Conference December 4 – 6, 2025
New Orleans, Tulane University, Uptown campus
Quiet Room: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 209 (available throughout the conference)
Working Room: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 204 (available throughout the conference)
8:00AM – 12:00AM Registration in LBC Rosenberg Mezzazine
8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast in 1834 Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC)
Panel Session I (concurrent panels)
9:00AM 10:45AM
Panel: 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, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 203 Stibbs
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
10:45AM-11:00AM Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine
Keynote 1 & Opening Remarks 11:00AM-12:30PM
Cecilia Aldarondo (Williams College), Dispatches from the In-Between
Moderator: Carolina Caballero (Tulane University)
Diboll Gallery, The Commons
12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch: Greenleaf Conference Room
Panel Session II (concurrent panels)
1:45PM-3:30PM
Panel: Violencia y memoria en el cine centroamericano contemporáneo (Parte 2)
- Ignacio Sarmiento (California State University, Northridge, chair and moderator)
- 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)”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
Panel: Circulating Media in Cuba
- Juan Carlos Rodríguez (chair and respondent)
- Mike Levine (Christopher Newport University), “Technological Disobedience in Offline Cuba: Packaging and Sharing Music Through El Paquete Semanal”
- Isdanny Morales Sosa (Tulane University), “Sugar Intimacies in Contemporary Cuba: Remembering the Mill on Facebook Groups”
- LZ Humphreys (Tulane University), “Analog Video as Domestic Labor in Cuba”
Diboll Gallery, The Commons
Workshop: 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)
The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
3:30PM-4:45PM Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine
3:45PM-4:45PM Book Presentations, AV Projects, Short Film Screenings (concurrent sessions)
Book Presentation: Emerging Work Latin American Women Directors and Canadien Latinex Media
- Analays Álvarez Hernández (Université de Montréal, book editor, and moderator) Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts
- Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal, book editor).Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts
- Vania Barraza (University of Memphis, co-editor), Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
- Mónica-Ramón Ríos (Pratt Institute, co-author), Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Short Film Screenings: Resistance and Resilience: Trans Women in Guatemala and Coffee Growers in Dominica after Hurricane María
Moderator: Carolina Sánchez (Tulane University)
- Maria 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
8:00AM – 12:00AM Registration in LBC Rosenberg Mezzazine
8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast in 1834 Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC)
Panel Session 1
9:00AM – 10:45AM
Panel: 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, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
Panel: 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”
The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
- 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Panel: 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”
NEW ROOM: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 203 Stibbs
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
NEW ROOM: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 203 Stibbs
12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch: Greenleaf Conference Room
Panel Session II (concurrent panels)
1:45PM-3:30PM
- 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)”
The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
- 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, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Panel. 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
Panel: 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”
NEW ROOM: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 203 Stibbs
3:30PM-3:45PM Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine
3:45PM-4:45PM, Book Presentations, Audio Visual Projects and Workshops (concurrent sessions)
Book Presentation: Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film & Video after 1973
- José Miguel Palacios (California State University Long Beach)
- Julia Nava (University of California, Irvine)
- Catherine L. Benamou (University of California-Irvine)
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor
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
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Book Presentation: Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968
- Pablo Zavala (Loyola University, autor),
- Nathan Henne (Loyola University, moderator)
NEW ROOM: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 203 Stibbs
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)
Lavin-Bernick Center (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
8:00AM – 12:00AM Registration in LBC Rosenberg Mezzazine
8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast in 1834 Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC)
Panel Session I (concurrent panels)
9:00AM – 10:45AM
Panel: 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”
The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Roundtable: “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”
- Ruth Goldberg (SUNY Empire State College), “Venecia and Me: A Post-Viral Inquiry on Autotheory, Cuban Cinema and Narrative Healing”
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor
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 II (concurrent panels)
1:45PM-3:30PM
Panel: 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”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 210 McKeever
Panel: 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, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor
Panel: Mediating Violence and Precarity in Mexico and Chicano Communities
- 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, chair and moderator), “Los sonidos de medianoche: Music, Soundscape, and Familial Drama in Apple TV+’s Familia de medianoche (2023)”
- Agnès Mondragón Celis (University of Rochester), “Crime Talk, Extraterritorial ‘Justice,’ and the Politics of Mediation in the Drug War”
Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) 208 Korach
Panel: (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”
The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
3:30PM-3:45PM Coffee Break, LBC Rosenberg Mezzanine
3:45PM-4:45PM Artist Talks, Book Presentations, Short Film Screenings (concurrent sessions)
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
Lavin-Bernick Center (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)
- Alexander Fattal (University of California, San Diego), Limbo
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall, 1st Floor