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: Tim Granger
Brenda Peynado
12:30PM-12:45PM:
Break
12:45PM-1:45PM:
Room 1: Panel: “Speculating the Space-Time of Trauma”
Moderator: Joe Garcia
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 Uncanny, Latinx Hauntings”
Moderator: Faith Jackson
1. Yvette Chairez: “Object-ification in the (Uncanny) Valley: The Invasive Aesthetics of Barbara Sanchez-Kane”
2. Catilia Romero: “Faith vs. the Supernatural”
3. Maritza Cardona: “The Past Never Leaves Us: Hauntology in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in The Ring”
1:45PM-2:00PM:
Break
2:00PM-3:30PM
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: “The Hearing”