6:00-9:00 pm
Buehler Alumni & Visitors’ Center

Opening Reception and Literary Readings:

• Blessing by Patwin elder, Bill Wright
• Welcome by William Lacy, Vice Provost of Outreach and International Programs, University of California, Davis
• California Indian Dancing by the Maidu Dancers and Traditionalists
• Readings:
  • Frank LaPena
  • Jorge Cocom Pech
  • Graciela Huinao
  • Victor Montejo
  • Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana
  • Joy Harjo

8:30-9:30 AM
Freeborn Hall

Welcome:

• Blessing
• Introductions by Conference Coordinators Inés Hernández-Avila and Stefano Varese, Native American Studies
• Welcoming Remarks:
  • Larry Vanderhoef, Chancellor, UC Davis
  • Jessie Ann Owens, Dean, Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
  • Steven J. Crum, Chair, Department of Native American Studies
  • Martha Macri, Native American Studies, Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies
  • Carolyn de la Peña, Director, Davis Humanities Institute
  • Charles Walker, Director, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas
  • Robert Blake, Director, UC Language Consortium
  • Leopoldo M. Bernucci, Russell F. and Jean H. Fiddyment Chair in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

9:45-11 AM
Freeborn Hall

Opening Plenary Session: Discursive Practices: Rootedness, Sustenance, and Re-membering

• Inés Hernández-Avila, Native American Studies, UC Davis
• Stefano Varese, Native American Studies, UC Davis
• Armando Muyolema, Ecuador
• Jace Weaver, Institute for Native American Studies, University of Georgia, Athens
• Victor Montejo, Native American Studies, UC Davis

11:15-1:00 PM
Freeborn Hall

Session I: Towards an Indigenous American Poetics: Orality, Multiplicity, Authority, and Healing

• Discussant: Norma Klahn, UC Santa Cruz
  • Roberto Viereck, Queen’s University, Canada, "Canto, escritura y oralitura en Elicura Chihuailaf y Humberto Ak’abal: —¿hacia una poesía indígena americana?"
  • Gerald Patrick McKinley, University of Western Ontario, "Crossing Over: Boundaries in Three Day Road"
  • Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, Universidad de Oriente, Valladolid, Yucatan, "La figura de la xnuuk en la etnoliteratura maya peninsular. Autoridad, respeto, poder…"
  • Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, Universidad Austral, Chile, "Intertextualidad en la poética mapuche contemporánea" (pending)

11:15-1:00 PM
Garrison Room, MU 2nd Room

Session II: Roused by the Ancestors: Myth, Poetry and the Language of Liberation

• Discussant: Stefano Varese, UC Davis
  • Julio Cesar Hoil Gutiérrez, Mexico, "La otra historia de Chichén Itzá, cuando el sol aún no nacía"
  • Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar, Ohio State University, "Gestión Cultural en los Andes. Renacimiento de la Poesía Quechua Hoy"
  • Fredy Amilcar Roncalla, Chirapaq Centro de Culturas Indígenas, Perú, “Narrativa Oral y Escritural en Ñawpaq Willakuy de Pujas Ayacucho”
  • Craig Santos Pérez, University of California, Berkeley, "Transindigenous Collaboration: Engaging with Mohawk/ Samoa Transmigrations"

11:15-1:00 PM
Risling Room, 3201 Hart Hall

Session III: Sovereign Poetics, Sovereign Movement: Indigenous Creation, Decolonization, Healing and Activism.

• Discussant: Guillermo Delgado, UC Santa Cruz
  • Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Michigan State University, “Indigenous Womanist Poetics, Erotics, and Spirituality: Haunani-Kay Trask and the Development of Decolonial Sovereign Imaginaries”
  • Michael Lujan Bevacqua, University of California, San Diego, “Shattered Cultures: The Role of History, Literature and Myth in Chamorro Decolonization”
  • Glenda Dillingham, Indigenous Nations Child & Family Agency, “Power of Words in Healing Native Peoples and Communities”
  • Luz María Lepe, Facultad de Psicología, UMSNH, Mexico, “La opción decolonial de la literatura indígena contemporánea: La poesía de Natalio Hernández
  • Antonio López Marín, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Mexico, "La tradición oral entre los jñatjo (mazahua)"

1:00-2:30 PM
Freeborn Hall

Lunch break

2:30-4:15 PM
Freeborn Hall

Round Table I: Performing Indigeneities

• Facilitator: Inés Hernández-Avila
  • Isabel Juárez Espinoza
  • Hanay Geiogamah
  • Carolyn Dunn
  • Marcie Rendon

4:30-6:15 PM
Freeborn Hall

Round Table II: Novels & Narratives

• Facilitator: Sylvia Escárcega
  • Javier Castellanos
  • Malea Powell
  • Beth Piatote
  • Fredy Amilcar Roncalla

6:45-8:00PM
Freeborn Hall

Dinner break

8:15-10:00PM
Freeborn Hall

Readings:

• Julio Cesar Hoil Gutiérrez
• Malea Powell
• Fredy Roncalla
• Hanay Geiogamah
• Isabel Juárez Espinosa
• Roberta Hill
• Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar
• Carolyn Dunn
• Javier Castellanos

8:30-9:00 AM
Freeborn Hall

Blessing:

• Yaqui Deer Songs sung by Felipe Molina and Juan Avila

9:00-10:45 AM
Freeborn Hall

Plenary: Conscious Steps: The Politics and Poetics of Organizing

• Facilitator: Sylvia Escárcega
  • Malea Powell
  • Gaspar González
  • Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana
  • Victoria Bomberry
  • Hanay Geiogamah

11:00-12:45 PM
Freeborn Hall

Session IV: Living the Circle/Anchoring Beauty: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Memory

• Discussant: Victor Montejo, UC Davis
  • Gabriel Estrada, CSU Long Beach, "Cuauhtli Chipahuac: White Eagle (Woman), Chicana Feminism, and Nahuatl Gender"
  • Gaspar González, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Guatemala, "El Proceso de Creación Literaria en el Idioma Maya Q'anjob'al. Idiomas Indigenas y Literatura"
  • Cecilia Tolley, University of California, Davis, "Modeling Dialogical Pedagogy: Connecting Freire and Momaday"
  • Graciela Huinao, Chile, “Walinto”

11:00-12:45 PM
Risling Room, 3201 Hart Hall

Session V: Memory, Autonomy, Language, and Solidarity

• Discussant: Gloria Chacón, UC Davis
  • María Chavarría, University of Saint Thomas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, "Tradición oral y desarrollo de la escritura en los pueblos Ese Eja y Harakbut (Perú)"
  • Jorge Cocom Pech, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico, “Poéticas Indígenas: ¿Sin Poética?
  • Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana, Colombia, "La Oralitura en el mundo indígena como un viaje a la memoria"
  • Armando Muyolema, Ecuador, "Minkanakuy: la poética de Ariruma Kowii como memoria y producción de solidaridad"

11:00-12:45 PM
Garrison Room, MU

Session VI: All the Genres: Towards an Indigenous Literary Theory

• Discussant: Renya Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
  • Jazmin Yamile Noh Montero, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México "El Ave y las Alas Como Intertextualidad, en el Poema 'La Paloma' De Calixta Gabriela Xiquín"
  • Dina Fachin, Native American Studies, UC Davis, "Sirenas, caracolas y tortugas: un oceano de flores de palabras. Nuevas literaturas de la Costa Chica de Oaxaca, Mexico"
  • Roberta Hill, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Keeping the Trance: The Work of Spirit in Expressive Culture”
  • Miguel Rocha Vivas, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, “Antes el Amanecer: Antología de las literaturas indígenas de los Andes y la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta”
  • Rosenda Pérez, Guatemala, "La participacion femenina en la literatura y tradicion oral en las comunidades mayas de Guatemala"

1:00-2:30 PM
Freeborn Hall

Lunch break

2:30-4:15 PM
Freeborn Hall

Round Table III: Poetry, Memory and Autonomy: The Creative Process

• Facilitator: Inés Hernández-Avila
  • Felipe Molina
  • Graciela Huinao
  • Roberta Hill
  • Jorge Cocom Pech
  • Juan Gregorio Regino

4:30-6:15 PM
Freeborn Hall

Collective Dialogue

• Facilitators, Inés Hernández-Avila, Stefano Varese, Victor Montejo, Sylvia Escárcega, Gloria Chacón

6:45-8:00 PM
Freeborn Hall

Dinner break

8:15-10:00 PM
Freeborn Hall

Readings:

• Craig Santos Pérez
• Beth Piatote
• Roberto Viereck
• Inés Hernández-Avila
• Miguel Rocha Vivas
• Victoria Bomberry
• Gaspar Gonzalez
• Roxana Miranda Rupailaf
• Marcie Rendon

10:00-10:30 PM
Freeborn Hall

Closing Session