PRESENTATIONS


Peer Reviewed Presentations


2009 “Contested ethnoscapes and the raiding of Iowa’s self-proclaimed ‘Hometown to the world’.” Paper to be presented with Caitlin Didier at “History without Boundaries,” the 102nd Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Seattle, WA. March 26-29, 2009.

2008 “‘Es mi mano derecha’ (S/he is my right hand): Sibling caregiving and language para-phrasing activities within new immigrant families in Mexican Chicago.” Paper to be presented with Marjorie Faulstich Orellana at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. November 19-23, 2008.

2008 “New immigrant child interpreters in White public space.” Paper presented with Marjorie Faulstich Orellana at the 1st Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference, Philadelphia, PA. June 20-22, 2008.

2007 "The bull, el trinchador, and the devil's son: Fearful tales on the origins of fear itself in Antonero Narratives of 'self' and 'other'." Paper presented in a panel titled "Co-Narrating/Co-Interpreting Memories of Violent, Painful, Traumatic Experiences" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 28, 2007.

2007 “Mayan Youth Patas Arriba: What Antonero Maya Kids Make of Latin American Modern Childhoods.” Paper presented in a panel titled "Children, race and ethnicity in Latin America and among Latinos in the U.S." at the Latin American Studies Association 2007 Congress, Montréal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007.

2007 “Antonero Kids’ Performance of Royal “Palabras” (Words/Speeches).” Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden. July 8-13 2007.

2006 “Mayan kids socialization to and through language in a world patas arriba (up-side-down): What Menchú, Pan-Mayas, and Antonero youth teach us about reconstructing Guatemalan Mayan childhoods.” Paper presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San José, California. November 15-19, 2006.

2005 “‘Buenos Días:’ The natural life history of coined ritual insults and verbal duels in Antonero Maya households.” Paper presented in a panel organized by Marjorie Goodwin & Amy Kyratzis titled, “Children Socializing Children: Cultural Production, Participation, and Authoritative Discourse in Peer Play Interactions” at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15, 2005.

2004 “When the subaltern must speak: Paradoxical positionalities and practices of child translators/para-phrasers.” Paper presented with Marjorie Faulstich Orellana at the 10th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles, May 13-15, 2004.

2003 “Discourses of persection and Maya youths’ practices of the imagination in the Post-Peace Accords Era of Guatemala.” Paper presented on a panel I co-organized with Brigittine French titled, “Languages, cultures, and identities among Mayan places: Approaches and innovations” at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. November 19-23, 2003.

2003 “Play imitating life imitating play: Antoñero children’s performances of El Desafio (the challenge) as El Rey Moro (the Moorish King).” Paper presented in a Symposium titled, “Playing the Meso- and South-American way: Situated play and the active role of the child” at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL. June 5-7, 2003.

2003 “Problematizing paraphrasing: Learning from bilingual immigrant youth,” Paper presented with Marjorie Faulstich Orellana in a Symposium titled, “The Metalinguistic, Metacultural and Moral Development of Latino Immigrant Youth: Dialoguing across contexts, communities and methodologies” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. April 21-25, 2003.

2002 “Puro Rikix: Accidental agency, authority, and ideologies of childhood in San Antonio Aguas Calientes.” Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. November 20-24, 2002.

2002 “Of the kids, for the kids, by the kids: Exploring the translating experiences of immigrant youth,” Paper presented with Erica Rosenfeld, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, and Lucila Pulido at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. April 1-5, 2002.

2002 “Researching the Language and Literacy Practices of Latino Students.” Roundtable session presented with Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Kimberly Williams, Lisa Dorner, María Meza, Lucila Pulido, Erica Rosenfeld, and Nicole Wong at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference, New York City, NY. February 22-24, 2002.

2000 “Popeye and the Pirates VS. Jesus and the Moorish King: Children’s Negotiation of (Im)moral Acts and Actors Through Imaginative Play.” Paper presented in an invited session for Linguistic Anthropology titled “Morality in Children’s Language Socialization” at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. November 2000.

2000 “Guacamaya (también 'uaca' o 'huecomaya'): Apodos y sobrenombres como vehículos discursivos para la socialización lingüística de identidades locales e ideologías lingüísticas.” Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association 2000 in Miami, FL. March 16-19, 2000.


Invited Talks

2006 Discussant on a roundtable workshop panel entitled, “Working Ethics for Visual Research” at the Visual Research Conference sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology in San José, CA. November 14-18.

2006 “I went to the doctor to get a shot for- ¿Cómo se dice ‘tuberculosis?”: Examining the social and interactional dynamics of child interpreter-mediated medical interactions.” Paper presented at the 8th Hispanic Health Issues Conference of the South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition, Columbia, SC. October 12 & 13, 2006.

2006 “The Power of Puros Pericos (Little Parrots): Antonero Maya kids talking back, negotiating authority, and subverting caregiver/peer hierarchies.” An invited talk for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series, co-sponsored with the Women’s Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, April 28, 2006.