Events

EVENTS

Academic Talks

2010

March 

Presentation, "Queer Latinidad: Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls," Haverford College, March 18, Hall 225, 3-4 p.m.

February

Lecture and Presentation: "Methods and Contexts in Latino Gender and Sexuality Studies," University of Pennsylvania, Latino Dialogue Institute, 1 Williams Hall, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

2009

September

Latino Heritage Month Inaugural Lecture: "Empire's Remains: Puerto Rico's 'State of Exception' After 1898,"  Bryn Mawr College, September 15, Carpenter Library B21, 4:00 p.m.

May

Lecture: "Boricua Insurgencies: Puerto Rico, Imperial Science, and 'the American 1898'," University of California, Santa Cruz, May 18, Baobab Lounge/Merrill Hall, 4:00 p.m.

April

Lecture: "Trans 'Nation': Sirena Selena Sings the Puerto Rican Body Politic," Swarthmore College, April 28, Kohlberg 116, 2:40 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 7:

Lecture: "Sex and Empire in Puerto Rico," 12:30 p.m., History Hall 102;

Lecture: "Boricua Sound Migrations: Raggaetón and Puerto Rican Imagined Communities," Greenlaw Hall, 305, 2 p.m.;

Robertson Scholar Public Lecture, "Colonial Afterlives: Science, Reproduction, and Sex in Puerto Rico," Greenlaw Hall/Donovan Lounge, 5:00 p.m.

Duke University, April 6:

March

Lecture: "'The Pill' in Puerto Rico: Biopower and the Reproduction of Empire,"  Bryn Mawr College, March 28, 11:15 a.m., Wyndham Alumnae House

Moderator: "Hope and Hopelessness," Rethinking Sex: Gender and Sexuality Studies State of the Field Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 4-6

February

Lecture: "Gender, Sexuality, Equity: Situated Knowledge and Occidentalism," Gender, Sexuality, and Equity in the Middle East Symposium, Bryn Mawr College, Thursday 26, 1-3 p.m., Thomas 110 

Lecture and Presentation: "Thinking Through Immigration," Latino Dialogue Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Monday 23, 7-8:00 p.m., 6 Williams Hall

Lecture: "Boricua Insurgencies: Puerto Rico, Imperial Science, and the American 1898," Georgetown University, Department of English, "The Americas Initiative," Friday 20, 4-6 p.m., New North Hall 311

2008

November

Lecture: "The Futures of Latino Studies: Science, Fiction and the U.S. Latino Body Politic," University of California, Santa Cruz, Latino literature/
La literatura latina II, November 6-8, 2008

October

Reading: Borders Books, 11401 NW 12th Street Suite 512, Miami, FL 33172, October 11, 12 noon

May

Lecture: "Severed Remains: Necro-Citizenship, 'American' Cultural Memory, and the Latino Body Politic," California Polytechnic State University, College of Education, San Luis Obispo, CA,  Room 224,  May 27, 2 p.m.

March 

2007

Book Readings and Signings

December

MLA Convention, Chicago, December 26-29, NYU Press Author Event,  Exhibition Hall, December 27, 4 p.m.

October

ASA Convention, Philadelphia, October 11 - 14, NYU Press Author Event, Philadelphia Convention Center Exhibition Hall, October 12, 3:00 p.m.

Lecture: The Futures of Latina/o Studies: A Symposium on the Practices of Latinidad, Bryn Mawr College, October 10-11, 2007 

September

LASA Convention, Montreal, September 5-8, Latino Studies Caucus Book Reception

Reading: Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia, September 29, 5:30 p.m.

July

Reading: Instituto de Las Américas (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Barcelona, July 23, 4 p.m.

Reading: Vox Café and Gallery (by Village Voice Bookshop), Paris, July 25, 7 p.m.