The Center for Writing Studies invite you to our colloquium on Friday, September 26, featuring Dr. Bernadette Calafell, a Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies with a focus on Latina/o/x/e Studies at the University of Oregon.
Workshop:
Using Critical Auto-methodological and Performative Methods in Our Scholarship
10am-12pm, Siebel Center for Design, Rm 1000
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the nexus of performative and auto-methods by first tracing a specific lineage based in Chicana, Black, and Hip-Hop Feminisms and performance studies. We will consider issues of representation, poetics, identity, and intersectionality as they intersect to consider criteria for doing and evaluating this kind of scholarship. Finally, participants will be guided through writing and arts-based activities to begin the process of critical reflexivity or intersectional reflexivity that is needed to start their own writing.
Lecture:
Revolutions are Built on Hope: Cassian Andor and the Revolutionary Politics of Hope in the Star Wars Universe
3-4pm, Siebel Center for Design, Rm 1000
This essay examines the character of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) from the Star Wars universe, specifically Rogue One (2016) and Andor (2022) to explore the possibility of critical hope within what José Esteban Muñoz terms the “brown commons.” Both Rogue One and Andor present a possibility for Latina/o/x people to imagine themselves in the future and envision their role in changing that future through the affective nature of “the brown commons” and its politics of critical and revolutionary hope. Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor offers us as viewers a rehearsal for the revolution. He is a complex character who further offers an Other narrative in the genre of sci-fi which often centers narratives of colonial violence. Furthermore, it is a narrative that resonates in the Trump era.
About Dr. Bernadette Calafell:
Bernadette Marie Calafell (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies with a focus on Latina/o/x/e Studies at the Universiy of Oregon. Dr. Calafell has authored Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture, while also co-edited six books. She is the co-editor of the Horror and Monstrosity series through the University Press of Mississippi with Drs. Kendall Phillips and Marina Levina and the Critical Intercultural Studies Series through Peter Lang with Dr. Shane T. Moreman. She has been honored both by the National Communication Association, including being named a Distinguished Scholar, a rare distinction bestowed upon scholars who have been active in the discipline of Communication Studies for more than twenty years and serve as exemplars. This distinction is particularly significant as a working class Chicana who started her education at the local community college and ended up with a Ph.D.