Major Events Organized

“Creative Interference” symposium. Co-curated with Anita Huizar-Hernández and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. Funded by the UA Social, Cultural, and Creative Interference Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of English, College of Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Latin American Studies, Human Rights Practice Program, Division of Equity, Inclusion and Title XI, and Institute for LGBT Studies. October 24-25, 2019.

“In Transit/En tránsito” art exhibition at the Museum of Art, symposium, and related events. Co-curated with Anita Huizar-Hernández. Funded by the Hemispheric Institute, The UA College of Humanities, the Tucson Humanities Festival, the UA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Luce Family Foundation, UA Museum of Art, UA Confluence Center, UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UA Latin American Studies, and CALA Alliance. September 16, 2017-March 11, 2018.

“The Politics and the Senses” 2017-2018 speaker series. Co-curated with John Melillo. Funded by The UA Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Diversity and Inclusion, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for LGBT Studies, Department of English, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fred Fox School of Music, American Indian Studies, College of Humanities, Poetry Center. October 18, 2017-April 24, 2018.

Panels Organized

“Subjects Unbound/Unbordered: Arts, Migration, Resistance.” Co-convener. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Mexico City, Mexico. 2019.

“Decolonizing Visuality: Aesthetic and Corporeal Practices of Resistance in Latin America.” Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain. 2018.

“Pedagogies of Crossing: Hemispheric Performance and Dissenting Bodies.” American Studies Association, Chicago, IL. 2017.

“Embodied Relations to Land, Memory, and Migration.” American Studies Association, Denver, CO. 2016.

“Politics and Aesthetics of Insistence.” Co-convener. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Santiago, Chile. 2016.

“Performing Visuality.” American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA. 2016.

“Memory, Visual Culture, Affect, Bodies.” American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA. 2015.

“When is Home?: History, Law, Belonging, and Performance. Performance Studies International, Stanford, CA. 2013.

“Emancipation, Liberation, Dewestern and Decolonial Options.” Co-convener. Hemispheric Institute GSI Convergence, Durham, NC. 2012.

Invited talks

“Rethinking Monuments and Memorials.” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2, 2022.

“Fear and Loathing in Monuments: Rethinking the Politics and Practices of Monumentality and Monumentalization.” Illinois State University, Normal, Il. April 6, 2022.

“Forensic Architecture’s Art of Accountability Under Neoliberalism.” In conversation with Eyal Weizman and Beth Weinstein. Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference, University of Arizona, April 8, 2021.

“Creative Interference: Artistic Activism in Times of Crisis.” Art and Confrontation in the Americas International Symposium, University of Virginia. September 30, 2019.

“The Challenges of Cultural Trauma for Transitional Justice.” Seminar on Early Warning Mechanisms, AIPR, Bogota, Colombia. March 15, 2018.

“Advancing Human Rights.” Graduate Program in Human Rights Practice, University of Arizona. February 23, 2018.

“Information Environments from Non-Dominant Perspectives.” Graduate Program in Library and Information Science, University of Arizona. February 18, 2018.

“Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics.” School of Geography and Development Colloquium, University of Arizona. September 29, 2017.

“Mapping Intersections of Visual Culture and Performance.” Department of Theater and Dance, University of Colorado Boulder. November 16, 2016.

“Embodying the Past.” International Workshop on Historical Dialogues and Mass Atrocity Prevention. Columbia University, New York, NY. October 21, 2016.

Conference Presentations

“The Role of the Arts in Post-Atrocity Contexts.” International Association of Genocide Scholars, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 2019.

“Art as Intervention on the US-Mexico Border.” Why Remember? Memory in Times of War and Its Aftermath, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2019.

“Visuality, Affect, Ruins.” Memory Studies Association, Madrid, Spain. 2019.

“Resistance and Social Transformation” in the “Subjects Unbound/Unbordered: Arts, Migration, Resistance”working group, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Mexico City, Mexico. 2019.

“Corporeal Transgressions: Performances of Alliance Across the US-Mexico Border.” Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain. 2018.

“Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics.” Memory Studies Association, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2017.

“Corporeal Transgressions: Performances of Alliance Across the US-Mexico Border.” American Studies Association, Chicago, IL. 2017.

“Memory Mapping: Visual Culture, Affect, and the Politics of Place in Latin America.” Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2017.

“The ‘Corridor of Death’ and the Politics of Visibility on the US-Mexico Border.” American Studies Association, Denver, CO. 2016.

“Affect, Forensics, and Visibility on U.S.-Mexico Border.” Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Santiago, Chile. 2016.

“Performing Archives, Performing Ruins.” Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY. 2016.

“The Politics of Seeing.” Dis/Placed Visualities, Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Pre-Conference Symposium, New York, NY. 2016.

“Affective Visuality.” American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA. 2016.

“Memory, Performance, and the Politics of the Visual.” Affect Theory: Worldings/Tensions/Futures Conference, Lancaster, PA. 2015.

“Documenting Memory: Precarious Survival and Affective Hauntings.” ASAP/7 Conference, Greenville, SC. 2015.

“The Material of Memory: Latin American Documentary and the Task of Remembering.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2015.

“In Visible Pasts.” American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA. 2015.

“Affect, Memory, Visuality.” In the “Inscription/Representation: Theoretical and Creative Approaches” working group, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Montreal, Canada. 2014.

“Where the Past Will Be.” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL. 2014.

“The Truth Will Set Us Free: Affect and Desire in Contemporary Latin American Documentary Film.” American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY. 2014.

“Rehearsing, Reenacting, Remembering Citizenship.” Performance Studies International, Stanford, CA. 2013.

“Visual Interventions and the Making of Memory in the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy in Peru.” Performance Studies International, Stanford, CA. 2013.

“Exile and the Point of Return.” Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory. New York, NY. 2013.

“Wrinkles in Time: Documentary, Memory, and the Imaginary Real in the Films of Patricio Guzmán.” American Society for Theater Research, Nashville, TN. 2012.

“The Aftermath of Truth: Performing Visual Historiography” in the “Embodied Economies in Flux” working group, American Society for Theater Research, Montreal, Canada. 2011.

“The Matter with Progress: Choreographing Desire in the Future that Collapsed.” Dance Across the Board Conference, New York, NY. 2011.

Participant in the “Performing Visuality” working group, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro, Bogotá, Colombia. 2009.

“Performing Place.” Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY. 2008.

“Performance and Writing.” Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed National Conference, Minneapolis, MN. 2007.