8:00-8:30am: Registration
8:30-8:45am: Welcoming remarks: Ruben Zecena and Alejandra Ramírez
9:00-10:20am: Intimate Proximities and Mobilized Queer Resistance
Moderator: Dr. Emma Pérez, Gender & Women's Studies
Presenters:
Alex Karaman, Gender & Women’s Studies, On (Not) Moving to the City: Approaching a Queer Palestinian Geography of Migration
Ruben E. Zecena, Gender & Women’s Studies, Searching for Home: Exploring Difference and Belonging Queerly, Femmely, and with a Touch of Intimacy
Juan Ochoa, Gender & Women’s Studies, Vibrant, Partying, and Being One’s Damn Authentic Self: Salgado’s Tribute to Pulse
10min bio-break
10:30-11:30am: Institutions of violence: power, publics and policies
Moderator: Dr. Leila Hudson, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies,
Presenters:
Gloria Negrete-Lopez, Gender & Women’s Studies, Shackled and Handcuffed (Im)migrant Bodies: An Analysis of Performative State Power and Violence in the Operation Streamline Courtroom
Heidi Muñoz, History, Guatemala: The Plague of Violence Against Women
11:30-12:00pm: Lunch Break
12:00-1:30pm: Keynote: Sharita Gruberg, Mass Deportations and The Incarceration Imperative: How Immigration Enforcement Endangers LGBTQ Immigrants, Center for American Progress
Keynote Introduction by Gloria Negrete-Lopez and Mel Ferrara
2:00-3:20pm: Architectures of Governance: Interrogating Nation-State Borders and the “Humanitarian” Crisis of Migration
Moderator: Dr. Maritza Cardenas, English
Presenters:
Stephanie Murphy, Gender & Women’s Studies, Smart Act for a Virtual Wall: Reconfiguring Border Security and Border Resistance for the 21st Century
Mija Sanders, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, “We wear beautiful things to make them jealous”: The Production and Disruption of Syrian Refugee Gendered Sexuality and Class Hierarchies in Izmir, Turkey
Katherine E. Freeman, Gender & Women’s Studies, The Migrant and the Imperial Imaginary: Towards Abolishing Coloniality in the Americas
3:30-450pm: Sensing the Border: Artistic subcultural resistance and performances
Moderator: Dr. Eithne Luibhéid, Gender & Women’s Studies
Presenters:
Alejandra I. Ramírez, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, Reimagining The Border through Performance Arts
Angelica Loreto,Mexican American Studies, La Otra Voz del Narco: (Mis)representations of Narco-corridos and Identity Formation
Gabriel Dozal, Creative Writing, The Border Simulator
5:00-5:45pm: Reflection: Imagining Otherwise
Moderator: Dr. Michelle Téllez, Mexican American Studies