La Academia del Pueblo

14th Annual La Academia del Pueblo

Latina/o/x and Latin American Studies Research Conference

Gender and the Latinx Imaginary

 

Event Details: 

Date: Friday, April 19, 2024
Time: 12 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Student Center

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La Academia del Pueblo seeks to deliberately establish connections between the academy, engaged citizens and urban communities.   

Gender and race lie intertwined, coiled together within identities foisted upon the peoples of the Americas throughout centuries of Euro-patriarchal primacy. In the midst of ongoing and profound reflections revolving around the power to produce new identities and the potential longevity of “Latinx” as a decolonized construct for these fraught identities, this conference seeks to boldly engage the “X” across disciplines as a space which reverberates with the possibilities of worlds unbound by binary thought and erasure; futures in which all gender expressions can and will be fully human.  

Within this framework, we invite conference participants to join us at the intersections of Latinidad and gendered identities as played out in interpersonal or structural spaces and within historical, contemporary and/or speculative approaches. Irrespective of the routes of exploration to be followed within this creative academic endeavor, we will strive, in the words voiced by Lencan Honduran environmental activist and ancestor Berta Cáceres upon her 2015 acceptance of the Goldman Environmental Prize, to be mindful that our efforts reflect on and act upon the awareness of our “Mother Earth, militarized, fenced in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, [a place which] demands that we take action."​