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”