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SUMMARY:Screening Dispossession in Abya Yala: Collaborative Filmmaking and Environmental Justice in Mining Contexts
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I examine how Indigenous peoples in Abya Yala (Latin America) mobilize collaborative filmmaking to resist mining dispossession\, even as the technologies of film and video remain entangled in extractive systems. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a central role in contemporary audiovisual narratives that contest hegemonic representations of mining\, contributing to the decolonization of extractivist perspectives and to the defense of Indigenous territorial\, visual\, and cultural sovereignty in Abya Yala. \nDrawing on selected films from Peru and Brazil and the work of Indigenous thinkers such as Ailton Krenak and Davi Kopenawa\, I introduce the concept of “orphanization” to reframe dispossession beyond purely material or human-centered frameworks. This concept highlights how extractivism fractures relational worlds\, disrupting connections between people\, land\, and more-than-human life. By bringing Indigenous thought into conversation with critical theory\, this talk highlights how cultural production can reshape the way we understand environmental justice\, dispossession\, and resistance. \nBARBARA GALINDO is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. \nShe was previously an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow in Race\, Ethnicity\, and Indigeneity (2022–2024) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nAn activist\, researcher\, and educator\, Galindo’s work advances new critical approaches to understanding socio-environmental issues in Latin America. Her research focuses on twentieth-and twenty-first-century cultural production\, with particular attention to the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JLACS)\, LACIS Review\, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR). \nIn this talk\, Galindo invites students to consider cultural production as a site of epistemic and political resistance within socio-environmental struggles\, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary training and multilingualism.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/screening-dispossession-in-abya-yala-collaborative-filmmaking-and-environmental-justice-in-mining-contexts/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260507T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260507T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T050958Z
CREATED:20260402T013749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T050958Z
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SUMMARY:First Epistle to the Amphibians: Reading and Conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS\, a collection of poetry by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck\, translated by Chris Daniels\, published by World Poetry Books in April 2026. The event will consist of a reading and conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino. \nRicardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards\, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens\, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German\, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance\, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry\, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. \nChris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa\, Josely Vianna Baptista\, Adelaide Ivánova\, Lubi Prates\, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems\, First Epistle to the Amphibians\, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026. \nPatrícia Lino is a poet\, an essayist\, a performer\, a translator and Associate Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books\, videopoems\, translations\, performances\, talk-performances and sound experiences are\, for instance\, Todo poema é um kindergarten (2025)\, I Am a Poet\, I Was a Starling (2025)\, Imperativa Ensaística Diabólica. Infraleituras da Poesia Expandida Brasileira (2024)\, O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2024)\, or A Ilha das Afeições (2023).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/first-epistle-to-the-amphibians-reading-and-conversation-with-ricardo-domeneck-chris-daniels-and-patricia-lino/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260417T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260417T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T030406Z
CREATED:20260319T224644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260411T030406Z
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SUMMARY:A corazón abierto: notas para una escritura quirúrgica
DESCRIPTION:Lina Meruane (hija de un cardiólogo jubilado) aborda la aparición del “corazón abierto” en la novelística latinoamericana. Inspirada por El intruso (2006)\, relato de Jean Luc Nancy sobre su trasplante de corazón\, Meruane examina trastornos reales (incluido su reciente episodio de arritmia) y comenta problemáticas éticas y estéticas en tres novelas quirúrgicas: Sutura (2025)\, de Sofía Balbuena\, La novela del corazón (2022) de Roberto Castillo y Todo está bien\, salvo mi corazón\, (2022) de Héctor Abad Faciolince. \nLina Meruane es una escritora chilena y doctora en literatura (New York University\, 2009). Su obra incluye dos colecciones de relatos y cinco novelas traducidas a doce lenguas\, así como diez libros de ensayo sobre el cuerpo y la enfermedad\, los feminismos y la cuestión palestina. Su obra ha sido reconocida con los premios José Donoso (Chile)\, Metrópolis Azul (Canadá)\, Cálamo (España)\, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (México)\, Anna Seghers (Alemania)\, y las becas Guggenheim\, National Endowment for the Arts y DAAD. Actualmente dirige el programa de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York\, donde también es escritora distinguida.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-corazon-abierto-notas-para-una-escritura-quirurgica/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260313
DTSTAMP:20260228T065552Z
CREATED:20260228T065552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T065552Z
UID:30702-1773187200-1773359999@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour
DESCRIPTION:Fostering public conversations about memory and justice\, a reflection on Peru’s forced disappearances from 1980 to 2000. \nDocumentary Screening: Este fue nuestro castigo\, by Luis Cintora\nWednesday March 11\, 11:30 – 1:30 PM in Bunche Hall 10383 \nGuided Photo Exhibition: Percy Rojas (Ausencias Presentes)\nThursday March 12\, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library \nBook Reading: Karina Pacheco’s Niños del pájaro azul\, with Gisela Ortiz\nThursday March 12\, 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/counter-pedagogies-of-forgetting-tour/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 10383 and Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260226T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260226T150000
DTSTAMP:20260224T022559Z
CREATED:20260224T021752Z
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UID:30686-1772118000-1772118000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Adapting Erauso: A Conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Spanish & Portuguese department for a conversation with acclaimed author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara\, celebrated for her novels Las aventuras de la China Iron\, La Virgen Cabeza\, and Las niñas del naranjel. \nPlease RSVP here. \nThis event will also be hosted virtually on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92851908521
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/adapting-erauso-a-conversation-with-gabriela-cabezon-camara/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260224T190000
DTSTAMP:20260224T021348Z
CREATED:20260224T021348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T021348Z
UID:30683-1771948800-1771959600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Santa Zeta: A Film by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa
