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: Matthew David Goodwin
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