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Sensorial Cosmologies and Cultural Resistance in Latin America

2026 On the Edge Symposium
Schedule of Presentations

Wednesday, February 18

Session 1: 1:15-2:30
Federico Pous (51������), “Malvinas Resurrected”

Veronica Garibotto (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Beyond Secularism: Psychoanalysis, Catholic Feminism, and Reproductive Justice in Argentina”

Session 2: 2:45-4:45
Angelica Serna (Duke University), “Andean Dialogues and Transmissions”

Andrea Echeverría (Wake Forest University), “When the Mountain Speaks: Extractivism, Memory, and Resistance in Apu Kolki Hirka”

Joshua Shapero (Duke University), “Dreams, Miracles, and Protests: Encounters with Places in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru)”

Keynote Address: 5:30pm McKinnon E-F
Ana M. Ochoa Gautier (Tulane University), “Contemporary Audiovisuality as a Site of Cosmological Inscription”

Thursday, February 19

Session 3: 9:00-10:15
Nicolas Aguia Betancourt (The Ohio State University), “Land, Being, and Extinction in Gamaliel Churata’s Theatrical Works”

Stephen Bloch-Schulman (51������), “Unforgetting the Past: Landó, Afro-Peruvian Music and Oblivion”

Session 4: 10:30-11:45
Pablo G. Celis-Castillo (51������), “Allegory, Affect, and Enlightenment in “Al pie de las hambres” (2024)”

Maria Isabel Gervasi (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), ““Voices of the Anen: Memory, Language, and Cosmology in the Wampis Poetry of Dina Ananco”

Luncheon Panel Discussion: 12:00-2:00
“Urgent Issues for Latin Americanists Today”
Lakeside 213
Moderator: Federico Pous (51������)

Sylvia Muñoz, Assistant Dean of Students/Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Education (51������)

Corey Roberts, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (51������)

Héctor Jaimes, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature (North Carolina State University)

Meleena Gil, Assistant Professor of English (51������)

Christopher Latham, Student (51������)

Session 5: 2:15-3:30
Daniel Castelblanco (51������), “Sounding Together: Reciprocity, Resistance, and Revival in the Sikuri Movement”

Nadia Villafuerte (University of California, San Diego), “Marimba across Guatemala-Mexico Borderlands”

Session 6: 3:45-5:00
Diana Marcela Solano (Florida International University), “Institutional Killjoys at Work: Affects, Bureaucracies, and Ontologies in Colombia’s Indigenous Mental Health Pathway”

Juan Andrés Suárez Ontaneda (Bryn Mawr College), ““El Nazareno me Dijo”: The Vernacular Hagiography of Ismael Rivera”

Conference Dinner: 6:30

Friday, February 20

Session 7: 9:00-10:45
Laura Rojas (Independent Scholar), “Collective Power: Trans Migrant Women’s Spatial Practices in Jackson Heights, Queens”

Paulo Andre Suarez Rojas (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), “The Immigrant Object: Displacement, Refusal, and Migrant Politics in Los Angeles”

Israel Perez Medina (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “From Migrant Bodies to Nomadic Writing: Second-Generation Subjectivity and Linguistic Resistance in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez’s Nocturno de Frontera”

Session 8: 11:00-11:45
Concluding Discussion
Moderator: Leyla Savloff (51������)

Lunch Departure: 12:00