Preliminary Events:

Sept.-24-26. LACASA Booth 738 at LASA Book Exhibit Palmer House. Book/handicraft/art works on sale; also information and tickets for MLAC events.

Fri., Sept. 25, 12:30 p.m.: Local Arrangement Committee Literature event 178 (cosponsored by LACASA with North Park College and UIC Latin American Studies): Transplanting Roots and Taking Off: Chicago Latino Writers Write their World. Reading with Davi d Hernandez, Achy Obejas, Carlos Cumpian and Luis Rodríguez.

Sat . Sept. 26.6:30-8:30 pm: Adios LASA/Hola Post-LASA: a Despedida/Reception at HOTHOUSE, 31 E. Balbo. Welcome to MLAC participants, including Presentation, Astillas de Luz/Shards of Light, a new collection of Chicago Latin o poetry.

Sunday, Sept. 27. Day-long Tour of Latino Chicago, culminating in Reception at Mexican Fine Arts Center.

Leaving Palmer House at 8:15, and Field Museum 9:30 sharp; culminating in reception at Mexican Fine Arts Museum.

Monday, Sept. 28. CONFERENCE IN CCC 605

8:30-9:00 coffee

9-9:30 OPENING PERSPECTIVES.

Welcome/Introductions. Provost and UIC, Dean of Liberal Arts.

Introduction & Images of Latino Chicago, I.

9:30-1200. SESSION I

PLENARY I. Urban Cultural Studies and Globalization

9:30-10:00 Plenary. Arjun Appadurai, "Globalization, Ethnic Struggles and the Cities"

10:00-10:15 Questions from Floor.

10:20-11:40 ROUNDTABLE I. LATIN AMERICA AND GLOBALIZATION. Chair, Marc Zimmerman

George Yudice, Latin American Cultural Studies Perspectives

John Beverley, Gongora, Caracas, Miami and Subaltern Worlds

Hugo Achugar. ¿La universidad es el país? Latinoamericanismo e intelectuales desde el Mercosur.

David Foster, Gender, Urban Culture and New World Orders: Buenos Aires and other aires.

Ileana Rodriguez, Caribbean/Central American and Subaltern Questions in the New World Order

Julio Ramos, Caribbean Perspectives there and here (where?)

Arturo Arias , Central American Variations or Strains in the Latin American/Latino World [Dis]Order

Doris Sommer, State and post-state local/Latino narratives

11:40-12:00 Open Discussion.

12:10-1:25 Hosted Participant Lunch at/by the Rafael Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center. LC B2. Lunch service. 1-1:25. Presentation..

1:30-3:30. SESSION II. Transnational migration, Latinos and Chicago: Economic Restructuration, and new modes of Citizenship and Identity. New U.S. and Chicago Urban implications. Mary Kay Vaughan, chair.

1:30-3:00 ROUNDTABLE II

Roger Rouse, Mexican transnational Migration, Postmodernity and New urban identities

Patricia Pessar, Gender and other transformations in the transnational migration processes

The Colegio de Michoacan Group, Transnational Studies: of Michoacan and Chicago.

Local responses: Marcia Farr: Transnational Studies: Chicago-Michoacán

*Marixsa Alicea, Puerto Rican Transnational Identities.

3-3:30. Open discussion from Floor

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-:6:15. SESSION III. Hybridity, Globalization and Urban Transformations

3:45-4:00 Marc Zimmerman: Images of the City, II.

4-4:30: Plenary Néstor García Canclini, Hybrid Cultures, Globalization & New Latin American Urban Perspectives

4:30-5:50. Questions from floor

4:50-5:00 Break

5:00-6:00 ROUNDTABLES IIIA &B. Hybrid Cultures: Critical Applications to Latin American and Latino Urban Spaces.

A. SUR. CCC605. Chair, Jose Deustua.

*Claudia Ferman: Casullo, Sarlo and Maradona. Popular Culture, Gender & Everyday life in the Menem Era

Ricardo Kaliman, Tucuman, the Periphery of the Periphery/Spaces in the Space of regional theories

Patricio Navia. Santiago Today.

José Texeira-Coehlo, Brazilian Urban Spaces, Artistic Modes and Globalization

Javier Sanjinés, Bolivian Urban Culture and art worlds

Guido Podesta. Lima from Waltzes to Chicha

B. MEXICO AND NEARBY LOCATIONS.CCC 613. Chair. Victor Ortiz

Alvaro Ochoa: The African Presence in Mexican Cultural Systems

*Socorro Tabuenco, Border Cities and new urban dimensions.

*Ruben Medina, Mexican and Chicano spaces: contemporary transformations and interactions

Victor Ortiz, Globalization theory, Borders, Cities, El Paso and Chicago

Margaret Villanueva, City Borders: Transnational and ethnic minority identifications in the new urban/suburban/rural configurations

6:00-6:20 Joint Discussion of Session Themes, CCC 605

6:30-8:30 MLAC Participants Reception. UH 28^th Floor

8: 30– Optional: Buddy Guy’s Blues Club; Hothouse Monday night jazz music program.

Tues., Sept. 29.. 9-9:20. Welcome, Dean Wim Wiewel, Urban Planning, etc. Images of Latino Chicago, III.

9:20-11:20 am. SESSION IV. Reading U.S. Latino and Latinizing/Hybrid Cities: Processes of Globalization and Hybridization in the New World [Dis]Order. CCC 605

9:20- 10:20. ROUNTABLE IVA. U.S. NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Chair, Bruce Calder.

José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Border Cultures, Urban interstices and Youth Culture (Brazil, Tijuana, etc.)

Angel Quintero Rivera, San Juan, New York and Chicago: Salsa and other forms in the Urban Process

*Augustin Lao, The Latinamericanization of New York

Silvio Torres-Saillant, The New York Dominican merengue

Roman de la Campa, Steps lost and found in Cuba’s New World/U.S. Dance

Victor Margolin. Globalization, Art Worlds and Ethnic group responses

10: 20-10:50. IVB: Local Responses: Socio-Economic & Political Shifts, Rifts and TIFS in the Midwest, Chicago and Other U.S. Latino Worlds

Maria de Los Angeles Torres, Local and National Latino Politics and Globalization: From the Harold Washington Years to Today

Victor Sorrel. U.S. and Chicago Mexican muralism and identity representation

Dwight Conquergood, Interculturalism on the Streets: Chicago Gangs and Cultural Space

10:50-11:20 Discussion (coffee available).

11:20-1:20 SESSION V. 605CC New Theoretical Perspectives, Visions of the Future. Gender, Race and Class.Limits to Globalization and Latin Americanization Perspectives. Summary Critique–Theory and Practice.

Co-Chairs: Mary Kay Vaughan & Marc Zimmerman.

ROUNDTABLE V.

11:20-12:40: A. GLOBAL/HEMISPHERIC PERSPECTIVES

Saskia Sassen , Globalization, Migration and Prospects for the Cities

*Homi Bhabha, Locations and national identities in the global process.

Walter Mignolo, Coloniality.at Large: Estratégias para entrar y salir de la colonialidad

Mabel Moraña, From the Ciudad Letrada to the Cities: Hetereogeneity, hybridty and subalternity

John Kraniauskas, Perspectives from the Other Side

Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Latino Urban Rituals in the Latin American and Broader Social Process

*Juan Flores, New York Latinos in the broader U.S. Latino and Latin American worlds

*Carlos Monsivais, Mexico in Mexico/Mexico in Chicago

12:40-1: B. MIDWEST & LOCAL PERSPECTIVES:

David Ranney, Globalization & Latin America: The Meeting in Santiago/ Responses in Mexico and Mexican Chicago

John Betancur, Race and Ethnicity in the Latin American and Chicago Latino Globalization Process

1:00-1:30 Open Discussion: Developmental Agenda of Local Projects & Problems.

1:30-2:00 LUNCH CCC 613. Box Lunches, or optional self-paid Participants lunch, in Greek Town.

2:00-6:30: MLAC Special Post-Post LASA Forum, with local-Centered UIC Sessions or Presentations (Visiting guests welcome to attend/participate–Program to be blocked into sections; Official program to be released 8/24/98). David Torres, Coordinator. To be arranged with the assistance of CCSL, Latino Majors or other student groups, entities, etc. 605 CCC; other rooms reserved. Interested participants please write David Torres at dtorres@uic.edu.