Conference December 4 – 6, 2025 

New Orleans, Tulane University, Uptown campus

Quiet Room: LBC 209 (available throughout the conference)
Working Room: LBC 204 (available throughout the conference)

Thursday December 4, 2025 

8:00AM – 9:00AM: Coffee & Registration, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

Panel Session 1:

9:00AM  10:45AM

Panel 1: Moving Media out of the Archive (Tulane University Libraries)

• Hortensia Calvo (Tulane University), “Introduction: Moving Media out of the Archive”

• Juan Pablo Gómez (Tulane University), “La gran catástrofe del 7 de junio de 1934 from the Alfredo A. Massi Collection”

• Christine Hernández (Tulane University, chair and moderator), “Bringing back the Soaps: Digitizing radionovelas from the Louis Boeri and Minín Bujones Boeri Collection of Cuban American Radionovelas”

• Teresa Clifton (Tulane University), “Teaching with Radionovelas”

The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room

 

Panel 2: Bridging/Disrupting: Audiovisual Production, Criticism, and Scholarship 

 

• Katerina González Seligmann (University of Connecticut), “Cultural Infrastructure, Censorship, and the Bounds of Revolutionary Anti-Racism: Mixed Methods Notes on 1966-1975 in Cuba”

• Ivonne Cotorruelo Pérez (University of Connecticut), “Reencuadrar el archivo: contraarchivo y justicia curatorial en el documental cubano contemporáneo”

• María C. Cumana (Tulane University), “The Curatorial Work of Memory Through Film: La línea del ombligo (2023) by Carla Valdés León as an Example of Filmic Curatorship”

• Jacqueline Loss (University of Connecticut, chair and moderator), “Filming Contradiction: Translating Lo Fino Across Image and Word”

Diboll Gallery, The Commons 

 

Panel 3: Caribbean Mediascapes: Justice and the Environment 

• Reynaldo Lastre (College of the Holy Cross), chair and moderator), “Nuclear Toxicity as Political Critique in Blue Heart by Miguel Coyula”

• Emily A. Maguire (Northwestern University), “Slugs at the Door, Tentacles in the Bedroom: Environmental Crisis in José Luis Aparicio’s Tundra”

• Juan Carlos Rodríguez (The Georgia Institute of Technology), “Vieques, Archives, Bodies: The Quest for Environmental Justice Across Media Practices”

• Justo Planas (Le Moyne College), “Framing Paradise: Mexican Film and the Tourist Imaginary of the Caribbean”

LBC 203 Stibbs

 

Panel 4: Violencia y memoria en el cine centroamericano contemporáneo (Parte 1)

• José Luis Suárez Morales (Texas Christian University), “No-Futuros: El infante, migración y abolición de la política”

• Carlos Gerardo González Orellana (Tulane University), “Desenterrar la memoria. A propósito del duelo y el archivo en el espacio rural en Nuestras madres de César Díaz”

• Ignacio Sarmiento (California State University, Northridge, chair and moderator), ‘“20 de diciembre: duelo nacional’: la invasión estadounidense de Panamá en el cine reciente”

LBC 208 Korach

 

10:45AM-11:00AM      Coffee Break,       LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

Keynote 1 & Opening Remarks 11:00AM-12:30PM 

Masha Salazkina (Concordia University), “Transnational Genealogies of Latin American Melodramatic Media”

Moderated by LZ Humphreys (Tulane University)

Diboll Gallery, The Commons

 

12:30PM-1:45PM         Lunch: Greenleaf Conference Room 

 Panel Session 2 

 1:45PM-3:30PM

Panel 5: Violencia y memoria en el cine centroamericano contemporáneo (Parte 2) 

• Ignacio Sarmiento (California State University, Northridge, chair and moderator)

• Gabriela Cruz (University of California Los Angeles), “Una primera generación de cineastas mayas guatemaltecos: 2004 – 2025“

• Julia M. Medina (University of San Diego), “Patrolling the Meat Industry: Documentary Film and Indigenous Agency in Nicaragua”

• Patricia Arroyo (University of California Los Angeles), “¡No fue el fuego, fue el estado!: Filmmaking, Memory-Making, and the Struggle for Justice in Rita, by Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala, 2024)”

LBC 208 Korach

 

