THEASSOCIATION FORHUMANISTSOCIOLOGY

October 30, 2019 - November 2, 2019 El Paso, Texas. USA / Juarez,

Chihuahua, MX.

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The Association for Humanist Sociology

Annual Conference:

EL PASO/JUAREZ 2019 OFFICIAL PROGRAM

OCTOBER 30th - NOVEMBER 2nd, 2019

Union Building East – University of Texas

El Paso, Texas

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Conference Start: AHS Registration Desk is open from Noon to 5 PM Union Building East, West Lounge.

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2019 Association Officers

President Jeff Torlina

President – Elect Johnny E. Williams Trinity College

Past President David Embrick UCONN

Vice-President Publications

Bhoomi Thakore Central Florida State University

Vice-President Membership

Cameron Lippard Appalachia State University

Secretary Melissa Lavin SUNY Oneonta

Treasurer Woody Doane University of Hartford

Editor of Humanity & Society

Daina Cheyenne Harvey College of the Holy Cross

Editor of Humanist Sociologist

Michelle DeHaven Wichita State University

Nominations Committee

Bilal Sekou (Co-Chair) University of Hartford Carson Byrd, University of Michigan Marietta Mc Donald, Louisiana State University Emily McDonald George Mason University Dana Greene University of North Carolina

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Brief Schedule Overview

All sessions are on the third floor of the Union Building East on the campus of the University of Texas El Paso.

Wednesday, October 30 Noon – 5:00 p.m. Registration in 3rd floor West Lounge of Union Building East 1:00—2:30 p.m. (Session) Humanist Concerns and Social Media – Barry Room (316) 1:00—2:30 p.m. Documentary Film / Discussion “Birth in Pieces” – Elkins Room (314) 2:40—4:10 p.m. (Session) Meaning and Identity – Barry Room (316) 2:40—4:10 p.m. (Session) Movements and Resistance – Elkins Room (314) 2:40—4:10 p.m. (Session) Humanist Roots and Activist Branches – Wiggins Room (315) 4:30—5:30 p.m. Opening Board Meeting – Hotel Hospitality Suite, Room 514 5:30—7:00 p.m. (?) El Paso Mural tour by Bicycle – Rickshaw

taco reception at Cinco Punto’s Independent Book Store and Publisher

Thursday, October 31 8:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Registration in 3rd floor West Lounge of Union Building East 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Issues in Education – Barry Room (316) 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Local Issues with Broad Implications – Elkins Room (314) 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the U.S. – Wiggins (315)

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10:10—11:40 a.m. (Session) Building Movements/Building Community – Barry (316) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Panel) “Border Crossing: Walls that Divide.” – Elkins (314) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Panel) Prison Reform: Education for Freedom – Wiggins (315) 11:00a.m.—6:00p.m. Juarez Mexico Group #1 Tour (Group facilitator, Emma Bailey) Noon—1:30 p.m. Luncheon Plenary Address with David Dorado Romo -

Tomàs Rivera Conference Center 1:30—3:10 p.m. (Session) Resistance as a Path to Social Justice – Barry (316) 1:30—3:10 p.m. (Panel) Committed Oppressions: Crimes against Palestine and How it

Affects Us All – Elkins (314) 3:20—4:50 p.m. (Session) Yoga for Social Change – Barry (316) 3:20—4:50 p.m. (Session) The Changing Racial Makeup of Contemporary U.S. – Elkins (314) 7:00-9:00 p.m. Film Screening: The River and The Wall – Union Cinema, Room 109 9:00 p.m.—Midnight Hospitality Suite Open, All Welcome! – Hotel Room 514 Friday, November 1 8:00—9:00 a.m. Humanity and Society Board Meeting 8:00—9:30 a.m. (Session) Immigrant Families and Ethnic Inequality – Barry (316) 8:00—9:30 a.m. (Session) Injustice in Latin America – Elkins (314) 8:00—9:30 a.m. (Workshop) “My Story Matters: An Interactive Workshop” – Wiggins (315) 9:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Registration in 3rd floor West Lounge of Union Building East all day POP-UP Art Show with “Los Dos” – Center Lounge 9:40—11:10 a.m. (Panel) “Arizona Youth (Re)defining American Identity and National Belonging” Barry

