Abstract: Gloria Anzaldúa’s name is predominantly associated with her much anthologized text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Published in 1987, Anzaldúa’s sui-generis text has become a staple in courses on Border Studies, Gender Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, etc. Nonetheless, Anzaldúa wrote … Read more
***Due to COVID-19 This Event Has Been Rescheduled for Fall 2020*** Click here to visit our page for the Fall 2020 Symposium. Call for Papers The UNC Latina/o Studies Program Graduate Symposium March 17, 2020, 4PM-6PM, Greenlaw Hall 223 (Donovan … Read more
Panel: Shared Spaces & Lives: Overlapping and Discrete Experiences “Modern Transnational Familia: Exploring Cultural Gaps in the Experiences of Latinx Families,” Santiago Bejarano Hernandez “Xing Borders: TRANSPLANTation as Survival and Subversion in the Fiction of María Luisa Bombal and Isabel … Read more
Panel: Ecological Ruminations, Diagrams, and Philosophies “Colonial Saints Subverted by an Indigenous Brush: Cecilia Vicuña’s pre-Pinochet Paintings,” emilio jesús taiveaho peláez “Another Way of Seeing: Latinx Environmental Existentialism in Cortázar’s ‘Axolotl,'” Krysten Voelkner To attend, click on this Zoom Link or copy … Read more
Panel: (E)merging Bodies: Environmental Hazards and Vulnerable Populations in LatinX Ecopoetics “The Lithic Poetics of Limestone: Porosity and Vulnerability in a Warming World,” Christine Johns “‘A Place with no public memory’: Pueblo and Nuevomexicano experience at the Los Alamos Nuclear … Read more
Miss the live event? Check out the video recording! What is the place of poetry during a global pandemic? Accompanying the release of emilio’s debut collection of poetry, landskips (words are a hard look), a collaboration with The Concern … Read more
The University Libraries and the Carolina LatinX Center are hosting an event to improve Wikipedia's articles about Latinx heritage. There will be a live Zoom event on October 7, as well as an asynchronous option from October 1-15. Visit the … Read more
Join our friends at Brandeis for a multimedia presentation and panel discussion about the emotional, literary and visual iterations of loss and reclaimed identity in post-Holocaust Latin American feminist literature. Poet and scholar Marjorie Agosín and photographer Samuel Shats explore … Read more
Join Prof. Stephanie Elizondo Griest in a virtual celebration marking Dia de los Muertos / The Day of the Dead. Together as a community, we will honor those we have lost through altar-making, writing prompts, music, and storytelling. Sunday, November 1, 2020 from 5-6 pm EST *Register in advance at: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtd-6uqzsoEtIK1lMQoWwSuPQNKO5e1leM … Read more
Preparing for the Upended World of Work Forum Join us for a virtual forum as Scott Carlson, a Chronicle senior writer, is joined by higher-ed leaders and experts as they examine the future of work and how colleges can prepare for it. … Read more