DESCRIPTION:“Santa Zeta is not about revenge. It is about survival. About trauma that never disappears\, only mutates. About how violence replicates itself when it is ignored. And about the uncomfortable idea that\, in a world addicted to images\, visibility can both protect and destroy us. Santa Zeta is a film that moves fast\, hits hard\, and uses the screen in your hand to tell a story about the secrets we hide in plain sight.” -Antonio Muñoz de Mesa \nA question-and-answer session with Muñoz de Mesa and actors from the film will follow the screening.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/santa-zeta-a-film-by-antonio-munoz-de-mesa/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260218T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260218T163000
DTSTAMP:20260211T071645Z
CREATED:20260211T071645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T071645Z
UID:30633-1771432200-1771432200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:El gesto y la razón: La teoría de los medios de Simón Rodríguez
DESCRIPTION:El pensador sudamericano Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854)\, recordado como maestro de Simón Bolívar\, desarrolló en su obra un proyecto pedagógico y político para fundar las nuevas repúblicas sudamericanas. Para presentarla\, utilizó singulares composiciones tipográficas que configuran un modo alternativo de escritura. Esta charla explora la imbricación entre educación\, republicanismo y experimentación escritural\, y sus implicaciones teóricas. Se muestra que la obra de Rodríguez contiene una reflexión sobre cómo los objetos\, los cuerpos\, las exteriorizaciones técnicas y sus propiedades mediales le dan forma al sujeto y la comunidad política\, revelando así la manera en que una compleja teoría de los medios sustenta su proyecto republicano. \nJuan Pablo Lupi es Associate Professor en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de California Santa Barbara. Es autor de Reading Anew: José Lezama Lima’s Rhetorical Investigations\, y coeditor de los volúmenes Asedios a lo increado: Nuevas perspectivas sobre Lezama Lima (junto a Marta Hernández Salván y Jorge Marturano)\, y La futuridad del naufragio: Orígenes\, estelas y derivas (junto a César A. Salgado).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-gesto-y-la-razon-la-teoria-de-los-medios-de-simon-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260217T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260217T140000
DTSTAMP:20260211T072853Z
CREATED:20260211T072853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T072853Z
UID:30637-1771333200-1771336800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Dr. Paula M. Krebs
DESCRIPTION:Paula M. Krebs became executive director of the Modern Language Association in August 2017. She administers the programs\, governance\, and business affairs of the association and is general editor of the association’s publishing and research programs\, as well as editor of two association publications. She serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association\, chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association’s annual convention\, works with the MLA’s trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA’s endowment funds\, and chairs the staff Finance Committee. \nDr. Krebs earned a PhD in English from Indiana University\, where she specialized in Victorian literature and culture\, and a BA from La Salle College (now La Salle University).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-dr-paula-m-krebs/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260113T063240Z
CREATED:20260107T080635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T063240Z
UID:30466-1770307200-1770307200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is RSVP only \nPlease join us in honoring the 2026 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Claudia Mesa Higuera\, Professor of Spanish at Moravian University. \nThe 2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Castillo Solórzano\, Rubens\, and a Theater on Brushstrokes.” Soon after the famous battle of Nördlingen (1634)\, the Spanish novelist Alonso de Castillo Solórzano published a panegyric play to commemorate the triumph of the imperial army led by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain and the King of Hungary over the Swedish and German armies commanded respectively by Gustav Horn and the duke of Saxe-Weimar. Around the same time\, the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens completed a series of paintings and engravings on the topic of love and war that allows a comparison of the two artists. This lecture examines the characterization of historical and fictional characters involved in this decisive battle of the Thirty Years’ War to suggest that such characterization is informed by a figurative tradition that reveals a shared ethos between the Spanish playwright and the Flemish painter at a time in which artistic expression seeks to extol state ideology while simultaneously subverting it. \nThe UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department will host the Distinguished Alumni lecture on Thursday\, February 5\, 2026 at 4:00 PM at the UCLA University Club. The lecture will be held in the Hacienda Room. RSVP Only.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2026-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251118T160000
DTSTAMP:20251115T062433Z
CREATED:20251113T044500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251115T062433Z
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SUMMARY:Fiebre de carnaval: una  conversación con Yuliana Ortiz  Ruano
DESCRIPTION:Yuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer\, poet\, and teacher\, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose\, including the multi award-winning Fiebre de carnaval (Carnaval Fever)\, which was chosen as one of the 50 best books of 2022 by El País. She is also the author of the poetry books Sovoz\, Canciones del fin del mundo\, y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\, and the book of short stories Litorales. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada\, Spain in 2023\, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel\, Carnaval Fever\, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador)\, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy)\, and the PEN Translation Award (UK).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/fiebre-de-carnaval-una-conversacion-con-yuliana-ortiz-ruano/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251115T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251115T190000
DTSTAMP:20251113T044653Z
CREATED:20251111T064823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T044653Z
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SUMMARY:La Xirgu: la pelicula
DESCRIPTION:Barcelona\, 1927. Only a few hours remain before Margarita Xirgu is set to premiere “Mariana Pineda” written by then-unknown Federico Garcia Lorca. The authorities threaten her with prison or exile if she dares to stage this libertarian play. Yet nothing seems to shake her determination\, Until her friend and mentor\, Valle-Inclán\, also turns against her.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/la-xirgu-la-pelicula/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251113T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251113T140000
DTSTAMP:20251108T063121Z
CREATED:20251107T010436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251108T063121Z
UID:30195-1763035200-1763042400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ecos migrantes: Visibilizando la diversidad de las comunidades latinas en California
DESCRIPTION:Soudi Jiménez cuenta con una larga trayectoria como diplomático (Consulado de El Salvador en Los Ángeles) y como periodista en múltiples medios de comunicación (Radio World International\, Canal 21 de televisión de San Salvador). Desde el año 2012 ejerce como reportero de la sección en español del periódico Los Angeles Times\, medio para el que ha realizado coberturas sobre migración en Guatemala\, El Salvador y Colombia. En su charla\, Soudi Jiménez conversará sobre algunos de los temas abordados en su reciente libro\, Ecos migrantes (2025)\, una colección de 27 textos donde se narran las historias de un buen número de mujeres y hombres procedentes de Guatemala\, El Salvador\, Honduras y México. El libro Ecos migrantes ha sido recientemente galardonado con la Medalla de Oro “Victor Villaseñor” del International Latino Book Awards.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/ecos-migrantes-visibilizando-la-diversidad-de-las-comunidades-latinas-en-california/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251112T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251112T163000
