EVENTS AND PROJECT ARCHIVES
EVENTS
2023
2022 2021 2020 March Conversation and Book Signing: Seminary Co-op Bookstore, January, Sunday, March 1, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.,Chicago, Illinois, in conversation with Joshua Chambers-Letson. Conversation and Book Signing: Books and Books, January 24, 2020, 8:00 p.m., 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, Florida, Conversation and Book Signing: Politics and Prose, January 19, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. 5015 Connecticut Ave., Washington, DC. 2019 November Book Launch, "Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latinx Question," New York University, November 13, 2019, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., 20 Cooper Square. October Documentary Film Screening: Rúbi: A DACA Dreamer in Trump's America, Ohio Latino Student Summit 2019, University of Cincinnati, October 4, 2019, UC Student Center. Latinx Heritage Month Keynote: "Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latinx Question," University of Cincinnati, Taft Research Center Auditorium, October 3, 2019. March "Being Brown: The Latino Question in the Democratic Commons," El Instituto: Institute of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies and the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Babbidge Library, 1947 Room, March 5, 2019. February "The Latino Question and the Democratic Commons," Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Goldberg Formal Lounge, February 20, 2019. 2018 July Latino Studies Association Biennial Conference, documentary screening and discussion, “Rubí’s Story: A DACA Dreamer in Trumps America,” Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, July 11-15, 2018. Latino Studies Association Biennial Conference, “Professing Dissent, Administering Latinidades: Twenty-first Century U.S. Latinx Studies in the Classroom, at the University and Beyond” (roundtable presentation), Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, July 11-15, 2018. Latino Studies Association Biennial Conference, “Post Tenure: Now What?” (panel discussion), Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, July 11-15, 2018. 2017 November American Studies Association Conference, Session: "Professing Dissent in 21st Century Latinx Studies," Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Saturday, November 11, 2017, Chicago, IL, 4:00-5:45 p.m. October “Latino Studies 2.0: Black Lives, Brown Bodies and the Ends of the Democratic Commons in the Neoliberal University,” Latino Studies Program Lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, October 30, 2017. King's College SPLAS Research Seminar Lecture: "Latino Studies, Identity Claims, and the Closing of the Democratic Commons in the Neoliberal University," Virginia Woolf Bldg., 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE, October 25, 12:00-1:45 p.m. Inaugural Latino Studies Lecture: "Latino Studies 2.0: Black Lives, Brown Bodies and the Ends of the Neoliberal University," Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Danforth Center Room 234, Thursday, October 5, 5:00-6:30 p.m. September Latinx Heritage Month Keynote: "Losing Sonia Sotomayor," Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), University Student Commons, Commons Theater, Wednesday, September 27, 12:00-2:30 p.m. April Lecture: "Reclaiming the Democratic Commons in the Age of Trump," University of Maryland, College Park, Grand Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union, Friday, April 28, 2017, 5:30-7:30 p.m. March Lecture: “Diversity Capitalism: Frames for Understanding Second-Generation Discrimination in the Academy,” University of Richmond, Weinstein International Center Commons, March 21, 2017, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 2016 October Keynote lecture: "Latino Studies 1.0: Justice, Diversity Capitalism, and the Ends of the Neoliberal University," American University, Latino Heritage Month Keynote Lecture, October 13, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Butler Board Room, AU, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. June Plenary, "Promiscuous Politics," Latino Studies Association Conference, 9th July, 5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Fountain Ballroom, Westin Pasadena, CA. Lecture: "Curating Latino Lives: Documentary Film and the Politics of Curatorial Practice," Smithsonian Institution, Warner Brothers Theater at National Museum of American History, June 28, 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 14th St. and Constitution Ave, N.W., Washington, D.C. March CSPAN-2: BookTV book launch conversation with historian Jim Downs on his book Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, March 9, 7:00 p.m., Nellie's Bar, 900 U St, NW, Washington, DC. February Collaborative Project: “Latinos in Richmond” Lázaro Lima, Patricia Herrera, and Laura Browder A series of events that examines the Latino experience in the City of Richmond . Description: Latinos are the nation’s largest “minority” group (over 55 million), yet the most disenfranchised from American historical, cultural and educational representation. The programs and events supported by the Latinos in Richmond project is a multi-year attempt to account for the rich and varied presence of Latinos in Richmond and the state of Virginia. Event 4: “Latinos in Richmond: Breaking the Black and White Binary” Facilitator: Mary Wickham, J.D., Executive Director Panelists: Rocio González Watson, Sacred Heart Center Center, Director of Programs & GED Dr. Debra Schleef, co-author of Latinos in Dixie: Class and Assimilation in Richmond (2009) Tanya Gonzalez, Manager, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Juan Santacoloma, Chesterfield County Multicultural Liaison The panel will discuss the historical significance of Latinos to the City of Richmond, the State of Virginia, and the South. They will discuss the importance of education in altering both public perceptions about Latinos and how Latinos imagine themselves in relation to their communities. Panelists will focus on educational and cultural