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LASC - Latin American Studies & Chicano-Iberian Culture Network

05
Apr
2024

LASC-13 (CDD, WGBL) Valorando las enseñanzas de la pandemia por Covid-19 para la implementación de nuevas dinámicas en la salud para salvar vidas

04-05-2024 2:45 PM -4:15 PM
Nueces

Coordinator: Jesus Ruiz Flores
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

Coordinator: Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

Coordinator: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Chairperson: Maria de los Angeles Flores, The University of Texas at El Paso

 

Moderator: Manuel Chavez, Michigan State University

 

Vulnerabilidades de mujeres jornaleras ante la pandemia por COVID-19 en el Valle de San Quintín, Baja California
   - Concepción Martinez Valdés, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
   - Lourdes Camarena-Ojinaga, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Narrativas de trabajadoras del sector salud en tiempos de pandemia en San Quintín, B. C.
   - Lourdes Camarena-Ojinaga, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
   - Concepción Martínez Valdés, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Impact of COVID-19 on journalists: How the pandemic affected the health, economic, social and work conditions for the news media in Latin America and elsewhere
   - Kris Kodrich, Colorado State University

Documentando las rutinas informativas del periodismo transfronterizo de emergencia de los Dos Laredos durante la pandemia del Covid- 19
   - Maria de los Angeles Flores, The University of Texas at El Paso

05
Apr
2024

LASCIC Business Meeting

04-05-2024 4:30 PM -6:00 PM
Nueces
05
Apr
2024

LASC-10 Gobierno Electrónico y Brechas Digitales en México

04-05-2024 4:30 PM -6:00 PM
Blanco

Coordinator: Jesus Ruiz Flores
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

Coordinator: Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

Coordinator: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Chairperson: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Campus Morelia, Michoacán, México

 

Moderator: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Campus Morelia, Michoacán, México

 

Transición democrática en el Municipio de Ocotlán, Jalisco y políticas públicas en materia de Residuos Sólidos Urbanos
   - Jeovana Arcelia Venegas Sahagun, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
   - Alma Jéssica Velázquez-Gallardo, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

El primer gobierno de alternancia en el Estado de México, cambios y retos para la administración pública
   - Leticia Contreras Orozco, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
   - Delia Gutiérrez-Linares, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
   - Eduardo Rodríguez-Manzanares, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

Gobierno electrónico y los servicios públicos municipales en Mazamitla, Jalisco, México. Un análisis crítico postpandemia
   - Omar Alejandro Mendoza Silva, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

La brecha digital en los estados de México, 2015-2021
   - Reyna Vergara González, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
   - Gilberto Cárdenas-Cárdenas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
   - Yolanda Carbajal-Suárez, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

05
Apr
2024

AFIT - Keynote Speaker Dr. James Galbraith

04-05-2024 5:00 PM -7:00 PM
Pecos

Dr. James K. Galbraith, Ph.D.

 

Inflation, Sanctions, Demography: Some practical applications of evolutionary and institutional economics.

 

Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

 

Click Here for Dr. Galbraith's Bio

05
Apr
2024

A Facebook Concert

04-05-2024 8:00 PM -9:00 PM
Presidential Suite

Coordinator: Lisa Ossian
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Affiliation: Indian Hills Community College

 

The Kinkaider's Song:  A Homesteader Ballad from the Nebraska Sandhills

 

   - Tom Isern, North Dakota State University

 

The family of prairie folksong tracing lineage to the gospel hymn, “Beulah Land,” is prolific. “Beulah Land” is about a place, the blissful afterlife. Prairie singers borrowed its melody and motifs to localize them to their own places on the plains, sometimes as joyful paeans to a bountiful country, other times as sardonic commentaries on a hard land. “The Kinkaider’s Song” is exceptional in that it is traceable to a particular time and place: the Kinkaider picnic of 16 August 1911, a gathering of homesteaders at the Will Davis grove, a seven-year-old tree claim near Anselmo, in northern Custer County, Nebraska. Fourteen-year-old Matilda Matthews was there and wrote for a regional newspaper, the Atkinson Graphic, “We composed a song, ‘The Kinkaider’s Song,’ and sang it.” The song resounding through the Davis grove in 1911 arose from the historical circumstances of the Kinkaid Act of 1904, which allowed homesteads of a full section, 640 acres, rather than a quarter-section, 160 acres. Its sponsor and heroic proponent, Congressman Moses P. Kinkaid, was present when the Kinkaiders sang their anthem in his honor. From there the song passed into oral tradition and the mysterious canon of Great Plains balladry. Recently discovered, the original text and circumstances of “The Kinkaider’s Song” illustrate the capacity of digitized source materials to move ballads previously anonymous into the realm of known authorship and context--an important development in the interpretation of Great Plains folksong.

06
Apr
2024

LASC-17 Políticas Públicas Locales Sostenibles

04-06-2024 8:00 AM -9:30 AM
Nueces

Coordinator: Jesus Ruiz Flores
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

Coordinator: Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

Coordinator: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Chairperson: Adria Velia González Beltrones, Universidad de Sonora, México

 

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Circular economy as a municipal development tool: Case study: Esquilmos
   - Adria Velia Gonzalez Beltrones, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - María de los Ángeles Monterde Valenzuela, Universidad Estatal de Sonora, México
   - María del Carmen Morales Tostado, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Guadalupe Aleida Valenzuela Miranda, Universidad de Sonora, México

Public policies for training in social sciences of the higher education system
   - Miguel Arturo Morales Zamorano, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Dr. Rafael Ramirez Villaescusa, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Dr. Romualdo Montaño Bermúdez, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Dr. Óscar Nicasio Lagunes López, Universidad de Sonora, México

Avances en el marco normativo, transparencia y ODS en la Economía Circular en México
   - Maria Monterde, María de los Angeles Monterde Valenzuela/Universidad Estatal de Sonora
   - María del Carmen Morales Tostado, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Adria Velia González Beltrones, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Rafael Ramírez Villaescuza, Universidad de Sonora, México

El gobierno y la política educativa desde una perspectiva regional
   - Guadalupe Aleida Valenzuela Miranda, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Adria Velia González Beltrones, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Héctor Guillermo Campbell Araujo, Universidad de Sonora, México
   - Miguel Arturo Morales Zamorano, Universidad de Sonora, México

06
Apr
2024

LASC-18 (CJC) Questioning Prison

04-06-2024 9:45 AM -11:15 AM
Nueces

Coordinator: Jesus Ruiz Flores
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

Coordinator: Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

Coordinator: Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Chairperson: Andres Zamudio, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Pleasant Valley State Prison

 

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Answering Questions in Prison: A Philosophical-Social Task
   - Andres Zamudio, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Pleasant Valley State Prison

06
Apr
2024

WSSA President’s Reception

04-06-2024 6:30 PM -8:00 PM
Garden Terrace

All Attendees Invited

 

WSSA Recepción del presidente

 

Se invita a todos los asistentes