DTSTAMP:20251107T022010Z
CREATED:20251024T233749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251107T022010Z
UID:30122-1762965000-1762965000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Interocepción insular: Lo patológico en la imaginación literaria del laboratorio Caribe
DESCRIPTION:Interocepción insular (UNC Press\, 2025) examines literary representations of disease and disability to reconceptualize the Hispanic Caribbean as a site of scientific\, economic\, and political experimentation. Exploring how individuals subjected to various forms of testing—eugenic\, medical\, neoliberal\, or otherwise—hyper-monitor a corporeality that is at once their own and alien. By theorizing the “Caribbean laboratory” as distinct from the concentration camp or the plantation\, Ugarte investigates how test subjects apprehend their own bodies within ongoing regimes of experimentation\, while discussing how disease and disability are imagined\, recounted\, and experienced inside and outside medical and colonial diagnoses. \nAna Ugarte (Ph.D.\, Duke U) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. Both a scholar of Health Humanities\, with a focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American fiction and cultural production\, as well as global Latinx studies. Ugarte’s work has appeared in journals including Cultural Dynamics\, Journal for the Study of Gender and Sexuality\, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, and Voces del Caribe.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/interocepcion-insular-lo-patologico-en-la-imaginacion-literaria-del-laboratorio-caribe/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251107T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251107T160000
DTSTAMP:20251107T033246Z
CREATED:20251015T005907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251107T033246Z
UID:30052-1762520400-1762531200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Homenaje a Fernando Alegría (1918-2005)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/homenaje-a-fernando-alegria-1918-2005/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251104T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251104T150000
DTSTAMP:20251031T225723Z
CREATED:20251031T225228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T225723Z
UID:30166-1762268400-1762268400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Market Workshop
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/job-market-workshop/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251103T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251103T120000
DTSTAMP:20251025T011158Z
CREATED:20251016T222906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251025T011158Z
UID:30060-1762171200-1762171200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:El Mar y sus Metaforas - Eden's Islands: Empire\, Translation\, and the History of Reading
DESCRIPTION:Trained as a comparatist (English\, Spanish\, French\, Italian)\, Professor Fuchs works on European cultural production from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries\, with a special emphasis on literature and empire\, and on theater and performance in transnational contexts.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-mar-y-sus-metaforas-edens-islands-empire-translation-and-the-history-of-reading/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251030T160000
DTSTAMP:20251025T011220Z
CREATED:20251015T005103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251025T011220Z
UID:30049-1761840000-1761840000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Literary Studies\, Professionalization\, and the Public Sphere
DESCRIPTION:The publishing industry offers one of the most diverse and rewarding career paths for graduates in the Humanities. In this presentation\, I’ll outline the wide range of roles available—from scouting and scriptwriting to organizing literary festivals. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the field\, I will explore the key steps and practical tools needed to enter the profession and highlight the growing international opportunities within the industry.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/literary-studies-professionalization-and-the-public-sphere/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250519T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250519T160000
DTSTAMP:20250517T053226Z
CREATED:20250517T053033Z
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UID:29106-1747670400-1747670400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book talk: Thanks to Life\, A Bibliography of Violeta Parra
DESCRIPTION:Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917-1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance\, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Cancion (New Song). In this remarkable biography\, Ericka Verba traces Parra’s radical life and multifaceted artistic trajectory across Latin America and Europe and on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-thanks-to-life-a-bibliography-of-violeta-parra/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250513T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250513T160000
DTSTAMP:20250505T222454Z
CREATED:20250505T222341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T222454Z
UID:29051-1747152000-1747152000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Our Language Stories: Building Multilingual Mainers
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Boyle is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and Latinx Studies Program at Bowdoin College. Her teaching and research span the languages\, literature and cultures of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance\, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press\, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (with Sarah Owens\, University of Toronto Press\, 2021). Her newest book is Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (with Ilan Stavans\, University of North Carolina Press\, 2024)\, and was named a 2025 National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of Jewish Food Writing and Cookbooks (the Jane and Stuart Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award). \nProfessor Boyle is the director of Multilingual Mainers\, an elementary world languages and cultures program providing age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia\, racism and intolerance through engagement with languages other than English. She has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Whiting Foundation for work in cultural and international exchange. She is also a scholar-partner for UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics Initiative.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/our-language-stories-building-multilingual-mainers/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250506T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250506T140000
DTSTAMP:20250430T222459Z
CREATED:20250429T014835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T222459Z
UID:29033-1746540000-1746540000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:El poder visual de las 2000 nuevas palabras del español
DESCRIPTION:Los más de 2000 vocablos incorporados al Diccionario de la lengua española expanden nuestro imaginario visual y simbólico. Las palabras no solo nombran el mundo\, sino que también lo construyen visualmente. El libro Las 2000 nuevas palabras del español (según los académicos de la lengua) (Madrid\, 2025) no solo documenta esta transformación\, sino que invita a reflexionar sobre el poder de las palabras para encuadrar\, iluminar y redefinir nuestra fotografía / percepción del mundo. Te invitamos a descubrirlas y a sumergirte en este diálogo entre lengua e imagen. \nGelsys García Lorenzo es doctora en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2016). Tiene un máster en ELE por la UCM (2015) y otro máster por la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (2017). Se desempeña desde 2022 como Lecturer en la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA). Ha publicado múltiples volúmenes de linguística y de poesía y la antología teatral Anuncia Freud a María. Cartografía bíblica del teatro cubano (1835-2015).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-poder-visual-de-las-2000-nuevas-palabras-del-espanol/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230314T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230314T180000
