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Latina/o/x Migration (Sawyer Seminar Symposium)

Oct 25, 2019

All Day

MERGE

136 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240

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In this one-day symposium -- part of our yearlong Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer Seminar on “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” -- three invited speakers will explore questions related to migration and national belonging. Each speaker will deliver a plenary address, which will be followed by Q&A.

Speakers include the following: Karma Chávez is Associate Professor and Chair of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a rhetorical critic who utilizes textual and field-based methods, primarily informed by queer of color theory and women of color feminism, to examine the intersections of queer activism and migration. Fidencio Martinez Perez is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Missouri. His current work examines the debate over borders, edges, and the people who must traverse through them. Maura Toro-Morn is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Illinois State University. Her research examines migration in the context of gender and social class, particularly in the Midwest. This event will be held at MERGE in downtown Iowa City (136 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240).

See our Sawyer Seminar website at http://imagininglatinidades.com for more information (including a more precise schedule) and to sign-up for our newsletter.

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