initiatives that would allow Virginia’s constituencies to understand how the forgotten history of Latinos requires memorialization and incorporation into the fiber of Virginia’s historical memory. A reception will follow the discussion. Please RSVP by February 23 to Kimberly O’Hare-Griffith, [email protected]. The Valentine Museum, 1015 Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23219, February 25, 6:30 p.m. Event 3: “Latino Lives, American Dream: Young Latino Fiction” with author Meg Medina Reading and youth conversation with Richmond-based Latina author Meg Medina. Medina is the author of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (2013), The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind (2012), and Burn, Baby Burn (forthcoming). Facilitators: Lázaro Lima, Patricia Herrera, and Laura Browder Location: Richmond Public Library, 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219, February 18, 6:30 p.m. Event 2: The Peril and the Promise (1980-2000) Hosted by University of Richmond professors Lázaro Lima, Patricia Herrera, and Laura Browder. Format: screening, guided community conversations, and small group discussions. Location: Richmond Public Library–Broad Rock, 4820 Old Warwick Road, Richmond, VA 23224 February 11, 6:30 p.m. Event 1: Foreigners in their Own Land (1565-1880) Hosted by University of Richmond professors Lázaro Lima, Patricia Herrera, and Laura Browder. Format: screening, guided community conversations, and small group discussions. Location: Sacred Heart Center, 1400 Perry Street, Richmond, VA 23224, February 4, 6:30 p.m. 2015 October Presentation reprise, "What's in a Name?: The Implications and Uses of 'Latino' v. 'Hispanic' in Postsecondary Educational Settings,"CCE Brown Bag Series, THC 305, University of Richmond, October 2, 12:30-1:30 p.m. May Presentation, "What's in a Name?: The Implications and Uses of 'Latino' v. 'Hispanic' in Postsecondary Educational Settings," Jepson Faculty Lounge, University of Richmond, May 28, 10:30-11:00 a.m. Lecture: “Loving Sonia María Sotomayor to Death, or, the Political Limits of Representative Personhood: A Necrology,” University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series, Merrill Lounge, May 13, 5:00-6:15 p.m. April Presentation: "The ANSWER Program for Admitted Students to the University of Richmond," Weinstein Hall, Brown Alley Room, April 17, 3-4 p.m. 2014 November Panelist: "Emerging Directions in Latino Studies" with Patricia Foxen, Eric Hershberg, and Ali Valenzuela, American University, The Katzen Arts Center, November 14, 4-5:30 p.m. October Lecture: "Losing Sonia Sotomayor," Duke University, Women's Studies Pink Parlor, October 23, 4:00-5:30 p.m. May Convener: Latin American Studies Association International Convention, "Latina/o Studies: A State of the Field Discussion," Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 4:00-5:45 p.m. April Lecture: "Being Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt," Barnard College, NYC, Milbank Hall, Ella Weed Room (223), April 23, 5:00-6:30 p.m. 2013 Lecture: American Studies Association National Convention," Being Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt," Thursday, November, 12, Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9, 8:00-9:45 a.m. October Latino Heritage Month Lecture: "Losing Sonia Sotomayor," University of Maryland, College Park, 1208 Knight Hall, October 8, 5-7 p.m. September Lecture: "Cultura material en el Caribe hispánico: La poética como metodología en la obra Lydia Cabrera," Humboldt Universität, Main Building, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Lichthof, September 18, 10-12 noon. 2012 May Conference Lecture: "The Extreme Contemporary of 'Chicano' Literature: Atomik Aztec and the Post-race Aesthetic in American Fiction," Octavo Congreso Internacional Sobre Literatura Chicana, May 24-26, Toledo, Spain, 2012. March Presentation: "Precious Knowledge: On Arizona's HB 2281 and Latino Studies," Carole Weinsten International Center Commons, Monday, March 19, 6-8 p.m. February Conference Lecture: "Political Women in the Americas: Gender, Culture, Power, and Public Life," February 23-24, Georgetown University, Copley Hall Formal Lounge, "Losing Sonia Sotomayor,"Friday, February 24, 3 p.m. 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 and the Politics of Latino Representation," 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, 2011, 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. 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. Lectures: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 7, Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 1: "Sex and Empire in Puerto Rico," 12:30 p.m., History Hall 102; Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 2: "Boricua Sound Migrations: Raggaetón and Puerto Rican Imagined Communities," Greenlaw Hall, 305, 2 p.m.; Roberston Scholar in Residence, Robertson Scholar Public Lecture 3, "Colonial Afterlives: Science, Reproduction, and Sex in Puerto Rico," Greenlaw Hall/Donovan Lounge, 5:00 p.m. Duke University, April 6: Lectures: Roberston Scholar in Residence, Lecture 4, "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. |
PROJECT ARCHIVES
The CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
Lecture Series BOOKS IN PROGRESS Broken Things: Race and the Aesthetics of Disrepair [Links to book talks by chapters below] I. Flesh II. Bones III. Bodies IV. Systems The Black an Brown Sensorium: On Freedom's Afterlives in the Democratic Commons [Links to book talks by chapters below] I. Sight II. Sound III. Touch IV. Smell V. Taste VI. Intuition ARCHIVED BLOG: Academic Ink (Occasional pieces on academia, educational equity, and the end/s of multiculturalism) BLOGS, JOURNALS, AND MEDIA I OFTEN TURN TO: Frieze Jacobin Journal of Transnational American Studies Nonsite The Modernism Lab (Anglo and Anglo American focus) Poetry Foundation Jorge Luis Borges' Norton Lectures of Poetry (1967-68) BOOK BLOGS: Broken Things: The Aesthetics of Disrepair Being Brown Empire's Remains Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing The Latino Body |