(316) 9:40—11:10 a.m. (Session) Racial Inequality and Resistance – Elkins (314) 9:40—11:10 a.m. (Session) Healing Wounds from Anti-Immigrant Policies – Wiggins (315) 11:20a.m.-12:50p.m. (Session) Economics of the Status Quo – Barry (316) 11:20a.m.-12:50p.m. (Session) Sharing Scarce Resources – Elkins (314) 11:20a.m.-12:50p.m. (Workshop) “Scholar-Activist Identities, Challenges, and Contradictions Wiggins (315) 11:00a.m.—6:00p.m. Juarez Mexico Group #2 Tour (Group facilitator, Lidia Huerta Moreno) 1:00-3:00 p.m. Activist Café – Tomàs Riveria conference Center UTEP 3:30—5:00 p.m. (Session) Changing Course in the USA – Elkins (314) 3:30—5:00 p.m. (Panel) “Solidarity Across Boundaries for Building Stronger Movements.” Barry (316) 3:30—5:00 p.m. (Session) Activist Storytelling in Words and Other Mediums – Wiggins (315) 5:15–6:45 p.m. AHS Open Business Meeting – All Welcome! – Barry (316) 7:00—9:00 p.m. Keynote Address with Dr. Rogelio Saenz – Rivera Conference Center 9:00 p.m.—Midnight Hospitality Suite Open, All Welcome! – Hotel Room 514

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Saturday, November 2 7:00—8:15 a.m. New Members Breakfast, Crave Kitchen & Bar

300 Cincinnati Ave, El Paso, TX 79902 8:30—10:00 a.m. Registration in 3rd floor West Lounge of Union Building East 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Federal Immigration Policy – Barry (316) 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Perspectives on Immigration and Identity – Elkins (314) 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Session) Panel on Cross-Border Issues – Wiggins (315) 8:30—10:00 a.m. (Meet the Author) “Books as Bridges” – Ray (309) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Session) Gender Issues and Resistance – Barry (316) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Session) Navigating the Border – Elkins (314) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Session) Activism through Teaching – Wiggins (315) 10:10—11:40 a.m. (Session) Making a Difference – Ray (309) Noon—2:00 p.m. Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony – Tomàs Rivera Conference Center Sunday, November 3 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Closing Board Meeting – Hospitality Suite (Hotel) Rm 314

“The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”

― Gloria Anzaldua

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Welcome to the 43rd annual conference of the Association for Humanist Sociology!

Program Chair Dawn Tawwater and I welcome you to El Paso! Thank you for joining our meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology!

El Paso stood out as a central place in the issues of the day when we selected the location over a year ago, but since then political forces continued to propel the border region into the media spotlight and fixated much of the national debate on issues that are unfolding here. We want El Paso, and potentially the entire binational metropolitan area, to inform our membership of the setting, and the social context, in which our national government conducts its immigration policies and our mass media projects its imagery. We hope you will view the surrounding community as a text, alongside the academic discussions in the conference sessions, to inform your understanding. The news stories that take place in and around El Paso seem to compound almost daily, and we want our members to experience this place for themselves, to meet members of the community, to understand their standpoint, and to develop a feel for what it is like in El Paso and the surrounding border region. We are here in El Paso to gain that deeper understanding, and to see those issues through a more complete lens. We are here to look beyond the competing media descriptions and see for ourselves what is happening in this place. The conference schedule was designed to allow as much time as possible in the surrounding area. We end formal conference activities early on Saturday afternoon to allow everyone to experience El Paso and Ciudad Juarez on a holiday that is rich and important in cultural traditions. We hope you are stimulated, informed, and inspired by the conversations and discussions of these El Paso meetings. Again, thank you for coming. Sincerely, Jeff Torlina, AHS President 2019

WELCOME

TO EL PASO!

