Imagining Latinidades Today
Darrel, Ariana, and Rene tell their Latina/o/x (superhero) origin stories, talk about the evolution of the Latina/o Studies Program at Iowa, and riff on what Imagining Latinidades means to them.
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: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com
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.