DTSTAMP:20230309T081210Z
CREATED:20230309T075030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T081210Z
UID:26034-1678809600-1678816800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Consecuencias del conflicto armado: la corrupción en los gobiernos de la Guatemala de posguerra
DESCRIPTION:El juez Miguel Ángel Gálvez ha sido parte fundamental de los esfuerzos relacionados con la justicia transicional en Guatemala. Algunos de los casos más destacados en los que ha participado incluyen el juicio por genocidio contra Efraín Ríos Montt (2013)\, el juicio por corrupción contra el expresidente Otto Pérez Molina (2015)\, así como el caso del “Diario Militar”. Ha sido recientemente galardonado por Northwestern Law con el Global Jurist of the Year Award (2023) por sus contribuciones a la lucha contra la corrupción y en defensa de los derechos humanos en Guatemala. El juez Gálvez\, quien se encuentra actualmente perseguido en su país\, abordará ―entre otros temas― la involución sufrida por la democracia y el estado de derecho desde la expulsión de la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala en 2019.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/consecuencias-del-conflicto-armado-la-corrupcion-en-los-gobiernos-de-la-guatemala-de-posguerra/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230313T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230313T180000
DTSTAMP:20230309T081242Z
CREATED:20230309T080925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T081242Z
UID:26040-1678723200-1678730400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The syntax of what’s left unsaid: A view of ellipsis from Mayan and Spanish by Rodrigo Ranero
DESCRIPTION:Ellipsis is structure and meaning without form. In spoken languages\, it is silence whose meaning must be recovered from a linguistic antecedent in the discourse. This talk proposes a new perspective on ellipsis based on a novel investigation of Spanish and Kaqchikel\, a Mayan language of Guatemala. The unresolved question regarding ellipsis that I address concerns the precise nature of the relationship that must hold between the silence and its antecedent—what has come to be known as the identity condition underpinning ellipsis. Based on my cross-linguistic approach\, I argue for a new understanding of the identity condition\, proposing that syntax is a crucial component\, but strict identity is not required (contra a long tradition). The crucial data that support my analysis involve the tense system of Spanish and the rich voices of Kaqchikel (which go beyond the familiar active and passive voices). The perspective provided by my comparative investigation thus brings us closer to understanding a universal condition regulating when silence can and cannot be employed in discourse. \n\nDate: Monday\, March 13\, 2023 \nTime:4:00PM \nLocation: Lydeen Library Rolfe 4302 & Via Zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91025680955 \nRSVP: HERE \nLight refreshments will be provided 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/the-syntax-of-whats-left-unsaid-a-view-of-ellipsis-from-mayan-and-spanish-by-rodrigo-ranero/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230302T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230302T170000
DTSTAMP:20230211T061734Z
CREATED:20230118T010808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230211T061734Z
UID:25792-1677765600-1677776400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Many Sides of Pagu: An Online and Trilingual Event (Day 2)
DESCRIPTION:FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 2 2023\nTHE MANY SIDES OF PAGU — AN ONLINE AND TRILINGUAL EVENT\nZOOM ID: 965 449 2228 \nPARTICIPANTS\nAbe Kassis\nAdriana Armony\nAndrew M. Edwards\nBrenda Saraí Jaramillo\nFabrícia Walace\nGabriela Cruz\nÍcaro Carvalho\nInês Forjaz de Lacerda\nPatrícia Lino\nRaquel Campos\nRaquel Zandomeneghi \nYasmin Zandomenico
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/the-many-sides-of-pagu-an-online-and-trilingual-event-day-2/
LOCATION:via zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230228T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230228T170000
DTSTAMP:20230211T062553Z
CREATED:20230118T003901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230211T062553Z
UID:25787-1677592800-1677603600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Many Sides of Pagu: An Online and Trilingual Event (Day 1)
DESCRIPTION:FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 2 2023\nTHE MANY SIDES OF PAGU — AN ONLINE AND TRILINGUAL EVENT\nZOOM ID: 965 449 2228 \nPARTICIPANTS\nAbe Kassis\nAdriana Armony\nAndrew M. Edwards\nBrenda Saraí Jaramillo\nFabrícia Walace\nGabriela Cruz\nÍcaro Carvalho\nInês Forjaz de Lacerda\nPatrícia Lino\nRaquel Campos\nRaquel Zandomeneghi \nYasmin Zandomenico
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/the-many-sides-of-pagu-an-online-and-trilingual-event/
LOCATION:via zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230123T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230124T180000
DTSTAMP:20230114T015138Z
CREATED:20230114T003911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230114T015138Z
UID:25777-1674460800-1674583200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:From Romance to Romance: Translating amoung Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)
DESCRIPTION:This two-day conference focuses on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times\, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another\, from the 13th to the 18th century\, in Europe and beyond. Employing an eclectic range of interests and approaches\, their talks will cover translations among the following Romance languages and variants: Aragonese\, Catalan\, Franco-Italian\, French\, Galician-Portuguese\, Italian\, Judeo-Spanish\, Ladino\, Navarrese\, Occitan\, Spanish and Tagalog.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/from-romance-to-romance-translating-amoung-medieval-and-early-modern-romance-vernacular-texts-13th-18th-c/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306 and 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221116T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221116T200000
DTSTAMP:20221029T064032Z
CREATED:20221027T045031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221029T064032Z
UID:25386-1668614400-1668628800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Tribute to Trey Barber
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to attend a memorial in English\, Portuguese\, and Spanish to celebrate the life and academic career of graduate student Trey Barber. We welcome you to attend\, share your memories\, and provide photos and messages to Trey’s family. \n\nRSVP for Event (by Nov 10th)\nSubmit Photos/Messages of Trey (by Nov 7)\nSpeaker Sign Up (by Nov 7)\n\nFor questions\, contact Kristina Magpayo Nyden at Kristina@humnet.ucla.edu \nDirections\nUCLA Campus Map \nLocating Parking Lot 5   \n\nFrom the 405 freeway Sunset exit\, head towards W Sunset Blvd.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n405 Southbound will turn left on church lane\, and a left on Sunset Blvd. \n405 Northbound will turn right on Sunset Blvd.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn right onto Royce Dr.  \n\n\nAfter the second stop sign Parking structure 5 is the first entrance to the right. \n\n Further instructions regarding parking permits will be provided soon. 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-tribute-to-trey-barber/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306 and 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221026T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221026T170000
DTSTAMP:20221007T063914Z
