21/05/2025
Fabulous conference being planned at Tulane for this December in honour of our dear Ana Lopez who we all miss.
More information at: https://movingmedias.tulane.edu/
This three-day conference at Tulane University will bring together emerging and established scholars and practitioners of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx cinema and media. We welcome papers and creative works using a variety of methods and exploring multiple topics as well as the conference theme: moving media. Technological innovations—from neoliberal platforms to offline distribution systems—are moving media across the Americas in new ways, connecting the region globally while building on earlier histories of transnationalism and intermediality. These shifts in distribution and the development of new media genres also move feelings, as marginalized communities in front of and behind the screen use media to represent their lives and social concerns on a troubled planet. This conference examines Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx media as forces in constant motion that invite us to historicize differently and rethink the present, taking into account media’s transnational circulations and affective engagements with racial inequalities, migration crises, sexual dissidences, and environmental disasters.
We welcome papers, presentations, and artworks on topics including, but not limited to:
• Intersections with Black, Indigenous, Cuir/Queer, and Feminist Studies
• Transnational cinema and media
• Media, environmental justice, and non-human aesthetics
• Media and migration
• Media and affect
• Intermediality: media, visual arts, cultural studies
• Distribution histories and contemporary transformations in circulation
• Production cultures, including state, corporate, and above and below-the-line workers
• Reception and fan studies
• Archives, performance, materialities
• Media and political crisis, including the rise of new populisms, authoritarianism, colonialism, censorship, and misinformation/disinformation
• New cinema histories
• Music
• Artivism
• Popular culture and genres
• Digital media and digital humanities
This academic event also honors Ana López, a foundational figure in the fields of Latin American and Latinx film, media, and cultural studies, who worked at Tulane for thirty-eight years. This conference honors her legacy by continuing her work on transnationalism, intermediality, and affect in Latin American, Caribbean, and diasporic media. Her insights into cinema and social change, as well as her attention to marginalized voices and perspectives, will serve as the framework for this gathering.
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions are due by July 15, 2025, via the Qualtrics Form below. Submissions and presentations may be in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Each session will be 105 minutes.
More information at: https://movingmedias.tulane.edu/
