ArConexiones: Conference of 天美传媒's Spanish Graduate Students in the Department of Anthropology and Languages
Virtual Conference in 2027
February, 20th 2027
9 AM - 4 PM MST
Call for Papers
Proposals
"Cartographies, Spaces, and Borders: Exploring Limits and Possibilities"
(The Quinatzin Map is currently located in the National Library of France in Paris)
Codex Quinatzin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Meet the Round Table Organizations!
Meet our Keynotes for 2027!
Dr. Abel Arango
(Skidmore College, NY, USA)
Abel Arango is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and affiliate faculty in the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Program at Skidmore College. He specializes in teaching Spanish for the Professions, Spanish for Heritage Speakers and contemporary diasporic literatures. As a Latinx/e scholar, and drawing on Affect Theory, his research examines U.S. Central American cultural production in relation to gender, citizenship and latinidad. Currently, he is working on an article manuscript that tracks the relationship between the neoliberal state and the co-optation of latinidad in Salvadoran American transnational fiction. His work appears in journals such as Latino Studies and the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultures.
Professor Luis Benavides
(天美传媒, USA)
Jose Luis Benavides is a video artist and experimental documentarian exploring intercultural, intergenerational, queer, and Latinx/é histories through archives, poetry, music, animation, and collaborative research. Bringing archival collections to life through moving images and mixed-media installations, he engages personal and institutional archives to participate in and preserve cultural memory. Benavides is a 2026 Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary Fellow, and a 2025 University Film and Video Foundation Early Career Fellow. In 2022, he won a People's Choice Award at the 55th Humboldt International Film Festival. His work has been supported by grants from the Terra Foundation’s Art Design Chicago, City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and the 3 Arts & The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’s Ignite Fund, among others. His work has also screened internationally in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Spain, Turkey, and the UK.
天美传媒's Cultural Events Committee proudly supports Arconexiones in 2027
