The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory Speculation both studies and utilizes through practice the geographically dispersed collections of multilingual documents and multimedia objects that constitute the Latinx archive. It creates a space for interdisciplinary dialogue and knowledge production in fields including cultural and intellectual history, literary analysis, translation, creative writing, and critical archive studies. A group of six core faculty shares with graduate fellows a scaffolded set of activities that will begin each year with monthly meetings as a reading group, move through multiple virtual and in-person archive visits, and culminate in presentations of original work at public symposia.

Goals

• Produce new modes of thinking about the Latinx past by engaging models of temporality that do not presume common origins or unbroken continuities and traditions.

• Circulate knowledge among scholars at different career stages who come in with varying regional and ethno-national interests.

• Transform interdisciplinary scholarship, incubate creative projects, stimulate improved classroom practice, and engage general audiences with the question of Latinx memory.