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Minuta Binacom - October 26, 2006.
SDSU
Participants:
Ruth Wallen, Dan Hallin, Patricia Geist, Bill Eadie, Luis Felipe, Susana, Leonardo, Antonieta, Armando, Jorge Camarillo, and Bill Snead. Also Greg Durbin was in the meeting presenting his short film about “El Piropo”.
INICIO
Dan Hallin comment about participating in International Communication Association in San Francisco. Dan will talk to people in Sonora about participating in ICA.
DAN is going to talk with Sonora about participating in the ICA.
BINACOM. El Encuentro de Binacom.
The date for Binacom is March 9 and 10th
La fecha para el Encuentro es el 9 y 10 de marzo del 2007.
- Treasure Report (Christine Millan).
Christine said that American institutions have paid their dues, UCSD, SDSU, COMMUNITY COLLEGE, USD. Binacom attendants where wondering if there is a provision about individual memberships, so people could pay for their membership to the organization.
Dan Hallin mentions that there is a Provision for individual membership in BINACOM constitution, the quota is $25 dollars for each person. By-laws it is important to do that. It will be nice to have Grossmont students to participate in the Encuentro through this provision, because Grossmont has not been able to participate as an institution.
Talk about the Mexican institutions.
- Short film presentation by Greg Durbin
After everybody gave up in looking for Jorge………Greg Durbin presented his short film. A short film about the Mexican Piropo, based in the famous photo of the American girl in Italy.
The idea of the movie is about a foreigner that arrives to a different country.
- Regarding the Next Encuentro
- Topic:
- Keynote speakers:
- Submition deadlines:
- ICA/
- Blogs. A way for schools to communicate with each other. Start interacting.
- Patricia proposing workshops in certain topics.
After a debate about the right name for the next encuentro and the right translation of the English name, the following is the name that was agreed to for the Encuentro:
La Frontera: un ejercicio de interpretación.
Politics of representation of the Borderlands.
The next list of people are possible Keynote speakers and participants in discussion groups. Dan Hallin will contact some of the following people for panels and keynote speakers.
Chon Noriega (first choice for keynote speaker US side).
Isaac Arteinstein (Jewish community in Tijuana). Production. Interpretation.
Leo Chavez (images of the border).
Linda Fregoso
Dan Bardoletti (Ruth is trying to contact him).
Jorge and Armando are proposing the following possible speakers in the Mexican side:
Georgina Torres (periodismo en television).
Guillermo Arriaga (guionista, 3 burials of Melquiades Estrada and Babel).
- Another important topic for Encuentro preparation is the availability of simultaneous interpretation during the keynote speaker conference. People in Mexicali are trying to find an affordable and good translation and interpretation team. Armandosays that they are going to find simultaneous translation. He says that the School of language in Mexicali will help them, but they need to rent equipment for translation. He will contact Binacom with the budget about translation, and see if Mexicali can help.
- Ruth mentioned the importance to start contacting people for workshops to know who will be willing to attend. She also talks about workshops about cinema, photograph, television. Any kind of work that focuses on border representation.
- Leonardo va a contactar a Pedro Valtierra (Revista Cuarto Oscuro). Desconoce quienes trabajan temas de la frontera, quiza podrian ver quien. David Lauder (frontera Chihuahua). Paul Espinosa.
- Transportation. The agreement was for Binacom not to provide conference transportation, but to arrange private transportation for people that are interested in going to Mexicali.
- Publicity for the event. Claudia will update the website to update dates and themes. Dan is proposing to have students from Mexicali to come and speak in U.S.
- Dan mentioned that it would be important to implement some informal and formal exchange venues between Universities in the US and in Mexico. For example, he said that there would be more interest from the U.S. side if they know more about Mexican students through direct contact with them if Mexican students visit American schools.
- Dan also mentions that American students would be interested to know how is the communication discipline in Mexicali. Dan will propose some dates when students may come to visit UCSD. From Mexicali to UCSD.
- Susana added that a teleconference and participation in blogs would bes additional option for students from both side of the borders to interact.
Advertising the event and creating a poster. Some people are starting to propose a poster for advertising the event.
Miscelaneous.
Ruth. Is talking about posting videos in the website. Instead of binacom being the clearing house, we may have an outlet for each school to post videos in their own webpages. Then binacom webpages will have the links to these websites, and then they can connect these places.
Jorge Camarillo. Idea of having a page by school, where students and professors can add movies or photos, and try to link them to the page of BINACOM. They already have two short films and he says that people are uploading their films. He wants us to have something for each university. There is also the possibility of having videos broadcast in Youtube.
For Next Meeting December 8th.
Organization of agenda
Discussion on Keynote speakers,
Mesas de trabajo . /workshops.
Dan/ Mesas de discussion por tema, en cada mesa los alumnos participan. Organizar por tema. Los alumnos pueden presentar ideas sobre el tema.
Ruth propone traer un horario tentativo para organzar los talleres en la reunion.
Ruth is proposing to have a tentative schedule for organizing workshops in the Encuentro.
