Latinx Educational Panel and Fiesta
April 25, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:40 PM
La Plata Campus, Community Education (CE) Building, Room 101 and Online via Zoom
Latino Educational Panel and Fiesta
April 25, 2024
2-4:30 p.m.
La Plata Campus, Community Education (CE) Building, Room 101 or via Zoom
Schedule
- 2-2:40 p.m. - Latin Ensemble Performance
- 2:50-3:40 p.m. - Panel Discussion: "Epistemologies from El Rancho in the US: Mexican immigrants making a livable life amidst state-sponsored violence in the US"
- 3:40 p.m. - Reception, provided by Los Compadres http://loscompadrestaqueria.com/
Panelists Dr. Ximena Postigo and Dr. David M. Walker will center the questions and discussion on how undocumented immigrants make life livable amidst state-sponsored violence in the United States, the topic of Dr. Yolanda Valencia's upcoming book.
Guests
About Dr. Yolanda Valencia
Yolanda Valencia is a feminist Latinx scholar, writer, and teacher. At the age of 17, she migrated from the Purépecha lands of Abya Yala (also known as Michoacán, México) to join her extended immigrant community in Washington state. In 2019, Dr. Valencia completed her PhD in geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. That same year, she joined UMBC as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork that includes testimonios, interviews, and trans-border ethnography, her work focuses on understanding how undocumented immigrants make life livable amidst state-sponsored violence in the United States (and across national/colonial borders). Her work has been published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Gender, Place, and Culture; Antipode; ACME, NACLA; UC Press; and University of Georgia Press. Developing the concepts of Relational life and legal death, Dr. Valencia is currently working on a book monograph. She teaches classes on qualitative methods, Latin American Geographies, and Geographies of Migration.
About Dr. Ximena Postigo
Ximena Postigo is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at St Mary's College of Maryland. She teaches Spanish and Latin American literature and cultural studies. Currently, her research focuses on Bolivian and Andean studies, particularly women's poetry and indigenous literatures and philosophies from the colonial times to the present. Ximena’s research contributes to postcolonial and cultural ecology studies.