Muy Estimado Cehilistas:
Aquí compartimos con todos nuestra agenda para nuestra reunion de CEHILA-USA 2009 que tomara acaba la siguente semana en Albuquerque Nuevo Méjico
Vamos a tomar la oportunidad de brindar la visión y el esfuerzo intelectual y personal de nuestro hermano y colega – Moises Sandoval -- para CEHILA el viernes por la tarde en una recepción en su honor.
Ý Felicidades Moises y gracias!!
Alberto Lopez Pulido
Director and Professor
Ethnic Studies Program
Chair, President's Advisory Board on
Inclusion and Diversity (PABID)
University of San Diego
619-260-4022
www.sandiego.edu/es
CEHILA USA 2009
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 21st – May 24th, 2009
WELCOMING RECEPTION -Thursday, May 21st, 2009 (6:00pm to 8:00pm)
Located at 1923 Las Lomas Rd. NE at UNM
Small Hors d'oeuvres and Cash Bar
PRESENTATIONS
- Anderson School of Management – Room 1064
Located at 1924 Las Lomas NE at UNM
Friday Morning – May 22nd, 2009 (9:00am to 12:00pm)
“Liberation Correspondent: The Homilies of Moises Sandoval”
"Polysemy and the Struggle for Interpretive Closure: Ritual Devotions to La Conquistadora in Santa Fe, New Mexico"
LUNCH and special presentation (12:00pm to 1:50pm)
- La Fonda del Bosque – National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Main: (505) 246-2261
- Private Presentation by artist Federico Vigil of Torreon Fresco
Friday Afternoon - (2:00pm to 5:00pm)
"Where Do We Fit? A Critical Assessment on the Status of U.S. Latina/o Religious Historiography"
A. Why Asking the Question?
1. Are we a service field for Hispanic/Latina/o Theology?
2. Do we have a discipline?
3. Is our scholarship an endangered species?
B. Sub-field of U.S. Religious History?
1. Do we complete the traditional discourse?
2. Are we at the margins?
C. Re-interpreting Ourselves
1. What exactly do we do?
2. Who do we talk to?
3. Do we reproduce the colonial representations/master narratives?
D. Inviting Theory In
1. Theory as a process of deconstruction
2. Dismantling the theological focus
3. Beyond the stories
4. Adjusting our lenses
“Remapping American Catholicism”
Histories of U.S. Catholicism tend to depict Catholics as progressing from disestablishment in a Protestant nation to struggling immigrants to successful American Catholics, or Catholic Americans, as some analysts prefer to put it. But today the U.S. Catholic Church is no longer an overwhelmingly European immigrant church, as it was a century ago, nor is it solely an “Americanized” church. Rather, it is a church largely run by middle-class, European-descent Catholics with sizeable contingents of African Americans, Asian and African immigrants, some Native Americans, and especially rapidly expanding numbers of Latinos whose ancestors were the first major group of Catholics in what is now the United States. The present and future of ecclesial life and mission is best addressed with a clearer view of the part Latinos – as well as all our fellow Catholics – have played in our collective
“Becoming Visible: Protestant Hispanic Churches of the Portland, Oredon Metropolitan Area.”
Oregon’s Hispanic population and Protestant Hispanic churches are emerging from invisibility. Research is available on Hispanic populations and their religious practices in other regions of the U.S., but not regarding Protestant Hispanics in Oregon. This study traces the history of Hispanics in Oregon and notes how this group doubled in size from 1990-2000. It examines the growth of Protestant Spanish-speaking ministries in the state throughout the twentieth century, but focuses on the current status of evangelical Hispanic churches of Multnomah and Washington Counties. Through triangulated sociological methods including participant observation of church services, literature collection, and pastoral interviews, the researcher studied such churches: their location, stability and visibility; any relationship with a sponsoring church (U.S. or Latin American); and pastoral background, training, and inclusion.
RECEPTION in honor of Moises Sandoval – (6:00pm to 9:00pm)
- George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture & Planning
Located at Plaza level room 130
2401 Central Ave NE at UNM
Saturday Morning – May 23rd, 2009 (9:00am to 12:00 noon)
- Professor Alberto Pulido and Professor Olivia Ruiz
“Violence and the Sacred on the U.S.-Mexico Border”
With over a thousand deaths due to drug violence in 2008, a death by gunfire reported every day in January of this year, and hundreds of people disappeared or missing, Tijuana ranks as one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities. Such a reality has had a tremendous impact on the people and social institutions of Tijuana. Of particular interest to us in this paper is the impact of that violence on the faith of a people, especially on its most vulnerable members, in this case, undocumented migrants, an integral part of border cities like Tijuana. The authors have begun preliminary research at the Casa del Migrante in Tijuana where they are working with focus groups, primarily of migrants recently deported by the US government, regarding this and issues related to personal faith and belief
“National Shrine, Basilica, Santuario: Devotion to la Virgencita de San Juan del Valle in the 21st Century.”
Since its beginnings in 1948, the Marian devotion centered in San Juan, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border, has evolved in popularity and significance as the sociocultural location of its pilgrims has evolved. The recent clerical and popular significance of this devotion will be explored.
“The Understanding of Faith in God in the Context of Colonialism and Oppression"
This paper is a first draft of "The Mexican American Catholic Theology addressing the Understanding of Faith in God in the Context of Colonialism and Oppression. The work employs the Method in Theology of Bernard Lonergan and combines theology and historical experience of Mexican American faithful.
LUNCH – (12:00pm to 1:15pm)
Saturday Afternoon – (1:30pm to 5:00pm)
"Faith-based Activism: the Catholic Church and Chicano Movement in Texas, an Oral History Project."
Our project involves interviewing on high definition digital video 15 Catholic priests, women religious (nuns), lay men and women connected with the Church in order to determine their role in the various social justice activities and programs related to the Chicano Movement in Texas in the late nineteen sixties and early seventies.
We will disseminate the findings to other scholars and to the general public by creating an archives of the videotaped interviews and transcripts at both UIW and OLLU, by making this archives available on a website, by producing short thematic video programs and posting these on a website, and by producing longer video programs that can be broadcast.
Preliminary findings: The interviews convey more the emotions related to events and reflections on the past rather than new information. More importantly, the interviews reflect the faith that motivated the individuals in the events of those turbulent times.
“PADRES and the Farmworker Ministry”