Date/Fecha: June
2/junio2, 2006
Place/Lugar : Room
125 Media Center/Communication (Helene Keyssar Room) (this is downstairs
from our usual meeting place)
Time/Tiempo: Lunch
1:30 - Meeting 2:00
Agenda/Orden del Dia:
Hi,
Unfortunately May 5th turned
out to be a bad choice for a meeting. The traffic at the border was
horrible and folks from UABC, Mexicali arrived at 4:30. Nonetheless
we did begin an important discussion as to how to revitalize student
interest in BINACOM and decided that we need one more meeting this
year.
More details to follow:
Encuentro Planning
Ways to Revitalize BINACOM
To do right away:
--Please send me dates of your spring break for next year, or any other
dates that you would think would be difficult for your students to attend
next year's encuentro. From that info, I will try to assemble the best
possible dates.
--Tributes to Hope in English or Spanish. I've asked for written tributes
and photos to add to our web site, but have yet to receive them.
--We hope to also be able to offer space on the web site for 3 short
videos per school, but I have yet to confirm that.
--Please let me know if you can make the meeting.
Here are Directions to UCSD:
- North Interstate 5
- exit RIGHT (north) on GILMAN DRIVE
- enter UCSD just after underpass of LA JOLLA VILLAGE DRIVE
- turn RIGHT at INFORMATION BOOTH, stop and pick up parking permit
- <TELL THE ATTENDANT YOU ARE HERE FOR THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
/ BINACOM MEETING>
- then go back (south) and turn RIGHT (west) on LA JOLLA VILLAGE
DRIVE
- veer to the RIGHT (north) at NORTH TORREY PINES ROAD (traffic
light)
- turn RIGHT (east) at MUIR DRIVE
- turn RIGHT (south) into parking lot #207 or #208 (A,B,S permit
required)
- parking permit valid in GREEN and YELLOW spaces only
Minutes
from Past Meetings
Binacom Meeting Minutes
May 5th
Southwestern College
Attendance: Mark Sisson, Bill Alexander, Linda Hensley, Bob Schneider, Ruth
Wallen, Dan Hallin, Kristin Moran, Antonieta Mercado, Arthur Cervantes, Claudio
Fenner-Lopez, Bill Snead, Susana Espinosa and Armando Gutierrez.
People were
waiting for UABC Mexicali members to arrive, the discussion started late.
Due to problems crossing the border, Susana and Armando arrived late. Members
were briefed on recent Binacom events: the symposium at Riverside, the screening
at the Media Arts Center and the binacom presentation at the communication
conference in Ensenada.
All were successful events. No one U.C. Riverside
attended the event there, but we had good participation and good discussion
from Binacom members, plus Sheila Pinkel from Pomona college. Students from
several Binacom member institutions presented to a full house at the Media
Arts Center screening, and swe agreed that we should let the Media Arts Center
know we were happy with that screening and would like to do it every year.
Many students came to hear the presentation on Binacom at the
Ensenada conference, even while attendance was limited at many plenary events.
Ruth brought up the issue of the memorial for Hope in the BINACOM web page.
She urged Binacom members that have known Hope to write what she has meant
to them and to contribute with pictures and stories about Hope to include
them in the page.
There were general comments about the usefulness of the BINACOM website as
a place to announce current events, cultural and social gatherings or even
as a possible forum for discussing the latest immigrant mobilizations. Ruth
would like to have more of a forum on the web site, though there is a question
of who would manage it.
Through the meeting there was a growing feeling that BINACOM has to be reinvigorated
with new ideas and people. Mark mentioned the need to convince people at Southwestern
that the tradtion of participation should be continued, and the possibility
of creating student Binacom clubs at the different campuses. There was a general
consensus that in the last couple of years activities and membership have
diminished. There were several proposals to invigorate the organization. Dan
Hallin proposed to initiate student exchanges between U.S. and Mexican institutions
to help promote the next Encuentro. This could involve getting students from
Mexicali to come to San Diego for a day and to meet with students at two or
three campuses here.
Bob, Ruth, and Dan talked about including videos made by students in the web
page. Bob talked about a website named youtube.com that publishes independent
videos on the internet.
There was also a discussion about using video technology to communicate among
binacom members. Although Dan warned that the substitution of face-to-face
meeting by videoconferences could do more harm than good. One of the things
that was mentioned is to talk to others about Binacom as an important venue
of communication between Mexican and U.S. universities and to emphasize that
the institutional liaisons are already established. BINACOM Brochure
Ruth brought the topic of the BINACOM brochure that Laura from Mexicali is
designing. The consensus was that Binacom needs a neat brochure for promotion
in universities, fundraising, and conferences. Some members talked about one
or two thousand brochures. Dan Hallin will translate the brochure to English
and Antonieta will shorten the Spanish version to fit into the brochure.
TREASURER
Christine Moran informed us about institutional contributions, she said that
some institutions have not paid their dues, and that it has been difficult
to collect them from those institutions. Bill Snead mentioned the difficulty
of getting funding for the Binacom membership at Grossmont, where their department
can have only one membership, and belongs to BEA. Ruth talked about scaling
the amount of the yearly contribution, arguing that for Mexican institutions
it is difficult to pay $400 dollars for a membership.
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