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: Matthew David Goodwin
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”