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.