico partera Doña Jesusita Aragón, we choose “Mapping Geographies of Self: Women as the First Environment” for the 2014 Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute theme. We bring together Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept “the geography of self” and Mohawk activist and mid-wife Katsi Cook’s “woman is the first environment.” This framing will allow us to engage in conversations regarding agriculture, gender, sexuality, health (physical and emotional), sustainability practices, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Health (STEM-H) and trauma (physical and emotional). Within each of these subjects, there are myriad possibilities for exploration and discussion. We think of our identities as synergetic – like the braiding of air, land, water. As has been done for thousands of years, we will join the migrations of many; respect the places of emergence of all. With our voices, our bodies, our spirit, and our work, we will transform, inspire and empower one another. We look forward to working together as we develop the Summer 2014 Institute.

** Call for papers will be send out in Jan, 2014.   Keep an eye out!!!