March 26-27, 2021; entirely online.
In this closing conference for the Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer Seminar, seven invited scholars of Latina/o/x studies help wrap-up the ongoing conversation about “Imagining Latinidades.” We make the turn to practices of performing and imaging Latinidades now and into the future by inviting leading scholars in the fields of Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, and Latina/o/x Studies to participate in a closing conference. One set of speakers will discuss Latina/o/x cultural production that complicates and rejects homogenizing tendencies of Latino identity formation for alternative community formations.
To register for the Friday session, please sign up here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQQYazxiSsCcssMmLiSuKw
To register for the Saturday session, please sign up here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GmsDzTTTQXOV0TDNu5TlIA
Friday, March 26
(all times are Central Time)
| 10:00-10:50am | John Mckiernan-González |
| “Essential/Disposable: A Medical History” | |
| 11:00-11:50am | Gaye Theresa Johnson |
| “Refusing Dehumanization, Insisting on Our Humanity: Freedom-Making Under a ‘New’ Security Establishment” | |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50pm | Ramón Rivera-Servera |
| “Living Lakes: Performing Latinx and Black History” | |
| 2:00-2:50pm | Catherine S. Ramírez |
| “Toward a Post-Undocumented Future” | |
| 3:00-4:00pm | Roundtable Discussion with Johnson, McKiernan-González, Ramírez, & Rivera-Servera |
Saturday, March 27
(all times are Central Time)
| 10:00-10:50am | Cathryn Merla-Watson |
| “The Apocalyptic and Spiritual Activism in Queer Chicana Performance” | |
| 11:00-11:50am | Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes |
| “Transloca(l) Poetics: Que(e)ring Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado” | |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50pm | Richard T. Rodríguez |
| “Latin/o American Party: Latin Freestyle’s Transatlantic Touch” | |
| 2:00-3:00pm | Roundtable Discussion with La Fountain-Stokes, Merla-Watson, & Rodríguez |