Finding Sanctuary in the Borderlands Conference Symposium

Our Lady of the Lake University invites you to join us for an educational day of workshops, plenary speakers and collective organizing and action planning. We invite you to a day-long conference symposium focusing on the politics of migration, borders and borderlands and identity in all its complexity, especially in today’s sociopolitical climate.

Finding Sanctuary in the Borderlands will utilize the many skills and resources of community members, educators, organizers and clergy people to look at what sanctuary and protecting those most vulnerable in our society can look like.

8:00am-9:00am Registration
9:00am-9:10am Welcome/Prayer Service/Remembering the dead
9:10-10:00am “Art as Spiritual Care: Trauma Theory & Art Therapy with Refugees Seeking Asylum” Plenary with Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier, Educator, Activist, Artist
10:15-11:15am Breakout Sessions #1
A – “Healing and Organizing as a Critical Decolonial Practice”
Dr. Tane Ward, Equilibrio Norte

B – “My God and My All ¿Quién eres Tú, Señor mío? y ¿Quién soy yo?:Franciscan Questions on Spirituality and Identity”
Fr. Mario Serrano, OFM Conv., MDiv

C –“The Bridge Built on My Back: The Healing and Creative Power of Movement and Conocimiento” Laura “Yohualtlahuiz” Rios-Ramirez
11:30am-12:30pm “Nepantlerxs: Women, Migration & Identity in the Borderlands”
Moderator-Dr. Vanessa Quezada
Panelists:
1. Barbie Hurtado, organizer & activista
2. Yaretzi Campos, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
3. Carla Ortiz, Catholic Relief Services

12:30-1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm-2:30pm Breakout Session #2
A –“Building a Social Movement Organizing For Change”
H. Drew Galloway, Executive Director of Move San Antonio

B – “My God and My All ¿Quién eres Tú, Señor mío? y ¿Quién soy yo?:Franciscan Questions on Spirituality and Identity”
Fr. Mario Serrano, OFM Conv., MDiv

C – “Conceptualizing Borders: An Artist Plática” Suzy Gonzalez, MFA
2:30pm-2:45pm Café y Merienda
2:45 pm-3:45pm “Keynote Address: Reclaiming the Sanctuary City” Aimee Villareal, PhD
4:00pm-5:00pm Action Plan Breakouts
5:00pm-6:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception and “Poesia Sin Fronteras” Poetry Reading by Octavio Quintanilla, PhD

This is a FREE on-campus event including a continental breakfast and lunch. Anyone seeking continuing education units (CEUs) will pay a processing fee at their time of RSVP or at morning registration from 8am-9am.
Cost: $25-$50 processing fee for professionals seeking CEUs
When: Friday, October 6th, 2017 from 9am-6pm
Where: Providence West Social Room, Our Lady of the Lake University 411 SW 24th St. San Antonio, Texas 78207;

***FREE parking available!