SEC Spanish Consortium Conference 2026

Breakfast (at Circle and Square, Next to the Depot)

Conference Participants

Circle and Square (100 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

8:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Stephen Fafulas, University of Mississippi
Dan O’Sullivan, University of Mississippi
Eduardo Prieto, University of Mississippi
John T. Edge, University of Mississippi
Dan Jones, University of Mississippi
Alan Florian, University of Mississippi

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

9:30 AM

Multilingual Mississippi and Emergent Sociolinguistic Complexity: The Case of Mayan Languages, Spanish, and English

Justin Pinta, Mississippi State University

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

10:30 AM

Workshop - Working with English Learners in Mississippi and throughout the Deep South

Monique Henderson, English Learners Engage

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

11:00 AM

Lunch

Conference Participants

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

12:00 PM

Building a Large-scale, Open-access, Bilingual Corpus: The Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MuHSiC) Corpus

Mark Amengual, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

1:00 PM

Beyond Language: Reframing Needs Assessment and Psychoeducation in LSP for Heritage Learners and Latinos in the South

Diana Ruggiero, University of Memphis

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

1:30 PM

Keynote Address - Scratching Out a Living: How the Poultry Industry’s ‘Hispanic Project’ Transformed Mississippi

Angela Stuesse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

2:00 PM

Growing Up Bilingual in the Greater Memphis Area

Ivan Ortega Santos, University of Memphis

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

3:00 PM

Reproducing Raciolinguistic Ideologies: The Contested Role of Spanish in MS

Tom Lewis, Tougaloo College

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

3:30 PM

Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Latino Communities in Mississippi through an Experiential Learning Course

Stephen Fafulas, University of Mississippi
Maria Jose Barrera, University of Mississippi
Abigail Walker, University of Mississippi

The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)

4:00 PM

SouthTalks. Portraits of Belonging: Latino Life and Legacy in Mississippi

Stephen Fafulas, University of Mississippi
Simone Delerme, University of Mississippi
Hector Boldo
Lorena Quiroz
Michael Perez

Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Barnard Observatory

5:30 PM