South By Midwest Conference: Liquid Borders/ Fronters Liquidas
Program
Wednesday, Oct. 2
9:00-9:30am
Opening and Welcome
Mabel Moraña
Andrew Brown
9:30-9:50am
Mabel Moraña - Introduction to the Conference
"Liquid Borders: Transnational Approaches"
10:00am-12:00pm
1st Session - Global Politics and the Quesiton of Limits
Chair: Billy Acree
Abril Trigo - “Transnational Migration and the Limits of Neoliberalism”
Angela Naimou- “Notes on a Global Migration Order, from Refuge to Deportation“
Tabea Linhard- “Barbed Wire”
2:05-4:00-pm
2nd Session – Migration, Gender, Resistance
Chair: Rebecca Messbarger
Elena Dalla Torre- “Mobile Re-orientations: Sexual Humanitarianism, Trans Agency and the Italian Politics of Queer Asylum in Henrique Goldman’s Princesa (Italy/Brazil, 2001)”
Ana del Sarto - “From the Imaginary of the American Dream to Politics of Survival and Shameful Endurance: Latin American Migrant Women and Children in the US”
Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz- “Cultivating Transborder Activism in the Aftermath of Mass Deportation”
4:00-5:45pm
3rd Session – Colonial Crossings / Indigenous Displacements
Chair: Miguel Valerio
Stephanie Kirk- “Early Modern Religious Deterritorialization and Global Catholic Subjects.”
José A. Mazzotti-“Andean and Amazonian Displacements: Culture and the Effects of Deforestation”
Stefano Varese - “Politics of Indigenous People Removal and the Ethnopolitics of Resistance. The Post-colonial Diasporas”
5:45-7:00 PM Keynote Lecture
Sandro Mezzadra
“Proliferating Borders in the Battlefield of Migration. Rethinking Freedom of Movement”
Thursday, Oct. 3
9:30–11:45am
4th Session - Translocalities. Central American, Andean and Caribbean Mobility
Chair: Elzbieta Sklodowska
Arturo Arias-“From Genocide to Hieleras: The Never-Ending Deaths of Maya Children”.
Jorge Daniel Vásquez- “Analysis of the Political and Cultural Configurations of the "Migration Crisis" Between Ecuador and Venezuela”
Juan Ricardo Aparicio- “The Internally Displaced Population as a New Problem of Humanitarian Government: Between the New Positivities and the Economies of Abandonment”
Agustín Laó-Montes- “Imperial Borders, Translocal Nations, Subaltern Cosmopolitanisms: Counterpointing Cuba and Puerto Rico from the Age of Empire to Horizons of Decolonial Trans/Americanism.”
2:00-3:45pm
5th Session – Migration, Art, and Memory
Chair: Eliza Williamson
Bahia Munem - “Refugees and Migrants in Brazil: Between National Borders and Social Boundaries”
Ila Sheren- “Border Art for a Border Ecology”
Ignacio Infante- “States of Exile: (Extra) Territoriality and the Poetics of Memory in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Estado de exilio (2003)”
4:00-5:45pm
6th Session – “So far from God…..” Mexico/US: Borders and Subjects
Chair: Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Deborah Cohen- “Picturing the Journey: Masculinity, Modernity, and Collective Subjectivity in Bracero Program Photos”
Rossana Reguillo - “Lives in a State of Emergency. Youth Migration in Latin America.”
Oswaldo Zavala- “Dispossession by Militarization: ‘Narcos,’ Forced Disappearances and the Neoliberal War for Natural Resources in México”
6:00-7:15 pm Keynote Lecture
José Manuel Valenzuela Arce
“Fugitivos de la vida imposible: Fronteras, desplazamientos y caravana”
Friday, October 4
9:30am-12:15pm
7th Session – Global Migration / Mediterranean Crossings
Chair: Akiko Tsuchiya
Hakim Abderrezak – “Ex-Centric Migrations: Where does France Stand on the Map of Global Migrancy and Refugeeism?”
Manuela Boatcă - “Decolonizing European Borders”
Michelle Murray- “Reenvisioning Waterways: the Black Mediterranean”
Graziella Paratti- “Migrations, Transmigrations, and the Triumph of the Right in Contemporary Italy”.
Mina Karavanta – “Belonging on Behalf of Vulnerable Strangers: Interpreting Communities-to-come”
2:30-4:30pm - Round Table - Coordinated by Mabel Moraña
This conference has been generously sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for the Humanities, and the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos at Washington University in St. Louis.