Queer Latinidades at Northwestern University

Queer Latinidades: Toward a Politics of Possibility

Program for Queer Latinidades

Queer Latinidades is a daylong conference to be held at Northwestern University on May 22, 2015. It features leading scholars in the field such as Susana Peña (Bowling Green State University), Francisco Galarte (University of Arizona), Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (American University), Sandra Soto (University of Arizona), and Juana María Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley). The Puerto Rican writer Charles Rice-González will offer a reading. Opening remarks by Frances Aparicio and closing remarks by Ramón Rivera-Servera. Lourdes Torres, Héctor Carrillo, and Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez will serve as panel chairs. Conference also includes several doctoral students: Aarón Aguilar-Ramírez, Gabriel Mayora, and Jorge Mena. Event will take place at the Peggy Dow Elmerich Auditorium, Annie May Swift Hall, 1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL.