The Anta Project: Transforming the US/Mexico Border Wall with a Cello Bow and Implements of Mass Percussion Dueling Eagles: A Seminar on U.S.- Mexico Border Issues
Mon. Nov. 2, 2009 University of Oklahoma Sponsored by: Dr. Alan McPherson, Conoco-Phillips Chair in Latin American Studies (School for Area and International Studies) Dr. Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Oklahoma, Southern Plains, and Borderlands History (Department of History)
Scholars Room, OU Union:
8:30-9:00 - continental breakfast reception
9:00-10:15 - Dr. Tony Payan, Dept. of Political Science, University of Texas-El Paso (speaking on immigration and Homeland Security issues)
10:15-10:45 - refreshment break
10:45-12:00 - Dr. Elaine Carey, Dept. of History, St. John's University (New York City) "The Ice Women Cometh: Gender, Drugs, and the Border, 1900 to the Present"
12:15-2:00 - Associates Room, OU Union
Featured speaker: Margaret Randall, poet/writer (Albuquerque) Speaking and reading from her Stones Witness
Introduced by: Dr. Chris White, Dept. of History, Marshall University (W. Va.), (Latin Americanist historian, biographer of M. Randall)
2:15-3:45 - Multi-media presentation, Glenn Weyant, Anta Project (Tucson), "The Anta Project: Transforming the US/Mexico Border Wall with a Cello Bow and Implements of Mass Percussion"