Media throughout the Americas is transforming. The transnational circulation of global popular culture now connects the region to the world. Innovations in distribution and infrastructure build on traditions of intermediality. Affective modes and techniques of analysis highlight social inequalities, sexual dissidences, and environmental disasters. This one-day academic symposium is the first part of a series of events honoring the late Professor Ana López and her extraordinary contributions to Latin American and Global South cinema and media.
This event is also an opportunity to share and discuss the contributions of Tulane’s Faculty and Graduate Students to different forms of media in the region. The symposium will feature presentations by Antonio Gómez, Rebecca Atencio, Zorimar Rivera Montes, Laura-Zoë Humphreys, Mauro Porto, Watufani Poe, Adrian Anagnost, and Mike Bromberg from the Departments of Spanish, English, Communications, Art History, and Latin American Studies.
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm | Welcome
Dr. Thomas F. Reese, Executive Director Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm | Panel 1: Affect, Gender, and Politics in Latin American Media
Moderator: Irene Depetris Chauvin, Greenleaf Scholar-in-Residence, Stone Center
- Antonio Gómez (Spanish & Portuguese Department). Visible Contracts: Pornography and Documentary Filmmaking in Pornomelancholia de Manuel Abramovich
- Rebecca Atencio (Spanish & Portuguese Department). Women’s Documentary Filmmaking and Brazil’s Feminist Spring
- Watufani Poe (Department of Communication). Queering Quilombismo: Representations of Non-normative Black Brazilian Families in Film and Media
- Mauro Porto (Department of Communication). Whiteness and middle-class revolt in Brazil: Representations of domestic workers in the telenovela Cheias de Charme
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Panel 2. From Transnationality to Transmediality in Latin American Media
Moderator: Carolina Sánchez, Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
- Zorimar Rivera Montes (Spanish and English Departments). No hago más ná: Labor and Leisure in El Gran Combo and El Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
- Mike Bromberg (Stone Center). Improvisation on the Air: Media Representations of the Trova Paisa
- Adrian Anagnost (Newcomb Art Department).Extractivism and Equivocation: Indigenous Art from Amazonia and Beyond at the 2024 Venice Biennale
- Laura-Zoë Humphreys (Department of Communication). Video Memories in Cuba: From Analog to the Paquete
4:45 pm | Tango music by Walter Romero and Eric Johns
Presenter: Marilyn G. Miller, Professor (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
5:30 pm | Reception
