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ACADEMIC TALKS AND EVENTS

2011
October
Discussion: Common Ground, "International LGBTQ Issues," 6:30 p.m., Keller Hall, University of Richmond

Presentation and Lecture: The Latino Studies Network, "Café con leche" discussions, "Latinos and the Politics of 'American' Cultural Memory," Thursday, October 27, 4:45 p.m., Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 327, University of Richmond

Book talk, reading and signing for Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing at
Giovanni's Room (1145 Pine St at the corner of 12th St.), Philadelphia, PA; Friday, October 7, 5:30-7 p.m.

Lecture: "Sonia Sotomayor: An 'American' Life after Multiculturalism," Princeton University, Architecture School Auditorium, Thursday, October 6, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Book talk, Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, Princeton University, LGBTQ Center, Wilson College Private Dinning Room, Noon-1:30 p.m.

April
Lecture: "Empire's Remains," Brown University, Providence, RI, April 21, 20011, 4:30 p.m., Smith-Buananno 201, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

February
AWP Annual Conference, Washington, February 2-5, D.C.; Book Reading for Ambientes, Busboys and Poets (2021 14 St., NW) in Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 3, 3:00-5:00 p.m.; Reception/Mixer 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Tabaq (1336 U St., NW, DC).

2010
December

Commencement Address, "Difficult Gifts," University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, December 19. Lazaro Lima Maryland Commencement November
Lecture: American Studies Association Convention (ASA), "States of 'Exemption': Puerto Rico, Hemispheric Studies, and the Rise of the Corporate State," San Antonio, Texas, November 18-21.

June
Institute Faculty, Dartmouth College, Futures of American Studies Institute, and Plenary Lecturer: "Pecunia Americana: Puerto Rican States of 'Exemption' After the American 1898," the 2010 Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 21-27.


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:

Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 4: "Sex and Empire in Puerto Rico," 12:30 p.m., History Hall 102;


Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 3: "Boricua Sound Migrations: Raggaetón and Puerto Rican Imagined Communities," Greenlaw Hall, 305, 2 p.m.;

Roberston Scholar in Residence, Robertson Scholar Public Lecture 2, "Colonial Afterlives: Science, Reproduction, and Sex in Puerto Rico," Greenlaw Hall/Donovan Lounge, 5:00 p.m.


Duke University, April 6:

Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 1: "Immigration in Latino Studies," Freidl Hall 240, 1:00 p.m.

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

Lecture and Performance: "Trans Nation: Queer States of Pleasure and the Boundaries of Democracy," Swarthmore College, Sager Symposium, March 28-29, Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, March 29, 3 p.m.

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 Latino 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.