Friday, March 27, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
Canceled
this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.
After having addressed issues surrounding formal citizenship and national belonging in the previous semester, this one-day symposium -- part of our yearlong Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer Seminar on “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” -- will bring subject area experts to discuss modalities of popular belonging (television, sports, music, literature, and more) in Latina/o/x contexts in the U.S.
Speakers include the following: Frederick Luis Aldama is University Distinguished Professor, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and Alumni Distinguished Teacher at the Ohio State University. His research and creative activity addresses Latina/o/x fiction and popular culture. Adrian Burgos is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, specializing in US Latino history, sport history, and urban history. He is editor-at-large of La Vida Baseball, a multiplatform digital brand in partnership with the Baseball Hall of Fame that produces daily content on Latinos and baseball through a cultural lifestyle perspective. Ed Morales is a journalist and Lecturer in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. As a journalist, he has investigated police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene; as a scholar, his Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture is critically acclaimed look at Latina/o/x peoples in historical, political, and cultural perspective.
For more information, see our Sawyer Seminar website at http://imagininglatinidades.com
If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.
This event is open to the public.
Cosponsor
Cosponsor Organization: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
Cosponsor Name: Erin Hackathorn
Cosponsor Phone: 319-335-4034
