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BORDERLANDS SPEAKER SERIES:
Migration, Ethnic Identity, and the Changing Face of Community
Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, and the Departments of Modern Languages, Agricultural Economics & Economics, Sociology & Anthropology, English, and History and Philosophy, this speaker series is designed to facilitate discussion about the growing issue of Mexican and Latino migration to Montana. The College recently added a multi-disciplinary minor in Latin American and Latino Studies to its academic programs for undergraduate students. For more information on the speaker series, email alexander@montana.edu.
Each lecture will be followed by a reception with the speaker.
 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
7 p.m., Bozeman Public Library
"Border Culture: The Streets of East L.A."
Helena Maria Viramontes, Author and Professor of Creative Writing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Helena Maria Viramontes, a well-known writer and activist, has written extensively on the experiences of Chicano and Chicana farm workers in the U.S. She grew up in East Los Angeles, one of eleven children born to parents who met when they were working as farm laborers, and spent many childhood summers picking fruit in northern California. A professor of English at Cornell University, she has published two novels—Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and Their Dogs Came With Them (2007)—as well as several collections of short stories. She won the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1995.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11th
7 p.m., Bozeman Public Library
"Mex-en-Scene: Chicano Culture in Los Angeles"
Raul Homero Villa, Professor of English, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Raul Homero Villa specializes in Chicano and U.S. literature and popular culture, urban studies, and Southwest/Borderlands literature and culture. His published articles cover such topics and U.S.-Mexico border balladry, intercultural relations in the Southwest, and Chicano barrio fiction and popular culture. He has co-edited and authored several books: Urban Latino Cultures: La vida latina en L.A. (Sage Press, 1999), Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (University of Texas, 2000), and Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a monograph about poet, artist and activist Jose Montoya through the Cesar Chavez Research Center at UCLA.
 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8th
7 p.m., Bozeman Public Library
"The SocioEconomic Progress of Mexican Americans"
Stephen Trejo, Professor of Labor Economics, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Stephen Trejo is a labor economist whose research focuses on public policy issues, including overtime pay regulation, the labor market experiences of immigrants, and obstacles to the economic progress of minority groups. Trejo is a research fellow at the IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, as well as at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration in London. He has published prolifically on the economic effects of overtime pay regulation; the impact of labor unions on compensation, employment, and work schedules; immigrant labor market experiences and welfare recipiency; and the relative economic status and intergenerational progress of Mexican Americans in the U.S.
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th
6 p.m., Hagar Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
"Terrorists, Vigilantes, War, and the Border"
Don Mitchell, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
A professor at the the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, Dr. Mitchell is also the director of the People's Geography Project. A cultural geographer, he is the author of The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996) which looks at the production of landscape, particularly as it relates to laborers and the working classes. His more recent research looks at contemporary landscapes of migratory labor in California.
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