Panel 6: Circulating Media in the Caribbean 

• Laura Isabel Serna (University of Southern California), “Moving Films: Silent Film Distribution in the Caribbean”
• LZ Humphreys (Tulane University, chair and moderator), “Analog Video as Domestic Labor in Cuba”
• Mike Levine (Christopher Newport University), “Technological Disobedience in Offline Cuba: Packaging and Sharing Music Through El Paquete Semanal”

Diboll Gallery, The Commons

 

Workshop 1: Activar el archivo: recrear La agonía de Arauco, Gabriela Bussenius, 1917. Impartido por el Laboratorio Implosivo de cine (Taller basado en guiones, prácticas mediales, investigación-creación, asamblea de archivos)

• Anisell Esparza (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

• Mónica-Ramón Ríos (Pratt Institute)

Latin American Library Seminar Room

 

Panel 7: Representing Blackness in Latin America & the Caribbean 

• Susanne Hackett (Tulane University, chair and moderator) “Romancing the Machete: the Yoruba Ogun Archetype in the Cuban Imaginary”

• Alicia Echavarria (Northwestern University), “Remembering Palos: Weaving Collective Memory through Fabulation”

• Nahuel Ribke (The Open University of Israel), “Black Orpheus’s Multicolor Brazil, Cinemascope Technology and the Economics of On-Location Shooting”

LBC 210 McKeever

 

3:30PM-4:45PM           Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

 

3:45PM-4:45PM           Book Presentations, AV Projects, Short Film Screenings

 

Book Presentation:  Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts

• Analays Álvarez Hernández (Université de Montréal, book editor, and moderator)
• Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal, book editor).

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Book & AV Presentation: Title: Female Agency on Screen: Female Directors and Mujerista Media Memory 

Moderators: Carolina Caballero (Tulane University) and Hannah Palmer (Tulane University)

• Vania Barraza (University of Memphis, co-editor), Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women.

• Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Recovering Mujerista Media Histories: Building the Latina Media Recovery Project”

LBC 208 Korach

Book Presentation: Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968 

• Pablo Zavala (Loyola University, autor),
• Nathan Henne (Loyola University, moderator) 

CELT/ILC Suite, Room 306 

Short Film Screenings: Resistance and Resilience: Trans Women in Guatemala and Coffee Growers in Dominica after Hurricane María   

Moderator: Carolina Sánchez (Tulane University)

• Isabel Messina (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Nuestras Historias

• Ezra Remer (Tulane University), Powerful Little Island

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

5:00PM             Buses depart Tulane for The Broad Theater 

 

5:30PM             Film Screening and Conversation with Director

You were my first boyfriend (2023)

Q&A with director Cecilia Aldarondo (Williams College)

Moderated by Carolina Caballero (Tulane University)

Screening at The Broad Theater

 

8:00PM             Opening Reception at The Broadside

 

10:00PM           Buses return from The Broad to Pontchartrain & Tulane Campus______

 

 

Friday December 5, 2025 

8:00AM – 9:00AM: Coffee & Registration, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

 Panel Session 1 

9:00AM – 10:45AM

Panel 1: Television and Streaming in Latin/x America 

• Juan Llamas-Rodríguez (University of Pennsylvania), “Poder Prieto, Racial Activism, and Streaming Platforms in Mexico”

• Luisela Alvaray (DePaul University), “Latin American Stories for the World: Producing for Streamers”

• Joaquín Serpe (Emerson College, chair and moderator), “Pop Populism: Public TV, Hipness, and intellectuals of Argentina´s Cultural Wars”

• Julia Nava (University of California, Irvine), “Transborder Piracies: An Exploration of Pirate Internet Television Protocol Services and Latinx Communities”

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

Panel 2: Indigenous Representation and Futurities in Latin American Cinema  

• Hannah Palmer (Tulane University, chair and moderator)

• Angel Carrasco (University of Southern California) “Tío Yim: Indigenous Documentary Film as Restorative Justice”

• Vania Barraza (University of Memphis), “Revisions of Indigenous Repressions in Recent Historical Chilean Cinema”

• Gerardo Pignatiello (Binghamton University-SUNY), “Historia y futurización en el cine latinoamericano del siglo XX”

LBC 208 Korach

 

