LATINX VISIONS 2.0 SCHEDULE:
**Mountain Time**
Monday, November 3:
9:00AM-10:00AM:
“Latinx Visions: One Planet, Many Worlds”
Matthew David Goodwin, Cathryn Merla-Watson, Taryne Jade Taylor
10:00AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Speaker #1: David Vasquez: “Decolonial Environmentalisms and Speculative Futurity: Latinx Hope During Dark Times”
(Respondent: Matthew David Goodwin)
11:15AM-11:30AM:
Break
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Speaker #2: Jessica Hernandez: “Indigenous Science and the Diaspora”
(Respondent: Divana Olivas)
12:30PM-12:45PM:
Break
12:45PM-1:45PM:
Room 1: Panel: “SF Film and Latinx Representation"
Moderator: Sergio Garza
1. Rene Arteaga: “Death of a Unicorn”: Analyzing depictions of Latinx stereotypes in contemporary American sci-fi films
2. Andrea Escalante: “The Burden of the Latino/a Body: Analyzing David Martinez in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners”
Room 2: Author/Artist Talks:
Moderator: Sebastian Sosa-Reese
1. David Bowles: “The Midwife: Leveraging Mexica Futurism to Birth a Better Future”
2. Clara Elena García: “From Monsters to Mortals: Mixing Myths and Meaning in Modern-day Paraguay”
3. Rafael Flores Jr.: “The Return of Camazotz, A Mayan Gothic Horror Comic”
1:45PM-2:00PM:
Break
2:00PM-3:00PM
Room 1: Roundtable: “How the Land Dreams with Us: Latinx Futurities and the Afterlife of Carceral Space”
Dan Alfaros-Kabella (Moderator), Chandra Laborde, Santana Tapia, Gemma Giron, Lea McGeever, Slay Latham, Zei Zeiser
Room 2: Panel: “Latin American SF”
Moderator: Alonso Arana
1. Patrick Brock: “Transculturality and genre infrastructure in Latin American fantasy”
2. Daniel Figueroa-Arias: “Explorando la antiutopía y la distopía latinoamericana, de la mano de Andrea Chapela y Felipe Tapia”
Tuesday, November 4:
9:00AM-10:00AM:
Speaker #3: Camilla Fojas: “Wild Border”
(Respondent: Danielle Garcia-Karr)
10:00AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Speaker #4:"From Mendoza's Spin Rack to Speculative Futures: An Auto-Speculative Comics Odyssey"
Frederick Luis Aldama, aka Professor LatinX
(Respondent: Matthew David Goodwin)
11:15AM-11:30AM:
Break
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Speaker #5:Writing Workshop:
Moderator:
Brenda Peynado
12:30PM-12:45PM:
Break
12:45PM-1:45PM:
Room 1: Panel: “Speculating the Space-Time of Trauma”
Moderator:
1. Kristy Ulibarri: “The Architecture of Memory: Unsettling Spatio-Temporal Narratives in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House”
2. Stacy J. Lettman: “Chaos and the Burnt Subject: The Trickster's Ontological Despair under Racial Capitalism in Lydia Cabrera’s Folktale ‘Papa Turtle and Papa Tiger’”
Room 2: Panel: “Latinx Hauntings”
Moderator: Faith Jackson
1. Catilia Romero: “Faith vs. the Supernatural”
2. Maritza Cardona: “The Past Never Leaves Us: Hauntology in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in The Ring”
1:45PM-2:00PM:
Break
2:00PM-3:00PM
Room 1: Panel: “The Pan-Latinx, Black, and Indigenous Speculative Imaginary”
Moderator: Sergio Garza
1. Jennifer Harford Vargas: “The Speculative Migrant Futures of el Hueco”
2. Gustavo Alberto Garcia: “Positron Island: Drexciya, the Bermuda Triangle, and Afro-Latinx Identities”
3. Lucas Melgoza: “Ancient Technology Remixed: Debit’s Use of Mayan Music to Speculate Indigenous Futures”
Room 2: Performances:
Moderator: Alonso Arana
1. Gemma Giron: “Fragmentos desde ICE: Una cineasta trans Migrante de Comptons”
2. Andres Correa: “Caras en Juicio”
Wednesday, November 5:
9:00AM-10:00AM:
Room 1: Panel: “Speculative Turns in Salvadoran and Puerto Rican Cultural Production”
Moderator: Fanni Gulyás
1. Aaron Aguilar-Ramírez: “Rubén Reyes Jr.’s Estranged Realism in There is a Río Grande in Heaven”
2. Mariana Ruiz-González: “The Speculative New Embodiment of the Female Hero Through the Soundscape in the Comic La Borinqueña by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez”
3. Danny Steinberg: “Flipping the Trope of the White Boyfriend in Rubén Reyes Jr.’s ‘He Eats His Own’”
4. Nicole Martínez Céspedes: “Bad Bunny’s Speculative Regetón and New Masculine Performance in ‘Ella perrea sola,’ ‘Andrea’ and ‘Solo de mí’”
Room 2: Panel: “Non-Human Latinx and Indigenous Futurisms”
Moderator:
1. Jose Luis Jimenez-Figarotti: “Queer Fluidity, Disability and Resistance in ‘Planting Future; A Chartreuse Symphony’: Subverting Normative Constructs through Transmedia Narratives”
2. Tace Hedrick: “‘To Leave the Concrete Reality of this World and Expand It’: Speculative Non-Fiction and Gloría Anzaldúa’s Animal Bodies”
3. Julia Reade: “Third Space Agency, the Decolonizing Subject, and Chicanafuturism in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra (2023)”
10:00AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Speaker #6: E.G. Condé (Esteban Gonzalez): “Taínofuturism: An ancestral canvas for building Antillean futures of ecological renewal”
(Respondent: Dakota Darwin)
11:15AM-11:30AM:
Break
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Speaker #7: Nicola Hunte: “In Search of Cross-Cultural Communities in Speculative Fiction”
(Respondent: Taryne Jade Taylor)
12:30PM-12:45PM:
Break
12:45PM-1:45PM:
Room 1: Panel: “New Latinx Speculative Narratives”
Moderator: Ashley Perry
1. Jesus Montaño: “The Logic of Transformations in Anna-Marie McLemore’s Queer YA Magical Environments”
2. Irma J. Zamora Fuerte: “Rigidity means death”: Stretching out Roots, Finding Justice, and Accepting Identity in Lobizona and Cemetery Boys”
3. Alonso Arana: “Lists, Aliens, Monsters, and Angels: Short Narratives on the Environmental Degradation of Borderland Spaces”
Room 2: Writing Workshop:
Moderator: Fanni Gulyás
Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos: “Watch out for wormholes: ANCHORED PASTS AND DYNAMIC DUOS IN GRAPHIC STORYTELLING”
1:45PM-2:00PM:
Break
2:00PM-3:00PM
Room 1: Panel: “Latinx Speculative Performance, Art, and Film”
Moderator: Colton Campbell
1. Katherine Deck-Portillo: “Cosmic Citizenship and Ecological Futures in ProjectMASA”
2. Katherine Gillen: “Spectral Shakespeare: Colonial Violence and the Politics of Borderlands Adaptation”
Room 2: Creative Writing Panel: “New Mexico and Florida Futurisms”
Moderator: Christy Frederick
1. Alexander Veal
2. Ashley Martinez
3. Colton Campbell
Thursday, November 6:
9:00AM-10:00AM:
Room 1: Panel: “The Glitch in the Caribbean Matrix: A Concept, Theory, and Method for Caribbean Speculative and Science Fiction”
Moderator: Elton Johnson
1. Jarrel De Matas
2. Jacinth Howard
Room 2: Panel: “A Multimodal Moveable Feast: Taco Trucks and Identity”
Moderator: Alex Banks
1. Gabriela C. Zapata
2. María Irene Moyna
10:00AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Speaker #8: William Nericcio: “Mexican Love Robots in Our American Renaissance Age of Fear Hate and Loathing”
(Respondent: Colton Campbell)
11:15AM-11:30AM:
Break
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Room 1: Panel: “Speculative Performance and Documentary Film”
Moderator: Colton Campbell
1. Jose Luis Benavides: “The Fall of Aztlán: Video-Art for Decolonial Latinx Futures”
2. Luis Valderas: "05 ProjectMASA5x5 The Trailer Redux"
Room 2: Writing Workshop:
Moderator: Pilar García Guzmán
Kristian Macaron: “Place, Space & Deep Time: A Writing Workshop”
12:30PM-12:45PM:
Break
12:45PM-1:45PM:
Room 1: Panel: “Aquatic Latinidades”
Moderator: Ashley Martinez
1. Paloma Aguirre: "Black and Latinx Co-conspiratorship in Aquatic Futurisms"
2. Danielle Garcia-Karr: “Undrownable: Ophelia and La Llorona in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic”
3. Rose Padilla: “Nadie Sin Amor: Love and Mesoamerican Aquafuturisms in The Account and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Room 2: Writing Workshop:
Moderator:
Gladys Ochoa: “Maintaining your mind during the storms”
1:45PM-2:00PM:
Break
2:00PM-3:00PM
Room 1: Roundtable: “Xicanxfuturism: Hope in the Coming Plurality”
Scott Duncan (Moderator), E.C. Dukes, Juan G. Berumen, Osmani Ochoa, Luis Valderas
Room 2: Panel: “Chicana Futurisms”
Moderator: Christy Frederick
1. Danny Saldana: “The Magical & the Real: Magical Realism as a Genre of Chicano Resistance”
2. Aria Acevedo: “A New Chicana Beyond the Borderlands”
3. Imelda Mendoza: “Chicana Feminism in Gothic Literature: Curanderismo”
Friday, November 7:
9:00AM-10:00AM:
Speaker #9: Joy Sanchez-Taylor: “Blurring the Line between Magic and Magical Realism in Contemporary Latinx Fantasy”
(Respondent: Taryne Jade Taylor)
10:00AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Speaker #10: Catherine S. Ramírez: “Mothers, Migrants, Monsters: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men and the Fiftieth Anniversary of Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time”
(Respondent: Cathryn Merla-Watson)
11:15AM-11:30AM:
Break
11:30AM-12:30PM:
Speaker #11: Jonathan Leal: “This Place, In Time: Letter to a Friend in Days Unknown”
(Respondent: Cathryn Merla-Watson)
12:30PM-1:00PM:
Closing Celebration and Future Plans
Matthew David Goodwin, Cathryn Merla-Watson, Taryne Jade Taylor