CREATED:20221007T063814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T063914Z
UID:25318-1666800000-1666803600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2022 Lois E. Matthews Lecture Presented by Professor Nadia Lie
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to attend this year’s Lois E. Matthews Lecture ft. Nadia Lie\, Professor of Arts in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies\, KU Leuven on Wednesday\, October 26\, 2022\, at 4:00 pm. \nPlease RSVP by Thursday\, October 20\, 2022\, at 5:00 pm PDT. For more information please see the attached flyer. \nRSVP HERE \nNew Book by Professor Nadia Lie: The Motorcycle Diaries: Youth\, Travel\, and Politics in Latin America 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2022-lois-e-matthews-lecture-presented-by-professor-nadia-lie/
LOCATION:Hacienda Room\, UCLA Faculty Club\, 480 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221017T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221017T130000
DTSTAMP:20221012T230040Z
CREATED:20221012T225519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T230040Z
UID:25344-1666008000-1666011600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Represión y resistencia: comunidades indígenas\, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y proyectos de refundación del estado en Guatemala
DESCRIPTION:Thelma Cabrera is a Maya-Mam social and political activist. She is one of the main leaders of CODECA (Comité de Desarrollo Campesino)\, an organization dedicated to the defense of the rights of Indigenous peoples in Guatemala\, including the right to land property\, Indigenous women’s rights\, and the labor rights of agricultural seasonal workers. In 2019\, Cabrera was appointed by the platform “Movimiento por la Liberación de los Pueblos” as their candidate to run for the Guatemalan presidency. \nSpeakers:\nThelma Cabrera\, Political activist\nNeftalí Matías López Miranda\, Indigenous scholar and political consultant\nModerators:\nPatricia Arroyo Calderón\, UCLA Spanish & Portuguese\nMario Ávila\, Alianza por Una Guatemala Mejor\, Los Ángeles\nAracely Garrido\, Alianza por Una Guatemala Mejor\, Los Ángeles
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/represion-y-resistencia-comunidades-indigenas-organizaciones-de-la-sociedad-civil-y-proyectos-de-refundacion-del-estado-en-guatemala/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221014T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221015T190000
DTSTAMP:20221014T222226Z
CREATED:20220909T091745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T222226Z
UID:24946-1665736200-1665860400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Surviving the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Fictions from Latin America’s Past\, Present\, and Futures\nOct. 14-15\, 2022\nLuskin Conference Center – Illumination Room\n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nTo attend in person\, no advance registration is required. \nTo attend virtually\, you must register at the following link located HERE. \nThis symposium aims to take stock of Latin America’s speculative fiction production—understood broadly as an umbrella term that includes a variety of genres\, such as science fiction\, horror\, fantasy\, and their subgenres and derivatives. “Surviving the Anthropocene” will address this early literary production in the 20th century until the cyberpunk boom of the 1990s but\, most importantly\, will put the focus on the past decade\, when both the writing and the scholarly study of Latin American speculative fictions have exploded. This cultural phenomenon has coincided with the emergence of a variety of discourses around the “Anthropocene” —a concept alluding to the current geological epoch in which the human has become a dominant force on the environment— that have attempted to make sense of the accelerated global ecological changes. \nOverarching framing questions include: What works\, tendencies\, preoccupations\, and thematic axes comprise and characterize “speculative fiction” in/from Latin America during the era of the Anthropocene? What are the contours of the local contexts—political\, economic\, social\, and cultural—that inform and inspire the works produced? How have authors from the region imagined ecological transformation in the era of global warming and mass extinction? \nPanels\, roundtables\, book presentations\, and keynote speeches compose the 10 sessions presented at this symposium (see the program below for details and profiles of participants). \nSession themes include: Speculative Ecocriticism; New Weird and Gothic Horror; Science Fiction from the Past; Posthumanism; Necroliberalism; Women Authors of Speculative Fiction; Neoindigenist\, Afrolatino\, and Chicanx Futurisms; Less-studied regions/countries: Central America\, the Caribbean (beyond Cuba)\, Paraguay\, and Colombia.  \nKeynote speakers: Alberto Chimal and Elizabeth Ginway.  \n\nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM\nSee profile information below program for biographical information about the participants. \nFriday\, October 14\n  \n8:30am \nOPENING REMARKS: \nStephen C. Tobin \nMaarten Van Delden \n\n  \n9:00am – 10:15am \n1. PANEL: “Latin American New Weird and Gothic Horror” (in Spanish and English) \nRodrigo Bastidas Pérez \nInés Ordiz: “Gothic Horror in Contemporary Latin American Literature” (in English) \nModerator: Miguel García \n\nCoffee Break: 10:15-10:30 \n\n10:30 am – 12:00 pm \n2. BOOK PRESENTATION for Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction (in English and Spanish) \nAntonio Córdoba\nEmily Maguire\nSilvia Kurlat Ares\nMiguel García \nModerator: David Dalton \n\nLunch: 12-2PM \n\n2:00 pm – 3:30 pm \n3. ROUNDTABLE: “Women Writers of Latin American Speculative Fiction” (in Spanish) \nGabriela Damián Miravete (Mexico)\nMarilinda Guerrero (Guatemala)\nLiliana Colanzi (Bolivia)\nLaura Ponce (Argentina) \nModerator: Antonio Córdoba \n\nCOFFEE BREAK: 3:30-3:45 \n\n3:45 pm – 5:00 pm \n4. PANEL: “Latin American Speculative Ecocriticism” (in Spanish and English) \nGiovanna Rivero: “La mutación como horizonte (post)humano” (in Spanish) \nCarolyn Fornoff: “Speculative Strategies of Postextractivism” (in English) \nModerator: Stephen Tobin \n\nBREAK: 5:00-5:30 \n\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm \n5. KEYNOTE ADDRESS (in Spanish) \n“Supervivencia de bajo presupuesto: imaginar el futuro desde el sur global” \nAlberto Chimal \nModerator: Gabriela Damián Miravete \n\nSaturday\, October 15\n9:00am-10:15am \n\nPANEL: “Ciencia ficción neoindigenista y afrofuturista en Latinoamérica: voces\, identidades y transculturación”\, a presentation of the upcoming special issue of Kamchatka: Revista de análisis cultural (in Spanish).\n\nTeresa López-Pellisa\nMacarena Cortés \nModerator: David Dalton \n\nCOFFEE BREAK: 10:15am-10:30am \n\n10:30 am – 12:00 pm \n7. PANEL – “The Expansion of Latin American Sf: 1920-1960” (in English) \nRachel Haywood: ​“Utopian Universalism in Latin American Science Fiction in the Postwar Years: Half the Story” \nMiguel Ángel Fernández Delgado: “Latin American sf before the expanse in the 20th century” \nModerator: Elizabeth Ginway \n\nLUNCH: 12-2PM \n\n2:00 pm – 3:15 pm \n8. BOOK PRESENTATION – Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias (in English and Spanish) \nMarissa K. López in dialogue with David Dalton about his upcoming book Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias \nModerators: Miguel García and Stephen Tobin \n\nCOFFEE BREAK: 3:15pm-3:30pm \n\n3:30 pm – 5:00 pm \n9. ROUNDTABLE: “Overlooked Countries / Regions – Central America\, the Caribbean beyond Cuba\, Paraguay\, and Colombia (in English and Spanish) \nEmily Maguire: “Abriendo camino: la ciencia ficción en Puerto Rico y República Dominicana” \nDavid Díaz Ares: “Narrar el final de los tiempos: cuentos centroamericanos de ciencia ficción sobre el fin del mundo\, 1960s y 2000s” \nRodrigo Bastidas Pérez: \nMiguel González Abellás: “La ciencia ficción en Paraguay: un fenómeno relativamente reciente” \nModerator: Antonio Córdoba \n\nBREAK: 5:00-5:30 \n\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm \n10. KEYNOTE ADDRESS (in English) \n“The Evolving Field of Latin American Science Fiction Studies” \nElizabeth Ginway \nModerator: Rachel Haywood  \n**** \nABOUT THE INVITED SPEAKERS (in order of program listing above).