Imagining Latinidades

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging Symposium in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Ariana Ruiz sits down with the three invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer.

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging Symposium that took place November 8, 2019, can be found at:  Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Ariana Ruiz, and Rene Rocha get together again! We engage in some more groaning about how the semester is beating us up, we get to work talking about the recent Latina/o/x Migration symposium, the upcoming Palante, Siempre Palante screening (with filmmaker and former Young Lord, Iris Morales!), and the upcoming Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging symposium. Check the chapter markers for a detailed list of topics. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• Suzanne Oboler – Imagining Latinidades
• Disposable Strangers: Tracing Mexican American Citizenship and Latinx Belonging Into the 21st Century – Imagining Latinidades
• Latinos and Citizenship: Suzanne Oboler: 9781403967404: Amazon.com: Books
• Rosaldo, Renato. 1994. “Cultural Citizenship and Educational Democracy.” Cultural Anthropology 9 (3): 402-11.
• Flores, William V., and Rina Benmayor, eds. 1997. Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights. Boston: Beacon. 
• Jillian Báez – Imagining Latinidades
• Latinx Politics and Media Celebrity: The Importance of Latinx Audiences – Imagining Latinidades
• In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest): Jillian M Baez: 9780252083419: Amazon.com: Books
• Julie Avril Minich – Imagining Latinidades
• Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetes, Latinx Literature, and Health Justice – Imagining Latinidades
• Amazon.com: Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico eBook: Julie Avril Minich: Kindle Store

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades Latina/o/x Migration Symposium in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with the three invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship and art that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the Latina/o/x Migration Symposium that took place October 25, 2019, can be found at:  Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades
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You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Ariana Ruiz, and Rene Rocha are recording an episode together for the first time since Episode 2. After some groaning about how the semester is beating us up, we get to work talking about the recent La Bamba film screening, the upcoming Palante, Siempre Palante screening (with filmmaker and former Young Lord, Iris Morales!), and the upcoming Latina/o/x Migration symposium. Check the chapter markers for a detailed list of topics. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Maura I. Toro-Morn – Imagining Latinidades Latinx Migrations in the Heartland: Genealogies of  Belonging and Transformation – Imagining Latinidades
• Darrel’s little tangent about borderlands is informed by Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza: Gloria Anzaldúa, Norma Cantú, Aída Hurtado: 9781879960855: Amazon.com: Books See also, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise): Gloria Anzaldua, AnaLouise Keating: 9780822360094: Amazon.com: Books
• Karma R. Chávez – Imagining Latinidades #Abolish ICE: At the Intersections of Black Radical Thought and Queer and Trans Migrant Activism – Imagining Latinidades
• Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Feminist Media Studies): Karma R. Chavez: 9780252079580: Amazon.com: Books
• Fidencio Fifield-Perez – Imagining Latinidades Words Are No Help – Imagining Latinidades

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel and Rene are feeling exhausted (and in the best of ways) from the opening Imagining Latinidades conference.  Today, they talk about what they learned, discussed histories and presents of Latina/o/x Studies and Ethnic Studies, and waded into the debate over the term/concept of Latinidad. (No bullet points because that about covers it.)

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Opening conference: Imagining Latinidades in Global and National Perspective – Imagining Latinidades
• POROI: Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry | Obermann Center for Advanced Studies — the article Darrel talked about is “Rheoric of Inquiry: Projects and Prospects” by Nelson and Megill in the Quarterly Journal of Speech: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00335638609383756
• The Latino Native American Cultural Center (LNACC) at Iowa has a rich history: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=625215
• Rusty Barcelo is the student (turned University president!) to which Darrel referred as having a big role to play in the founding of LNACC at Iowa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%22Rusty%22_Barceló
• Cabán, Pedro A. “Moving From the Margins to Where? Three Decades of Latino/a Studies.” Latino Studies 1 (2003): 5–35. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600014
• Oboler, Suzanne. “An Open Letter to University Presidents: The Necessity for Latino Studies.” Latino Studies 1, no. 1 (2003): 361–65. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600052
• Iowa State University’s US Latina/o Studies program: https://usls.las.iastate.edu. The 25th anniversary symposium information is here: https://language.iastate.edu/usls25/
• Remezcla’s recent (July 30, 2019) Latinidad article: When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn’t?
• The Nation’s recent (Sept. 16, 2019) Latinidad article: The Problem With Latinidad | The Nation
• Scholars on Latinidad(es) — not an exhaustive list: Aparicio, Frances R, and Susana Chávez-Silverman, eds. Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, University Press of New England, 1997. Beltran, Cristina. The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity. London: Oxford University Press, 2010; Latina Feminist Group. “Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio,” In Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, edited by Latina Feminist Group, 1–24. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001; Rivera-Servera, Ramón. Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; Rodriguez, Juana Maria. Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. New York: New York University Press, 2003; Valdivia, Angharad N. Latina/o Communication Studies Today. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
• La Bamba on October 10th at Film Scene in Iowa City: Film Scene - LA BAMBA

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the final day of the Imagining Latinidades opening conference in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Rene Rocha sits down with three of the invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. This was recorded in front of a live audience! Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the opening conference that took place September 19-21, 2019, can be found at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/schedule/imagining-latinidades-in-global-and-national-perspective/
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/presenters/

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the first full day of the Imagining Latinidades opening conference in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with three of the invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. This was recorded in front of a live audience! Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the opening conference that took place September 19-21, 2019, can be found at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/schedule/imagining-latinidades-in-global-and-national-perspective/
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/presenters/

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Rene is gone(again),so Darrel and Ariana go wild talking about all of the speakers for the upcoming Imagaining Latinidades opening conference. 

• What does  "ImaginingLatinidades" mean?
• Breaking down"imaginary"more
• The idea of"scale"
• "Global" perspective: Introducing the opening conference
• Anna Sampaio
• Borders in Iowa, Mississippi, etc., and the extension of policing in individual's hands
• Valarie Martinez-Ebers
• Gina Pérez
• Claudia Milian
• Natalia Molina
• Arlene Dávila
• Concluding info about the conference, livestreams, roundtable podcast bonus episodes, and more

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Charles Taylor’s book, Modern Social Imaginaries, can be found here: https://amzn.to/2YUNSCY
• Juan Flores’s piece on the “Latino Imaginary” is best represented in chapter 9 of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: https://amzn.to/31F0hNf
• Sampaio, Anna. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. https://amzn.to/31Ax6Le
• Fraga, Luis Ricardo, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura.“The Growing Presence of Latinos in the United States,” In Latino Lives in America: Making it Home, 1–27. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2KwAroN
• Pérez, Gina M. Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream. New York: New York University Press, 2015. https://amzn.to/2YXnDeZ
• Pérez, Gina M., Frank Andre Guridy, and Adrian Burgos. “Introduction,” In Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America, edited by Gina M. Pérez, Frank Andre Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, 1–23. New York: New York University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2Kt0ihe
• Milian, Claudia. Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013. https://amzn.to/2Tr3sFp
• ----------. “Latinx Studies: Variations and Velocities.” Cultural Dynamics31, no. 1-2(2019):3–15. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0921374019826196
• Molina, Natalia. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014. https://amzn.to/2ySb3mM
• ----------. “The Importance of Place and Place-Makers in the Life of a Los Angeles Community.” Southern California Quarterly 97, no. 1(2015):69–111. https://scq.ucpress.edu/content/97/1/69
• Dávila, Arlene. “Race and the Illusion of Equity in U.S. Latinx Art.” U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompYcCTjRGs 
• Dávila’s full faculty bio (with links to all of her books): http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/arlene-davila.html

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected]

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz. 
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love. 
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast. 

In this second episode of the Imagining Latinidades podcast, two of the three co-hosts (Rene is absent) talk with two of the three Mellon fellows who are involved with the Sawyer Seminar. Topics discussed, which form chapter markers in your podcast listening app, include:

• Pronouncing “Latinx” and “LatinX”
• Rachel Torres’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”
• Lisa Ortiz’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”
• The importance of Latina/o/x Studies for students
• Lisa’s current research
• Rachel’s current research 
• Latina/o/x Studies' connection between research and community
• What's your message for Latina/o/x students at PWIs?

And don’t forget: our first main event takes place September 19-21. Information on the website at http://imagininglatinidades.com.

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Read about Lisa Ortiz and Rachel Torres here: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/mellon-fellows/
• Rachel mentioned a couple things that made a difference as an undergrad: 1) UNT’s Emerald Eagles Scholars program; 2) UNT’s McNair Scholars program
• Rachel also mentioned a couple of people important to her as an undergrad: Regina Branton | Department of Political Science and Valerie Martinez-Ebers | Department of Political Science
• Lisa’s undergrad program is here: http://business.uprm.edu/adof/index.php. Her Masters program is here: https://www.uprm.edu/english/. Mentors in Puerto Rico included Dr. Jocelyn A. Géliga-Vargas and Dr. Catherine Mazak. 
• A few programs of interest and referenced by Lisa include: the Summer Predoctoral Institute (SPI) at  https://grad.illinois.edu/diversity/spi-objectives; Latina/Latino Studies at Illinois; and La Casa Cultural Latina | La Casa Cultural Latina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• On the (historically fraught) relationship between Blackness and Latinidad(es), see the excellent work from the Black Latinas Know Collective: https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/about-blkc. Also see scholarship and other writings in the groundbreaking edited book, The Afro-Latin@ Reader.
• If we had talked about higher education a bit more, Lisa would have mentioned Dr. Roderick Ferguson’s book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012). 
• For a broader perspective on the “why Latina/o/x Studies question that was discussed, consider Lisa Marie Cacho’s work regarding Ethnic Studies, “But Some of Us Are Wise: Academic Illegitimacy and the Affective Value of Ethnic Studies.” The Black Scholar 40:4: 28-36. PDF available here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/2010_Cacho_Ethnic_Studies.pdf

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected] 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel, Ariana, and Rene record their first full episode in a real honest-to-goodness studio that doesn’t have terrible acoustics. The episode also has chapters; so you’ll see topics change depending on your podcast app (Overcast shows these well). Topics in this episode include:

• Rene’s backstory
• Darrel’s backstory
• Rene and all having a discussion about “me-search”
• Ariana’s backstory
• Latina/o Studies at Iowa
• The Sawyer Seminar
• What’s next…

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Rene’s bio, etc., can be found here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/polisci/people/rene-rocha
• Darrel’s bio, etc., (along with an old pic from when he wore glasses) can be found here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/commstudies/people/darrel-wanzer-serrano
• Ariana’s bio, etc., can be found here: https://spanish-portuguese.uiowa.edu/people/ariana-ruiz
• More recent versions of all the stuff can be found on our Sawyer Seminar website page about the Co-Directors: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/directors/
• Iowa’s Latina/o Studies Program is on the web here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/latina-latino-studies/
• More information about the Sawyer Seminar Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging can be found here (and we recommend also clicking through to the themes for even more info about where we’re coming from): http://imagininglatinidades.com

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: [email protected]

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “E lHielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz. 
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love. 
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.