Building a New Academy Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Time	Location	Activity
8:30-9:15 am		Registration and Breakfast
9:15-9:55 am		Official Welcome: Demetrius Tien, CSULB MMUF Alum and Graduate Student, Global Studies, University of California, Irvine Dr. Renee Johnson-Thornton, Senior Program Associate and Associate Director, MMUF Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson Dr. Natalie Graham, Orange County Poet Laureate and Director of the Fullerton Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation
10:00-11:30 am		Faculty Roundtable: Change-Agents in Higher Ed: Disrupting and Interrupting the Status Quo in Higher Education and Valuing Scholar-Activists Moderator, Dr. Angela M. Locks, Executive Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Academic Affairs, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and, California State University, Long Beach Dr. Cindi Alvitre, Full-Time Lecturer, American Indian Studies and Anthropology and NAGPRA Coordinator, Cal State Long Beach Dr. Bonnie Farrier, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics and the Director of the Writing Center, Cal State Fullerton Dr. Abigail Rosas, Associate Professor, Chicano and Latino Studies and Faculty Coordinator MMUF, Cal State Long Beach Dr. Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Dean, Cal State LA Dr. Renee Moreno, Professor, Chicano/a Studies Department and Writing Center, Cal State Northridge
12:00-1:45 pm		Keynote and Lunch with Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
2:00-3:00 pm		MMUF Poster Presentation
3:15-4:45 pm		Graduate Student Panel: Moderator: Dr. Sarah Grant, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Coordinator of MMUF, California State University, Fullerton Lynette Dixon, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and MMUF Alum, the Ohio State University Matthew Hernandez, Doctoral Student, Department of English, University of Southern California Moises Ponce-Zepeda, Doctoral Student, Department of English, University of Southern California Rubi Castorena, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
4:45-5:30 pm		Free Time and Travel Time
5:30-6:30 pm	Off-Site- Museum of Latin American Art	Museum of Latin American Art Reception and Tour
6:30-8:30 pm	Off-Site- Museum of Latin American Art	MMUF Fellow Student Dinner
7:00-8:30 pm	Off-Site- El Barrio Cantina	MMUF Coordinator Dinner

Time	Location	Activity
8:00-9:00 am		Breakfast and Registration
9:00-10:00 am		Presentation Group 1 Talking Circle Group 1
10:15-11:15 am		Presentation Group 2 Talking Circle Group 2
11:30 am-12:30 pm		Lunch
12:45-1:45 pm		Presentation Group 3 Talking Circle Group 3
2:00-3:00 pm		Presentation Group 4 Talking Circle Group 4
3:15-4:15 pm		Presentation Group 5 Talking Circle Group 5
4:30-5:45 pm		Free Time
6:00-8:00 pm		Closing Keynote and Dinner Dr. Victoria Reyes, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside Remarks by Next Year's Conference Host: Whittier and University of California, Los Angeles by Dr. Muriel McClendon, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
8:00 pm		ADJOURN