\n  \n\nPANEL: “Latin American New Weird and Gothic Horror”\n\nRodrigo Bastidas Pérez \n\nRodrigo Bastidas Pérez. (Pasto\, Colombia) PhD en Literatura. Es investigador independiente\, docente universitario y crítico literario. Con Editorial Planeta publicó las antologías de ciencia ficción Relojes que no marcan la misma hora (2017)\, Cronómetros para el fin de los tiempos (2017) y El tercer mundo después del sol (2021). Fue ganador de la Beca de investigación Idartes 2020\, con la investigación: En nuestro caso es encuentro. Publicó el libro Cuerpos luminares y de otras dimensiones (2022) con Filomena edita. Es editor general de “Ediciones Vestigio” editorial con la que ha publicado más de 30 libros de literatura extraña\, ciencia ficción y new weird. \n  \n  \n  \n\nInés Ordiz \n\nInés Ordiz is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Distance Education (Madrid\, Spain). She holds a PhD in Modern Languages from the University of León (Spain)\, with a specialization in Comparative Gothic literature of the Americas. She has worked at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester\, MA)\, the University of Washington (Seattle\, WA) and the University of Stirling (Scotland\, UK). She is author of multiple articles and book chapters focused on the manifestations of fantasy and horror in the Americas\, with special attention to Gothic and Gender in Latin American literature. She is the coeditor of the volumes Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge\, 2018) and Aquelarre de cuentos: Antología de terror insólito escrito por mujeres (Huso 2021). \n  \n  \n\nBOOK PRESENTATION for Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction\n\nAntonio Córdoba \nAntonio Córdoba is Associate Professor at Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Manhattan College\, where he teaches courses on Latin American and Iberian literature\, film\, and culture. His main focus of study is Latin American and Spanish science fiction. He has published ¿Extranjero en tierra extraña?: El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina [Stranger in a Strange Land? The Science Fiction Genre in Latin America] (University of Sevilla Press\, 2011) and written articles and book chapters on Latin American science fiction novels\, Chilean author Roberto Bolaño\, Spanish horror film\, and Brazilian science fiction cinema. Along with other essay collections\, he has coedited Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2022) with Emily A. Maguire. He is currently working on a book manuscript on speculative fiction by Latin American women writers. \n  \n\nEmily Maguire \n\nEmily A. Maguire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University\, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida\, 2011; 2nd edition\, 2018)\, and the co-editor (with Antonio Córdoba) of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science Fiction (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan). Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, Small Axe\, A Contracorriente\, ASAP/Journal\, and Revista Iberoamericana\, among other places. She is currently finishing a second book project on the temporality of Caribbean science fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSilvia Kurlat Ares \nSilvia G. Kurlat Ares\, Ph.D.\, is an independent scholar specializing in Southern Cone Literature\, with an emphasis on issues of visual culture\, contemporary Argentine and Latin American literature\, politics and culture. Dr. Kurlat Ares has taught at George Mason University\, The Johns Hopkins University\, and the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires\, among others. Her books include Para una intelectualidad sin episteme (2006) and La Ilusión peristente. Diálogos entre la ciencia ficción y el campo cultural (2018). She has co-directed the two volume Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana\, and the bilingual edition of the Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction. She has also edited several dossiers and collective volumes for academic journals such as Revista Iberomericana and Alter/nativas. Her articles have appeared in Alambique\, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesía\, Hispamerica\, and Science Fiction Studies\, among others. She has contributed chapters to collective volumes such as Latin American Textualities. History\, Materiality & Digital Media\, Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence\, Trauma\, and Memory\, Interface between Literature and Science: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts\, etc. She has presented papers at numerous international conferences in countries such as the USA\, Argentina\, Netherlands\, Germany\, etc. \nMiguel García \n\nMiguel García holds a doctorate in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from the University of California\, Davis. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mexican Studies at Arizona State University. \nHis teaching and research focus on 20th and 21st century Mexican literature and film\, with an emphasis in the cultural representation of science and technology. He has published academic articles in journals such as Chasqui\, Revista Iberoamericana\, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. He is currently working on his first book monograph\, entitled Redes modernizantes: ciencia y tecnología en la literatura y el cine mexicanos (1917-1968). \n  \n  \n\nROUNDTABLE: “Women Writers of Latin American Speculative Fiction”\n\nGabriela Damián Miravete \n\nGabriela Damián Miravete nació en la Ciudad de México. Ha escrito ensayos y cuentos que han sido traducidos al inglés\, italiano\, portugués\, francés y euskera; y publicados en antologías finalistas del Premio Hugo y el World Fantasy Award. Forma parte de proyectos colaborativos como la Mexicona: Imaginación y Futuro\, festival literario de ficción especulativa en español; y el Cúmulo de Tesla\, colectivo de arte y ciencia que publicó recientemente Mis pies tienen raíz\, 21 mujeres de habla hispana en Editorial Océano. Es autora de La canción detrás de todas las cosas\, que está por publicarse en Odo Ediciones\, y obtuvo el premio James Tiptree\, Jr. (hoy llamado Otherwise) por “Soñarán en el jardín”\, cuento sobre un México futuro donde los feminicidios no existen más. \n  \n  \n  \n\nMarilinda Guerrero Valenzuela \n\nEscritora\, titiritera\, narradora oral. En narrativa publicó Relatos de sábanas (Letra negra\, 2011)\, Escenarios de un mundo paralelo (Letra negra\, 2012)\, Voyager (subversiva 2015)\, Cuando las flores aprendieron a bailar polca (Zopilotes 2020)\, Trampas para bosques (Saqarik\, 2021). En literatura infantil y juvenil publicó la novela corta Odisea de tres mundos (Santillana\, 2016) Sector 23 (Editorial Cultura\, 2019). Obtuvo mención honorífica en la rama de literatura juvenil por su cuento “Sector 23” en el primer concurso de literatura infantil y juvenil Marilena López (2017). Es fundadora de la revista de ciencia ficción Exocerebros\, actualmente tiene una columna\, “El huevo rojo” en el periódico digital Gazeta\, donde habla sobre la ciencia ficción publicada en Guatemala que ha ido encontrando. Ha sido publicada en antologías latinoamericanas y España. \n  \nLaura Ponce \n\nLaura Ponce (Buenos Aires\, 1972) es escritora\, editora y gestora cultural. Cuentos suyos han aparecido en revistas y antologías de Argentina\, Cuba\, España\, Uruguay\, Chile\, Perú y Colombia. Ha sido traducida al francés y al inglés. Formó parte del equipo de dirección editorial de Axxón\, la primera revista digital en habla hispana. Desde 2009 dirige Revista Próxima y Ediciones Ayarmanot\, dedicadas a la ciencia ficción y las narrativas de lo extraños escritas en castellano. Da talleres\, cursos y charlas sobre narrativa\, lectura y escritura del género. Coordinó Ediciones Ayamanot Presenta\, ciclo de lecturas y música. Organiza las Tertulias de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía de Buenos Aires. Participa en la organización de Pórtico\, Encuentro de ciencia ficción\, que aúna las características de un evento académico con actividades dedicadas al fandom. Tuvo una columna mensual en el sitio de Amazing Stories y participó del programa de radio Contragolpe con una columna semanal. Forma parte de Proyecto Synco\, Observatorio de tecnología\, ciencia ficción y futuros\, que indaga sobre las lecturas políticas que permite el género. Su libro de cuentos Cosmografía profunda se publicó en España y Argentina (La máquina que hace Ping\, 2018; Ayarmanot\, 2020). \nLiliana Colanzi \n\nLiliana Colanzi (Bolivia\, 1981). Publicó los libros de cuentos Vacaciones permanentes (2010)\, Nuestro mundo muerto (2016) y Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (2022)\, y editó La desobediencia\, antología de ensayo feminista (2019); junto a Debra Castillo editó Latin American Speculative Fiction (2018). Ganó en 2015 el premio de literatura Aura Estrada\, México\, y en 2022 el premio de cuento Ribera del Duero por Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro. Fue seleccionada entre los 39 mejores escritores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años por el Hay Festival\, Bogotá39-2017. En 2017 creó Dum Dum editora en Bolivia. Es parte del proyecto colaborativo Enjambre de Libros. Vive en Ithaca\, Nueva York\, y enseña literatura latinoamericana y escritura creativa en la universidad de Cornell. \n  \n  \n\nPANEL: “Latin American Speculative Ecocriticism”\n\nGiovanna Rivero \nGiovanna Rivero es escritora y doctora en literatura hispanoamericana por la University of Florida. Es autora de los libros de cuentos Para comerte mejor (2015\, Premio Dante Alighieri 2018 y finalista del premio Celsius 2021)\, Tierra fresca de su tumba (2020\, traducido al italiano y al portugués y de pronta traducción al inglés\, premio BancoSol 2021 al Mejor Libro Editado en Bolivia)\, entre otros. Su novela 98 segundos sin sombra (2014\, Premio Audiobook Narration) ha sido llevada al cine por el director boliviano Juan Pablo Richter. En 2004 participó del Iowa Writing Program y en 2007 recibió la beca Fulbright. En 2005 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento Franz Tamayo. En 2011 Fue seleccionada por la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara como uno de “Los 25 Secretos Literarios Mejor Guardados de América Latina” y en 2015 le otorgaron el Premio Internacional de Cuento “Cosecha Eñe”. Rivero ha publicado diversos artículos de investigación sobre la ciencia ficción latinoamericana en volúmenes como La ciencia ficción en América Latina (Companion- Peter Lang\, 2021) e Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert\, 2021). Coordina talleres de escritura creativa online. Junto a Magela Baudoin y Mariana Ríos dirige la Editorial Mantis\, que publica la producción literaria de escritoras hispanoamericanas. https://giovannarivero.com/ \nCarolyn Fornoff \n\nCarolyn Fornoff is assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University. Her work examines how Mexican and Central American cultural production responds to environmental crisis. She is the co-editor of two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press\, 2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER\n\nAlberto Chimal \n\nAlberto Chimal (Toluca\, México\, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos\, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos\, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos\, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016)\, dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau\, y Confesiones (2022)\, dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y “Funeral”\, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021)\, publicada por DC Comics. Mantiene el sitio literario www.lashistorias.com.mx y un canal de divulgación en YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/AlbertoyRaquelMX) con su esposa\, la escritora Raquel Castro\, con quien también escribió la novela El club de las niñas fantasma (2021). Ha impartido cursos y talleres en México y otros países\, y es considerado una figura importante dentro de la literatura de imaginación fantástica en América Latina\, así como en la divulgación de la escritura creativa como disciplina artística. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales. \n  \n\n“Ciencia ficción neoindigenista y afrofuturista en Latinoamérica: voces\, identidades y transculturación”\n\nTeresa López-Pellisa \nTeresa López-Pellisa es Profesora de literatura en la Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid). Ha realizado estancias de investigación en la Université de Genève (Suiza)\, en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)\, en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú y en The Graduate Center (Nueva York). Es miembro del Instituto de Cultura y Tecnología de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid\, del Consejo de Redacción de Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos y jefa de redacción de Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico. \nSus líneas de investigación se centran en la literatura de ciencia ficción\, los estudios de género\, la cibercultura y los estudios del futuro. Entre sus publicaciones cabe destacar Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana vol. 1 y vol. 2 (junto a Silvia K. G. Ares\, 2020 y 2021\, Iberoamericana)\,  Historia de la ciencia ficción en la cultura española (Iberoamericana\, 2018)\, Patologías de la realidad virtual. Cibercultura y Ciencia Ficción (Fondo de Cultura Económica\, 2015)\, y la co-edición de Ciberfeminismo: De Venus Matrix a Laboria Cubonik (junto a Remedios Zafra en Holobionte\, 2019)\, Visiones de lo fantástico en la cultura española (1970-2012) (junto a David Roas en E.D.A. Libros\, 2014) y Ensayos sobre ciencia ficción y literatura fantástica (junto a Fernando Ángel Moreno en Universidad Carlos III\, 2009)\, además de las antologías Las otras. Antología de mujeres artificiales (Eolas\, 2018)\, Poshumanas. Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción y Distópicas. Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción (junto a Lola Robles\, Eolas\, 2019)\, así como de la antología Insólitas. Narradoras de lo fantástico en Latinoamérica y España (junto a Ricard Ruiz en Páginas de Espuma\, 2019)\, y Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America (junto a Patricia García\, en University of Wales Press\, 2019)\, además de varios artículos en revistas especializadas \nMacarena Cortés \n\nMacarena Cortés Correa  (Viña del Mar\, Chile) es investigadora y editora. Es doctoranda en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona\, donde realiza su tesis en ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres de la región andina. \nSus líneas de investigación se centran en ciencia ficción\, literatura latinoamericana y estudios de género. Ha publicado artículos en revistas especializadas y libros académicos. Como editora ha trabajado en el rescate de la obra de ciencia ficción de escritoras chilenas en publicaciones como Ficciones de la Quinta Era Glacial y otros relatos insólitos de Ilda Cádiz Ávila (Imbunche Ediciones\, 2021) y Cuentos de Elena Aldunate. La dama de la ciencia ficción (junto a Javiera Jaque\, 2011\, Cuarto Propio). Desde 2013 codirige Imbunche Ediciones junto a Gonzalo Pedraza\, editorial especializada en literatura latinoamericana. \n  \n  \n\n“The Expansion of Latin American Sf: 1920-1960”\n\nRachel Haywood \n\nRachel Haywood is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Iowa State University. Her work on early and Golden Age Latin American science fiction has appeared in publications such as The Cambridge History of Science Fiction\, Revista Iberoamericana\, Science Fiction Studies\, Hispania\, and the collections Parabolas of Science Fiction\, Cartografias para a ficção científica mundial\, and Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. She is a co-editor of the journal Extrapolation and the book series Studies in Global Science Fiction for Palgrave Macmillan\, and serves on the editorial boards of Science Fiction Studies\, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts\, Alambique and the Bloomsbury series Perspectives on Fantasy; she is Contributing Editor for Latin America and Iberia for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. She is the author of The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press\, 2011)\, and her current book