LATINA/X
Feminisms

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

2023 LATINA/X FEMINISMS ROUNDTABLE

May 5 & 6, Marquette University, Milwaukee

***All Participants are expected to attend ALL sessions of the Roundtable***

Abstract Deadline:  April 1, 2023

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Invited Speakers:

Yomaira C.  Figueroa-Vázquez, Michigan State University

Stephanie Rivera-Berruz, Marquette University

Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Nicaraguan Storyteller & Public Theologian

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This year’s Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, a forum for engagement with Latina/x and Latin American  feminist theories and practices, welcomes  work that orients itself around the Caribbean and its diasporas. We also welcome abstracts on Latina/x intervention in the following areas:

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 *Violence and Discrimination              *Activism

*Immigration                                           *The U.S/Mexico Border/ the Wall

*Environmentalism                                *Latina/x Ecologies

*Black Latinidad                                      *Critical Race theory

*Black/Brown/Asian Coalitions             *The State of Latinx Studies

*Indigeneity                                             *Decolonial Feminism

*Disabillity Studies                                 * Ethics

*Aesthetics                                              *Visual Representations of Latinidad

*Political Thought                                  *Identity/Subjectivity

*Queer Latinidad                                   *Trans Lives     

*Mestizaje and Mulataje                       *Pedagogy                                                      

*Latina/x Spiritualities                          *Latina/x Epistemologies

*”Latinx,” “Latine,” “Latina/o,” What is in a Name?

*Works on individual Latina/x or Latin American feminist writers and theorists

 

Guidelines for Submission:

1. Abstracts should be approximately 1000 words.

2. Abstracts should be suitable for anonymous review.  In a separate document, please include your name, affiliation, contact information, brief biographical statement, and the title of your presentation.

3. Please submit all proposals electronically to  latina.feminism.roundtable@gmail.com

              Please write “LATINA/X FEMINISM ABSTRACT ” in the subject line.

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For more information on past roundtables go to http://www.latinafeminism.com

              or contact Mariana Ortega at muo3@psu.edu

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The Roundtable is supported by  the Pennsylvania State University Philosophy Department and  the Marquette University Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity.