The City, Culture, and Community (CCC) Annual Graduate Symposium will be held on February 15, 2019. The 2019 symposium, VOICES: Visibility, Orientation, Identity, Creativity, Environment, Spaces, seeks to understand creative approaches to how inequalities are negotiated: socially, culturally, and institutionally. All events will take place in Richardson Memorial Room 204.
The symposium will focus on research that explores creative approaches to agency, institutional organization, and cultural production and consumption within complex social systems. What are the current issues facing our communities, institutions, and cities? How can we be creative and inclusive in our approach? This symposium intends to create an interdisciplinary space that can bring together scholars, practitioners, students, and community members to engage across lines and extend current conversations around agency, resilience, and social justice across the globe.
The keynote speaker will be given by Dr. Ernesto Martinez, Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, on Friday, February 15 at 1:30 PM. In his keynote address Queer Arousals in Contexts of Racialized Harm, Dr. Martinez conducts an intersectional analysis of the ways that queer men of color negotiate epistemic injustice through the creation and consumption of film, literature, and art. His research interests include queer ethnic studies, women of color feminisms, US Latinx literature and culture, and literary theory. He is the author of "On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility "(Stanford UP, 2012) and "The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education." (Palgrave, 2014). Along with his academic achievements, Dr. Martinez also writes bilingual Latinx children's books, produces films (La Sarentata, 2017), and serves as a board member for the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS), a queer Latinx grassroots organization dedicated to producing art and analyzing culture and politics in the context of activism.
