12:00-10:00 pm

Check-in:
UIC Academic and Residential Complex
940 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Info about how to check in here

6:00-9:00 pm

Welcome Dinner

ATHENA Restaurant
Grecian Key Room
212 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60661

10:00 am-1:00 pm

Location: UIC Student Center East
Cardinal Room
750 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607

10:00-10:20 am Brunch


10:20-11:15 am Welcome + Introductions

• Olga Herrera, Managing Director, Crossing Latinidades

• María de los Angeles Torres, PI Crossing Latinidades

• Daniel Borzutzky, PI Crossing Latinidades
  
  

30-Second Elevator Pitch
All Participants

Keynote Speaker

Cuban Studies at its Crossroads with Latino Studies

María de los Angeles Torres, PI Crossing Latinidades and University Distinguished Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, UIC

11:15 am-1:00 pm Session 1

Crossing Latinidades Climate and Environmental Justice

• “Harnessing Interdisciplinary Methods to Collect Community Stories on EJ,” Rosa Cabrera, Executive Director, UIC Rafael Cintrón Ortíz Latino Cultural Center

• “Crossing Humboldt Park and Puerto Rico,” Ralph Cintrón, Professor Emeritus, English, University of Illinois Chicago

• "Latine Placemaking in Geography and Narrative,” Rachel Havrelock, Professor, English, University of Illinois Chicago

 1:00 pm No Sessions

Experience the city of Chicago on your own

See list of suggested activities by our very own Isabela Ortega

8:30 am-4:00 pm

Location: UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:30-8:45 am Coffee + Breakfast

8:45-10:00am Session 2

Conversation: The Present Moment: Latino Studies and the Ways Ahead

Amalia Pallares, Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, Arizona State University and Crossing Latinidades Former PI and Consultant

All participants

10:15-12:30 pm Session 3

Latinx Performance: Critical Foundations and Possibilities

Albert Sergio Laguna, Associate Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University

All Participants

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-4:00 Session 4

Crossing Latinidades Writing Lab

• Deanna Ledezma, Crossing Latinidades Writing LAB Director, UIC

• Albert Sergio Laguna, Associate Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University

• Tatiana Reinoza, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame

8:00 am-4:00 pm

Location: UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:00-8:30 am Coffee + Breakfast

8:30-9:45 am Session 5

Writing Laboratory: Generative Workshop and Dissertation Poetics

Daniel Borzutzky, Crossing Latinidades PI and Associate Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago   

10:00-12:30 Session 6

Feminist, Queer, and Trans Latinx and Caribbean Diasporic Ruptures

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-4:30 pm Session 7

Claiming Belonging Through Narrative: Identity, Testimony, Place

Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of Kansas

8:30 am-8:00 pm

UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

8:30-9:00 am Coffee + Breakfast

9:00-10:30 am Session 8

Latinx Desert Forms

• Daniel Borzutzky, Associate Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

• Francisco Robles, Associate Professor, English, Latino Studies & Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame

• Sergio Delgado Moya, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of Chicago

10:30-11:30 am Session 9

Art and Visual Culture

• “Archival Engagements with Latinx Art, Photography, and Material Culture,” Deanna Ledezma, Director of the Writing LAB, UIC Postdoctoral Research Associate & Independent Scholar and Curator 

• “Latinx Art: A Framework for Close Looking,” Tatiana Reinoza, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame
  
  

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm Q & A

Drs. Ledezma and Reinoza Discussion

3:30 pm Museum Visit

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART
1852 West 19th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

• Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director and Chief Curator

• Raquel Aguiñaga, Registrar

5:00 pm Artist Studio Visit

Héctor Duarte, Visual Artist and Muralist, 1900 W Cullerton St, Chicago, IL 60608

6:15 pm Dinner

Taquería El Mezquite
1756 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

8:30 am-4:30 pm

UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:30-9:00 am Coffee + Breakfast

9:00-12:00 pm Session 10

Communicating and Contesting Ethnoracial, Geopolitical and Linguistic Borders of Latinidad

Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education & Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-4:00 pm Session 11

Listening as Method: New Directions in Latino Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies

Esther Diaz Martín, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, UIC

5:45 pm Picnic + Concert

The Sacred Souls
Millenium Park Summer Music Series
Jay Pritzker Pavillion

Free Admission

Gates open at 5:00 pm

8:30 am-4:15 pm

UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:30-9:00 am Coffee + Breakfast

9:00 am- 12:00 pmSession 12

Archives of the Present Past: Diaspora, Displacement in a Puerto Rican City

Yomaira Figueroa Vásquez, Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and Director, Center for Puerto Rican Studies,
Hunter College, CUNY

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:30

Participants Presentations

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:15

Participants Presentations

9:00 am-4:45 pm

Location TBD

9:00-9:30 am Coffee + Breakfast

9:30 am- 11:00 am

Participants Presentations

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30 Participants Presentations

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-3:00 pm

Participants Presentations

3:00-3:15 pm Break

3:15-4:45 pm

Participants Presentations

8:00-12:00 pm Check-out UIC Housing

All linens must be left in rooms upon final departure from the apartment for collection. Please drop keys/access cards at the front desk. You are responsible for lost keys/access cards.