On February 12, 2010 UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies hosted a one-day symposium that gathered over twenty-five Chicana and Chicano scholars and practitioners representing three distinct generations of feminist and queer scholarship whose work intersects race, class, gender and sexuality paradigms within both traditional and interdisciplinary fields like Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, History, Literary Criticism, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Women's Studies.
Structured as 4 “kitchen table” pláticas, or conversations, the speakers dialogued about how feminist and queer theory changed the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and conversely, how the intersection of Chicana/o theory altered feminist and queer studies. Speakers also spoke to how they practice what Chicana theorist Chela Sandoval calls the “hermeneutics of love” in their work, that is, how their scholarship and activism utilizes love as a political strategy for social change.
This blog is a place to share the thoughts, impressions, comments, and lingering questions of the attendees and participants of Sex y Corazón, and continue the pláticas. We invite you to read and share your thoughts.
Love,
The Sex y Corazón Team
is the video of the symposium going to be available anytime soon for viewing on this site or on any other site?
ReplyDeleteI was really inspired by the conference. it reminded me that I can use love as a discourse for change. I'd like to share some information about a CFP for a Graduate Conference at UCR that could continue the discussions taking place at this wonderful conference.
ReplyDelete(Dis)Junctions 2010: States of Crisis
University of California, Riverside
April 9-10, 2010
Panel Specific Call for Proposals
Chicana/Latina Identity in Crisis?
The theme of this particular panel pays close attention to Chicana/Latina identity in its various forms. The larger theme of the UCR (Dis)Juctions Conference 2010, “States of Crisis,” presents us with a unique opportunity to explore the state of our Chicana/Latina identity from different multidisciplinary perspectives. It gives us a chance to examine the different crisis’ our identities are faced with on a daily basis. It forces us to critically engage with the work that we have done and what is yet to come.
I want to use this space to generate discussion and promote solidarity. I am looking for a variety of projects across disciplines focused on Chicana identity. Please send 300-500 word abstracts, proposals, or questions to Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez at srodr021@ucr.edu by March 11, 2010.
(dis)junctions website:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/index.html
In Solidarity,
Sonia