Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies at a Crossroads

About This Event

“Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies at a Crossroads” is a one-day in-person symposium to reflect on the state of these fields, and their intersections, in a time of uncertainty but also hope. The event will consist of three distinct types of sessions: Two keynote addresses “Research Showcase” “In the Classroom" In addition to inviting participants to reflect on what research and teaching in our fields look like in our current times, this activity is also meant to resume the in-person work of the LELACS Working Group, after a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Featured Guests

Presenting Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon (Colgate University) Chrystian Zegarra (Colgate University) Gail A. Bulman (Syracuse University) Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti (SUNY Oswego) Presenting Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance Gail A. Bulman (Syracuse University) “Racialized Esthetics and China as Décor” Mary Kate Donovan (Skidmore College) Keynote address: “Cervantine Blackness” Nicholas R. Jones (Yale University) “Encouraging Creativity and Increasing Motivation: Final Projects in Spanish Language and Spanish American Literature Courses” Beatriz Loyola (Skidmore College) “Teaching Transatlantic Connections among Spanish-Speaking Countries” Lisette Balabarca (Siena College) “Narrating Culture, Building Community: Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Classroom” Silvia Mejía (The College of Saint Rose) Keynote address: “Co-Flourishing in the Pluriverse: Four Gifts for Public Practice from the Ibero-American Environmental Humanities” Laura Barbas Rhoden (Wofford College)

Co-sponsors

Department of World Languages and Literatures Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program Skidmore College