Panel 3: Caribbean Media Afterlives: Race, Gender and Performance 

• Jossiana Arroyo (The University of Texas at Austin, chair and discussant)
• Zorimar Rivera-Montes (Tulane University), “Disappropriation, friendship, and undiscipline in the work of Macha Colón”
• Anastasia Valecce (Spelman College), “Aesthetics in Motion: Disobedient Media and the Affective Politics of Afro-Queer Feminist Art in Puerto Rico”

• Wilfredo José Burgos-Matos (Lehman College, CUNY), “Maldita vida: Amargue and the Communal Ecologies of a Dominican Affect”

Latin American Library Seminar Room

 

Roundtable 1: Haciendo periodismo desde el exilio. No es fácil pero sí es posible: los casos de Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela comparados 

• Ted Henken (Baruch College, CUNY, chair and moderator), “No es fácil, pero sí es posible: Practicando periodismo crítico desde el exilio”

• Mónica Baró (University of Miami). “¿Del deshielo al exilio: qué sucedió con el periodismo independiente cubano posterior a la Primavera Negra?” 

• Néstor Arce Aburto (Divergentes), “Reinstalarse como periodistas en el exilio: Un camino lleno de desafíos… y éxitos“

• Luz Mely Reyes (Efecto Cocuyo), “Te Tienes Que Ir”

LBC 210 McKeever

 

10:45AM-11:00AM     Coffee Break

Keynote 2      11:00AM-12:30PM 

Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage), Frames of Resistance: The Cinemas of Abya Yala

Moderated by Carolina Sánchez

Lindy Boggs Energy Center 104

 

12:30PM-1:45PM         Lunch: Greenleaf Conference Room 

Panel Session 2 

 1:45PM-3:30PM

Panel 4: Amazonian Cinema and Human-Nonhuman Assemblages. Reflections on Ecocide and the Affordances and Limitations of Collaborative (Art) Cinema 

• Farides Lugo Zuleta (University of California Riverside), “Responsabilidad epistémica: Locura colonial, degradación de la futuridad y circulación del conocimiento ancestral en El abrazo de la serpiente (2015)”
• Freya Schiwy (University of California Riverside, chair and moderator), “The Sound of Silence. Thinking Through Ecocide and Assemblage in Dusk Chorus (2017)”

• Jorge Marcone (Rutgers University), “Amazonian Ontologies and Ecocides from the Past: Ancient Builders of the Amazon (2025), and Amazônia, Arqueologia da Floresta (2022, 2024)”

• Bárbara Galindo (University of California Riverside), “Sobre la humanidad originaria y el genocidio de ‘urihi a’ o ‘tierra-bosque’ en A Última Floresta (2021)”

Latin American Library Seminar Room

 

Panel 5: At the Nexus of Latin American and Latinx Media Studies: Transnational Media and Latinx Creators and Audiences 

• Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (University of Texas at Austin), “Caribes 2.0: Race, New Media and the Afterlives of Disaster”

•  María Elena Cepeda (Williams College), “Listening Entre Líneas: Transnational Colombiana Crip Memory and Diasporic Reverb”
• Yeidy M. Rivero (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Considering Place: Mini: El Angel del Barrio, New York City, and Genre Shifts”

• Catherine L. Benamou (University of California-Irvine, chair and moderator), “Latinx Mediamakers Look South: New Initiatives in the Age of Disrupted Migration”

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

Panel 6: Temporality and the Politics of Affect across Media 

• Oriele Benavides (Princeton University), “Archival Affects: Los archivos del Cardenal, a political telenovela”

• Thomas Matusiak (University of Miami, chair and moderator), “The Politics of Enchantment in the Animation of León & Cociña”

• Isabella Vergara (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “María José Arjona’s Corporeal Media and Temporal Disobedience”

• Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (University of California Los Angeles), “Gentlemen Prefer Silence: Autofiction, Archive, and the Visual Performance of Intimacy”

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Panel 7. Queer/Cuir Media and Collective Subjectivities in Latin America

• Nathan Rossi (Northwestern University), “Aftershocks: Queer Narratives in the Growth of Transnational Central American Cinema”
• Vinodh Venkatesh (Virginia Tech), “Circular Fatalisms in Jayro Bustamante’s Temblores”
• Maria Isabel Messina (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, chair and moderator), “Affective Archive in Motion: Audiovisual Testimony, Trans Subjectivity, and the Intimacy of Listening”
• Mary Leonard (University of Cincinnati), “Movements in Puerto Rican Film and Media: Wandering, Breaking Out, Returning”

