AfroLatinx Life & Writing Symposium

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In collaboration with faculty and graduate students from Texas A&M’s department of English, Africana Studies, GLAC, and Communications, this Spring the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research’s HLSS Initiative is organizing a 1-day symposium called “AfroLatinx Life and Writing” to bring together AfroLatinx artists and AfroLatinx studies scholars at both the senior and early-career phase. This event follows up the Fall event we supported, “Landscapes of Belonging” which provided poetry workshops from Raina J. León and Janel Pineda and a recital and open mic poetry space for TAMU faculty, students, and community members. This Spring symposium will go beyond scholarly panels. We plan to create a space for scholars and artists to be in conversation. Many of our invitees refuse the rigid division between scholarship and creativity. The event will include a conversation between scholars and artists about the art/scholarship divide, a recital/public reading, a panel on “The State of AfroLatinx Life and Writing,” and a discussion of Regina Mills’ forthcoming book, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades (Spring 2024 from University of Texas Press). For more information and a list of co-sponsors, visit tx.ag/HLSS.

Abode Press will be tabling at the AfroLatinx Life & Writing Symposium and Founder, Diamond Braxton, and Senior Poetry Editor, SG Huerta, will be reading during the Poetry Recital.