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Humanity & Society The official journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology, was first published in 1977 and has been published quarterly since 1978. Humanity & Society is a peer-reviewed Sage journal with abstracts of published articles appearing in Sociological Abstracts. Additional information, including copies of previous volumes is also available at http://has.sagepub.com. Humanity & Society publishes articles on a wide variety of topics: studies of inequality (class, race, and/or gender); war, peace, and international relations; aging and gerontology; environmental sociology; globalization; gender and sexuality; health and mental health; social theory; sociology of knowledge and science, and linguistics; social psychology; teaching and sociology practice; social change, humanism and human rights; crime and deviance; ethnic and inter-group relations, and others. The editors cordially invite you to submit your work for possible publication in Humanity & Society. In addition to publishing articles, we also publish action notes (which describe activism the writer has participated in or observed), book review essays, multimedia review essays, and provocative "final thoughts." In keeping with the values of the membership, H&S uses an open review process where authors and reviewers are identified. Moreover, the editorial staff is committed to mentoring new scholars to facilitate their professional development. Submit your article electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/has. Please follow the instructions for creating an account. Then the system will walk you through a step-by-step process for manuscript submission. Authors might also benefit by reviewing our guidelines for contributors. Action Notes are “calls to action” based on your social observations or discussions around how to put theory into action. Action Notes are half of the length of research papers (approximately 10-15 typed pages) and will be peer-reviewed. Please send your Action Notes to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/has. Humanity and Society is a different journal—one imbued with the action and hope of the humanist philosophy. At the end of each issue we hope to pique reader interest with a “Final Thought” Page. This may come in the form of a pro-vocative image that carries a sociological or social change message, an interview with a sociologist talking about her/ his craft, or even a cartoon analysis of our social world. We want these ventures into danger to be provocative, humorous, even perplexing. Please submit your “Final Thought” (image, interview, cartoon, etc.) along with a description/interpretation of the final thought (200 words maximum) and your biography (200 words maximum) in regards to how your life pertains to the image/idea presented. Submit to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/has. Please direct your inquiries and ideas to: Daina Cheyenne Harvey Editor, dharvey@holycross.edu Emma Lesser, Managing Editor, emma.lesser@uconn.edu Selina R. Gallo-Cruz, Book Review Editor, sgallo@holycross.edu

Bhoomi K. Thakore, Multimedia Editor, bhoomi.thakore@elmhurst.edu

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SHOW EXTENDED! ALL DAY – EVERYDAY: “Uncaged Art” – Art work from the children held at the Tornillo Children’s Detention Center at the height of the Trump administration’s family separation policies. The Exhibit can be seen throughout the conference at the Centennial Museum on the UTEP campus.

Primary Conference Locations

El Paso International Airport 6701 Convair Rd, El Paso, TX 79925

Hilton Garden Inn El Paso / University

111 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79902, USA

Union Building East

351 W. University Ave El Paso, Texas 79968

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NOTE: ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE HELD IN UNION BUILDING EAST -UTEP

In keeping with AHS tradition, presenters are asked to begin with a short reflexive statement. That is a statement of the author’s values and perspectives with respect to the subject area (see Humanity and Society, the official AHS journal, for examples).

AHS is committed to sessions that maximize the exchange of ideas. Toward that end, we have adopted the following guidelines for program presentations: (1) Presenters are asked not to read papers, but instead to talk about the major ideas and findings in their work; (2) AHS meetings sessions do not, except in special circumstances, include a discussant. Instead, the entire audience serves as discussant; (3) Presenters should plan presentations to leave adequate time for other presentations and group discussion; and (4) Session facilitators are asked to set and enforce time limits.

Session One - 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Humanist Concerns and Social Media

Facilitator: Chuck Kober, Wichita State University

Jeffrey Dowd, Rutgers University; “The Role of White Supremacy in Immigration Memes”,

William Lugo, Eastern Connecticut State University; “The Cult of the Echo Chamber: Socialization and the Mass Media Today”,

Chuck Kober, Wichita State University; “The Contradictions of Consumptive Labor in Social Media Advertising and Marketing”

Elkins Room (314) – (Documentary Screening and Discussion) “Birth in Pieces”

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A documentary presented and produced by El Jardin Birth and Family Resource Center. Presenters include: Ophra Leyser-Whalen, UTEP

Session Two – 2:40 PM to 4:10 PM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Meaning and Identity

Facilitator: Brian Barry, Rochester Institute of Technology

Stuart Parker, City University of New York; “False Consciousness Revisited: Narrative of Identity v. Interests”,

Nicole Oehman, University of Iowa; “The Black Box of Burlesque: Gender Construction, Boundary Work, and Value Creation in the Resurgence of Neo-burlesque”,

Brian Barry, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Routine Deviance.”

Elkins Room (314) - (Session) Movements and Resistance

Facilitator: Bilal Sekou, University of Hartford

Jessica Hewkin, University of Edinburg; “The Impact of Isolation: How Hostile Cities are not Making America Great Again”,

Bilal Sekou, University of Hartfor; “Challenging the White Racial Backlash: Strategies for 2020 and Beyond.”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Session) Humanist Roots and Activist Branches

Facilitator: Jeff Torlina, AHS President

Ellis Jones, College of the Holy Cross; “The Better World Shopper Project, Ten Years Later: From Social Movement Research to Public Sociology”

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Emily Brissette, Bridgewater State University; “Not in our name: Responsibility and Solidarity in U.S. Social Movements”

Off Site Event: – 5:00p.m. – El Paso Mural tour by Bicycle – Rickshaw – taco reception at Cinco Punto’s Independent Book Store and Publisher. Meet in the hotel lobby at 5:00 PM to travel downtown via public streetcar (departs 5:10PM). The Tour will begin and end at Cinco Punto’s .

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 AHS Registration Desk is open from 8:00AM to 5 PM West Lounge, Union Building East

7:30AM to 8:30 AM – AHS OPENING BOARD MEETING / Hotel Site Hospitality Suite – Hotel Rm 514

Session Three – 8:30 AM to 10 AM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Issues in Education

Facilitator: Stephen Adair, Central Connecticut State University

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Greta Pennell, University of Indianapolis; “S.O.S. The Selling Out of Schools,”

Alan Spector, Purdue University; “Exploring Contradictions: Overcoming Dogmatism in the Classroom,”

Stephen Adair, Central Connecticut State University; “Building an Opposition to Still more Neoliberalism in Higher Education.”

Elkins Room (314) – (Session) Local Issues with Broad Implications

Facilitator: Stuart Parker, City University of New York

Emillia Ravetta, Northern Arizona University; “Keep Flagstaff Together: A Legal Clinic Internship with ‘Mixed Status’ Families.”

Estelle Record-Stanley, Clinical Sociologist of Boston; “Boundaries between Movements: Boston and Beyond,”

Blanca Gonzalez-Sobring, Quinnipiac University; “Race and Space: Whites Enjoying Brown Spaces.”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Session) Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the U.S.

Facilitator: TBA

Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts-Boston; “The Green Card Soldier: Immigrants in the U.S. Military,”

Taylor June, University of Arkansas; “The Implication of Resettled Refugee Experience on Current Policy.”

Session Four – 10:10 AM to 11:40 AM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Building Movements/Building Community

Facilitator: Wald Katz-Fishman, Howard University

Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University, and Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America; “Social Movement Forces & The

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Revolutionary Process: Consciousness, Vision, & Strategy”, Cheryl Joseph, Notre Dame De Namur University; “Careers in Community Building and Social Change-Making.”

Elkins Room (314) - (Panel) “Border Crossing: Walls that Divide.”

Facilitator: Jesus Gregorio Smith, Lawrence University

Panelists include: Jesus Gregorio Smith, Thelma Jimenez-Anglada and Sigma Colon, Lawrence University

Wiggins Room (315) – (Panel) Prison Reform: Education for Freedom

Facilitator: Carrie Hutnick, The Graterford Think Tank

Carrie Hutnick, The Graterford Think Tank; “Barriers Beyond Walls: Boundary Crossing in Prison for Community Building, Movement Building, and Social Change.”Panel includes Don “Ike” Jones, Thomas “Reem” Cotton, Stephanie Keene, Carrie Hutnick, and Nina Johnson. Virtual participants include Terrell Carter, Robert LaBarr, Marco “Mu” Maldonado, Sam Carson, Vernon Robinson, Leah Nacarella, Donnell “Saadiq” Palmer, Stan Rosenthal, Felix Rosado, Charles Boyd, Charles Diggs, David “Wavy” Shepard.

11:00:00AM – 6:00 PM off Site Excursion – Juarez Mexico Group #1 Leaves (Group facilitator, Emma Bailey).

Meet at UETA Duty Free,911 South El Paso St. Walk across border and access transportation in Juarez, return to walk across the border between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. Visit women’s centers in Ciudad Juarez, learn of their issues and responses. Will travel through various parts of Ciudad Juarez and have the opportunity to experience parts of the city often forgotten.

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12:00 PM – 1: 30 PM Local History Keynote Speaker –

Author/Scholar/Historian:

David Dorado Romo

“A Liminal History of the Santa Fe International Bridge: Border Crossing as Rite of Passage”

Location: Tomàs Rivera Conference Center

Author of “Ringside Seat to a Revolution,” Co-Curator “Uncaged Art – The Art of Children at Tornillo Detention Center.”

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Session Five – 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Resistance as a Path to Social Justice

Facilitator: TBA

Erik Berrelleza, Boston University; “Resisting Deportation: Immigration Experiences in the New Sanctuary Movement,”

Estafania Castaneda-Perez, University of California-Los Angeles; “El Que Nada Debe, Nada Teme: Ritualized State Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Ports of Entry,”

Selena Diaz, Texas A&M; “The Effects of Internal Migration on the Raramuri in Cd. Juarez.”

