BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Latine Worldmaking: Queer Ecologies\, Migration\, and Belongin g X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T025401Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52615716249479 DTSTART:20260416T223000Z DTEND:20260417T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) is p leased to host a research colloquium featuring faculty and graduate studen t scholars whose work explores how migration\, embodiment\, environment\, and cultural production shape Latine experiences of belonging. Through lit erature\, media\, performance\, and critical theory\, this event highlight s interdisciplinary approaches to identity\, place\, and community across Latinx and Latin American contexts.\n\nSalomé Herrera\, PhD\, is a facult y member in the Department of English at the University of Oregon whose re search is rooted in literary\, performance\, and Latinx studies. In their talk\, "Trans* Epistemologies: Tracing the Womb across the Gloria Evangeli na Anzaldúa Papers\," Herrera traces an embodied trans* epistemology acro ss the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers from the Benson Library at the U niversity of Texas at Austin. They specifically examine the development of Anzaldúa’s conceptualization of “el cenote\,” Mexican lime hole si nkholes with spiritual significance for Mayan cultures\, understood as mat erial reservoirs or “wombs” of the collective unconscious from which c reativity emerges. Drawing across spiritual and materialist traditions\, H errera shows how a sense of transitivity emerges from a queer Chicana femi nist understanding of evolution\, ultimately arguing that Anzaldúa’s sp eculative world-building transforms the womb from a colonized site of carc eral policing into one of communal creativity with decolonial potential.\n \nAlejandro Marín is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Romance La nguages at the UO whose research focuses on contemporary migrant narrative s from Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, and Equatorial Guinea. His disserta tion\, "The New Errancy: Configurations of Contemporary Migrant Literature in Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, and Equatorial Guinea\," develops “T he New Errancy” as an analytical category to examine how authors from th ree distinct migration contexts challenge traditional colonial axes\, reim agine non-biological family formations\, and construct transnational ident ities in solidarity with contemporary migrants. Supported by the CLLAS Gra duate Research Grant\, Marín conducted archival research in the Dominican Republic\, interviewed author José Acosta\, and observed cross-border dy namics at Dajabón\, grounding his work in lived migration contexts. The c hapter he presents reads Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home as a meditation on how transnational Dominican families negotiate generational fracture\, linguistic displacement\, and the contested meaning of belongi ng between the island and the United States.\n\nMoe Gámez is a doctoral s tudent in the Department of English at the UO whose research explores the intersection of Latinx literature\, environmental justice\, and queer/tran s theory. Their dissertation examines how queer and trans Latinx authors a nd artists represent ecologies through embodied\, speculative\, and politi cal narratives. Through archival and literary analysis\, Gámez’s work c ontributes to the growing subfield of queer and trans Latinx environmental isms\, highlighting how questions of environment\, identity\, and embodime nt are deeply interconnected.\n\nTogether\, these scholars offer interdisc iplinary perspectives on how Latine communities and cultural producers neg otiate identity\, space\, embodiment\, and belonging in relation to migrat ion\, ecology\, and social transformation. Please join us for this engagin g conversation and opportunity to learn more about emerging faculty and gr aduate student research at the UO. This event is presented by the Center f or Latino/a and Latin American Studies. GEO:44.044662;-123.073987 LOCATION:Erb Memorial Union (EMU)\, Crater Lake South SUMMARY:Latine Worldmaking: Queer Ecologies\, Migration\, and Belonging URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/latine-worldmaking-queer-e cologies-migration-and-belonging CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations CATEGORIES:Academic CATEGORIES:Research CATEGORIES:Diversity and Multiculturalism CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA+ CATEGORIES:Graduate CATEGORIES:Colloquium CATEGORIES:LatinX/Hispanic END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR