Program

Download PDF of program (without Zoom links) by clicking here. The program with the Zoom links was emailed to all registered participants (please contact us at 1pprec@central.uh.edu if you have any questions). All times are displayed in Central Time.

Presenters must register and be Recovery members. Please see appropriate tab.

April 1, 2022:  Manos a la obra (pre-conference workshops via Zoom; separate registration required)

April 7, 2022: Recovery Board meeting (1:00pm-3:00pm CT via Zoom)

April 8-9, 2022: Live virtual conference presentation sessions (Zoom)

Watch the Welcome Video here.

Presenters must register and be Recovery members. All attendees must register for the conference. If you experience technical difficulties, please email us at: apprec@central.uh.edu

Your membership fees fund Research Assistant fellowships, scholarships and the infrastructure to publish Recovery books. Your registration fees help pay for the conference's virtual platform, student bursaries, featured speaker honorarium and translation/transcription applications and services.

Membership Fees

• Professional/Faculty: $75
• Students and community members: $35
• Lifetime: $1,000

Registration Fees

• Professional/Faculty: $50
• Students and community members: $25

*Student presenters may apply for bursaries to waive conference registration. You must be a Recovery Member to apply. The deadline to apply for student bursaries is March 7, 2022 (Extended to March 16, 2022). If you plan on applying, please do not purchase registration prior to your bursary application. 

How long should presentations be?

Presentations should be between 10-15 minutes long. Zoom sessions will close at exactly the time on the program.

Can I share slides?

Yes, all presenters will be able to share their screen and show their slides. We encourage you to read our Accessibility Guidelines for tips on colors and fonts.

How early should presenters arrive to their Zoom room?

Please log into your designated session 10 minutes before your presentation so that you can test your slide sharing, video and microphone. A tech support volunteer will be present to provide help. 

Keep in mind accessibility in designing slides and other materials. See the W3C’s “How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All.”

Background

Make sure there is a contrast between the background and the text. Avoid red text on green or vice-versa (color blind participants will not be able to read your text!).

Fonts

Keep it simple, keep word count low on slides. Avoid small fonts. Avoid using multiple fonts. Avoid italics, since it can cause decreased readability. Some fonts are more readable than others; in order to implement universal design that is accessible to more people, please use one of the following suggested sans serif fonts:

• Verdana
• Arial
• Tahoma

Translations and Transcriptions

We recommend creating translations on your slides to increase accessibility. Please email us at apprec@central.uh.edu if you would like one of our Recovery RAs to help translate your slides. Slides must be submitted to us by March 14, 2022 if you would like help with translations.

You may consider uploading a transcript of your presentation and/or a translation to Google Drive. This will allow you to share the link to the text during your presentation so that the audience can follow along.

View full Poster Guidelines (including text and font suggestions) by clicking here for PDF.

Creating a poster in Microsoft Powerpoint:

1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint.
2. Select New Presentation.
3. Go to File.
4. Select Page Setup.
5. Set Width to 40 inches.
6. Set Height to 36 inches.
7. Click OK. Your poster is now in landscape mode.
8. In Format, choose the desired Font, Slide Background and Theme Colors for your poster.
9. Go to Insert.
10. Select Text Box.
11. Once your poster is final, save as a PDF.
12. Create a profile on Humanities Commons.
13. Upload your poster to the Posters: XVI Recovery Conference discussion thread in the US Latinx Studies group in Humanities Commons:
    https://hcommons.org/groups/us-latinx-dh-2144889916/forum/topic/posters-xvi-recovery-conference/#post-57361 (you must create a user profile on Humanities Commons and join the US Latinx Scholars group before you can upload).

Tips and templates:

Purrington, Collin. "Designing a conference poster." https://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design/

Tobey, Elizabeth. "Designing a Research Poster for the Humanities/Social Sciences." Maryland Center for Undergraduate Research, 2015. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/provost/center-undergraduate-research-scholarship/documents/Designing_a_Research_Poster_for_the_Humanitites_Social_Sciences.pdf 

Example template (other free templates are available online or via your institution)

Example poster 1

Example poster 2

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and the University of Houston System are committed to creating and maintaining harassment-free communities of practice, regardless of race, ethnicity, origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, religion, language, marital status, employment, military status, or individual lifestyle. We strive to create events and virtual spaces that are attentive to intersectionalities. By attending Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) events, you acknowledge your commitment to contributing to a safe and inclusive experience for all.

We do not tolerate harassment in any form at Recovery or in our virtual spaces. Violators of these rules will be expelled at the discretion of the organizers. Harassment includes, but is not limited to the following actions: inappropriate physical conduct; unwelcome sexual attention; sexist, racist, or otherwise discriminatory language or jokes; derogatory verbal or written comments; sexual and/or discriminatory images/videos in public spaces; stalking; harassing photography or recording; misgendering or “dead” naming; bullying behavior; persistent disruption of an ongoing discussion.

Please do not share Zoom links–this will help us to maintain a space safe from cyber threats.

You will conduct yourself in a collegial and professional manner at all times.

If you experience or witness harassment of any kind, please speak with one of the Organizing Committee Members (José Aranda, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Linda García Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, Nicolás Kanellos, or Carolina Villarroel).

If you are in imminent danger, please dial 911.

We value your input and participation in our shared community. Thank you for your attention to the comfort, safety, and well-being of Recovery Conference participants.

*This statement of values was inspired by and incorporates ideas from similar statements and codes of conduct created by the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland; the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR); the Digital Library Federation (DLF); the Django Software Foundation; Humanities Intensive Learning and Training (HILT); and the Immersive Pedagogy Symposium.

Virtual Workshop I: Using Archives for Digital Scholarship

Friday, April 1, 2022, 9:00am to 12:00pm CT

Workshop I will include an overview of the use of Recovery materials in digital scholarship and provide an introduction to Digital Humanities. The instructors will discuss of US Latino digital humanities and archival theory; provide an overview of the types of visualizations; introduce metadata and data management; and include a hands-on exercise in creating digital timelines. Pre-registration is required, spots limited.

Virtual Workshop II: Hands-On Introduction to Digital Tools

Friday, April 1, 2022, 2:00pm to 5:00pm CT

Workshop II will be a hands-on introduction to digital tools, with exercises in creating maps and digital archives. Pre-registration is required, spots limited.

Instructors: Gabriela Baeza Ventura, PhD; Carolina Villarroel, PhD, CA; Lorena Gauthereau, PhD; and Linda García Merchant, PhD
Conference participants: $25 per workshop
Non-conference participants: $50 per workshop

Click to purchase Workshop I

Click to purchase Workshop II

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is offering financial assistance in the form of waived registration fees for student presenters.

Eligibility

Bursaries are available to those who meet all of the following requirements:

• Graduate/undergraduate student
• Presenting a paper or poster at the XVI Recovery Conference
• Recovery Member (Click here to purchase membership.)
• Complete online application form for the bursary by March 7, 2022

Last day to apply for a bursary: March 7, 2022. (Extended to March 18, 2022)

Please do not purchase registration ahead of time if you plan to apply for a bursary.

Apply by clicking here.

La Politiquera: Recovering Politics/Recovering Political Voices

April 7-9, 2022  ·  Virtual Conference Call for papers

We are pleased to announce the XVI Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference will convene virtually April 7-9, 2022. The meeting theme, La Politiquera: Recovering Politics/Recovering Political Voices, seeks to highlight voices in the archives that chronicle the agency of individuals and communities in navigating complex political environments and events, especially in the context of barred access to democratic institutions such as the courts and voting. What counts as politics when communities are deemed unrecognizable as a legitimate, enfranchised citizenry? Apart from the politics that appear in contesting the settler policies of a white, nationalist, Anglophone hegemony, what are other debates, controversies and ideologies that inform recovered archives? How do scholars approach and assess archives when politics in the past often underwrote issues, social practices and belief systems our communities no longer uphold?

Archivists, librarians, linguists, historians, critics, theorists and community members are invited to share examples of the legacy they are recovering, preserving and making available of Hispanic peoples—whether residents, immigrants or exiles—of the United States over the past centuries. We seek papers and posters in either English or Spanish that highlight these many contributions, but also offer critical ways to rethink issues of agency, gender, sexualities, race/ethnicity, environmental justice, class and power.

Recently, the end date for Recovery research and topics was adjusted to 1980 in order to give scholars, archivists, linguists and librarians the stimulus needed to begin the recovery of the documentary legacy of the 1960s and 1970s.  In light of the vulnerability of the civil rights archives from these decades, we encourage papers that make use of archival research that provoke a revision of established literary interpretations and/or historiographies. Papers or posters on locating, preserving and making accessible political documents generated by Latinas/os/x in those two decades, and from prior centuries, are welcome.

We invite proposals on the following themes:

• Digital Humanities
• Analytical studies of recovered authors and/or texts
• Critical, historical and theoretical approaches to recovered texts
• Curriculum development: integrating recovered texts into teaching at university and K-12 levels
• Religious thought and practice
• Environmental justice as documented prior to 1980
• Folklore/oral histories
• Historiography
• Language, translation, bilingualism and linguistics
• Library and information science
• Social implications and cultural analyses
• Collections and archives: accessioning and critical archive studies
• Documenting the long road/struggle toward equality
• 1960-1980 only movement(s)-related research

We welcome general audiences, including graduate students. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit proposals for poster presentations.  A limited number of student bursaries may be available.

Submit your 250-word abstract for presentations/posters by email to apprec@central.uh.edu by February 1, 2022.