November 14, 2014: Symposium Program

Latino Literature/La literatura latina V

Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, this fifth biennial symposium of the Latino Literary Cultures Project at UCSC culminates in an evening reading by prizewinning novelist and journalist Ana Menéndez; writer/artist Maceo Montoya; and poet Xochiquetzal Candelaria.

Friday, November 14, 2014, 11:00am-7:00pm | Merrill Cultural Center
Parking is available in the Merrill College lot.

Xochiquetzal Candelaria, poet and author of the collection Empire

PANEL ONE: IMAGINING WORLDS THROUGH LANGUAGE 11-12:30 am

Angie Bonilla, UC Santa Cruz: “Carlos Guillermo Wilson’s Chombo: Itinerancy, Translation and the Afro-Caribbean-Central American Imaginary”

Xochiquetzal Candelaria, City College of San Francisco: “Lyric Poetry and Democracy: Education, Ecology, and Social Change”

Catherine S. Ramírez, UC Santa Cruz: “The Good Citizen: Narratives of the Immigrant Rights Movement”

Moderator: Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours, Sociology Department, UC Santa Cruz

 

Maceo Montoya, author of The Scoundrel and the Optimist and The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

PANEL TWO: ENGAGING LATINA/O VISUALITY     2-3:30 p.m.

Martín García, UC Santa Cruz: “Speculative Realism and Crisis Ordinariness in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer”

Maceo Montoya, UC Davis: “The Community Mural as Performance”

Juan Poblete, UC Santa Cruz: “The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration”

Moderator: Robert Cavooris, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz

Ana Menéndez, author of In Cuba I Was A German Shepherd, Loving Che, The Last War, and Adio, Happy Homeland!

PANEL THREE: 3:45-4:30

“Writing in Wartime, Writing in Exile: A Conversation with Ana Menéndez”

Moderator: Kirsten Silva Gruesz

AUTHOR READINGS

Followed by Q&A, RECEPTION, AND BOOK SIGNING: 5-7 p.m.

Xochiquetzal Candelaria, poet, author of the collection Empire

Maceo Montoya, author of two novels including The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

Ana Menéndez, author of four works of fiction including Adios, Happy Homeland!

This free, public event is cosponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center; Puknat Literary Studies Endowment of the Department of Literature; El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center; Institute for Humanities Research; Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity; and Merrill, Stevenson, Kresge Colleges, Oakes, Porter, and Cowell Colleges.