Intensiones: Translation, Migration, Queer Agency and Activism in Latino América

Queer/Cuir Americas Working Group* and

Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University

Intensiones: 

Translation, Migration, Queer Agency

and Activism in Latino América

May 25, 2016

Welcome (9:30): Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (LALSI, Fordham) and María Amelia Viteri (Universidad de San Francisco, Quito)

Session I (10:00 -12:00): Translations, Migrations, Epistemic Trajectories and Detours in Queer Theory from Latino América

Gabriela Arguedas and Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)

Diego Falconí (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Larry La Fountain-Stokes (University of Michigan)

Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal (UC Santa Cruz)

Mario Pecheny (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Suyapa Portillo (Pitzer College)

Rubén Ríos Avila (NYU)

Marcelo Spitzner (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Susana Vargas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Session II (1:30-3:30): Transnational Articulations: Developing Proposals for Cuir Collaborative Projects for/fromLatino América

Marisa Belausteguigoitia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Fernando Blanco (Bucknell University)

Santiago Castellanos (Universidad de San Francisco, Quito)

Carlos Decena (Rutgers University)

Licia Fiol-Matta (NYU)

Amy Lind (University of Cincinnati)

Juliana Martínez (American University)

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Rutgers University)

Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)

Joseph Pierce (SUNY Stony Brook)

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (American University)

South Lounge

Fordham University-Lincoln Center

113 W. 60th Street, New York City

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University

*The Queer/Cuir Americas Working Group is a group of Latin American and Latino scholars and activists interested in the relationship between queer theory in its various iterations and translations and cultural agency and activism in the Americas.

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.