Elkins Room (314) - (Panel) Committed Oppressions: Crimes against Palestine and How it Affects Us All

Facilitator: Sandra Wessinger, Southern Illinois University.

Panelists: Bhoomi K. Thakore, University of Central Florida, David Embrick, University of Connecticutt, Johnny Williams, Trinity College.

Session Six – 3:20 PM to 4:50 PM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Yoga for Social Change

Facilitator: Marc Settembrino, Southeastern Louisiana State University

Jillian Lain, University of Indianapolis; “American Yoga as a Social Movement”, Marc Settembrino, Southeastern Louisiana University; “Fat Kid Yoga Club: Holding Space for Pleasure and Liberation.”

Elkins Room (314) – (Session) The Changing Racial Makeup of Contemporary U.S.

Facilitator: Woody Doane, University of Hartford

Woody Doane, University of Hartford; “The Future of Whiteness’,

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Amy Foerster, Pace University; “Pia Klemp Scott Warren and Visites Domicillaires: Migrant Rights Criminalization & the Rising Tide of Nationalist Mobilization,

Anastacia Schulhoff, Appalachian State University; “Silent Signals From a Major Demographic Shift in the U.S. – The Invisibility of Racial & Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Gerontology Research Journals.”

7 PM to 9 PM - FREE –

Screening of Acclaimed 2019 Documentary:

All AHS Members and Guests are welcome and encouraged to attend – Theatre at Union Cinema, Rm109, Union Building East.

FREE POPCORN! (Bring your own *drink!)

*Alcoholic beverages prohibited

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Friday November 1, 2019 AHS Registration Desk is open from 9:30AM to 5 PM in the West Lounge, Union Building East

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Meeting of Humanity and Society Board Meeting

POP-UP Art Show

All day Friday in the Center Lounge with “Los Dos”

El Paso’s celebrated community mural artists/activists – including makers of our own conference image “Two Sisters” - Stop and say hello! Buy some art!

Support El Paso Artists!

Session Seven – 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM

Barry Room (316) - (Session) – Immigrant Families and Ethnic Inequality

Facilitator: Emma Bailey, University of Vera Cruz

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Emma Bailey, University of Veracruz and Lydia Huerta Moreno, University of Nevada-Reno; “Emergent Feminist Practice in Mexico: Organizations Working with Returnees, Deporters, and Migrants”,

Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M; “Immigrant Families Under Trump: Living a Liminal Existence,”

Elkins Room (314)= (Session) – Injustice in Latin America

Facilitator: Chris Dale, Bentley University

Victor Vasquez, University of Texas-El Paso; “An Anthropological Reflection of Puerto Rico”,

Chris Dale, Bentley University; “Brutality and Injustice for Hondurans at Home and Along the U.S. Border: What is to be done?”

Emma Gonzalez-Lesser, University of Connecticut; “Ashke-Normative: Jews of Color and White Normativity”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Workshop) - Josephine Kearney, State University of New York; “My Story Matters: An Interactive Workshop”

Session Eight – 9:40 AM to 11:10 AM

Barry Room (316) - (Panel) – “Arizona Youth (Re)defining American Identity and National Belonging.” Participants: Angela Gonzales and Annabelle Atkin, Arizona State University

Elkins Room (314) - (Session) – Racial Inequality and Resistance

Facilitator: Daina Harvey, College of the Holy Cross

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Mary Barr, Kentucky State University; “Segregations Without Segregationist: How Chicago’s Northern Suburbs Avoided Integration”,

Maira Alvarez and Sylvia Fernandez, University of Houston; “Nuestras Frontera: Fronterizas Challenging Toxic National Rhetoric in the 21st Century”,

Brian Rich, Transylvania University; “Why Trump’s Immigration Policies Have Only Produced Failures: Deterrence Policy Cannot Function When the Social Forces to Immigrate are Overwhelming.”

Wiggins Room (315) - (Session) - Healing Wounds from Anti-Immigrant Policies

Facilitator: Joti Sekhon

Alejandro Marquez, University of Texas at Austin; “Caregiving in Uncertain Times: Emotional Dynamics in Non-Profit Organizations Helping Migrants on the U.S. – Mexico Border,”

Rosa Elena Carrasquillo, College of the Holy Cross; “Activistas en contra del la glorification de Cristobal Colon y las Celebraciones del Quinto Centenaro,”

Anahi Viladrich, The City University of New York; “Botanica’s Go Where Latinos Go: Religious Healing Services and Post-Secular Resilience in the Urban Milieu.”

Session Nine – 11:20 AM to 12:50

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Economics of the Status Quo

Facilitator: Daina Harvey, College of the Holy Cross

Salvador Rangel, University of California-Santa Barbara; “The Border Wall, Social Division and the Continued Functioning of Capitalism”,

Luis Romero, Texas Christian University; “Paying the Detention Bill: The Economics and Hidden Costs of Immigration Detention for Families”,

Mike King, Bridgewater State University; “Self-Determination, Sustainability and Direct Democracy in the Practice and Strategy of Cooperation Jackson.”

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Elkins Room (314) – (Session) Sharing Scarce Resources

Facilitator: Janine Schipper, Northern Arizona University

Rebeka Issac, University of Texas-El Paso; “What Then? Agricultural Perspectives on Water Availability throughout the lower Rio Grande and Transboundary Aquifers,”

Janine Schipper, Northern Arizona University; “Water Sustainability in the Arid Southwest: An Indigenous Water Ethic.”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Workshop) “Scholar-Activist Identities, Challenges, and Contradictions: A Workshop with George Mason University Graduate Students and Alumni” Presented by: Amber Kalb, Carrie Hutnick, Melissa Gouge, Basak Durgan, Emily McDonald

11:00:00AM – 6:00 PM Off Site Excursion – Juarez Mexico Group #2 Leaves

(Group Facilitator; Lidia Huerta Moreno)

Meet at UETA Duty Free,911 South El Paso St. Walk across border at 11:00 a.m., access transportation in Juarez, return to walk across the border between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. Visit an activist art collective, see their political art and speak with the artists themselves. Day of the Dead bread making workshop. Visit the migrant returnee shelter. Speak with an activist immersed in the gender anti-violence work in Ciudad Juarez.

Activist Café 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Luncheon

Tomàs Riveria Confernce Center

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Session Ten – 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Barry Room (316) (Panel) “Solidarity Across Boundaries for Building Stronger Movements.”

Panelists: Basak Durgun, Melissa Gouge, Margaret Zeddies, George Mason University

Elkins Room (314) - (Session) Changing Course in the USA

Facilitator: Dennis Kalob, Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans

Alan Spector, Purdue University; “Nationalism Against Humanism: The Case for Internationalism and Globalization from Below,

Dennis Kalob, Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans; “The United States as the First Post-Developed Country.”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Session) Activist Storytelling in Words and Other Mediums

Facilitator: Dawn Tawwater, Austin Community College

Mitra Das, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Crossing Borders: Storytelling as a Humanistic Endeavor”,

Heather Rodriguez, Central Connecticut State University; “Using Activist Art Explore the Socio-Cultural Experiences of Latina’s in the U.S.”,

Dawn Tawwater, Austin Community College; “Incarcerated Women: Truth Be Told – Reaching for Restorative Justice through Personal Narratives in a Small Texas Town.”

5:15 – 6:45 Barry Room (316) - AHS Open Business Meeting – All Participants are Welcome!

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7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Plenary Speaker Dinner and Reception at the Tomàs Rivera Conference Center –

Union Building East

Dr. Rogelio Saenz

University of Texas - San Antonio

“Taking Back Our Frontera: Crossing Boundaries/Building Bridges”

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Saturday November 2, 2019 AHS Registration Desk is open from 8:30AM to 10:00 AM – West Lounge, Union Building East

7:00 AM – 8:15 AM New Members Breakfast, Crave Kitchen & Bar 300 Cincinnati Ave, El Paso, TX 79902. (About a 10-minute walk from the conference hotel)

Session Twelve – 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Federal Immigration Policy

Facilitator: Cameron Lippard, Appalachia State University

Juan Jose Bustamante, University of Arkansas, and Eric Gamino, California State University-Northridge;

“How Trumps Immigration Enforcement by Proxy Compares to Obama’s Externalization of Border and Migration Control: An Ethnographic and Visual Study”, Cameron Lippard, Anna Biache,

Felicia Arriaga, Appalachia State University; “On the Front Lines: Mexican Immigrant Women Deportation during the Era of Trump.”

Elkins Room (314) - (Session) Perspectives on Immigration and Identity

Facilitator: Jessica Hewkin, University of Edinburgh

Heidi Ballard, Valdosta State University; “Cross cultural negotiation in participatory action research: strategizing sustainability with indigenous communities,”

Casandra Salgado, Arizona State University; “’The Border Crossed Us!’ Mexican American Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants and Immigration in New Mexico,”

Jennifer Correa, Texas A&M; “Re-territorializing Empire and Mobilizing Multitude: A Case Study of Unified Collective Resistance in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.”

