Organizers
John Mckiernan-Gonz獺lez
Department of History and the Center for the Study of the Southwest, 窪蹋勛圖

Jessica R. Pliley
Department of History, 窪蹋勛圖

Keynote

Gilder Lehrman Center Senior Fellow in Modern Slavery, Yale University

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  • 7:00pm: Keynote
    Ambassador Luis C. de Baca, Yale University: Chasing Slavery: Reflections from the Southwest
    8:30-9:30 - Reception in Taylor Murphy

     

  • 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
    8:45 - 9:00: Welcome
    9:00 - 10:30: The Salon, Street, & Cantina

    • Chair, Jessica Pliley, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Annie Fukushima, University of Utah: (Living)Dead Subjects: Mamasans, Sex Slaves and Sexualized Economies
    • April Petillo, Kansas State University: By Force or By Choice: Trafficking, Policy and Indian Country Realities
    • Melissa Torres, Baylor University: Obligadas e Ilegales: Cantinas, Cantineras, y Cantineros in Contemporary Houston

    10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
    11::00 1:00 The Company

    • Chair: Jeffrey Helgeson, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Manu Karuka, Barnard College: Continental Imperialism on the 32nd parallel
    • Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, George Washington University: "Dilemmas of a modern underground railroad in the era of migrant caravans: A road to freedom or modern-day slavery?"
    • Martha Uvalle, Seafood Workers Alliance: #Walmartstrikers: Supply Chain Organizing in Rural Louisiana
    • Mary Yanik, New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice: Legal strategies Supporting Worker-led Organizing

    1:00 - 2:00: Lunch
    2:00 3:45 : The Field and Sea

    • Chair, Thomas Alter, 窪蹋勛圖
    • William S. Kiser, Texas A&M University at San Antonio: The Long-Lasting National Implications of New Mexico's Debt Peonage System
    • Christian Zlolniski, University of Texas at Arlington: A New Bracero Program? Transnational Mexican H-2A Farmworkers in the United States.
    • Danilo Balladares, Seafood Workers Alliance: Organizing against Forced Labor and Labor Exploitation in the Gulf Coast Seafood Industry
    • Rosario Chayito Elizalde, Seafood Workers Alliance: La Lista Negra: Overcoming Fears, the Blacklist and Borders

    3:30 - 4:00: Coffee Break
    4:00 - 5:45: The Prison and Detention Center

    • Chair, Dwight Watson, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Jermaine Thibodeaux, University of Texas at Austin & Cambridge School of Weston: Raising Cane, Razing Men: A Gendered View of Life on Texas Sugar Prison Farms, 1884-1920
    • Natalie Lira, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Nobody Paid Me Anything: Race, Disability and Forced Labor in Californias Pacific Colony
    • Volker Janssen, California State University Fullerton: Slavery by any Other Name? In Search of Legitimate Labor in Prisons History
    • Robert Chase, Stony Brook University: We are not Slaves: Strike Waves, Prisons and Civil Rights in Post-War Texas

    6:30 - 8:30: Dinner. Location TBD

     

  • 8:30 - 9:30: Coffee
    9:30 - 11:00: The House and Home

    • Chair: Sara Damiano, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Mary Lui, Yale University: Onieta and the Arks: Farming out intimacy in the American River Delta
    • Julian Lim, Arizona State University & Stanford University: Sexual Slavery and Conjugal Deviations: Marital and Racial Anxieties in U.S. Immigration Law
    • Colleen O'Neill, Utah State University: The Limits of Colonial Parenting: Native American Domestic Workers in the Postwar Era

    11:00-12:00: Lunch

    12:00 1:30: Forced Labor Organizing and the Law

    • Chair, Luis C. de Baca, Yale University
    • Cristina Salinas, University of Texas at Arlington: Creating the Coyote: Cross-border Migration, Labor Middlemen, and the Law, 1929-1952
    • Grace Pe簽a Delgado, University of California at Santa Cruz: Mexico, Its National Borders, and the Problem of New Abolitionism in Anti-Trafficking Politics
    • Sabina Trejo, Seafood Worker Alliance: Organizing With, Without and Against the Law: Lessons from the Gulf South
    • Ismael Hernandez Martinez, Seafood Workers Alliance: Fighting Racism and Retaliation

    1:45 2:15: Concluding Thoughts

    • John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Jessica Pliley, 窪蹋勛圖
    • Luis C. deBaca, Yale University