Sexing the Borderlands at UT Austin

Sexing the Borderlands: Conference at UT Austin, 12-13 October 2012 

The Brown Commons: The Sense of Wildness 

Keynote by José Esteban Muñoz, NYU

Borders, Portals, and Spatial Reorientations

Moderator and Discussant: Neville Hoade, Department of English

Body Portals: Sexuality and Flows through Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer

Carlos Decena, Rutgers University

Gentrify My Love: On the Borders of Neighborly Desire

Richard Rodriguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Shameless Sex: From Porfirian Ruins to the UFW 

Moderator and Discussant: Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, CMAS and Department of American Studies

Desire Among the Ruins: Naked Children and the Politics of Pleasure in American Photographs of Porfirian Mexico

Jason Ruiz, Notre Dame University

“Indiscriminate and Shameless Sex”: The Strategic Use of Sexuality by the United Farm Workers

Ana Minian, Stanford University

Circum-Gulf Pedagogies of the New Borderlands: Sexuality, Blackness, and Queering “The” Nation

Moderator and Discussant: Lyndon Gill, African and African Diaspora Studies 

Vocal Pedagogy: Ruth Fernández and the Role of the ‘Musical’ in Colonial Puerto Rico

Licia Fiol Matta, CUNY Lehman College

Triangulated Racialized Sexualities: Spectatorship and Cross-Border Desires and Anxieties in Mexican Rumbera Cinema, 1940s-1950s

Laura Gutierrez, The University of Arizona