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Wednesday, October 29th

1:30-4:30

Executive Council Retreat

4:00-7:00

Registration

5:15-6:30

Executive Council Dinner

7:00-8:30

Welcome: Krista Comer, Rice University, WLA President
Readings by Artists/Activists from "Voices Breaking Boundaries"

8:30-9:30

Opening Reception

9:45

Film Screening: Come and Take It Day (2002)
Introduction: Priscilla Ybarra, Rice University
Q&A with Director Jim Mendiola to follow

 

Thursday, October 30th

8:00-4:00

Registration

9:00-5:00

Book Exhibit

8:00-9:30

Panel Session A

9:30-10:00

Coffee Break

10:00-11:30

Panel Session B

11:30-12:45

Past Presidents’ Luncheon

1:00-2:00

Plenary Session: "Why in the World Study Diaries: A Tale of the Road Less Traveled," Judy Nolte Temple, Past President's Address
Introduction: Melody Graulich, Utah State University

2:15-3:45

Plenary Session: "The Ethnicity of Environment"

Soenke Zehle, Transcultural Anglophone Studies, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany: “Integrating ‘Regional’ Environmental Justice Issues Into Transnational Networks: Virtual Water and the Hydro-Politics of IT Development”

Other Speakers: TBA

3:45-4:15

Coffee Break

4:15-5:30

Panel Session C

5:30-7:00

Graduate Student Reception
Chicano/a Studies & Friends Reception (All Are Welcome)

7:30-9:00

An Evening with Sandra Cisneros, Recipient of WLA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Literature

Featuring Special Guests, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say

Sponsored by Rice University President's and Provost's Offices
Award Presentation: WLA President Krista Comer, Rice University

9:00 Reception and Book Signing for WLA Members and Their Guests (Not open to the public)

 

Friday, October 31st

8:00-4:00

Registration

9:00-5:00

Book Exhibit

8:00-9:30

Panel Session D

9:30-10:00

Coffee Break

10:00-11:45

WLA Distinguished Achievement Award Plenary (Award to be presented at the awards banquet)

Featuring: José David Saldívar, Ramón Saldívar, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Award Presentation: WLA President Krista Comer, Rice University

12:00-1:30

Post-Plenary Luncheon & Conversation

1:30-2:45

Panel Session E

2:45-3:15

Coffee Break

3:15-4:30

Panel Session F

6:00-7:00

Reception

7:00-9:30

Annual Banquet

Speaker: TBA

Brief Reflections: Ann Ronald, University of Nevada, Reno: “Sites and Sounds of WLA”

Award Presentations:

            WLA Distinguished Achievement Award for Literary Criticism

        Thomas J. Lion Award

        J. Golden Taylor Award

        Don D. Walker Award

        Delbert and Edith Wilder Award

9:30

Dancing

 

Saturday, November 1st

8:00-12:00

Book Exhibit

8:00-9:15

Panel Session G

9:30-10:30

WLA Business Meeting and Coffee Break

10:45-12:00

WLA Readers' Theatre: Hispanic Playwrights Project
A Revue of Selections from Plays from South Coast Repertory
Directed and adapted for WLA by David Fenimore, University of Nevada, Reno
(cast to follow)

12:30

Buses Depart for Saturday Tours