6th Annual San Diego City College Int'l Book Fair
Oct. 3 - Oct. 8, 2011
2011 Sixth Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
Free admission to all events.
Open to the public.

Monday, October 3
D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
Two readings and book signings with Benson Deng, co-author of They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

Tuesday, October 4       
D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)


11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Judy Patacsil, co-author of Images of America: Filipinos in San Diego

Wednesday, October 5
D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)


12:45 - 2:00 p.m.   
Reading and book signing with Christopher Buckley, author of Rolling the Bones

Thursday, October 6
D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)


11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
CANCELED
"Picture Postcards as a Source of Historical Evidence," lecture on historical postcards from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 with Paul Vanderwood, author of Satan’s Playground: Mobster and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort and Juan Soldado

12:45 - 2:10 p.m.
"Chicano Poetics: the Enduring Experience and Perspective," panel discussion with acclaimed Professor/poet Manuél J. Velez and up-and-coming poets Angel Sandoval and Manuel Paul López

Friday, October 7
Saville Theatre


6 - 7 p.m.
Panel discussion with Justin Akers Chacón, Victor Clark and Jill Holslin, contributors to Wounded Border/Frontera Herida: Readings on the Tijuana /San Diego Region and Beyond, an anthology published by City Works Press and edited by City College professors Enríque Dávalos and Justin Akers Chacón

7 - 8 p.m.
Concert by the Bill Caballero Bi-National Mambo Orchestra

Saturday, October 8
Saville Theatre


Reading and book signings:

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Marjorie Cohn, editor of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Cris Mazza, author of Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Zohreh Ghahremani, author of Sky of Red Poppies

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
lê thi diem thúy, author of The Gangster We Are All Looking For

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Wanda Coleman, author of Jazz & Twelve O’clock Tales and The World Falls Away and contributor to Mamas and Papas, an anthology published by City Works Press

Austin Straus, author of Intensifications

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running:  La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: A Writer's Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
 

Featuring:

Victor Clark

Tijuana native Víctor Clark Alfaro studied social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and conducted doctoral studies in sociology from the University of California San Diego. He was a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) from 1981-1983 and has been a lecturer at San Diego State University since 1999. Clark is the founder and director of the Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights) in Tijuana. In addition, he has served as a counselor for the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (Commission for the National Development of Indigenous Peoples). A former writer for the Pacific News Service and a columnist for La Opinión in Los Angeles, he is the author of Mixtecos en Frontera (Mixtecos on the Border) and Los Mixtecos, sus mujeres y el turismo (The Mixtecs: Their Women and Tourism), which was published by and received an award from the UABC.