Dr. Joseph gives an introduction to the event including the participants, sponsors, and an overview of the day's program.

Abstract: Libraries that serve the public – school, community public, and academic – have certain intellectual freedom responsibilities to their clientele. That is, they must protect the rights of every individual to both seek and receive information without restriction. How librarians exercise these responsibilities within the different purposes, constraints, and governing structures of their parent institutions is quite different. Carla J. Stoffle has been Dean of Libraries and Center for...

Franci Washburn holds Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in English, Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. She writes poetry, short fiction and novels, and has published articles in Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, American Indian Quarterly, and Studies in American Indian Literature. Her first novel, Elsie's Business, will be released from the University of Nebraska Press in the fall of 2006. A book of poetry is ready for submission...

Thomas E. Sheridan, Professor of Anthropology, Southwest Center and School of Anthropology, holds a joint appointment in the Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology and have conducted ethnographic and ethnohistoric research in the Southwest and Northern Mexico since 1971. I directed the Mexican Heritage Project at the Arizona Historical Society from 1982-1984, and was Director of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research at ASM from 1997 to 2003.

Adela C. Licona Abstract: My talk, “Teaching & Learning at a Land Grant University: A Commitment to Local Knowledge,” begins with Steven Goldzwigʼs concept of “critical localism.” I consider how this concept calls us to become familiar with local knowledges, histories, discourses, and practices, and further consider what such a calling might look like in the rhetorical studies classroom. I argue that a pedagogy informed by critical localism is relevant and meaningful especially in land...

Abstract: Rhoades explores the ways in which the TUSD Mexican American Studies program is an academic freedom issue, a civil rights issue, and an issue at the core of what it means to be a public land grant university. Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona's College of Education. Dr. Rhoades is also associated with the Center for the Study of Higher Education, Educational Policy Studies & Practice. Rhoades’ scholarship focuses on the restructuring of...

Jacqueline Lee Mok serves as the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff in the Office of the President. Her expertise is in music education and arts administration; her academic home is the School of Music. Dr. Mok also has participated in the HERS/Bryn Mawr Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration and the Management Development Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Antonio L. Estrada, MSPH, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Public Health with training in Behavioral Sciences/Health Education, Social Epidemiology, and Evaluation Research from the UCLA School of Public Health. His research interests include HIV disease among injection drug users and their sexual partners, prevention with HIV positives, and Hispanic/Latino health disparities. He...

Abstract: Dr. Cammarota’s presentation focuses on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and how the book proposes a critical pedagogy that structures learning around personal and collective emancipation. His talk also provides two propositions for implementing a critical pedagogy: 1) oppression is a current and persistent reality for many people and 2) the oppressed have the capability to liberate themselves from oppression. These propositions relate to the two goals of locating the...

Program for April 10, 2012 event. Distinguished University of Arizona faculty members spoke about their ethnic studies research, scholarship and pedagogies, as well as delivering informative presentations on the concepts of intellectual and academic freedom. A concurrent poster session featured graduate student research related to ethnic studies topics.