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Wiggins Room (315) - (Session) Panel on Cross-Border Issues

Jenna Ann Altomonte; “Gaming Across Borders,” Imani Cheers; “Agricultural Apartheid: Land + Water,”

Richard Stahler-Sholk, “Resistance at the Borders of Power: Reflections on the Zapatista and Palestinian Experiences,” Melissa Weiner, ”Sociology’s Zionism Problem: A Critical Analysis of Palestine/Israel in Introductory Sociology Textbooks,”

Nunotte Zama; “Resilience in the Face of Oppression: Comparing Haitian and Palestinian Social Response to Oppression.”

Ray Room (309) - (Meet the Author) “Books as Bridges”

Author Introduction: Dawn Tawwater, Austin Community College

Christine Eber, New Mexico State University; Author of “When a Woman Rises" presents– a reading and discussion of her published work and the use of fictional narratives toward an understanding of social justice.

Session Thirteen – 10:10 AM to 11:40 AM

Barry Room (316) – (Session) Gender Issues and Resistance

Facilitator: Rocia Garcia, Arizona State University

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Maralyn Doering, University of Cincinnati; “Dr./Patient Relationships and their Effect on Reproductive Health Care Access: Stratified Success in the El Paso area”,

Lidia Bulnes; “Femicide in Mexico: A Socio-cultural Look on the Effects of Drug Trafficking Organizations”,

Rocio Garcia, Arizona State University; “Latin X Feminist Politic Making as Border Abolition Epistemology.”

Elkins Room (314) –(Session) Navigating the Border

Facilitator: Chuck Kober, Wichita State University

Florencio Rojo, Colorado College; “There is a lot to Survive: The Ongoing Migrant Condition”,

Jose Plascencia-Castillo, University of California-Riverside; “The Deported Zone: Cholos Navigating the Borderlands,”

Brandon Mouser, University of Indianapolis; “Borderlands and The Self.”

Wiggins Room (315) – (Session) Activism through Teaching

Facilitator: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl, Manhattanville College

Beth Williford and Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl, Manhattanville College; “Reimagining Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom,”

Michael Angel Vasquez, Harvard Uniersity; “Lxs Estudiantes Que Compartimos: Student Identities and Aspirations in the Alat- Baja Borderlands,”

Ray Room (309) – (Session) Making a Difference

Facilitator: Greta Pennell, University of Indianapolis

Jim Pennell, University of Indianapolis; “What Makes an Effective Protest Song?”,

Dennis Kalob, Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans; “The JustSouth Index 2018. “

Steve McGuire, Steve McGuire (Emeritus, Muskingum University) “Video: Humanist Sociologists at Havana”

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12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Jeff Torlina Luncheon and Award Ceremony

Tomàs Rivera Conference Center – UTEP

“Humanism as Response to Neoliberalism: Defining Terms and Setting Agendas”

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The AHS Board and Membership would like to Congratulate the following AHS Award Winners for their exceptional

scholarship in 2019!!

The 2019 Frank Lindenfeld Award recipient is Katherine Kimble, who completed her MA at Wichita State University, for her paper "Age Discrimination in the Workplace: Policy Alternatives to Bolster Protections for the Aging Workforce." The 2019 Humanity & Society Distinguished Paper Award recipient is Melissa F. Weiner for her article “Curricular Alienation: Multiculturalism, Tolerance, and Immigrants in Dutch Primary School History Textbooks.”

The 2019 AHS Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book

Award

recipient is

Robert J. Durán

for his book, The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the

U.S.- Mexico Border.

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Conference Ends for the Day! Enjoy the local Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festivities in El Paso or Juarez (your choice) Options/destinations for celebrating will be provided at the conference, as well as event group sheets will be available at the registration desk, participant are encouraged to either enjoy the festivities on their own or sign up to join a group for a particular destination.

