Events

Nancy Morales (Feminist Studies PhD, UC Santa Barbara) and Julio Orellano (Ethnic Studies PhD, UC Riverside) are named 2023 - 2025 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellows. They join Jorge Omar Ramirez-Pimienta as successful participants of the Fellowships/Grants/Scholarships proseminar sponsored by the Global Latinidaddes Center and the Robert and Liisa Erickson Endowed Chair.  

Global Latinidades Center researchers—Ted Giardello, James Nate Nichols, and Somak Mukherjee—achieved new milestones in their academic careers. 

Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation

Afecto, violencia y resistencia femenina: Desplazamiento, reconocimiento y reconciliación

May 12, 2023

This interdisciplinary conference approaches the phenomena of forced displacement and mass migration by focusing on works of dis-/placed female artists and exploring the ways that these artists have articulated and imagined myriad forms of identity, resistance, belonging, and home. This conference invites paper proposals, video essays (finished and works-in-progress) to reflect on how the material and symbolic dilemmas of dis-/placement, definitions/categorizations of “female”, and conceptualizations of inside and outside—from the boundaries of nation states, to the familial, to those of race, class, gender, and sexuality—are negotiated across aesthetic categories and transnational geographies. 

Internationally acclaimed author, actor, and playwright Carmen Aguirre, whose work explores themes such as exile, loss, alienation, racism, and isolation, as well as hypocritical puritanism and sexual paranoia on university campuses, to visit UCSB January 11-12, 2023 for an in-person event. 

The Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), a transterritorial research collective, in collaboration with the Global Latinidades Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB); Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, (KHM); New York University (NYU); and Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca, Mexico will convene an autonomous summer learning space, or ateneo, to be held virtually (via Zoom) and in person in Oaxaca. This unique convergence brings together researchers, public intellectuals, and grassroots activists for reflection and action engaging critical issues associated with what the Zapatistas theorize as the 4th World War, understood as a longstanding counterinsurgency, ongoing war against subsistence practices and knowledges, and imposed forgetting and oblivion. Specifically, we want to collectively share experiences and insights pursuant to effective theories and practices that challenge elements of the 4th World War that include, for example, counterinsurgency, militarized policing and border enforcement, the international carceral state and other forms of informalized gendered violence while also engaging the co-construction of autonomous, convivial alternatives to the endemic violences of late racial patriarchal capitalism.

The UCSB AfroLatinidades Institute is a multifaceted component of the Global Latinidades Center that participates in the recovery and analysis of the African roots of Latinx history, culture, and identity. The Global Latinidades Center has assembled a team of researchers, educators, students, and community people in pursuit of a broad-based vision to further globalize the field of Latinx Studies, which necessarily involves a recentering of African lineages as part of this initiative. The AfroLatinidades Institute is thus central to the Global Latinidades Center.