Mexico Remixed kicks off on November 1, 2018 with a special Day of the Dead-themed First Thursdays Festival, and the festivities continue throughout Spring 2019.
Many of the dates and venues for our visiting artists and scholars are set, but the lineup will continue to expand as we approach the Spring Semester. Please check back regularly and follow us on social media for the most up-to-date information.
IU Arts Plaza, 4:00-7:00pm
Join the Arts & Humanities Council, La Casa Latino Culture Center, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, and many of our friends for a special celebration of Day of the Dead at the First Thursdays Festival. Festivities will include a headlining performance from Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste.
Founded in 2017, Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste has quickly established itself as the leading mariachi group in Southern Indiana. Led by trumpeter Jonathan de la Cruz and supported by Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center, Ethnomusicology Department, and La Casa, Mariachi Perla del Media Oeste is a unique group dedicated to promoting this rich tradition through educating both musicians and audience members.
The American Literary Translators Association, founded at the University of Texas at Dallas, is now an independent non-profit working to support translators and promote literary translation. Their conference invites its 500 members, literary translators, writers, students, readers, teachers and publishers to gather together for the work of literary translation.
Auer Hall, 8:00pm
Mexico’s art song tradition is rich and diverse and reflects a variety of influences and styles over its long history. Join students and faculty of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in an evening celebrating over three centuries of art songs by Mexican composers. Featured performers will include mezzo-soprano and newly-appointed voice faculty Julia Bentley and a range works by Ponce, Revueltas, Ortíz, and Zumaya.
The Earliest American Imprints: The Book in Mexico in the Sixteenth Century.
Slocum Room, Lilly Library. Through May 4
The Lilly Library’s collection of sixteenth-century Mexican imprints is a remarkable resource for the study of the development of the press in the New World. This impressive collection of several dozen books and broadsides, which range in date from 1544 to 1600, includes religious texts, philosophical works, bilingual dictionaries, and Inquisition documents. All sixteenth-century Mexican imprints are rare, and this exhibition offers a remarkable opportunity to view the work of the earliest printers in the Western hemisphere, including Juan Pablos, Antonio de Espinosa, and Pedro Ocharte.
Of Bodies and Borders
The Work of Ana Teresa Fernández
For Mexican-born, Bay-area based artist Ana Teresa Fernández, performance is a primary research tool in her complex multimedia practice. Her work often begins as a time-based action or social gesture that explores the politics of intersectionality. Her oeuvre includes community-based projects, public art, sculpture, performance, video, and larger-than-life oil paintings that critique cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women and illuminate the psychological and physical barriers that define gender, race, and class in Western society and the global south.
Fernández has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art; Humboldt State University, Eureka, California; the Tijuana Biennial in Mexico; Snite Museum at Notre Dame University, Indiana; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and The Oakland Museum of California. Her large-scale 5W public art project in San Francisco was awarded Best of the Bay by 7×7 Magazine in 2013. The Headlands Center for the Arts granted Fernández the Tournesol Award and her films have been screened at festivals internationally. In 2015, Humboldt State University published a catalogue of her solo exhibition at the First Street Gallery titled All or Nothing.
12:00 - 2:00 p.m
Wells Library Lobby, Scholars Commons, & Hazelbaker Hall
Celebrating Mexican history and culture, this two-hour open house will feature displays of artist books, chapbooks, popular music, maps, costumes, photographs, books, posters, games, and films drawn from library and campus special collections.
Take the One Book challenge and get a free copy of Valeria Luiselli’s “Tell Me How It Ends.”
Learn more about our southern neighbor’s rich heritage represented here on campus by interacting with the following pop-up exhibits and activities in the Scholars' Commons and enjoying the Sounds of Mexico playlist from IU's Latin American Music Center. (All events takes place on the main floor of the East Tower, unless otherwise noted.):
Artist's Talk. Fine Arts Auditorium (FA 015). 5:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Grunwald Gallery.
For Mexican-born, Bay-area based artist Ana Teresa Fernández, performance is a primary research tool in her complex multimedia practice. Her work often begins as a time-based action or social gesture that explores the politics of intersectionality. Her oeuvre includes community-based projects, public art, sculpture, performance, video, and larger-than-life oil paintings that critique cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women and illuminate the psychological and physical barriers that define gender, race, and class in Western society and the global south.
Fernández has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art; Humboldt State University, Eureka, California; the Tijuana Biennial in Mexico; Snite Museum at Notre Dame University, Indiana; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and The Oakland Museum of California. Her large-scale 5W public art project in San Francisco was awarded Best of the Bay by 7×7 Magazine in 2013. The Headlands Center for the Arts granted Fernández the Tournesol Award and her films have been screened at festivals internationally. In 2015, Humboldt State University published a catalogue of her solo exhibition at the First Street Gallery titled All or Nothing.
IU Auditorium. 7:00pm
This preeminent mariachi group was founded in 1961 by the late Natividad “Nati” Cano, who played an integral role in bringing mariachi performance out of the traditional venue, the cantinas, and into the concert hall.
In 2014, Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán succeeded Nati Cano as music director of Los Camperos and the group continues to thrive. With nine albums released since their inception and multiple Grammy Award wins and nominations, Mariachi Los Camperos is among the most widely recognized Mexican musical acts. Their performance will showcase to the Bloomington community the vibrancy and intensity that distinguishes this group as one of the finest mariachi bands in the world.
Mathers Museum of World Cultures. 4:30-5:30pm
How can we be sure an instrument or music is really from the culture it portends to represent? Without firsthand experience, how can we claim to know the identity of a people we have never met? These are questions asked by Nolan Warden, a Lecturer at Purdue University who studies musics of African and Indigenous heritage in the Americas. Warden notes that "In ethnomusicology and related fields, this basic epistemological problem is ostensibly mitigated through ethnographic methods."
“Yet,” he says,“ethnography is inextricable from the flows and premises of global capitalism, and as such capitalist motivations seem to permeate the how and why of ‘knowing’ others through ethnography, paradoxically subverting the very identities being represented.”
Warden’s talk will present a specific case from historical and ethnographic perspectives on Wixárika (Huichol) culture, utilizing musical instruments found in the Mathers Museum collection and fieldwork conducted in Wixárika communities of western Mexico.
México Indígena
Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Through January 2020.
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures will present “México Indígena,” an exhibit highlighting a few of the artistic traditions and innovations practiced by some of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, including the Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitán, Oaxaca; the Wixáritari (Huichol) who live in the Sierra Madres; the Otomi people from the Altiplano region; and the Purépecha (Tarascan) people of Michoacán.
Shreve Auditorium. Hamilton Lugar School. 6:00 p.m.
“Latino Hoosiers: The Case for Belonging and Acceptance in the Midwest”
Sujey Vega is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and affiliate faculty member in the School of Transborder Studies and religious studies at Arizona State University. Her book, Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest (2015) focused on the relations between Mexican Hoosiers and non-Mexican Hoosiers of Indiana.
Wells Library. 6:00 p.m.
Join us for a lively book discussion of Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends. Hosted by IU Libraries, this event will be in the Wells Library Scholars’ Commons on February 27 at 6:00 pm. Professor Alberto Varón (English and Latino Studies) will lead the discussion. Light appetizers will be served.
Woodburn Hall 003. 6:00 p.m.
Alejandra Carillo-Muñoz is a fashion designer and an artist dedicated to sustainably produced artisan-collaborative designs. She is currently head designer for Awamaki, an NGO connecting Peruvian artisans with the global market by helping rural Andean women's associations start small businesses.
Presented in partnership with the School of Art, Architecture + Design.
Buskirk-Chumley Theater. 7:30 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Jaime Hernandez is the co-creator of the acclaimed alternative comic book series, Love and Rockets, along with his brothers, Gilbert and Mario. Published since 1982, the series is recognized for its trailblazing portrayals of realistic Latina characters. His work has also appeared in DC Comics and The New Yorker.
Hernandez will deliver a public talk, followed by a book signing. Copies of his work will be on sale in the Buskirk-Chumley lobby, courtesy of Vintage Phoenix Comic Books.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Ticketed.
Directed by Carlos Reygadas.
With comparisons to films by Abbas Kiarostami, Andrei Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, and even John Ford, Carlos Reygadas’ Japón tells the story of an aging, melancholy painter who leaves Mexico City for the rural interior, with little more than some classical music, a pistol, and the intent to end his life. Given shelter by an older, widowed woman named Ascen, he prepares for his death. Their empathetic relationship grows, though Ascen’s life has mounting complications, which might strike a spark. This remarkably cinematic, heartbreaking, and haunting debut film captures the complexity and depths of the human condition. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
Buskirk-Chumley Theater. 7:30 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Company Danzante is an Arlington-based dance company, founded in 2013 by Katherine Horrigan and Arturo Garcia. The company focuses on performing and promoting contemporary dance and have performed at such venues as the Kennedy Center, the Dance Gallery Festival in NYC, the Manhattan Movement Center and more.
Company Danzante’s performance will include collaborative routines with students from IU Contemporary Dance.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Ticketed.
Directed by Carlos Reygadas.
Johan is a married man and father who falls in love with another woman, against the laws of man and God. This threatens his place in his conservative Mennonite community in the north of Mexico. His friend and father offer no respite, citing the work of the devil. He must agonizingly choose between obligation, faith, and natural love, knowing there will be no grace in the end … though there are sometimes miracles in cinema. This visually brilliant film won the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Martin Scorsese wrote, “I was amazed by Silent Light ... most of all by Reygadas’ extraordinarily rich sense of cinema, evident in every frame.” In Spanish, German, English, and French with English subtitles.
Shreve Auditorium
Hamilton Lugar School for Global and International Studies
4:00 p.m.
Robert McKee Irwin is a professor of Spanish at the University of California Davis. He is a specialist in Mexican cultural history, with expertise in issues of gender and sexuality, borders and migration, and transnationalism. His books include Mexican Masculinities (2003) and Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age (with Maricruz Castro Ricalde, 2013). He will give a public talk related to his digital storytelling project, “Humanizing Deportation.”
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Bookmark[et] Eatery
Herman B Wells Library
4:00 p.m.
As the country’s most authoritative voice on Mexican sweets, Fany Gerson, has been featured in the New York Times, Food and Wine, Fine Cooking, Saveur Magazine, Fine Cooking, Fast Company and New York magazines, among others. She launched the acclaimed La Newyorkina, an artisanal Mexican frozen treats and sweets business in 2010. She is also the Chef, founder and co-owner of Dough, an artisan gourmet doughnut shop in New York. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Fany has worked in a range of fine-dining kitchens around the world including 3 Michelin starred Akelare in Spain and Eleven Madison Park in New York. She has written three books, My Sweet Mexico, which was nominated for a James beard award 2010 for Best baking and pastry cookbook Paletas and Mexican Ice Cream. Fany also opened her first brick and mortar for La Newyorkina on October 2016 in the West Village of New York City , was a mentor in the WE NYC Women’s leadership program in 2016 and recognized as a Latin woman leader in 2017 by El Diario.
Gerson will present a cooking demonstration of several signature dishes, including Champurrado, Lime Tamales, and Boca Negra Picosito con Salsa dulce de Tomatillo. Free samples of each will be provided to guests!
Moving Image Archive
Herman B Wells Library
7:00 p.m.
Free, reservations required: IU Moving Image Archive Screening Room reservation form
Short films in this program include:
Buskirk-Chumley Theater. 7:30 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City.
Latino Studies Program
Held biannually, the César E. Chávez Undergraduate Research Symposium in Latino Studies invites students to engage in research that focuses on Latinas/Latinos in the U.S. and in transnational contexts. The Chávez Symposium offers undergraduate students an exciting opportunity to undertake a year-long, sustained research project, culminating in a two-day symposium where these young scholars showcase their research. It aims to encourage undergraduate interdisciplinary research in Latino Studies and invite the general public to engage in conversations about Latina/o/x lived experiences.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Ticketed.
Directed by Carlos Reygadas.
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther (Natalia López) is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan (Reygadas), a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Their open relationship is challenged when Esther becomes infatuated with an American horse whisperer named Phil, fueling Juan’s jealousy to a point far out of control. Reygadas’ films often explore existential questions of love, family, and relationships, and Our Time proves to be his most bold and personal film, casting himself and his wife in the lead roles to dissect a relationship in crisis. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Free, no ticket needed.
Acclaimed director Carlos Reygadas will appear for an on-stage interview as part of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series.
Carlos Reygadas was born and raised in Mexico City where he studied law before getting a degree in Conflict Resolution in London. He worked for the European Commission and was part of the Mexican Foreign Service before starting to make short films while living in Brussels, Belgium. His first feature film, Japón (2002) received the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequent features Silent Light (2007) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012) won the Special Jury and Best Director Awards at Cannes respectively. His newest film Our Time (2018) was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Sight and Sound described him as "the one-man third wave of Mexican cinema.”
IU Cinema. 10:00 p.m.
Ticketed.
Writer/Director Carlos Reygadas will be present for the screening.
Cast entirely with non-professionals, Battle in Heaven tells the story of Marcos, the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana, the daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is the only member of Ana’s household who knows she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico’s political elite, Ana amuses herself by working as a prostitute in a high-end brothel. Marcos also has a secret. When he confesses to Ana, a bond of secrecy consecrated by the flesh unites them. As the police draw closer, Ana urges Marcos to turn himself in, but he seeks redemption from a higher power. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content, including graphic nudity and sexual situations.
IU Cinema. 4:00 p.m.
Ticketed.
Directed by Carlos Reygadas.
Post Tenebras Lux, the story of an upscale, urban family whose move to the Mexican countryside results in domestic crises and class friction, is a stunningly photographed, impressionistic psychological portrait of a family and their place in a sublime, unforgiving natural world. Reygadas conjures a host of unforgettable, ominous images: a haunting sequence at dusk as a child wanders a muddy field while farm animals loudly circle as thunder and lightning threaten; a glowing-red demon gliding through the rooms of a home; a husband and wife visiting a swingers’ bathhouse with rooms named after famous philosophers. Both entrancing and mystifying, Post Tenebras Lux palpably explores the primal conflicts of the human condition. In English, Spanish, and French with English subtitles. Contains mature content, including graphic nudity, sexual situations, and strong language.
IU Cinema. 1:00 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella.
Single mother Dali and her young son Pepe take a beach holiday with Dali’s boyfriend during Holy Week. From the beginning, we understand that Pepe very clearly has no interest in his mother’s new partner. The already volatile relationship between the three is further challenged by competing interests regarding the vacation and how to spend their time. This brilliant debut feature follows the structural form of Holy Week itself, exploring themes of traditional family bonds, crisis, liberation, individuality, and reconciliation. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
Fine Arts Auditorium. 4:00 p.m.
Ana Raquel Minian is an assistant professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Her current book project explores the late-twentieth-century history of Mexican undocumented migration to the United States, the growth of migrant communities, and bi-national efforts to regulate the border. It uses over two hundred oral history interviews, government archives, migrant correspondence, privately held organizational records and personal collections, pamphlets and unpublished ephemera, and newspapers and magazines.
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Shreve Auditorium. Hamilton Lugar School. 6:00 p.m.
“Dying in Isolation: Migrant Bodies, Uncaring Medicine, and the Lethal Politics of Detention”
Jonathan Xavier Inda is a professor of Latino/Latina Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Anthropology of Globalization (2008) and Governing Immigration Through Crime (2013) among other books, and his research areas include immigration politics and policy; criminalization and punishment; race, science, and medicine; culture and globalization; and Latina/o populations in the United States.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Writer/Director Alejandra Márquez Abella is scheduled to be present for the screening.
The charming, always perfect, and spoiled Sofia faces the unimaginable: her social decay. Set during Mexico’s 1982 economic crisis, Sofia will do everything possible to maintain her place in society. Her fall, however, is inevitable and forces her to acknowledge what is lost when the money is gone. Variety called the film a “well-judged balance between dark humor and an in-depth portrait of a woman battling to maintain the smooth appearance of a perfect life.” In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
IU Cinema. 10:00 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Writer/Director Alejandra Márquez Abella is scheduled to be present for the screening.
A bourgeois middle-aged dentist named Veronica drives alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. Immediately, she becomes disoriented, unmoored from her identity and reality—like a sleepwalker who’s actually awake. As the weeks go on, she becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. Veronica tries to piece together what happened while her husband systematically erases her tracks. Martel’s third feature explores the intricacies of class and the role of women in a male-dominated society. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
IU Cinema. 7:00 p.m.
Free, no ticket required.
The Filmmaker to Filmmaker: Conversations from the Director’s Chair annual program pairs two complementary film directors on stage together, discussing their artistic vision, process, and bodies of work, surrounded by screenings of their films. This year’s program pairs two visionary filmmakers who each had new films in 2018, Alejandra Márquez Abella and Lucrecia Martel.
Alejandra Márquez Abella is a writer/director who was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and studied filmmaking at Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. She is currently based in Mexico City and works in film and television. Her first two feature films, Semana Santa (2015) and The Good Girls (2018), both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Born in Argentina, Lucrecia Martel is considered a master filmmaker in the international film community. Her four feature films have premiered at the world’s top film festivals—Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, New York, Sundance, and Rotterdam—and retrospectives of her work have been widely exhibited. Martel has served on official film juries and taught masterclasses around the world. Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar said of her work, “When you discover an auteur so original, mature, and elusive as Lucrecia Martel, you feel as if you’re witnessing a miracle.”
IU Cinema. 10:00 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Writer/Director Lucrecia Martel is scheduled to be present for the screening, following her Filmmaker to Filmmaker conversation with Alejandra Márquez Abella.
The release of La Ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
Mexico is a country rich in indigenous languages and cultures. More than seventy indigenous languages are spoken and written, and offer us profound commentaries on indigenous lives and cultures through award-winning volumes of poetry and stories. Voices of the People/The Power of Word and Image brings together poets, writers, translators, language specialists, archaeologists, and a film-maker for two days of workshops, public presentations, and poetry readings.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
SPONSORS
Mexico Remixed, CLACS, College Office of International Affairs, Anthropology Department, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Lilly Library, La Casa
PARTICIPANTS
*Irma Pineda, a Zapotec poet from Juchitán, Oaxaca, with six prize-winning anthologies of poetry in Zapotec and Spanish, the most recent in 2018 Naxiña Rului’Ladxe/Rojo Deseo. She has served as President of Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas and teaches at the university level. She is the Mexican President’s nominee to the United Nations for Indigenous peoples and has been recognized for her writing and work mentoring youth by the Cámera de Diputados de Mexico.
*Victor Terán, a Zapotec poet from Juchitán, Oaxaca. A three-time recipient of the national fellowship for writers of indigenous languages, his books of poetry include Diixda; Xieeña (Barefoot Words), Sica ti Gubidxa Cubi (Like a New Sun; Editorial Diana: 1994) and Ca Guichi Xtí' Guendaranaxhii (The Spines of Love); Editorial Praxis. His most recent book is a anthology of poems by forty poets from around the globe translated by Terán into Zapotec.
*Pedro Serrano, poet, translator, and editor of UNAM’s Periódico de Poesía, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2007, author of five collections of poetry and translator of a collection of 30 contemporary British poets. He is also Director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
*Roberto Olivares, film-maker, director, producer of documentaries about the afro-mestizo peoples of the Costa Chica and a documentary in Nahua about an elderly Nahua man, Silvestre Pantaleone, from Guerrero, Mexico.
*Wendy Call, a writer, editor, translator, and educator. She is sought after as a Writer in Residence, and is on the faculty at Pacific Lutheran University. Her nonfiction book, No Word for Welcome won the 2012 International Latino Book Award for Best History / Political Book. She is translating a second book of poems by Zapotec poet Irma Pineda.
*Donald Frischmann, Professor, Texas Christian University. Specializing in Indigenous literatures of Mexico, an expert in Yucatec Mayan poetry and drama, and a translator. Published with Carlos Montemayor the 3 volume Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos, indigenous prose, poetry, and drama in trilingual formats
*Daniel Suslak, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, linguistic anthropology, specializes in indigenous languages and cultures of Mexico, especially Mixe (Ayöök) and verbal art, youth and adolescence. He has published many peer-reviewed articles and currently has a book under review—Diccionario Analítico del Ayapaneco.
