4:00-6:00 PM

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

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6:00-9:00 PM

Welcome Dinner

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

10:00 am-2:00 pm
Location: UIC Student Center East
Cardinal Room
750 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607

10:00-10:30 AM

Brunch

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10:30-11:45 AM

Welcome + Orientation

• Olga Herrera, Managing Director, Crossing Latinidades

• Deanna Ledezma, Director of the Crossing Latinidades Writing Lab and Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Daniel Borzutzky, Principal Investigator, Crossing Latinidades, LAS Distinguished Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies

30-Second Elevator Pitch
All Participants

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11:45 AM

About Crossing Latinidades

Amalia Pallares, Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, Arizona State University

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12:15 PM

Session 1: Queer and Trans Latinx and Caribbean Diasporic Ruptures

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

Discussion: Alfonso Ayala III, Raúl Romo

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2:00 PM On Your Own

Experience the city of Chicago. See list of suggested activities by our very own Frida Sanchez Vega '22

8:30 AM-4:00 PM
Location: UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:30-9:00 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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9:00-9:15 AM

Crossing Latinidades and Latino Studies

María de los Ángeles Torres, University Distinguished Professor  

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9:30-11:00 AM

Session 2: From Brokering Literacy to Taco Literacy: A Portrait of a Literacy Research Trajectory

Steven Alvarez, Professor, English, St. John University

Discussion: Karla Enedina Gómez-Pelayo, Amanda Palacios

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11:00-11:15 AM

Break

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11:15 AM-12:45 PM

Session 3: Latinx Performance: Critical Foundations and Possibilities

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

Discussion: Gabriela Lua, Carla Suarez Soto

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12:45-1:30 PM

Lunch

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1:30-2:30 PM

Session 4: Intro to the Crossing Latinidades Writing Lab

Deanna Ledezma, Crossing Latinidades Writing Lab Director, University of Illinois Chicago

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

Francisco E. Robles, Associate Professor, English, Latino Studies and Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame

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2:30 PM

Writing Groups

Institute for the Humanities, ACR Rooms

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6:00 PM Music Event (Recommended)

Arrested Development, Linda Sol,DJ Ca$h Era
Millennium Park Summer Music Series

Concert Starts at 6:30 PM

*Find us in the front right area of the lawn with picnic blankets

Food & Drinks: BYO & concession stand at park

8:00 am-4:30 pm
UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

Puerto Rican Cultural Center + Humboldt Park (Walking Tour and Professor Rosa), 2531 W. Division St, Paseo Boricua, Chicago, IL, 60622

8:00-8:30 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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8:30-10:30 AM

Session 5: Annotating the Ruins: The Afterlives of Sugar in Puerto Rico 

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

Discussion: Felicity Gutierrez, Roberto Ortega, Hope Cullinan

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10:30 AM

Depart for Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Share Ubers

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11:00 AM

Meet outside Puerto Rican Cultural Center
2548 W. Division St., Chicago, IL 60622

Walking Tour Humboldt Park + Paseo Boricua
José López, Puerto Rican Cultural Center and UIC Lecturer

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11:00 AM

Meet outside Puerto Rican Cultural Center

Waking Tour Humboldt Park + Paseo Boricua José López, Puerto Rican Cultural Center and UIC Lecturer

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12:30 PM

Lunch + Conversation with José López, Area 787 Restaurant, The Mercado

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1:30-3:30 PM

Session 6: Raciolinguistic Reckonings: Race, Language, and Pedagogies of Accountability Across Latinx Classrooms and Communities 

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

Discussion: Jonathan Espinosa, Daisy Gomez-Fuentes, Monika Cantu, Jacqueline White

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4:00-5:00 PM

National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
Exhibition: Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People

Curators: Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Dr. Windy M. Cosme Rosario, Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez

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6:00 PM

Poetry Reading
Madison Street Books
1127 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60607

Daniel Borzutzky, University of Illinois Chicago
Moni Garcia, University of Illinois Chicago
mónica teresa ortiz, Texas Tech
jo reyes, Texas Tech
Camilo Roldan, University of Houston

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7:45 PM

Dinner

Dinner split into two groups
(TBC possibly Talay Restaurant + Other)
1222 W. Madison Street, Chicago

8:30 AM-8:00 PM
UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:00-8:30 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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8:30-10:30 AM

Session 7: Panel on Latinx Desert Forms

• The Desert Poetics of the Americas, Daniel Borzutzky, LAS Distinguished Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

• 'In exile from the Earth itself:' Fragments and Fieldnotes from the Sonoran Desert. Barbara Sostaita, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

• Reconsidering Migration History through Desert Studies, Francisco Robles, Associate Professor, English, Latino Studies &
  Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame

