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Pictured above, left to right: Carolyn Fornoff, Zachary Nicol, Natalie Loveless

Imagining Otherwise, Speculation in the Americas: An Interseminars Culminating Symposium

September 15-16, 2023

Symposium Schedule
 

Friday, September 15

Keynote: Carolyn Fornoff (Latin American Studies, Cornell University)
“Speculation in the Americas”
4:00 P.M.   |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

 

Performance: Adanya Gilmore/Zachary Nicol
7:00 P.M.  |  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Room 2-500

 

Film Screening: Beatriz Jiménez
Film: Ruido (Noise)
8:15 P.M.  |  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Room 2-500

Saturday, September 16

Installations
Available all day, 8:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.

  • Daniela Morales Fredes - Levis Faculty Center, Room 108  

  • María Serrano-Abreu - Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

  • Kofi Bazzell-Smith - Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

Continental breakfast
8:30 A.M. | Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Panel: Interseminars Faculty & Fellows
9:00 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

 

Artist Talk: Kofi Bazzell-Smith
"Bridging Boundaries: Exploring Cultural Fusion Through Manga, Language, Aesthetics, and Narrative"
10:10 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Performance: Ramón E. Martínez (Ray)
"English Only Space: Invisible colonization and the deconstruction of cultures"
11:10 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Research Talk: Daniela Morales Fredes, Allyson Purpura, and Kasia Szremsk
11:50 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Lunch Provided
12:30–1:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Research and Installation Talk: María Serrano-Abreu
"School Closings in Puerto Rico and Speculative Memory" 
1:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

Individual and Joint Talk: Nicole Campbell and Emerson Parker Pehl
Individual talks followed by joint performance
2:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Talk: Beatriz Jiménez
"Shifting the narrative: Women's voices at the forefront in Natalia Beristain's Ruido (2022)"
3:50 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Stage Reading: Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan
"Playing down, Playing Up" and Forum
4:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Keynote: Natalie Loveless (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Alberta)
"Imagining Otherwise in Times of Crisis"
5:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Reception and Book Launch
7:00 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Reception will be catered by La Mixteca.

The Interseminars Initiative is supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Graduate College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.