LBC 208 Korach

 

3:30PM-3:45PM           Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine

 

3:45PM-4:45PM,   Book Presentations, Audio Visual Projects and Workshops 

 

Book Presentation: Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film & Video after 1973 

• José Miguel Palacios (California State University Long Beach)

• Masha Salazkina (Concordia University, chair and discussant)

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

Book and Digital Media Presentation: New and Emerging Research Resources in Latin American and Caribbean Cinema Studies 

• Gayle Williams (Florida International University), Latin American and Caribbean Screenplays in Print: An annotated Bibliography
• Juan Antonio García Borrero (investigador independiente) Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Workshop 2: AVAnnotate Open Source Application for Audiovisual Digital Exhibits and Editions (please bring your computer, if possible.)

• Jack Riordan (University of Texas at Austin)

LBC 208

 

4:45PM-5:15PM           Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

 

 5:15PM-7:30PM           Film Screening and Conversation with Director

Vieques: Archivo Vivo (2024)

Q&A with the director, Juan Carlos Rodríguez (The Georgia Institute of Technology)

Moderated by Zorimar Rivera Montes (Tulane University)

Screening at the Village Theater, Lake Residence Hall 

 

Saturday December 6, 2025 

8:00AM – 9:00AM: Coffee & Registration, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

Panel Session 1 

9:00AM – 10:45AM 

Panel 1: Vivirse la película: Methods in Puerto Rican Film Studies 

• Gilberto M. Blasini (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “21st Century Islanders’ Survival Tactics: Building (Gendered) Communities in Los Domirriqueños (2015) and Perfume de Gardenias (2021)”

• Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez (Michigan State University, chair and moderator), “Romance in Absentia: Reception of a Puerto Rican Film Found and Lost”

• Dunja Fehimović (Newcastle University), “Entre la heterogeneidad y la resistencia: Un acercamiento ampliado al cine comunitario en Puerto Rico”

• Katerina Ramos-Jordán (Brown University), “Rituales de erosión: Los ensayos anticoloniales del cine experimental de Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Sofía Gallisá Muriente y Natalia Lasalle Morillo”

Latin American Library Seminar Room 

 

 Panel 2: Media Archives and Comparative Histories 

• María del Carmen Caña Jiménez (Virginia Tech, chair and moderator), “El Salvador en tránsito: desmitificaciones de la contemporaneidad en Hoy de Ricardo B’atz”
• Ana Maria Granados Romero (Graduate Center, CUNY), “Pirotecnia: performance, simulación y collage en la producción de imágenes en Colombia”
• Ahryeong Hong (Tulane University), “Cinematic Archaeology of U.S. Military Bases in Puerto Rico and South Korea”

• Juan Andrés Bello (University of Western Ontario), “The telenovela archives”

LBC 208 Korach

 

Panel 3: Rethinking National Media Histories 

• Jonathan Risner (Indiana University Bloomington), “Argentine Horror Film Documentaries and the Organic Documentarian”
• Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas (Northwestern University), “Past Perfect? Canon Formation and the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema“

• José Miguel Palacios (California State University Long Beach, chair and moderator), “Raúl Ruíz at the House of Culture in Le Havre: Archives of Labor and Modes of Production”

• Analays Álvarez Hernández (University of Montreal) “Latinx- Artists and Curators in Montréal, Paris, and Madrid: Challenging the Logic of Reinforced Subalternity”

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Roundtable 2: “La Gran Cuba” revisitada: cines contemporáneos, contraarchivos y resistencias transnacionales

• Margaret Frohlich (Dickinson College), “Intermediality and Archive in Rolando Díaz’s Adiós Cuba”

• Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal), “Feminist Refugee Narratives in Cuban Cinema: Migration Documentaries by Women Diasporic Filmmakers”

• Maybel Mesa Morales (Lycoming College, chair and moderator), “Maternar el archivo: intermedialidad afectiva y resistencias íntimas en el audiovisual cubano realizado por mujeres”

• Michelle Leigh Farrell (Fairfield University), “Homelessness Across Borders and Mediums: The Politics of Movement in Lázaro González’s Parole (2024)”

