The colloquium series features speakers from our unit and universities across the United States to lecture on their latest research dealing with Latina/o issues. It is designed to promote intellectual engagement and foster community among faculty and students interested in Latina/o Studies at Illinois.
October 25, 2023 Gabriela G. Corona Valencia Countering Eugenic Archival Violence: Restorying the Life of Concepcion Ruiz
October 11, 2023 Camila Gavin-Bravo "It was the Freest Country in the Hemisphere": Transnational Feminisms and the Chile Solidarity Movement
November 9, 2022 Joshua Redwine Vomiting Up Brown: Queer Regurgitative Rebellions and Repairs
October 26, 2022 Vicente Carrillo Brown Regions, White Galleries: rafa esparza’s “de la Calle”
November 3, 2021 Jack Caraves Trans Gestures: Regulation, Embodiment, and Care Work in Trans Latinx Lives
October 13, 2021 Mauricio Ramirez Visualizing Memories of Space and Belonging: U.S. Central American Art of San Francisco’s Mission District
April 21, 2021 Janett Barragán Miranda The Struggle for Food Assistance in the Mexican-Origin Community
November 4, 2020 Elizabeth Velasquez Estrada Intersectional Justice Denied: Dominant Masculinity, Racialization, and Violence in El Salvador's Post-Accords Peacemaking
October 14, 2020 Yessica Garcia Hernandez “No es Pirujeria, No es Pirujeria, Para Nada!” Jenni's Sonic Identities and the Surrogation of Latina Deviance
September 30, 2020 An Evening with Elizabeth Acevedo
February 21, 2020 Xavier Ramirez & Dr. Mirelsie Velazquez, “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home”: A Dialogue with LLS Alums
October 30, 2019 Maria Lopez-Garcia, Assembling Laboring Bodies: Migrant Domestic Work and the Aesthetics of Precarity
October 9, 2019 Maria Eugenia Cotera & Maylei Blackwell, Chicanas Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
September 25, 2019 Eddie Bonilla, Chicana/o Communists and the Fights for Chicano Studies and MEChA During the 1970s and 1980s
April 3, 2019 Rebecca Schreiber, The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility
October 17, 2018 Yuridia Ramirez, Re-rooting Indigeneity: And Uprising, a Saint Day Festival, and Transborder Ecology
March 1, 2018 Licia Fiol-Matta, Voice in the Archive: Listening to the Counterintuitive
November 15, 2017 Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, We Offer Our Lives as a Moral Protest: High-Risk Activism, Spectacular Speech, and the 1994 UC Santa Barbara Hunger Strike
October 18, 2017 Nancy Raquel Mirabal, An Unthinkable History: Afro-Cuban Revolutionary Politics in New York, 1886-1957
September 27, 2017 Angelica Camacho, Pelican Bay California Prisoner Hunger Strikes, Family Uprisings, and Learning to Listen
October 12, 2016 Jose A. de la Garza Valenzuela, High-Risk Citizenship: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Criminal Exposure, and Queer Belonging in Michael Nava's The Death of Friends
September 26, 2016 Nando Sigona, The "Refugee Crisis" and the Production of "Illegality" in the EU
September 21, 2016 Sarah Margarita Quesada, Testing the Limits: Approaches to Reading West African Heritage Tourism in Latina Fiction
November 4, 2015 Natalie Lira, Allies, Resisters, and Runaways: Locating Agency and Defiance in Mexican-Origin Patient's Reactions to Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1920-1950
October 7, 2015 David Luis Glisch-Sanchez, Racial Utterances: Microaggressions, Algorithms of Pain, and Queer Latin@s
September 30, 2015 Marla Ramirez, Transgenerational Illegality: The Mexican Repatriation Program & Banishment of U.S. Citizens
November 12, 2014 David Luis Glisch-Sanchez, Algorithms of Pain: Towards an Understanding of TLGBQ Latin@ Narratives of Harm
November 5, 2014 Ana Soltero Lopez, Examining the Role of “Illegality” on the Socialization Practices and Identity Sense-Making among Undocumented Latina/o Students
October 1, 2014 Claudia Sandoval, Conjuring Immigrant Racial Threat: Using Citizenship Status to Shape Black-Latino Relations in US Politics
March 5, 2014 Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Tal Como Somos (Just as we are): Film Screening and Discussion
February 12, 2014 Lorena Garcia,Playin’ it Safe: Reframing the Sexual Lives of Latina Youth
November 13, 2013 Karen Jaime, Queer Poetry in Loisaida: Nuyorican History, Miguelito Piñero, and an Emerging Aesthetic
October 2, 2013 Arely Zimmerman, Racialized Legality and the Politics of Liminal Citizenship among Central Americans in the United States