Announcing the 2023-2024 Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies Season
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Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies is a program of the Berkeley Center for New Media, launched for the 2023-24 academic year under our new director Tom McEnaney. The program aims to spotlight Latinx & Latin American media makers, institutions, and new media developments, opportunities, and challenges specific to Latinx & Latin American communities.
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
2023
9/18 A Historical Dance of New Media
Eduardo Costa, Artist
In-person event, location to be announced. Co-spoonsored by the Department of Art Practice.
10/16 Rerouting Media in the Living Forest
Martina Broner, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth University, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association
In-person event, location to be announced. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Department of Art Practice.
12/1 Echoes from the Borderlands
Valeria Luiselli, Writer and Visiting Professor, Harvard University
In-person event, location to be announced. Presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS). Co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center.
2024
2/12 After Man: Alterhuman Ethics and Poetics at the Climate Change Tipping Point
micha cárdenas, Associate Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, UCSC
In-person event, location to be announced.
3/4 Mediascapes of Postsocialism: Cuban New Media Cultures after the End of History
Paloma Duong, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In-person event, location to be announced.
Accessibility
BCNM events are free and open to the public. Our 2023-24 Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies lectures will be held in person on the Berkeley campus. We post video, with captioning, of our in-person events to our YouTube channel within a few weeks of the event date. For our online events, we provide live-captioning in Zoom and offer a separate Streamtext window for live-captioning with options to customize text size and display. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions.