LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Co-sponsored and hosted by Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College of Education

• The 2007 UC LMRI Conference will focus on Immigrants, Education, and Language. The conference will be held on ASU's Tempe Campus - Tempe, Arizona.

• • Map of the conference » (PDF) that highlights both the locations of the meeting spaces, as well as buildings along the path to get there
• • ASU's online map (click on the Tempe site)
• • Directions/Map for the University Club, 425 East University Drive, Tempe, Arizona 85281; (480) 965-0700
• Transportation:
  • Brochure » (PDF) that explains the local free bus service of ASU - the Flash. It runs very close to both hotels. FLASH (Free Local Area SHuttle) service is approximately every 10 minutes Monday - Friday. More about FLASH Or call (480) 965-1072.
  • More about parking and transit services
• • Tourism information for Arizona

Norma Gonzalez, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture, University of Arizona

Norma González is a professor in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. She is an anthropologist with a background in sociocultural, linguistic and applied anthropology.

Her research interests are in language socialization, language ideologies, bilingualism, borderlands and immigration, and women's narratives. She is the author of I am my Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands and co-editor of Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms.

She is President-Elect of the Council of Anthropology and Education.

  Peter Roos, Past Co-Director of Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy (META)

Roos was co-director of META from it's founding in 1982 until June 2006, when he retired. Before that he was Director of Educational Advocacy at MALDEF, and Senior Staff Attorney at the Harvard Center On Law And Education. Roos has won two landmark Supreme Court cases, Plyler v Doe (right of undocumented students to schooling) and Goss v Lopez (right of suspended students to Due Process hearings). He has been lead or co-lead Counsel on a number of bilingual cases (Denver,U.S.v Texas; Lulac v Florida,and Comite v California among others), Desegregation cases (Oxnard, San Bernadino, and Stockton,Cal., El Paso, Austin, and Houston,Tex., and school finance, (Edgewood v Kirby [Tex.], Rodriguez v Los Angeles U.S.D.). He has also been lead on a number of efforts to undocumented access to higher education. Peter is married to Emma Chavez Roos, a former bilngual teacher/ administrator and advocate for Latino and low income students.

(META is a national organization specializing in the educational rights of Hispanics and other linguistic minorities and migrant youth. META is dedicated to the full realization of the educa-tional and personal potential of this vulnerable class of children, as well as the preservation of their cultural and linguistic identities. Services and programs include community advocacy and leadership development, policy analysis, research and dissemination, and legal repre-sentation in the area of education.)

• 2007 Conference Program (PDF) (posted 4/18/07)
• Schedule of events (PDF) (posted 3/16/07)
  Note: event listings are subject to change without prior notice.
• Presenters and Presentations » This page includes links to presenters' conference papers, when available (Updated 6/6/07)

 

• 5/3/07: Please note that Conference Presenters KIMBERLY OCHS and LYN SCOTT have cancelled

 

General = $95; Students (with photo ID) = $35

• Registration is now CLOSED

• Two local hotels are providing special conference room rates when referencing the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education by April 3, 2007 (or until full). Also, both hotels have a free shuttle service to and from the airport, which is only about a 5-10 minute drive.

• Tempe Mission Palms Hotel and Conference Center
  60 East Fifth Street, Tempe, Arizona 85281
  Reservations: (800) 547-8705
  Conference Room Rates: Single: $159.00 + tax; Double: 159.00 + tax; Triple $169.00 + tax; Quad $179.00 + tax
• Twin Palms Hotel
  225 East Apache Boulevard, Tempe, AZ 85281
  Reservations: (800) 367-0835
  Conference Room Rates: Single or Double: $95.00 + tax