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Poet and Prof. Saum-Pascual has two digital poetry works featured at the exhibition "Caracteres" at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City, on display April 21-May 12, 2023.

Professor Julia Chang (Cornell University) will join the Iberian Studies working group via Zoom to discuss the first chapter of her recently published Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2022).

Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism

In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg.

In what ways can a Center for Latin American Studies contribute to decentering the very notion of Latin America? To what extent can often overlooked sensemaking practices be centered in a Center for Latin American Studies? How much can margins take center stage? Wapichana Indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco welcomes us to experience the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley as a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic practice, not as an enclosed space to be taken for granted but as a fertile soil for conjuring alternate itineraries, vocabularies, and belongings.

UPDATE: venue change - 142 Dwinelle Hall

Panel Discussion | February 17 | 1-3:30 p.m. |142 Dwinelle Hall

Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish & Portuguese