Sunday, November 3, 2019 9:00 AM – Closing Board Meeting / Hotel Hospitality Suite Rm 514

Program Index

Name, Session - Room

Stephen Adair, 3-Barry Jenna Ann Altomonte, 12-Wiggins Maira Alvarez, 8-Elkins Sofya Aptekar, 3-Wiggins Annabelle Atkin, 8-Barry Felicia Arriaga, 12-Barry Emma Bailey, 7-Barry Heidi Ballard, 12-Elkins Mary Barr, 8-Elkins Brian Barry, 2-Barry Erik Berrelleza, 5-Barry Anna Biache, 12-Barry Charles Boyd, 4-Wiggins Emily Brissette, 2-Wiggins Lidia Bulnes, 13-Barry Juan Jose Bustamante, 12-Barry Rosa Elena Carrasquillo, 8-Wiggins Sam Carson, 4-Wiggins Terrell Carter, 4-Wiggins Estafania Castaneda-Perez, 5-Barry Imani Cheers, 12-Wiggins Sigma Colon, 4-Elkins Jennifer Correa, 12-Elkins Thomas Cotton, 4-Wiggins Chris Dale, 7-Elkins Mitra Das, 10-Wiggins Selena Diaz, 5-Barry Charles Diggs, 4-Wiggins Woody Doane, 6-Elkins Maralyn Doering, 13-Barry Visites Domicillaires, 6-Elkins Jeffrey Dowd, 1-Barry Basak Durgan, 9-Wiggins and 10-Barry Christine Eber, 12-Ray David Embrick, 5-Elkins Sylvia Fernandez 8-Elkins Amy Foerster, 6-Elkins

Eric Gamino, 12-Barry Rocio Garcia, 13-Barry Angela Gonzales, 8-Barry Emma Gonzalez-Lesser, 7-Elkins Blanca Gonzalez-Sobring, 3-Elkins Melissa Gouge, 9-Wiggins and 10-Barry Daina Harvey, 8-Elkins and 9-Barry Jessica Hewkin, 2-Elkins and 12-Elkins Carrie Hutnick, 4-Wiggins and 9-Wiggins Rebeka Issac, 9-Elkins Thelma Jimenez-Anglada, 4-Elkins Nina Johnson, 4-Wiggins Don Jones, 4-Wiggins Ellis Jones, 2-Wiggins Cheryl Joseph, 4-Barry Taylor June, 3-Wiggins Amber Kalb, 9-Wiggins Dennis Kalob, 10-Elkins and 13-Ray Walda Katz-Fishman, 4-Barry Josephine Kearney, 7-Wiggins Stephanie Keene, 4-Wiggins Mike King, 9-Barry Chuck Kober, 1-Barry and 13-Elkins Robert LaBarr, 4-Wiggins Jillian Lain, 6-Barry Ophra Leyser-Whalen, 1-Elkins Cameron Lippard, 12-Barry William Lugo, 1-Barry Marco Maldonado, 4-Wiggins Alejandro Marquez, 8-Wiggins Emily McDonald, 9-Wiggins Steve McGuire, 13-Ray Brandon Mouser, 13-Elkins Lydia Huerta Moreno, 7-Barry Leah Nacarella, 4-Wiggins Nicole Oehman, 2- Barry

Donnell Palmer, 4-Wiggins Stuart Parker, 2-Barry Greta Pennell, 3-Barry and 13-Ray Jim Pannell, 13-Ray Nancy Plankey-Videla, 7-Barry Jose Plascencia-Castillo, 13-Elkins Salvador Rangel, 9-Barry Emillia Ravetta, 3-Elkins Estelle Record-Stanley, 3-Elkins Brian Rich, 8-Elkins Vernon Robinson, 4-Wiggins Heather Rodriguez, 10-Wiggins Florencio Rojo, 13-Elkins Luis Romero, 9-Barry Felix Rosado, 4-Wiggins Stan Rosenthal, 4-Wiggins Casandra Salgado, 12-Elkins Janine Schipper, 9-Elkins Joti Sekhon, 8-Wiggins Bilal Sekou, 2-Elkins Marc Settembrino, 6-Barry David Shepard, 4-Wiggins Anastacia Shulhoff, 6-Elkins Jesus Gregorio Smith, 4-Elkins Alan Spector, 3-Barry and 10-Elkins Richard Stahler-Sholk, 12-Wiggins Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl, 13-Wiggins Dawn Tawwater, 10-Wiggins, 12- Ray Bhoomi K. Thakore, 5-Elkins Jeff Torlina, 2- Wiggins Michael Angel Vasquez, 13-Wiggins Victor Vasquez, 7-Elkins Anahi Viladrich, 8-Wiggins Melissa Weiner, 12-Wiggins Sandra Wessinger, 5-Elkins Johnny Williams, 5-Elkins Beth Williford, 13-Wiggins

Nunotte Zama, 12-Wiggins Margaret Zeddies, 10-Barry