Discussion: Lynda Lopez, Jesus Sanchez, Ana Ponciano, Esteban Limon

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10:45-12:30 PM

Session 8: Impersonating ‘la negrita’: Blackface Performance as Resistance

Danielle Roper, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Latin American Literature, University of Chicago

Discussion: Christy Frederick, Karen Valle Frias: Christy Frederick, Karen Valle Frias

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12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch

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1:30-3:30 PM

Session 9: Latinx Visual Culture

• How To Do Things with Latinx Print Culture, Sergio Delgado Moya, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of Chicago

• Latinx Photography: Research, Writing, and Creative Practices, Deanna Ledezma, Art Historian & Director, Crossing Latinidades Writing Lab, University of Illinois Chicago
  
  Discussion: Valerie Chavez, Cynthia de la Rosa, Alejandra Mejia-Pulido, Angelica Ortiz
  

8:00 AM-4:30 PM
UIC Institute for the Humanities
1007 W Harrison St Suite 153 Chicago, IL 60607

8:00-8:30 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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8:30-10:15 AM

Session 10: Writing Laboratory: Generative Workshop and Dissertation Poetics

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

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10:30-12:30 PM

Session 11: ART & VISUAL CULTURE

Art Writing Along the Diagonal: Latinidades / Los Angeles, Roberto Tejada,Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, English, University of Houston

Discussion: Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia, Julia Nava, Carla Torres

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12:30-1:00 PM

Lunch

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1:00-2:00 PM

Session 12: Virtual Panel, Cuba in Angola at 50: Remembrance, Trauma and the Afterlives of War

• María de los Ángeles Torres, UIC

• Ivette Leyva, Journalist and creator of Blog, Guerra en Angola

• Carla Valdés León, Director, Days of December (documental)

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2:00-2:30

Break

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2:30-3:30 PM

Humanities Methodologies Zoom Discussion

María de los Ángeles Torres, Distinguished University Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

Michael J. Bustamante, Associate Professor of History, and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair of Cuban and Cuban American Studies, University of Miami

Discussion: ethen peña, José Ortiz-Angeles

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6:00 PM

Suggested: Millennium Park Summer Music Series

Let the Spirit Out! A Jubilant Celebration of Juneteenth
                       

8:30 am-4:15 PM
UIC Institute for the Humanities
+ ARC 32

8:30-9:00 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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9:00-11:00 AM

Session 13: Borderland Epistemologies, Chicana Feminist Praxis and Ethnography

Michelle Téllez, Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies, The University of Arizona

Discussion: Gabriela Aros, Baltazar Campos, Esteban Limon, Xóchitl Santillan, Isabel Verduzco

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11:00-11:15 AM

Break

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11:15 AM-12:30 PM

Participant Presentations, Albert Laguna's Group

Mónika Pamela Cantú
Hope Rachel Cullinan
Lynda Lopez
Julia Carolyn Nava
Roberto Ortega
José Alfredo Ortiz-Angeles
Ana Liseth Ponciano

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12:30-1:30 PM Lunch

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1:30 PM

Afternoon Off: Juneteenth Activities in Chicago

9:00 AM-4:45 PM
UIC Student Center East, Room 301

9:00-9:30 AM

Coffee + Breakfast

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9:30-11:00 PM

Participants Presentations: Albert Laguna's Group

jo reyes
Camilo Roldán
Carla Suarez Soto
Karen Alejandra Valle Frias
Jacqueline Alexandra White

Participants Presentations: Deanna Ledezma's Group

Gabriela Aros
Baltazar Campos
Valerie Joyce Chavez

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11:00-11:15 AM

Break

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11:15 AM-12:30 PM

Participants Presentations: Ledezma’s Group

Cynthia Aramara De La Rosa Sanchez
Daisy Stephanie Gomez-Fuentes
Esteban Limon
Alejandra D. Mejia-Pulido
Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia
Angelica Ortiz

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12:30-1:15 PM

Lunch

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Participants Presentations: Deanna Ledezma’s Group

Jesus Sanchez
Xóchitl Lizeth Santillán Reyna
Isabel Verduzco

Participant Presentations: Francisco Robles’s Group

Alfonso Ayala III
Jonathan Espinoza
Christy Denise Fredrick
Moni Garcia

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2:45-3:00 PM

Break

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3:00-4:45 PM

Participant Presentations: Francisco Robles’s Group

Karla Enedina Gomez-Pelayo
Felicity Bianca Gutierrez
Gabriela Lúa
Mónica Teresa Ortiz
Amanda Palacios
ethen peña
Raúl Daniel Romo Delgadillo
Carla Daniella Torres

8:00 AM-10:00 PM

Check-out: UIC Academic and Residential Complex

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