The Department of Romance Languages will host three exciting guest speakers as part of a Symposium on Gender, Race, and Empire. All sessions will be in the Knight Library Dream Lab (Knight 121).

May 1, 2:00

Prof. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (French, Emory University): "Textured Archives: An Afrofeminist Creative Praxis of Hair, History, and Intimate Methodologies"

May 1, 3:30

Prof. Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University): "Cervantine Blackness: A Breakup with Academia's Languages for a Revolutionary Situation"

May 2, 12:00

Prof. Estefanía Bournot (Latin America Studies, Harvard University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences): "The Specular Atlantic: South-South Readings and Diasporic (Be)Longings"