Events

Dear Friends, We hope you will come and break bread with us at our spring 2020 Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla open house. At the café y charla, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy some delicious pupusas and … Read more

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