Keynote Speakers

José E. Limón, Professor of English, the University of Notre Dame, Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies, Director of the Institute for Latino Studies. “Al Norte Toward Home: Texas, the Mid-west and Mexican-American Critical Regionalism”
Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the former Dean of the School of Humanities. “Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno” 
Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Ana Celia Zentella, Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Studies, University of California-San Diego

Latino Midwest Conference :   

"Big Dreams, Rural Schools: Mexian Americans and Public Eduation, 1870-1950" (Thursday, October 11, 2012  11:00 am - 12:15 pm,  2520D  UCC)

"Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno" (October 11, 2012  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Shambaugh Auditorium)

"Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities" (Lunch presentation with faculty and graduate students of History, American Studies and other UI Programs)  (October 12, 2012  12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  IP Commons  (1117 UCC)