9:00AM – 11:00AM | Panel 6: Music, Gender, Indigeneity, and Visual Arts
“Imaging Imagined Identities: Iconographies of Transgression, Indigeneity, and Pan-Americanism in Estrada Courts Muralism”
Eric Mazariegos Jr., Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
“Cynicism and ‘Narcocorridos’ in the Aftermath of the “Liberation” of Ovidio Guzman”
Jeanie Toscano, Spanish, UC Irvine
“Queer Ranchero: Reimagining the Borderlands through a Queer Lens”
Jorge Cruz, Latin American Studies, UC Los Angeles
“Bad Bunny: Breaking Boundaries of ‘Machismo’ in the Music Industry”
Kelly Scrima, Arts in Liberal Studies, Dartmouth College
“Hybridity and Music-Making In-Between Spain and Morocco”
Jan Niklas Cousin, European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, Cambridge University
Discussants: Prof. Leo Cabranes-Grant, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Theater and Dance, UC Santa Barbara, and Prof. Alicia Boswell, Department of History of Art & Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
11:00PM – 11:30PM | Break
11:30PM – 1:00PM | Panel 7: Undergraduate Essay Competition Winners
“People of African Descent as Pioneers of Rights”
Shoon Le Oo, Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
“Poetry as Hope: An Examination of César Vallejo’s “Voy a hablar de la esperanza””
Sebouh Oshagan, Comparative Literature and Film, UC Berkeley
“Performance transgresivo en “Un abanico chino” de María Elena Llana”
Bryan Chávez Castro, Comparative Literature and Film, UC Berkeley
“Triggers to Central American Migration: A Contemporary Study, Section 5.2 An Economy of Violence”
Lance Cortez, Political Science, UC Santa Barbara
Discussants: Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara, and Rosa Rodríguez (MA student, Latin American and Iberian Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
1:00PM – 2:00PM | Lunch Break
2:00PM – 3:30PM | Keynote Lecture
Assessing the Damage: Reflections on the Trump Administration’s Dismantling of the U.S. Asylum System
Kai Medeiros, J.D., Staff Attorney, American Bar Association, Immigration Justice Project, San Diego
Moderator: Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara
3:30PM – 4:00PM | Concluding Remarks