2018 LATINA/X FEMINISMS ROUNDTABLE
PROGRAM
FRIDAY September 7th
SATURDAY September 8th
9:15-10:00 Coffee and Tea/Breakfast, Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn
10:00-10:40 Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Marquette University
Mi Patria es la Libertad: Assembling Belonging in the writings
of Luisa Capetillo
10:40-11:20 Gabriela Puche, Villanova University
Queer Ontologies of Resistance in the Cartagena: Negotiating
Creolization and Mestizaje as Historiographical Tools to Understand
the Greater Caribbean
Undergraduate Panel:
11:35-12:15 Gisela Reyes, St. Mary’s University
Clear as Mud: Colorism’s Independence as A Form of Discrimination
from Racism.
12:15-12:55 Ashleigh Morales, St. Mary’s University
Rape Myths, Exposed
1:00-2:30 Lunch, Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn
2:30-3:10 Monique Roelofs, Hampshire College
Time, Address, and the Marketplace in Latina/x and
Latin American Feminisms
3:10-3:50 Emma Velez, The Pennsylvania State University
Decolonial feminism at the intersection: a critical reflection on the
relationship between Intersectionality and decolonial feminism
4:00-4:40 Kevin Cedeño-Pacheco, The Pennsylvania State University
Selena, Selenidad, and Latinidad: Identification and Disidentification
as Processes of Latina/o Self-Making
5:00-6:30 Invited Lecture, Foster Auditorium
Laura E. Pérez, UC Berkeley
Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial
7:00-9:00 Dinner, Penn State Room, Nittany Lion Inn
9:15-10:00 Coffee and Tea/Breakfast, Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn
10:00-10:40 Andrea Pitts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Inner Work as Public Acts? Interpreting Relationality entre
Nos/otras"
10:40-11:20 Denise Meda Calderon, Texas A&M University
Mestizaje Projects of Exclusion and Erasure in Mexico
11:35-12:15 Judith Sierra Rivera, The Pennsylvania State University
Affective Politics of Caribbean Feminisms in the Neoliberal
Space of Catastrophe
12:15-12:55 Gertrude Gonzalez de Allen, Spelman College
Afra: In Between Subjectivity and Consciousness
1:00-2:10 Lunch, Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn
2:30-3:50 Invited Lecture, Foster Auditorium
Veronica Isabel Dahlberg,
Founder and Executive Director of Hola
Raids, Cages, and Deportation: Field Report from a
Latinx Activist on the Impact of “Zero Tolerance”
Immigration Policies
4:10-4:50: Litzy Galarza, The Pennsylvania State University
Writing Myself Into Being
4:50-5:30: Paulina Rodriguez Burciaga, The Pennsylvania State University
Latina Sportswomen: A Case for Escaramuza
5:30-6:10: Erika Grimm, The Pennsylvania State University
Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Language? On Lived
Experience and
Linguistic Rupture in Latina Feminist Phenomenologies
6:15-6:45 Final Reflections
7:00 Dinner and Party at Mariana Ortega’s House