• Ruth Goldberg (SUNY Empire State College), “Venecia and Me: A Post-Viral Inquiry on Autotheory, Cuban Cinema and Narrative Healing”

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

10:45AM-11:00AM     Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine  

 

 Keynote 3         11:00AM-12:30PM 

Bryce Henson (Texas A&M University). Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

Moderated by Watufani Poe (Tulane University)

Stone Auditorium, 210 Woldenberg Art Center 

 

12:30PM-1:45PM         Lunch: LBC 1834 

Panel Session 2 

 1:45PM-3:30PM

Panel 4: Media, Visual Culture, and Socio-Political Life in Brazil 

• Watufani Poe (Tulane University, chair and moderator)

• Sarah Brokenborough (Tulane University), “Curating an Afro-America Between Brazil and the United States”

• Jacqueline Amezcua (Tulane University), “Race and National Identity in Photographs of Brazilian Ballroom”

• Brenda Borges Aguiar (Tulane University). “Lifting for the Lord: The Intersection of Faith and Gym Culture Online”

• Williamys Melo (University of Santa Catarina), “Communication and Racialized Power: Media as a Mechanism of White Supremacy”

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Panel 5: Estéticas ecopolíticas audiovisuales latinoamericanas: territorios y temporalidades en disputa 

• Carolina Dávila (New York University) “Estéticas del exceso: hacia una lectura posthumana y ecopolítica de tres obras audiovisuales de Mika Rottenberg”
• Ana Llurba (Rutgers University) “Desenterrar el futuro: temporalidades salvajes e historia profunda en A Idade da Pedra de Ana Vaz”
• Cecily Raynor (McGill University), “Transmedia Narratives Against Extractivism: Stories of the Environment from the Americas”

• Carolina Sánchez (Tulane University, chair and moderator) “Mapeos y postextractivismo en la poética intermedial de la artista venezolana Erika Ordosgoitti”

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

Panel 6: Sound, New Media, & Counter-Histories 

• Gabrielle Corona (Princeton University), “State Surveillance and Historical Erasure in Los Tigres Del Norte at Folsom Prison (2019)”

• Jacqueline Avila (University of Texas at Austin), “Los sonidos de medianoche: Music, Soundscape, and Familial Drama in Apple TV+’s Familia de medianoche (2023)”

• Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria), “‘En la caliente’ multimedia series: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba”

• Isdanny Morales Sosa (Tulane University, chair and moderator), “Sugar Intimacies in Contemporary Cuba: Remembering the Mill on Facebook Groups”

LBC 208 Korach

 

Panel 7: (Re)appropriated Footage: Reclaiming Memory and Politics in Latin American Documentary 

• Moira Fradinger (Yale University), “Archival (in)accessiblity: El juicio (Ulises de la Orden, Argentina, 2023)”
• Nils Longueira-Borrego (California State University, Fullerton), “(Re)staging confession: El caso Padilla (Pavel Giroud, Cuba, 2022)”
• Antonio Gómez (Tulane University, chair and moderator), “(Re)claimed Archives: El silencio es un cuerpo que cae (Agustina Comedi, Argentina, 2017)”

• Irene Depetris Chauvin (Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET), “La tierra mediada. Afectos y materialidades en prácticas artísticas vinculadas a la minería en Brasil”

Latin American Library Seminar Room

 

3:30PM-3:45PM           Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine 

 

3:45PM-4:45PM                 Artist Talks, Book Presentations, Short Film Screenings

Book Presentation: Mediating Queer Mexico: Two Book Presentations 

• David Tenorio (University of Pittsburgh), Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad

• Juan Llamas-Rodríguez (University of Pennsylvania, moderator), Y Tu Mamá También: A Queer Film Classic 

LBC 210 McKeever

 

Short Film Screenings: Naturaleza, violencia y mundos indígenas: los ayoreos en el Gran Chaco y el posconflicto en Colombia

Moderator: Carolina Sánchez (Tulane Unievrsity)

• Maximiliano de la Puente (CONICET), Cuando vi al gran árbol caer

• Alexander Fattal (University of California, San Diego), Limbo

Greenleaf Conference Room

 

Artist Talk: Cecilia Aldarondo (Williams College)

Moderator: Carolina Caballero (Tulane University)

Latin American Library Seminar room