*J. César Félix-Brasdefer, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Indiana University. He focuses on pragmatic variation across varieties of Spanish, including regions in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Spain. His research interests include pragmatics, discourse analysis, instruction of pragmatics in second languages, and intercultural communication. He has published several books, edited volumes, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and articles for handbooks. He is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics
*Marcela San Giacomo currently works at the Institute of Anthropological Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She does research in Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology. Her current project, a collaboration with Manuel Antonio Diaz Campos, is "Tone variation in Cuicatec"
*Manuel Antonio Díaz-Campos is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. His work can be framed in the areas of quantitative sociolinguistics (e.g., phonological variation, syntactic variation, acquisition of variable phenomena), second language phonology, laboratory phonology, and contact phenomena. He studies sociolinguistic variation using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates contributions from the contact language literature, laboratory phonology, and usage-based approaches. He is currently working with speakers of Cuicateco, an indigenous language of Mexico, in collaboration with Professor SanGiacomo.
*Quetzil Castañeda, anthropologist, is founding director of OSEA – the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology, an independent, non-degree school that offers field study abroad, writing workshops, research methods, conferences, and consulting services. He has over 20 years of experience conducting research in México on identity politics, heritage, tourism, anthropology of art, ethics, visual ethnography, applied anthropology, language revitalization, and representation. In addition to his work at OSEA, he has been a lecturer in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University since 2010.
*Alex Badillo: PhD, Indiana University. Doctoral Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Director of the Geospatial and Virtual Archaeology Laboratory and Studio, Indiana State University. Archaeologist, specialist in Isthmus-Valley trade; has helped various Zapotec communities develop their own museums; also has created 3D models of archaeological sites, and a 3D video of Monte Alban. He has ten years of field experience in Oaxaca.
Apr. 18 - Auer Hall. 7:00 p.m.
Apr. 19 - Buskirk-Chumley Theater. 7:30 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Comprised of outstanding musicians from Mexico, ÓNIX Ensamble has achieved world-wide recognition as a leading champion of contemporary music. The group has premiered nearly two hundred compositions and recorded eleven albums in their two decades of existence.
ÓNIX Ensamble joins Indiana University’s New Music Ensemble for two evenings of unforgettable performances celebrating contemporary chamber music from Mexico from a variety of living composers, including Gabriela Ortíz and Carlos Sánchez-Gutierrez, who will be in attendance.
April 19, 10am-5pm
Bridgwaters Lounge, NMBCC
The symposium is a collaboration between cultural critics, musicologists, and performers designed to foster conversation about the range of possibilities in sound studies, particularly addressing the divide between “highbrow” and popular forms in transnational Latinx cultures. The symposium encourages dialogue between scholars and artists, between those working in both traditional and contemporary forms, and features talks by important and exciting scholars in Latinx, sound, and cultural studies.
The event is in conjunction with the Mexico Remixed festival, and Mexico’s premier contemporary classical group the ÓNIX Ensemble will perform the evening following the symposium. “Sounding Latinidades” is sponsored by IU’s Latino Studies Program, the Latin American Music Center at the Jacobs School of Music, the College’s Arts & Humanities Council, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Cultural Studies Program.
Act 1
10:00 am:
Panel I:
“Corrido Commemorations, Dissensual Memory Practices, and Media Sociality in the Post-9/11 Era”
-Belinda Rincón (John Jay College, CUNY)
“Sounding the Racial Imagination: The Borderlands of Indigeneity in Chican@ Musics”
-Estevan Azcona (San Jose State University)
11:30am:
Keynote:
“Sounding the j/jota in Jenni Rivera's Chafas, Rebeldes, y Traviesas”
Deborah Vargas (Rutgers University)
Act 2
2:30 pm:
Panel II:
“No Soy Nada”: Latina Punk Screams and Ethical Becoming
Iván Ramos (University of Maryland)
“I Love You Like Chicanos Love Morrissey”: Affects, Fandoms, and World-Making”
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (Loyola Marymount University)
4:00 pm:
Keynote:
“Growing Into Punk”
Alice Bag (Lead singer/Co-Founder, The Bags)
Encore
7:30 pm:
ÓNIX ENSAMBLE, concert at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater (free, but ticketed)
Buskirk-Chumley Theater. 7:30 p.m.
Free, but ticketed.
Founded in 2008 by singers Mireya I. Ramos and Shae Fiol as New York City’s first all-women mariachi group, Flor de Toloache got their start performing as a harp, violin, and vihuela trio for subway riders. Today they perform as a full mariachi ensemble, featuring members who hail from Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Australia, Colombia, Germany, Italy and the continental United States. Their most recent album, Las Caras Lindas, won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album.