project is provisionally titled Latin American Science Fiction in the Space Age. \n  \n  \n  \nMiguel Ángel Fernández Delgado \n\nMiguel Angel Fernández Delgado (born in Mexico City) is a lawyer with degrees from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico)\, and the University of Pisa (Italy); a historian with studies at UNAM\, and El Colegio de Mexico; a writer\, and art curator. He is co-editor of Alambique\, Revista Académica de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía\, at University of South Florida\, since 2013\, and co-owner of Peripheria\, a bookshop project developing in popular literary genres\, since 2017. Formerly a curator of Unviersity of South Florida’s Spanish language science fiction and fantasy special collection\, were he’s still an advisor\, and also at the Eaton Collection at University of California Riverside. His work focuses on the history of science fiction\, protoscience fiction and utopian thought\, in their literary and artistic representations. \nHe has been a lecturer in Argentina\, Brazil\, Canada\, Germany\, Mexico\, Peru\, Spain\, United Kingdom\, and United States. His work as art curator has been exhibited at Mexico and the United States. \nHe is the author of Visiones periféricas: Antología de la ciencia ficción mexicana (2001)\, Tecnología y ciencia ficción (2012)\, and Más mejicanos en el espacio (2021)\, with Samuel Manickam. His articles and essays have been published in Alambique\, Chasqui\, Das Science Fiction Jahr\, Moreanum\, The New York Review of Science Fiction\, Science Fiction Studies\, Zanzalá\, among others\, and has contributed chapters to many collective works like Latin American Science Fiction Writers (2004)\, Lo fantástico en Hispanoamérica (2011)\, El futuro más acá: Cine mexicano de ciencia ficción (2006)\, Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana I (2020)\, Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction (2021)\, Recalibrando los circuitos de la máquina (2022)\, Siqueiros landscape painter (2010)\, etc. \n  \n\nBOOK PRESENTATION/DIALOGUE:\n\nMarissa K. Lopez in dialogue with David Dalton about his new book Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias \nDavid S. Dalton \n\nDavid Dalton is associate professor of Spanish and director of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina\, Charlotte. His research theorizes the interface of science\, technology\, and the body and how this contributes to racial and gender hierarchies in Mexico and throughout Latin America. He is the author of Mestizo Modernity: Race\, Technology\, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico (University of Florida Press\, 2018) and Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2023). He has also edited several books and special editions in journals. These include: Healthcare in Latin America: History\, Society\, Culture (University of Florida Press\, 2022); Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants (Brill 2022); El cine de luchadores (Revista de Literatura Contemporánea Mexicana 2021); The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures (Alambique 2018). He has written some thirty articles and book chapters on different aspects of Mexican and Latin American studies. \n  \n  \nMarissa K. López \nMarissa López is Associate Graduate Dean and Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA\, researching Chicanx literature from the 19th century to the present with an emphasis on 19th century Mexican California. She has written two books: Chicano Nations (NYU 2011) is about nationalism and Chicanx literature from the early-1800s to post-9/11; Racial Immanence (NYU 2019) explores uses of the body and affect in Chicanx cultural production.  She recently completed a year-long residency at the Los Angeles Public Library as a Scholars & Society fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies where she worked to collaboratively develop a mobile app\, “Picturing Mexican America\,” that uses geodata to display images of Mexican California relevant to a user’s location. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nROUNDTABLE: “Overlooked Countries / Regions – Central America\, the Caribbean beyond Cuba\, Paraguay”\n\nDavid Díaz Ares \n\nDavid Díaz Arias es Ph.D. en Historia por Indiana University Bloomington (Estados Unidos). Es profesor catedrático y director del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Ha ganado el Premio Nacional Luis Ferrero a la Investigación Cultural (2015) concedido por el Ministerio de Cultura de Costa Rica y el Premio Cleto González Víquez conferido por la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Costa Rica. Ha publicado decenas de trabajos sobre historia política\, historia de la memoria\, ritos y rituales estatales\, naciones y nacionalismos\, guerra civil\, instituciones\, caudillos\, procesos de paz\, construcción del Estado\, literatura\, ciencia ficción y otra diversidad de temas en la historia de Centroamérica en general y Costa Rica en particular. Sus últimos son: La independencia de Costa Rica. Historia\, debate y conmemoración\, 1821-2021 (San José\, Editorial de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia\, 2021) y Chicago Boys del Trópico: historia del neoliberalismo en Costa Rica (1965-2000) (San José\, Costa Rica\, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica\, 2021). Díaz Arias también es escritor de ciencia ficción. \nMiguel González Abellás \n\nMiguel González Abellás was born in Ourense\, Spain. He graduated from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1990 and continued his studies in Latin American literature at the University of Kansas\, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. He has been teaching since then at Washburn University\, in Kansas\, where he teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature and culture. Besides\, he currently chairs the Department of Modern Languages at that university. He has previously published Jugando con estereotipos (Madrid: Pliegos\, 2003) and Visiones de exilio: Para leer a Zoé Valdes (Lanham\, Maryland: University Press of America\, 2008)\, as well as several articles in Alba de América\, Caribe\, Hispania and Hispanic Journal. \n  \n  \n  \nEmily Maguire \nEmily A. Maguire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University\, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida\, 2011; 2nd edition\, 2018)\, and the co-editor (with Antonio Córdoba) of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science Fiction (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan). Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, Small Axe\, A Contracorriente\, ASAP/Journal\, and Revista Iberoamericana\, among other places. She is currently finishing a second book project on the temporality of Caribbean science fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nKEYNOTE ADDRESS\n\nElizabeth Ginway \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nElizabeth (Libby) Ginway is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida\, where she teaches courses on Portuguese language\, Brazilian literature and culture and Latin American science fiction. She is author of Cyborgs\, Sexuality\, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction (Vanderbilt UP 2020) and Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future (Bucknell UP\, 2004\, Devir\, 2005)\, to be re-published in Brazil in 2023 by Bandeirola. She is co-editor of Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice (Palgrave\, 2012) with J. Andrew Brown as well as a special number of the journal Alambique: Homenaje a Mary Shelley (2020) with Giovanna Rivero. \nShe has over 50 publications\, including articles\, chapters and reviews on Brazilian and Latin American literature published in both the U.S. and Brazil\, in journals such as Alambique\, Extrapolation\, Femspec\, Hispania\, Luso-Brazilian Review\, Modern Language Studies\, Montage AV\, Papéis\, Semina\, Revista Iberoamericana\, Science Fiction Studies\, and Zanzalá. She is the current International Division Head for the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Science Fiction Studies\, Extrapolation\, Alambique\, and the Peter Lang Series on World Science Fiction.
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